Gaza live: Fresh Israeli order forces over 170,000 Palestinians to leave their homes

Hamas has taken responsibility for the shooting attack in Jordan Valley, which killed an Israeli and injured another earlier today.

In a statement, the military wing of Hamas, Qassam Brigades, identified the man as 23-year-old Yonatan Deutsch, who was killed in the attack near an illegal Israeli settlement, and said he was a “Zionist soldier”.

It said the attack on the Israeli soldier comes as a response to the killing of more than a 100 people in Tabin school in Gaza on Saturday, stating that Hamas fighters in the occupied West Bank have "renewed their allgiance" to the new Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar.

Senior Hamas leader Osama Hamdan says the group still wants to reach a ceasefire agreement but will not allow Israel to dictate the progress of the process.

“Our position is clear, and we are not waiting for a discussion on new papers and titles,” Hamdan told Lebanon’s Al-Manar television.

“There is a document we have agreed on, and we are waiting for the announcement of implementation mechanisms, including the cessation of aggression, its withdrawal, sending aid to the Strip, and launching reconstruction.”

Hezbollah has confirmed the killing of three of its fighters upon multiple Israeli air raids.

The armed Lebanese group named the members as Samir Hijazi, Hani Haidar and Hassan Ghadban Mustafa, from southern Lebanon, but did not provide further details about their deaths.

Hezbollah has claimed nine attacks on Israeli positions so far today, with the latest targeting a gathering of Israeli soldiers along the border with artillery shells.

Hamas said it has asked mediators to offer a plan that is based on previous negotiations instead of starting a new round of talks on a Gaza ceasefire deal, according to Reuters.

In a statement on its official Telegram channel, Hamas said that it wants a plan “based on Biden’s May 31 ceasefire proposal, the framework laid out by mediators Qatar and Egypt on May 6, and UN Security Council Resolution 2735". 

“These have all been met with Israeli rejections and more Israeli massacres. Israel has shown it is not serious about a permanent ceasefire by carrying out crimes against our people,” including its assassination of its leader Ismail Haniyeh, it said.

A group of Israeli and American protestors have demonstrated  in New York's Central Park to ask for a Gaza ceasefire deal that would release Israeli hostages.

“Seal the deal,” they chanted after the US, Egypt and Qatar called on Israel and Hamas to convene for another round of negotiations.

The Israeli news outlet Haaretz is reporting that the Israeli army said it attacked members of the Lebanese group of Hezbollah in the village of Taybeh, southern Lebanon. It added that it also attacked Hezbollah military structures and a weapons warehouse in different parts of the Lebanese south.

Two people have been killed in an Israeli strike  that targeted the village of Taybeh, located in south Lebanon, according to the Lebanese health ministry.

Earlier, the Lebanese National News Agency (NNA) reported that Israeli planes have attacked the village, and shelled the towns of Meiss al-Jabal, Mehaibib and Kafrchouba, in the southern part of Lebanon.

Turkish energy company, ,Zorlu Energy Group, says it is continuing on efforts to sell its 25% stake at the Israeli Dorad Natural Gas Power Plant, in which they have been a partner in Israel since 2003. 

In a statement issued by the Turkish group, the signatures for the sale and transfer of shares in the Ashdod and Ramat Negev Natural Gas Power Plants in Israel were completed in May. 

The statement  argued that Zorlu Energy has no authority to make or have any decisions made in the Dorad Gas Power Plant, in which it is a 25 percent minority shareholder.

The move comes after a public outrage that followed a news report by the Israeli news outlet Jerusalem Post, which stated that the Zorlu Energy group has renewed its contract to supply electricity to Israeli military bases.

Israeli jets have attacked the Lebanese village of Taybeh, and bombed the towns of  Meiss al-Jabal, Mehaibib and Kafrchouba, according to Lebanon’s National News Agency (NNA).

NNA also reported that Israeli planes have broken the sound barrier in Beirut, Sidon and Tyre as well as Nabatieh and Iqlim al-Tuffah, in south Lebanon.

CNN reported that Egyptian and Qatari mediators informed Israeli officials, ahead of a summit scheduled later this week, that Hama's new leader, Yahya Sinwar, is seeking to finalise a ceasefire agreement.

Citing an unnamed Israeli source, CNN said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's position on the matter remains unclear.

“Nobody knows what Bibi wants,” an Israeli source told CNN. 

Two Israeli sources also said that Netanyahu's allies have told reporters and other officials that he is prepared to make a deal "regardless of the impact on his governing coalition".

"But the Israeli security establishment remains considerably more sceptical of Netanyahu’s willingness to strike a deal given fierce opposition from far-right ministers in his coalition," CNN said.

Approximately 24 percent of those killed in Gaza since Israel launched its war on the besieged enclave are aged between 18 and 29, according to official figures from the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS).

Around 70 percent of those wounded in Gaza are women and children, with an estimated 10,000 people reported missing.

In the occupied West Bank, Israeli forces have killed 620 Palestinians, 75 percent of whom are under 30 years old, according to the PCBS. 

An Israeli was killed and another wounded on Sunday when Palestinian gunmen opened fire on a road in the occupied West Bank, according to Israel's military and ambulance services.

The Israeli military said it is actively pursuing the suspects, adding that routes have been blocked and searches are underway.

Germany's foreign ministry has condemned Israeli attacks on civilian infrastructure, a day after an Israeli air strike on a school in Gaza City killed at least 100 Palestinians. 

"Civilians seeking shelter getting killed is unacceptable. The repeated attacks on #schools by the Israeli army must stop and be investigated quickly," the ministry wrote on X on Sunday. 

"The suffering of women, men and many children seeking protection, who have been fleeing the fights in #Gaza for months, is immeasurable. They must not get in the crossfire any longer," the ministry said, adding that Hamas "must stop abusing them as protective shields".

"The people of #Gaza, the hostages - the entire region urgently needs the humanitarian #ceasefire and hostage deal proposed by the USA, Egypt and Qatar. It is urgent to seize this opportunity to alleviate suffering now."

A far-right Israeli lawmaker defended an attack in the occupied West Bank, where Israeli settlers assaulted Palestinian citizens of Israel who had accidentally entered their illegal outpost.

On Friday, four Palestinian Bedouin women and a two-year-old child were travelling from an Israeli city to Nablus in the occupied West Bank when they mistakenly entered an illegal Israeli settlement. 

Settlers responded by throwing stones and setting their vehicle on fire. The Palestinian women were injured and required hospitalisation.

"This isn't an Israeli family," said Limor Son Har-Melech, a member of the far-right Jewish Power party, during an Israeli parliamentary committee meeting.

"Think about it. When a vehicle enters without an Israeli number plate and we know the dangers and threats, then we cannot compromise," she said, adding: "An incident like this could be espionage or intelligence-gathering."

Haaretz reported that one of the Israeli settlers put a gun to the head of the two-year-old Palestinian child. No arrests were made and no investigation was conducted following the incident, according to Israeli police.

Over 75,000 Palestinians have been displaced in southwestern Gaza in recent days, according to Philippe Lazzarini, the chief of the UN refugee agency for Palestinians (Unrwa). 

"Overnight, the Israeli authorities issued additional orders forcing more people to flee, again & again,"  Lazzarini wrote on X. 

"Some are only able to carry their children with them, some carry their whole lives in one small bag. They are going to overcrowded places where shelters are already overflowing with families," he added.

"They have lost everything and need everything. Unlike in other wars, the people of Gaza are trapped and have nowhere to go."

The ongoing & endless exodus of the Palestinian people.
From Yarmouk in Syria to Khan Younis in #Gaza this week. 👇
Over the decades, Palestinian civilians have been caught up in wars and conflicts, far too many times.

Just in the past few days, more than 75,000 people have… pic.twitter.com/9H7z23oo7T

— Philippe Lazzarini (@UNLazzarini) August 11, 2024