Live: 54 Palestinians killed, 831 wounded in 24 hours

At least 23 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli air raids on multiple areas of the Gaza Strip since dawn, according to medical sources speaking to Al Jazeera Arabic.

Staff at Al-Shifa Hospital confirmed that three people, including a woman, were killed in an Israeli strike near the university college in southern Gaza City.

The Ministry of Health in Gaza says Israeli forces have detained at least 360 medical personnel since the start of the war.

In a statement issued on Monday, the ministry urged international bodies to intervene and hold Israel accountable for its actions against healthcare workers.

It called for immediate pressure to secure their release and “to criminalise the occupation's practices” targeting medics.

Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has condemned the government’s proposed “humanitarian city” in Rafah, calling it a concentration camp and warning it could amount to ethnic cleansing.

“It is a concentration camp. I am sorry,” Olmert told The Guardian.

“If they [Palestinians] will be deported into the new ‘humanitarian city’, then you can say that this is part of an ethnic cleansing. It hasn’t yet happened,” he added.

Olmert went on to say that building a camp designed to remove over half of Gaza’s population cannot be understood as a humanitarian measure.

“There is no other understanding that I have at least,” he said. “It is not to save [Palestinians]. It is to deport them, to push them and to throw them away.”

At least 19 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli air strikes across the Gaza Strip since early Monday, according to hospital sources speaking to Al Jazeera Arabic. 

Medical officials at Al-Shifa Hospital said three people, including a woman, were killed in an Israeli raid near the university college in the south of Gaza City.

At least 12 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli air raids across the Gaza Strip since dawn, according to medical sources speaking to Al Jazeera Arabic.

Hospital officials in Gaza City said nine of the victims were killed there, including five people in the Al-Saftawi area, north of the city, as confirmed by Al-Shifa Hospital.

Earlier, the Baptist Hospital reported that two people were killed in an Israeli strike on the Shuja’iyya neighbourhood in the east.

In central Gaza, Al-Awda Hospital said one person was killed and several others wounded when a water tanker was targeted in the Nuseirat refugee camp.

A international doctor working in the besieged Gaza Strip has told Channel 4 News that he is treating a disturbing number of injuries linked to Israeli-run so-called aid distribution points, which have been condemned as death traps.

Speaking from a Gaza hospital, the doctor said he and his colleagues have observed a troubling pattern: multiple patients, in particular teenage boys, are arriving with gunshot wounds to the same part of the body.

Most recently, teenage boys are arriving in the hospitals all shot in the testicles, he said.

The remarks add to growing reports that areas near these "aid" sites - ostensibly set up to provide relief - have become zones of deliberate targeting Palestinians.

Palestinian sources have told Al Jazeera that groups of Israeli settlers entered the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound on Monday under the protection of Israeli occupation police.

The storming of the site, which is sacred to Muslims comes amid heightened tensions in Israeli occupied East Jerusalem.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has reportedly criticised the military’s proposal to construct a so-called “humanitarian city” in Rafah, warning that the project could take up to a year to complete and would cost billions.

During a closed-door security cabinet meeting on Sunday, Netanyahu and several ministers dismissed the Israeli army's timeline as unrealistic, according to a source cited by Haaretz.

Israeli officials estimate that building a so-called “humanitarian city” in Rafah could cost between $2.7bn and $4bn, according to Israeli media outlet YnetNews. 

The proposed concentration camp which would hold up to 500,000 displaced Palestinians, has been widely denounced by rights groups as a form of forced displacement and ethnic cleansing. Critics say the plan amounts to corralling civilians into a zone they would be barred from leaving, with no return to northern Gaza allowed.

Israeli forces have detained four Palestinians during a series of raids across Hebron governorate in the southern occupied West Bank, according to local sources speaking to the Palestinian news agency Wafa.

Troops stormed the town of Halhul, north of Hebron, and arrested Muhammad Khaled Da’dara, Qusay Akram Abu Rayyan, and Mo’tasim Walid Mar’ab after raiding their homes. In a separate raid in the town of Sa’ir, northeast of Hebron, Israeli forces also arrested Yousef al-Tarwa.

Sources told Wafa that soldiers vandalised homes and physically assaulted several detainees during the arrests.

Military checkpoints were also set up at multiple entry points to Hebron and its surrounding areas, with several main and side roads blocked by concrete barriers, iron gates, and earth mounds.

Israeli officials estimate that building a so-called “humanitarian city” in Rafah could cost between $2.7bn and $4bn, according to Israeli media outlet YnetNews. The Israeli government is reportedly prepared to cover nearly all upfront costs if the project moves forward.

The proposed concentration camp which would hold up to 500,000 displaced Palestinians, has been widely denounced by rights groups as a form of forced displacement and ethnic cleansing. Critics say the plan amounts to corralling civilians into a zone they would be barred from leaving, with no return to northern Gaza allowed.

Internal opposition has also emerged within Israel’s security establishment. The Israeli army Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi has pushed back strongly against the idea in cabinet meetings, arguing it risks draining critical military resources. 

Despite the push, some officials remain doubtful. “There’s almost no chance this actually materialises. Very few believe the city will ever be built,” one source involved in the planning told 

Israeli authorities hope Gulf countries—including Saudi Arabia and the UAE—will eventually reimburse the costs.

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

At least 95 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli air raids across the Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours, hospital sources have told Al Jazeera Arabic.

Medical staff say the casualties were recorded since dawn on Sunday, as bombardment intensified in several areas of the besieged enclave.

A Palestinian has been killed and several others wounded after an Israeli drone strike targeted a tent housing displaced people west of Khan Younis, according to medical officials.

The Nasser Medical Complex confirmed the casualties and said the tent was located in the southern Gaza Strip. The area, crowded with families forced to flee earlier offensives, has seen repeated attacks in recent days.

Good morning Middle East Eye readers, 

Here are some of the latest updates from the Israeli war on Gaza: 

• Israeli air strikes hit a busy market and a water distribution point in Gaza, killing at least 95 Palestinians. The total death toll in Israel’s war on the enclave has now surpassed 58,000.

• In central Gaza’s Nuseirat refugee camp, an Israeli missile struck a water collection site, killing at least 10 people. Medical sources say seven of the dead were children waiting to collect drinking water. At least 17 others were wounded.

• Famine looms for 2.1 million Gazans under Israel’s siege. Unrwa reports another infant has died from malnutrition.

• Eight UN agencies, including UNICEF, WHO, and the World Food Programme, warn that Israel’s fuel blockade could collapse Gaza’s hospitals, water systems, and aid operations. In a joint statement, they said: "Without adequate fuel, we may have to stop our operations entirely."

• Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lashed out at media outlets of spreading "Hamas propaganda" in a video statement. He dismissed polls suggesting most Israelis back a hostage deal as "manufactured."

• Steve Witkoff, the Trump administration’s Middle East envoy, said he felt "hopeful" about securing a Gaza ceasefire.

Our live blog will shortly be closing until tomorrow morning.

Here are the day's key developments:

• Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has promised Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich that Israel will resume its war on Gaza following the proposed 60-day ceasefire.

• Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian was injured in the leg during an Israeli missile strike on Tehran on 16 June, the semi-official Fars News Agency reported.

• A military court in Ofer Prison ruled on Sunday to extend the detention of Palestinian journalist Nasser al-Lahham for three more days, according to Haaretz.

• Israel's attacks on Gaza killed at least 92 people on Sunday, according to Al Jazeera.

• The United Nations has warned that fuel shortages in Gaza under Israel's ongoing blockade are pushing the humanitarian response to the brink of collapse.

• A Gaza-bound boat carrying pro-Palestinian activists and humanitarian aid left Sicily on Sunday, over a month after Israel detained and deported people aboard a previous vessel.

• The health of Dr Hussam Abu Safiya, director of Gaza’s Kamal Adwan Hospital, has severely deteriorated in Israeli detention in Israel's infamous Ofer prison, his lawyer said in a statement on social media.