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The Palestinian health ministry has reported that five more people, including a child, have died of malnutrition in the past day. 

This brings the number of hunger-related deaths in the Gaza Strip to 222. Of those, at least 101 are children. The majority of these deaths have occurred in the past three weeks. Since March, Israel has blocked virtually all aid from entering the Strip.

French President Emmanuel Macron has described Israel's plan to take control of Gaza City as a "disaster" and a path to "permanent war."

"This war must end now with a permanent ceasefire," Macron said on Monday, adding that Israel's plan to take control of Gaza City was "a disaster of unprecedented gravity and a headlong rush into permanent war."

Australia will recognise a Palestinian state in September, joining France, Britain and Canada, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has announced. 

Albanese told reporters on Monday that Australia’s decision to recognise Palestinian statehood would be formalised at the United Nations General Assembly in September. 

He said that it was “predicated on commitments” that Australia had received from the Palestinian Authority. 

Those include demilitarisation of the Gaza Strip, no role for Hamas in a future Palestinian government, and the holding of elections in the state of Palestine. 

“A two-state solution is humanity’s best hope to break the cycle of violence in the Middle East and to bring an end to the conflict, suffering and starvation in Gaza,” Albanese said.

Read more: Australia says it will recognise Palestinian state, joining France, UK and Canada

The prime minister of Qatar lambasted Israel on Monday for killing journalists working for its Al Jazeera network in the besieged Gaza Strip, describing the deaths as "crimes beyond imagination".

"The deliberate targeting of journalists by Israel in the Gaza Strip reveals how these crimes are beyond imagination... May God have mercy on journalists Anas Al-Sharif, Mohammed Qreiqeh, and their colleagues," Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani said in a post on X.

The deliberate targeting of journalists by Israel in the Gaza Strip reveals how these crimes are beyond imagination, amid the inability of the int'l community & its laws to stop this tragedy. May God have mercy on journalists Anas Al-Sharif, Mohammed Qraiqea, & their colleagues.

— محمد بن عبدالرحمن (@MBA_AlThani_) August 11, 2025

An Israeli human rights organisation has published new footage showing the final moments of Palestinian activist Awdah Hathaleen before he was shot dead by Israeli settler Yinon Levi, who has since been released from detainment. 

B’Tselem said the video obtained was recorded by Hathaleen himself, who was a consultant for the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land.

The clip taken on 28 July centres around Levi, who is seen brandishing a gun moments before shooting directly at Hathaleen, causing him to collapse while the video cuts off shortly after. 

An active excavator can be seen behind the settler in the occupied West Bank village of Umm al-Khair, in the Masafer Yatta area near Hebron - a clear indication of what appears to be another demolition of Palestinian property by Israelis to make way for further settlement expansion. 

Such demolitions and settlements are illegal under international law.

Read more: New footage shows final moments of 'No Other Land' activist

The UN human rights office on Monday condemned the killing of six Palestinian journalists in Gaza, saying the actions by Israel's military represented a "grave breach of international humanitarian law".

The post on social media platform X was accompanied by a photograph of flattened blue tents next to a bullet-ridden wall in Gaza City.

Israel has killed Al Jazeera journalists to stop coverage of atrocities it intends to carry out, the director of al-Shifa Hospital says.

“The [Israeli] occupation is preparing for a major massacre in Gaza, but this time without sound or image,” Dr Mohammed Abu Salmiya told Turkey's Anadolu news agency.

“It wants to kill and displace the largest number of Palestinians in Gaza City but this time in the absence of the voice of Anas, Mohamed, Al Jazeera and all satellite channels,” he said.

Shortly before his killing, Sharif had posted a video on X showing what he called Israel's "intensified" missile strikes on the eastern and southern parts of Gaza City.

Italy's defence minister said in an interview published on Monday that Israel's government had "lost its reason and humanity" over Gaza and signalled an openness to potential sanctions.

"What is happening is unacceptable. We are not facing a military operation with collateral damage, but the pure denial of the law and the founding values of our civilisation," Defence Minister Guido Crosetto told La Stampa daily.

"We are committed to humanitarian aid, but we must now find a way to force Netanyahu to think clearly, beyond condemnation."

Asked about possible international sanctions against Israel, Crosetto said that "the occupation of Gaza and some serious acts in the West Bank mark a qualitative leap, in the face of which decisions must be made that force Netanyahu to think".

An Israeli attack has killed an entire family this morning in Gaza City’s Zeitoun neighbourhood, according to the Wafa news agency, citing medical sources.

Six children were among the victims, along with their mother and father, the agency said.

Al Jazeera correspondent Anas Al Sharif left behind a powerful testament before his assassination by Israeli forces on Sunday night.

In his final message which he had foreshadowed, Al Sharif vowed to be the unwavering voice for his people, even in the face of death, entrusting the world with the truth of Gaza’s suffering and the hope for freedom.

The will was written in April this year and posted by his admin team on X following his killing.

Middle East Eye is reposting the statement in full and without edits, as published on his official X account:

"This is my will and my final message. If these words reach you, know that Israel has succeeded in killing me and silencing my voice.

First, peace be upon you and Allah’s mercy and blessings. Allah knows I gave every effort and all my strength to be a support and a voice for my people, ever since I opened my eyes to life in the alleys and streets of the Jabalia refugee camp. My hope was that Allah would extend my life so I could return with my family and loved ones to our original town of occupied Asqalan (Al-Majdal). But Allah’s will came first, and His decree is final.

I have lived through pain in all its details, tasted suffering and loss many times, yet I never once hesitated to convey the truth as it is, without distortion or falsification - so that Allah may bear witness against those who stayed silent, those who accepted our killing, those who choked our breath, and whose hearts were unmoved by the scattered remains of our children and women, doing nothing to stop the massacre that our people have faced for more than a year and a half.

I entrust you with Palestine - the jewel in the crown of the Muslim world, the heartbeat of every free person in this world.

I entrust you with its people, with its wronged and innocent children who never had the time to dream or live in safety and peace. Their pure bodies were crushed under thousands of tons of Israeli bombs and missiles, torn apart and scattered across the walls.

I urge you not to let chains silence you, nor borders restrain you. Be bridges toward the liberation of the land and its people, until the sun of dignity and freedom rises over our stolen homeland."

Read more: Al Jazeera journalist Anas Al Sharif’s final message before assassination by Israel

The number of Palestinian journalists killed by Israel has risen to 238 since the beginning of Israel's war on Gaza, the media office in Gaza said.

A sixth journalist, Mohammed al-Khalidi, was killed in the Israeli attack that assassinated five Al Jazeera journalists in the journalists’ tent outside Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, the media office said.

Israeli strikes killed at least 10 Palestinians in southern Khan Younis and northern Gaza City since dawn on Friday, the Wafa news agency reported, citing local medical sources.

At least seven people were killed and several others wounded in the western part of Khan Younis, the agency said, adding that another strike on a tent housing displaced people in Gaza City killed three others.

Israeli forces assassinated two of Gaza’s leading journalists and their entire crew on Sunday night, signalling the likely start of a major assault on Gaza City.

The director of Gaza’s Al Shifa Medical Complex confirmed that Al Jazeera correspondents Anas al-Sharif and Mohammed Qreiqeh died when Israeli forces struck their tent, in what he said appears to have been a deliberate attack on media workers.

Cameramen and photojournalists Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal and Mosaab Al Sharif were also killed.

Al Sharif, 28, was based outside the hospital’s main gate, reporting extensively from northern Gaza.

Shortly before his death, Al Sharif posted on X about Israel’s concentrated missile strikes on the eastern and southern parts of Gaza City. His final video captured the deafening booms of the attacks near to where he was.

Jodie Ginsberg, chief executive of the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), told Al Jazeera on Sunday that Al Sharif’s killing fits a longstanding Israeli pattern of targeting journalists. “This is not just about Anas Al Sharif; it is part of a decades-long practice in which Israel kills journalists,” she said.

The killing of the five media workers comes days after Israel’s security cabinet approved a plan to occupy the Gaza Strip. The operation aims to seize Gaza City and forcibly clear its nearly one million Palestinian residents.

Read more: Israel assassinates prominent Al Jazeera journalists in Gaza