As death toll surpasses 60K, two Israeli rights groups accuse Israel of genocide – War on Gaza Day 661

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Desperate Palestinians wait to get a meal distributed by charity groups in Gaza City (Khames Alrefi/Anadolu)

Compilation of news reports – IAK staff

Israeli forces killed at least 100 Palestinians in Gaza on Monday, including at least 41 aid seekers. In total, Israel has killed at least 1,179 aid seekers since May 27, 2025 (learn about aid seekers here).

Two Palestinians were killed in the West Bank on Monday (see below).

For detail on Israeli attacks in Gaza on Monday, go here.

BREAKING: Gaza death toll surpasses 60,000

The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza announces that the death toll from the ongoing Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023, has exceeded 60,034 martyrs.

Among them:
18,592 children (30.8%)
9,782 women (16.3%)
Elderly (7.3%)

These groups represent 55% of the total number of martyrs, clearly reflecting the extent of the direct and unjustified targeting of civilians by the occupying forces.

GAZA NEWS & HEADLINES:

(For some basic info on the Palestine-Israel conflict, go here. For a bit more critical context, skim this, this, and this.To read about a remarkable but underreported, 20-month-long peaceful protest in Gaza against Israel, go here.)

Over 40,000 infants at risk of death in Gaza due to Israeli ban on baby formula, authorities warn

More than 40,000 infants face the risk of death due to Israel’s continued ban on the entry of baby formula into Gaza, local authorities warned on Monday.

Gaza “is on the brink of an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe threatening the lives of tens of thousands of infants, as Israel has continuously blocked the entry of baby formula for 150 days in what amounts to a silent genocide,” the government media office said in a statement. “There are over 40,000 babies under the age of one in Gaza at risk of slow death due to this criminal, suffocating blockade,” the office said.

It called for the immediate and unconditional opening of Gaza’s border crossings and urgent entry of baby formula and humanitarian aid.

BABY SAVED FROM WOMB OF MOTHER KILLED IN ISRAELI AIRSTRIKE: A baby was delivered from the womb of a pregnant Palestinian woman killed in an Israeli airstrike in the southern Gaza Strip, medics said on Monday. The mother was killed in an Israeli strike that targeted a house in Al-Mawasi in western Khan Younis on Monday.

Israel ‘freezes’ plans for concentration camp in southern Gaza: Report

The Israeli government has suspended a plan to set up a detention camp for Palestinians in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, according to local media. Citing a senior security official, the Israeli daily Yedioth Ahronoth said the plan to accommodate hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in a so-called “humanitarian city,” has been halted. The official added, “There is no decision to move forward, and no alternative plan on the table” (continue readinghere).

UN chief says Palestinian statehood ‘is a right not a reward’

At the opening of a UN conference Monday on the topic of a two-state solution, UN chief Antonio Guterres called on the international community to take “urgent, concrete, irreversible steps” towards a two-state solution, warning the situation in Gaza is driving Palestinians deeper into despair.

“Let’s be clear: statehood for the Palestinians is a right, not a reward, and the denial of statehood would be a gift to extremists everywhere,” he said.

The United States rejected the UN conference that brought dozens of ministers together to work towards a two-state solution between Israel and the Palestinians, calling it a “publicity stunt.”

More states offer to airdrop aid into Gaza – but why?

Among the countries that plan to or have already airdropped aid into Gaza this month are Israel, Jordan, United Arab Emirates, the United States, Egypt, France, Belgium, Germany, Spain, and the UK.

But deliveries of aid by the truckload would be safer, more efficient, and more equitable.

UNRWA, which Israel banned* from operating in Gaza in January, has 6,000 trucks of aid loaded with food, medicine and other hygiene supplies in Jordan and Egypt. The World Food Program said on Sunday it had enough aid to feed the population of Gaza for three months.

Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has condemned the use of airdrops to deliver aid to Gaza: “Using airdrops for the delivery of humanitarian aid is a futile initiative that smacks of cynicism,” he said. “The roads are there, the trucks are there, the food and medicine are there… All that is needed is for Israeli authorities to decide to facilitate its arrival.”

*FACT: UNRWA, the United Nations body with a mandate to help Palestinian refugees, has been feeding the people of Gaza for decades as they wait for their internationally recognized right of returnto be activated. Israel has forbidden UNRWA from continuing its work based on an unsubstantiated accusation that 12 employees (out of a staff of 13,000) participated in the October 2023 attack. The 6-page dossier Israel issued, allegedly proving the guilt of twelve UNRWA employees out of a staff of 13,000, offers no compelling evidence.

As of July 2025, Israel has still failed to provide evidence to back up its accusations against UNRWA.

Gaza Airdrops Fell on Homes in Gaza, Collapsing Them, Aid Groups Say

The “aid” airdrops that Israel authorized in Gaza did little to nothing to alleviate Israel’s starvation catastrophe while also injuring roughly a dozen Palestinians, with reports that they even collapsed homes and landed on tents in the region.

The UN-backed Global Protection Cluster reported on Sunday, a day after the drops began, that Palestinians across the Strip were reporting “injuries, collapse of homes, full exclusion of vulnerable groups, and a sense of loss of dignity” amid the drops.

“According to one mother in Al Karama east of Gaza City, an airdropped pallet hit the roof of her home, causing the roof to collapse,” the group saidin a report. “Immediately following the impact, a group of people armed with knives rushed towards the house, while the mother locked herself and her children in the remaining room to protect her family. They did not receive any assistance and are fearful for their safety” (continue reading here).

(Get familiar with the charges against Israel: genocide, ethnic cleansing, forced transfer, starvation as a weapon of war, use of human shields, concentration camps, indiscriminate shooting at civilians, and more.)

WEST BANK/EAST JERUSALEM, AND ISRAEL NEWS AND HEADLINES:

(For background on the West Bank, read this and this. For information on the significance of Israeli settlers in the West Bank, read this and this.)

Two Israeli rights groups accuse Israel of genocide

In a new report, Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem said an examination of Israeli policies and their outcomes, alongside statements by senior officials, leads to “the unequivocal conclusion that Israel is taking coordinated action to intentionally destroy Palestinian society in the Gaza Strip.”

“This is a deeply painful moment for us,” B’Tselem Executive Director Yuli Novak said. “But as Israelis and Palestinians who live here and witness the reality every day, we have a duty to speak the truth as clearly as possible: Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinians.”

Physicians for Human Rights-Israel (PHRI), meanwhile, released a legal-medical analysis concluding that Israel’s ongoing military assault in Gaza “meets the criteria for genocide” under the UN Genocide Convention: “This is not incidental damage from war – it is a deliberate policy. As medical professionals, we are obligated to speak the truth: this is genocide, and we must fight it” (continue reading here; also check out B’Tselem’s executive summary or full report, and PHRI’s report).

Palestinian activist who worked on Oscar-winning film ‘No Other Land’ killed in occupied West Bank

Awdah Hathleen, a Palestinian activist who was part of the crew on the Academy Award-winning documentary No Other Land, was shot dead by an Israeli settler on Monday, the film’s co-directors say.

Israeli journalist Yuval Abraham, one half of the filmmaking duo, shared a video on X late on Monday evening, local time, in the occupied West Bank, showing an infamous Israeli settler brandishing a gun and shooting at Palestinians behind the camera.

The settler in the video posted by Abraham was identified as Yinon Levi, who was sanctioned by the US and European Union in 2024 for his violent attacks on Palestinians and their property (continue reading here).

Another Palestinian killed in West Bank

Israeli forces killed a Palestinian man, Mohammad Samer Suleiman al-Jamal, 27, on Monday evening, after shooting him with live rounds at the northern entrance to the city of Hebron, in the southern occupied West Bank. The army reportedly blocked Palestinian ambulance crews from reaching the site, then confiscated his body.

The Israeli army claimed al-Jamal had thrown a stone, and released a statement claiming that its soldiers “opened fire at him to remove the threat. He was neutralized, and no injuries were reported among our forces.”

Netanyahu Proposes Annexation of Parts of Gaza to Appease Far-right Minister if Hamas Does Not Agree to a Deal

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to propose to the political-security cabinet a plan to annex areas in the Gaza Strip, in an attempt to keep Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich in his government. According to the plan, Israel will declare that it is giving Hamas a few days to agree to a cease-fire, and if not, will begin annexing areas of the Strip.

According to the plan Netanyahu is expected to present, areas in the buffer zone will be annexed first, followed by areas in the northern Strip adjacent to the Israeli cities of Sderot and Ashkelon.

The process will continue gradually until the entire Strip is annexed. According to details presented by Netanyahu in talks with ministers, the plan has received approval from the Trump administration (continue reading here).

Netanyahu denies reports of Israeli attacks on Christians

The Israeli PM addressed an audience of evangelical Christians in Jerusalem, in a speech heavily focused on what he said were “bold-faced” lies about Israel.

Netanyahu focused on solidarity between Christians and Jews in his speech, claiming Christians are protected in Israel “as nowhere else in the Middle East”, a “truth”, he said, “is being reversed, put on its head by a campaign of lies”.*

His comments come amid wide condemnation of Israeli attacks on Christians in Gaza and the occupied West Bank. Most recently, an Israeli attack on the Holy Family Church in Gaza City on July 17 killed at least three people.

Netanyahu also accused the UN of lying in his 10-minute speech, saying, “Stop lying. Stop finding excuses … There is no starvation in Gaza, no policy of starvation in Gaza.”***

*NOTE: That Christian solidarity with Israel has begun to slip. See this and this, for example.

**Israel’s denial carries little weight: historically, Israel has not proven itself trustworthy. Among Israel’s lies are numerous atrocity stories about the October 7th attack that have since been proven untrue (more examples here). In addition, a numberof the Israeli soldiers and civilians killed on October 7 were shown to have been killed by Israeli fire – a fact that is absent from the official Israeli narrative. Netanyahu has disseminated a number of massively damaging lies to justify the genocide. Previously, Israel has been caught in many lies – for example, this and this and this.

***These lies have been debunked even by traditionally pro-Israel mainstream media.

The humanitarian crisis facing 42,000 forcibly displaced Palestinians in the West Bank

More than 42,000 West Bank Palestinians were driven out by occupation forces from three refugee camps across the cities of Tulkarem and Jenin within the first month of Israel’s military assault, which began in late January.

Many remain stranded living in mosques, schools, and other shelters as history repeated itself with cruel precision. The Palestinians in these camps — survivors of the 1948 Nakba and their descendants — were cast into the streets overnight. Now twice-displaced, most were forced out of their homes with nothing but the clothes on their backs and the weight of generational expulsion.

“The situation in Tulkarem is disastrous. Tulkarem city cannot withstand this large number of displaced people,…There are people asking for help every day — whether for money, humanitarian aid, or food. Families have been separated, with the mother and children staying in one place and the father in another,” Manal al-Hafi, Director of the Palestinian Red Crescent Society in Tulkarem, told Mondoweiss (continue reading here).

Israel approves major settlement expansion in West Bank

Israeli Colonizers Burn Cars, Write Racist Graffiti In Taybeh

OTHER NEWS AND HEADLINES:

José Andrés: The World Cannot Stand By With Gaza on the Brink of Famine

NEW YORK TIMES: Forty years ago, the world’s conscience was shocked into action by images of emaciated children and starving babies dying in their mothers’ arms. There was a surge in international aid, airdrops of food and activism from the world’s most popular artists. Thanks to the news media and events such as Live Aid, we could not look away from the hungry in Ethiopia.

A generation later, people of good conscience must now stop the starvation in Gaza. There is no excuse for the world to stand by and watch two million human beings suffer on the brink of full-blown famine (continue reading here).

Trump says amid ‘real starvation’ in Gaza, food centers will be set up with ‘no boundaries’

US President Donald Trump said Monday that there will be food centers set up in Gaza where “people can walk in without boundaries,” admitting publicly that “real starvation” going on in the besieged enclave.

“We can save a lot of people. I mean, some of those kids – that’s real starvation stuff. I see it, and you can’t fake that. So we’re going to be even more involved*,” he told a joint news conference with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer.

He added that Israel has “a lot of responsibility” for the food situation in the Gaza Strip.

*The Trump administration has fully supported Israel (as did the Biden administration) with military aid and diplomatic cover; in recent weeks, Trump has funded and backed the notorious Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), which globally recognized human rights organizations have refused to work with and called a “dangerous, politicized sham”; news reports suggest that GHF is a tool of the Israeli government, allegedly funded by the notorious Israeli Mossad.

Countries denounce Israel but keep trading with it

As Israel’s killing of Palestinians continues fast and slow, through air strikes and starvation, the foreign ministers of 28 countries have signed a statementcalling for an end to Israel’s war on Gaza – but there has been little action on other fronts.

Some of these countries have recognized the Palestinian state; France last week angered Israeli officials by announcing it would do the same in September.

Still, many critics have pointed out that as countries make these statements, many of them continue to benefit from trade with Israel and have not imposed sanctions or taken any other action that could push Israel to end its genocidal war on Gaza (read details of the countries’ trade agreements here).

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Saudi Arabia says no normalization with Israel without establishing Palestinian state

ICYMI (IN CASE YOU MISSED IT) – A SELECTION OF YESTERDAY’S HEADLINES:

Israel breaks “humanitarian pause” promise on the first day

US ambassador Mike Huckabee says GHF is “safe”

STATISTICS OCTOBER 7, 2023 – JULY 28, 2025:

At least 61,060 Palestinians killed, 155,100 injured – including:
at least 60,034 killed in Gaza (~18,500children)
at least 1,026 killed in the West Bank (~209children)
at least 145,870 injured in Gaza
at least 9,230 injured in the West Bank

According to Palestinian authorities, during the ceasefire Jan. 19 – March 18 2025, Israeli attacks killed at least 170 Gazans, and Israel committed at least 962 ceasefire violations.

Since the Israeli army resumed its assaults on Gaza on March 18, it has killed at least 8,867people. 50 Israeli soldiers (most recent July 26) have been killed during the same time period.

At least 1,179 Palestinians have been killed while trying to access aid parcels from the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, which started operating on May 26, 2025.

Thousands of those killed in Gaza have yet to be identified, and an estimated 14,000 more are still buried under rubble.

Reported Israeli death toll from October 7, 2023 – July 28, 2025: ~1,629 – including ~1,139 on October 7, 2023 (~36 children), 454 military forces since the ground invasion began in Gaza, 46 military and civilians in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Israel. (72 soldiers have reportedly died due to “operational incidents.”)

By one count, Israeli attacks have killed approximately 228 Palestinian journalists and media workers; Palestinians have killed 4 Israeli journalists (other groups have tallied between 186and 296 Palestinian journalists killed – depending on the criteria used).

NOTE: It is unknown at this time how many of the deaths and injuries of Israelis on October 7 were caused by Israeli soldiers.

Hover over each bar for exact numbers. Source: IsraelPalestineTimeline.org

Tuesday, 29 July 2025

As death toll surpasses 60K, two Israeli rights groups accuse Israel of genocide – War on Gaza Day 661

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