Four Israeli opposition leaders have formed an alliance called the “change bloc” to defeat Prime Minister Netanyahu in the next elections. The head of Gaza’s Health Ministry denounced Israel’s forced expulsion of Palestinians from Gaza City, adding that hundreds of thousands remain trapped there.
Thousands of Israelis gathered at Tel Aviv’s Hostage Square for a rally to call on the government to secure a deal to release all those held in Gaza. Hamas has called for international action over Israel’s killing of medical personnel after the brother and sister-in-law of the director of al-Shifa Hospital were killed.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said the world should not be intimidated by Israel in taking action against its war on Gaza.Israel imposes special permits for Palestinians in occupied West Bank
Israeli authorities have required Palestinians living in two villages to obtain special permits to enter and exit their communities.
The Palestinian news agency, Wafa, reported that residents of the al-Khalayleh neighbourhood and the villages of Beit Iksa and Nabi Samuel, northwest of occupied East Jerusalem, will be barred from crossing the Israeli military checkpoint if they are found to be without permits.
The three communities, home to about 3,000 people, already suffer near-total isolation because of the separation wall, military checkpoints and gates surrounding them.
Residents are barred from expanding housing or bringing in essential supplies, while the nearby illegal Israeli settlements block their urban growth. The decision came as Israel accelerates settlement projects in occupied East Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank.
Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has declared plans to annex 82 percent of the occupied West Bank.
Argentinian President Javier Milei will meet with his US counterpart, Donald Trump, as part of his trip to New York, according to the South American country’s presidential press office.
Milei, who maintains an international policy aligned with the US and Israel, will also meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly, which will be held in New York next week.
Milei reaffirmed this week that his country would open its embassy in West Jerusalem next year as a sign of support for Israel
French President Emmanuel Macron and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) have discussed preparations for a two-state solution conference on Palestine, which they will host on September 22 in New York City.
According to the Saudi Press Agency, the two leaders discussed the outcomes of a past high-level international conference on resolving the Palestinian issue through a two-state solution, co-chaired by Saudi Arabia and France on July 28-30.
The leaders expressed their support for efforts to end Israel’s war in Gaza and establish a Palestinian state.
A growing number of countries are willing to recognise a Palestinian state, which reflects a broad international consensus on a future that guarantees the Palestinian people’s legitimate right to independence, the Saudi Press Agency said.
This is what’s left of Gaza City after almost two years of Israel’s war on the Palestinian territory.Israel’s bombs are now destroying entire neighbourhoods as it orders the forced expulsion of an estimated one million Palestinians unsure if they’ll ever return home.
Many are being forced to flee on foot with all the belongings they can carry. Balata, occupied West Bank – Jameela Sanaqra’s three sons are gone. She knows for certain that Israel killed two of them. Her third son, her youngest, Mahmoud, was shot in his bedroom by Israeli commandos on February 27, a week before his 26th birthday.
He was taken by the soldiers and has not been returned to his family. She does not know if he is dead or alive, adding to her grief and mental torment.
“Palestinian mothers carry their sons twice; once in the womb and then on the day of their burial procession,” Jameela, 67, told Al Jazeera at her home in the Balata refugee camp.
Thousands of people have gathered in Vienna, the Austrian capital, in a demonstration to condemn Israel’s actions in Gaza.Thousands of Palestinian supporters attended the protest, which was organised by more than 40 Austrian NGOs.
Demonstrators marched to the Austrian parliament holding Palestinian flags and chanting slogans such as “Stop the genocide,” “Free Palestine”, and “Boycott Israel”.
They also carried banners bearing the names of children killed by Israel in Gaza.