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Over 50 Palestinians killed by Israeli forces at Gaza aid sites as hunger crisis worsens

Over 50 Palestinians killed by Israeli forces at Gaza aid sites as hunger crisis worsens
By Edna Mohamed, Nils Adler, Jillian Kestler-D'Amours and Virginia Pietromarchi
Published On 6 Aug 2025

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6 Aug 2025 - 22:59
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For more on the dire shortage of blood donations in Gaza under Israel’s bombardment and forced-starvation policy, see our story here.

You can also get up to speed on the latest Israeli settlement expansion plans in the occupied West Bank, here.

And check out our interview with an International Committee of the Red Cross spokesperson on the need for a political solution in Gaza in this video report.

6 Aug 2025 - 22:50
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Here’s what happened today

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  • Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip killed 44 Palestinians, including 18 aid seekers, medical sources told Al Jazeera.
  • The UN said “the lives of more than 100 premature babies are in imminent danger due to the lack of fuel”.
  • Hamas called for global protests in the upcoming days, demanding the opening of all crossings to allow aid into Gaza.
  • Israel launched several air strikes across southern Lebanon, killing a child and injuring three other people.
  • Hezbollah rejected the Lebanese government’s decision to disarm the group, saying that it will treat the push “as if it doesn’t exist”.
  • Slovenia became the first European country to announce a ban on all imports from illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank.
6 Aug 2025 - 22:40
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Analysis

Israeli strikes complicate Lebanon’s debate over Hezbollah’s weapons

By Ali Harb

As Lebanese politicians debate the government’s push to disarm Hezbollah, Israeli attacks have not relented.

The Israeli violations of the ceasefire, including the most recent wave of strikes, highlight what is at stake for each side of the conversation: Lebanon’s security and chances of survival.

For Hezbollah and its supporters, the attacks show the need for armed resistance to defend Lebanon against Israel.

But the group’s detractors say that if it weren’t for Hezbollah’s weapons, Israel would not attack Lebanon, and the Lebanese government would be able to turn to the international community for diplomatic and financial help.

They indirectly blame Hezbollah for the Israeli strikes.

Hezbollah’s officials, however, often respond to that argument by underscoring that Israel has been attacking Lebanon since its inception in 1948 – long before Hezbollah was established. They also point to Israel’s expansionist policies in the West Bank and Syria, where the Israeli army has met little military resistance.

For now, however, Hezbollah is failing to deter the Israeli attacks, and so is the Lebanese state.

And the people of southern Lebanon continue to suffer under Israeli bombardment.

6 Aug 2025 - 22:30
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Egypt FM says Gaza crisis a ‘stain’ on international community

Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty says the international community should be ashamed by the “devastating actions being carried out by Israel”.

“What is unfolding is a human tragedy, and the suffering witnessed is a stain on the conscience of the international community,” Abdelatty said.

Egypt has formal diplomatic relations with Israel and borders Gaza. Cairo has stressed that it has thousands of aid trucks on its side of the border ready to go into the Palestinian territory if Israeli authorities allow them.

Earlier this week, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi accused Israel of carrying out a “systematic genocide” in Gaza.

6 Aug 2025 - 22:20
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Friends mourn Lebanese child killed in Israeli strike

As we reported earlier, an Israeli strike on the Lebanese town of Tulin has killed a child and injured his father.

Lebanese news outlets identified the victim as 11-year-old Abbas Awala.

The Hezbollah-affiliated al-Manar TV spoke to the child’s friends, who described him as joyful and generous.

“He used to make us laugh and entertain us. He was great to be around. The smile would never leave his face,” one of his friends said. “Today, we lost Abbas, and we are waiting for the state to protect us. Tomorrow, we don’t know who we will lose.”

6 Aug 2025 - 22:15
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Developing

Two Palestinian women killed in Israeli attack near Khan Younis

Citing sources at Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza, our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic are reporting that the women were killed in an Israeli attack on tents housing displaced people west of Khan Younis.

Separately, Al Jazeera Arabic is reporting that Israeli air strikes have taken place in the Shujayea area of Gaza City.

6 Aug 2025 - 22:10
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‘We are alive and dead at the same time’

The nonprofit group Defense for Children International-Palestine has shared testimonies from four children in Gaza grappling with daily life under Israel’s bombardment and blockade.

Jana, 14, said she only eats one meal a day as her family struggles to find food under the Israeli forced starvation policy.

“All night, my siblings and I were crying, and my mom and dad cried for us because of the hunger and misery we’re living in. We’re sick of this life – we don’t want to live this life any more. We don’t know how to live. We are alive and dead at the same time,” she said.

Sumaya, 16, also described the medical problems she faces as she and her family were displaced from their home and forced to share a classroom with three other families. She contracted jaundice as a result of the difficult living situation.

“The right to health doesn’t exist. Even when hospitals ask for help from abroad, the occupation refuses to allow medicine in,” Sumaya said. “I believe their goal is to kill the sick, children, and nurses.”

A Palestinian boy sits in a damaged home in Gaza City on August 6 [Mahmoud Issa/Reuters]
6 Aug 2025 - 22:00
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Media, press freedom groups warn ‘journalists in Gaza being starved to death’

Sixteen media organisations and press freedom groups, including Al Jazeera Media Network and the Committee to Protect Journalists, are calling for an end to Israel’s “forced starvation and targeting of journalists in Gaza”.

“Journalists in Gaza are being starved to death. Not metaphorically. Not slowly. But deliberately, and in real time, while the world watches,” the groups said in a joint statement.

More than 230 Palestinian journalists and media workers have been killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza since the war began in October 2023 in what experts say is a targeted campaign aimed at stifling media coverage of Israeli abuses in the enclave.

“Those who remain, and their families, are subjected to constant targeting, intimidation, and denied of their basic needs and now forced to choose between death by air strike or starvation,” the groups said in their statement.

“Their situation is dire and worsening day by day. Without immediate intervention by the international community, their lives are under serious threat, and they may not be able to continue reporting; their voices may fall silent,” they added.

“The journalistic community and the world bear an immense responsibility; it is our duty to raise our voices and mobilise all available means to support our colleagues in this noble profession.”

Palestinian journalists walk in the funeral procession of their colleague, Hassan Eslaih, killed in an Israeli strike in May, in Khan Younis, in southern Gaza [File: Eyad Baba/AFP]
6 Aug 2025 - 21:50
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WATCH: Israel defies global pressure with settlement expansion scheme

Al Jazeera’s Nida Ibrahim explains that Israel’s illegal E1 settlement expansion plan dates back to the early 1990s but has faced widespread international condemnation.

As we’ve been reporting, the Israeli government plans to build illegal settlement units in the corridor near Jerusalem.

“The US and the EU have long pressured Israel to postpone” its plan, Ibrahim said.

“If [the plan] is implemented, it will connect the illegal Israeli settlements with the Israeli-annexed Jerusalem, cutting deeper into the West Bank and separating it and dividing it into two, threatening the contiguity of a future and unified Palestinian state.”

See more in our video below.

6 Aug 2025 - 21:40
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‘Full occupation’ of Gaza means ‘bloodiest stage of the genocide’

Legal experts say that Gaza has been under full Israeli occupation since 1967, but as Israel threatens to “occupy” the territory in the context of its ongoing war, advocates are warning that greater horrors may be inflicted on Palestinians.

“When Israel speaks of a ‘full occupation’ of Gaza as next step, what they mean is the military operating, on the ground, in the last remaining pockets where the vast majority of the Palestinian population is concentrated,” a Palestinian American analyst said in a social media post.

“They mean the bloodiest stage of the genocide yet.”

A Palestinian woman at the site surrounding an evacuated UNRWA clinic where displaced people were taking shelter following an overnight Israeli strike in Gaza City, August 6 [Dawoud Abu Alkas/Reuters]
6 Aug 2025 - 21:29
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Developing

Two injured in Israeli strikes in Lebanon

Lebanon’s Health Ministry says Israeli attacks on the Lebanese village of Deir Siryan injured at least two people.

Several Lebanese media outlets reported that Israel launched multiple strikes against a site in the village as part of a wave of air raids in the south of the country.

6 Aug 2025 - 21:20
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Israel plans to occupy Gaza City and force civilians out: Report

Israeli Channel 12 reports that Netanyahu will present at tomorrow’s cabinet meeting how he intends to start the full ground military control of Gaza.

According to sources who spoke to the Israeli broadcaster, the first move would be to occupy Gaza City in the north of the Gaza Strip.

In coordination with the United States, the Israeli army would first force civilians to evacuate to central areas of the enclave. There, Israeli forces would establish temporary civilian infrastructure in a process that could last for weeks. Once all civilians are forcibly transferred, Israeli troops would enter Gaza City.

According to the report, Trump is expected to deliver a speech on the expansion of humanitarian efforts, including the allocation of $1bn to set up new aid distribution sites.

In parallel, Israel will annex the perimeter area that it has established since the start of the war along the fence with Gaza, it said.

Israeli Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir has opposed the plan, saying that the occupation of Gaza will put Israel in a “black hole”, the report said.

6 Aug 2025 - 21:15
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Developing

Gaza civil defence says crews dispatched to al-Mawasi after Israeli attack

Emergency responders have rushed to the area west of Khan Younis in southern Gaza after a tent housing displaced Palestinians was targeted in an Israeli bombing.

The civil defence agency said the attack resulted in injuries, according to sources on the ground.

“Crews are currently working to evacuate the injured and secure the area amid difficult and extremely dangerous field conditions,” it said in a post shared on Telegram.

We’ll bring you more on this as soon as we can.

6 Aug 2025 - 21:10
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Lebanon FM says decision to disarm Hezbollah ‘final and resolute’

Without naming Hezbollah, Lebanon’s Foreign Minister Youssef Raggi says the “decision to place all weapons exclusively under state authority by the end of the year was, above all, a response to the aspirations of the Lebanese people”.

“To them, and to the Arab and international communities, our message is clear: This decision is final and resolute; there is no turning back,” Raggi wrote in a social media post.

Hezbollah had dismissed the decision, saying that it will treat it “as if it doesn’t exist”.

The group has been critical of Raggi over his failure to rally Arab states and the international community against the daily Israeli attacks and continued occupation of parts of southern Lebanon.

6 Aug 2025 - 21:07
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Developing

Gaza death toll rises again

At least 44 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza since dawn on Wednesday, sources tell Al Jazeera.

That includes at least 18 people who were killed while seeking desperately needed aid.

6 Aug 2025 - 20:47
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Developing

Israeli military says it targeted Hezbollah infrastructure

The Israeli military has released a statement on its recent attacks in southern Lebanon, saying that it targeted Hezbollah infrastructure.

“Among the targets attacked [were] weapons depots, a launcher, and infrastructure of the organisation in which engineering tools were stored, used for the restoration of terrorist infrastructure in the area,” it said.

Israel previously attacked civilian infrastructure in south Lebanon, including car lots, mobile homes and construction equipment, claiming that it struck Hezbollah targets.

6 Aug 2025 - 20:40
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Araghchi reasserts Iran’s support for Hezbollah, says the group recovered

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has reasserted his country’s support for Lebanon’s Hezbollah amid a push to disarm the group.

He said Tehran backs its Lebanese ally “without interfering” in its decisions.

Araghchi cited recent comments by Hezbollah chief Naim Qassem rejecting efforts to remove the group’s weapons.

The top Iranian diplomat stressed that the Lebanese group has now fully regained the capabilities to defend itself after suffering heavy blows in last year’s conflict with Israel.

“According to available information, the damage from the recent war has been repaired, Hezbollah has reorganised, deployed its forces, and replaced its commanders,” Araghchi said, according to Tasnim news agency.

His comments come amid an intensifying debate in Lebanon after the government tasked the army with producing a plan to remove Hezbollah’s weapons by the end of the year.

6 Aug 2025 - 20:30
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UN humanitarian office says hunger hindering children’s development

The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has warned that the Israeli-imposed starvation in Gaza could have a lasting effect on children.

“Partners working on food assistance warn that massive food shortages continue to impact people’s chances for survival,” OCHA said in a statement.

“As malnutrition levels are rising, children are more likely to have weakened immune systems, hindering their development and growth far into the future.”

Yazan Abu Ful, a 2-year-old malnourished child, sits with his father in the Shati refugee camp in Gaza City,  July 23 [File: Jehad Alshrafi/AP Photo]
6 Aug 2025 - 20:19
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Developing

Gaza’s daily death toll rises to 41

Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip have killed 41 Palestinians, including 18 aid seekers, since dawn, medical sources tell Al Jazeera.

6 Aug 2025 - 20:09
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Ambulances unable to reach site targeted in south Lebanon

Lebanon’s National News Agency reports that ambulances are struggling to reach a site repeatedly targeted by Israel in the village of Deir Siriane due to ongoing Israeli attacks.

The agency also said that Israeli air raids targeted several other towns, including Aadchit al-Qsair.

A video of the attack on Deir Siriane shared on social media and verified by Al Jazeera showed a fireball light up in the night sky after one of the strikes.

Translation: Video shows the moment of the Israeli air strike in south Lebanon.