Israeli attacks kill 82 amid forced displacement plans, truce talks in Gaza

Israeli attacks crossed Gaza person killed astatine slightest 82 radical since dawn, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry, amid ongoing ceasefire talks and disapproval of plans to forcibly transportation Palestinians to Rafah.

Among those killed connected Thursday, 15 people, including 9 children and 4 women, were killed successful an Israeli aerial onslaught portion waiting successful enactment for nutritional supplies for children successful Deir el-Balah, cardinal Gaza.

At slightest 30 others were wounded, including 19 children, during the Israeli attack.

Catherine Russell, the manager of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), condemned the onslaught connected assistance seekers and said the sidesplitting of families trying to entree assistance was “unconscionable”.

“This is the cruel world confronting galore successful Gaza contiguous aft months of insufficient assistance being allowed into the territory and parties to the struggle failing to uphold basal responsibilities to support civilians,” the UNICEF authoritative said.

“The deficiency of assistance means children are facing starvation portion the hazard of famine grows. The fig of malnourished children volition proceed to emergence until life-saving assistance and services are resumed astatine afloat scale,” she added.

Russel called connected Israel to guarantee “full compliance with planetary humanitarian law” and to behaviour an probe into the incident.

Separately, Hamas condemned the onslaught and said it was portion of Israel’s “ongoing run of genocide successful the Strip”.

Israel is “escalating its brutal massacres against guiltless civilians successful schools, streets, displacement camps, and civilian centres, successful a systematic behaviour that amounts to a full-fledged taste cleansing crime, perpetrated successful afloat presumption of the world”, the Palestinian radical said.

Since Israel began its warfare connected Gaza aft the October 7, 2023, Hamas onslaught that killed 1,139 radical successful Israel, astatine slightest 57,762 Palestinians person been killed, and 137,656 others person been wounded, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry.

Forced displacement

Since Sunday, Israel and Hamas, done mediators including the United States, Qatar and Egypt, person been progressive successful aggravated negotiations to travel to a ceasefire woody that volition intermission Israeli attacks connected the enclave and instrumentality the captives.

While Hamas said that it had agreed to merchandise 10 captives successful what is expected to beryllium a 60-day ceasefire, the radical said connected Thursday that issues remained connected the travel of assistance into Gaza and the withdrawal of Israeli troops.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who was preparing to permission the US connected the past time of a bid of meetings successful Washington, DC, said Israel continues to prosecute a woody for a 60-day intermission successful the warring and the merchandise of fractional the 50 captives remaining successful Gaza.

Once that woody is successful place, Israel is prepared to negociate a imperishable extremity to the war, Netanyahu said – but lone connected the information that Hamas disarms and gives up its governing and subject capabilities successful Gaza.

“If this tin beryllium achieved done negotiations, truthful overmuch the better,” helium said successful a video statement. “If it is not achieved done negotiations successful 60 days, we volition execute it successful different ways; by utilizing force.”

This comes arsenic Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz announced earlier this week a plan to forcibly transportation Palestinians to a structure metropolis successful Rafah, confederate Gaza, perchance affecting immoderate ceasefire deal.

Tamara Alrifai, a elder communications manager astatine the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), told Al Jazeera that the program would “de facto make monolithic attraction camps astatine the borderline with Egypt for the Palestinians”.

“We cannot beryllium soundless and complicit of specified large-scale forced displacement,” she said.

Displaced Palestinians marque their mode towards the al-Mawasi country arsenic they fly amid an Israeli crushed offensive, successful Khan Younis successful the confederate Gaza Strip, July 10, 2025 [Hatem Khaled/Reuters]

EU woody for Gaza aid

Beyond the beforehand lines, European officials struck a caller woody with Israel to let desperately needed nutrient and substance into Gaza, the European Union’s overseas argumentation main said connected Thursday.

The statement could effect successful “more crossings open, assistance and nutrient trucks entering Gaza, repair of captious infrastructure and extortion of assistance workers”, said Kaja Kallas, the 27-member EU’s apical diplomat.

“We number connected Israel to instrumentality each measurement agreed,” she said successful a station connected societal media.

Aid groups accidental Israeli subject restrictions and recurring unit person made it hard to present assistance successful Gaza adjacent aft Israel eased a full blockade successful May. Experts person warned that the territory is astatine hazard of famine, 21 months into Israel’s war.

Kallas said the woody would reactivate assistance corridors from Jordan and Egypt and reopen assemblage bakeries and kitchens crossed Gaza.

Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar acknowledged the woody portion attending a league successful Vienna, saying it came “following our dialog with the EU”. He said the woody includes “more trucks, much crossings and much routes for the humanitarian efforts”.

Neither Saar nor Kallas said whether the assistance would spell done the UN-run strategy oregon the arguable alternative, US- and Israeli-backed GHF mechanics that has been marred by unit and controversy.