Live: 54 Palestinians killed, 831 wounded in 24 hours

The Government Media Office in Gaza said that there are "more than 22,000 humanitarian aid trucks currently parked at the Gaza Strip crossing gates," blocked by Israel.

“The Israeli occupation is deliberately preventing their entry as part of a systematic policy of engineering starvation, siege, and chaos,” the office said in a statement, adding that most of the trucks belong to the UN and international organisations and various entities.

Describing the situation as a “full-fledged war crime”, the media office said blocking the humanitarian aid violates international law and contributes to what it called the ongoing crime of genocide against the people of Gaza..

“We hold the Israeli occupation, along with the states involved through silence or complicity, fully responsible for the worsening humanitarian catastrophe,” the statement added.

At least two people have been killed and others injured in an Israeli strike that targeted humanitarian aid workers northwest of Gaza City, according to Wafa news agency.

Israeli attacks killed at least 70 people, including 37 aid seekers, and injured dozens since dawn in Gaza today, the report said.

At least 70 Palestinians, including 37 aid seekers, were killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza on Sunday, Wafa news agency is reporting, citing medical sources and eyewitness statements.

Israeli forces launched multiple attacks on Palestinians waiting to receive food aid throughout Sunday, killing at least 37 people, including at least seven when Israeli forces opened fired on crowds gathered at an aid distribution site near Khan Younis.

The sources said the toll is expected to rise due to the number of injured amid the near-collapse of the enclave's health system and the Israeli siege preventing the entry of medical supplies.

The Israeli army has said it shot down a drone launched towards Israel by Ansar Allah, known as the Houthis, in Yemen after sirens sounded in Bnei Netzarim, a town near the borders with Gaza and Egypt.

The Houthis have yet to comment.

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Wafa news agency is reporting that two people were killed and others wounded in an Israeli attack targeting aid workers in the northwest of Gaza City.

According to medical sources, the attack resulted in deaths and injuries among aid workers.

Meanwhile in Rafah,  aid worker Raafat Hussein al-Arja was killed in an attack on the al-Tina centre which he supervised.

Israel's far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir led hundreds of settlers in storming Al-Aqsa Mosque complex on Sunday, were they loudly performed Jewish Talmudic prayer, under a heavy police guard, and attempted to antagonise Muslim worshippers.

Videos seen by Middle East Eye showed hundreds of settlers storming the courtyards of Al-Aqsa Mosque where some could be seen dancing and shouting, disrupting the sanctity of the Muslim place of worship.

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.

However, over the past century, Zionist groups have repeatedly violated the fragile arrangement, launching unprecedented attacks on one of Islam's holiest sites. 

Residents in Jerusalem's Old City told MEE that before and after Ben Gvir's raid, the area had come to resemble a "military base" due to the "many checkpoints" that had been set up and the "heavy Israeli security presence".

Read more: Israel's Ben Gvir, under heavy guard, leads settler raid on Al-Aqsa Mosque

Gaza hospitals have received the bodies of 119 Palestinians, including 14 recovered from the rubble, and another 866 wounded in the last 24 hours, the enclave's health ministry is reporting.

According to the ministry, 65 Palestinians were killed while attempting to receive aid, while 511 wounded.

The latest figures bring the overall toll of Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza since October 2023 to 60,839, with another 149,588 wounded. 

Belgium's air force dropped the first in a series of its aid packages in Gaza on Sunday in cooperation with Jordan, Belgium's defence ministry said in a statement. 

While still heavily restricting the entry of aid trucks into Gaza, Israel has permitted states to conduct limited air drops of aid. The operation has drawn heavy criticism from aid groups, with Unrwa warning that the move is "inefficient" and even "dangerous" as it risks triggering refeeding syndrome in starving Palestinians.

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Palestinian prisoners' rights groups are reporting that over 18,500 Palestinians have been detained by Israeli forces across the occupied West Bank, including Jerusalem, since October 2023.

The figure includes 570 Palestinian women and at least 1,500 children, according to a report by the Commission for Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society, and Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association.

Over 194 journalists have also been detained, 49 of them still held in custody.

The detainee numbers mark the highest since the second Intifada in 2000.

The report also details rights violations that accompanied detentions, including beatings, threats to detainees and their families, destruction of property and the looting of homes. It also noted the "systematic destruction" of infrastructure in refugee camps in Tulkarm and Jenin, and the demolition of detainees' family homes.

The report also found that detainees were taken from their homes and at military checkpoints, and that some of the detentions were accompanied by extrajudicial killings targeting relatives of detainees.

Wafa news agency is reporting that emergency teams have recovered the bodies of five people on Sunday, following an Israeli air strike on Gaza City's Shujaya neighbourhood.

At least 44 people have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza since dawn, including 22 aid seekers.

One million women and girls in Gaza are now starving, the UN's office in Geneva has warned.

"One million. That’s how many women and girls are starving in Gaza. This horrific situation is unacceptable and must end," the office said in a post on X.

“We continue to demand the delivery of lifesaving aid for all women and girls, an immediate ceasefire and the release of all hostages.”

Gaza's health ministry reported today that at least 175 people, including 93 children, have died due to Israeli-imposed starvation.

A war monitor has revealed that 88 percent of Israeli military investigations into allegations of war crimes by its soldiers since October 2023 have either been closed or produced no findings, a war monitor has revealed.

Action on Armed Violence (AOAV) found that the unresolved probes include the killing of at least 112 Palestinians queuing for flour in Gaza City in February 2024 and that of five-year-old Hind Rajab and her family on 29 January  2024. 

A case in which the Israeli military admitted its soldiers tied Palestinian man Mujahed Azmi to the front of a military jeep during a raid in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin on 23 June 2024, led to “no findings or disciplinary actions" being disclosed.

The killing of 15 Palestinian medics on 23 March, when Israeli soldiers open fired on a clearly marked ambulance, also remains unresolved, despite the Israeli military admitting to "professional failures" and dismissing a deputy commander.

AOAV said that the findings reveal that Israel is seeking to create a "pattern of impunity" by failing to conduct conclusive investigations into cases involving “the most severe or public accusations of wrongdoing by their forces".

The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) has said it is "heartbroken" following an Israeli attack on its headquarters in Khan Younis, which killed one staff member and injured three others.

In a statement, the organisation said that the headquarters' location would have been known to Israeli forces and was “clearly marked with the protective red emblem”. “This was not a mistake," the statement added.

“This deliberate attack on a protected Red Crescent facility is a grave violation of international humanitarian law – it is a war crime,” the organisation said.

At least one person has been killed after armed groups attacked Syrian security forces in the southern province of Sweida, according to state media.

Ekhbariya TV said the groups fired shells at several villages in the restive region, killing one and wounding others.

A security source told the outlet the armed groups had violated a ceasefire agreed in the predominantly Druze region, which has seen more than 1,000 killed in fighting over the past month.

Violence in Sweida erupted on 13 July between Bedouin fighters, Druze factions and government forces.

Israel also carried out strikes on Syrian cities, claiming they were coming to the assistance of the Druze.

Read more: One killed after armed groups attack Syrian security forces in Sweida

The death toll of Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza since dawn has risen to 44, Al Jazeera is reporting, citing medical sources.

Of that figure, 22 were killed while trying to receive aid.