Gaza

Israeli army kills a person for crossing ‘Yellow Line’

The Israeli army says it has killed one person who crossed the “Yellow Line”, which demarcates the area of Gaza that it controls.

Israeli shelling kills Palestinian woman near Gaza City

Israeli artillery shelling has killed a Palestinian woman in Gaza City and wounded many others, the Wafa news agency reports.

Early this morning, Israeli forces targeted an area close to the al-Khazindar petrol station in northwest Gaza, Wafa said.

Four Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza

Gaza’s Health Ministry says at least four people have been killed by Israeli attacks across Gaza in the last 24 hours.

The update added that Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza since October 2023 has resulted in the killing of 74,254 people with another 175,306 wounded.

Casualties in Israeli air strike on Al-Tawam, north of Gaza City

Emergency services have told our colleagues on the ground that there have been casualties following an Israeli air strike on Al-Tawam, north of Gaza City.

Three Palestinians killed by Israeli army gunfire in northern Gaza today

Three people, including a woman, have been killed by gunfire from Israeli forces in Gaza City and the northern part of the Strip since the early hours of Thursday morning, medical sources say.

Israeli air attacks have also claimed several Palestinian lives today in the northern Gaza Strip. We reported earlier that an unspecified number of casualties resulted from an Israeli air strike on al-Tawam, north of Gaza City.

Additionally, a source in the ambulance and emergency services told Al Jazeera that two Palestinians were killed and three others wounded by an Israeli air strike on a vehicle in the Tel al-Hawa neighbourhood of Gaza City.

Palestinian killed by Israeli forces near Deir el-Balah

A Palestinian was killed by Israeli forces east of Deir el-Balah: Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital.

One Palestinian killed or wounded in Gaza every 90 minutes since ceasefire

The non-governmental organization Islamic Relief says one Palestinian has been killed or wounded in war-ravaged Gaza every 90 minutes since the ceasefire announcement a year ago.

Islamic Relief said in a statement Israeli attacks have killed at least 1,454 Palestinians and more than 5,000 others since October 2025 – one death every hour and a half.

“At least 320 of those killed were children, with a child killed almost every day of the past year on average,” it said.

“There is no ceasefire in reality. They target displacement camps and crowded areas, so there is still a lot of fear,” an unnamed Islamic Relief workers was quoted as saying.

“We are scared to even leave our homes and of the noise of the drones above us. Even our homes themselves are unsafe. It’s hard to think you could be next. The killing is non-stop and we cannot live our lives normally.”

Israeli attacks have killed at least 74,000 Palestinians since the genocidal war began on Gaza on October 7, 2023.

Jerusalem

Signage at UK consulate in East Jerusalem removed as deadline is over

Workers at the UK consulate in occupied East Jerusalem have removed its signage as the Israeli shutdown deadline arrives, further damaging strained ties between allies.

Journalists from the Reuters news agency saw ‌workers remove a plaque reading “British Consulate General” from the building on Thursday, as well as another sign for its consular section. The UK flag was still flying over the building.

Israel says UK consulate in occupied East Jerusalem ‘ending activities today’

Israel’s Foreign Minister Gideon Saar says the UK consulate in occupied East Jerusalem “is ending its activities today”, adding that it will “continue operating under a limited capacity, and the signage on the consulate building has been removed accordingly”.

This comes 30 days after Saar demanded the consulate close in a month in response to the UK imposing sanctions on illegal Israeli settlements and banning imported goods made there.

The British consulate has been in East Jerusalem since 1838.

UK renames Jerusalem consulate ‘UK Mission’

UK Foreign Minister Ed Miliband says the UK consulate building in occupied Jerusalem will not be closing but will be known as the “UK Mission” from today.

He reiterated the government’s “long-standing view” that East Jerusalem is occupied territory. He said that the UK Mission is “independent, operational and will continue to deliver vital services and work with the Palestinian people”.

Miliband added that the UK has temporarily withdrawn several staff and families from the city to “ensure their safety and security”.

Britain’s consulate in Jerusalem

Israel’s foreign minister has released a statement announcing the “closure of activities” at the British consulate in occupied East Jerusalem.

Some of the major talking points from Saar’s statement:

• The UK consul general and 20 diplomats will end their duties and leave Israel.
• Israel has authorised the UK to operate a task force of seven diplomats in the building, which has “ceased to be used as a consulate today, with a very limited scope of activity”.
• Israel has agreed to “continue dialogue” between the governments in which both sides will be able to raise important issues
• Saar called the decision to implement sanctions on Israeli settlements, which are illegal under international law, “hostile rhetoric that includes false accusations against Israel” like “ethnic cleansing”.

UK challenges Israel’s legal right to close consulate in occupied East Jerusalem

Britain’s Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband has challenged the legality of Israel’s decision to close the British consulate in occupied East Jerusalem.

“We have been clear that we do not accept that the Government of Israel has the legal right to close the British Consulate General in Jerusalem, which has been there for nearly 200 years,” he said in a statement.

Miliband said earlier that the UK maintains to its commitment to ensuring a British presence in occupied Jerusalem, as it renames the building “UK Mission”.

“We will work in the coming months to build back up our presence, and we will not take reciprocal action while such discussions are underway and credible”.

Earlier, Israel’s Foreign Minister Saar said in a statement that the consulate has closed and Israel will only allow seven staff members to continue to operate in the building.

UK ‘waiting for new Israeli government’ after October election

Vincent Fean, a former British Consul General to Jerusalem, has backed the UK foreign secretary’s decision to sanction illegal Israeli settlements, including a ban on goods produced there, which triggered the ongoing diplomatic dispute with Israel.

“Miliband [Britain’s Foreign Minister] did the right thing by condemning settlements and the expansion which could threaten the self-determination of the Palestinian people,” Fean said.

“I think the British government plans to wait and see what comes from those elections and to deal with whatever government the Israeli electorate chooses.”

The British government has maintained a presence in Jerusalem since 1838, more than a century before the creation of Israel.

UK’s Jerusalem mission to ‘remain independent’

Vincent Fean, the British consul general in Jerusalem from 2010 to 2014, said that the renaming of the UK’s consulate in occupied ⁠East Jerusalem after Israel ordered it to close as part of a diplomatic dispute.

“The Tel Aviv embassy deals with Israel, and the mission in East Jerusalem deals with the PLO, the government of Palestine in Ramallah and the Palestinian Authority. It relates directly to the Palestinian people, be it in Gaza, East Jerusalem or all the rest of the West Bank,” Fean told Al Jazeera.

“The Jerusalem mission reports directly to the foreign secretary. It is not subordinate to anybody. It is independent, and it will remain so.”

Fean noted that Miliband’s sanctions against Israeli settlements are needed, especially after Israel announced its E1 settlement expansion. “An Israeli minister says E1 is designed to bury the two-state solution. Now, we don’t want that, Palestinians don’t want that and the international community doesn’t want that.”

West Bank

Settler pogroms wound Palestinians in West Bank

Several Palestinians have been wounded in Israeli settler pogroms in the Wadi al-Sha’ir area of the northern occupied West Bank’s Salfit governorate, our colleagues on the ground report.

Additionally, the Palestinian news agency Wafa reports that Israeli forces arrested the mayor of Tuqu, 60-year-old Saqr Suleiman, after raiding his home in the town southeast of Bethlehem.

Israeli army arrests nearly 100 Palestinians in West Bank raids

The Israeli army has detained and interrogated nearly 100 Palestinians since last night across the occupied West Bank, the Wafa news agency reports.

The arrests were reportedly concentrated in the town of Aqqaba in Tubas governorate, Madma in Nablus governorate and the city of Yatta, south of Hebron, in addition to areas in Jenin, Bethlehem and el-Bireh.

The Palestinian Prisoner’s Club said the raids, arrests and field investigations were accompanied by vandalism and destruction of the contents of homes and attacks on citizens.