- At least 25 Palestinians, including 12 aid seekers, killed by Israeli attacks across Gaza today.
- The UN human rights office says at least 1,760 Palestinians have been killed while seeking aid in Gaza since late May, a jump of several hundred since its last published figures at the beginning of August.
- Eleven people, including a child, have starved to death in Gaza in the past 24 hours, raising the total number of hunger-related deaths in the famished enclave to 251.
- Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 61,827 people and wounded 155,275. An estimated 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the Hamas-led October 7, 2023, attacks, and more than 200 were taken captive.
Israel announces plan to forcibly relocate Palestinians to southern Gaza
Israel has announced preparations to forcibly evacuate Palestinians from “combat zones” to southern Gaza from tomorrow.
The army’s Arabic-language spokesperson Avichay Adraee said the move would be based on directives from the “political level”.
“The provision of tents and shelter equipment for the residents of the sector will be renewed. The equipment will be transported through the Kerem Shalom crossing by the United Nations and international relief organisations after undergoing thorough inspection by personnel from the Land Crossings Authority affiliated with the Ministry of Defense,” Adraee wrote on X.
The announcement comes a week after the government approved controversial plans to seize Gaza City.
Israeli forces storm towns and villages in occupied West Bank
Israeli forces have deployed in a number of villages and towns in the Ramallah and el-Bireh governorate in the occupied West Bank.
Local and security sources told Wafa that troops stormed the towns of Birzeit and Abu Shkheidam, the village of Burham, the town of Silwad to the east, the town of Kobar and the village of Kafr Ein.
No arrests have been reported so far.
Three people killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza City
At least three people have been killed and others injured in Israeli attacks on Gaza City, Wafa reports.
An Israeli drone targeted a group of people in the Asqaula area of the Zeitoun neighbourhood in eastern Gaza City, killing two and wounding several others, the news agency said.
Another person was killed and three were injured when a house near the al-Alami Mosque on az-Zarqa Street, also in eastern Gaza City, was hit.
