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The death toll from Israeli strikes on Gaza this morning continues to rise dramatically.

Gaza hospital sources told Al Jazeera Arabic that Israeli forces have killed 71 Palestinians since dawn Tuesday, including 50 who were waiting to receive aid.

Separately, 25 Palestinians died after Israeli fire struck near aid centres north of Rafah, according to ambulance and emergency officials.

Earlier today we reported that the United Nations strongly condemned the “weaponisation of food” in Gaza, warning that such actions by Israel’s military amount to a war crime.

Gaza hospital sources told Al Jazeera Arabic that Israeli forces have killed at least 51 Palestinians since dawn on Tuesday, including 32 people waiting to receive aid.

The United Nations has strongly condemned the “weaponisation of food” in Gaza, warning that such actions by Israel’s military amount to a war crime.

“The weaponisation of food for civilians, in addition to restricting or preventing their access to life-sustaining services, constitutes a war crime,” the UN human rights office said in written remarks ahead of Tuesday’s briefing.

It also criticised Israel’s current aid delivery model, saying: “Israel’s militarised humanitarian assistance mechanism is in contradiction with international standards on aid distribution.”

The UN urged Israeli forces to “stop shooting at people trying to get food”.

Rawhi Fattouh, speaker of the Palestinian National Council, has condemned the killing of over 27 Palestinians in an Israeli strike on Salah al-Din Street in central Gaza, calling it a “new war crime” added to the occupation’s “bloody record”.

Fattouh said Israeli forces targeted civilians as they waited for food aid, wounding dozens and turning a site meant for relief into what he called an “open field of death,” the Palestinian news agency Wafa reported.

“Never in the history of war have pain and hunger been turned into tools for mass murder, aid used as bait for death, and food distribution centres turned into arenas for mass executions,” he said in a press statement.

He accused Israel of deliberately transforming aid convoys into “death traps,” saying the attack was carried out with “American cover and international silence.”

“This complex crime reveals complete complicity between the occupation army and its American backer in the killing of innocent civilians,” he said, calling the attack a violation of international humanitarian law.

Fattouh urged the UN and International Criminal Court to launch an immediate investigation and called on people worldwide to take to the streets to protest what he called “planned crimes” and a “genocidal war” against the Palestinian people.

Israeli forces opened fire near an aid distribution point north of Rafah, killing at least three people and wounding more than 30 others, according to Nasser Medical Complex, reported Al Jazeera Arabic.

A child in Gaza has died due to the territory’s collapsing health system, which was unable to provide him with life-saving care, the Palestinian news agency Wafa reported.

Hassan Barbakh, three years old, passed away on Tuesday after suffering from severe malnutrition, kidney leakage, an enlarged liver, and a dangerous rise in blood acidity.

His family had issued multiple urgent appeals to have him transferred abroad for treatment, but their requests went unanswered. Hassan's brother also died from similar medical complications and his father was also killed by Israeli strikes.

Hospitals in Gaza lack essential medicines and equipment, while Israel’s ongoing blockade continues to prevent urgent medical evacuations and the entry of critical supplies.

Lebanon’s Ministry of Health says an Israeli strike has killed three people near the village of Kfardajal in the southern Nabatieh region.

Earlier, local reports indicated that an Israeli drone had targeted a car in the area.

The Israeli military has not commented on the incident.

Israel’s opposition leader has called for an end to the war in Gaza, following the government’s decision to accept a ceasefire with Iran.

“And now Gaza. It’s time to finish it there too. Bring back the hostages, end the war,” Yair Lapid wrote on X.

At least 37 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip since dawn, according to medical sources in Gaza speaking to Al Jazeera Arabic.

Hospital officials said 29 of those killed lost their lives while waiting in line to receive food aid. There has been no response yet from the Israeli military regarding the incident.

Good morning Middle East Eye readers,

Here are the latest updates on Israel's war on Gaza:

• Deadly attack on aid seekers: At least 24 Palestinians died in an Israeli strike while trying to access food aid in central Gaza on Tuesday morning, reports Al Jazeera's fact-checking unit Sanad. Severe hunger continues across the besieged territory.

• Mounting casualties near aid centres: Over 400 Palestinians have been killed and approximately 1,000 wounded near food distribution points since aid operations began on 27 May under the US and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.

• Hamas claims soldier deaths: Hamas's armed wing, the Qassam Brigades, says its fighters killed three Israeli soldiers using light weapons near Jabalia in northern Gaza.

• Teenager dies from gunshot wounds: The Palestinian health ministry confirmed that 13-year-old Ammar Moataz Hamayel died after Israeli forces shot him near Kafr Malik, northeast of Ramallah.

• Overnight violence escalates: Israeli air strikes and gunfire across Gaza since Monday dawn have left 47 Palestinians dead, including children, women and humanitarian workers, with dozens more injured.

Serbia said on Monday that it will halt arms sales to Israel, according to Bgnes news agency

The move, announced by Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, came after he had met with members of the Serbian army.

According to Bgnes, the decision follows a protest against arms exports that was held in Belgrade and was organised by a group called “Support for the People of Palestine - Serbia” and supported by Pro-Palestine student protesters.

Israeli soldiers detained on Monday two Palestinians in the Old City of occupied Jerusalem, the Palestinian news agency Wafa reported citing local sources.

It said they were a woman and a minor, who were arrested in Bab al-Khalil area.

Separately, another 28 Palestinians were detained by Israeli forces as they conducted several raids in the occupied in the early hours of Monday, including the cities of Ramallah, Bethlehem and Hebron.

The European Commission will allocate $233m to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (Unrwa) and the Palestinian Authority, the Palestinian news agency Wafa said.

The funds come as part of a three-year package worth around $1.8bn that it had announced last April.

The commission said that $173m has been allocated to support the Palestinian Authority in ensuring the delivery of key public services, including the payment of salaries of teachers, civil servants and healthcare workers.

The PA has been accused by critics of corruption and bad governance.

Unrwa received a contribution of $60m to support education, primary healthcare and relief assistance to Palestinian refugees across the Gaza Strip, occupied West Bank and hosting countries such as Jordan, Lebanon and Syria.

EU commissioner for the Mediterranean, Dubravka Suica, said: “We reaffirm our unwavering political and financial commitment. This is part of a broader EU package of assistance, underscoring our continued backing of Unrwa's role as both humanitarian and development actor.”

He added: “The EU is deeply concerned about the catastrophic humanitarian situation in Gaza and the worsening conditions in the West Bank. We remain firmly committed to a just and lasting peace, grounded in a negotiated two-state solution.”

Germany does not support calls to suspend a pact governing Israel's relations with the European Union, a government official said on Monday, highlighting divisions within the bloc.

Spain's foreign minister said earlier on Monday he would ask the EU council to approve an immediate suspension of the EU-Israel Association agreement in protest over what he called human rights violations in Gaza.

The bloc's diplomatic service also said on Friday that Israel may have breached its human rights obligations in Gaza and the West Bank under the deal. Israel rejected that report as a "moral and methodological failure". 

"Our position is very clear - we do not support either a suspension or a partial suspension," the official said at a German government briefing.

- Reporting by Reuters

A Palestinian-Jordanian woman with German residency was separated from her one-year-old after German authorities deemed the child a security threat, she and her lawyers say.

The European Legal Support Centre, which is supporting her case, say the woman is the latest victim of the German state’s weaponisation of residency issues to repress Palestinian solidarity.

Since 2019, the Amsterdam-based legal advocacy group has documented at least 22 incidents in Germany in which residency status or restrictions to freedom of movement have been used to stifle such solidarity.

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