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Over 600 starving Palestinians killed in 5 weeks

03-07-2025

GAZA STRIP: Israeli forces have killed at least 43 Palestinians across Gaza as they target aid seekers and displaced people sheltering in tents.

More than 600 Palestinians have been killed in just five weeks while waiting for food parcels at the US and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) sites.

Hamas says it has received a new 60-day ceasefire offer backed by US President Donald Trump, and that it wants an agreement that ends the Gaza war.

Officials at al-Shifa, the largest medical centre in northern Gaza, say hundreds of patients are “facing death” as the hospital runs out of fuel amid Israel’s blockade.

Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 57,012 people and wounded 134,592, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry. An estimated 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the October 7 attacks and more than 200 were taken captive.

Israeli army continues home demolitions across occupied West Bank

Israeli forces are demolishing homes across three Palestinian refugee camps in the occupied West Bank.

The Israeli army started a major assault in Jenin and Tulkarem in January, forcing tens of thousands of Palestinian refugees from their homes.

The demolitions have now become more widespread and more destructive.

“Since the start of the year, hundreds of homes have been demolished in three refugee camps. Hundreds more are on their way to being completely destroyed,” said Al Jazeera’s Nida Ibrahim, who reported from the occupied West Bank before Al Jazeera was banned by the Palestinian Authority.

“This is all part of Israel’s longest and most destructive assault in the occupied West Bank in decades but home demolitions are not limited to these refugee camps. On Wednesday, Israeli bulldozers razed a home in Nilin village near Ramallah. It’s a continued practice against Palestinians who don’t have Israeli-issued building permits… which are rarely given.”

Al-Quds Brigades releases video of mortar fire at Israeli military

Al-Quds Brigades, the armed wing of Palestinian Islamic Jihad group, has released video footage it says shows its fighters targeting Israeli soldiers advancing into Khan Younis.

In the footage, masked fighters are shown firing mortar shells in what the group said was an operation carried out in cooperation with the Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas.

Two days ago, al-Quds Brigades claimed it had destroyed two Israeli army vehicles east of Khan Younis, and that it had ambushed an Israeli infantry force.

Did God want Trump to bomb Iran?

After ordering the United States military to bomb Iran last month, US President Donald Trump made a brief address at the White House to laud the “massive precision strike” that had allegedly put a “stop to the nuclear threat posed by the world’s number one state sponsor of terror”.

The speech, which lasted less than four minutes, ended with the invocation of God’s name no fewer than five times in a span of seven seconds; “and I wanna just thank everybody and in particular, God. I wanna just say; ‘we love you God, and we love our great military, protect them.’ God bless the Middle East, God bless Israel and God bless America.”

Switzerland to dissolve GHF’s Geneva branch

Switzerland has initiated proceedings to dissolve the Geneva branch of the controversial Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) aid group, citing legal shortcomings in its establishment.

The US and Israeli-backed GHF, based in the US state of Delaware, registered an affiliate in Geneva on February 12 this year. (Al Jazeera)

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