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Imprisoned Tunisian opposition leader Rached Ghannouchi has started a hunger strike to express his solidarity with Gaza.

His legal defence team said on Friday that Ghannouchi would be undergoing a symbolic hunger strike for three days “in solidarity with calls demanding the lifting of the blockade on Gaza and an end to the genocide and campaign of starvation being inflicted on the valiant people of Gaza”.

His daughter, Soumaya Ghannouchi, a regular commentator for Middle East Eye, said her father went on a hunger strike “in solidarity with the starving people besieged in besieged and suffering Gaza. As a prisoner, he owns nothing but his own body, and he spares no effort for Palestine and Gaza”.

Rached Ghannouchi, leader of Ennahda, the party that dominated Tunisian politics before President Kais Saied’s power grab four years ago, has been in prison since April 2023.

Ghannouchi was the parliament speaker when Saied suspended the assembly and dissolved the government, a move critics have called a “coup”.

In a context of crackdown on dissent and trials denounced as unfair by rights NGOs, Ghannouchi has received several heavy prison sentences, including a 14-year prison term last month for “plotting against the state” and a 22-year sentence handed to him in February on the same charge.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyyhu said he would be convening his security cabinet this week to discuss how to instruct the military to meet his "war objectives" in Gaza.

"We must continue to stand together and fight together to achieve all our war objectives: the defeat of the enemy, the release of our hostages, and the assurance that Gaza will no longer pose a threat to Israel," Netanyahu said at the outset of a regular cabinet meeting on Monday.

In a statement, he did not specify when the security cabinet meeting would be held.

A range of former Israeli intelligence chiefs have called for an end to the war on Gaza.

In a video carried by Israeli media outlets on Sunday, former heads of Mossad, Shin Bet, police and military intelligence all urged an end to what is now Israel's longest war since its foundation.  

They also announced they had sent a letter, signed by 550 former security officials, to US President Donald Trump requesting that he pressure Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over the issue.

“Stop the Gaza War! On behalf of [Commanders for Israel’s Security], Israel’s largest group of former IDF (Israeli army) generals and Mossad, Shin Bet, Police, and Diplomatic Corps equivalents, we urge you to end the Gaza war," it read.

"You did it in Lebanon. Time to do it in Gaza as well.”

Read more: Former Israeli intelligence chiefs call for an end to war on Gaza

At least 41 Palestinians have been killed since dawn in Israeli strikes across the Gaza Strip, according to medical sources who spoke to Al Jazeera.

Hospital officials said 20 of those killed were civilians attempting to collect aid when they came under fire.

Health officials in Gaza say Israeli attacks have killed 94 Palestinians and injured 439 more in the past day alone, as relentless bombardment continues to overwhelm the strip’s shattered hospitals.

According to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, the total number of Palestinians killed since Israel launched its assault on 7 October 2023 has now reached 60,933.

Another 150,027 have been wounded, many suffering life-altering injuries. Doctors warn that under a suffocating blockade and near-total destruction of Gaza’s healthcare system, the actual toll could be far higher.

French newspaper Le Monde has reported extensive details of an intensifying intimidation campaign targeting the International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor Karim Khan.

The campaign has taken place against the backdrop of Khan's efforts to build and pursue a case against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, former Defence Minister Yoav Gallant and other Israeli officials over alleged war crimes.

Khan went on leave in mid-May after an attempt to suspend him, prompted by a senior member of his own office, failed. This was amid an ongoing United Nations investigation into sexual misconduct allegations against the prosecutor.

In a story published on Friday, the French newspaper quoted British barrister Andrew Cayley, who oversaw the ICC's Palestine investigation, saying Dutch intelligence informed him that he was at risk in The Hague. 

Cayley said that in December 2024 he was directly threatened: "I was told I was an enemy of Israel and that I should watch my back."

Read more: Le Monde publishes new details of campaign against Karim Khan and ICC

At least two Palestinians have been killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza’s eastern districts of Shujaiya and Tuffah.

A source from Baptist Hospital confirmed one fatality and several injuries following an Israeli attack on Al-Mahkama Street in Shujaiya, east of Gaza City.

Earlier reports indicated that seven Palestinians died due to Israeli shelling in the same neighbourhood.

Meanwhile, Al-Aqsa TV stated that a Palestinian was killed in a separate strike targeting the Al-Tuffah area, also situated east of Gaza City.

When Israel launched a surprise 12-day assault on Iran in June, Tehran and the world were caught off guard. Few anticipated such a move, particularly while Iran was engaged in sensitive nuclear negotiations with the United States.

Sources told Middle East Eye that a handful of countries had warned Iranian authorities about suspicious Israeli movements. Yet despite heightened alert levels, Tehran was ultimately blindsided when the attack materialised. 

The nature of the attack and the ease with which it was executed sent shockwaves through Iran’s political and security establishment. Behind the scenes, covert Mossad agents, paid informants, and a network of operatives - many allegedly embedded among Afghan migrants - are believed to have facilitated the strikes.

An Iranian source in the conservatives' camp told MEE that Israel had long stationed agents inside Iran, observing the movements of officials. The source added that a series of cyber intrusions into Iranian banks and government institutions may have compromised personal data - including phone numbers and addresses of high-level figures and their families - paving the way for deeper penetration.

"There have been some Eli Cohens inside the Islamic Republic too," the source remarked, referencing the infamous Israeli spy executed in Syria.

Read more: 'Eli Cohens inside Iran': How Israel's war exposed deep infiltration and intelligence gaps

At least 18 former leaders of Israel’s intelligence and security apparatus, including ex-chiefs of Mossad, Shin Bet, the military and police, have jointly urged the government to halt its war on Gaza.

In a video released online, the group condemned the offensive as a strategic and moral failure, saying it had achieved little while inflicting deep damage on Israel’s standing and identity.

“This war stopped being a just war. This is leading the state of Israel to the loss of its security and its identity,” said Ami Ayalon, former Shin Bet head.

Tamir Pardo, who once led Mossad, warned, “We are on the precipice of defeat. No matter how good the army is, a war with no political goal is a guarantee of defeat.”

Amos Malka, a former military intelligence commander, argued that Israel passed the point of decisive action over a year ago. “We could have ended the war with a sufficient operational achievement,” he said.

Instead, ex-Shin Bet director Nadav Argaman added, “We are now mostly offsetting losses.”

The remarks mark one of the most high-profile internal rebukes of the war effort, coming from the very figures once responsible for Israel’s security doctrine.

Gaza’s Ministry of Health has announced that three people have died from Guillain-Barre syndrome, as a result of Israel’s siege, Al Jazeera Arabic reported.

The ministry said the rare but serious nerve disorder is spreading as a result of acute malnutrition and untreated infections, both of which have surged under Israel’s relentless blockade.

“Starvation and medical neglect are killing our people,” the ministry said, holding Israeli authorities fully responsible for the collapse of Gaza’s healthcare system.

The deaths come amid warnings from doctors that life-threatening conditions are going untreated due to shortages of medicine, electricity, and clean water.

Gaza’s Government Media Office said on Monday that just 80 aid trucks entered the territory on Sunday, far below the 600 trucks needed each day to meet minimum humanitarian needs.

In a statement shared via Telegram, the office said most of the limited aid was looted amid ongoing security chaos, which it blamed on the Israeli occupation.

“The actual daily needs of the Gaza Strip are no less than 600 trucks of relief and fuel to meet the minimum requirements of life in the Strip,” it said.

The office denounced what it described as “systematic starvation,” the continued closure of border crossings, and the deliberate obstruction of humanitarian aid.

It held Israel and its international backers fully responsible for the deepening crisis, which it said affects more than 2.4 million Palestinians.

The statement urged the international community and humanitarian groups to intervene, calling for the permanent reopening of all crossings and the uninterrupted delivery of food, medical supplies, and baby formula.

It also called for legal accountability for crimes against defenceless civilians.

Gaza’s Health Ministry has released updated lists of those killed in Israel’s ongoing genocide as of 31 July 2025.

According to the latest figures:

• Total killed: 60,199

• Children: 18,430 (30.8 percent)

• Women: 9,735 (16.1 percent)

• Elderly: 4,429 (7.3 percent)

The ministry published separate lists naming all those killed, including children and women.

The Palestinian Health Ministry reported on Monday that at least five adults have died from hunger or malnutrition in the last 24 hours, as Israel continues to restrict aid.

This raises the total number of hunger-related deaths in the territory to 180, including 93 children, according to the ministry.

The Addameer Foundation, a Palestinian NGO, says at least 54 Palestinians are unaccounted for near aid control centres operated by the so called Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, a US-Israeli backed group that has been condemned for killing Palestinians seeking aid.

In a statement, the group said Israeli forces have blocked efforts to recover the bodies of those reportedly killed near these locations.

Addameer accused Israeli troops and foreign contractors of carrying out mass killings since the US-backed foundation began overseeing aid operations under a joint American-Israeli framework. At least 1,500 people seeking food to avert starvation have been killed so far.

Israeli troops shot and killed two Palestinians during a military operation near the town of Qabatiya, south of Jenin in the occupied West Bank, sources told Al Jazeera.

The Israeli army removed the bodies from the scene, the sources added.