Live: 54 Palestinians killed, 831 wounded in 24 hours

The Israeli foreign ministry on Monday rejected the joint statement published by over 20 countries, including Canada, Australia, the UK, and Europe, calling for an end to its war on Gaza, "as it is disconnected from reality and sends the wrong message to Hamas". 

The statement, released earlier on Monday, used some of the strongest language yet to denounce Israel's starvation of Palestinians in the besieged strip.

"The suffering of civilians in Gaza has reached new depths. The Israeli government’s aid delivery model is dangerous, fuels instability and deprives Gazans of human dignity," the joint statement said.

"We condemn the drip feeding of aid and the inhumane killing of civilians, including children, seeking to meet their most basic needs of water and food. It is horrifying that over 800 Palestinians have been killed while seeking aid. The Israeli Government’s denial of essential humanitarian assistance to the civilian population is unacceptable. Israel must comply with its obligations under international humanitarian law," the statement continued.

"We call on the Israeli government to immediately lift restrictions on the flow of aid and to urgently enable the UN and humanitarian NGOs to do their life-saving work safely and effectively". 

Israeli special forces shot and killed a journalist during the detainment of hospital director Dr Marwan al-Hams, Arab48 is reporting. 

According to eyewitnesses cited by Arab48, Israeli soldiers opened fire on a group of Palestinians at a seaside cafe in Khan Younis and abducted al-Hamas.

Press sources cited by Arab48 have named the journalist killed as Tamer al-Za'anin, while another journalist, Ibrahim Abu Ushaib, was also injured by Israeli fire during the attack.

The UN relief works agency for Palestinian refugees (Unrwa) has said that fuel shortages are threatening "critical services" in Gaza.

"Without fuel, water cannot be delivered by Unrwa to people in Gaza," said the agency in a post on X. 

Senior doctors in Gaza have also warned that hospital operations may halt if Israel-imposed fuel shortages lead to hospital power cuts.

The summer heat in #Gaza means water is even more scarce.

Water wells are hard to reach due to non-stop bombardments and forced displacement orders.

While only two trucks of fuel a day are entering Gaza, fuel levels remain very low, with critical services – including water… pic.twitter.com/q9DLDu13tW

— UNRWA (@UNRWA) July 21, 2025

Razan Abu Zaher died starving. 

She was four years old.

She died on the floor of a collapsing hospital, her tiny ribs rising and falling like wings too fragile to lift. Her body had no fat left to burn. Her eyes had sunken. Her voice - once a whisper of laughter - had long since vanished.

She did not die quickly. She died slowly.

She died watched by her mother, who begged her to hold on. Watched by a doctor who had no more syringes, no more saline, no more words, and by a world that tuned in - then turned away.

Her death was not a tragedy. It was a sentence, written not in haste, but in policy.

Razan is not alone. She is one of thousands.

Between March and June -  well into the total blockade - the UN agency for Palestine refugees, Unrwa, screened over 74,000 children in Gaza. More than 5,500 were diagnosed with severe acute malnutrition. Over 800 were already critical.

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An Israeli air strike on Gaza City has killed at least one Palestinian and and injured several others, Wafa news agency is reporting.

According to the report, the attack targeted a residential building in Gaza City's al-Rimal neighbourhood.

This follows another Israeli strike on the neighbourhood targeting a water desalination plant that killed five Palestinians earlier on Monday.

The Palestinian Ministry of Health has confirmed that Dr Marwan al-Hams, director of the Abu Yousef al-Najjar Hospital in Rafah, has been arrested by Israeli Special Forces.

The Ministry condemned the arrest as a "cowardly act", and described al-Hams as "one of the most prominent humanitarian and medical voices" in Gaza.

Israel has frequently targeted health workers and hospital infrastructure during its ongoing war on Gaza. The arrest follows Israel's killing of prominent Palestinian doctor Marwan al-Sultan in a missile strike on his home on 2 July.

The UK and over 20 countries, including several EU countries and Japan, have issued a statement calling for an end to Israel's war on Gaza.

"We urge the parties and the international community to unite in a common effort to bring this terrible conflict to an end, through an immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire," the statement read.

It added that the states were "prepared to take further action to support an immediate ceasefire".

Pope Leo has told Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas that he opposes any forced displacement of Palestinians, the Vatican has stated. 

The Pope and Abbas' call marks their first meeting since Leo's papacy began in May 2025. 

The call follows Israel's bombing of Gaza's only Catholic church last week, for which Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office issued a rare statement of apology amid widespread condemnation. 

At least five Palestinians, including one woman, have been killed in an Israeli missile attack on a water desalination plant in al-Rimal neigbourhood in northern Gaza, Wafa news agency is reporting.

Gaza is facing severe water shortages due to months of Israeli attacks targeting water infrastructure. The Gaza government press office has said the attacks are aimed at "turning water into a tool of genocide and a weapon of slow killing".

Wafa is also reporting, citing medical sources, that two Palestinians have been killed in a targeted attack on a vehicle in al-Baraka, south of Gaza City.

Some 134 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks in the last 24 hours, the Palestinian health ministry is reporting.

It said in a statement that 134 bodies, including four recovered from the rubble from previous attacks, and another 1,155 wounded people have been transferred to hospitals.

The latest figures bring the overall toll of Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks in Gaza since October 2023 to at least 59,029, with another 142,135 wounded.

Meanwhile, Al Jazeera is reporting, citing medical sources, that at least 34 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks across the territory since dawn on Monday.

At least 42 deaths have been recorded over the past 24 hours in Khan Younis’s Nasser Medical Complex, according to sources in the facility.

More than 2,000 people sought care at the centre.

The figure included 424 patients at the central emergency room, 494 children at the paediatric emergency ward, and nearly 600 visitors to the outpatient clinic.

The co-founder of Palestine Action, Huda Ammori, will request permission from the UK High Court to challenge the ban on the group under Britain's anti-terror laws.

Ammori aims to overturn Home Secretary Yvette Cooper’s move to ban the group. This came after Palestine Action claimed responsibility for damaging two RAF planes with red paint at Brize Norton airbase on 20 June.

Four members of the group arrested following the action have been remanded in custody for 18 months before a scheduled trial in 2027 following a court hearing last week.

The group said the UK military jets were supporting Israel’s war on Gaza, and has accused Britain of enabling the transport of weapons used in the war.

The ban came into force on 5 July, after Ammori failed in an urgent legal attempt to prevent it.

Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz said on Monday that Israel's attack on Yemen’s Hodeidah port, controlled by the Houthis, comes as a response to Houthi missile launched at Israel.

"The Houthis will pay a heavy price for firing rockets toward the State of Israel," he said.

He added that Israel will deal with the Houthis as it dealt with Iran.

Earlier, Israeli media reported that Israeli air forces have attacked Hodeidah port in Yemen.

The number of people killed in Gaza since the morning has risen to 17, according to medical sources.

The figure includes three people who were killed by Israeli air strikes in Deir al-Balah, and another five of the same family who were killed in an attack on al-Mawasi in southern Gaza.

Israeli army has attacked Yemen’s Hodeidah port, according to Israeli media.

We will bring more details.