• An Israeli air attack west of Gaza City has killed at least seven Palestinians, including a child. The Israeli military said it was targeting “Hamas commanders”

Hamas accuses Netanyahu of sabotaging Gaza negotiations

Hamas says it is committed to reaching a ceasefire deal in Gaza, while accusing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of undermining the negotiations.

In a statement issued after an Israeli attack in Gaza City killed seven Palestinians, including a child, the group called the “massacre” a “deliberate escalation”. Hamas also said it believed that Netanyahu is purposely derailing international efforts to advance Trump’s Gaza peace plan.

“The timing of the crime,” the statement said, “following recent talks in Cairo and ongoing mediation efforts, demonstrated beyond any doubt Netanyahu’s intention to sabotage negotiations”.

The group called on the US administration, mediators, and guarantors “to pressure the Israeli government to honor the agreement, halt its crimes, and prevent Netanyahu from obstructing the Sharm el-Sheikh deal”.

Prominent Russian general says Israel risks ceasing ‘to exist as a state’

A senior Russian military official has claimed that Israel’s primary objective is to escalate conflict in the Middle East to draw the United States and NATO into war.

Speaking to Russia’s state-owned news agency TASS, Lieutenant General Apty Alaudinov, deputy chief of the Russian army’s Main Military-Political Directorate and commander of the Akhmat special forces unit, argued that the situation in the region will only continue to intensify.

“We must realize that the war in the Middle East will only escalate. I believe that is precisely Israel’s objective: to ramp up the conflict as much as possible and drag both the US and the entire NATO bloc into it,” Alaudinov said.

“Ultimately, they [Israel] will overestimate their strength and cease to exist as a state,” he added.

Palestinian factions explore broad alliance for November elections

Hamas and other Palestinian political factions opposed to the ruling Fatah government of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas are exploring the formation of a broad electoral coalition before historic polls late this year.

Husam Badran, the national relations official for Hamas, told Al Jazeera that the movement has recently held bilateral and collective meetings with groups that include Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), the National Initiative and Democratic Reform, the Mohammed Dahlan-led breakaway Fatah faction. Dahlan and Democratic Reform have previously been firm critics of Hamas.

Israel opens criminal probes into killings of Hind Rajab, Gaza rescuers

Israel’s military says it will open internal criminal investigations into the killing of Palestinian girl Hind Rajab in Gaza in January 2024 and the killing of 15 emergency and aid workers in March 2025, Reuters reports.

The military said the decisions followed examinations by its Fact-Finding and Assessment Mechanism and were among rulings issued over five incidents involving Palestinian deaths.

Israeli military says it also reviewed the killing of seven World Central Kitchen aid workers in April 2024, but said there was “no reasonable suspicion of criminal misconduct” warranting a criminal investigation.

The Israeli military said it examines “exceptional incidents” during combat as part of its obligations under international and domestic law.

We don't put value to any Israeli 'investigation.' For instance, the 2014 Gaza war crimes was written in a defensive language, while their investigation on water accessibility for the Palestinians in the West Bank is written in a matter of public relations.

The Israeli military say that there was no reason to investigate the missile attacks on a convoy of World Kitchen Central on the coastal al-Rashid Road.

Well, it has been examined by investigative journalists who could reconstruct the attacks in time frames, which reveals that the air strikes were calculated, selected killings.

A reminder of what happened to Hind Rajab as Israel announces "investigation" into her killing

January 2024 was the high time of displacement across Gaza.

People were fleeing in large numbers from the horror of the bombardment across the northern and central parts of the Strip and were pushed south

A 6-year-old Palestinian girl, Hind Rajab, was with her family inside a vehicle as they were making their way to the southern part of the Strip when a tank blocked their way.

Hind was trapped inside the car after the Israeli military occupied the area and they fired at the car, killing six members of her family.

Hind survived the first round of these bullets at the vehicle.

She called the Red Crescent Society to ask for help.

They dispatched two of their rescue workers, who arrived at the scene, but they were killed by the Israeli military as well.

Their ambulance was later found damaged by bullets

Later, Hind and her family were found.

People here who are hearing about the investigation are sceptical that it will bring any justice to Hind and her family.

Justice ‘unlikely’ for Palestinians in Israeli courts, Hind Rajab Foundation head says

Dyab Abou Jahjah, president of the Hind Rajab Foundation, says it is highly unlikely for Palestinian victims to find justice through Israel’s legal system, citing what he describes as a decades-long track record of impunity.

He noted that fewer than 1 percent of cases result in prosecution. “We do not trust the Israeli justice system,” the head of the legal advocacy organization said.

Jahjah added that previous investigations, such as one into the 2022 killing of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, have “always been about a charade meant to exonerate, to whitewash the culprits rather than convicting them”.

He emphasized that Israel “scores less than any other country in the world, including known rogue states and dictatorships” on transparency and legal standards.

Palestinian Christian theologian questions Israeli army war crimes probe announcement

Palestinian Christian theologian Munther Isaac, the director of the Bethlehem Institute for Peace and Justice, has questioned the Israeli military’s announcement that it will investigate the killing of Hind Rajab and other Palestinians in the Gaza genocide.

Munther asked in a post on X: “Can we, in any seriousness, trust the Israeli military to investigate itself?”

“And let us not forget: There are thousands of Hinds in Gaza – thousands of children killed, each with a name, a family, a story, and a future stolen from them,” he said.

“Justice must prevail. Justice will prevail.”

Australia summons Israeli envoy after army drops criminal probe into aid worker deaths

Australia has summoned Israel’s ambassador to express “outrage” over the Israeli military’s decision not to pursue criminal proceedings against those responsible for a 2024 drone attack that killed seven World Central Kitchen aid workers in Gaza.

The victims included 43-year-old Australian citizen Lalzawmi “Zomi” Frankcom.

The Israeli military announced that an extensive internal review found no “reasonable suspicion of criminal misconduct” to justify opening criminal investigations into the April 2024 attack. Israeli authorities previously cited operational errors, misidentification, and procedural failures for the strike on the clearly marked aid convoy.

Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong said Canberra learned of the decision moments before its public release on World Humanitarian Day, calling the timing “especially insulting” to Frankcom’s family, humanitarians globally and all Australians.

“This decision falls far short of the accountability we expect,” Wong said in a statement. “The Australian government will not stop pressing Israel for justice for Zomi and her colleagues.”

Wong summoned Ambassador Hillel Newman in Canberra, and instructed Australia’s envoy in Tel Aviv to lodge formal objections directly with Israeli officials. The Australian government reiterated that disciplinary measures alone are insufficient for an alleged mistake of this magnitude and stated it will continue to press Israel for justice, full transparency, and formal criminal accountability.

Amnesty official slams US sanctions on ICC officials as ‘assault on international justice’

Amnesty International official Erika Guevara Rosas has raised alarm over the latest US sanctions against the International Criminal Court, saying they are a “reprehensible assault on the international justice system” and an “escalating campaign to intimidate the Court and obstruct its pursuit of accountability”.

In a post on X, Guevara Rosas criticised the sanctioning of ICC President Tomoko Akane and Senior Trial Lawyer Abdoulaye Seye, saying the measures are “not about sovereignty”, but about “shielding powerful actors from accountability and punishing those tasked with investigating and prosecuting the gravest crimes under international law”.

“States must urgently and publicly reject these retaliatory measures, protect the independence of the International Criminal Court, and ensure it can continue its vital work free from intimidation, coercion, and political interference.”

In November 2024, the ICC issued arrest warrants for Netanyahu and former Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza, actions that Israel dismissed as anti-Semitic and lacking any legal ground.

German chancellor condemns Ben-Gvir’s ‘inhumane’ Gaza comments

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has condemned what a government spokesperson has described as “inhumane” comments by Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir.

Israeli media had earlier reported that Ben-Gvir said during a podcast interview that between 30 and 40 Palestinians in Gaza should be killed every night.

The German government spokesperson also said there should be no further Israeli annexation in the occupied West Bank.

Ben-Gvir comments ‘shocking, outrageous, dehumanizing, and dangerous’: UN chief’s spokesman

Stephane Dujarric, spokesman for UN chief Antonio Guterres, has called Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir’s comments on killing “30 to 40” Palestinians “every night” in Gaza “shocking, outrageous, dehumanizing, and dangerous”.

He made the comments in response to a question from an Al Jazeera correspondent.

Dujarric said the UN Chief’s office “condemn them unequivocally”.

Amnesty calls for ‘immediate’ release of Gaza doctor from Israeli detention facility

Amnesty International, a global rights group, has demanded an “immediate and unconditional” release of Dr Hussam Abu Safia, the director of Gaza’s Kamal Adwan Hospital, from an Israeli detention facility, citing reports from his lawyer of ongoing torture and ill-treatment.

Abu Safia has been held without charge since Israeli forces detained him during a raid on the hospital on December 27, 2024. Israel’s Supreme Court rejected his appeal for release on June 16, upholding his detention until at least October 2026.

He has reportedly been held in solitary confinement since June 3, exceeding the 15-day limit set by the UN’s Nelson Mandela Rules.

Amnesty had separately said the conditions of Abu Safia’s detention are “truly horrifying” and that “there is an imminent threat” to his life.

Israeli strike kills six in central Gaza City

An Israeli drone strike in central Gaza City has killed six people and wounded others, according to a local ambulance source.

Deadly Gaza City attack targeted police post

A drone attack targeted a police post here in Gaza City. Six people have been killed so far, according to local paramedics. More people have been injured.

The attack happened during a busy time in the central part of the city, near the municipality and a city park, which was filled with people, including children.

A few hours ago, another attack targeted a motorcycle in central Gaza’s Nuseirat refugee camp. One person was reported killed in that attack.

Death toll from Gaza City attack rises to 9 

A total of nine people have now been reported killed by the Israeli drone attack in central Gaza City, according to a local ambulance source cited by our colleagues on the ground.

Israeli military claims attacks in Gaza City, Nuseirat

Israel’s military says it carried out attacks in central Gaza’s Nuseirat area and in Gaza City’s Tuffah neighborhood.

In a statement, it claims both attacks targeted Hamas fighters, including commanders, and that it took steps to “mitigate harm to civilians”.

According to a local medical source cited by our colleagues on the ground, Israel’s recent attack in Gaza City targeted a police post located in a crowded part of the city during a busy time. Nine people have been reported killed in that attack so far. One Palestinian was killed in the attack on Nuseirat.

‘Brutal massacre’: Gaza’s Interior Ministry slams Israeli attack on Gaza police post 

Gaza’s Interior Ministry has called on international mediators to act to “stop the dangerous Israeli escalation and the massacres committed against the police force,” after an Israeli attack on a Gaza City police post killed at least nine people, according to local medics.

In a statement, the ministry accused Israel of trying to “dismantle the police force in order to spread chaos” and making baseless claims to “justify its crimes”.

Israeli strike kills women’s police chief in Gaza, reports say

An Israeli air strike has killed Colonel Fatina al-Sahhar, the women’s police chief in Gaza, along with several other police commanders, according to Palestinian news sources.

Hamas says Israeli strike on Gaza City police headquarters ‘new war crime’

Hamas has condemned an Israeli strike on police headquarters in Gaza City that killed nine people, mostly police officers, and wounded several civilians, calling it “a new war crime”.

In a statement, the group rejected Israel’s justification that the strike targeted “resistance leaders”, calling the claim “baseless and false allegations used to justify its aggression and cover up its deliberate targeting of civilian police and unarmed civilians”.

Hamas accused the Israeli government of “deliberately undermining these efforts and dangerously pushing towards reigniting the war of extermination against our people in the Gaza Strip”.

The group called on mediators and guarantors, “foremost among them the Trump administration”, to take “a clear and firm stance against this dangerous escalation”, compel Israel to abide by the agreement and hold it “fully responsible for the repercussions of these systematic crimes”.

Israeli military claims it was targeting Hamas fighters in attack on police station

Medical sources at al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City said they had received nine Palestinian bodies following an attack on the municipal police headquarters in the centre of Gaza City. Another 15 people were wounded.

The Israeli military has now claimed in a post on X that four Hamas fighters and a member of the Popular Resistance Committees were operating from the police station.

It said it would provide further details later, but did not provide any evidence for its claim.

A female police Colonel branded as "Hamas fighter" just reveal that the Israeli army keeps resorting to conflation, as that is its directive "Treat everyone and everything that moves and not move as Hamas."

The directive has been used since October 2023 after being banned for years.

Israel kills 20 Palestinians in Gaza in 24 hours

The Israeli military launched a criminal investigation into the killing of five-year-old Hind Rajab and six of her family members in January 2024. Her family was trying to flee the area when an Israeli tank blocked their way. Trapped inside their vehicle, they were shot and killed.

Among the victims was her 15-year-old cousin, Layan, who called paramedics for help before being killed.

Israel initially denied responsibility, claiming neither its tanks nor its soldiers were in the area when Hind and her family were killed. Independent investigations by The Washington Post and the United Nations contradicted that narrative, concluding that Israeli forces were responsible for the attack.

Israeli air strikes and drone attacks in the Gaza Strip continue almost daily, despite the ceasefire announced in October 2025.

At least 20 Palestinians were killed in strikes over the last 24 hours. For grieving families in Gaza, seeking justice starts with finding out who is responsible for their loss.

US Senator says Israeli forces must be held accountable for ‘500 war crimes’ in Gaza

US Senator Chris Van Hollen has told Israeli newspaper Haaretz that Israeli forces “must be held accountable for nearly 500 war crimes he said were identified by the US government” in Gaza.

“Most of the world already knows that the [Israeli army] has committed war crimes in these cases and many others,” he told the publication, responding to an announcement by Israeli forces to open criminal probes into the killing of five-year-old Hind Rajab and others in Gaza.

“What remains is the question of accountability,” he said, adding that “true justice or accountability” may never be seen, given the Israeli government’s “poor track record”.

Gaza faces ‘mass thirst’ as water and sewage systems near collapse, union warns

More than two million Palestinians in Gaza face “mass thirst” due to severe water shortages as Israeli restrictions on fuel and spare parts push municipal services towards collapse, Alaa al-Din al-Batta, deputy head of the Gaza Strip Municipalities Union, warned in comments carried by the Palestinian Information Center.

Al-Batta said approximately 700 generators need lubricant to keep running, but current supplies allowed into Gaza cover only about 40 of them, with lubricant prices surging roughly 1,000 percent.

He said generators are now operating at no more than 20 percent capacity, and that municipalities have received no diesel fuel to operate machinery required for rubble removal since March. He warned sewage could soon overflow into streets and displacement shelters, accelerating the risk of disease outbreaks.

UK calls on Israel to ensure ‘significantly more’ aid to Gaza

Stephen Doughty, the United Kingdom’s minister for the Middle East, has called on Israel to ensure “significantly more humanitarian aid” reaches the Gaza Strip, during a visit to aid facilities in el-Arish, Egypt.

According to a British Foreign Office statement, Doughty called on Israel to remove obstacles to further aid and ensure its swift and safe delivery to prevent further suffering in Gaza.

He said the UK was working closely with Egypt to take practical steps to support the flow of aid, noting that this was why the UK supports diplomatic efforts to end the conflict and achieve peace, stability and security in Gaza.

Indian diplomat visits Israeli-banned UNRWA despite strong Modi-Netanyahu ties

Senior Indian diplomat Sreepraba Ranganathan has visited a health centre run by the Israeli-banned UN aid agency for Palestine refugees (UNRWA) in the occupied West Bank, according to a post on X.

“Reaffirming India’s longstanding support for @UNRWA”, the official X account of India in Palestine said.

The Indian official made the visit to the facility in Ramallah despite close personal ties between Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Israeli counterpart, Benjamin Netanyahu, who has called for the dismantling of UNRWA, claiming that the agency employs Palestinian fighters, fosters anti-Israel incitement and artificially perpetuates the Palestinian refugee issue rather than resolving it.

Qatar’s prime minister meets Hamas political chief

Qatar’s Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani has met Khalil al-Hayya, political chief of Hamas, in Doha, according to a statement by Qatar’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

It said the two reviewed the developments of the situation in the Gaza Strip and the occupied Palestinian territories.

Sheikh Mohammed praised Hamas’s decision to accept the Board of Peace roadmap to complete the implementation of the second phase of the ceasefire agreement in the Gaza Strip.

Sheikh Mohammed “also stressed the need for the international community to assume its responsibilities and pressure Israel to fulfill its obligations under the agreement and stop its ongoing violations of the rights of the Palestinian people”.

Qatar’s top diplomat discusses Iran, Gaza with Saudi counterpart in Riyadh

Qatar’s Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani and his Saudi counterpart Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud have discussed the latest regional developments in Riyadh, according to Qatar’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Sheikh Mohammed, who is in Saudi Arabia on an official visit, spoke to Prince Faisal on diplomatic efforts being made to “reduce escalation, contain tensions, and enhance security and stability in the region, as well as the latest developments in the Gaza sector and the occupied Palestinian territories”, according to the statement.

The two sides also stressed the necessity of “ensuring the security and safety of freedom of maritime navigation, especially in the Arabian Gulf and the Red Sea”.

They both condemned “Israel’s declared rejection of the roadmap aimed at completing the implementation of the comprehensive plan by US President Donald Trump to end the conflict in Gaza”.

Happened in the occupied West Bank

Israeli forces and colonists have continued a campaign of arrests, raids, demolitions, and land seizures across the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, according ot the Palestinian news agency Wafa.

• Israeli forces demolished multiple homes, barns, and a health unit across Masafer Yatta (displacing several families and destroying two water wells), seized 160 dunams (16 hectares, or 40 acres) of land in the northern Jordan Valley, converted a residential building near Tulkarem into a military barracks, and sealed off Salfit’s northern entrance.
• For the 10th consecutive day, colonists under Israeli army protection besieged three homes in the Ras al-Ein area of Qusra, south of Nablus, attempting to seize the properties. Colonists also cut the electrical poles serving the Soufan family home in Burin, south of Nablus, and again blocked the only access road with earthen barriers.
• For the second consecutive day, colonists closed secondary roads in Beit Ummar, cutting off access to homes and farmland.
• Israeli authorities issued a tender for 1,234 new illegal colony units in the southern portion of the controversial E1 project area east of Jerusalem.
• Israeli forces shot a 34-year-old man in the head during a raid on Ajoul, north of Ramallah.
• A man was critically wounded during a raid on the Am’ari refugee camp in el-Bireh.
• Two Palestinians were injured when assaulted by Israeli forces during a raid on Beit Ummar.
• Dr Dima Barakat, a 54-year-old obstetrician-gynaecologist, was arrested after her home in Ramallah’s at-Tira neighbourhood was raided and searched.
• Three Palestinians were arrested in Tuqu’, southeast of Bethlehem.
• A Palestinian was arrested in Jenin two days before his scheduled wedding.

‘Relentless escalation of violence’: Palestinian PM slams attacks by Israeli forces, colonists

Israeli forces and colonists conducted at least 467 attacks against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank in a week, according to the Palestinian prime minister’s office.

In a post on X, the PM’s office said the attacks wrecked 75 Palestinian homes and structures.

It said the attacks are part of a “relentless escalation of violence, dispossession, and destruction”.

Qusra mayor: ‘We feel helpless towards the families trapped in the town’

The mayor of Qusra in the occupied West Bank says he fears the siege of families in the town could represent a “new approach” aimed at forcing Palestinians from their homes.

The mayor said food supplies for the besieged families would run out within two days and that they urgently needed food and medicine.

“We feel helpless towards the families trapped in the town,” he said, adding that the municipality had asked the Palestinian Authority to exert pressure to lift the siege.

He accused Israel of seeking to impose control over the area and declare it a military zone, and called for new international action to “restore life and hope” for Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.

Israeli forces attack and arrest Palestinians in widespread raids across the occupied West Bank

Israeli forces raided several homes and arrested a young man from the Qalandiya refugee camp, which lies between Jerusalem and Ramallah. The Jerusalem governorate said it has yet to identify the man, Palestine’s Wafa news agency reported.

In Bethlehem, Israeli forces arrested two Palestinians, including a journalist.

The Israeli army also raided Ras al-Ain in Nablus, where soldiers assaulted a 28-year-old man who had to be taken to hospital for his injuries.

Security sources said Israeli forces raided several homes in the Balata camp, which is in eastern Nablus, and arrested one person. In Nablus’s Kroum Ashour neighborhood, they arrested three people, including two brothers, Wafa reported.

In southern Hebron, Israeli forces arrested eight Palestinians from the city of ad-Dhahiriya. They also raided and searched several homes and set up military checkpoints across the Hebron governorate, according to local sources.

In Qalqilya, Israeli forces arrested six people from the town of Azzun, where they raided multiple homes.

Two people were arrested by Israeli forces in the northern Tulkarem city of Deir al-Ghasoun, Wafa reported.

Meanwhile, Israeli colonists in Qusra, north of Nablus, are keeping residents under siege for the 11th day, with the support of the Israeli army. Wafa reported that three homes belonging to Palestinian families are currently under siege, and the families are experiencing a water shortage as colonists prevent water from reaching them.

Netanyahu’s Likud party drops in latest poll

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party narrowly trails the Yashar party, led by former military chief of staff Gadi Eisenkot, according to a poll published by Israel’s Kan broadcaster.

The poll’s results give Yashar a one-seat advantage over Likud in parliament (24 to 23).

It comes just more than two months before parliamentary elections are due in Israel.

Israeli forces arrest Palestinian Minister of Jerusalem Affairs

Israeli forces arrested the Palestinian Minister of Jerusalem Affairs, Ashraf al-Awar, after raiding his home in the Silwan neighborhood in occupied East Jerusalem, the Wafa news agency reported.

Israeli police did not provide a reason for al-Awar’s arrest, an official from his office told Turkey’s Andalou news agency.

Under international law, the arrest of a Palestinian official like the Minister of Jerusalem Affairs in East Jerusalem violates the legal frameworks governing foreign military occupation.

International bodies and courts, including the International Court of Justice, view East Jerusalem as occupied territory. This means the Fourth Geneva Convention and the Hague Regulations apply to Israeli actions there, regardless of unilateral annexation.

Israeli government ‘using settler violence’ in push to ‘ethnically cleanse’ West Bank, says Palestinian activist

The Israeli government is leveraging settler violence to advance its goals of annexing the occupied West Bank and ethnically cleansing the territory, says Mustafa Bargouthi, secretary-general of the Palestinian National Initiative.

“Their messages and actions are very clear,” Barghouti said. “Their goal in the West Bank is annexation of the whole of the West Bank” and colony building “to destroy any potential for a Palestinian state”.

“In reality, this Israeli government is using settler violence and settler terrorist groups to repeat what happened in 1948 when terrorist Israeli Zionist groups forced 70 percent of the Palestinian population to be evicted from their land,” Barghouti added.

“Their goal in the West Bank is annexation of the whole of the West Bank”

Since what is known happening in Gaza, imported by colonists into the West Bank, to inflict escalation, we have been considering all activities by the occupying belligerent and colonists as part of de facto annexation, which has already been in the West Bank for years.

Israel moving from West Bank apartheid to ‘something worse’, says Palestinian activist

Mustafa Bargouthi, secretary-general of the Palestinian National Initiative, says Israel’s government, which recently announced plans to transfer civilian law enforcement in the occupied West Bank to the Israeli police, is moving towards “a system of fascism”.

“We’ve already moved from occupation, which is illegal by the way, to apartheid, and [now] they are moving from apartheid to something worse,” Bargouthi said. “With the new laws [the Israeli government] is imposing, the Israelis who live in the occupied territories illegally are subject to Israeli law, but Palestinians are subject to military law.”

He said giving West Bank security oversight to Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, who has openly said Palestinians should leave the West Bank, is an effort to frame the territory’s Indigenous Palestinian population “as illegal… as if they were immigrants from another place”.

“We’ve moved from occupation and apartheid to a system of fascism,” said Barghouti.

47 Palestinian families face imminent displacement in Jordan Valley, Israeli rights group says

The Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem says 47 Palestinian families in the Jordan Valley are facing imminent displacement after Israeli forces and colonists cut off their water supply.

More than 300 people, nearly half of them children, are at risk of displacement after the last remaining water pipes supplying families in Ras al-Ahmar, Tha’la and Sharq Atouf were severed.

Israeli forces are reportedly preventing the transfer of water to the area where Palestinians rely on agriculture and livestock for their livelihoods.

Israel is working on creating a separation barrier in the northern Jordan Valley called “The Crimson Thread”, which extends approximately 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Ein Shibli to the Tayasir checkpoint.

Israeli colonists seize near-total control of Ramallah village land

Israeli colonists have spread out west of Ramallah, arriving on motorcycles and in cars after bringing in a bulldozer to begin leveling Palestinian land in the village of Um al-Safa to pave a road linking colony outposts, including one built recently.

More than 4,700 of the village’s total 4,800 dunams (about 1,180 acres) have been confiscated, according to Shukra, in a village whose population numbers fewer than 1,000 people. Colonists have been uprooting olive trees that residents depend on for their livelihoods.

“No one is allowed access to the village cemetery, even in the event of a death,” Marwan Sabah, head of the village council, told Al Jazeera, adding that he had told residents to bury their dead at their homes because no one can reach the cemetery.

Shukra said colonists have brought in iron bars and cleared and prepared infrastructure to establish a new outpost, to be followed by caravans and homes, expanding further onto Palestinian-owned land. She said six colony outposts have been established on the village’s land in the past few months alone.

Top French diplomat slams ‘disgraceful’ Israeli settler violence in occupied West Bank

French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot has condemned “utterly shameful” acts of violence perpetrated by Israeli colonists against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, saying they “should disgust everyone”.

Posting on X excerpts of an interview with the Centre de France media group, Barrot said the statements made by Israel’s National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir were “unacceptable and inhumane”.

“What is happening today in the West Bank is utterly disgraceful and should revolt us all. This is why we have sanctioned Minister Ben-Gvir, whose recent statements are intolerable and inhumane,” he wrote.

He added that “France has been pushing for sanctions, not only against those responsible for the violence in the West Bank, but also against the entities, companies, and organizations that provide these extremist and violent colonists with the means to expel Palestinians from their lands, burn their crops, and destroy their public buildings”.

In this context, he mentioned the European sanctions imposed for the third time on colonists at the end of May, adding that “new sanctions could be taken, and all options are on the table”.

Germany condemns Israeli tender for new colony homes in occupied West Bank

Germany has condemned a tender for more than 1,000 housing units in the Israeli E1 colony project in the occupied West Bank and urged Israel to halt the plan, saying it violates international law and endangers a negotiated two-state solution.

“We, therefore, once again call upon the Israeli government to halt plans for the E1 colony and to cease colony construction in the West Bank,” Martin Giese, deputy Federal Foreign Office spokesman, said at a news conference in Berlin.

Giese added that Germany “clearly rejects any plans by the Israeli government for annexation” and will not recognize any changes to the 1967 borders not agreed by the parties to the conflict.

Child, elderly woman injured as Israeli forces raid home in West Bank village of Qusra

A Palestinian child and an elderly woman were wounded by shrapnel from live ammunition during an Israeli raid on a home in the occupied West Bank village of Qusra, south of Nablus, according to the Palestinian Red Crescent Society.

Israeli forces continued pushing into the southern part of the village and fired flares.

In the nearby town of Beit Furik, an Israeli raid lasted more than three hours. In the town of Beita, south of Nablus, Israeli colonists dressed in Israeli military uniforms stormed the vicinity of the al-Shurafa family home and performed Talmudic prayers inside. The family said Israeli forces told them the raid would continue for two days.

For a second consecutive week, Israeli colonists have besieged three Palestinian families, including two children, cutting them off from supplies and emergency services.

Colonists have also pitched tents for new outposts near the villages of Um al-Safa and Burqa in recent days, bringing the number of outposts surrounding the two villages to six, the Palestinian news agency Wafa reported.

What does international law say when Israeli colonists are dressed up in military uniforms and raid a Palestinian home?

• International humanitarian law, including Additional Protocol I of the Geneva Conventions, requires a clear separation between civilians and military combatants.
• When civilian colonists wear military uniforms, they unlawfully blur this distinction. This creates a false sense of state authority, coercing civilians through the fraudulent appearance of law enforcement.
• Under Article 27 of the Fourth Geneva Convention, the occupying power must protect local civilians against all acts of violence, threats, and insults.
• United Nations bodies note that when state military forces fail to stop these actions—or provide cover and protection to settler groups—the state breaches its international legal obligations and incurs state responsibility for gross human rights abuses.
• Acts of violence committed by these individuals amount to serious violations of international human rights and humanitarian law.

Israeli army protects settlers, ‘we get support from no one’: West Bank resident

Fatima Abu Naim was a resident of the village of al-Mughayyir in the occupied West Bank before her family was attacked by colonists and forced to move.

“We used to have a simple, happy life … we lived in peace … all of a sudden, the colonists are now a threat against us, against the sheep, against everything in our life … for two years,” she says from Ramallah.

The Israeli army arrested her and her husband, as well as beat her child and mother-in-law, she explained. Displaced, she resolved not to lose her land, which is located just outside the village, and chose to live in a cave on her land. Conditions in the cave were very difficult, with little space for the sheep, and they lacked food and water, she said.

Colonists and the army now control her land, but she says she has been unable to appeal to Israeli courts or police or the Palestinian authorities.

“We are only a family; we cannot be head-to-head with the army or … the colonists; we get support from no one,” she said.

Condemnations never brought changes in the West Bank but more escalation.

So, if no condemning countries refuse to take measures targeting both political and armed belligerents, these countries have the same view hard line Israelis and Americans have: Palestinians are not humans.

UK foreign secretary demands Israel halt E1 settlement project, summons envoy

UK Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband has condemned the publication of a tender for Israel’s E1 settlement project as “unacceptable and destructive”, warning it threatens to sever the occupied West Bank from East Jerusalem and undermine the two-state solution.

Miliband said in a statement that he had told Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar directly that Israel “must halt E1 plans immediately, retract the tender and stop all settlement expansion”.

The UK Foreign Office separately summoned Israel’s charge d’affaires to convey London’s “profound objection” to the move by Netanyahu’s government and to demand an immediate reversal.

The E1 project is a long-standing Israeli expansion plan aimed at building thousands of illegal housing units in a corridor that would link Jerusalem to the Israeli settlement of Ma’ale Adumim, effectively severing the occupied West Bank in two.

Miliband said settler violence and illegal settlement expansion were having a “catastrophic” impact on Palestinian communities and risked creating “irreversible divisions” that would threaten the prospects for a viable Palestinian state.

“Britain will not stand back and accept the destruction of the two-state solution,” he said, adding that all Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank breach international law.

The minister said the government would set out “a comprehensive set of measures” in the coming weeks, including sanctions targeting those involved in illegal settlement expansion, to protect the viability of a future Palestinian state.