Live: 54 Palestinians killed, 831 wounded in 24 hours

Egypt's state-affiliated Al Qahera News TV said on Sunday that two fuel trucks carrying 107 tons of diesel were set to enter Gaza.

Gaza's health ministry has said fuel shortages have severely impaired hospital services, forcing doctors to focus on treating only critically ill or injured patients. There was no immediate confirmation whether the fuel trucks had indeed entered Gaza.

Israel blocked all aid to Gaza since 2 March, unleashing famine across the enclave.

Gaza's government media office said six more Palestinians have died due to Israeli-imposed starvation, bringing the toll of people who have died from malnutrition to 175, including 93 children.

Reporting by Reuters

Israeli far right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir led a march of Israeli settlers through occupied East Jerusalem to Al-Aqsa Mosque from late Saturday into early Sunday.

Shortly after, Ben Gvir renewed his calls for the Israeli government to “conquer” all of Gaza in a post on X.

Hamas condemned the move as  “an escalation of aggression against our Palestinian people” and “a provocation of the feelings of Muslims everywhere”.

The Palestinian movement further warned that the march represents a direct threat to "regional and international peace and security", and urged the international community to take "urgent steps" to stop what it described as "systematic violations against Al-Aqsa Mosque".

A spokesperson for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said the move "crossed all red lines", and called for "immediate international intervention".

Jordan's foreign ministry also issued a statement condemning the march "in the strongest terms" as a “flagrant violation of international law”.

At least 22 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza on Sunday so far, Al Jazeera is reporting, citing medical sources.

Of that figure, 16 were killed while seeking aid.

Hundreds of thousands marched across Australia's iconic Sydney Harbour Bridge on Saturday to demand an end to Israel's war on Gaza.

The world-famous landmark was closed for the major pro-Palestine march after the Supreme Court of New South Wales refused an application by the police to ban the demonstration on the grounds that it risked a "crowd crush".

A spokesperson for the Palestine Action Group Sydney, which called the protest, put crowd estimates at 300,000.

Attendees included transparency activist Julian Assange, Bob Carr, Ed Husic, indigenous actor Meybe Wyatt and Greens senator Mehreen Faruqi.

Faruqi addressed the crowds before they set off, commending them for "defying Chris Minns" after the New South Wales premier said: "We cannot allow Sydney to descend into chaos."

"It was never about logistics. It was never about traffic. It was never about communications or anything else. It was always about stopping us and silencing us. It was always about protecting Israel and the Labor government from accountability," Faruqi said.

Hospitals in Gaza have recorded the deaths of six Palestinian adults due to starvation and malnutrition over the last 24 hours, the Palestinian Ministry of Health is reporting.

On Saturday, the ministry reported that seven Palestinians had died within 24 hours due to malnutrition, including a 17-year-old boy.

The latest deaths bring the toll of Palestinians who have died due to malnutrition and starvation in Gaza to 175, including 93 children.

Good morning Middle East Eye readers, here are the latest updates:

• Israeli attacks killed at least 62 Palestinians on Saturday, including 38 aid seekers, while the Palestine Red Crescent Society said one of its workers was killed in an Israeli attack on its headquarters in Khan Younis.

• At least seven Palestinians died of malnutrition in the last 24 hours, according to medical sources. This includes a 17-year-old boy who was a former athlete.

• Israeli attacks across Gaza on Sunday have killed 13 aid seekers, Al Jazeera is reporting. 

• Gaza's government media office said only 36 aid trucks entered Gaza on Saturday, far short of the 500-600 the UN estimates is necessary to address the humanitarian crisis in the enclave.

Our live coverage from Gaza will shortly be closing until tomorrow morning.

Here are some of the day's key developments:

• A 17-year-old Palestinian child has died of malnutrition, Wafa news agency reported, citing medical sources.

• Aircraft from Jordan, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Germany, and France airdropped 90 packages of humanitarian aid packages in the northern and southern Gaza Strip in the last few hours, according to the Israeli military.

• President Donald Trump's Middle East envoy told families of captives being held by Hamas on Saturday that he was working with the Israeli government on a plan that would effectively end the war in Gaza.

• Just 73 aid trucks entered Gaza on Friday, Gaza's government media office said, adding that most of their contents were looted before they could be distributed.

• The amount of aid entering Gaza remains "very insufficient" despite a limited improvement, the German government said.

• Hamas has denied a claim by the United States special envoy to the Middle East that it was preparing to disarm in exchange for an end to the war in Gaza.

• Israeli attacks have killed 36 and wounded more than 100 across Gaza today, Al Jazeera reported.

• Hospitals in Gaza have recorded seven deaths, including a child, as a result of Israeli-imposed starvation in the last 24 hours.

• Israeli settlers have established a new illegal outpost near the village of Kisan, east of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank, Wafa news agency reported.

US Senator Bernie Sanders said that “60 percent of Americans oppose Netanyahu’s barbaric war against the Palestinian people”, and called on Republicans to oppose funding for Israel’s war on Gaza.

“We’re making progress in moving Democrats to vote against funding this war. Now it’s time to move Republicans. Does the average Republican want to spend billions starving children? I don’t think so," he said in a post on X.

60% of Americans oppose Netanyahu’s barbaric war against the Palestinian people.

We’re making progress in moving Democrats to vote against funding this war. Now it’s time to move Republicans. Does the average Republican want to spend billions starving children? I don’t think so.

— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) August 2, 2025

Two Palestinians were killed and others were injured in an Israeli bombing that targeted a house near the Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood clinic in northwest Gaza City, according to the Palestinian Information Centre.

The military also destroyed residential homes in the vicinity of the Al-Amal neighbourhood, northwest of Khan Younis, the report said.

More than 60,000 Israelis took to the streets in Tel Aviv demanding an end to the war on Gaza and a captive exchange deal.

Speaking at the rally, Einav Zangauker, the mother of Israeli captive Matan Zangauker, accused the Israeli government of thwarting the process for a deal.

"Israel is setting unrealistic conditions and without real feasibility. We will not return our children if the Israeli government doesn't put a real proposal on the table," Haaretz reported Zangauker saying.

"If, instead of putting a comprehensive agreement on the table, the Israeli government decides to expand the military operation, it will issue a death sentence to the living hostages and exhume the dead," she said, adding that "we must force the government into a comprehensive agreement to end the war."

Aircraft from Jordan, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Germany, and France airdropped 90 packages of humanitarian aid packages in the northern and southern Gaza Strip in the last few hours, according to the Israeli military.

The head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, Philippe Lazzarini, previously has criticised the use of airdropped aid in Gaza, warning it risks killing civilians seeking relief.

"If there is political will to allow airdrops - which are highly costly, insufficient & inefficient, there should be similar political will to open the road crossings," he said on Friday.

"As the people of Gaza are starving to death, the only way to respond to the famine is to flood Gaza with assistance."

Airdrops are at least 100 times more costly than trucks
Trucks carry twice as much aid as planes.

If there is political will to allow airdrops - which are highly costly, insufficient & inefficient, there should be similar political will to open the road crossings.

As the…

— Philippe Lazzarini (@UNLazzarini) August 1, 2025

President Donald Trump's Middle East envoy told families of captives being held by Hamas on Saturday that he was working with the Israeli government on a plan that would effectively end the war in Gaza.

Steve Witkoff is visiting Israel as its government faces mounting pressure over the deteriorating humanitarian conditions in the enclave.

In a recording of the meeting, reviewed by Reuters, Witkoff is heard saying: "We have a very, very good plan that we're working on collectively with the Israeli government, with Prime Minister Netanyahu ... for the reconstruction of Gaza. That effectively means the end of the war."

Witkoff also said that Hamas was prepared to disarm in order to end the war, though the group has repeatedly said it will not relinquish "armed resistance" unless an "independent, fully sovereign Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital" is established.

Israeli settlers shot and killed one person and wounded seven others during attacks on the occupied West Bank villages of Aqraba and Jorish, the Palestine Red Crescent said.

ince Israel launched its war on Gaza in October 2023, my family and I have remained near what was once our home in the north of the Strip.

Among the first regions cut off from aid and plunged into severe food shortages, we endured the initial painful period of starvation from November 2023 - just a month into the genocide - until a temporary truce in June 2024.

When the flour ran out, we resorted to baking bread from animal fodder and rancid white flour, just to survive.

We lived on what little we had saved. We searched the destroyed homes of neighbours and relatives who had fled, sometimes finding a few cans of peas, chickpeas, fava beans or some flour left behind.

But all of that ran out in the early months. The war has now dragged on for more than 665 days, and everything has been taken from us.

Read more: In Gaza, bread is now a treasure and hunger a daily killer Opinion by Ahmed Dremly

At least 51 have been killed in Israeli attacks across the Strip today, according to Al Jazeera, citing local hospitals.

The sources said this total includes at least 27 aid seekers.