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A young Palestinian man on Monday night local time was shot and injured by Israeli soldiers at the northern entrance of Hebron city in the West Bank, Wafa news agency reported.
The Israeli soldiers were stationed at the military checkpoint when they shot the young man and prevented ambulance crews from coming to his aid, witnesses recounted.
The man has not yet been identified.
The European Commission (EC) on Monday said it is considering suspending Israel's access to European Union (EU) funding for tech start-ups, following pressure over the humanitarian situation in Gaza, AFP reported.
A string of EU countries have pushed for concrete action against Israel in the face of growing fears of mass starvation in the war-ravaged territory. The proposed action would involve partially suspending Israel's involvement in the Horizon research programme and will be discussed by the EU's 27 countries on 29 July. It would need the approval of the majority of member states to go into force.
"The situation remains severe," the EC said in a statement. "The proposed suspension is a targeted and reversible action," it added.
The EU has been criticised for not doing enough to end Israel's war on Gaza.
Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian shepherds on Monday evening in the Jordan Valley's al-Hamma area, Wafa news agency reported.
Citing local sources, Wafa reported that the Israeli settlers physically assaulted the shepherds with sticks and stones, and tried to steal their livestock.
During the United Nations conference on the two-state solution in New York City on Monday, Emer Higgins, Ireland's minister of state for public procurement, digitalisation and eGovernment, said that mass starvation in Gaza is "an affront to our collective humanity".
"We are seeking a political solution to this absolutely devastating conflict. The humanitarian situation in Gaza has reached new depths of despair and misery.
"Mass starvation is spreading across Gaza, and this is an affront to our collective humanity."
She affirmed the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories was "unlawful" and said the two-state solution was the only process for "clear and lasting peace".
"The importance of the recognition of the State of Palestine and its admission as a full UN member state was the recurring theme", she said.
The conference follows France's decision to formally recognise Palestinian statehood. Other major European powers, such as Germany and the UK, also nominally support a two-state solution to the conflict, but have long been reticent to formally recognise a Palestinian state.
A British High Court judge has ruled that the UK must assist a Palestinian family in leaving Gaza by formally requesting that Israel allow them to exit the besieged enclave.
The family had been granted permission earlier this year to enter the UK to visit their relative, a British citizen, but have been trapped in Gaza, as the Foreign Office has refused to submit a formal request to Israel for their passage via Jordan.
Following the ruling, the family's solicitor, Jenni Whitaker, said she hoped that the Foreign Office would “do the right, just and humane thing and urgently agree to assist our clients" by acting promptly upon the judgment.
Dozens of members from the Washington, DC, Maryland, and Virginia chapter of the Palestinian Youth Movement, and community members, held a protest on Friday outside the home of John Acree, executive director of the controversial US and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), which is distributing aid in Gaza.
More than 1,000 Palestinians seeking aid have been killed by the Israeli military and US contractors since it launched at the end of May. Acree has been accused of committing war crimes.
The protestors banged pots and pans, spray-painted GHF aid boxes and a cutout of Acree's face with red paint, and flyered his neighbourhood.
Amid a man-made famine, starving Palestinian families face the unthinkable: children and the elderly begging for bread, parents praying for death and a world watching in silence, says Ahmed Aziz.
Each morning that dawns over the Gaza Strip brings nothing but more hunger, more collapse and a deepening sense of despair.
For more than three months, over two million people have endured an unprecedented catastrophe - a true famine in every sense of the word - amid a merciless war, an unrelenting siege and an unforgivable international silence.
Famine in Gaza has become a daily reality. It is no longer merely a sensation of deprivation; it manifests in the sight of people collapsing in the streets from sheer exhaustion.
Children, women, the elderly - no one is spared. We have witnessed, with our own eyes, bodies slumping on the pavement and lives lost outside the ruins of bakeries or at aid distribution points that never deliver.
The price of a kilogram of flour has surpassed $30, while a kilogram of sugar now costs over $130. Most foods are either entirely unavailable or so scarce as to seem imaginary.
The tragedy is not just in the prices, but in the absence of essential goods. People are not simply refusing to buy; there is nothing left to buy.
Read more: Gaza famine: To be killed by an air strike is easier than watching your children starve
French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot said that "there is no alternative" to a two-state solution to the conflict between Israel and Palestine in his opening address to the much-anticipated UN conference on Palestinian statehood.
“Only a political two-state solution will help respond to the legitimate aspirations of Israelis and Palestinians to live in peace and security,” added Barrot, who is co-chairing the conference alongside Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan al-Saud.
The comment follows France's decision to formally recognise Palestinian statehood last Thursday, following increasing domestic and international pressure amid Israel's ongoing war in Gaza, which various rights groups have stated constitutes genocide.
Other major European powers, such as Germany and the UK, also nominally support a two-state solution to the conflict, but have long been reticent to formally recognise a Palestinian state.
A British organisation bringing children from Gaza to the United Kingdom for medical treatment has called on the UK government to "urgently operationalise" a plan to bring 30 wounded children after the prime minister announced further evacuations late on Friday.
In a recorded video, Keir Starmer said that the UK had "put millions of pounds of aid into Gaza", including an extra £40m this year, but "that help is not getting in".
"So we are scaling up our work. We are accelerating efforts to evacuate children from Gaza who need critical medical assistance, bringing them to the UK for specialist medical treatment," he said.
Starmer's comments were welcomed by the UK-based Project Pure Hope (PPH), which brought the first two - and, so far, the only - Palestinian children from Gaza to the UK for treatment earlier this year in partnership with the Palestinian Children's Relief Fund.
The two girls, Rama, 12, and Ghena, five, came to the UK from Egypt with congenital conditions and have been receiving life-saving treatment in the private wings of leading London hospitals, funded entirely by charitable donations.
Over a month ago, PPH asked the government to help facilitate and fund a cohort of 20-40 acutely ill and suffering children to come directly from Gaza to the UK, and had been awaiting a decision.
Now, with Starmer's sign-off, PPH is urging the government to move quickly, saying it has already paved the way for such evacuations with the World Health Organisation (WHO) and Israeli and Jordanian authorities, and could activate its plan to bring the group of children immediately.
"Time is of the essence," said Omar Din, one of PPH's co-founders. "Every day of delay risks the lives and futures of children who deserve a chance to recover and rebuild."
Read more: UK urged to move fast after PM signs off on receiving wounded Gaza children
Five Palestinian aid seekers have been killed and dozens more wounded by Israeli gunfire north of Rafah, southern Gaza, according to the Wafa news agency.
Elsewhere, two others were killed by sniper fire in Khan Younis in central Gaza, the agency is also reporting.
With these deaths, Israel's 21-month war on Gaza now counts a death toll of at least 59,821 people, wounding at least 144,851 others.
The Netherlands has named Israel as a foreign threat to the country's national security for the first time, citing disinformation campaigns endangering the lives of Dutch citizens.
A report published by the National Coordinator for Security and Counter-terrorism (NCTV) says that Israel attempted to influence public opinion and politics in the country by circulating documents directly to Dutch journalists and politicians instead of using the official diplomatic channels.
The alleged disinformation campaign occurred after the clashes that followed the football match between Ajax and Maccabi Tel Aviv in Amsterdam last November.
Close to 30 people were wounded as Israeli fans were caught on video vandalising property, threatening and assaulting people, as well as chanting racist, anti-Arab slogans.
The Israeli authorities branded the riots as antisemitic and ordered two rescue planes to the Netherlands to evacuate the fans.
A week later, the mayor of Amsterdam, Femke Halsema, took back her comments describing the violence as a "pogrom", saying that Israel "bypassed" Dutch authorities regarding the details of the events and their framing.
The NCTV report said that the document circulated by Israel-affiliated agencies also contained "unusual and unwanted personal details" about Dutch citizens. The country's ministries of justice, security and foreign affairs warned that these individuals could face threats, harassment and even physical attacks.
Read more: Dutch intelligence report identifies Israel as a foreign threat for first time
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has described the images of starving children in Gaza as "revolting" and said the situation is “absolutely intolerable”.
“Certainly speaking for the British public and myself, those images of starving children in particular are revolting,” Starmer said. “And there’s a sense of revulsion in the British public at what they’re seeing. They know - and we know - humanitarian aid needs to get in at speed, at volume.
“Yes, some can be airdropped, but the trucks need to get in because that’s the only way you can get the volume in.”
Speaking at a joint press conference with Starmer during an official visit to Scotland, US President Trump said a ceasefire in Gaza was “possible”, adding that “the time has come to end” the Israeli military offensive.
The Israeli military has jailed three soldiers who refused to return to the Gaza Strip after they killed Palestinian children.
According to the Israeli outlet, Kan, four soldiers from the 931st Battalion in the Nahal Brigade were removed from combat and punished after informing their commanders that they would not return to fight.
The four had fought in the Gaza Strip, spending between 13 and 17 months in the enclave during the ongoing war. Kan cited the soldiers as saying they were suffering from a "deep internal crisis" during the fighting.
One of the soldiers imprisoned told Kan that he felt unable to return after killing children and a mother.
"We were in an extermination area, we saw three figures entering the area and, as instructed, we shot. Later it turned out - these were 12-13 year old children and their mother. We didn't know. We followed orders," they told the outlet.
"After this incident, we had three soldiers leave because of post-traumatic stress disorder who suffered from dreams at night, insomnia, they would see these children. They didn't talk to us, they didn't bring us a psychologist, everything continued as usual."
Three of the four soldiers received prison sentences ranging from one week to 12 days. The fourth has not yet been tried.
One of the jailed soldiers had been wounded last year during fighting along the Gaza border and had returned voluntarily to fight after recovering.
Read more: Israel jails soldiers for refusing to return to Gaza after they killed children
US President Donald Trump on Monday said the United States will set up food centres in Gaza to help avert a "deepening hunger crisis".
"We're going to set up food centres where the people can walk in - and no boundaries. We're not going to have fences," he told reporters in Scotland, where he was meeting UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer.
Israeli-imposed starvation has led to the death of 147 Palestinians, including 88 children, according to the Palestinian health ministry.
Israeli forces have shot dead more than 1,000 Palestinians since May while they were trying to get food near aid sites run by the United States.
At least 41 people have been killed waiting for humanitarian aid in the besieged enclave since dawn.
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi called on US President Donald Trump to end Israel's ongoing war in Gaza in a televised address on Monday.
“I direct this special message to president Trump: Please, exert all efforts to end this war and allow the entry of aid,” said Sisi in the adresss, adding that Trump “is the one who can stop the war in Gaza".
A key US ally in the region, Sisi has intensified Egypt's crackdown against pro-Palestine activism in recent months amid mounting domestic outrage surrounding the country's alleged role in facilitating Israel's blockade of Gaza.
