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Al-Awda Hospital said it received the bodies of 11 people killed in an Israeli strike on a house along Salah al-Din Street in central Gaza. It added that 35 others were wounded in the strike.

A solidarity caravan for Gaza that set off from Tunisia has retreated near Misrata in western Libya after being blocked by eastern Libyan authorities, who arrested 13 participants, organisers said Sunday.

The Soumoud Caravan, meaning "resistance" in Arabic, had planned to cross Libya en route to the Rafah border with Gaza. But its progress was halted near Sirte, a city under the control of forces loyal to Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar, whose rival government is based in Benghazi.

Organisers said the convoy, made up of over a thousand Tunisians, Algerians, Moroccans, and Mauritanians, was placed under a military blockade on Friday. Participants were denied access to food, water, and medicine, and communications were disrupted.

At least three bloggers documenting the journey, Tunisian Ala Ben Amara and Algerians Bilal Ourtani and Zidane Nezar, were among those arrested, according to Algerian researcher Raouf Farrah.

The Joint Action Coordination Committee for Palestine called for the immediate release of all 13 detainees and vowed to continue toward Rafah to "break the blockade and end the genocide of the resilient Palestinian people in Gaza".

Gaza's civil defence agency said 16 people were killed in Israeli military operations in the Palestinian territory on Sunday, most of them while waiting for aid.

The first responders agency's teams transported the bodies of 16 people killed by Israeli fire in various parts of the Palestinian territory, spokesman Mahmoud Bassal told AFP.

At least three people were killed and many injured when Israeli forces "targeted a gathering of hundreds of citizens near the aid distribution point" in central Gaza Sunday morning, Bassal said.

In the coastal territory's north, Bassal said civil defence teams transported seven people killed on their way to get aid distributed from trucks in the area northwest of Gaza City.

In south Gaza, two people were killed and 50 were injured "when (Israeli) forces opened fire on citizens near an aid distribution point," Bassal said.

Contacted by AFP, the army said it was "not aware of gunshots near Netzarim or Rafah", and that it was looking into the events in northern Gaza.

Meanwhile, the Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza said Sunday the bodies of  26 people have arrived at hospitals over the past 24 hours in aid-related casualties, in addition to more than 117 injured people.

The total number of aid-related deaths reported at hospitals from designated aid distribution areas has now reached 300, with over 2,649 injuries, the ministry added.

Tens of thousands of people dressed in red marched through the streets of The Hague Sunday to demand more action from the Dutch government against what they termed a "genocide" in Gaza.

Rights groups, such as Amnesty International and Oxfam, organised a demonstration through the city to the International Court of Justice, creating a so-called "red line".

Many waving Palestinian flags and some chanting "Stop the Genocide", the demonstrators turned a central park in the city into a sea of red on a sunny afternoon.

One of the organising groups, Oxfam Novib, estimated that 150,000 people had taken part in the march. Dutch police generally do not estimate demonstration turnouts.

Protesters brandished banners reading "Don't look away, do something", "Stop Dutch complicity", and "Be silent when kids sleep, not when they die".

Organisers urged the Dutch government -- which collapsed on June 3 after a far-right party pulled out of a fragile coalition -- to do more to rein in Israel for its military offensive on the Palestinian territory.

"People in Gaza cannot wait and the Netherlands has a duty to do everything it can to stop the genocide," they said in their call to action.

Reporting by AFP

The death toll in Gaza has risen to 55,362 since the start of the war, after the bodies of at least 65 Palestinians were brought to hospitals in the past 24 hours, according to the Palestinian health ministry. A further 128,741 people have been wounded.

The ministry said the figure includes eight bodies recovered from the rubble of previous Israeli attacks.

Additionally, at least 315 people were wounded in Israeli strikes during the same 24-hour reporting period.

A 23-year-old Palestinian man was wounded on Sunday after being violently assaulted by Israeli forces in the town of al-Khader, south of Bethlehem, according to the Palestinian news agency Wafa.

His father, Ibrahim Mousa, said Israeli soldiers stormed their home and dragged his son Omar outside and brutally beat him. 

The soldiers allegedly demanded he pay 50,000 shekels (about $13,880) and accused him of receiving a stipend as a former prisoner.

The assault left him with bruises across his body, Wafa reported.

James Elder, spokesperson for the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef), described the humanitarian situation in Gaza as “bleak, horrific and hopeless”.

He said Palestinian families are struggling to secure even a single meal a day for their children, as Israeli attacks far outweigh the aid deliveries entering the strip.

 “There was a momentary uptick in aid and slight improvements in water and food supplies… But that optimism has quickly dissolved in the face of a catastrophic blockade on humanitarian relief,” Elder told Anadolu Agency, during an official mission from the southern city of Khan Younis.

“Every known limit of human endurance has been shattered,” he said. “Mothers go without food for days just to provide a single meal for their children.” 

Speaking about the absence of Eid celebrations in Gaza, he said: “Instead of joy, families gather in silence to remember those they’ve lost, surrounded by an overwhelming sense of grief and abandonment,” he added. “There are no homes, no shelters - just loss. People spent their lives building homes and gardens, and now everything has disappeared.”

He also warned that malnourished children are dying from otherwise treatable illnesses.

“Severe malnutrition makes a child 10 times more likely to die from something minor. This is the deadly cycle: hunger, dirty water, and lack of basic healthcare,” he said.

Some 19 Palestinians have been detained by Israeli soldiers in different areas of Hebron, according to the Palestinian news agency Wafa.

The arrests come amid an intensified blockade on towns, villages and refugee camps in the region.

Several neighbourhoods in Hebron were raided, where at least six Palestinians, including two brothers, were detained.

In the southern town of Dura and the surrounding areas, Israeli forces carried out further detentions. Troops also stormed the town of Sair, north of Hebron, detaining several citizens and preventing access to the entrance gate near the bypass road.

Meantime, military closures were also reinforced at al-Fawwar and al-Arrub refugee camps.

The Palestinian news agency Wafa reported that at least three Palestinian were killed on Sunday, and several others were injured as Israeli forces opened fire at people seeking to receive aid in central Gaza.

Quoting eyewitnesses and medical sources, Wafa said those killed were amongst many gathering near the so-called Netzarim corridor in central Gaza, awaiting aid to be delivered.

In the southern city of Khan Younis, another two Palestinians were killed and others injured when Israeli forces fired on a separate group waiting for assistance.

This comes after an Israeli airstrike targeted the Hamad City, north of Khan Younis.

Israeli forces have arrested at least 15 Palestinians during a series of overnight raids in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian news agency Wafa reported.

It said that seven Palestinians were detained in the province of Nablus following early morning incursions into several neighbourhoods, as Israeli army vehicles raided a residential building in Rafidia neighbourhood.

Another four people were detained after Israeli forces raided and searched homes in the town of Qaffin, located at the north of Tulkarm.

In the Bethlehem district, four more people were detained from the village of al-Asakra, east of the city.

Wafa said Israeli troops stormed the area, searched multiple homes, and detained residents.

Israeli forces also raided several homes and reportedly assaulted a number of residents during searches in the town of al-Khader to the south.

The Israeli military said on Sunday that a soldier was killed in southern Gaza.

According to Israeli media outlet Haaretz, the soldier was s a commander in the Israeli military's Kfir combat brigade.

This is the latest army casualty Israel announces since it has launched its deadly attacks on the Strip on 7 October 2023.

The Israeli media said on Saturday that the Israeli military recently attacked Yemen, attempting to assassinate a senior Houthi figure.

The Houthis, who control parts of Yemen, have carried out more than 100 attacks on ships plying the Red Sea since November 2023, in solidarity with Palestinians over Israel's war on Gaza.

Thousands of demonstrators protested across France on Saturday in support of Palestinians and calling for peace in Gaza.

French trade unions, left-wing parties and pro-Palestinian activist groups called for a global weekend of protests against Israel's war on the territory.

They issued their rallying call before Israel on Friday launched a massive wave of strikes on Iran, raising fears of a prolonged conflict that experts say could engulf the region.

In Paris, where the largest march took place, police counted 9,000 demonstrators, while the CGT trade union and hard-left party France Unbowed (LFI) said 150,000 attended the gathering.

Internet is back up in the Gaza Strip, the head of the Palestinian Telecommunications Regulatory Authority told AFP on Saturday, after a three-day blackout.

"The network is up now in all of the Gaza Strip," said the telecom agency's CEO Laith Daraghmeh, after the Palestinian Authority's telecommunications ministry had reported internet and fixed-line communications were down as Israeli forces on Thursday bombed Gaza's last remaining fibre optic cable.

The German foreign ministry says the humanitarian situation in Gaza is catastrophic. 

The foreign ministry also issued its statement on X, saying further escalation in the Middle East is a real possibility.

It added that Iran’s nuclear programme poses a threat not just to Israel, but also to Saudi Arabia and the stability of the entire region.

The statement was issued after a visit by German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul to Saudi Arabia, where he met his counterpart.