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Two Palestinians were martyed and several others injured on Saturday in Israeli oocupation strikes targeting a house south of Gaza City and Shati refugee camp to its west, in addition to attacks on three schools. Local sources reported that two civilians were martyed and others wounded when an Israeli strike hit a house south of Gaza City. They added that an Israeli occupation drone targeted shelters hosting displaced persons in Shati Camp west of Gaza City, causing injuries that required transfer to Al-Shifa Hospital. The Israeli army also targeted a house near Al-Sinaa Street in southern Gaza City, resulting in further casualties. Meanwhile, three schools run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) in Shati Camp were shelled, displacing thousands of displaced persons who were sheltering there. Earlier, Gaza Ministry of Health reported that the ongoing Israeli aggression against Gaza Strip, which began on 7 October 2023, has claimed the lives of 64,803 people and injured 164,264.

Seven Palestinians, including two children, have been martyred in the past 24 hours due to famine and malnutrition afflicting Gaza residents amid the genocide war waged by the Israeli occupation on the Strip since October 7, 2023. The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza confirmed that the total number of victims of famine and malnutrition in the Strip has risen to 420 martyrs, including 145 children, noting that since the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) declared famine in the Gaza Strip on August 22, a total of 142 deaths have been recorded, including 30 children. Of note, the humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip continues to worsen amid the blockade and shortage of food and medical supplies, as severe famine overlaps with the ongoing war that is nearing the beginning of its third year.

Since last night until Thursday morning, the occupation forces have arrested at least 30 Palestinians from the West Bank, including Jerusalem. The Palestinian news agency (WAFA) reported that among those arrested were former prisoners and active organisational figures. The arrests were carried out across several governorates, including Jenin, Salfit, Tulkarm, Bethlehem, Ramallah, and Hebron. In addition, the occupation forces have been storming towns in northwest Jerusalem for four consecutive days, carrying out widespread abuse, field interrogations, and systematic collective punishment. They assaulted Palestinian residents and carried out extensive acts of vandalism and destruction in Palestinian homes, while it has not yet been possible to verify actual cases of arrests. Since the beginning of the ongoing genocidal war in the West Bank, including Jerusalem, the number of arrests has exceeded 19,000 cases. This figure does not include arrests in Gaza, which are estimated in the thousands. The tally covers both those who remain detained and those who were later released.

Three Palestinians, including a child and an infant, were martyred Thursday in Israeli occupation forces' gunfire and shelling of various areas in the Gaza Strip. Palestinian news agency (WAFA) reported that a child was martyred as a result of the indiscriminate Israeli occupation forces' firing at Palestinian homes in Al-Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip. WAFA added that two Palestinians, including an infant, were martyred and several others were injured as a result of the occupation forces' shelling of the tents of displaced persons near Yarmouk Street in Gaza City. The death toll from the ongoing Israeli occupation aggression on the Gaza Strip has risen to 64,656, with injuries rising to 163,503 since Oct.7, 2023.

Seven Palestinians were martyred and others wounded today in ongoing Israeli airstrikes across the Gaza Strip, marking the 704th day of the genocidal war waged by the Israeli entity. Field sources reported that five aid seekers were martyred by Israeli occupation forces' fire southwest of Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip. A Palestinian was also martyred as a result of Israeli artillery shelling targeting firewood collectors north of the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, while a girl was wounded as a result of the occupation forces firing several shells indiscriminately at the Bureij refugee camp. In Gaza City, Civil Defense reported that more than 25 people were missing under the rubble after Israeli aircraft targeted a family home in the Shati refugee camp, west of the city. Field teams succeeded in rescuing a man and a woman from under the rubble of the targeted house, and recovered the body of only one martyr, while the others remained missing under the rubble. The crews are trying to extract and retrieve them in the absence of the necessary tools and equipment. Israeli drones fired explosive bombs in the vicinity of the Ghazali intersection in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood, northwest of the city, and also fired smoke bombs in the skies over the Tuffah neighborhood. The death toll from the ongoing Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip since Oct. 7, 2023, has risen to 64,522 martyrs and 163,096 wounded. The Israeli occupation resumed its aggression against the Gaza Strip after violating the nearly two-month-long ceasefire agreement on March 18. The attacks targeted various areas of the Strip, which is already facing an unprecedented humanitarian tragedy after 22 months of war.

Two Palestinians were killed and others were injured by Israeli occupation forces' fire on Monday in Jenin camp, north of the occupied West Bank. The Palestinian Ministry of Health said that two boys (14 and 17 years old) were killed and a number of people were injured by Israeli occupation forces' bullets while trying to enter the Jenin camp to inspect their homes. The ministry said that its crews dealt with a young man (22 years old) who was injured by live bullets in the abdomen, inside Jenin camp, and transferred him to the hospital. They also transferred a girl (12 years old) who was injured in her hand after being chased by occupation soldiers. Local sources said that occupation soldiers arrested a number of people and took them to a military barracks inside the camp. They also set fire to a house, amid heavy live ammunition fire. The sources added that the number of martyrs in Jenin has risen to 47 since the start of the Israeli occupation's aggression on the city and its camp on Jan. 21, which also affected several towns and villages in the governorate. During its aggression, the Israeli occupation completely destroyed more than 600 homes in Jenin camp, and partially demolished approximately 1,000 housing units, displacing approximately 22,000 residents of the camp to the city and the towns and villages of the governorate.

Hospitals in the Gaza Strip recorded the death of six Palestinians, including two children, due to famine and malnutrition over the past 24 hours.This brings the total number of deaths due to famine and malnutrition to 393, including 140 children.Some 900,000 children in Gaza are suffering from hunger, 70,000 of whom have entered the malnutrition stage.UNRWA had warned that malnutrition among children under the age of five had doubled between March and June, as a result of the Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip.

At least nine Palestinians were martyred and others injured on Saturday in continued Israeli occupation airstrikes on Gaza City and Khan Younis in the Gaza Strip. Local sources reported that eight people were martyred when Israeli strikes targeted a house in Sheikh Radwan neighborhood in northern Gaza City, while a child was martyred and others injured in an attack on a vehicle in Al-Mawasi area of Khan Younis in the south.Medical sources indicated that the total death toll from Israeli strikes since early today has risen to 21, including 13 in Gaza City. Israeli occupation forces continued their assault on Gaza by land, sea, and air since October 7, 2023, resulting in the deaths of 64,300 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and 162,005 others injured.The toll remains incomplete, as thousands of victims remain trapped under rubble or on the streets, with rescue crews unable to reach them amid an unprecedented humanitarian disaster.

Egypt says eviction of Gazans is a red lineForeign minister says a genocide is 'in motion' in GazaIsrael has denied genocide, says its actions are self defenceCairo keep up tougher tone as war nears two yearsEgypt said Friday it would not tolerate mass displacement of Palestinians and what it described as genocide, continuing to ratchet up its criticism of Israel's Gaza offensive as thousands of residents of Gaza City defied Israeli orders to leave."Displacement is not an option and it is a red line for Egypt and we will not allow it to happen," Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty told reporters in Nicosia."Displacement means liquidation and the end of the Palestinian cause and there is no legal or moral or ethical ground to evict people from their homeland," he said.His comments are in line with a hardening of Egyptian language this year about Israel's conduct in the enclave, which borders Egypt, even as it has worked with Qatar and the US to try to mediate a ceasefire in the almost two-year-old war.Repeating accusations of genocide levelled by the Egyptian leadership against Israel in recent months, he added: "What is happening on the ground is far beyond the imagination. There is a genocide in motion there, mass killing of civilians, artificial starvation created by the Israelis," Abdelatty said.Israeli authorities did not immediately reply to a request for comment.Israel has in the past strongly denied that its actions in Gaza amount to genocide and says they are justified as self defence. It is fighting a case at the International Court of Justice in the Hague that accuses it of genocide and which Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has condemned as "outrageous".Israel launched its assault on the Gaza Strip in October 2023, after fighters from Hamas, the Palestinian group in control of the territory, stormed southern Israel.More than 64,000 Palestinians have since been killed, Gaza health authorities say, with much of the densely populated enclave laid to ruin and its residents facing a humanitarian crisis.Israel began an offensive in Gaza City on August 10, in what Netanyahu says is a plan to defeat Hamas fighters in the part of Gaza where Israeli troops fought most heavily in the war's initial phase. It now controls about 40% of Gaza City, a military spokesperson said on Thursday.Much of Gaza City was laid to waste in the war's initial weeks in October-November 2023. About a million people lived there before the war, and hundreds of thousands are believed to have returned to live among the ruins, especially since Israel ordered people out of other areas and launched offensives elsewhere.

The State of Qatar condemned the statements made by the Israeli occupation's prime minister regarding his desire to displace Palestinians, describing them as a continuation of the occupation's policy of violating the rights of the Palestinian people, showing contempt for international laws and agreements, and reflecting its malicious attempts to undermine prospects for peace, particularly the two-state solution.The Ministry of Foreign Affairs affirmed in a statement Friday that the policy of collective punishment practiced by the occupation against Palestinians, including the ongoing brutal genocidal war on the Gaza Strip, its crimes in the West Bank, its violations of religious sanctities, its settlement expansion and Judaization plans for Jerusalem, and its restrictions on the entry of humanitarian aid to civilians, will not succeed in forcing the Palestinian people to leave their land or in stripping them of their legitimate rights.The Ministry stressed the urgent need for the international community to stand firmly against the occupation's extremist and provocative policies, in order to prevent the cycle of violence in the region from continuing and spreading globally.The Ministry also reiterated that the only guarantee for achieving lasting peace in the Middle East is reaching a just and comprehensive solution to the Palestinian issue, in line with the Arab Peace Initiative and the two-state solution. This would ensure the establishment of an independent and viable State of Palestine along the 1967 borders with East Jerusalem as its capital, and the enjoyment by the Palestinian people of their inalienable rights.

Fourteen Palestinians were martyred and dozens injured as Israeli occupation forces intensified airstrikes on residential apartments and displacement tents across Gaza City, medical sources reported.Three Palestinians were martyred, and seven others injured when Israeli warplanes bombed a residential apartment in the Daraj neighborhood.In the Rammal neighborhood, Israeli forces shelled a tent sheltering displaced Palestinians, killing three and wounding several others, while another air raid on a residential apartment left one person martyred and others injured.Five more Palestinians were martyred and several injured in Israeli airstrikes on homes in Tal Al Hawa and Sabra neighborhoods, south of Gaza City. In a separate attack, an Israeli drone targeted a displacement tent west of the city, killing two Palestinians and injuring several others.The intensified bombardment comes as part of the second phase of an operation announced by the Israeli occupation army to occupy Gaza City.

Israel controls 40% of Gaza City, a military spokesperson said Thursday, as its bombardment forced more Palestinians from their homes there, while thousands of residents defied Israeli orders to leave, remaining behind in the ruins in the path of Israel's latest advance.Gaza health authorities said Israeli fire across the enclave had killed at least 53 people Thursday, mostly in Gaza City, where Israeli forces have advanced through the outer suburbs and are now a few kilometres (miles) from the city centre."We continue to damage Hamas' infrastructure. Today we hold 40% of the territory of Gaza City," Israeli military spokesperson Brigadier General Effie Defrin told a news conference, naming the Zeitoun and Sheikh Radwan neighbourhoods. "The operation will continue to expand and intensify in the coming days.""We will continue everywhere," he said, adding that the mission will only end when Israel's remaining hostages are returned and Hamas' rule ends.Defrin confirmed that army Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir told cabinet ministers that without a day-after plan, they would have to impose military rule in Gaza. Far-right members of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government have been pushing for Israel to impose military rule in Gaza and establish settlements there, which Netanyahu has so far ruled out.Israel launched the offensive in Gaza City on August 10. The campaign has prompted international criticism because of the humanitarian crisis in the area and has provoked unusual levels of concern within Israel, including accounts of tension over strategy between some military commanders and political leaders."This time, I am not leaving my house. I want to die here. It doesn't matter if we move out or stay. Tens of thousands of those who left their homes were killed by Israel too, so why bother?" Um Nader, a mother of five from Gaza City, told Reuters via text message.Residents said Israel bombarded Gaza City's Zeitoun, Sabra, Tuffah, and Shejaia districts from ground and air. Tanks pushed into the eastern part of the Sheikh Radwan district northwest of the city centre, destroying houses and causing fires in tent encampments.In a heavy bombardment in the Tuffah neighbourhood, medics said five houses were damaged by Israeli strikes that killed eight people and wounded dozens more."The Israeli occupation targeted a gathering of civilians and several homes in the Mashahra area of the Tuffah neighbourhood a fire belt that completely destroyed four buildings," said Mahmoud Bassal, spokesperson of the territory's civil emergency service."Even if the Israeli occupation issues warnings, there are no places that can accommodate the civilians; there are no alternate places for the people to go to."Displacement could further endanger the most vulnerable, including many children suffering from malnutrition, said Amjad al-Shawa, head of the Palestinian NGOs Network, an umbrella group of Palestinian NGOs that coordinates with the UN and international humanitarian agencies."This is going to be the most dangerous displacement since the war started," said Shawa. "People's refusal to leave despite the bombardment and the killing is a sign that they have lost faith."Palestinian and UN officials say nowhere is safe in Gaza, including areas Israel designates humanitarian zones.Health officials in Gaza say 370 people, including 131 children, have died of malnutrition and starvation caused by acute food shortages, mostly in recent weeks. Israel says it is taking measures to improve humanitarian conditions in Gaza, including increasing aid into the enclave.Prospects for a ceasefire and a deal to release the remaining 48 hostages, 20 of whom are thought to still be alive, appear dim.Two Democratic US senators Chris Van Hollen and Jeff Merkley told reporters after a week-long trip to assess the situation in Gaza and the West Bank: "Based on our conversations and our observations, we came away with the inexplicable conclusion that the Netanyahu government is engaged in a campaign of ethnic cleansing in Gaza and slow-motion ethnic cleansing in the West Bank."