Not less than eight reported lifeless as Israeli tanks enter Deir Al-Balah
Israeli tanks pushed into southern and japanese areas of the Gazan metropolis of Deir Al-Balah for the primary time on Monday, an space the place Israeli sources stated the navy believes a number of the remaining hostages could also be being held by Hamas, Reuters experiences.
Gaza medics stated at the least three Palestinians have been killed and a number of other have been wounded in tank shelling that hit eight homes and three mosques within the space, and which got here a day after the navy ordered residents to go away, saying it deliberate to struggle Hamas militants.
The raid and bombardment pushed dozens of households who had remained to flee and head west in the direction of the coastal space of Deir Al-Balah and close by Khan Younis.
In Khan Younis, earlier on Monday, an Israeli airstrike killed at the least 5 individuals, together with a person, his spouse, and their two kids, in a tent, medics stated.
There was no fast Israeli touch upon the Deir Al-Balah and Khan Younis incidents.
Israel’s navy stated it had not entered the districts of Deir Al-Balah topic to the evacuation order throughout the present battle and that it was persevering with “to function with nice power to destroy the enemy’s capabilities and terrorist infrastructure within the space.”
Israeli sources have stated the explanation the military has thus far stayed out is that they believe Hamas may be holding hostages there.
Not less than 20 of the remaining 50 hostages in captivity in Gaza are believed to be nonetheless alive.
Households of the hostages expressed their concern for his or her relations and demanded an evidence from the military of how it might defend them.
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A photograph from Reuters exhibits the second earlier than a missile lands on a residential constructing in Gaza:
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A senior Labour MP has stated it’s time for the UK to recognise a Palestinian state as some western international locations are as a result of press forward with their very own recognition plans at a world convention this month.
Emily Thornberry, who heads the influential Home of Commons international affairs choose committee, stated that with out a ceasefire and a long-term political resolution Israel’s battle on Gaza – which has killed greater than 58,000 Palestinians since 7 October 2023 – will proceed.
“The one means by way of that is for there to be an Israeli state that’s protected and safe, alongside a Palestinian state that’s recognised,” Thornberry advised BBC Radio 4’s As we speak programme on Monday.
The UK International Workplace is beneath stress to recognise a Palestinian state from Thornberry in addition to almost 60 different Labour MPs.
The calls from Labour backbenchers come after the French president, Emmanuel Macron, advised British parliamentarians in a go to this month {that a} two-state resolution was “the one means” to construct peace and stability within the area.
Later this month, France and Saudi Arabia are co-chairing a world convention on the UN in New York the place it plans to announce that it recognises Palestine. Recognition alone wouldn’t resolve the battle, Thornberry stated, but it surely may give the difficulty political momentum.
You possibly can learn extra of Geneva Abdul’s piece right here: Senior Labour MP urges UK to recognise Palestinian state ahead of UN conference
Not less than 13 reported lifeless in Gaza since final evening
Gaza well being officers stated on Monday at the least 13 individuals, together with two ladies and 5 kids, have been killed in Israeli strikes for the reason that earlier evening, the Related Press (AP) experiences.
Not less than two individuals have been killed on Monday morning when crowds of Palestinians ready for assist vehicles have been shot at within the space of Netzarim hall in central Gaza, in line with Dr Mohamed Abu Selmiyah, director of Shifa hospital in Gaza Metropolis the place the lifeless have been taken. He stated Israeli forces had opened hearth.
An Israeli strike in a single day hit a tent within the Muwasi space of Khan Younis, killing at the least 5 individuals, in line with the world’s well being ministry. The lifeless embrace two dad and mom, two of their kids and a relative, it stated.
Strikes additionally hit a residential constructing in Gaza Metropolis, in line with well being officers.
The Israeli navy had no fast touch upon the strikes. It blames Hamas for civilian casualties as a result of the group operates from populated areas.
Barrack added that in the case of the battle between Lebanon and Israel, the US can’t compel Israel to do something, Reuters experiences.
He stated in a press convention in Beirut:
The U.S. has no enterprise in attempting to compel Israel to do something… America may solely affect,” he stated in a press convention in Beirut.
We’re not going to have extra boots on the bottom in an adversarial nature anyplace.
A US envoy doubled down on Washington’s help for the brand new authorities in Syria, saying on Monday there may be “no Plan B” to working with the present authorities to unite the nation nonetheless reeling from an almost 14-year civil battle and now wrecked by a brand new outbreak of sectarian violence, the Related Press (AP) experiences.
Tom Barrack, who’s ambassador to Turkey and particular envoy to Syria and likewise has a short-term mandate in Lebanon, took a crucial tone towards Israel’s latest intervention in Syria, calling it poorly timed and saying that it sophisticated efforts to stabilise the area.
Over the weekend, Barrack introduced a ceasefire between Syria and Israel, with out giving particulars.
Syrian authorities forces have redeployed in Sweida to halt renewed clashes between the Druze and Bedouins, as evacuations of civilians began on Monday.
Not less than eight reported lifeless as Israeli tanks enter Deir Al-Balah
Israeli tanks pushed into southern and japanese areas of the Gazan metropolis of Deir Al-Balah for the primary time on Monday, an space the place Israeli sources stated the navy believes a number of the remaining hostages could also be being held by Hamas, Reuters experiences.
Gaza medics stated at the least three Palestinians have been killed and a number of other have been wounded in tank shelling that hit eight homes and three mosques within the space, and which got here a day after the navy ordered residents to go away, saying it deliberate to struggle Hamas militants.
The raid and bombardment pushed dozens of households who had remained to flee and head west in the direction of the coastal space of Deir Al-Balah and close by Khan Younis.
In Khan Younis, earlier on Monday, an Israeli airstrike killed at the least 5 individuals, together with a person, his spouse, and their two kids, in a tent, medics stated.
There was no fast Israeli touch upon the Deir Al-Balah and Khan Younis incidents.
Israel’s navy stated it had not entered the districts of Deir Al-Balah topic to the evacuation order throughout the present battle and that it was persevering with “to function with nice power to destroy the enemy’s capabilities and terrorist infrastructure within the space.”
Israeli sources have stated the explanation the military has thus far stayed out is that they believe Hamas may be holding hostages there.
Not less than 20 of the remaining 50 hostages in captivity in Gaza are believed to be nonetheless alive.
Households of the hostages expressed their concern for his or her relations and demanded an evidence from the military of how it might defend them.
Tehran on Monday accused the UK, France and Germany of failing to respect the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, after they threatened to reimpose sanctions over its atomic programme, Agence France-Presse (AFP) experiences.
The 2015 deal, reached between Iran and the UN safety council’s everlasting members – Britain, China, France, Russia and the US – plus Germany imposed curbs on Iran’s nuclear programme in trade for sanctions reduction.
However it unravelled when the US in 2018, throughout Donald Trump’s first time period as president, unilaterally withdrew from the accord and reimposed sweeping sanctions.
The Europeans had pledged continued help for the deal, however the mechanism meant to offset US sanctions by no means materialised successfully and lots of western corporations have been compelled to exit Iran, which has since confronted a deepening financial disaster.
“The European events have been at fault and negligent in implementing” the nuclear settlement, stated Iranian international ministry spokesperson Esmail Baqaei.
The Worldwide Atomic Vitality Company says Iran is the one non-nuclear-armed nation at the moment enriching uranium to 60% – far past the three.67% cap set by the 2015 accord.
That could be a brief step from the 90% required for a nuclear weapon.
A trilateral assembly between Iran, Russia and China will happen on Tuesday relating to Tehran’s nuclear programme and the United Nations snapback mechanism, Iranian international ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei stated on Monday, Reuters experiences.
The UN snapback mechanism refers to efforts to reimpose worldwide sanctions on Iran.
Agence France-Presse (AFP) experiences that defence minister Israel Katz stated in an announcement that the Israeli navy “has simply struck terror targets of the Huthi terror regime on the port of Hodeida and is forcefully imposing the prevention of any try to revive the beforehand attacked terror infrastructure.”
In a separate assertion, the military stated that “among the many navy infrastructure struck have been engineering autos… gas containers, naval vessels used for navy actions and power in opposition to the State of Israel and vessels within the maritime zone adjoining to the port, and extra terror infrastructure utilized by the Houthi terrorist regime.”
The Israeli navy is attacking Houthi targets in Yemen’s Hodeidah port, Israeli defence minister Israel Katz stated in an announcement on Monday, Reuters experiences.
Katz stated the military is “forcefully countering any try to revive the fear infrastructure beforehand attacked”.
Since Israel’s battle in Gaza in opposition to the Palestinian militant group Hamas started in October 2023, the Iran-aligned Houthis have been attacking vessels within the Crimson Sea in what they are saying are acts of solidarity with the Palestinians.
Israel has responded by launching assaults on Houthis, who management probably the most populous a part of Yemen, together with the important Hodeidah port.
Katz stated:
As I’ve made clear – Yemen’s destiny is similar as Tehran’s. The Houthis can pay a heavy value for launching missiles towards the State of Israel.
Clashes reportedly proceed in Syria as households evacuated
After talks for a hostage swap fell by way of late on Sunday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor and activist teams in Sweida reported listening to what they stated have been Israeli airstrikes and helicopters over villages the place some skirmishes happened between the Bedouins and Druze militias.
The Israeli navy stated it was “not conscious” of any in a single day strikes in Syria.
It comes on the Syrian authorities on Monday began evacuating Bedouin households trapped inside town of Sweida, the place Druze militiamen and Bedouin fighters have clashed for over every week.
The UN Worldwide Group for Migration stated about 128,571 individuals have been displaced within the hostilities that began with a collection of tit-for-tat kidnappings and assaults every week in the past.
The Related Press (AP) reported that Syrian state media stated early on Sunday that the federal government had coordinated with some officers in Sweida to herald buses to evacuate about 1,500 Bedouins within the metropolis.
Syrian inside minister Ahmad al-Dalati advised SANA that the initiative may also enable displaced civilians from Sweida to return, because the combating has largely stopped and efforts for a whole ceasefire are ongoing.
The minister advised the Syrian state-run information company:
Now we have imposed a safety cordon within the neighborhood of Sweida to maintain it safe and to cease the combating there.
This can protect the trail that can result in reconciliation and stability within the province.
Buses full of Bedouin households have been accompanied by Syrian Arab Crimson Crescent autos and ambulances. Some households left on vehicles with their belongings.
Syrian authorities didn’t give additional particulars concerning the evacuation and the way it ties into the broader settlement.
Not less than 17 individuals have been killed in Gaza from Israeli assaults, medical sources have reportedly advised Al Jazeera.
The outlet stated that the determine included three who had died from Israeli shelling in Deir al-Balah and the Bureij camp in Gaza.
Al-Shifa hospital advised Al Jazeera that a number of individuals had been wounded by a strike on an residence within the al-Nasr neighbourhood.
The BBC is reporting a brand new floor and air assault from Israeli forces on town of Deir al-Balah.
The outlet said the operation began early on Monday, after the Israeli navy issued evacuation orders for town the day earlier than.
Native journalists stated Israeli tanks and navy autos had entered town from the Kisufim checkpoint beneath heavy artillery and air cowl.
“Dozens of shells” have been additionally reported to have struck the Abu al-’Ajin and Hikr al-Jami’ neighbourhoods.
The Israeli navy was approached by the BBC for remark.
The top of the Workplace for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (Ocha), Tom Fletcher, stated on Sunday that UN workers would “keep to assist” civilians in Deir al-Balah regardless of Israeli airstrikes “intensifying”.
Fletcher stated in a publish on X that he had simply spoken to Jonathan Whittall, head of the Ocha in Palestine.
He stated:
[Whittall is] in Deir el Balah, Gaza, with Israeli airstrikes intensifying. Surrounded by our group, and civilians we keep to assist.
Greater than 650,000 college students have had no entry to schooling for the reason that begin of the Israel-Gaza battle, in line with the UN kids’s company, Unicef, the Related Press (AP) experiences.
The determine consists of almost 40,000 college students who have been unable to take college entry exams that largely decide their profession prospects. The outlet reported the present scenario as being the primary time in many years that the exams weren’t administered in Gaza.
Israel’s bombardment and floor operations have killed tens of 1000’s of Palestinians and displaced 90% of Gaza’s inhabitants. Faculty-age kids in crowded shelters and tent camps are sometimes compelled to assist their households discover meals, water and firewood.
Native schooling officers, working with Unicef and different assist teams, arrange a whole bunch of studying areas to attempt to present schooling throughout the battle.
Mohamed al-Asouli, head of the schooling division within the southern metropolis of Khan Younis, stated:
We’re attempting to salvage what we will of the tutorial course of, in order that the following technology doesn’t slip by way of our fingers.
Iran may withhold safety commitments if European states invoke a UN mechanism to reimpose worldwide sanctions on the Islamic Republic, a member of Iran’s parliamentary nationwide safety fee stated on Monday, in line with Borna information, Reuters experiences.
Abbas Moqtadaei stated in reference to Tehran’s potential countermeasures to the reimposition of worldwide sanctions:
Now we have many instruments in our disposition. We are able to withhold our dedication to safety within the area, Persian Gulf and Hormuz Strait in addition to different maritime areas.
He was talking forward of a gathering on Friday between Iranian deputy international ministers and British, French and German diplomats in Istanbul. The three European states, often known as E3, have stated they might restore worldwide sanctions on Iran by the tip of August if the nation didn’t enter productive talks on its nuclear programme with western powers, notably the US.
E3 international locations and Iran have in latest months held inconclusive talks on Tehran’s nuclear programme, in parallel to oblique nuclear negotiations between Tehran and Washington. Israel’s assault on Iran in June led to the suspension of such talks.
Moqtadaei stated in an interview with Iran’s semi-official Borna information company:
Europe shouldn’t be ready to hazard itself within the… Hormuz Strait when it’s itself in political, financial and cultural conflicts with Russia, China and even america.
At 93 reported lifeless whereas searching for assist in Gaza
Gaza’s civil defence company stated at the least 93 Palestinians had been killed queueing for meals on Sunday, whereas Israel issued contemporary evacuation orders for areas filled with displaced individuals.
The territory’s well being ministry stated scores have been killed by Israeli hearth whereas ready for UN assist vehicles getting into by way of the northern Zikim crossing with Israel. It was one of many highest reported loss of life tolls amongst repeated latest circumstances during which assist seekers have been killed by Israeli hearth.
Elsewhere 9 others have been reportedly shot lifeless close to an assist level near Rafah within the south, the place dozens of individuals misplaced their lives simply 24 hours earlier, whereas 4 have been killed close to one other assist website in Khan Younis, spokesperson for the civil defence company, Mahmud Basal, stated.
Israel’s navy stated troopers had shot at a gathering of 1000’s of Palestinians in northern Gaza who it claimed posed a menace, and it was conscious of some casualties. However it stated the numbers reported by officers in Gaza have been far increased than its preliminary investigation discovered. It didn’t instantly touch upon the incidents within the south.
Earlier than the experiences of the newest Israeli shootings emerged, Pope Leo XIV referred to as for “a direct finish to the barbarity of the battle and for a peaceable decision to the battle” on the finish of the Angelus prayer at Castel Gandolfo, his summer season residence close to Rome.
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Gaza’s civil defence company stated at the least 93 Palestinians had been killed queueing for meals on Sunday, whereas Israel issued contemporary evacuation orders for areas filled with displaced individuals.
The territory’s well being ministry stated scores have been killed by Israeli hearth whereas ready for UN assist vehicles getting into by way of the northern Zikim crossing with Israel. It was one of many highest reported loss of life tolls amongst repeated latest circumstances during which assist seekers have been killed by Israeli hearth.
Elsewhere 9 others have been reportedly shot lifeless close to an assist level near Rafah within the south, the place dozens of individuals misplaced their lives simply 24 hours earlier, whereas 4 have been killed close to one other assist website in Khan Younis, spokesperson for the civil defence company, Mahmud Basal, stated.
The UN World Meals Programme stated its 25-truck convoy carrying meals assist “encountered huge crowds of hungry civilians which got here beneath gunfire” close to Gaza Metropolis, quickly after it crossed from Israel and cleared checkpoints.
Israel’s navy disputed the loss of life toll and stated troopers had fired warning pictures “to take away a direct menace posed to them” as 1000’s gathered close to Gaza Metropolis.
On Sunday morning, the Israeli navy issued evacuation orders for town of Deir al-Balah – a crowded a part of central Gaza stuffed with displaced Palestinian individuals with nowhere protected to flee relentless bombardments. Entire households have been reportedly seen lugging their few belongings and heading south.
The UN’s Workplace for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs stated in an announcement that the order had dealt “one more devastating blow to the already fragile lifelines maintaining individuals alive throughout the Gaza Strip.”
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Israeli international minister Gideon Saar on Sunday stated he had ordered the withdrawal of a senior UN humanitarian official’s residency allow, accusing him of spreading lies concerning the battle in Gaza. Whittall, a South African who lives in Jerusalem and incessantly visits the Gaza Strip, has repeatedly condemned the humanitarian situations for the greater than 2 million individuals residing within the Palestinian territory.
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Gaza’s civil defence company advised Agence France-Presse (AFP) it has famous a rising variety of toddler deaths brought on by “extreme starvation and malnutrition”, reporting at the least three such deaths prior to now week. “These heartbreaking circumstances weren’t brought on by direct bombing however by hunger, the dearth of child formulation and the absence of primary healthcare,” civil defence spokesperson Mahmud Bassal advised AFP.
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Tens of 1000’s of Moroccans demonstrated on Sunday within the capital Rabat in opposition to the dire humanitarian scenario within the Gaza Strip, calling for the reversal of the dominion’s normalisation cope with Israel. Protesters gathered within the metropolis centre, brandishing Palestinian flags and placards calling for the free circulate of assist to the war-ravaged Palestinian territory.
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Residents reported calm in Syria’s Sweida on Sunday after the Islamist-led authorities introduced that Bedouin fighters had withdrawn from the predominantly Druze metropolis and a US envoy signalled {that a} deal to finish days of combating was being applied. The ceasefire introduced on Saturday seemed to be holding after earlier agreements failed to finish combating between longtime rivals the Druze and the Bedouin that spiralled to attract within the Islamist-led authorities, the Israeli navy and armed tribes from different elements of Syria.
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The loss of life toll from violence in Sweida province, the heartland of Syria’s Druze minority, has risen to 1,120 since final weekend, a battle monitor stated on Sunday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights stated the lifeless included 427 Druze fighters and 298 Druze civilians, 194 of whom have been “summarily executed by defence and inside ministry personnel”.
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The primary humanitarian assist convoy entered the southern Syrian metropolis of Sweida on Sunday, a Crimson Crescent official stated, every week after lethal sectarian violence erupted within the Druze heartland. The official stated the convoy of 32 autos was carrying fundamentals together with meals, medical and gas provides in addition to physique baggage.
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Iran confirmed on Monday contemporary talks with European powers to be held on Friday in Istanbul, the nation’s state media reported, the primary for the reason that US attacked Iranian nuclear amenities a month in the past. Iranian diplomats will meet counterparts from Britain, France and Germany, often known as the E3, after the trio warned that sanctions might be reimposed on Tehran if it does return to the negotiating desk over its nuclear programme.
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Iranian authorities have urged residents to restrict water consumption because the nation grapples with extreme shortages amid an ongoing heatwave, native media stated on Sunday. Water shortage is a significant problem in Iran, significantly in arid provinces within the nation’s south, with shortages blamed on mismanagement and overexploitation of underground sources, in addition to the rising impression of local weather change.
