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Israeli raid targets school in Gaza City’s Daraj neighbourhood
An Israeli raid has targeted a school sheltering displaced people in the Daraj neighbourhood in eastern Gaza City, leaving behind a number of killed and injured, Al Jazeera reported.
Earlier it has been reported that Israeli forces were targeting different residential homes in Gaza City in Shaaf and Daraj neighbourhoods.
Hezbollah says it fired over 200 rockets towards Israel
Lebanon’s Hezbollah says it launched more than 200 rockets targeting Israeli military positions, a group’s source has told Al Jazeera Arabic.
The volley of rockets came in response to the killing of senior Hezbollah commander Muhammad Nimah Nasser on Wednesday.
Nasser, also known as “Hajj Abu Nimah”, was the third high-ranking official in the group to be killed in almost nine months of crossborder fighting.
The latest attacks come amid an uptick in fighting and charged rhetoric between Hezbollah and Israeli officials that has sent the US, European, and Arab mediators scrambling to prevent a wider regional escalation.
Biden, Netanyahu to talk amid ceasefire negotiations: Report
Netanyahu and Biden are expected to hold a phone conversation later today amid reports of progress in ceasefire negotiations, according to Israel’s Kan public broadcaster media.
Reuters earlier reported that Netanyahu was scheduled to convene his cabinet to discuss a ceasefire plan proposed by Hamas.
Life and death in Gaza’s ‘safe zone’ bombed by Israel
An Israeli air raid on a residential building next to the main medical centre in Gaza’s southern city of Khan Younis killed at least seven people on Wednesday, hospital authorities and witnesses say.
Israel demolishes Palestinian home in the occupied West Bank
The Israeli army is demolishing the house of Mohammad Zawahra, a Palestinian man killed with his brother Kazem in a shooting attack in February, Wafa news agency reports.
According to the report, Israeli forces and a bulldozer have stormed the village of Beit Tamar, east of Bethlehem, to demolish the house.
The Israeli army said the two men were killed after they opened fire on its soldiers near Al-Zaeem military checkpoint in the east of occupied Jerusalem.
Demolishing the homes of Palestinians “suspected of carrying out attacks” on Israelis – or of their family members – is a long-held practice of Israel. Thousands of Palestinians have lost their homes to demolitions in what rights groups say is Israel’s policy of “collective punishment” that may amount to war crimes.
According to the UN, 1,081 Palestinian homes have been demolished in the occupied West Bank since the start of the war – 762 of those on the pretext of lack of permit and 34 as a punitive measure.
Netanyahu, allies collaborating to sabotage captives exchange deal: Report
There is disagreement between Israel’s security establishment and the political leadership regarding concluding a new prisoner exchange deal with Hamas, Israeli daily Yediot Ahronoth reports.
The newspaper said senior security sources accuse Netanyahu and his allies of collaborating to sabotage any chance for a new deal and a truce in Gaza.
Anti-Netanyahu demonstrators block Tel Aviv highway
Protesters have blocked the main Ayalon Highway in central Tel Aviv, Israel’s Channel 12 has reported.
They are demanding that a deal is agreed with Hamas to get Israeli captives home, and the holding of early parliamentary elections.
“Israel needs a responsible and sane government that will guarantee a better future for the State of Israel. We must stop the abandonment,” The Times of Israel quoted one protester as saying.
Australian Senator quits Labor after voting for Palestinian state
Senator Fatima Payman has resigned from the Australian Labor Party days after she split from other Labor representatives to vote in support of recognising a Palestinian state.
“My family did not flee from a war-torn country to come here as refugees for me to remain silent when I see atrocities inflicted on innocent people,” she told reporters on Thursday.
In an opinion article for Al Jazeera before the vote, Payman described the recognition of a Palestinian state as “a moral and ethical imperative”.
While Payman broke party ranks to support recognising a Palestinian state, her stance appeared to align with a National Platform adopted by Labor’s rank and file members, which described recognising Palestine as a priority.
She will continue to serve in the Australian Senate as an independent.
‘Fear and panic’ as Israel targets displaced people after evacuation ordered in southern Gaza
In the far south of the territory, a five-storey building has been completely levelled to the ground after being targeted by two Israeli strikes that turned the entire place into rubble.
The attack spread fear and panic among families, who have been internally displaced multiple times, after receiving multiple evacuation orders from the Israeli army.
According to Gaza’s Health Ministry, more than 30 Palestinians have been so far killed today due to the ongoing Israeli attacks on the Strip.
Up to now, there is no end in sight to these ongoing attacks on the territory.
Israeli evacuation order ‘wiped out’ efforts to distribute aid, says UN
The head of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in the occupied Palestinian territory, Andrea De Domenico, has told Al Jazeera that Israel’s evacuation order for 250,000 people in Gaza’s Khan Younis has “wiped out” UN efforts to deliver more aid.
Israeli settlers attack fire engine after burning Palestinian fields, trees in West Bank
Armed Israeli settlers destroyed a fire engine after starting blazes that engulfed vast areas of Palestinian agricultural land and fruit trees, south of Hebron in the occupied West Bank, the Wafa news agency is reporting.
The settlers attacked emergency workers and prevented them from reaching the fires to put them out, even as they burned dangerously close to Palestinian homes in the village of Khallet al-Adra in the Masafer Yatta area, near Hebron, Wafa’s correspondent reported.
An Israeli attack on Tyre in southern Lebanon has killed a Hezbollah commander. In response, the Lebanese group said it fired “100 Katyusha rockets” at two Israeli positions in the occupied Golan Heights.
UN says Israel evacuation order 'wiped out' bid to improve Gaza aid
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - An Israeli military evacuation order covering a third of the Gaza Strip has "wiped out" the United Nations' attempts to improve humanitarian aid deliveries via the Kerem Shalom crossing, a senior UN aid official said on Wednesday (Jul 3).
Israel has been critical of UN-led aid operations in the enclave of 2.3 million people, where the UN says distribution is not only hampered by the nearly nine-month-long war between Israel and Palestinian militants Hamas, but also lawlessness.
