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Israel’s far-right national security minister Itamar Ben Gvir published a video on Friday showing him confronting the most high-profile Palestinian detainee in Israeli custody in his prison cell. Marwan Barghouti, a leading member of the Palestinian Fatah party, has spent more than 20 years behind bars after being sentenced for his role in anti-Israeli attacks in the early 2000s.
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The Palestinian health ministry is reporting that at least one child has died of starvation in Gaza in the past 24 hours. It adds that the number of people recorded to have died of starvation in Gaza has reached at least 240, of whom 107 are children. Israel has been blockading the Gaza strip, preventing the entry of the necessary volume of supplies and food into the territory, which prompted humanitarian organisations to raise alarm and accuse it of “weaponising aid”.
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At least 1,760 Palestinians have been killed while seeking aid in Gaza since late May, including 12 so far today, according to the he UN human rights office. The figure represents a jump of several hundred since its last published figure at the beginning of August.
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Lebanon’s prime minister, Nawaf Salam, said that statements by the Hezbollah leader, Naim Qassem, carried an implicit threat of civil war, calling them “unacceptable”. “No party in Lebanon is authorised to bear arms outside the framework of the Lebanese state,” Salam said in a post on X carrying his statements from an interview with the pan-Arab Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper.
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Some 127 pallets of humanitarian aid have been airdropped into the GazaStrip today, including for the first time from Singapore, according to the IDF. Aircraft from United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Germany, Belgium, France, Italy and Singapore delivered the pallets, each containing around one tonne of food.
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Unrwa, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, said that its health centres see an average of 10,300 patients a week with infectious diseases, mostly diarrhoea from contaminated water, as a heatwave affects Gaza and water supplies become strained.
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The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (Unrwa) has reiterated its calls for a ceasefire in Gaza, warning of the “immense challenges” disabled people face in accessing essential services across the Strip, including food and healthcare, amid the ongoing Israeli assault.
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Hezbollah chief Naim Qassem has accused Lebanon’s government of “handing” the country to Israel by pushing for the group’s disarmament, warning it would fight to keep its weapons. The US has been pushing for the Lebanese government to disarm Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed Lebanese Shia militant and political movement. This is something the government had already been doing, but not at the pace the Trump administration wanted.
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The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it launched an attack in the area of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip and killed Nasser Musa, who it said was the head of Hamas’ military control department in the Rafah Brigade….