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UN experts have slammed the Israeli and US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), which has been previously criticised for its militarised aid distribution mechanism.
The experts described the organisation as an "utterly disturbing example of how humanitarian relief can be exploited for covert military and geopolitical agendas in serious breach of international law".
"The credibility and effectiveness of humanitarian assistance must be restored by dismantling the GHF, holding it and its executives accountable, and allowing experienced and humanitarian actors from the UN and civil society alike to take back the reins of managing and distributing lifesaving aid."
They concluded with demands for UN Member States to impose a complete arms embargo on Israel "due to its multiple violations of international law", end trade agreements that could harm Palestinians alongside holding coporations accountable.
The British government has released new details of its plans to recognise a Palestinian state at the UN General Assembly session in September.
In a newly published memorandum of understanding with the Palestinian Authority, the government said Britain is committed to "the two-state solution based on 1967 lines" and "does not recognise the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, as part of Israel."
"The West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and Gaza, must be reunified under its sole authority," the memorandum declares.
In a significant statement of British support for the Palestinian Authority, the document insists that the PA "must have the central role in the next phase in Gaza on governance, security and early recovery."
British officials have previously demanded that Hamas should disarm and end its rule in Gaza.
Read more: Britain affirms support for Palestinian state under 1967 borders
Over a thousand scientists have warned the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) of being complicit in "military and terroristic campaigns in the Middle East".
"As scientists, we cannot tolerate that the current state of war imposed by the Israeli government on Palestinians, alongside the unacceptable toll of lives and affront to human dignity, also compromises the continued peaceful collaboration of Israeli and Palestinian scientists between themselves, and with the rest of the community," the petition read.
The intergovernmental organisation, which operates the largest particle physics laboratory in the world, admitted Israel as the Organization’s 21st member state in early January of 2014.
Over 1000 physicists and scientists have demanded @CERN to take action for Gaza.
— Luigi Daniele (@luigidaniele10) August 5, 2025
Their statement here https://t.co/gdJa7E9iMI
At link below, the expert opinion by Prof Alessandra Annoni & I, in support, on CERN legal obligations in relation to the OPt
https://t.co/f2AO8dGvlr pic.twitter.com/rxrSoYGMaU
Only 769 aid trucks have entered the Gaza Strip over the past nine days, despite estimates outlining the need for 500 to 600 trucks daily.
Figures shared by the Government Media Office in Gaza to Al Jazeera show that an average of 85 trucks have entered the besieged enclave daily since 27 July.
The figures underscore a deepening humanitarian crisis and collapsing health sector as relief distribution efforts fail to meet basic humanitarian needs in the blockaded strip.
Medical sources in Gaza have reported that 41 Palestinians, including 24 aid seekers, were killed in Israeli attacks across the besieged enclave since dawn on Tuesday, according to Al Jazeera.
A member of the House of Lords lobbied two ministers over a criminal investigation into Palestine Action activists on behalf of a US military technologies company.
Richard Dannatt, an ex-army chief who works as an adviser to Teledyne Technologies, wrote to two Home Office ministers urging them to crackdown on activists after they targeted a factory belonging to the company in 2022 over sales of military equipment to Israel.
Four activists were convicted of conspiring to damage Teledyne’s factory in Presteigne, Wales, after they broke into the premises and caused £1m ($1.33m) worth of damage, according to prosecutors.
Three of the activists who targeted the factory pleaded guilty, while the fourth went to trial. In court in May 2023, Alex Stuart of Dyfed-Powys police, who was in charge of the investigation, expressed concerns that Dannatt was seeking to have some input in the case.
Read more: Peer sought to 'influence' Palestine action case on behalf of US company
Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar has summoned the Polish ambassador to Israel for an official reprimand following critical remarks made by Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk and the Polish Foreign Ministry.
Saar slammed what he claimed were "outrageous references to concentration camps" and accusations that Israel is weaponising hunger.
"Israel strongly rejects these accusations, and expects Poland to refrain from using language that distorts history and denigrates the memory of the victims of the Holocaust," his statement added.
The Royal Ballet and Opera (RBO) has pulled out of a planned production run of the opera Turandot in Israel, the company's CEO Alex Beard confirmed in a message to staff.
Beard told his employees that "Tosca will not be going to Israel" following weeks of staff dissent over their refusal to perform in Israel and anger at the treatment of a performer who raised the Palestinian flag after a performance.
In July, dancer Danni Perry raised the Palestinian flag during an ovation following a performance of Il Trovatore.
Perry was challenged by the opera's director, Oliver Mears, who attempted to pull the flag off him.
The performer was later reportedly "banned" from participation in future performances.
Read more: Royal Opera pulls out of Israel production after staff revolt
At least 87 Palestinians, including 52 people seeking aid, have been killed and 644 others injured in Israeli attacks across Gaza in the past 24 hours, the enclave’s health ministry said.
The ministry said the number includes eight people, one child and seven adults, who starved to death in the past 24 hours. This raises the total hunger-related death toll to 188, including 94 children.
The report added that eight bodies were also recovered from the rubble of previous Israeli attacks.
Israel’s war on Gaza has killed 61,020 Palestinians and injured 150,671 others since 7 October, 2023, the ministry said.
The ministry added that since 27 May, when Israel introduced a controversial US-backed aid distribution mechanism, 1,568 aid seekers have been killed and more than 11,230 injured.
Israel has been accused of the crime of starving civilians since the beginning of its war on Gaza in October 2023.
In late July, the UN-backed Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), the world's leading hunger monitoring system, said that the "worst-case scenario of famine" is unfolding in Gaza due to the Israel-imposed famine and siege.
At the time of publication, more than 160 Palestinian children and adults in Gaza have died from starvation, according to the territory’s health ministry.
Even before the current war, which has killed at least 60,000 Palestinians and displaced almost all the 2.2m population, Israel blockaded Gaza's airspace, territorial waters and two of its three land crossings since 2007. Approximately 80 percent of the population depended on aid from the UN and international NGOs.
Israel decided who and what could enter and exit, and sought to control the amount of calories per person. As early as 2006, an adviser to then Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert summed up the policy: "The idea is to put the Palestinians on a diet, but not to make them die of hunger."
Read more: Why legal experts say that starvation in Gaza is a war crime
Former Israeli premier Naftali Bennett said Israel’s status in the United States “has never been so bad” and blamed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government for turning it into “a leper state”.
"Although part of the Trump administration still sympathises with Israel, first and foremost thanks to President Trump himself, many in the right-wing environment in the US, including the MAGA movement, are distancing themselves from Israel," Bennett said in a lengthy post on X, saying that the government is "only terrible damage".
He also said, "Even those who were our friends are having a hard time defending the State of Israel," as he lashed out at the reports of starvation in Gaza.
"The 'starvation' campaign in Gaza has taken on enormous proportions, and in fact, for most of the American public and various influencers, it is almost a fact. Israel is seen more as a burden and a burden on the US and Americans," he said.
Bennett also blamed those who compare starvation in Gaza to the Holocaust for diminishing the memory of the Holocaust.
At least 180 Palestinians, including 93 children, have died from hunger or malnutrition in Gaza, according to a Palestinian Health Ministry report on Monday.
Seventy percent of Palestinians in Gaza are experiencing extreme weakness from starvation, hindering their ability to access humanitarian aid, the Danish Refugee Council (DRC) said on Tuesday.
"The physical exhaustion is so profound that many are unable to make the long journey on foot to distribution sites or carry heavy loads even if they receive assistance," said the organisation in a statement as it released the findings of a survey of Palestinians in Deir al-Balah, Khan Younis, Gaza City and North Gaza.
"The survey exposes the life-threatening consequences of the American and Israeli-backed distribution scheme and the severe psychological toll on a population with no safe haven," the statement said.
The organisation also said Palestinians trying to access the militarised-backed distribution scheme said they witnessed people, including family members, being deliberately targeted, shot, and killed by soldiers.
Press release: https://t.co/LTY3S4RNlj
— Danish Refugee Council (@DRC_ngo) August 5, 2025
A new survey of Palestinians in Gaza by DRC shows a population at breaking point: starvation and mass displacement have resulted in widespread physical exhaustion and a catastrophic mental health emergency. pic.twitter.com/HhHvPBGfOS
Unnamed sources close to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu briefed local media on Monday that he is now pushing for the full occupation of the Gaza Strip.
Channel 12 quoted “senior figures in the Prime Minister’s Office” as saying: “The decision has been made, Israel is heading towards the occupation of the Gaza Strip.”
The channel reported that ministers who spoke with Netanyahu - who is currently wanted by the International Criminal Court for alleged war crimes - said he had decided to expand the military offensive in Gaza, which has largely stalled in recent months.
According to the report, he explicitly used the term “occupation of the Strip” in conversations with several cabinet members.
The Ynet news website, also citing sources close to Netanyahu, similarly reported that Israel was preparing for the “full occupation of the Gaza Strip”.
Read more: Netanyahu reportedly seeking full occupation of Gaza, Israeli media says
The General Secretariat of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) strongly condemned the storming of the Al-Aqsa Mosque complex by Israel's far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir and settler groups under the protection of the Israeli forces on Sunday, Wafa news agency reported.
“This is part of the attempts by Israel, the occupying power, to change the historical and legal status quo at the Al-Aqsa Mosque,” said the OIC in a statement.
The OIC also called on the international community to shoulder its responsibilities to put an end to these grave violations and to preserve the historical and legal status quo of Islamic and Christian holy sites in occupied Jerusalem.
The status quo in Jerusalem has long maintained that Jewish prayer is forbidden on the raised plateau in occupied East Jerusalem's Old City, where Al-Aqsa Mosque stands.
