Live: At least 75 killed in Israeli strikes on second day of Eid al-Adha
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The US-supported Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) says it paused all aid distribution on Saturday, citing what it described as “direct threats” from Hamas that endangered staff and civilians.
“These threats made it impossible to proceed today without putting innocent lives at risk,” the organisation said in a statement posted online. “GHF will not be deterred. We remain committed to safe, secure and independent aid delivery. We are actively adapting our operations to overcome these threats and fully intend to resume distributions without delay.”
A senior Hamas official, speaking to Reuters, denied any knowledge of the alleged threats aimed at the US-funded initiative.
The GHF project has faced backlash from UN agencies and established humanitarian organisations, who argue they already have the capacity to deliver aid effectively to the 2.3 million Palestinians trapped in Gaza under siege.
Eid al-Adha, a time meant for unity and celebration, has become a day of despair for children in Gaza, according to the UN children’s agency.
James Elder, spokesperson for Unicef, said the festive spirit has been overshadowed by tragedy.
“For Gaza’s children, Eid is dominated by hunger, by grief, and by the silence of missing voices,” he said in a video message posted online.
Elder condemned the dire humanitarian conditions in the besieged enclave, warning that barely any aid is making it through.
“Let us demand that aid flow freely,” he urged, noting that the current trickle falls far short of what Palestinians need to survive.
For the second year in a row, Eid arrives not with joy — but with bombs and the silence of missing voices.
— UNICEF MENA - يونيسف الشرق الأوسط وشمال إفريقيا (@UNICEFmena) June 7, 2025
This Eid, let us do more than remember.
Let us take responsibility, stand with the girls and boys of Gaza, demand that aid flow freely, ceasefires are restored, and that… pic.twitter.com/NaruE6icoq
Israeli forces have recovered the body of Nattapong Pinta, the last remaining Thai captive in Gaza.
Nattapong was working as an agricultural labourer in Kibbutz Nir Oz when he was taken captive by Hamas paramilitary forces during the attack on 7 October 2023.
Former CIA paramilitary officer Phil Reilly, who heads a private military company that is guarding Israel’s newly set up food distribution sites in Gaza, was a senior advisor at the US consultancy that is the latest partner to withdraw from the controversial aid project.
The Boston Consulting Group admitted last week that it was involved in developing the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF).
It has since halted its involvement and distanced itself as 110 Palestinians have been killed and 583 wounded trying to access aid during GHF's 10 days of operations, according to local officials.
But Reilly's role with BCG, which ended only six months ago, raises questions about whether the consultancy was also involved in developing the security side of the aid operation.
Read more: Ex-CIA officer running Gaza aid security advised Boston Consulting Group
Abu Obeida, spokesperson for the Qassam Brigades - the armed wing of Hamas - released a statement warning that Israeli forces are currently besieging a location where Israeli captive Matan Zangauker is being held.
He said that the Israeli military would be responsible for Zanguaker's death if he were to be killed during its attempts to free him.
The death toll from ongoing Israeli air strikes in Gaza has risen to 66, including 15 people killed in a strike on the Sabra neighbourhood of Gaza City, according to the Palestinian health ministry.
The Israeli military also issued forced displacement orders for tens of thousands of Palestinians in northern Gaza, including neighbourhoods in Gaza City and the Jabalia refugee camp, Wafa news agency reported.
Israeli forces arrested eight young Palestinian men in Hebron and three in Jenin, according to reports from Al Araby Al Jadeed and Wafa news agency.
The arrests are part of an ongoing Israeli campaign in the occupied West Bank, including consecutive raids for the last 138 days in Jenin, according to Wafa.
Israeli forces have also refused to fully open Hebron’s Ibrahimi Mosque for Eid Al-Adha, Wafa reported yesterday.
Activists have hit out at a number of University of Cambridge colleges after they obtained court injunctions "criminalising" pro-Palestine encampments on campus.
Interim injunctions were obtained by Trinity College and St John's College earlier this week after campaigners re-established encampments in protest at what they said was a failure by the university to divest from Israeli companies.
A lawyer for the colleges has asked for the injunctions to be made final and to last 12 months, arguing that the protests have been disruptive to students taking exams and that the colleges are "concerned about the environment of fear and intimidation created by masked protesters".
Cambridge for Palestine (C4P) said the move amounts to "criminalising" protests on campus. The group posted footage on their Instagram page appearing to show police earlier this week threatening protesters with imprisonment.
Read more: Cambridge students hit out at injunctions 'criminalising' Palestine encampment
Activist Yasmine Acar said in a video posted on Instagram that the “Gaza Freedom Flotilla” is over 460km from the Gaza Strip, “sailing with nothing but aid”.
Activists have been at sea for seven days.
Gaza’s Health Ministry has announced that its hospitals only have enough fuel to last three days, according to Al Jazeera.
“The obstruction of fuel supplies to hospitals threatens to stop them from operating, as they rely on generators to power vital departments,” the Health Ministry said in a statement reported by Al Jazeera.
This comes a day after the World Health Organisation (WHO) announced that Palestinians in Gaza will lose all access to healthcare if the last two functional hospitals are not saved.
Israeli forces have killed 15 Palestinians in an air strike on the Sabra neighbourhood of Gaza City, according to Al Jazeera.
Wafa news agency, citing local sources, reported that six of those killed were children and more than 50 others were wounded.
Israeli forces continued a campaign of home demolitions in Tulkarm city and the nearby Nur Shams camp on the second day of Eid al-Adha, Wafa news agency reported.
Wafa said the demolitions are part of an Israeli military plan to destroy 106 buildings in the occupied West Bank.
A grandmother has filed a complaint for murder and genocide against Israeli authorities, accusing them of responsibility for killing her two Palestinian-French grandchildren in Gaza.
Israeli forces killed six-year-old Abderrahim Abudaher and nine-year-old Janna Abudaher in northern Gaza on 24 October 2023.
Their maternal grandmother, Jacqueline Rivault - a French national living in France - filed the complaint on Friday in Paris alongside the Ligue des Droits de l’Homme (LDH).
The filing, submitted to the crimes against humanity unit of the Paris judicial court, accuses Israeli authorities of war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide.
Read more: French woman files complaint against Israel over killing of grandchildren in Gaza
Israeli settlers stormed and cut down 100 olive seedlings near Palestinian villages northeast of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, Wafa news agency has reported.
Settlers carried out 356 acts of vandalism across the West Bank over the past month, including the uprooting of 1,068 trees - 695 of them olive trees.
Israeli air strikes have killed at least 34 Palestinians in Gaza this morning, Al Jazeera reports.
It marks the second consecutive day of attacks during the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha.
On Sunday, at least 42 Palestinians were killed in Israeli strikes, medical sources told Al Jazeera,
