No food, no water, no ceasefire – War on Gaza Day 648
contact@ifamericansknew.org July 16, 2025 francesca albanese, gaza ceasefire, genocide, infant malnutrition in gaza, karim khan, Omer Bartov, water crisis in gaza, west bank displacement
A general of heavily damaged buildings and a large number of makeshift tents sheltering displaced Palestinians in Gaza City, Gaza, on July 9, 2025. (Ahmed Jihad Ibrahim Al-arini – Anadolu Agency)
Compilation of news reports – IAK staff
Israeli forces killed at least 70 Palestinians in Gaza on Tuesday, including 3 aid-seekers. Among the dead were 12 people killed during an attack on the Shati refugee camp – 5 of whom were children.
For detail on Israeli attacks in Gaza on Tuesday, go here.
Screenshot (Al Jazeera)
GAZA NEWS & HEADLINES:
(To understand what’s going on right now between Gaza and Israel, go here. For a bit more critical background, skim this, this, and this. To read about a remarkable but underreported, 20-month-long peaceful protest in Gaza against Israel, go here.)
‘Biggest disaster’: Gaza infants’ lives at risk amid fuel shortages
Palestinian infants reliant on incubators in Gaza are fighting for their lives amid a critical fuel shortage, exacerbated by Israel’s increasingly stringent blockade on aid and essential supplies.
Multiple healthcare centers have warned that operations may grind to a halt, with Israel maintaining restrictions on fuel entering the besieged territory, further straining an already overwhelmed healthcare system.
Mohammed Tabaja, head of the pediatric ward at al-Helou Hospital in Gaza City, said the facility is “100 per cent dependent on the generator”.
His department is responsible for the intensive care of newborns weighing less than 1.5 kilograms, as well as infants suffering from oxygen deprivation and congenital abnormalities, all of whom require uninterrupted electricity (continue reading here).
A Palestinian infant is placed in an incubator in Al-Helou Hospital, Gaza City, 13 July 2025 (MEE/Ahmed Dremly)
SETTLER ATTACKS DELAY ARRIVAL OF AID CONVOY FROM JORDAN: Dozens of trucks carrying humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip came under attack on Monday by extremist Israeli settlers, causing damage to several vehicles. Only 29 out of the 50 aid trucks have reportedly been able to enter Gaza, while the remaining vehicles are still being obstructed on the road.The shipment was organized in cooperation with the World Food Programme (WFP) and in coordination with the Jordanian Armed Forces.
GHF INVOLVED IN “SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITIES,” INCLUDING ASSASSINATIONS: Resistance security forces in Gaza have reported that the US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) has been involved in suspicious activities within the Strip under the guise of humanitarian work, while serving as a security front for the Israeli occupation. They explained that these actions were coordinated with local figures, associations, and tribal groups, including what they referred to as the Abu Shabab gang. According to the statement, GHF personnel carried out arrests, assassinations, and field investigations.
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Aid truck distributes water to displaced Palestinians in northern Gaza Strip on May 22, 2025. (Ahmed Jihad Ibrahim Al-arini – Anadolu Agency)
Israel isn’t just killing Palestinians seeking food aid. It’s killing people waiting in line for water, too.
Sunday’s attack on people lining up for water was not the first attack by the Israeli army on hungry and thirsty civilians in Gaza. Following the massacre, Gaza’s Government Media Office issued a detailed statement indicating that the Israeli military has targeted 112 sites distributing fresh water since the Israeli genocide began in 2023, resulting in massacres of hundreds of civilians—mostly children—who were trying to get drinking water.
According to the statement, Israeli forces have deliberately destroyed 720 water wells, depriving more than 1.25 million people of access to clean water. Israel has also blocked the entry of 12 million liters of fuel each month—fuel needed to run even the minimum number of water wells, sewage treatment plants, garbage collection vehicles, and other critical sectors related to water and sanitation.
Since January 23, 2025, Israel has also cut off the water supply from Israel. On March 9, 2025, Israel severed the last power line feeding the central desalination plant south of Deir al-Balah, halting the production of large amounts of drinking water and worsening the suffocating water crisis (continue reading here).
ISRAEL TARGETS TRUCKS CARRYING DRINKING WATER: The Israeli occupation army has escalated its attacks on humanitarian infrastructure in the Gaza Strip, this time reportedly targeting water distribution tankers, the sole lifeline for hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians, amid the complete collapse of official water networks. In the latest attack, Israeli warplanes bombed a water tanker in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on Monday morning, destroying the vehicle and killing its driver, Ramez al-Majdalawi, who was distributing drinking water to displaced families in the camp.
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CEASEFIRE NEWS:
(To get an idea about past ceasefires between Gaza and Israel and how they ended, check out this and this.)
ISRAELI MEDIA REPORTS “DRAMATIC PROGRESS” IN CEASEFIRE TALKS: Indirect negotiations between Hamas and Israel in Doha, Qatar, have seen “dramatic progress” over the past 24 hours, Israeli media reported on Tuesday evening, without further elaboration. An unnamed Israeli official involved in the negotiations claimed that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has approved “additional flexibility” regarding the withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gaza, allowing the talks to move forward.
Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime MInister of Israel. Allegedly responsible for the war crimes of starvation and attacking a civilian population; and the crimes against humanity of murder, persecution, and other inhumane acts. Arrest warrant issued on 21 November 2024. (U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Jack Sanders)
HA’ARETZ: NETANYAHU HOPES TO DELAY CEASEFIRE TILL SUMMER RECESS: Netanyahu’s overarching goals appear not to have changed. He is first and foremost interested in his political survival, which means maintaining the current governing coalition. If he has no choice, he will bow to Trump’s pressure and seal a deal. But his goal is to reach that point only after the Knesset begins its summer recess at the end of the month, which would remove the immediate threat to his government’s survival. Recess begins at the end of the month.
WEST BANK/EAST JERUSALEM 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.)
Largest displacement since 1967 taking place in occupied West Bank, says UN
The UN has warned that mass displacement in the occupied West Bank had hit levels not seen since the start of Israel’s occupation of the territory nearly 60 years ago.
It said an Israeli military operation launched in the north of the occupied West Bank in January had forcibly displaced tens of thousands of people, raising concerns of ethnic cleansing.
The military operation “has been the longest since… the second Intifada”, in the early 2000s, said Juliette Touma, spokesperson for UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees.
“It is impacting several refugee camps in the area, and it is causing the largest population displacement of the Palestinians in the West Bank since 1967,” she told reporters.
Since the Israeli military launched its operation in January, dubbed “Iron Wall”, rights office spokesperson Thameen al-Kheetan said that “about 30,000 Palestinians remain forcibly displaced” in the northern West Bank.
Israeli security forces had during the same period issued demolition orders for about 1,400 homes in the northern West Bank, he said, describing the figures as “alarming” (continue reading here).
Israeli forces detain three Palestinians during a raid on Halhul, Hebron, West Bank on July 12, 2025. (Wisam Hashlamoun – Anadolu Agency)
OTHER NEWS AND HEADLINES:
Renowned Israeli professor says Israel committing genocide in Gaza
A renowned professor of Holocaust and genocide studies has called Israel’s war on Gaza an “inescapable” case of genocide, joining a chorus of prominent Israeli and Jewish scholars coming to the same conclusion. Omer Bartov, a professor at Brown University and a former Israeli army soldier, wrote in The New York Times on Tuesday that after deliberating and examining Israel’s war, his “inescapable conclusion… [is] that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people”.
“Having…spent most of my career researching and writing on war crimes and the Holocaust, this was a painful conclusion to reach, and one that I resisted as long as I could,” he wrote. “But I have been teaching classes on genocide for a quarter of a century. I can recognize one when I see one,” he added.
Bartov is considered one of the world’s leading scholars of the WWII Holocaust and an expert on genocide. One of his most well-known books is Anatomy of a Genocide.
UN Special Rapporteur for the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Francesca Albanese (photo)
UN rapporteur Francesca Albanese calls for suspension of ‘all ties with Israel’
The United Nations’ special rapporteur for Gaza and the West Bank said Tuesday that it’s time for nations around the world to take concrete actions to stop what she called the “genocide” in Gaza.
Francesca Albanese spoke to delegates from 30 countries meeting in Colombia’s capital to discuss the Israel-Hamas war and ways that nations can try to stop Israel’s military offensive in the territory. Many of the participating nations have described the violence as genocide against the Palestinians.
“Each state must immediately review and suspend all ties with the State of Israel … and ensure its private sector does the same,” said Albanese, who was sanctioned by the U.S. earlier this month.”The Israeli economy is structured to sustain the occupation that has now turned genocidal” (continue reading here).
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ICC lawyer linked to Netanyahu advisor warned Karim Khan to drop war crimes probe or be ‘destroyed’
The British chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court was warned in May that if arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant were not withdrawn, he and the ICC would be “destroyed”.
The warning was delivered to Karim Khan by Nicholas Kaufman, a British-Israeli defense lawyer at the court who told Khan he had spoken to Netanyahu’s legal advisor and, according to a note of the meeting lodged on file at the ICC and seen by Middle East Eye, was “authorized” to make him a proposal that would allow Khan to “climb down the tree”.
He told Khan to apply to the court to reclassify the warrants and underlying information as “confidential”.
This, it was suggested, would allow Israel to access the details of the allegations, which it could not do at the time, and challenge them in private – without the outcome being made public (continue reading here).
ICC Bar Association President Karim Khan, December 19, 2017 (United Nations via Wikimedia Commons)
LEBANON: ISRAELI AIRSTRIKE KILLS 12 DESPITE CEASEFIRE: At least 12 people were killed and eight others injured on Tuesday when Israeli warplanes launched airstrikes in Baalbek in eastern Lebanon, in the latest violation of a ceasefire agreement, local media said. Despite a November ceasefire, Israeli forces have carried out near-daily attacks in southern Lebanon, claiming to target Hezbollah activities. Nearly 3,000 Israeli violations of the truce have been documented since, with at least 236 people killed. Israel was supposed to fully withdraw from southern Lebanon by Jan. 26, but until now, Israel still maintains a military presence at five border outposts.
NOTABLE QUOTE:
Agnès Callamard, Amnesty International’s Secretary General, reacting to the EU’s decision not to suspend the EU-Israel Association Agreement (preferential trade deal):
The EU’s refusal to suspend its agreement with Israel is a cruel and unlawful betrayal – of the European project and vision, predicated on upholding international law and fighting authoritarian practices, of the European Union’s own rules and of the human rights of Palestinians.
This will be remembered as one of the most disgraceful moments in the EU’s history. European leaders had the opportunity to take a principled stand against Israel’s crimes, but instead gave it a green light to continue its genocide in Gaza, its unlawful occupation of the whole Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT), and its system of apartheid against Palestinians.
This is more than political cowardice. Every time the EU fails to act, the risk of complicity in Israel’s actions grows. This sends an extremely dangerous message to perpetrators of atrocity crimes that they will not only go unpunished but be rewarded.
Palestinians, including children struggle to receive hot meals distributed by a local charity in Gaza City on July 14, 2025. (Mahmoud İssa – Anadolu Agency)
STATISTICS OCTOBER 7, 2023 – JULY 15, 2025:
At least 59,586 Palestinians killed, 148,837 injured – including:
at least 139,607 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 7,750 people. 45 Israeli soldiers (most recent July 9) have been killed during the same time period.
At least 851 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 15, 2025: ~1,627 – including ~1,139 on October 7, 2023 (~36 children), 449 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 226 Palestinian journalists and media workers; Palestinians have killed 4 Israeli journalists (other groups have tallied between 186 and 293 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
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