Gaza live: Dozens killed and wounded in Israeli strikes on Gaza and Yemen

An Israeli air strike on an aid distribution centre in Khan Younis killed at least four aid workers on Friday, according to Al Jazeera and other local reports.

They all worked for the Al-Khair Foundation, a Muslim NGO based in Britain and Turkey. 

Reporting by MEE and Reuters

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's renewed demand for any Gaza ceasefire deal to prevent the return of weapons and fighters to the north of the Gaza Strip violates prior agreements with mediators, which may complicate or even thwart negotiations, unnamed senior security sources told Israel's Channel 12.

"This is a demand that will prevent a deal," one source says. "In the best case, it is an obstacle that will make the continuation [of talks] more difficult, and in the worst case, it is aimed as a spoke in the negotiations’ wheel and at eliminating the ability to reach a deal.

"We are in a crucial two days for the deal to succeed. It’s either now or in a very long time, perhaps never. Prime Minister Netanyahu added demands that deviate from the agreements with the mediators."

Ezzat al-Rashq, a member of Hamas's political bureau, said in a message on Telegram that "Netanyahu's frantic attempts to add new demands, which were not included in all the previous proposals circulated with the mediators, confirm that he is still dragging his feet, procrastinating, and searching for something that will disrupt the agreement."

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Desperate screams as he struggled to free himself from a combat dog unleashed by Israeli soldiers. 

This is the last image Nabila Ahmed Bhar recalls of her son Muhammed, 24, who had Down syndrome. 

The Palestinian family were hiding in their home in eastern Gaza City’s Shujaiya neighbourhood when Israeli troops stormed it, Bhar told Middle East Eye.  

Dogs were sent in first, which attacked Muhammed and started mauling him. 

Soldiers then expelled everyone from the house, except for Muhammed, who was taken to a separate room.

READ MORE: Palestinian with Down syndrome ‘left to die’ by Israeli soldiers after combat dog attack

A Dutch court rejected on Friday a demand by rights group to order the Netherlands to block all exports of F-35 fighter jet parts that may end up in Israel.

The case, submitted by rights groups which include the Dutch arm of Oxfam, comes after another district court ruling in February that the Netherlands cannot send F-35 parts to Israel over concerns the jets could be involved in breaking international humanitarian law in the war on Gaza.

The NGOs had claimed that the Dutch state stopped the direct export of parts to Israel but continued to deliver fighter jet parts to the US and other countries.

Those parts could then be sent on or used in planes destined for Israel and that should also be stopped under the earlier order.

However, The Hague district court said in a press release that the NGOs' interpretation of the February ruling was too broad and the Dutch state was complying with the export ban as ordered.

A survey conducted by Israeli outlet Maariv shows that 24 percent of backers of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government bloc would choose far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir as a preferred candidate after the current prime minister is no longer in office.

The survey, conducted on 10 and 11 July, gives Ben Gvir a wide lead ahead of ex-Mossad chief Yossi Cohen (14 percent) and Bezalel Smotrich, head of the far-right Religious Zionism party (11 percent).

The poll also asked respondents, 500 Israeli adults, who they would vote for if elections were held today, with results being similar to previous surveys. Benny Gantz’s National Unity would win 24 Knesset seats to Likud’s 20, with the current coalition only getting 50 seats compared to their current 64.

Israeli ministers will vote on Sunday on extending mandatory service of Israeli soldiers to three years, the Times of Israel reports.

Israel's Channel 12 reports that the security cabinet approved the decision. Once passed by the forum of all government ministers, it will be in force for eight years.

In its first investigation into the 7 October Hamas-led attack on Israel, the Israeli army released the findings on the failures that have led to the killing of 101 civilians and 31 security personnel in the kibbutz of Be'eri.

Some of the findings show that the army failed to protect the kibbutz as it was not prepared for an "extensive penetration" of attackers and there were not enough forces in the area to be sent to the kibbutz.

Security officials did not provide adequate warnings of the attack in the early hour, and the army failed to paint a clear picture of what was happening to the community despite receiving information from a local security team since the early morning.

Due to a lack of coordination, a large number of soldiers gathered outside the kibbutz instead of entering the area to fight, while some units entered the kibbutz and then withdrew.

In the first seven hours of the attack, only 13 Israeli troops and 13 members of the kibbutz’s local security team and other armed civilians were fighting off Hamas's invasion.

The Israeli army said it struck a Syrian army post in Tasil, southern Syria, overnight in response to a rocket attack into the occupied Golan Heights.

US President Joe Biden said that Israel has occasionally been “less than cooperative” regarding getting aid into the Gaza Strip.

Speaking at the 75th anniversary NATO Summit in Washington, DC, Biden recalled his visit to Israel days after the 7 October Hamas-led attack on the country.

The American president says this trip saw him convince Netanyahu to allow aid into Gaza after Israel had imposed a full siege on the Palestinian enclave.

“We pushed [getting aid in] really hard. Israel occasionally was less than cooperative,” he said.

In Gaza, Israel bombed a house in the Nuseirat refugee camp, killing three people, according to the Wafa news agency.

The Israeli military also announced the death of a reservist after being critically wounded by a Hezbollah drone attack on Kibbutz Kabri in northern Israel.

READ MORE: Biden says Israel has occasionally been 'less than cooperative' when allowing aid to Gaza

Our live coverage from Gaza will shortly be closing until tomorrow morning.

Here are some of the day's key developments:

• Israeli forces have killed at least 50 Palestinians and wounded 54 more in the past 24 hours, according to the Palestinian health ministry. This brings the Palestinian death toll since 7 October to 38,345, with more than 88,295 wounded and an estimated 10,000 missing, likely dead and buried under rubble

• Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez on Wednesday urged the West to reject "double standards" regarding the war on Gaza as he joined Nato leaders in supporting Ukraine

• Israeli forces withdrew from Gaza City's Shujaiya neighbourhood on Wednesday, leaving behind a trail of death and destruction

• Israel and Hamas are open that neither of them governs Gaza after the war ends, according to Washington Post columnist David Ignatius. Hamas sources denied Ignatius's claims, saying that no agreement had been reached on post-war governance in Gaza 

• Unrwa has documented "utterly appalling conditions" as a consequence of the siege in one school-turned-shelter for displaced people in the Gaza Strip

• Israel's Mossad chief David Barnea has endorsed a key demand by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the ongoing Gaza ceasefire negotiations, according to the Israeli daily Haaretz

• G7 foreign ministers have denounced Israel's decision to expand illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank, describing the move as "counterproductive to the cause of peace"

• Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has demanded that Israel maintain control over key Palestinian territories along the Gaza border with Egypt

Only five trucks from the UN agency carrying medical supplies were permitted to enter Gaza last week, stated WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus in a post on X.

Over 34 trucks are currently held up in el-Arish, the nearest Egyptian city to the Rafah border crossing, with another 40 stationed in Ismailia, in north-eastern Egypt.

The UN and other international organizations continue to highlight the severe Israeli restrictions on aid delivery to the besieged enclave, where famine is spreading after more than nine months of conflict.

Israel's Mossad chief David Barnea has endorsed a key demand by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the ongoing Gaza ceasefire negotiations, according to the Israeli daily Haaretz.

Barnea supported Netanyahu's stipulation that the Israeli army retain the right to resume military action after the first stage of any agreement.

In his briefing to ministers, Barnea alleged that the Israeli army's intensive operations in Gaza are positively influencing the negotiations.

More than 85 percent of the buildings in Gaza City’s Shujaiya neighbourhood have become uninhabitable, making more than 120,000 residents now homeless, said a spokesperson for the civil defence agency in Gaza.

“We recovered more than 60 martyrs (bodies) and there are dozens of martyrs under the rubble of homes in the Shujaiya neighbourhood. We do not have an accurate number,” said the spokesperson.

“The occupation destroyed a medical clinic that provided health services to more than 60,000 Palestinians in Shujaiya,” he added.

“Documented testimonies” have been taken saying that Israeli forces opened fire on residents in the neighbourhood despite being in routes designated as safe, he said.

More than 60 media and civil society organisations have signed a letter urging Israel to give journalists independent access to the besieged Gaza Strip.

“We…request that Israeli authorities end immediately the restrictions on foreign media entering Gaza and grant independent access to international news organizations seeking to access the territory,” the letter said.

The companies and organisations said that Israel’s tight control of who enters Gaza has restricted reporting to those who achieve “rare and escorted trips arranged by the Israeli military”, adding that “This effective ban on foreign reporting has placed an impossible and unreasonable burden on local reporters to document a war through which they are living.”

Middle East Eye, whose reporters are on the ground in Gaza, is a signatory to the letter. Other prominent media companies like ABC; Bloomberg; NBC; NPR; CBS; The Financial Times; The New York Times; and The Washington Post also signed the letter.

Read more: Dozens of major news organisations urge Israel to allow open access to Gaza