Live: 54 Palestinians killed, 831 wounded in 24 hours

Greta Thunberg will be joining a new multi-vessel flotilla on 31 August that plans to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza, she announced on Instagram on Sunday.

The Swedish activist will join a fleet comprising dozens of boats called the Global Sumud Flotilla.

This will be the third attempt by international activists to deliver aid to Gaza. Two previous attempts were derailed in international waters by Israel.

Thunberg was one of 12 activists on board the Madleen, which tried to break the blockade in June. 

Activists on the Handala tried to do the same in July. The activists were unlawfully detained and taken to Israel, including US labour organiser Chris Smalls, who spoke about being physically assaulted by Israeli soldiers and being held in an Israeli prison for five days.

More than 20,000 Indian workers have moved to Israel to replace Palestinian workers since the war on Gaza began, the Indian government has revealed.

Responding to a question posed by a lawmaker in parliament last week, Kirti Vardhan Singh, minister of state in the Ministry of External Affairs, said that between November 2023 and July 2025, at least 20,000 workers had made their way to Israel.

Singh noted that 6,730 construction workers and 44 caregivers had arrived under the bilateral framework agreement signed between the two countries in November 2023.

Additionally, 7,000 others in the caregiving sector and 6,400 construction workers arrived through what he described as "private channels".

The disclosure last Thursday is the most comprehensive and detailed account of the transfer of Indian workers to Israel and underscores how New Delhi continues to play a pivotal role in helping Israel sustain its economy, even as it faces growing calls for isolation in the international arena over its continued war in Gaza.

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The UN special rapporteur on freedom of expression lashed out at Israel and debunked their claim that Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif was a Hamas member, Al Jazeera reported on Monday. Sharif was killed by Israel along with five other press members in a drone attack on their tent late on Sunday local time. 

Irene Khan told Al Jazeera, “If they had real evidence [of this], do you not think that they would put it out, up front, right away in the international arena? Of course they would. But why are they not doing that? Because they don’t have that evidence,” she said.

“They simply [say] that any journalist who is reporting on Gaza must be a ‘Hamas member’, just as anyone who criticises Israel has to be ‘anti-Semitic’.

“That’s the way that Israel silences the world from criticising them or holding them to account.”

At least 46 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza - including six aid seekers - since dawn on Monday, Al Jazeera reported, citing medical sources.

The Israeli army has killed 262 crocodiles that were being kept in a farm in the occupied West Bank near the illegal settlement of Petzael.

According to the civil administration, the Israeli military unit responsible for controlling the West Bank, the Nile crocodiles posed a risk to the public due to negligence.

Nile crocodiles have been considered a protected species since 2013.

Farm owner Danny Bitan told Kan 11 that the military created "some kind of killing valley”.  “They just slaughtered them," he told the public broadcaster.

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They killed him where the wounded cling to life.

Outside al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, the Israeli army assassinated Al Jazeera correspondents Anas al-Sharif and Mohammed Qreiqeh, along with camera operators Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal and Moamen Aliwa, in a direct bombardment of their media tent. 

This was no accident of war. It was a precision attack - the deliberate erasure of journalists who would not stop telling the truth.

Sharif was a young Palestinian from Jabalia, in northern Gaza. He had been covering the war for 22 months. His only “crime” was refusing to turn away, as he insisted on exposing the realities of genocide: the boundless killing, the calculated destruction of every thread of life. He worked without pause.

Born in 1996, Sharif was three years old when the Second Intifada began; he was 10 when Israel first blockaded Gaza, 12 when the 2008 Gaza war erupted, and 18 during the 2014 assault. 

He was just 28 when Israel finally killed him on Sunday. His life was mapped by wars, each one deadlier than the last.

For 22 months, Sharif’s reporting entered millions of homes across the Arab world. More than a journalist, he became a trusted witness. His audience knew his grief as much as they knew his voice: the killing of his father by Israeli fire, and his separation from his mother, his daughter Sham, his baby son Salah - born during the genocide - and his wife Bayan. 

We followed him to the fiercest fronts in northern Gaza, where he worked through bombardment and starvation, never bending, never silenced.

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Al Jazeera Media Network condemned the "targeted assassination" on Sunday of five staff members in Gaza - journalists Anas al-Sharif and Mohammed Qraiqea, along with Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal, and Moamen Aliwa - calling it "another blatant and premeditated attack on press freedom". Freelance journalist Mohammed al-Khalidi was also killed in the drone strike. 

Al Jazeera said the journalists and staff were targeted by the Israeli military in the tent they were stationed at opposite al-Shifa medical complex in Gaza, and the order to assassinate Sharif - one of Gaza’s most well-known journalists - and his colleagues was "a desperate attempt to silence the voices exposing Israel's impending seizure and full occupation of Gaza".

In a statement, Al Jazeera said: "As Al Jazeera Media Network bids farewell to yet another group of its finest journalists, who boldly and courageously documented the plight of Gaza and its people since the onset of the war, it holds the Israeli occupation forces and government responsible for deliberately targeting and assassinating its journalists.

"This follows repeated incitement and calls by multiple Israeli officials and spokespersons to target the fearless journalist Anas Al Sharif and his colleagues."

Al Jazeera called their journalists "courageous".

"While international media was barred from entering, Al Jazeera journalists remained within besieged Gaza, experiencing the hunger and suffering they documented through their lenses. Through continuous, courageous live coverage, they have delivered searing eyewitness accounts of the horrors unleashed over 22 months of relentless bombing and destruction".

A US federal district on Friday dismissed a civil lawsuit that claimed a US charity supported terrorism by providing financial contributions to the United Nations relief and works agency for Palestine refugees in the Near East (Unrwa).

In response to the ruling dismissing the lawsuit, Mara Kronenfeld, executive director of Unrwa USA, said, “Unrwa USA is gratified to see that the court judge recognized the multiple defects in the plaintiffs’ argument and sees this meritless case for what it is.

"It is a politically motivated attempt to bog Unrwa USA down in frivolous lawfare and intimidate us out of doing our essential humanitarian work.

"That effort is all the more disturbing given that experts around the world, including Israeli human rights groups, are terming what is happening in Gaza a genocide.”

Throughout the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, Unrwa USA - which is a nonprofit independent of the UN agency - has been an important vehicle for people in the US to help Palestinian refugees in need.

Mandated by the UN to provide a range of essential services to Palestinian refugees throughout the Middle East, Unrwa played an indispensable role amid the Israeli war on Gaza since October 2023, when the war began, until Israel replaced it with the scandal-plagued Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), a militarised aid scheme conceived and backed by Israel and the US. 

Unrwa used to manage the logistics for the UN’s aid delivery system, operating 400 distribution sites across the Gaza Strip.

Since GHF’s implementation, the Israeli military or mercenaries have killed more than 1,000 Palestinians at or near GHF sites while they were trying to get food. 

The war on Gaza has killed more than 60,000 and displaced nearly the entire population of more than two million, half of whom are children.

During a footballing career spanning decades, Palestinian footballer Suleiman al-Obeid played 24 times for the Palestinian national team and earned the accolade the “Palestinian Pele” for a style that resembled the Brazilian legend.

For all his achievements on the pitch, his life ended on Friday, like hundreds of fellow Palestinians in Gaza, when he was killed by the Israeli army while collecting aid for his family from a US and Israel-backed aid distribution point in Rafah, southern Gaza.

Obeid had joined crowds of aid seekers after months of siege and Israeli-imposed starvation, and saw no other way of feeding his family.

According to witnesses, an Israeli quadcopter dropped a munition on him at the site, killing him instantly.

Read more: Israel killed the ‘Palestinian Pele’ and his dream of a new football era in Gaza

Norway's $2 trillion sovereign wealth fund has said that it is terminating all contracts with asset managers handling its Israeli investments.

It has also divested parts of its portfolio in the country over Israeli actions in Gaza and the occupied West Bank.

The decision follows an urgent review launched last week, following media reports that the fund had built a stake in an Israeli jet engine group that aided Israel's army, providing services including the maintenance of fighter jets.

"All investments in Israeli companies that have been managed by external managers will be moved in-house and managed internally," the fund said.

The fund is an arm of Norway's central bank. As of 30 June, it held stakes in 61 Israeli companies, but in recent days it has divested stakes in 11 of these, it said in a statement, without naming the groups.

"We have now completely sold out of these positions," the fund said, adding that it continued to review Israeli companies for potential divestments.

"The fund's investments in Israel will now be limited to companies that are in the equity benchmark index. However, we will not be invested in all Israeli companies in the index," it said.

The fund, which owns stakes in 8,700 companies worldwide, held shares in 65 Israeli companies at the end of 2024, valued at $1.95bn, its records show.

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On Sunday, Israel deliberately killed six Palestinian journalists who were in a media tent set up outside al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City. 

Their names were Anas Al Sharif, Mohammed Qreiqeh, Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal, Mosaab Al Sharif and Mohammed al-Khalidi. 

Israel has killed 238 Palestinian journalists in Gaza since the beginning of the war, according to the Gaza government media office.

Sharif was a renowned Al Jazeera correspondent who had gained prominence for his brave reporting during the conflict. 

Qreiqeh was a Middle East Eye contributor who had reported on Israeli atrocities and most recently was working for Al Jazeera. 

Zaher, Noufal, Mosaab Al Sharif and Khalidi were cameramen and photojournalists.

Click the link below to read Palestinian journalists pay tribute to their murdered colleagues.

Read more: Palestinian colleagues pay tribute to six journalists murdered by Israel

A 27-year-old man has been arrested by Israeli police on suspicion of spraying graffiti on the Western Wall in Jerusalem condemning Israel's war on Gaza. The suspect admitted to the act during a court appearance, though police were denied a request to extend his detention. He will instead be placed in a psychiatric facility by his parents for treatment.

The graffiti, which included the phrase "there is a holocaust in Gaza" written in Hebrew, also appeared on the wall of the city’s Great Synagogue.

Far-right Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir said that the police will "act with lightning speed" to bring the offender to justice, while far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich denounced the graffiti as a "sick antisemitic blood libel". 

"A holy place is not a place to express protests... The police must investigate this action, track down the criminals responsible for the desecration and bring them to justice," Rabbi Shmuel Rabinovitch said.

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced that Australia will formally recognise the State of Palestine at the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly in September.

Albanese said the recognition is based on commitments from the Palestinian Authority.

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A senior Labour MP has said the US ambassador to Israel is "clearly an idiot" after he criticised the UK's opposition to Israel's plan to occupy Gaza city.

Emily Thornberry, the chair of the parliamentary Foreign Affairs Committee, which scrutinises British foreign policy, made the comment in a post on X on Sunday.

It came after British Prime Minister Keir Starmer condemned the Israeli government's decision to "further escalate its offensive in Gaza".

According to Israeli media reports, the government's planned occupation of Gaza City will begin with the mass expulsion of around one million Palestinians from the city, followed by a siege and ground invasion.

Starmer said in an official statement: "This action will do nothing to bring an end to this conflict or to help secure the release of the hostages. It will only bring more bloodshed."

Read more: Senior British MP says US ambassador to Israel is 'clearly an idiot'

Keir Starmer, the UK prime minister, is "gravely concerned" about the repeated targeting of journalists in Gaza, his spokesperson has said, after six Palestinian reporters were killed in an Israeli air strike.

"We are gravely concerned by the repeated targeting of journalists in Gaza," Starmer's spokesperson told reporters on Monday.

"Reporters covering conflicts are afforded protection under international humanitarian law, and journalists must be able to report independently, without fear, and Israel must ensure journalists can carry out their work safely."

Al Jazeera said that five of its journalists were killed in an Israeli strike on a tent near al-Shifa hospital on Sunday night, including Anas al-Sharif and Mohammed Qraiqea.

A sixth reporter, Palestinian freelance photojournalist Mohammed Al-Khaldi, succumbed to his wounds from the strike.