Above photo: Palestinian families migrate to the southern parts of the Gaza Strip by way of Salah al-Din Street after Israeli attacks in Gaza City, July 10, 2024. Omar Ashtawy/APA Images.
Israel ordered Gaza City residents to leave as Shuja’iyya has become “uninhabitable.”
Meanwhile, ceasefire talks are set to continue in Egypt as Netanyahu is accused of sabotaging a potential deal.
Casualties
- 38,345 + killed* and at least 88,295 wounded in the Gaza Strip. Among the dead, 28,428 have been fully identified. These include 7,779 children, 5466 women, and 2418 elderly people as of May 1. In addition, around 10,000 more are estimated to be under the rubble.*
- 572+ Palestinians killed in the occupied West Bank including eastern Jerusalem. These include 137 children.**
- Israel revised its estimated October 7 death toll down from 1,400 to 1,140.
- 681 Israeli soldiers have been recognized as killed, and 4096 as wounded by the Israeli army since October 7.***
* Gaza’s branch of the Palestinian Ministry of Health confirmed this figure in its daily report, published through its WhatsApp channel on July 11, 2024. Some rights groups estimate the death toll to be much higher when accounting for those presumed dead.
** The death toll in the West Bank and Jerusalem is not updated regularly. According to the Palestinian Ministry of Health on July 10, this is the latest figure.
*** These figures are released by the Israeli military, showing the soldiers whose names “were allowed to be published.” The number of Israeli soldiers wounded according to declarations by the head of the Israeli army’s wounded association to Israel’s Channel 12 exceeds 20,000 including at least 8,000 permanently handicapped as of June 1. Israel’s Channel 7 reported that according to the Israeli war ministry’s rehabilitation service numbers, 8,663 new wounded joined the army’s handicap rehabilitation system since October 7, as of June 18.
Key Developments
- Israel kills 192 Palestinians, wounds 467 across Gaza since Monday, July 8, raising death toll since October 7 to 38,345 and number of wounded to 88,295, according to Gaza health ministry.
- Israeli delegation returns from Qatar to update Israel’s government after high level meeting to restart ceasefire talks.
- Hamas accuses Israel of prolonging talks in order to make them fail.
- Netanyahu says that the war will continue until destruction of Hamas and release of Israeli captives, says Netanyahu says any deal must allow Israel to resume war.
- U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan says that Wahington sees chance to reach ceasefire deal in Gaza.
- Israeli army chief of staff says army gave results of investigation into October 7 events at Kibbutz Beeri to residents.
- Israeli army says 12 soldiers wounded in past 24 hours, including seven in Gaza.
- PFLP calls for trying U.S. president Biden in international courts for complicity in Gaza genocide.
- Palestinian Civil Defense in Gaza says Shuja’iyya has become uninhabitable after latest Israeli assault, says it has recovered over 60 dead bodies from Shuja’iyya so far, where Israel conducted a new invasion on June 26 two weeks ago.
- Israeli forces kill Palestinian child during raid in village of Deir Abu Mishaal, west of Ramallah.
- Israeli forces raid Nur Shams refugee camp in Tulkarem for 18 hours, destroy infrastructure.
- Israeli forces uproot 150 newly-planted trees, bulldoze 20 dunams of farmland in village of Haris near Salfit, West Bank.
- Secretary-General of Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, says in speech that war on Lebanese front will only end if war on Gaza ends, says that Hezbollah will accept any deal accepted by Hamas for ending war.
‘Chance’ To Achieve Ceasefire Deal As Talks Set To Continue In Qatar
The Israeli negotiations team returned from Qatar after the first meetings of the resumed ceasefire talks on Wednesday to update the government ahead of upcoming talks in Cairo, Israel’s Channel 12 reported.
On Wednesday, the heads of the Israeli Mossad, the CIA, and the Egyptian intelligence met in Doha with Qatar’s Prime Minister to discuss a potential deal with Hamas, as several Israeli and U.S. sources reported “progress” in the talks to reach a deal with the Palestinian group. In Washington, U.S. National Security Advisor, Jake Sullivan, said that Washington sees an opportunity to reach a ceasefire and prisoners’ exchange deal in Gaza.
Meanwhile, the Israeli news site, Walla, quoted an unnamed Israeli official involved in the talks saying that the remaining issues to reach an agreement on are the return of displaced Palestinians to the northern Gaza Strip, the names of high-ranking Palestinian prisoners to be released, and the Israeli withdrawal from the Philadelphi corridor along the Egyptian border.
For its part, Hamas said in a statement that Israel is prolonging the talks in order to sabotage them. The group added that it had not informed mediators of any updates regarding the talks.
Last week, Israeli media reported that leaders of Israeli security branches were “shocked” at Netanyahu’s statements setting preconditions for a deal. Israeli daily Haaretz also published a report saying that Netanyahu had used sensitive intelligence information and leaked it to the media in order to sabotage previous talks in recent months.
Netanyahu, who leads a fragile government coalition with allies opposed to ending the war, said on Wednesday that any coming deal must allow Israel to resume the war after releasing its captives, and that the war “will continue to achieve its goals.”
Israel Destroys Shuja’Yya, Tells Palestinians In Gaza City To Leave
The Israeli army has made the Shujaiyeh neighborhood east of Gaza City “uninhabitable” after its destruction in the ongoing assault, which Israel began in the neighborhood two weeks ago, the Palestinian Civil Defense said on Thursday.
The Civil Defense added that its teams had been able to recover at least 60 dead bodies from some areas of Shuja’iyya, while indicating that Israeli forces were blocking the Civil Defense and medical teams from reaching parts of the neighborhood. The Israeli army launched a surprise attack on Shuja’iyya on June 26, forcing thousands to flee their homes.
Israel had attacked Shuja’iyya in December of last year and confronted heavy resistance from Palestinian groups. Fighting between Israeli forces and Palestinian resistance groups in Shuja’iyya broke out again since the beginning of the current assault. Last week, the Israeli army admitted that two of its officers were killed in Shuja’iyya.
Israeli renewed its ground assault on Gaza City last week, pushing forces into the western parts of the city. On Wednesday, Israeli forces dropped leaflets in Gaza City, telling residents to flee south to Deir al-Balah. Israeli strikes also intensified on the city’s neighborhoods, such as the Daraj, Tal al-Hawa, and Sabra neighborhoods.
In the south of the Strip, Israeli forces killed at least 29 Palestinians in a bombing of a school sheltering displaced families in Abasan, east of Khan Younis, and wounded 53. CNN reported that the remains of Israeli bombs used in the Abasan massacre show that they were US-made GBU-39 bombs. On Wednesday, the Wall Street Journal reported that the Biden administration decided to send new 500-pound bombs to Israel.