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Israel expands Gaza no-go zones, kills 138 in a day
A Palestinian man looks on at the site of an Israeli attack on Thursday that damaged and destroyed residential buildings in Gaza City’s Shati refugee camp, July 4, 2025 [Mahmoud Issa/Reuters]
In addition to the 138 killed Palestinians brought to hospitals in the past 24 hours, another 452 wounded people sought medical care.
Sixty-two fatalities brought to Gaza’s hospitals in the past 24 hours were killed while seeking aid; 300 Palestinian aid-seekers were among those wounded.
A number of victims remain under the rubble and on roads because emergency crews are unable to reach them.
Sources at al-Awda Hospital in Nuseirat tell Al Jazeera that four aid seekers have been killed by Israeli fire near an aid distribution point in central Gaza, on Salah al-Din Street, the main north-south thoroughfare in the Strip.
The UN’s agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) reports that 85 percent of Gaza is now within Israeli-militarised zones or under forced evacuation orders.
More than 714,000 Palestinians have been displaced yet again since Israel violated the ceasefire in March, according to the agency’s latest report, which also warned that the fuel crisis in Gaza is deepening since no fuel has entered the enclave for more than four months.
“The health response in the Gaza Strip continues to face severe operational challenges, including extensive damage to health facilities, obstacles to safe movements and restrictions on the entry of medical supplies and fuel.”
The Israeli military reports that its invading ground forces now have direct military control over 65 percent of the Gaza Strip.
It said in a short statement that its soldiers killed more than 100 “terrorists” over the past week, and that the military campaign in the besieged enclave will continue.
As we reported earlier, the UN’s agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) said about 85 percent of Gaza’s total area is now part of Israel’s militarised zones or under forced evacuation orders.
Thirty more Palestinian families from a Bedouin community in the occupied West Bank have fled their homes, following repeated assaults and harassment from Israeli settlers under the protection of Israeli forces, the Wafa news agency is reporting.
As reported earlier, 20 families from the al-Mleihat Bedouin community, located northwest of Jericho in the east of the occupied West Bank, had previously packed up their possessions and fled their homes, following an escalation in attacks by Israeli settlers in recent weeks. Prior to the forced displacement, the community was home to 85 families, numbering about 500 people.
One woman, Alia al-Mleihat, told Wafa that her family was forced to flee to the Aqbat Jabr refugee camp, south of Jericho, after armed settlers threatened her and other families at gunpoint.
Hassan al-Mleihat, general coordinator of the Al-Baidar Organization for the Defense of Bedouin Rights, said the remaining families were also preparing to leave amid the escalating aggression from Israeli settlers, which included beatings, theft and poisoning of livestock, blocking of roads and destruction of tents. The harassment was carried out under the protection of Israeli authorities, he said.
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