Hostages’ households protest in opposition to Gaza plan – because it occurred

A abstract of at this time’s developments

Israeli prime minster Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel intends to take military control of all of Gaza, regardless of intensifying criticism at dwelling and overseas. “We intend to,” Netanyahu stated in an interview with Fox Information Channel when requested if Israel would take over the complete coastal territory. “We don’t need to preserve it. We need to have a safety perimeter. We don’t need to govern it. We don’t need to be there as a governing physique.”
Netanyahu made the feedback shortly earlier than a gathering he was resulting from have on Thursday with a small group of senior ministers to debate plans for the army to take management of extra territory in Gaza. Two authorities sources informed Reuters any decision by the safety cupboard would have to be accepted by the complete cupboard, which can not meet till Sunday.
Israeli media has reported a part of the safety cupboard assembly. The IDF’s chief of employees, Eyal Zamir, has warned Benjamin Netanyahu concerning the hostages nonetheless in Gaza, in response to broadcaster Channel 12. “The lives of the hostages might be in peril if we embark on a plan to occupy Gaza,” the broadcaster experiences him as saying. “There isn’t a strategy to assure that we are going to not be harmed by them. Our forces are worn out, the army gear wants upkeep, and there are humanitarian and sanitary issues.”
The Gaza Humanitarian Basis (GHF) has responded to accusations earlier from the medical NGO Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), who referred to as for the closure of GHF and described its meals distribution websites in Gaza as having change into websites of “orchestrated killing and dehumanisation”. GHF, a US- and Israeli-backed assist organisation working in Gaza, stated in a press release: “MSF’s accusations are each false and disgraceful – amplifying a disinformation marketing campaign orchestrated by the Hamas-linked Gaza well being ministry.”
Of the 42 folks killed on Thursday, at the least 13 had been in search of assist in an Israeli army zone in southern Gaza the place UN assist convoys are usually overwhelmed by looters and determined crowds. One other two had been killed on roads resulting in close by websites run by the Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Basis, an American contractor, in response to Nasser hospital, which acquired the our bodies, AP reported.

Palestinians struggle to collect humanitarian aid airdropped by parachutes into Gaza City, northern Gaza — Palestinians battle to gather humanitarian assist airdropped by parachutes into Gaza Metropolis, northern Gaza. {Photograph}: Jehad Alshrafi/AP

A footballer known as the “Palestinian Pelé” has been killed in an Israeli assault in southern Gaza, in response to the Palestine Soccer Affiliation (PFA). Suleiman al-Obeid was killed on Wednesday when Israeli forces attacked civilians ready for humanitarian assist, the PFA stated.
There may be an upward development within the variety of vehicles getting into Gaza however it’s nonetheless under what was agreed between the EU and Israel beneath a deal final month on enhancing humanitarian entry, the bloc’s overseas coverage and humanitarian arms stated in a doc seen by Reuters on Thursday. The UN and different companions report that 463 vehicles had been off-loaded at crossing factors to Gaza between 29 July and 4 August, the doc stated.
Israeli authorities returned the physique of a Palestinian activist killed by an Israeli settler final week, after feminine Bedouin kinfolk launched a starvation strike to protest in opposition to the authority’s choice to carry his physique in custody, experiences the Related Press. The starvation strike was a uncommon public name from Bedouin girls who historically mourn in non-public. Witnesses stated Awdah al-Hathaleen was shot and killed by a radical Israeli settler throughout a confrontation caught on video final month.
Zadie Smith, Michael Rosen, Irvine Welsh and Jeanette Winterson are amongst greater than 200 writers who’ve signed a letter calling for an “rapid and full” boycott of Israel till the folks of Gaza are given sufficient meals, water and assist. Hanif Kureishi, Brian Eno, Elif Shafak, George Monbiot, Benjamin Myers, Geoff Dyer and Sarah Corridor additionally signed the letter, which advocates the cessation of all “commerce, alternate and enterprise” with Israel.
Human Rights Watch have referred to as on governments worldwide to droop their arms transfers to Israel after lethal airstrikes on two Palestinian faculties final yr, experiences the Related Press. Human Rights Watch stated an investigation didn’t discover any proof of a army goal at both faculty.
Gaza has seen its highest month-to-month determine of acute malnutrition in kids, with hunger-related deaths rising within the territory, the director basic of the World Well being Group (WHO) stated on Thursday. He added that malnutrition is widespread within the territory, experiences Reuters.
Demonstrations have been deliberate throughout Israel on Thursday night to protest in opposition to the anticipated safety cupboard choice, experiences the Related Press. On Thursday morning, nearly two dozen kinfolk of hostages being held in Gaza set sail from southern Israel in direction of the maritime border with Gaza, the place they broadcast messages from loudspeakers on boats to their kinfolk in Gaza.
Police on Thursday stated they’d charged the primary three folks in England and Wales with supporting activist group Palestine Motion because it was banned beneath anti-terrorism legal guidelines. Two girls and a person had been charged beneath the UK’s Terrorism Act of 2000 after their arrest at a protest in central London on 5 July, the capital’s Metropolitan police drive stated.
Israel Protection Forces (IDF) chief of employees Eyal Zamir vowed on Thursday to proceed expressing the army’s place “with out worry” forward of the anticipated safety cupboard assembly. “We are going to proceed to specific our place with out worry, in a realistic, unbiased, {and professional} method,” Zamir stated in response to a army assertion reported by Agence France-Presse.
Indonesia will convert a medical facility on its at the moment uninhabited island of Galang to deal with about 2,000 injured residents of Gaza, who will return dwelling after restoration, a presidential spokesperson stated on Thursday, in response to Reuters. Muslim-majority Indonesia has despatched humanitarian assist to Gaza after Israel began an offensive in October 2023 that Gaza well being officers say has killed greater than 60,000 Palestinians (the Gaza well being ministry doesn’t distinguish between civilians and combatants).
US president Donald Trump stated it was vital that Center Jap nations be a part of the Abraham Accords, saying it should guarantee peace within the area. “Now that the nuclear arsenal being ‘created’ by Iran has been completely OBLITERATED, it is vitally vital to me that each one Center Jap International locations be a part of the Abraham Accords,” Trump wrote in a social media publish on Thursday.
The US has introduced Lebanon with a proposal for disarming Hezbollah by the tip of the yr, together with ending Israel’s army operations within the nation and the withdrawal of its troops from 5 positions in south Lebanon, in response to copy of a Lebanese cupboard agenda reviewed by Reuters.

Key occasions

It’s 3am in Gaza Metropolis and Tel Aviv and we’re shutting this reside weblog now. You’ll be able to learn our newest full report with the important thing developments right here: Fears for Palestinians and hostages as Netanyahu plans full Gaza occupation. Thanks for studying.

In Australia, a distinguished Jewish neighborhood chief has stated Israel has no selection however to take management of Gaza if it desires to realize its aim of defeating Hamas and liberating the militant group’s hostages.

Alex Ryvchin, co-CEO of the Government Council of Australian Jewry, additionally stated it appeared inevitable Australia’s authorities would recognise a Palestinian state within the close to future, Australian Related Press is reporting.

Ryvchin stated Benjamin Netanyahu’s feedback that Israel intends to take over the complete Gaza Strip had been welcome as a result of it could imply the defeat of Hamas.

“I believe that the worst factor that might occur is any type of civilian return to Gaza,” Ryvchin informed Australian Broadcasting Company radio.

When you will have a scenario the place Hamas refuses to put down its arms, refuses to launch the hostages, refuses the ceasefire that’s been on the desk because the finish of Could, it leaves no selection however to finish the job militarily.

And that’s clearly what the prime minister is planning on doing.

Alex Ryvchin, co-chair of the Government Council of Australian Jewry. {Photograph}: Joel Carrett/AAP

An Israeli kibbutz that was ravaged throughout Hamas’s October 2023 assaults has suspended a cornerstone-laying occasion in protest in opposition to the Israeli safety cupboard assembly over Benjamin Netanyahu’s plan to take full management of Gaza.

The chairman of Kibbutz Nir Oz, close to the Gazan border, urged the federal government to return the hostages as a part of an settlement “even when the value is excessive”, and stated the kibbutz understood the hazards of Hamas higher than cupboard members, the Times of Israel is reporting.

Kibbutz Nir Oz was largely destroyed when Hamas militants entered all however six of greater than 200 properties within the small neighborhood and murdered or kidnapped certainly one of each 4 residents – 117 out of about 400 folks, the report says.

Of these kidnapped, 9 are nonetheless being held in Gaza, with solely 5 of them believed to nonetheless be alive.

A torched dwelling in Kibbutz Nir Oz after Hamas’s 7 October 2023 assault. {Photograph}: Quique Kierszenbaum/The Guardian

The ceremony on Thursday for a brand new neighbourhood within the kibbutz was deliberate within the presence of launched hostages and the households of these nonetheless held in captivity. The Instances report continues:

However in the course of the proceedings, kibbutz chairman Tzviki Tessler introduced that “the cupboard is gathering now to debate the occupation of Gaza. We are able to’t proceed as regular presently, so we’ll cease the ceremony as we should. I communicate on behalf of Nir Oz and of the hostages and name on the management and the cupboard … don’t approve any motion that may endanger the lives of the hostages.”

He stated that with out the return of the hostages “there might be neither victory nor rehabilitation”.

Folks on the Nir Oz cornerstone ceremony that was halted on Thursday. {Photograph}: Amir Cohen/Reuters

Irit Pauker – whose father Gideon Pauker was shot and wounded in his Nir Oz dwelling on 7 October and bled to loss of life there subsequent to his spouse, Orna, who was not harm – stated the hostage households had been preventing for a yr and 10 months and now not knew in opposition to whom: Hamas or the state of Israel.

The Instances quoted her as saying:

Now’s possibly the final alternative to avoid wasting them … stand by us.

A Hamas official has stated the militant group will deal with any drive fashioned to control Gaza per Benjamin Netanyahu’s suggestion as an “occupying” drive linked the Israel, Reuters has quoted the official as telling the Al Jazeera Mubasher tv community.

A Jordanian official, in the meantime, has stated Arabs “will solely assist what Palestinians agree and determine on” after the Israeli prime minister stated he needed handy over Gaza to Arab forces that may govern the territory.

Within the first response by a most important Arab neighbour to Netanyahu’s feedback, the Jordanian official informed Reuters:

Safety in Gaza should be completed by means of respectable Palestinian establishments.

Netanyahu didn’t elaborate on the governance preparations or which Arab nations may very well be concerned.

The Israeli chief made the feedback to Fox Information shortly earlier than a gathering he was resulting from have on Thursday with a small group of senior ministers to debate plans for the army to take management of extra territory in Gaza

The Jordanian official stated:

Arabs is not going to be agreeing to Netanyahu’s insurance policies nor clear his mess.

Extra now on nearly two dozen kinfolk of hostages who set sail from southern Israel in direction of the maritime border with Gaza, the place they broadcast messages from loudspeakers calling for the hostages’ launch.

Yehuda Cohen, the daddy of Nimrod Cohen, an Israeli soldier held in Gaza, stated from a ship on Thursday that Benjamin Netanyahu was prolonging the conflict to fulfill extremists in his governing coalition, the Related Press experiences.

The Israeli prime minister’s far-right allies need to escalate the conflict, relocate most of Gaza’s inhabitants to different nations and reestablish Jewish settlements that had been dismantled in 2005.

Cohen stated:

Netanyahu is working just for himself.

As our latest full report from Lorenzo Tondo particulars, the hostages’ members of the family boarded boats that departed from the coastal metropolis of Ashkelon, close to the border with Gaza, carrying yellow flags and posters bearing photographs of the hostages as they shouted their names.

“That is the second for brave management,” the households stated, interesting on to Netanyahu in addition to the lead hostage negotiator, Ron Dermer, and the chief of the Israel Protection Forces.

Continued obstruction, delay and failure to convey our family members dwelling might be a tragedy for generations. The duty is yours. Don’t sacrifice our family members on the altar of an limitless conflict.

Households of Israeli hostages held by Hamas in Gaza through the flotilla calling for his or her rapid launch in entrance of Ashkelon, close to Gaza’s maritime border. {Photograph}: Abir Sultan/EPA

A abstract of at this time’s developments

Israeli prime minster Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel intends to take military control of all of Gaza, regardless of intensifying criticism at dwelling and overseas. “We intend to,” Netanyahu stated in an interview with Fox Information Channel when requested if Israel would take over the complete coastal territory. “We don’t need to preserve it. We need to have a safety perimeter. We don’t need to govern it. We don’t need to be there as a governing physique.”
Netanyahu made the feedback shortly earlier than a gathering he was resulting from have on Thursday with a small group of senior ministers to debate plans for the army to take management of extra territory in Gaza. Two authorities sources informed Reuters any decision by the safety cupboard would have to be accepted by the complete cupboard, which can not meet till Sunday.
Israeli media has reported a part of the safety cupboard assembly. The IDF’s chief of employees, Eyal Zamir, has warned Benjamin Netanyahu concerning the hostages nonetheless in Gaza, in response to broadcaster Channel 12. “The lives of the hostages might be in peril if we embark on a plan to occupy Gaza,” the broadcaster experiences him as saying. “There isn’t a strategy to assure that we are going to not be harmed by them. Our forces are worn out, the army gear wants upkeep, and there are humanitarian and sanitary issues.”
The Gaza Humanitarian Basis (GHF) has responded to accusations earlier from the medical NGO Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), who referred to as for the closure of GHF and described its meals distribution websites in Gaza as having change into websites of “orchestrated killing and dehumanisation”. GHF, a US- and Israeli-backed assist organisation working in Gaza, stated in a press release: “MSF’s accusations are each false and disgraceful – amplifying a disinformation marketing campaign orchestrated by the Hamas-linked Gaza well being ministry.”
Of the 42 folks killed on Thursday, at the least 13 had been in search of assist in an Israeli army zone in southern Gaza the place UN assist convoys are usually overwhelmed by looters and determined crowds. One other two had been killed on roads resulting in close by websites run by the Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Basis, an American contractor, in response to Nasser hospital, which acquired the our bodies, AP reported.

Palestinians battle to gather humanitarian assist airdropped by parachutes into Gaza Metropolis, northern Gaza. {Photograph}: Jehad Alshrafi/AP

A footballer known as the “Palestinian Pelé” has been killed in an Israeli assault in southern Gaza, in response to the Palestine Soccer Affiliation (PFA). Suleiman al-Obeid was killed on Wednesday when Israeli forces attacked civilians ready for humanitarian assist, the PFA stated.
There may be an upward development within the variety of vehicles getting into Gaza however it’s nonetheless under what was agreed between the EU and Israel beneath a deal final month on enhancing humanitarian entry, the bloc’s overseas coverage and humanitarian arms stated in a doc seen by Reuters on Thursday. The UN and different companions report that 463 vehicles had been off-loaded at crossing factors to Gaza between 29 July and 4 August, the doc stated.
Israeli authorities returned the physique of a Palestinian activist killed by an Israeli settler final week, after feminine Bedouin kinfolk launched a starvation strike to protest in opposition to the authority’s choice to carry his physique in custody, experiences the Related Press. The starvation strike was a uncommon public name from Bedouin girls who historically mourn in non-public. Witnesses stated Awdah al-Hathaleen was shot and killed by a radical Israeli settler throughout a confrontation caught on video final month.
Zadie Smith, Michael Rosen, Irvine Welsh and Jeanette Winterson are amongst greater than 200 writers who’ve signed a letter calling for an “rapid and full” boycott of Israel till the folks of Gaza are given sufficient meals, water and assist. Hanif Kureishi, Brian Eno, Elif Shafak, George Monbiot, Benjamin Myers, Geoff Dyer and Sarah Corridor additionally signed the letter, which advocates the cessation of all “commerce, alternate and enterprise” with Israel.
Human Rights Watch have referred to as on governments worldwide to droop their arms transfers to Israel after lethal airstrikes on two Palestinian faculties final yr, experiences the Related Press. Human Rights Watch stated an investigation didn’t discover any proof of a army goal at both faculty.
Gaza has seen its highest month-to-month determine of acute malnutrition in kids, with hunger-related deaths rising within the territory, the director basic of the World Well being Group (WHO) stated on Thursday. He added that malnutrition is widespread within the territory, experiences Reuters.
Demonstrations have been deliberate throughout Israel on Thursday night to protest in opposition to the anticipated safety cupboard choice, experiences the Related Press. On Thursday morning, nearly two dozen kinfolk of hostages being held in Gaza set sail from southern Israel in direction of the maritime border with Gaza, the place they broadcast messages from loudspeakers on boats to their kinfolk in Gaza.
Police on Thursday stated they’d charged the primary three folks in England and Wales with supporting activist group Palestine Motion because it was banned beneath anti-terrorism legal guidelines. Two girls and a person had been charged beneath the UK’s Terrorism Act of 2000 after their arrest at a protest in central London on 5 July, the capital’s Metropolitan police drive stated.
Israel Protection Forces (IDF) chief of employees Eyal Zamir vowed on Thursday to proceed expressing the army’s place “with out worry” forward of the anticipated safety cupboard assembly. “We are going to proceed to specific our place with out worry, in a realistic, unbiased, {and professional} method,” Zamir stated in response to a army assertion reported by Agence France-Presse.
Indonesia will convert a medical facility on its at the moment uninhabited island of Galang to deal with about 2,000 injured residents of Gaza, who will return dwelling after restoration, a presidential spokesperson stated on Thursday, in response to Reuters. Muslim-majority Indonesia has despatched humanitarian assist to Gaza after Israel began an offensive in October 2023 that Gaza well being officers say has killed greater than 60,000 Palestinians (the Gaza well being ministry doesn’t distinguish between civilians and combatants).
US president Donald Trump stated it was vital that Center Jap nations be a part of the Abraham Accords, saying it should guarantee peace within the area. “Now that the nuclear arsenal being ‘created’ by Iran has been completely OBLITERATED, it is vitally vital to me that each one Center Jap International locations be a part of the Abraham Accords,” Trump wrote in a social media publish on Thursday.
The US has introduced Lebanon with a proposal for disarming Hezbollah by the tip of the yr, together with ending Israel’s army operations within the nation and the withdrawal of its troops from 5 positions in south Lebanon, in response to copy of a Lebanese cupboard agenda reviewed by Reuters.

Planes drop humanitarian assist by parachute amid ongoing Israeli assaults on Gaza. {Photograph}: Mahmoud Issa/UPI/Shutterstock

Palestinians collect within the space the place humanitarian help lands on high of destroyed properties in western Gaza Metropolis. {Photograph}: Mahmoud Issa/UPI/Shutterstock

The Gaza Humanitarian Basis (GHF) has responded to accusations earlier from the medical NGO Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), who referred to as for the closure of GHF and described its meals distribution websites in Gaza as having change into websites of “orchestrated killing and dehumanisation”.

GHF, a US- and Israeli-backed assist organisation working in Gaza, stated in a press release: “MSF’s accusations are each false and disgraceful – amplifying a disinformation marketing campaign orchestrated by the Hamas-linked Gaza well being ministry.

“They know higher. By repeating these lies, they’re not aiding civilians, they’re aiding Hamas. Regardless of that, we’re proud to proceed lending them a hand, simply as we’ve completed on a number of events to assist transport and safeguard their medical provides and medicines from the weather.”

Hamas official Osama Hamdan informed Al Jazeera Mubasher that it could treat any force formed to govern Gaza as an “occupying” drive linked to Israel.

Lorenzo Tondo

A footballer referred to as the “Palestinian Pelé” has been killed in an Israeli assault in southern Gaza, in response to the Palestine Soccer Affiliation (PFA).

Suleiman al-Obeid was killed on Wednesday when Israeli forces attacked civilians ready for humanitarian assist, the PFA stated.

‘‘Throughout his lengthy profession, al-Obeid, 41, scored greater than 100 objectives, making him one of many brightest stars of Palestinian soccer,” it stated.

Born in Gaza on 24 March 1984, Obeid started his footballing profession with Khadamat al-Shati, later taking part in for Markaz Shabab al-Am’ari within the occupied West Financial institution, and Gaza Sport. A fixture within the Palestinian nationwide aspect after his debut in 2007, Obeid gained 24 caps and scored twice, the PFA stated, most memorably with a scissor-kick in opposition to Yemen through the 2010 West Asian Soccer Federation championship.

His expertise on the pitch earned him the nickname of “the Palestinian Pelé” – a nod to the legendary Brazilian broadly hailed as one of many biggest gamers of all time.

His loss of life provides to a rising toll of athletes misplaced in Gaza because the conflict started, with at the least 662 sportspeople and their kinfolk reported to have been killed.

A Jordanian official informed Reuters that Arabs “will solely assist what Palestinians agree and determine on” after Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu stated Israel needed handy over Gaza to Arab forces that may govern it.

“Safety in Gaza should be completed by means of respectable Palestinian establishments,” the supply stated.

Israeli media has reported a part of the safety cupboard assembly

The IDF’s chief of employees, Eyal Zamir, has warned Benjamin Netanyahu concerning the hostages nonetheless in Gaza, in response to broadcaster Channel 12.

“The lives of the hostages might be in peril if we embark on a plan to occupy Gaza,” the broadcaster experiences him as saying.

“There isn’t a strategy to assure that we are going to not be harmed by them. Our forces are worn out, the army gear wants upkeep, and there are humanitarian and sanitary issues.”

Britain continues to run close to every day surveillance flights over Gaza with the assistance of a US contractor at a time of rising questions on how the intelligence obtained is used and shared with the Israeli army, writes Dan Sabbagh and Geneva Abdul.

Specialist flight trackers estimate that RAF Shadow plane have run greater than 600 flights over the Palestinian territory from the Akrotiri airbase in Cyprus in an try and find the remaining hostages held by Hamas since December 2023.

Spy flights had been began beneath the Conservatives however have continued beneath Labour with few particulars shared publicly, at a fee of about two a day at first however dropping to at least one a day extra just lately, specialist trackers stated.

Surveillance was transferred to a US contractor, Sierra Nevada Company, in late July to cut back prices and RAF sources indicated that it continues most days in an equal plane. However inside days there was a mistake when the brand new spy aircraft was revealed to be circling over Khan Younis on 28 July.

Till that point the spy planes’ transponders had been turned off midway into their flight from Akrotiri heading in direction of Gaza over the japanese Mediterranean. However the mistake meant that “the RAF (now contracted) flights may very well be confirmed over Gaza, not simply adjoining to Gaza,” stated the flight tracker and analyst Steffan Watkins.

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