• Israeli forces have killed at least eight Palestinians across the Gaza Strip, a day after Trump announced a roadmap for Hamas to disarm and for Israeli troops to withdraw from the territory.
• Israeli strikes have also destroyed a medical warehouse in central Gaza, leaving a crater 20 metres (66ft) wide and 10 metres (33ft) deep.

Israeli forces kill 5 Palestinians in Gaza

The death toll from Israeli attacks on Gaza in recent hours has risen to at least five, according to our colleagues on the ground.

At least two people were killed and several wounded in Israeli strikes on a house in central Deir el-Balah, while three people were killed and several more wounded in strikes on an apartment in northern Gaza City.

The killings came as former senior Fatah official Mohammed Dahlan, who is based in the United Arab Emirates, said that Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner had told him he was working with Israel to stop the attacks on Gaza.

Three Palestinians killed in Israeli attack in southern Gaza

Israeli forces have killed three Palestinians from one family in an Israeli attack on the town of al-Qarara, north of Khan Younis.

They quoted sources at the Nasser Medical Complex.

This brings the total number of Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks this morning to eight. As we reported earlier, another eight people were killed in Israeli attacks on Saturday.

Three Palestinians rescued after Israeli attack on Khan Younis

An Israeli attack this morning killed at least three Palestinians from one family in the town of al-Qarara, north of Khan Younis.

The civil defense teams in the enclave have recovered the bodies of the three people killed and rescued three others who were wounded, according to an update by the organization.

Israel claims killings of 2 Hamas commanders in Gaza

The Israeli military says it has killed Salem Jamal Abd al-Rahman Abu Labad, a cell commander in Hamas’s Nukhba special forces, in an air strike on southern Gaza on Saturday.

It said Abu Labad took part in the October 2023 attack on Nir Oz, a kibbutz in southern Israel.

The military said its forces also killed Muhammad Abd al-Nasser Muhammad Khatib, a commander in Hamas’s Maghazi Battalion, in a separate air strike in central Gaza on Friday.

‘A very tough, bloody night’: Deaths keep mounting in Gaza

It was definitely a very tough, bloody night in the Gaza Strip, where eight Palestinians were killed.

The strikes that took place came without any prior warning. The sound of explosions is terrifying. When people panic, they want to run away to a safe place, but here in Gaza, there’s no place safe to seek refuge in.

This has been happening for the past three years.

Yesterday, there were attacks on Gaza City, very close to the seaport. There were attacks on Khan Younis. There were attacks on Deir el-Balah. So we’re talking about a series of attacks in different areas across the Gaza Strip, and people do not have any place to go to.

And again, this is supposed to be a “ceasefire” where no air strikes should be targeting Palestinians.

At least 9 Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza since dawn

Three children are among nine Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza since dawn today, sources in Gaza hospitals reporting.

Today’s Gaza death toll rises to 11 as Israeli attacks intensify

The number of people killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza so far today has now risen to at least 11.

According to the latest information, two more people were killed when an Israeli attack hit a car in Deir el-Balah, in central Gaza Strip.

Gaza death toll rises to 14 as Israeli attacks continue

The death toll in Gaza has once again risen to 14 people as Israeli attacks continue in the besieged enclave.

Included in the latest figures are two Palestinians, one of them a child, who were killed, and eight others who were wounded in an Israeli drone strike on a tent housing displaced people in the Rimal neighborhood, west of Gaza City.

Israeli forces kill 11 in Gaza death toll now 21 since latest Trump plan

Israeli forces have killed at least 11 more Palestinians in Gaza, including two children, bringing the death toll to 21 in the three days since US President Donald Trump announced a plan he described as a “monumental step” towards peace and security in the shattered enclave.

The eight deaths on Sunday included three people killed in an air strike on a residential apartment in the Al-Sousi Tower in western Gaza City – Abdullah Abu Taif, 33, his wife Abeer Anan, 29, their 5-year-old son Azzam – according to medical sources at Al-Shifa Hospital.

Gaza death toll increases to 73,356

Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza has killed 73,356 people, with 174,185 others wounded, since October 2023, according to the Health Ministry of the enclave.

Six Palestinians were killed and 23 injured in Israeli attacks on Gaza over the latest 24-hour reporting period as Israel’s military continues to violate a “ceasefire” signed in October.

Another Palestinian died from wounds sustained in a previous attack.

Israel has killed at least 1,230 people and wounded 4,076 since the “ceasefire” went into effect, the ministry said.

Doctor in Gaza says Israel conducting ‘slow genocide’

Emergency physicist James Smith says that Gaza’s healthcare system has virtually collapsed, even as Israel continues to target medical facilities.

Smith, who spoke from southern Gaza’s al-Mawasi area, confirmed reports that one such facility, a medical warehouse housing crucial pharmaceuticals already running low, was hit on Saturday.

“It’s horrific … the building [where we were] shook when the strike hit,” the doctor said, accusing Israel of “deliberately undermining” Gaza’s healthcare system for three years. “We must be absolutely clear about what’s being done here, which is slow genocide: the strangulation of the healthcare system with immediate and intergenerational impact on the health and wellbeing of the Palestinian people,” Smith said.

Patients attending hospitals with a range of symptoms can get only a few paracetamol tablets because of the lack of medication, and many cannot afford to buy them at high prices on private markets, he said.

Only 1.6 percent of aid entering Gaza since last year was for the health sector, Smith said, although essential medicines are already at a critically low level.

“So, if you target a medical warehouse like this, destroying medical consumables, destroying medication, and of course targeting people within the immediate vicinity, killing and injuring people in the tents adjacent to the warehouse, the impact is massive, and it’s far beyond the immediate violence inflicted by the air strike alone,” he said.

Meanwhile, living conditions remain dire in the enclave, with people living in shelters with water and sanitation systems broken down. Food aid entering the Gaza Strip, the physicist noted, is of “extremely low quality”, and his facility diagnoses children with malnutrition on a weekly basis.

"We must be absolutely clear about what’s being done here, which is slow genocide: the strangulation of the healthcare system with immediate and intergenerational impact on the health and wellbeing of the Palestinian people..”

Slow genocide or slow-motion genocide is a definition to describe situations where the destruction of a population unfolds over a long period through systemic blockades, displacement, and continuous insecurity rather than rapid mass executions.

The deliberate destruction of Gaza's healthcare system can be classified as a component of genocide, specifically under legal definitions regarding the intentional infliction of conditions of life calculated to bring about a group's physical destruction.

Gaza latest death toll rises to at least 18 as Israeli attacks continue

The latest death toll in Gaza has risen to at least 18 as Israeli attacks continue in the besieged territory.

They include four Palestinians who were killed in an Israeli air attack on a car in the Saraya area in central Gaza City.

Since the first documentation of  an Israeli attack on vehicles on October 30, 2023  - a civilian car with driver inside was fired upon by an Israeli tank on Salah Al Din road - there has been 267 of such attacks documented. Most of them by armed drone and claimed as "Hamas" without providing any evidence.

Gaza shelter crisis reaching ‘catastrophic phase’

Gaza’s Ministry of Public Works and Housing says nearly 410,000 residential units have been partially or completely destroyed since Israel started its genocide of the Palestinian territory in October 2023, according to the Qatar News Agency (QNA).

The ministry warns that the shelter crisis in the Strip could reach a “catastrophic phase”, with more than 350,000 Palestinian families in dire need of temporary shelters.

Two million displaced Palestinians have struggled to find shelter amid Gaza’s 60 million tonnes of rubble, according to the ministry.

Hamas delegation meets PIJ leader in Cairo

Hamas says a delegation led by Zaher Jabarin, its leader in the occupied West Bank, met Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) officials — led by secretary-general Ziyad al-Nakhalah — in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, on Saturday.

In a statement on its Telegram channel, Hamas said the two groups stressed the necessity of compelling Israel to stop its “aggression” and fully withdraw from Gaza. During the meeting, officials also discussed “the escalating situation in the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem, the crimes and accelerated Judaization operations being carried out by the occupation, and the intensified crimes against prisoners”.

They emphasized “developing joint action and unified national positions, and exerting all efforts to protect the Palestinian people and restore their legitimate rights”, it said.

The statement said Khalil al-Hayya, head of Hamas’s political bureau, and al-Nakhalah held a telephone call during the meeting, stressing the need to support the Palestinian people and end Israel’s ongoing “aggression”.

Israel not happy with Hamas disarmament deal

Israel is “absolutely not” happy about the US-brokered deal that has seen Hamas agree to disband, former Israeli Ambassador Alon Pinkas said.

That’s evident in how Israeli attacks have intensified in Gaza in the last 48 hours following the announcement, and the fact that Israel has officially submitted a reservation to President Trump’s Board of Peace, he said.

“Israel is presented with a situation where the US president says there’s an agreement but there isn’t really an agreement, and so I am extraordinarily skeptical that this is going to work out,” Pinkas added.

For Netanyahu, Trump’s agreement with Hamas represents a “colossal failure”, the former ambassador said, and so does the “failed war in Iran”.

Netanyahu, who faces elections in October, is “going to have to somehow sugarcoat what’s going on in Gaza” to domestic audiences, Pinkas noted.

Following Hamas’ concession, Israel is required to withdraw to the so-called Yellow Line buffer zone, allow humanitarian aid unimpeded into Gaza and stop attacks on the Strip, but none of that has happened since the deal was announced on Friday, he said.

Gaza deal leaves key questions unanswered

Former Israeli diplomat Alon Pinkas says the process adopted by the Gaza Board of Peace to disarm Hamas in exchange for an Israeli withdrawal from the Strip is “untethered from reality”.

“The agreement does not specify the sequence,” Pinkas said.

“What comes first? The Israeli withdrawal, or Hamas disarmament? That’s a big deal, and that helps Netanyahu to say, I gave it my best, I gave my assurances… but Hamas refused to disarm.

“At the same time, if you look at the agreement itself, it puts the onus of proof on Israel,” he said.

“Israel needs to withdraw to the original so-called ‘Yellow Line’ [which demarcates the areas Israel has occupied in Gaza], which is far away from where it is today. Israel now effectively controls anywhere between 60 and 70 percent of Gaza. Israel is supposed to allow humanitarian aid to enter Gaza unimpeded, and Israel is supposed to stop attacks. What we’ve seen in the last 48 hours is anything but those three issues.”

‘Israel doesn’t accept the new terms of this peace deal’ on Gaza

Israel’s escalatory strikes in Gaza show it is not serious about implementing the second phase of the Board of Peace agreement, despite Washington’s insistence otherwise, says Sydney-based journalist Antony Loewenstein, the author of The Palestine Laboratory, a book on Israel’s arms and surveillance industry.

“Israel doesn’t accept the new terms of this peace deal,” Loewenstein told Al Jazeera.

“The question, as is often the case in these situations, is the US willing to apply necessary pressure on Israel to stop?

“History would suggest the answer is likely no. The fact is that Israel as a whole, including many of its people, do not want any resolution, with the elections due in Israel in October. Whether it be Netanyahu or Naftali Bennett or others, all have the same ideas on this issue. There are nuances on the margins, but they all think very similarly,” he said.

“So what Israel is doing is business as usual. The US, thus far, has applied no pressure, and Israel is getting away with it. So the question is: Will Trump change that? Skepticism is warranted, as usual.”

Israel raised ‘serious concerns’ with US over Hamas deal: Netanyahu aide

Israel has raised “serious security concerns” with the White House over a proposed disarmament deal with Hamas, an Israeli official said, as strikes killed at least 17 people, including children, in Gaza.

Netanyahu’s spokesperson, Doron Spielman, told AP on Sunday that Israeli forces would not withdraw from Gaza before Hamas gives up its weapons.

“Our assessment is that if we redeploy before Hamas is truly disarmed, it will quickly expand its presence throughout Gaza … and seek to carry out another October 7-style attack,” he said.

“Disarming means physically giving up the weapons. Nothing less,” Spielman added.

Israel’s Smotrich calls for construction of 3 settlements near Gaza

Far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has called on the government to approve the construction of three settlements on the northern fence of the Gaza Strip.

In a statement on X, Smotrich, who also leads Israel’s Settlements Administration, said Israelis are returning to previously evacuated settlements built on seized Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank.

The Israeli minister claimed that they would not only return to the settlements evacuated in 2005, but would also establish more settlements in the occupied West Bank.

“The Settlements Administration under my leadership is prepared to establish 3 settlements in the northern sector of the Gaza Strip, and I call on the Prime Minister to give the green light to the move,” he said, addressing Benjamin Netanyahu.

A withdrawal was carried out in 2005 by the government of then Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. As part of Israel’s unilateral withdrawal plan, settlements and military camps in Gaza, as well as four settlements in the northern occupied West Bank, were evacuated.

Minister says Israel should take ‘full control’ of Gaza

Israeli Energy Minister Eli Cohen says Israel, which controls 70 percent of Gaza, should take “full control” of the Palestinian enclave.

Cohen also said there was no deal to halt attacks on Gaza. He is the latest senior Israeli leader to voice resistance to a US-brokered deal with Hamas that would see the group disarm.

Far-right Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir earlier dismissed the draft of the deal as “not acceptable”.

Israeli minister says army will not withdraw from Gaza

Israeli mini-cabinet minister Ze’ev Elkin says that the army will not withdraw from Gaza before Hamas’s weapons are dismantled, adding that there was “no change in our policy toward Gaza”.

“There is doubt that this will happen,” he said.

On Trump’s decision to cancel attacks on Iran, Elkin said that Trump’s “primary target is the Strait of Hormuz, and this is his method of negotiation.”

His comments come amid backlash from Israeli ministers after Hamas agreed on Friday to a draft plan to disarm as part of the second stage of the ceasefire, which would also see Israeli forces withdrawing from the enclave.

Earlier, Israeli Energy Minister Eli Cohen said Israel, which controls 70 per cent of Gaza, should take “full control” of the enclave, and far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir dismissed the draft deal as “not acceptable”.

Board of Peace chief says mediators working ‘around the clock’ on Gaza

Two days of Israeli attacks on Gaza have killed Palestinians and “destroyed medical supplies”, says the director general of the US-backed Board of Peace and International Stabilization Force.

Nickolay Mladenov said the attacks follow “intense efforts” by the board, the US, Egypt, Qatar and Turkiye to get Palestinian factions to agree to a roadmap to implement Trump’s plan to “hand over civilian governance and to decommission their weapons.”

“Both parties carry obligations under the Comprehensive Plan and the Sharm El Sheikh deal that secured the release of all hostages. My team and I are working around the clock with the parties, the mediators and regional partners to de-escalate and create the space for the full implementation of the president’s plan,” he posted on X.

“Achieving a lasting peace is hard but achievable if everyone makes their best efforts,” Mladenov added.

Israeli forces detain 5 Palestinians in occupied West Bank

Israeli forces have detained three Palestinians in the Dheisheh refugee camp, south of Bethlehem, and two in Nablus, according to the Wafa news agency.

The agency said Israeli forces raided homes in central Bethlehem and threatening signs were posted on the walls of the Salah al-Din Mosque in the area.

Raids across the occupied West Bank intensified this past week. Israeli soldiers and colonists attacked homes, farmland and other property. Israeli forces have reportedly used live fire, stun grenades and tear gas in the raids.

Attacks have focused in particular on the village of Tal, southwest of Nablus, where deadly colonist violence last week led to the killing of four Palestinians and two Israelis.

Several homes have been seized in the village and turned into military outposts since Thursday.

Dozens of Palestinians have been injured in the raids so far, including children. Several others have been detained.

Israeli forces issue demolition notices in occupied West Bank

Israeli forces have issued demolition notices for seven homes in the occupied West Bank town of Nahalin, west of Bethlehem, according to the Wafa news agency.

The verbal announcements were issued during a raid on the town early this morning, Wafa reported, quoting Mayor Naeem Fanoun.

Israeli troops and colonists have recently intensified raids and attacks on areas across the occupied West Bank, with Palestinians killed, injured or arrested as well as homes set on fire and agricultural land destroyed.

US Arabs eye ‘historic’ Senate win for Abdul El-Sayed despite AIPAC attacks

Suehaila Amen’s voice trembles when she speaks about the plight of south Lebanon, where Israel is systematically wiping out entire villages. She struggles to hold back tears.

Amen, a prominent local activist, says the large Arab American community in Michigan is suffering from shock, pain and exhaustion after nearly three years of war, mass killings and destruction in Palestine and Lebanon.

“To say the community is hurting is really an understatement. Even in answering this question, I’m brought to tears because I lived there,” she said of Bint Jbail, one of the border towns in Lebanon that has been leveled by Israeli forces.

“This is my land too — my ancestral homeland. People are feeling like they are disregarded, that their lives don’t matter.”

In the middle of this despair, Amen said she has found a beacon of hope in the rise of politicians across the United States who are calling for an end to government support for Israel.

Israeli colonists injure Palestinian man in occupied West Bank’s Masafer Yatta

A group of Israeli colonists injured a Palestinian man during an attack in Masafer Yatta, the occupied West Bank, according to the Wafa news agency.

According to local activist Osama Makhamra, colonists stopped Adham Al-Wawi’s car in the Wadi Ma’in area of Masafer Yatta and assaulted him, causing him to suffer from injuries and bruises. His car was also smashed.

Al-Wawi was later transferred to a hospital for treatment.

At the same time, Israeli forces paved and expanded a road for the illegal outpost in Jabal al-Qarn, located between the town of Beit Ummar and the Arroub refugee camp, north of Hebron.

They also confiscated a car at the entrance to the town of Idhna, west of Hebron, and prevented Palestinians from accessing the area.

Happened in the occupied West Bank

• Soldiers stormed the village of Al-Madiya, west of Ramallah
• Illegal colonist carried out acts of vandalism and provoked citizens in several areas of the Ramallah and Al-Bireh Governorate
• Colonist attacked a Palestinian bus driver in occupied Jerusalem, injuring him and requiring him to be taken to the hospital

Israeli forces storm town of Kafr Haris, occupied West Bank

Israeli forces have stormed the town of Kafr Haris, northwest of Salfit in the occupied West Bank.

According to local sources, Israeli military vehicles raided the town to secure it for settlers to storm it and perform Talmudic rituals at religious sites.

Attacks by illegal settlers have seen an unprecedented rise in the occupied West Bank, with their property and agricultural lands being targeted all under the protection of the army and with political cover from the government.