Live: 54 Palestinians killed, 831 wounded in 24 hours

Activists who staged nationwide protests in solidarity with direct action group Palestine Action over the weekend said that widely differing police responses “exposed a stark divide” and are “indicative of the chaos” unleashed by the British government's order to proscribe the group.

On Saturday, 86 people were arrested under the Terrorism Act for holding signs reading, “I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action,” at protests in cities across the UK, including London, Manchester, Cardiff, and Derry.

The government passed legislation banning Palestine Action as a proscribed group on 4 July, making membership of and support for it a criminal offence punishable by up to 14 years in prison.

A bid by the group to apply for interim relief to temporarily block the ban pending a judicial review was rejected by the High Court on Friday.

But according to the campaign group Defend Our Juries (DOJ), the policing response to the protests varied widely across cities, with police in Kendal and Derry making no arrests, while in Cardiff, the South Wales police treated the protest as if “it were a serious terrorist incident”.

Read more: Divided UK police response to Palestine Action protests exposes 'chaos' of ban

Hamas has accused Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of not wanting to reach a deal to end the war on Gaza, as talks in Qatar entered a second week. 

"Netanyahu is skilled at thwarting one round of negotiations after another, and is unwilling to reach any agreement," the Palestinian group said on its Telegram channel.

Mediators have been attempting to bridge gaps between Israeli and Hamas delegations, an official with knowledge of the negotiations told AFP.

"Mediators are actively exploring innovative mechanisms to help bridge the remaining gaps and maintain momentum in the negotiations," the official said on Monday. 

At least 13 Palestinian civilians, most of whom are children, were killed and others wounded on Monday afternoon local time in a series of Israeli strikes in the Gaza Strip. 

Wafa news agency reported that nine civilians were killed and others wounded after an Israeli drone strike targeted a displacement tent in Khan Younis, in southern Gaza.

In a separate attack, four civilians were killed and more wounded after Israeli forces bombed a shop in al-Bureij refugee camp, in central Gaza.

Several others were also wounded following another Israeli strike targeting a group of people in Khan Younis refugee camp.

Israeli state-owned weapons company Rafael released a promotional video showing its drone system, Spike Firefly, tracking and killing a person in Gaza.

The video, posted across the company's social media platforms, shows the miniature kamikaze drone hovering over a rubble strewn neighbourhood in the Palestinian enclave, identifying somebody walking down the street and then targeting them. 

The post is titled "Spike Firefly in urban warfare" and is accompanied by dramatic, miltary-style music. 

According to the on-screen titles, the drone "identifies the target", "tracks it", "and neutralises the threat".

The video shows the Firefly silently hovering before diving after the person, who sees the drone and runs for cover. There is then an explosion, which "neutralises the threat". 

It is unclear whether the targeted individual is a Palestinian fighter or not. They do not appear to be armed. They are walking along the road alone and do not appear to be posing a threat to anyone.

Open-source analyst Anno Nemo geolocated the footage in Rafael’s post to the al-Tawam area of northern Gaza.

Read more: Israeli weapons firm Rafael uses Gaza killing in marketing campaign

Israel's plan to forcibly confine more than two million Palestinians to a small area in the southern Gaza Strip amounts to a "concentration camp", former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has said.

"It is a concentration camp. I am sorry," the 79-year-old told The Guardian on Sunday, when asked about a plan outlined by Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz last week, which would see an initial 600,000 Palestinians held in an area built on the ruins of Rafah city. 

According to Katz, Palestinians in the area would undergo security screenings and would not be allowed to leave. Eventually, the entire civilian population would be concentrated in the same location.  

Katz also said Palestinians would then be encouraged to "voluntarily" leave the Gaza Strip for other countries as part of an "emigration plan".

Responding to the proposal, Olmert said: "If [Palestinians] will be deported into the new 'humanitarian city', then you can say that this is part of an ethnic cleansing", adding that ethnic cleansing was the "inevitable interpretation" of the plan. 

Read more: Ex-Israeli prime minister calls Gaza 'humanitarian city' a concentration camp

Israeli forces killed more than 130 Palestinians in Gaza in a single day, including several children who were attempting to collect water for their hungry families in the besieged enclave.

The Palestinian health ministry reported on Sunday that at least 139 bodies had been brought to Gaza's hospitals in the past 24 hours, with a number of unaccounted people presumed dead under the rubble.

Medical officials told reporters that at least 24 Palestinians had been killed whilst on their way to a food distribution site near Rafah run by the controversial Israeli- and US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF).

According to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, nearly 800 Palestinians have been killed while trying to access aid in Gaza between late May, when the GHF launched its operations, and 7 July. Scores more have been killed since then.

Meanwhile, health officials said seven children were killed after an Israeli air strike targeted a water distribution site in central Gaza. 

Read more: Israel kills more than 130 Palestinians in 24 hours

A prominent American Jewish acting family has criticised the use of antisemitism to shut down discussions about Israel's policies in Gaza.

Actors Mandy Patinkin and Kathryn Grody also told The New York Times they thought the policies of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu were threatening the safety of Jewish communities internationally.

"The politics of what he’s doing is the worst thing for Jewish people. It’s like lighting a candle for anybody that has any antisemitic feelings," said Grody. 

"It’s creating a generation of wounded and hurt kids who will understandably be very angry. I feel deeply troubled and horrified by what is happening in my name. So I am very proud of every Jewish person that stands up for the humanity of people in the Middle East."

Patinkin concurred, referencing a line from the film The Princess Bride, in which he starred.

Read more: US actors criticise use of antisemitism to shut down discussion on Gaza

Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas told reporters on Sunday that Hamas will not rule Gaza after Israel ends its 21-month-long war on the besieged enclave.

During a meeting with former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair in the Jordanian capital, Amman, Abbas also said Hamas must hand over its weapons to the PA and "engage in political work under a unified legal system - one authority, one law, and one legitimate weapon".

Abbas, 89, and his administration are deeply unpopular among ordinary Palestinians due to allegations of corruption and their close ties to Israel. 

Since the start of the year, PA security forces have intensified a crackdown on armed groups in the occupied West Bank, killing dozens of fighters opposed to Israel.

Earlier this year, in a development first reported by Middle East Eye, Abbas visited Lebanon, where he agreed to a framework under which Palestinian factions would disarm.

Read more: Mahmoud Abbas says Hamas will not rule post-war Gaza during meeting with Tony Blair

Israeli settlers stormed the Palestinian village of al-Minya near Bethlehem, erecting tents and injuring a Palestinian man, Wafa news agency reported on Monday.

The head of the village council, Zayed Kawazba, told Wafa that settlers erected four tents in the village centre, uprooted 1,500 olive tree saplings and assaulted a 60-year-old Palestinian man.

The settlers attacked Abdel Mahdi Matour with sticks, leaving him with a broken jaw and a fractured hand, according to the Palestinian Red Crescent Society.

Illegal settler outposts have ballooned since October 2023, forcibly displacing Palestinians from their lands. In the first half of 2025 alone, 23 new settler outposts have been established across the occupied West Bank.

In the same period, settlers have conducted over 2000 attacks on Palestinian communities, killing four people, according to Wafa.

Israeli air strikes have targeted homes in the Tuffah and Sabra neighbourhoods of Gaza City, Al Jazeera is reporting.

An ambulance and emergency source reported that one person was killed in the bombing in Sabra.

Meanwhile, footage taken by Israeli forces and circulated by local media revealed the demolition of a residential block in the neighbourhood of Rafah, in southern Gaza.

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Gaza's government media office has reported that Israeli attacks targeting fresh water filling points have killed over 700 Palestinians waiting to fill their containers.

The office said in a statement that the attacks are part of Israel's "systematic thirst war", which has involved the targeting of over 100 fresh water filling points and the deliberate destruction of 720 water wells, depriving over 1.25 million people of clean water access.

It added that Israel has barred the entry of 12 million litres of fuel monthly, the amount required to power the minimum number of strip's water wells, sewage treatment plants, and waste collection vehicles.

It said this ban has “caused near-total paralysis of water and sewage networks and worsened the spread of diseases, especially among children”.

At least 28 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli air strikes across the Gaza Strip since dawn today, according to hospital sources speaking to Al Jazeera Arabic.

Medical officials said 17 of the deaths were reported in Gaza City and other areas in the northern part of the enclave, as Israeli strikes continue to hit residential zones.

The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) was paid over $1m for advising a private US maritime aid initiative for Gaza that operated outside the traditional United Nations-led system, according to the Financial Times.

The payment coincided with BCG's involvement in the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), a controversial project accused of undermining humanitarian principles. 

Earlier this month, the FT reported that BCG had signed a multimillion-dollar contract to support GHF's operations, including modelling a plan to "relocate" Palestinians from Gaza.

BCG helped design and run the US- and Israeli-backed effort, which aimed to bypass UN aid coordination and replace it with a new system.

On the maritime aid initiative, BCG worked with Fogbow, a US group led by military veterans, on a Qatar-funded scheme to ship food from Cyprus to Gaza.

Read more: BCG 'paid over $1m' for Gaza maritime aid project  

Gaza’s Government Information Office says Israeli forces have carried out 112 massacres targeting Palestinians attempting to fill water tanks, killing more than 700 people, most of them children.

In a statement on Monday, the office described the attacks as part of a “war of thirst” being waged by Israeli forces against civilians in the besieged enclave.

It urged the international community and humanitarian organisations to intervene immediately and guarantee the safe delivery of water to Gaza’s population without obstruction or targeting people.

Despite an uneasy ceasefire in the US-Israeli war of aggression against Iran, there's no telling what will come next, particularly from a volatile US administration led by Donald Trump that has elevated self-contradiction, confusion and policy U-turns to an art of geostrategic chaos. 

Much will depend on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's next moves and Iran's reactions; less will hinge on the US itself.

Since his re-election, President Trump has taken a back seat to Netanyahu. He has been largely reacting, often appearing unpleasantly surprised, to the latter's strategic moves and cynical manipulations - just as Russian President Vladimir Putin has for a long time been playing the US president.

His recent bombing of Iran only aggravated the West's "Israel problem", by surrendering and sacrificing Washington's own national interests and professed values to an untrustworthy and purely self-interested Israeli "ally".

Trump, who has portrayed himself as an anti-war president, proclaimed in 2019 that great nations do not start forever wars. He is uninterested in exporting liberalism or democracy abroad.

Read more: How Netanyahu's demented hubris could shatter the region