Israel keeps killing during “humanitarian pauses” – War on Gaza Day 660
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Since Israel started allowing a trickle of aid into Gaza, in late May, a total of 4,500 UN aid trucks have entered – an average of about 70 trucks a day.
“We have to go back to the levels we had during the ceasefire, 500-600 trucks of aid every day managed by the UN, including UNRWA, that our teams would distribute in 400 distribution points,” said Juliette Touma, the UNRWA director of communications.
She explained that an unimpeded flow of aid would be needed to “reverse the tide and trajectory of famine”.
Israel has announced airdropped aid will resume, and that humanitarian corridors would be established to facilitate the entry of UN aid trucks into Gaza, though the number of trucks that will be allowed in was not specified.
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.
*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 unsubstantiatedaccusation 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.
To learn the real reason why UNRWA was banned from Gaza (and the West Bank), read this.
RELATED: Palestinians wary as Israel begins military pauses to allow ‘minimal’ aid into Gaza
Yazan, a malnourished two-year-old Palestinian boy, sits with his brothers at their family’s damaged home in the Shati refugee camp, west of Gaza City, on July 23, 2025 (Omar Al-Qattaa/AFP)
PITTANCE OF AIRDROP AID: Gaza’s Government Media Office said, “We witnessed three airdrops, which combined did not equal the load of two truckloads of aid,” and that it landed in dangerous combat zones, and was watched over by Israeli forces. Jordan and the United Arab Emirateshave also parachuted 25 tons of aid into Gaza.
AIRDROP INJURES AID-SEEKERS: Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud reported that one aid drop injured nearly a dozen people. “Eleven people were reported with injuries as one of these pallets fell directly on tents in that displacement site near al-Rasheed Road.”
100 AID TRUCKS MOBILIZED SUNDAY: Tom Fletcher, the UN’s undersecretary-general for humanitarian affairs, said of the humanitarian corridors, “Some movement restrictions appear to have been eased today, with initial reports indicating that over 100 truckloads were collected.” (Another report said there were 73 truckloads.)
NETANYAHU “FORCED” TO ALLOW AID INTO GAZA: In a video statement posted on X, the Israeli prime minister has said that Israel will achieve its goal of “destroying Hamas”: “In order to achieve the goal of defeating Hamas and returning our kidnapped soldiers, we are advancing the fighting and conducting negotiations,” he said. “Whatever path we choose, we will be forced to allow the entry of essential humanitarian aid.”
ISRAELI LAWMAKER: “NO AID, ONLY IMMIGRATION”: Legislator Tzvika Fogel told a local radio station that Palestinians in Gaza “should not be given anything.” He added, “The only humanitarian thing I would give them is voluntary migration*. The moment we do that, we get closer to victory.” Reports indicate that Israel is making contacts with nations around the world, trying to find one that will accept a mass population transfer from Gaza.
*NOTE: There is nothing “voluntary” about the Trump’s scheme for removal of Gazans from their homeland. Forced population transfer is a crime against humanity, and a form of ethnic cleansing. If world leaders truly want to offer Gazans a good life outside Gaza, the just solution would be toreturn them to their homes in historic Palestine.
Mike Huckabee (screengrab)
US AMBASSADOR MIKE HUCKABEE SAYS GHF* IS “SAFE”: “Is the UN, NY Times, and Hamas all happy now?” Huckabee, a longtime Israel supporter and evangelical minister, said in response to a video of hungry people in Gaza climbing onto a truck bringing aid into the Gaza Strip. “I’m sure Hamas is. Their lies and propaganda destroyed the cease-fire deal, tried to discredit safe and functioning GHF effort, emboldened Hamas and will result in this complete balagan [Hebrew for chaos]! Most sad for hostage families-grief prolonged.”
*NOTE: Globally recognized human rights organizations have warned that the GHF model was deeply flawed and bound to create chaos, calling it a “dangerous, politicized sham”; news reports have indicated from early on that the organization was a tool of the Israeli government, allegedly funded by the notorious Israeli Mossad. Over 1,100 Palestinians have been killed at or around GHF distribution points – – eyewitness accounts indicate that Israeli soldiers and GHF workers have been shooting indiscriminately at the aid-seekers.
UNRWA CHIEF CITES NYT, ACCUSES ISRAEL OF SMEAR CAMPAIGN: Citing the New York Times’ recent bombshell report, “No Proof Hamas Routinely Stole U.N. Aid, Israeli Military Officials Say,” UNRWA head Philippe Lazzarini stated on X that Israel’s claims of Hamas stealing aid were “only aimed at tarnishing the reputation of the humanitarian community and attempting to replace it with a diabolic and politically motivated distribution scheme” – as alternative news outlets (including If Americans Knew) have been reporting for weeks.
Hamas’s top political leader Khalil Al-Hayya delivered a blistering speech Sunday night, accusing the U.S. and Israel of plotting to sabotage yet another potential ceasefire agreement to end the Gaza war.
“We state clearly: There is no point in continuing negotiations under the siege, genocide, and starvation of our children, women, and people in the Gaza Strip,” Al-Hayya said. “We will not accept that our people, their suffering, and the blood of its children be sacrificed for the occupation’s negotiating tricks and the achievement of its political goals.”
Al-Hayya, who has led Hamas’s negotiating team since Israel’s assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Hanniyeh last summer in Tehran, accused Israel and the U.S. of “blackmail,” and charged that Israel was using “negotiations as a cover and tool for starvation.” He added, “The immediate and dignified entry of food and medicine to our people is a serious and genuine expression of the viability of continuing negotiations.”
Hamas officials said they were bewildered at the public response from the Trump administration. On Friday, Trump launched into a belligerent tirade on the White House lawn as he prepared to embark on a trip to Europe. “Hamas didn’t really want to make a deal. I think they want to die, and it’s very, very bad. It got to be to a point where you’re going to have to finish the job,” Trump declared. “I think they will be hunted down” (continue reading herefor an overview of the last round of amendments proposed by Hamas).
Speaking to reporters outside the White House, President Trump spoke about failing peace talks between Israel and Hamas, July 25, 2025 (screengrab)
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