Live: At least 75 killed in Israeli strikes on second day of Eid al-Adha

The International Organisation for Migration said on Tuesday that nearly 180,000 Palestinians in Gaza have been forcibly displaced by the recent Israeli offensive on the Strip.

A statement issued on behalf of the Global Camp Coordination and Camp Management Cluster denounced direct attacks on shelters, saying it had become "common".

The Israeli army has carried out arrests in the cities of Nablus and Hebron, as it continues storming several areas across the occupied West Bank.

According to the Palestinian Prisoners’ Media Office, two Palestinians were arrested as Israeli forces raided the Askar al-Jadeed refugee camp, located east of Nablus, and two others were arrested in Beit Ummar, north of Hebron.

Since 7 October, Israeli authorities have confirmed the death of 70 Palestinian prisoners in jail.

The Israeli military said on Tuesday that a projectile it claims it had intercepted earlier has caused shrapnel to fall around the village of Imreish, located south of Hebron in the southern West Bank.

The Israeli media outlet Haaretz says this marks the sixth missile launched from Yemen this week.

The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (Unrwa) said that only six out of 22 of its health facilities remain functioning in Gaza due to “constant bombardment”.

In a post on X, the UN body said the other 37 medical centres it ran lacked essential medical supplies, which are “critically low”.

“Unhindered access to deliver lifesaving aid including medicine and basic medical supplies is urgently needed,” it said.

Since 2 March, Israel has imposed a total blockade on food and aid entering Gaza.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz criticised Israel’s activity in Gaza on Tuesday saying his country is “more than concerned”.

He added that "what has happened in the last few days does not appear necessary to fight Hamas terrorism and protect Israel's existence".

The German leader’s remarks come a day after he had also spoken about the suffering of the civilians in Gaza, saying on Monday that the harm Palestinians are subjected to in the Strip could no longer be justified as a fight against Hamas.

"When boundaries are crossed, where humanitarian international law is really being violated, then Germany too, then the German chancellor too must say something about it," Merz told broadcaster WDR in a televised interview.

The Israeli media outlet Haaretz is reporting that some 20 Israeli right-wing activists from Tzav 9 group are blocking the route of humanitarian aid trucks heading to Gaza, in the Ashdod port in southern Israel.

Since the war has broken out on 7 October, Tzav 9 activists have frequently blocked aid trucks, and physically assaulted drivers, vowing to block aid until all captives are released.

The activists chanted: “You won't receive a slice of bread until you return the hostages.”

Tzav 9 is sanctioned by the European Union and the former US President Joe Biden’s administration.

Only a few weeks ago, Israel announced that it would allow basic and limited aid to enter Gaza after international pressure from its allies to ease its blockade on the Strip.

Few hours after Israeli military had said it intercepted a missile launched from Yemen, the army is now claiming that another projectile from the same country has been stopped.

Sirens were heard in several areas of Israel, and there were no reports of damage or casualties.

The UN’s agency for Palestinian refugees, Unrwa, said that Gazans are being “treated like pinballs” who have been continuously forced to “flee in search of safety that doesn’t exist”.

In a post on X, the UN body said it was “at a loss of words to do any justice to the suffering” of Gaza’s more than 2 million people.

“With nearly 20 months of war, people are exhausted, disoriented, grieving, and constantly in fear,” the agency said.

“This hardship and uncertainty must end,” it said.

Meanwhile, Unrwa communications director Juliette Touma spoke to the BBC about the hardship faced by the people in Gaza saying that their suffering is "extremely  difficult to put into words”.

She said that 500 to 600 trucks of humanitarian aid are needed to enter Gaza daily, and this could only be achieved under the leadership of Unrwa. 

UN’s rapporteur on human rights in the occupied Palestinian territory Francesca Albanese said she cannot look at fire after seeing “so many people – so many children” burned alive in the Israeli bombing of Fahmi al-Jarjawi school-turned-shelter in Gaza City on Monday.

“I can’t look at fire any more without feeling sick to my stomach,” the UN official said in a post on X.

“May the Palestinians forgive us,” she added.

Good morning, Middle East Eye readers,

Here are the latest updates on Israel’s war on Gaza and the occupied West Bank:

- A child was killed and other injured in an Israeli air strike that targeted al-Karama area of Gaza City. Another separate attack on a house in the Zeitoun neighbourhood of Gaza City killed at least one Palestinian, and wounded others,

- A Palestinian man was killed by Israeli gunfire as Israeli forces stormed al-Arab neighbourhood in the occupied West Bank city of Jericho, while another two young Palestinians were arrested in Askar al-Jadid refugee camp. Meanwhile,  settlers set fire to land in the town of Haris in Salfit.

- The Israeli army said it intercepted "one missile launched from Yemen” as rocket sirens were heard in several areas of Israel, and that an air attack alert that was activated near Gaza after the missile interception was a false alarm.

- The UN’s Population Fund (Unfpa) said pregnant women, who need medical treatment, in the occupied West Bank are endangered by Israel army travel restrictions.

- The UN’s agency for Palestinian refugees (Unrwa) said that the population of Gaza is being “treated like pinballs” who have been continuously forced to “flee in search of safety that doesn’t exist”.

- A US source familiar with the Steve Witkoff negotiations told Al Jazeera that Hamas that has not agreed to a ceasefire proposal and that its claims are “inaccurate”.

Good evening Middle East Eye readers, 

At least 81 Palestinians were killed by Israeli strikes across Gaza. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Monday that Israel's war on Gaza is no longer justified, in his sharpest rebuke yet of Israel. 

Meanwhile, in Jerusalem settlers attacked Palestinians and shouted "death to Arabs" during a march to mark Israel's conquest of the city during the 1967 War. 

Here are other developments to know: 

• The European Council on Monday called on Israel to lift its blockade of the Gaza Strip
•  Cindy McCain, the widow of staunch pro-Israel US Senator John McCain, disputed Israeli allegations that Hamas is looting aid in Gaza
• Israel conducted a series of raids on al-Karama neighbourhood, northwest of Gaza City
• Israel's far-right finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, said Israel is preparing to settle the Gaza Strip

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed on Monday that Israel would maintain control of "undivided" Jerusalem, during a celebration of Israel's conquest of East Jerusalem in the 1967 war. 

“We will keep Jerusalem united, whole, and under Israeli sovereignty,” Netanyahu said.

"Jerusalem, our eternal capital, was reunited 58 years ago in the Six-Day War. It will never be divided again,” he added. 

East Jerusalem, including the old city, is considered occupied under international law. It has long been considered the envisioned capital of an independent Palestinian state as part of a two-state solution. 

Israel's far-right finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, said Israel is preparing to settle the Gaza Strip during remarks to celebrate Israel's occupation of the old city of Jerusalem. 

"We are conquering the Land of Israel, liberating Gaza, settling Gaza, and defeating the enemy," Smotrich said to crowds that had chanted "death to Arabs" as they marched through Jerusalem's Old City and attacked Palestinians. 

"With God's help, we will expand Israel's borders, bring about complete redemption, and rebuild the Temple here," he said, referring to al-Aqsa Mosque, which settlers raided earlier on Monday. 

The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) said on Monday that it started operations in Gaza, delivering aid at newly established "distribution sites".

The foundation has been slammed by aid groups and the United Nations. 

The head of a controversial aid organisation, Jake Wood, announced his resignation late on Sunday, hours before the group said it planned to begin operating. He said it was not possible to follow "humanitarian principles of humanity, neutrality, impartiality and independence" with the group. 

At least 81 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli strikes across the Gaza Strip since dawn on Monday, the Gaza health ministry reported. 

Israel has pounded the enclave as famine sets in among Palestinians.