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

Egypt’s Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty said Cairo was in talks with “various Lebanese parties” to prevent a war between Hezbollah and Israel.

“We are also in talks with the Israelis, and as you know there have been meetings in the past two days and there are meetings today in Qatar because the main issue is the Israeli aggression against Gaza,” Abdelatty said in a meeting with his Jordanian counterpart Ayman Safadi. 

The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (Unrwa) documented 453 attacks on its premises and staff since Israel launched its offensive on the Gaza Strip.

“Two-thirds of our schools in Gaza have been hit, with 524 people sheltering in our facilities killed,” the group added, in a post on X. 

Unrwa reiterated its call for a ceasefire.

Britain’s new Foreign Secretary David Lammy called for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and the release of all hostages.

Lammy said that Israel’s offensive has gone on for “far too long”.

“Reports of civilian casualties following an Israeli strike near a school in Abassan are appalling,” Lammy added on X.

Most hospitals in northern Gaza are not functioning and facing critical supply shortages, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) announced.

The group said that its last functioning health facility in the north was also forced to close on Wednesday.

“The last MSF health facility in north Gaza has been forced to temporarily close, after Israeli forces issued an evacuation order for parts of Gaza City on 8 July,” MSF said on X.

A war between Israel and Hezbollah could have deep ramifications for Egypt's energy security, analysts tell Middle East Eye. 

In the event of a war, Israel would likely suspend production on its key offshore gas fields that Egypt relies on to power its economy. 

“In that case, Israel won’t export at all to Egypt,” said Elai Rettig, assistant professor in energy politics at Bar Ilan University in Israel and senior researcher at the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies.

“If war starts tomorrow, Cairo is going to be in the dark more than it is currently. Egypt will definitely feel it.”

Read more: Israel-Hezbollah war would plunge Egypt into further darkness, analysts say

Gaza's government media office said in a statement that no aid and medical equipment have been allowed to enter Gaza in the past 65 days, "which threatens the lives of thousands of children, the sick and civilians".

"Hundreds of thousands of tonnes of aid and medical equipment are piling up on the other side of border crossings into Gaza – a crime of historic proportions that reflects the moral decadence of various countries supporting the Israeli onslaught," the statement added.

The media office condemned the Israeli decision, backed by the US, to "starve our people".

A severe water shortage in Deir al-Balah has forced many Palestinians to walk for long distances every day in search of water for drinking and other basic necessities. pic.twitter.com/MjmLWcRf9m

— Middle East Eye (@MiddleEastEye) July 10, 2024

Hezbollah's Secretary General Sayed Hassan Nasrallah said that his group would stop fighting Israel from Lebanon "without any discussion" if a ceasefire deal in Gaza is reached.

He added, however, that they will decide how to react if a deal is not reached but certain changes take place on the battlegrounds.

The leader also said that Hezbollah will defend Lebanon if Israel decides to attack it after a ceasefire in Gaza is reached.

Hezbollah's Secretary General Sayed Hassan Nasrallah is speaking at the funeral held for assassinated top commander Mohammed Nehmeh Nasser.

On ceasefire talks, Nasrallah said that Hamas negotiates "on behalf of the entire Axis of Resistance", referring to all the Iran-backed armed groups in the Middle East.

"Everything Hamas accepts, we all accept," he said.

The Israeli military said it shelled Syrian army positions in the Syrian side of the occupied Golan Heights, accusing them of violating the Agreement on Disengagement signed in 1974 between Israel and Syria, which ended the 1973 war.

"The [Israeli military] considers the Syrian Army responsible for everything that happens in its territory and will not allow attempts to violate the disengagement agreement," the army's statement said.

France expressed its "deep concern" over the several deadly Israeli strikes on schools housing displaced Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.

"It is unacceptable that schools, especially those sheltering civilian populations displaced by the fighting, are targeted," the foreign ministry statement read. "We call on Israel to do everything possible to protect civilians in the conduct of military operations and to fully respect international humanitarian law, including the principles of proportionality and distinction."

#Israël / #Territoirespalestiniens | La France exprime sa vive préoccupation concernant les informations faisant état de plusieurs frappes israéliennes contre des écoles abritant des déplacés à Gaza.

Déclaration intégrale ➡️ https://t.co/qUeJzM58e7 pic.twitter.com/g2YyBjQpVa

— France Diplomatie🇫🇷🇪🇺 (@francediplo) July 10, 2024

Israel's Defence Minister Yoav Gallant said his country supports the reopening of the Rafah crossing between Egypt and Gaza, but will not tolerate Hamas's return to the area.

A statement released following a meeting between Gallant and US Middle East envoy Brett McGurk said the two also agreed on the importance on seizing the opportunity for a Gaza ceasefire deal.

The statement added that they discussed "the challenges that remain in achieving such an agreement, as well as possible solutions to address them".

There has been a lot of comment on the Labour victory in the 2024 UK general elections, arguing that it was a "loveless landslide" or a "sandcastle majority", pointing to the yawning gap between the huge numbers of seats won on a very slender proportion of the popular vote.

The discrepancy is indeed striking. Labour’s huge Commons majority rests on a lower popular vote (9.7 million) than Jeremy Corbyn won in the so-called "catastrophic" general election of 2019 (10.2 million). And it is two million votes less than Corbyn won in the 2017 general election (12.8 million).

Even Keir Starmer won fewer votes in his own constituency under his own leadership than he did in both elections when Corbyn was Labour leader.

So where did those missing Labour votes go?

READ MORE: How Labour lost millions of voters to apathy and a Gaza earthquake, opinion by John Rees

Palestinians in Gaza City shrugged off the latest Israeli displacement orders urging them to move south.

Fatima Shaheen, in her 70s, told Middle East Eye she would rather die in her destroyed home than flee.

Last month, her home in Jabalia was destroyed by Israeli bombardment. But she refused to leave, spending her days amid its rubble.

"We will remain steadfast in our homes. We will stay in them," she said. "We die here or we triumph."

Mohammad Kassab echoed Shaheen's resolve.

Forced from his home in the Tuffah neighbourhood earlier this week by Israel's recent ground offensive, Kassab opted to move further north to the Jabalia refugee camp instead of fleeing south. 

"I fled to Jabalia because we want to remain steadfast," he told MEE.

"We can all see who those who were displaced to the south are now yearning to come back," he added. "Life necessities are non-existent there."

Kassab emphasised that safety will always remain elusive no matter where you go in Gaza.

'I would rather die in Tuffah or Jabalia than be buried in the south'

- Mohammad Kassab, Gaza resident 

On Tuesday, an Israeli air strike targeted a UN school sheltering displaced people, killing at least 27 people and wounding 53, many of them women and children.

Kassab cited this incident as evidence that seeking refuge in the south provides no security.

"There's no safety in the south or north. I would rather die in Tuffah or Jabalia than be buried in the south," he added.

Having lost his wife and mother to an Israeli air strike earlier in the war, Kassab now cares for his three sons and daughter alone.

"We struggle to get water and only have canned food available. But we say all praise is due to God."

For Moath, a street food vendor, life in the south is worse than in the north despite the hardships he faces due to the lack of water and food.

"People there [in the south] live in humiliating conditions, staying in tents and being exposed to heat in the summer and rain in the winter," he told MEE.

"It's true they have some food there, but there is no peace of mind. Over there, it is like being in the jungle. You don't know the place and can't visit your family."

"Here, you know the place, the streets and the neighbours. It is home."

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu assured a US envoy on Wednesday of his commitment to securing a Gaza ceasefire deal, provided that Israel's "red lines" are respected, according to a statement from Netanyahu's office.

Netanyahu met US Middle East envoy Brett McGurk in Jerusalem, Netanyahu's office said.

Earlier in the week, Israeli officials and mediators criticized Netanyahu for potentially derailing ceasefire efforts by introducing new "non-negotiable" demands.

Reporting by Reuters and MEE

The Israeli army is seeking to ethnically cleanse Gaza City with its latest forced displacement orders, Mustafa Barghouti said. 

In a post on X, Barghouti, chief of the Palestinian National Initiative, said ethnicly cleansing the enclave's whole population was never off the table for "Netanyahu fascist government".

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The Israeli army declared few minutes ago its intention to ethnically cleanse the whole population of Gaza city trying to force hundreds of thousands of Palestinians to evict their city and their homes.
Netanyahu fascist government never departed from its…

— Mustafa Barghouti @Mustafa_Barghouti (@MustafaBarghou1) July 10, 2024