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The IDF has issued a forced evacuation order to residents in parts of northern Gaza: Beit Hanoun, Beit Lahiya and the neighbourhoods of Sheikh Zayed, al-Manshiya and Tal al-Zaatar. Avichay Adraee, an Arabic language spokesperson for the Israeli army, said it is a “final” warning before the “raid”. “We have warned about this area many times. For your safety, you must move immediately west to the known shelters in Gaza City,” he wrote in a post on X this morning.
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Hezbollah lawmaker Ibrahim Moussawi said the Israeli attack on Beirut that killed at least four people amounted to “a major and severe aggression that has escalated the situation to an entirely different level”. Speaking in a televised statement after visiting the building that was struck, he called on the Lebanese state to “activate the highest level of diplomacy to find solutions”.
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At least 50,399 Palestinian people have been killed and 114,583 injured in Israeli attacks on Gaza since 7 October 2023, the Gaza health ministry said in a statement on Tuesday. At least 42 bodies and 183 injured people have been received by hospitals in Gaza over the last day, according to the territory’s health ministry, which said that at least 1,042 Palestinian people have been killed by Israeli forces since Israel broke the ceasefire with Hamas on 18 March.
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Amjad Al Shawa, director of the Palestinian NGOs Network (PNGO), an umbrella group of 30 Palestinian NGOs and ActionAid’s partner in Gaza, has warned that Gaza will probably enter a “new cycle of famine, starvation and thirst” in the coming days as bakeries across the strip are forced to close because of fuel and flour shortages caused by the ongoing Israeli aid blockade.
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The World Food Programme says it’s immediately closing all of its bakeries in Gaza after a month-long blockade by Israel into the strip, the Associated Press reports. In an internal memo circulated among aid groups, the UN agency said that due to the lack of humanitarian aid, its supplies are running out and it doesn’t have enough wheat flour needed to make bread. The agency said it’s distributed all available food rations, and there are no more stocks.
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Unicef, the UN humanitarian aid organisation for children, has said at least 322 children have reportedly been killed and 609 injured since the resumption of Israel’s “intense bombardments” and “ground operations” in the Gaza Strip on 18 March. In a press release, Unicef wrote: “The breakdown of the ceasefire and resumption of intense bombardments and ground operations in the Gaza Strip has reportedly left at least 322 children dead and 609 injured – constituting a daily average of around 100 children killed or maimed over the past 10 days. Most of these children were displaced, sheltering in makeshift tents or damaged homes.”
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UK foreign secretary David Lammy has said the UK “categorically” condemns the expansion of Israeli settlements in the West Bank during a session in parliament, warning that they do not enhance Israeli security and undermine the prospect of a two-state solution for Israelis and Palestinians. “I’m clear with my Israeli counterparts that settlement expansion must stop. We will continue to work with our partners to ensure the prospects for a Palestinian state”, said Lammy.
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One year after Israel’s killing of three British aid workers employed by World Central Kitchen, the family of James Kirby, one of those killed, said they had still not received answers from the British government. The three British citizens were killed in an Israeli airstrike despite their vehicle being clearly marked. Seven aid workers were killed in the strikes to which the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) admitted took place. Two IDF members were dismissed.
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US president Donald Trump said on Tuesday he spoke with Egyptian president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and discussed topics including military progress against Yemen’s Iranian-backed Houthis and possible solutions in Gaza. Trump said the call went very well, Reuters reported….
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