Live: Gaza ceasefire talks deadlocked as death toll surpasses 100
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Israeli settlers have attacked the village of Shallalat al-Auja, north of Jericho in the occupied West Bank.
The Wafa news agency reported that settlers are grazing their livestock on Palestinian land and in residential areas.
At least 30 Palestinians have been killed at the only remaining food distribution point operated by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) in southern Gaza.
Al Jazeera reported that Israeli soldiers opened fire indiscriminately on a large crowd of people waiting for food at the aid distribution site.
Apart from the dead, at least 130 people have been reportedly injured.
Gaza ceasefire negotiations in Doha have stalled and are reportedly on the verge of collapsing.
A Palestinian official told the BBC the Israeli delegation delayed negotiations over Netanyahu's trip to the US.
The main disagreement in talks is over the extent of the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza. Hamas has reportedly rejected an Israeli proposal which would leave around 40 percent of the besieged enclave under Israeli control.
Stephane Dujarric, spokesperson for the UN's secretary-general, has raised the alarm on the risk faced by UN aid workers in Gaza.
Dujarric said that on "Wednesday and again yesterday, a total of five strikes hit a few hundred metres from where air aid workers go. This included a UN staffer.
"Thankfully, none of the workers were injured," he added.
"Also yesterday, members of the Red Cross and Red Crescent societies were shot at and injured on their way to help a colleague who had been injured and unreachable since last Friday.
"In all cases, the movements have been coordinated with the Israeli authorities."
The UN has said it lost 126 of its personnel in Gaza in 2024.
Israeli attacks on Palestinians seeking aid have killed at least 27 people and wounded 180 others since dawn today, Al Jazeera reported.
The family of a Palestinian American killed by Israeli settlers in Sinjil in the occupied West Bank has urged the US State Department to begin an "immediate investigation" into the incident.
Israeli settlers killed Florida-born Seif al-Din Muslat on Friday. He arrived in Sinjil last month to visit relatives.
"The mob of settlers blocked the ambulance and paramedics from providing life-saving aid," his family said, according to Haaretz.
The statement added that he "died before making it to the hospital".
Muslat was remembered as "kind, hard-working" and "known for his generosity, ambition, and connection to his Palestinian heritage".
Hello Middle East Eye readers. Here are the morning's key developments:
- Israeli raids have killed at least 60 Palestinians since dawn.
- Nasser Hospital said an Israeli attack on tents housing displaced people in the al-Mawasi area west of Khan Younis has killed 11. Al Jazeera cited a source at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital who said two people have been killed in an Israeli strike targeting a tent housing displaced people south of Deir el-Balah, in central Gaza.
- An Israeli strike on a residence on Jaffa Street in the Tuffah area east of Gaza city has killed four Palestinians and wounded 10 others.
- An Israeli attack on Jamal Abdel Nasser Street opposite the Islamic University, west of Gaza city, has killed a mother and her three children, according to the Wafa news agency.
- Unrwa, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, has issued a statement calling on Israel to allow humanitarian aid to the two million Palestinians in Gaza. "No soap, no clean water. Children in Gaza can’t be bathed properly because of the ongoing siege,” the statement said. “This, coupled with overcrowded shelters and summer heat, can lead to dire health consequences."
Our live blog will shortly be closing until tomorrow morning.
Here are the day's key developments:
- The Palestinian Ministry of Health confirmed by sundown on Friday, local time, that 57,823 identified Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks, and another 137,887 have been wounded since 7 October 2023.
- Israel has issued forced expulsion orders in multiple areas in Gaza City, including Tel al-Hawa and parts of the southern Rimal neighbourhood, both sheltering hundreds of thousands of displaced people.
- A 23-year-old Palestinian who was beaten to death by Israeli settlers near Ramallah in the occupied West Bank on Friday has been confirmed to be a US citizen born in Florida. He was identified as Saif al-Din Musalat.
- A senior official from the United Nations food agency, the World Food Programme (WFP), told reporters that Israeli officials have signalled they want the UN to return to being the main supplier of aid in Gaza.
- A United Nations conference hosted by France and Saudi Arabia to work towards a two-state solution for Israel and Palestine has been rescheduled for 28-29 July.
Six people have been confirmed killed in Israeli air strikes in Deir al-Balah in central Gaza in the early hours of Saturday morning, local time.
Two of them are children, the Quds News Network reported.
Israel has been intensifying its overnight attacks across the Strip for several days.
Earlier air strikes on parts of Gaza City have also produced several casualties, but the figures are not yet confirmed.
The scandal-plagued Gaza Humanitarian Foundation's military contractor, UG Solutions, has hired the crisis communications firm Seven Letter, which is run by former communications staffers in the Joe Biden and Barack Obama administrations, independent journalist Jack Poulson revealed on Friday.
This comes amid the revelation that nearly 800 Palestinians have been killed at GHF aid points in Gaza since it began operations in May, the United Nations said.
Eyewitnesses have said both the Israeli forces and American military contractors manning the sites fired on them, and two resignees from UG Solutions confirmed those accounts to the Associated Press. Haaretz has also published testimony from Israeli soldiers who were ordered to fire on aid seekers.
The 23-year-old Palestinian who was beaten to death by Israeli settlers near Ramallah in the occupied West Bank on Friday has been confirmed to be a US citizen, according to the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC).
"Under the protection of government officials, Israeli settlers lynched a Palestinian American man from Tampa, Florida," a statement issued by the group said.
"Saif al-Din Musalat (also reported as Sayfollah Musallet), born in Port Charlotte, Florida, was visiting family for the summer when he was beaten to death while protesting the construction of a new illegal Israeli outpost on village land in al‑Mazra’a ash‑Sharqiya. An ambulance was blocked from reaching him for nearly two hours," the ADC said.
"This horrific murder is yet another example of Israel killing American citizens. As of the issuance of this statement, no one has been arrested, no one has been indicted, and—if the past is any guide—no one will be held accountable for the death of Saif," the statement continued.
"This is not an aberration; it is part of a well‑documented pattern of impunity enjoyed by Israeli settlers and security forces who routinely attack Palestinians and Palestinian‑Americans under the protection of occupation authorities and indifference of US officials".
The killing of US citizens abroad is more often than not addressed by the highest levels of the US government, including a phone call to the victim's family from the president.
But now, the ADC said, when "the perpetrators are Israeli settlers or security forces, many US citizens themselves, Washington’s response is silence, delay, or repeating the lies of Israeli authorities".
"ADC calls on President Donald J. Trump to direct the State Department to open an immediate, American-led investigation into this heinous murder; demand that Israeli authorities arrest and prosecute the perpetrators without delay; and apply standard diplomatic protocol given to any murdered US citizen, including public condemnation of the crime, and regular briefings to Congress until justice is served," the group urged.
A senior official from the United Nations food agency, the World Food Programme (WFP), told reporters on Friday that Israeli officials have signalled they want the UN to return to being the main supplier of aid in Gaza.
"They wanted the UN to continue to be the main track for delivery, especially should there be a ceasefire, and they asked us to be ready to scale up," said Carl Skau, WFP deputy executive director, according to a Reuters news agency report.
Skau was on a visit to Israel and Gaza last week.
At least four Palestinians have been killed in Israeli air strikes that targeted a civilian vehicle and a shelter for the forcibly displaced in the al-Barakah area of central Gaza, local media reported on Friday. Dozens are said to have been wounded.
Another four deaths have been confirmed in the aftermath of an Israeli air strike on a tent for the forcibly displaced in the al-Mawasi area of Khan Younis, in southern Gaza.
This comes as Israeli forces have also been bulldozing what remains of Palestinian residential buildings east of Gaza City.
The Quds News Network reported on Friday that a 23-year-old Palestinian male, identified as Saif al-Din Musalat, was beaten to death by Israeli settlers in the town of Sinjil, north of Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank.
Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil has filed a claim against the Trump administration for $20m in damages after spending months in an immigration detention centre and missing the birth of his first child, the Associated Press reported on Thursday.
The Department of Homeland Security, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the State Department are all named on the claim, which is a precursor to a lawsuit.
The Columbia University graduate, 30, who was one of the lead negotiators during the Columbia University protest encampments against the war in Gaza, is suing for false imprisonment, malicious prosecution and being besmirched as an antisemite for his peaceful pro-Palestinian speech.
