Live: 54 Palestinians killed, 831 wounded in 24 hours

At least 27 people have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza since the start of the day.

Israeli forces killed six people waiting for aid at the Zikim crossing in northwest Gaza, and eight people waiting for aid in Khan Younis in the south.

Another two Palestinians died near the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation site in southern Gaza, and four were killed near the Netzarim Corridor in central Gaza, according to Al Jazeera.

Seven people were also killed in the Shujaiya area, according to local media reports.

Senior Hamas official Osama Hamdan has said that mediation efforts to reach a ceasefire agreement in Gaza are ongoing.

Hamdan told Al-Araby that Hamas aims to stop Israeli aggression and lift the blockade on Gaza.

He said Hamas will not disarm and added that the recent collapse in negotiations was due to statements made by the Trump administration's Middle East envoy, Steve Witkoff.

Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir has called on the government to "dismantle" the Palestinian Authority. 

The far-right politician said in a post on X: "I will appeal to the Prime Minister with a request to bring immediate operative measures to the next cabinet meeting to dismantle the Palestinian Authority.

"This must be the response to the terrorist Abu Mazen’s fantasies of a ‘Palestinian state’ – crushing the terror authority he heads."

The UN Security Council is set to hold an emergency session at 10am in New York to discuss Israel's plan to occupy Gaza City. 

Yesterday UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called the Israeli plan a "dangerous escalation".

The meeting was requested by the UK, France, Denmark, Greece and Slovenia.

Hello Middle East Eye readers.

Here are the morning's key developments:

• At least eight people have been killed in Israeli attacks in Gaza on Sunday. According to local media reports, a drone attack in Khan Younis killed four people. Meanwhile an attack on people seeking aid killed three along the Netzarim Corridor and one person was killed near the Morag Corridor in Khan Younis. 
• Five people have died of starvation in the past 24 hours, the Palestinian health ministry in Gaza has said. This brings the total number of victims to 217.
• The Hind Dagma Building for kidney patients at the Nasser Medical Complex in southern Gaza has reopened after being destroyed in an Israeli attack four months ago.
• Israeli forces have carried out raids across the occupied West Bank, detaining several Palestinians in Nablus, Bethlehem and Burqa.
• Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has issued a statement saying he has "lost faith that the prime minister is able and wants to lead the [Israeli military] to a decisive victory". He called for a new election.

Our live blog will shortly be closing until tomorrow morning.

Here are the day's key developments:

• Since dawn on Saturday, Israeli army strikes has killed at least 47 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip, hospital sources told Al Jazeera Arabic.

• Footage from Gaza shows an aid package striking a child on the head during one of the rare airdrops over the besieged territory.

• American doctor Mark Brawner, returning from Gaza, told Al Jazeera there is “a large-scale genocide” unfolding in the territory.

• Unrwa, the largest humanitarian provider for approximately six million Palestinian refugees, has said that airdrops of aid from several UN member states have continued over Gaza, "despite warnings from several international bodies that they are very expensive and ineffective".

• Israeli settlers have attacked a spring in the northern Jordan Valley in the occupied West Bank, where Palestinians take their cattle to drink, according to the Wafa news agency.

• UK police have arrested more than 450 people in central London during a protest in support of Palestine Action, the group recently banned by the government.

• In a new joint statement, the foreign ministers of the UK, Germany, Italy, Australia and New Zealand have condemned Israel's decision to take over Gaza City.

• Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan has urged all Muslim-majority countries to unite to mobilise against Israel's Gaza takeover plan.

Footage from Gaza shows an aid package striking a child on the head during one of the rare airdrops over the besieged territory.

The boy, identified by local media as Muhannad Zakaria Eid, had been waiting near the Netzarim area in central Gaza when the box came down at high speed.

Video verified by Al Jazeera captured the moments after the impact, as people crowded around the bleeding child in a desperate attempt to save him.

Later images showed his body in the hospital morgue, with his father cradling him in grief.

Palestinian journalists say such incidents underscore the dangers and inadequacy of airdrops, which have repeatedly failed to meet the territory’s overwhelming humanitarian needs and Israel's weaponisation of basic necessities in the besieged enclave. 

Palestinian media say two nephews of senior Hamas official Khalil al Hayya were killed in Israeli shelling on Gaza City earlier today.

The attack took place in northern Gaza, where Israel has intensified its bombardment and ground operations. Israel has signalled its intention to fully seize the city, forcing residents into tightly packed displacement zones.

Local journalists say the latest strikes are part of an ongoing campaign to empty Gaza’s urban areas of civilians, a tactic widely condemned as a form of collective punishment.

UK police have arrested more than 450 people in central London during a protest in support of Palestine Action, the group recently banned by the government.

Demonstrators gathered in Parliament Square from 1pm, holding handwritten signs reading: “I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action.”

By 9pm, the Metropolitan Police, backed by officers brought in from across the country, confirmed 466 arrests for alleged support of a proscribed organisation.

The scale of detentions appears to surpass the record set during the 1990 poll tax riots, when 339 people were taken into custody.

Critics say the crackdown reflects an increasingly heavy-handed approach by the UK government towards pro-Palestinian activism.

Palestinian media say an entire family has been removed from Gaza’s civil registry following an Israeli air strike on the town of Bani Suhaila, east of Khan oYunis.

The attack killed Tariq Muhammad Abu Hajras, his wife, and their five children, according to local reports. The strike completely destroyed their home.

This is the latest in a series of incidents where entire families have been erased from official records due to the scale of casualties in single air strikes.

Since dawn on Saturday, Israeli army strikes has killed at least 47 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip, hospital sources told Al Jazeera Arabic.

Among the dead were 40 people waiting for humanitarian aid.

American doctor Mark Brawner, returning from Gaza, told Al Jazeera there is “a large-scale genocide” unfolding in the territory.

He described how many people have recently died of hunger and said residents are suffering from “tumours and stomach ulcers” caused by starvation.

Brawner warned of a widespread collapse in bodily functions among the population and called for an immediate and unconditional ceasefire.

He stressed that aid must enter Gaza daily, adding that dropping supplies by air is not enough to address the hunger crisis.

A team leader for a US contractor providing services to the controversial Gaza Humanitarian Fund has been accused of being a member of an Islamophobic organisation, a Zeteo report said on Wednesday.

Johnny “Taz” Mulford is a team leader for UG Solutions and oversees the company's work at "aid distribution sites". UG Solutions has been contracted to provide security at GHF's sites.

Employees of the company have been accused of shooting Palestinian men, women and children seeking aid from four US- and Israel-backed GHF aid sites, where, according to the United Nations, more than 1,000 Palestinian aid seekers have been killed since GHF started operating at the end of May, while thousands have been wounded.

According to two sources that Zeteo spoke to, including former US veteran and whistleblower Anthony Aguilar, Mulford is a member of the Infidels Motorcycle Club, a group that claims to be against militant groups. Recently, Aguilar made headlines when he told the world he saw Israeli forces kill a young boy named Amir and countless others while he was manning a GHF aid distribution point in southern Gaza on 28 May.

Read more: Former US contractor for GHF says team leader not fit to oversee operation: Report

In response to the mass arrests of Palestine Action protesters in Parliament Square, Amnesty International UK’s Chief Executive, Sacha Deshmukh, expressed deep concern.

He said, “Today’s mass arrests of peaceful protesters under UK terrorism law are deeply concerning.

“Peaceful protest is a fundamental right. People are understandably outraged by the ongoing genocide being committed in Gaza and are entitled under international human rights law to express their horror.

“The protesters in Parliament Square were not inciting violence and it is entirely disproportionate to the point of absurdity to be treating them as terrorists.

“We have long criticised UK terrorism law for being excessively broad and vaguely worded and a threat to freedom of expression. These arrests demonstrate that our concerns were justified.

“Instead of criminalising peaceful demonstrators, the Government should be focusing on taking immediate and unequivocal action to put a stop to Israel’s genocide and ending any risk of UK complicity in it.”

London’s Metropolitan Police have said on X that “The operation in Parliament Square continues.”
They reported that, as of 6pm (5pm GMT), 365 people had been arrested for supporting a proscribed organisation.

The group in question is Palestine Action, which Parliament banned last month over an alleged protest that damaged two UK military aircraft.

Thousands of demonstrators had gathered in Parliament Square to oppose the ban, express solidarity with Palestine, and defend free speech rights.