Live Blog Update| Israel's genocide in Gaza
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Evening recap

27 July 2025 23:56 BST

Our live blog is now closed until tomorrow morning.

Here are the day's key developments:

  • The Palestinian health ministry announced six new deaths, including two children, in the past 24 hours as a result of the famine and malnutrition spreading across the besieged enclave. 

  • This brings the total death toll from famine to 133 people, including 87 children. 

  • At least 63 people have been killed in Gaza since Sunday morning, according to hospital sources in the enclave.

  • Israel bombed an area in Gaza City it designated earlier on Sunday as a "safe-zone". According to Al Jazeera correspondent Hind Khoudary, a bakery was targeted in the attack, killing and wounding a number of Palestinians. 

  • The Israeli army has denied that famine is gripping the Gaza Strip, despite widespread reports of severe malnutrition, starvation deaths and aid restrictions. The official also defended the continuation of the war, saying: “I am not comfortable with bringing aid into Gaza, but that gives us legitimacy to continue the war.”

  • The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) says its teams are treating Palestinians wounded while trying to collect food, warning that Gaza’s health system has all but collapsed.

  • The head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (Unrwa) has accused Israel of fabricating claims that Hamas was stealing large amounts of aid, saying the allegations were designed to push out humanitarian groups and tighten Israeli control over food distribution in Gaza.

  • Israeli authorities have issued a week-long ban on the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem from entering the Al-Aqsa Mosque, with the possibility of an extension. The ban follows a sermon he lead on Friday at the mosque, where he condemned Israel's siege and starvation of Gaza's population.

  • A letter signed by 341 prominent Israeli academics and professors has urged an end to the targeting of civilians, calling for "moral limits on military operations in Gaza."