Palestinians report heaviest bombardments in weeks on Monday despite global outcry over killing over journalists
Israel has stepped up bombing in Gaza despite global outcry over the killing of six journalists in the territory on Sunday night.
Israeli forces killed at least 55 people across the Gaza Strip over Sunday night and into Monday, including a well-known journalist Israel said was a Hamas militant, as well as people seeking humanitarian aid, according to local health officials.
Hospital officials reported at least 34 people were killed on Monday, not including the six journalists who were slain in a tent shortly before midnight.
More than 15 people were killed while waiting for aid at the Zikim crossing in northern Gaza, said Fares Awad, head of the ambulance services in northern Gaza.
Israel’s military did not immediately respond to questions about the deaths. Earlier on Monday, it said air and artillery units were operating in northern Gaza and in Khan Younis, where resident Noha Abu Shamala told AP that two drone strikes killed a family of seven in their apartment.
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Palestinians reported the heaviest bombardments in weeks on Monday in areas east of Gaza City, just hours after Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he expected to complete a new expanded offensive in the territory “fairly quickly”.
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The EU condemned the killing of five Al Jazeera journalists in an Israeli airstrike outside Al Shifa hospital in Gaza City, including Al Jazeera correspondent Anas Al Sharif. “We take note of the Israeli allegation that the group was Hamas terrorists, but there is a need in these cases to provide clear evidence, in the respect of rule of law, to avoid targeting of journalists,” foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said in a statement on X. The EU joins the UN, Reporters Without Borders, the Foreign Press Association and a host of other organisations in denouncing the attack.
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Palestinians in Gaza gathered on Monday for the funeral of the five Al Jazeera staff members and a sixth reporter killed in an Israeli strike. Dozens stood amid bombed-out buildings in the courtyard of Al-Shifa hospital to pay their respects to Anas al-Sharif, a prominent Al Jazeera correspondent aged 28, and four of his colleagues, killed on Sunday.
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Video footage appears to show the moment a Palestinian activist was killed as an Israeli settler fired toward him during a confrontation with unarmed Palestinians in the occupied West Bank last month. The video released Sunday by B’Tselem, an Israeli human rights group, shows Israeli settler Yinon Levi firing a gun toward the person filming. The footage cuts but the camera keeps rolling as the person moans in pain.
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A Hamas delegation is holding talks with Egyptian officials in Cairo to repair their relationship after it deteriorated last week, Egyptian and Palestinian sources told Israeli newspaper Haaretz.
Khalil al-Hayya, a high-ranking Hamas figure in Qatar, had hinted Egyptians should rise up in protest of the starvation in Gaza, leading to tensions between Hamas and Egypt.
“Netanyahu is setting conditions for surrender and is not hinting at any change in his position, so the round of talks is starting with little hope,” a source told the newspaper.
Meanwhile, Egypt, Qatar and Turkey are working on a nnew ceasefire and hostage-release plan to be presented to Hamas, according to a report by Sky News Arabia.
The UN agency for Palestine, Unrwa, has warned that Gaza’s children face becoming a “lost generation” as conflict has robbed them of education.
“The longer children in Gaza are out of school, the greater the risk of a lost generation. Every day away from the classroom takes away the future they deserve. The consequences of this war are long term for Gaza’s children. A ceasefire is the first step to getting them back to school,” the agency said in a post on X.
The United Nations office for the coordination of humanitarian affairs said that according to the latest satellite-based damage assessment in July, 97% of educational facilities in Gaza have sustained some level of damage with 91% requiring major rehabilitation or complete reconstruction to become functional again.
Australia prime minister Anthony Albanese said his Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu was “in denial” about the humanitarian situation in Gaza, a day after announcing Australia would recognise a Palestinian state for the first time, Reuters reports.
Australia will recognise a Palestinian state at next month’s United Nations General Assembly, Albanese said on Monday, a move that adds to international pressure on Israel after similar announcements from France, the UK and Canada.
Albanese said the Netanyahu government’s reluctance to listen to its allies contributed to Australia‘s decision to recognise a Palestinian state.
“He again reiterated to me what he has said publicly as well, which is to be in denial about the consequences that are occurring for innocent people,” Albanese said in an interview with state broadcaster ABC, recounting a Thursday phone call with Netanyahu discussing the issue.
Australia’s decision to recognise a Palestinian state is conditional on commitments received from the Palestinian Authority, including that Islamist militant group Hamas would have no involvement in any future state.
Right-leaning opposition leader Sussan Ley said the move, which breaks with long-held bipartisan policy over Israel and the Palestinian territories, risked jeopardising Australia’s relationship with the US.
People gathered in cities around the world to protest the Israeli killing of six journalists in Gaza.
Former US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said now is not the time to recognise a Palestinian state.
Blinken, who served under president Joe Biden from 2021 to 2025, argued in an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal that the focus should be on the release of Israeli hostages, bringing humanitarian aid into Gaza and the withdrawal of the IDF from the Palestinian territory.
Blinken said the decision by France, the UK and other countries to recognise a Palestinian state is “morally right and reflects a global consensus,” but added that doing so without requiring the removal of Hamas from power “would fortify proponents of terror on the Palestinian side and rejectionists of Palestinian statehood on the Israeli side.”
Palestinians report heaviest bombardments in weeks on Monday despite global outcry over killing over journalists
Israel has stepped up bombing in Gaza despite global outcry over the killing of six journalists in the territory on Sunday night.
Israeli forces killed at least 55 people across the Gaza Strip over Sunday night and into Monday, including a well-known journalist Israel said was a Hamas militant, as well as people seeking humanitarian aid, according to local health officials.
Hospital officials reported at least 34 people were killed on Monday, not including the six journalists who were slain in a tent shortly before midnight.
More than 15 people were killed while waiting for aid at the Zikim crossing in northern Gaza, said Fares Awad, head of the ambulance services in northern Gaza.
Israel’s military did not immediately respond to questions about the deaths. Earlier on Monday, it said air and artillery units were operating in northern Gaza and in Khan Younis, where resident Noha Abu Shamala told AP that two drone strikes killed a family of seven in their apartment.
Other key events include:
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Palestinians reported the heaviest bombardments in weeks on Monday in areas east of Gaza City, just hours after Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he expected to complete a new expanded offensive in the territory “fairly quickly”.
-
The EU condemned the killing of five Al Jazeera journalists in an Israeli airstrike outside Al Shifa hospital in Gaza City, including Al Jazeera correspondent Anas Al Sharif. “We take note of the Israeli allegation that the group was Hamas terrorists, but there is a need in these cases to provide clear evidence, in the respect of rule of law, to avoid targeting of journalists,” foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said in a statement on X. The EU joins the UN, Reporters Without Borders, the Foreign Press Association and a host of other organisations in denouncing the attack.
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Palestinians in Gaza gathered on Monday for the funeral of the five Al Jazeera staff members and a sixth reporter killed in an Israeli strike. Dozens stood amid bombed-out buildings in the courtyard of Al-Shifa hospital to pay their respects to Anas al-Sharif, a prominent Al Jazeera correspondent aged 28, and four of his colleagues, killed on Sunday.
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Video footage appears to show the moment a Palestinian activist was killed as an Israeli settler fired toward him during a confrontation with unarmed Palestinians in the occupied West Bank last month. The video released Sunday by B’Tselem, an Israeli human rights group, shows Israeli settler Yinon Levi firing a gun toward the person filming. The footage cuts but the camera keeps rolling as the person moans in pain.
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