Live: Six more Palestinians die of famine as Israel blocks Gaza aid

The death toll from Israel's genocide in Gaza rose to 51 people since dawn on Tuesday, according to Al Jazeera. 

The number of Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes has steadily climbed throughout the day as Israel presses ahead with its plans for a ground attack on Gaza City. 

Hamas on Monday agreed to a 60 day ceasefire in Gaza. Israel has yet to respond to the proposal.

The death toll from Israel's genocide in Gaza has risen to 46 Palestinians since dawn on Tuesday, according to Al Jazeera Arabic. 

Israel is ramping up its strikes as it prepares for an assault on Gaza City, despite Hamas agreeing to a 60 day ceasefire proposal earlier this week. 

According to Al Jazeera, Israeli artillery has been shelling the Islamic Complex in the al-Sabra neighbourhood south of Gaza City where at least one Palestinian was killed and several others wounded. 

Egypt said on Tuesday that it is now Israel's responsibility to agree to a 60-day ceasefire proposal after Hamas accepted the deal. 

“The ball is in Israel’s court and it must be pressured to agree to the proposal which would help mitigate the repercussions of the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza," Egypt’s Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty. 

Israel's relentless attacks on UN schools housing forcibly displaced Palestinians has turned them into a "place of death," according to the UN Agency for Palestinian Refugees (Unrwa).

“In Gaza, Unrwa schools have become shelters for hundreds of thousands of people," Unrwa said on Tuesday in a social media post.

"People sought protection under the UN flag only for these shelters to become a place for death including for too many children. No place is safe for children in Gaza," the statement added. 

The death toll from Israel's genocide against Palestinians on Gaza rose to 44 people on Tuesday, according to Al Jazeera Arabic.

At least seven of the Palestinians were killed while seeking aid, according to Al Jazeera Arabic.

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said that French President Emmanuel Macron is fuelling "antisemitic fire", news agency AFP has reported. In a letter, Netanyahu blamed the French leader's move to recognise a Palestinian state. 

"Your call for a Palestinian state pours fuel on this antisemitic fire. It is not diplomacy, it is appeasement. It rewards Hamas terror, hardens Hamas's refusal to free the hostages, emboldens those who menace French Jews, and encourages the Jew-hatred now stalking your streets," Netanyahu wrote in the letter. 

On 24 July, Macron confirmed in a letter addressed to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas that France will recognise the state of Palestine at the United Nations General Assembly in September.

The United States called it a "reckless decision" that "sets back peace".

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced on 29 July that the United Kingdom would recognise a Palestinian state by September unless Israel agrees to a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip by then. 

On 30 July, Canada announced its intention to proceed with recognising the state of Palestine at the next UN General Assembly, followed by Portugal on 31 July. 

While 148 countries currently recognise the Palestinian state, a majority of western countries do not. France, which is a permanent member of the UN Security Council, was the first G7 state to take the step. 

British MPs have warned that the government must not allow British nationals to fight in the Israeli military after it emerged that Israel is mulling the recruitment of Jewish youths from abroad to fight in its army due to severe manpower shortages.

Middle East Eye asked the Home Office and the Foreign Office what the government's stance on UK nationals enlisting in the Israeli military is.

The Home Office declined to comment and referred MEE to the Foreign Office. The Foreign Office declined to comment and referred MEE to the Home Office.

Scottish National Party MP Chris Law told MEE: "The UK government must warn against enlistment and ensure that anyone who ignores these warning and does enlist is subsequently held accountable to international law."

Army Radio reported this week that the Israeli government was looking at a possible campaign to reach out to the diaspora to fill vacancies within the ranks of the military.

The broadcaster said the military was currently struggling with a shortfall of 10,000 to 12,000 troops, driven largely by the refusal of ultra-Orthodox Jews to serve.

Attempts to recruit the conservative minority, who have traditionally enjoyed exemption in return for pursuing religious study, have so far failed to yield results.

Read more: UK declines to share stance on Britons fighting for Israeli army

Israel has killed at least 60 Palestinians in Gaza and wounded 343 others in the past 24 hours, the Ministry of Health in Gaza has said. 

Many victims of Israel’s latest attacks remain under rubble, and ambulance and Civil Defence teams have been barred from reaching them, the ministry said. 

The toll includes 31 aid seekers, 197 of whom were wounded in Israeli attacks.

Overall death toll from Israeli attacks since the start of the war has crossed 62,064, while 156,573 others have been wounded, the enclave's ministry said. 

The ministry added that since the start of the Israeli assault, 1,996 Palestinian aid seekers have been killed and more than 14,898 others have been wounded. 

The ministry also reported three deaths in 24 hours due to the Israeli-imposed starvation, bringing the total to 266, including 112 children.

A Palestinian woman from Gaza who was confirmed dead in early January 2024 has been revealed to be alive in Israeli detention. 

Bisan Fadl Muhammad Fayyad was first believed to have died while in detention after her family received a body said to be hers from Israeli authorities, alongside her clothes and official ID. 

Months after her burial, on 21 March 2025, her family received a call announcing that she was alive in Israeli custody, the Palestinian Center for the Missing and Forcibly Disappeared (PCMFD) reported on Monday.

Her family has since attempted to find out more about her detention condition.

On Sunday, Israeli authorities confirmed that Fayyad was still alive. However, she is suffering from serious health issue after a spinal injury that has rendered her partially paralysed. 

The PCMFD stressed in its statement that this incident "embodies one aspect of the greater tragedy experienced by thousands of missing and forcibly disappeared Palestinians in Israeli prisons.

"Their families are denied the most basic right to know the fate of their sons and daughters, and live between despair and hope, loss and waiting."

The human rights centre has urged international pressure on Israel to "reveal the fate of detainee Fayyad, ensure her release and provide her with appropriate treatment," as well as disclosing information about all forcibly disappeared detainees - whether alive or killed during detention.

Read more: Palestinian woman declared dead found alive in Israeli detention months later

Egypt has deployed additional forces along the border with Gaza amid rising fears that Israel’s planned occupation of the strip could push Palestinians into North Sinai, a senior military source told Middle East Eye. 

He said that about 40,000 soldiers are now deployed in North Sinai, almost double the number allowed under the 1979 Egypt–Israel peace treaty.

“Egypt’s army is on the highest state of alert we’ve seen in years,” the source said. 

This followed “direct orders from President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi in his capacity as commander-in-chief, following a meeting with the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces and the National Security Council,” he added. 

He said that Israel wants to dismantle Hamas in Gaza and force large numbers of Palestinians out, a position Egypt rejects. 

Egyptian forces are now stationed across various parts of North Sinai, including in “Zone C,” the area adjacent to the Gaza Strip, he added. 

Egypt notified Israel of the reinforcements, which have been met with complaints about the size of the force and its presence in restricted zones. 

“Egypt insists the mobilisation is defensive, but has made it equally clear that any strike on its territory would be met with a firm response,” the source said.

Armoured vehicles, air defence systems, special forces and M60 battle tanks have been deployed to the nearby Rafah and Sheikh Zuweid cities and around al-Joura village near the border with Gaza. 

“Egyptian liaison officers informed their Israeli counterparts that the recent measures were purely defensive and aimed at securing the border amid rising tensions,” the source added.

Read more: Egypt mobilises 40,000 troops in Sinai amid Gaza displacement fears, source says

Recognising the state of Palestine is a question of timing, Danish Foreign Minister Lars Rasmussen has said, according to Reuters. 

The news agency quoted Rasmussen as saying: "We all want to recognise Palestine, so it is a question of timing."

Finland's Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen has made similar comments, stating that her country is waiting for the right moment to recognise the state of Palestine. 

Finnish President Alexander Stubb announced earlier this month that the country was willing to recognise Palestine. 

Countries including the UK, France, Canada and Malta have said they will recognise Palestine in the upcoming session of the United Nations General Assembly. 

Nearly 400 aid workers were killed last year, close to half of them in Gaza and the occupied Palestinian territories, the UN has said. This marked the most deadly year since records began in 1997. 

Reuters news agency reported that for the year 2025, the conflict in Gaza is continuing to cause high death rates for humanitarian staff. 

In 2025, so far, 265 aid workers have been killed. Of those, 173 were in Gaza since Israel started its offensive. 

According to provisional data from the Aid Worker Security Database, a US-funded platform that compiles reports on major security incidents affecting aid workers, this year, 36 aid workers have so far been killed in Sudan and three in Ukraine. 

"Attacks on this scale, with zero accountability, are a shameful indictment of international inaction and apathy," said Tom Fletcher, UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs.

In the year 2024, 383 aid workers were killed. 

Israel has killed 40 Palestinians in Gaza since morning, Al Jazeera Arabic has reported, quoting medical sources. 

The number of those killed includes at least 6 aid seekers. 

Israel has enforced a near-total blockade of aid on Gaza, leading to widespread starvation and famine. Gaza's health ministry put the total number of hunger-related deaths at 266, including 122 children. 

An airdropped aid package has killed an elderly Palestinian man in the so-called humanitarian zone in southern Gaza.

Saber al-Zamili, 75, was inside a tent when the package fell directly on him on Sunday, according to his family.

He was preparing to head to the mosque for his daily prayers, his son Wael al-Zamili told Middle East Eye.  

His daughter Sarah al-Zamili said his body was retrieved from beneath the package with severe injuries.

"His entire body was broken," she said through tears, adding that they rushed him to the Kuwaiti Hospital in Rafah.

He was later transferred to Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, where he was pronounced dead.

"This is not a safe method of distributing aid - not the airdrops, not the American aid deliveries, nor the trucks," she told MEE, referring to the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), which employs a militarised distribution mechanism.

"This is cruelty against the Palestinian people. What they are doing to us is unjust… This is not a way to feed the Palestinian people; it’s a method of humiliation and oppression."

Read more: Airdropped aid package kills Palestinian man in Gaza 

The Government Media Office in Gaza has said that the number of journalists killed by Israel since the beginning of its assault has now risen to 239, Al Jazeera Arabic has reported. 

At least three Palestinians were killed on Monday by an Israeli strike on Gaza City, in which journalist Islam al-Koumi and his son were among the victims. 

Earlier this month, Israel assassinated prominent Gaza journalist Anas al-Sharif, along with six other Palestinian journalists in a targeted strike. Four of the journalists, including al-Sharif, worked for Al Jazeera in Gaza.

The other three Al Jazeera journalists killed were correspondent Mohammed Qreiqeh, cameraman Ibrahim Zaher, and cameraman Mohammed Noufal.

Israel's army has a special intelligence unit dedicated to smearing and targeting Palestinian journalists in Gaza, according to an investigation by Israeli-Palestinian magazine +972.

Referred to as the “Legitimisation Cell”, the unit was formed in October of 2023 at the onset of the genocide that Israel is waging in the Gaza Strip.