July 7, 2024
- At least six Palestinian civilians have been killed in an Israeli air raid on Gaza City’s Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood, with three more bodies recovered from a bombed house in the al-Mina neighbourhood of the northern city.
- In central Gaza, Israel has killed at least six people in a bombing of a home in the town of az-Zawayda, near Deir el-Balah.
- In the south, the bodies of three handcuffed Palestinians have been recovered east of Rafah, according to Al Jazeera’s team on the ground.
- Dead and wounded Palestinians swamp Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in central Gaza after an Israeli attack on the Nuseirat refugee camp killed 16 people and injured 75 others.
- Israeli activists stage “a day of disruption” to mark nine months since Hamas’s October 7 attacks, putting pressure on their government to call for elections as well as return Israeli captives from Gaza.
- At least 38,153 people have been killed and 87,828 wounded in Israel’s war on Gaza since October 7. The death toll in Israel from the Hamas-led attacks is estimated at 1,139, with dozens of people still held captive in Gaza.
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Killed |
Wounded |
Missing |
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38,098 |
87,705 |
11,000 |
- A Likud official said that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu may not proceed with ceasefire talks if they lead to early elections. This statement confirms the results of yesterday’s poll in Israel where the majority of Israelis believe that Netanyahu’s actions in Gaza are motivated by personal concerns.
- Meanwhile, Israel continued to bomb Palestinians throughout the Strip, including schools, refugee encampments and even the Khan Yunis municipality building.
- Palestinian and Lebanese Resistance also continued to score direct hits against invading Israelis in Gaza and Israeli targets in the north as well.
- According to Gaza’s Ministry of Health, 38,098 Palestinians have been killed, and 87,705 wounded in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza starting on October 7.
LATEST
UPDATES
Sunday,
July 7, 5:00 pm (Gmt+2)
ISRAELI
ARMY: 5 soldiers were injured in the past 24 hours, 4 of them in the Gaza
battles.
PALESTINIAN
MEDIA: A second Israeli raid targeted the Holy Family School in the Al-Rimal
neighborhood in western Gaza, destroying parts of it.
NETANYAHU’S
OFFICE: The Cabinet approved extending the evacuation period for residents of
the Gaza Envelope towns and the northern towns until the end of August.
DIRECTOR
OF KAMAN ADWAN HOSPITAL: Hospital service will stop within hours if fuel is not
available in northern Gaza.
ISREAL
FIRE AND RESCUE SERVICE: Our teams are dealing with 3 fires after rockets fell
in the Upper and Lower Galilee.
AL-JAZEERA:
The Undersecretary of the Ministry of Labor in Gaza, Eng. Ihab Al-Ghussein was
killed in an Israeli raid west of Gaza City.
GALLANT:
We will recruit more than 3,000 Haredim for urgent needs.
Sunday,
July 7, 4:00 pm (Gmt+2)
MEDICAL
SOURCES: The death toll resulting from the ongoing Israeli bombing of the Gaza
Strip since dawn today has risen to 27.
BRITISH
PM’S SPOKESWOMAN: Starmer stressed to Netanyahu the need for a ceasefire in
Gaza.
ISRAELI
MEDIA: Netanyahu attacks Galant over the Haredi laws and the extension of
military service.
HEZBOLLAH:
We bombed a movement of Israeli soldiers at the Birkat al-Risha site.
Sunday,
July 7, 3:00 pm (Gmt+2)
GAZA
CIVIL DEFENSE: Israeli aircraft bombed the “Holy Family” school west of Gaza
City, while sources confirmed to Al Jazeera that there were martyrs and
wounded.
HERZOG:
The absolute majority of Israelis support the prisoner exchange deal.
AL-QUDS
BRIGADES: We bombed the occupation soldiers at the Rafah crossing.
ERDOGAN:
Israel
must stop spreading conflicts in the region, and Western countries and
Washington must stop supporting Israel.
ISRAELI
MEDIA: 5 soldiers were injured – one of them in critical condition – in
Hezbollah shelling that targeted the Lower Galilee region earlier this morning.
AL-QUDS
BRIGADES: We are engaged in fierce clashes with the occupation in Rafah.
ISRAELI
ARMY RADIO: 60 rockets were fired at Mount Meron in northern Israel from
southern Lebanon during the past hours, as part of Hezbollah’s response to the
occupation’s assassination of one of its fighters yesterday, Saturday.
Sunday,
July 7, 2:00 pm (Gmt+2)
AL-QASSAM
BRIGADES: Our fighters targeted an Israeli Merkava 4 tank and an Israeli
armored personnel carrier with Al-Yassin 105 shells in the Tel Al-Sultan
neighborhood in the city of Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip.
HEZBOLLAH:
Hezbollah said it had bombed the headquarters of the air operations and
monitoring unit at the Meron base on Mount Jermak in northern Israel with
dozens of Katyusha rockets, amid the heavy exchange of fire witnessed on the
Lebanese-Israeli border in recent hours.
Sunday,
July 7, 1:00 pm (Gmt+2)
YEDIOTH
AHRONOTH: 10 firefighting teams and 6 aircraft are working in the Lower Galilee
region to extinguish fires resulting from missiles launched from southern
Lebanon.
HEZBOLLAH:
Our fighters bombed the Israeli al-Baghdadi site with rockets and achieved a
direct hit.
ISRAELI
MEDIA: Israeli media reported the killing of an Israeli engineering soldier in
the northern Gaza Strip.
PALESTINIAN
MEDIA: Two Palestinians were killed in artillery shelling of the Wadi Gaza area
in the central Gaza Strip.
ISRAELI
ARMY RADIO: Seven protesters against Benjamin Netanyahu’s government were
arrested in various parts of Israel during demonstrations in front of
ministers’ homes to demand an immediate conclusion of the exchange deal after
the resumption of talks.
PALESTINIAN
MEDIA: Two people were killed in an Israeli raid on Street 8, south of Al-Sabra
neighborhood in Gaza City.
Sunday,
July 7, 12:00 pm (Gmt+2)
AL-QASSAM
BRIGADES: Our fighters targeted a Merkava tank with a Yassin 105 shell on
Baghdad Street in the Shejaiyya neighborhood east of Gaza City.
LIKUD
OFFICIAL: Netanyahu may not accept a deal if it leads to early elections.
MEDICAL
SOURCES: 15 Palestinians were killed in ongoing Israeli shelling of various
areas in the Gaza Strip since dawn on Sunday.
AL-JAZEERA:
Israeli warplanes launched a raid on the town of Maaroub in Tyre district and
the town of Aita al-Shaab in southern Lebanon.
HEZBOLLAH:
We bombed the Nimra base west of Tiberias with Katyusha rockets.
ISRAELI
ARMY: The Israeli army reported monitoring about 20 launches from Lebanon into
the Lower Galilee region, some of which were successfully intercepted.
Sunday,
July 7, 11:00 am (Gmt+2)
ISRAELI
AMBULANCE SERVICE: An Israeli was seriously injured in the town of Kfar Zeitim
and several fires broke out in the vicinity of Tiberias in northern Israel.
ISRAELI
ARMY: The Israeli army said it had detected dozens of rocket and mortar attacks
from Lebanon towards Israel over the past hour.
ISRAELI
ARMY: The Israeli occupation army announced that it bombed the Khan Yunis
municipality building last night, claiming that Hamas was using it for military
purposes.
AL-JAZEERA:
Israeli interceptor missiles exploded in the airspace of border villages in the
central sector of southern Lebanon.
Sunday,
July 7, 10:00 am (Gmt+2)
LAPID:
We need to stop the war, make a deal and bring back the detainees.
HEZBOLLAH:
We targeted the espionage equipment at the Raheb site.
PALESTINIAN
MEDIA: 3 Palestinians were killed in an Israeli bombardment that targeted a
house in the Mina neighborhood, west of Gaza City.
Sunday,
July 7, 09:00 am (Gmt+2)
PALESTINIAN
MEDIA: Heavy artillery shelling around the prisoners’ towers west of Nuseirat,
while the occupation helicopters fired heavy fire east of Deir al-Balah in the
central Gaza Strip.
AL-JAZEERA:
4 Palestinians were injured in an Israeli air strike that targeted an apartment
in the Al-Tuffah neighborhood, east of Gaza City.
ISRAELI
MEDIA: Demonstrations are taking place in front of the homes of 18 Israeli
ministers, noting that a Likud Knesset member is demanding the overthrow of
Netanyahu and his government and the conclusion of a prisoner exchange deal.
AL-JAZEERA:
Israeli artillery shelling targeted the outskirts of the towns of Yaroun and
Maroun al-Ras in southern Lebanon.
Sunday,
July 7, 08:00 am (Gmt+2)
HAARETZ:
The army ordered the activation of a protocol to kill the kidnapper and the
kidnapped on October 7.
CHANNEL
12 (citing Mossad source): There is great hope of reaching a deal that will
return the captives.
AL-JAZEERA:
Protests are escalating in Israel to demand the release of detainees in Gaza,
before the demands of these demonstrations – some of which are identical to
those of the Israeli opposition – expand to call for the overthrow of
Netanyahu’s government, the dissolution of the Knesset, and early elections.
Demonstrators closed the main Ayalon Street in the greater Tel Aviv area in
central Israel.
Sunday,
July 7, 07:00 am (Gmt+2)
GAZA
CIVIL DEFENSE: The crews recovered the bodies of 3 Palestinians at dawn today,
who were killed as a result of the Israeli occupation bombing of a house in the
Al-Mina neighborhood, west of Gaza City.
Sunday,
July 7, 04:00 am (Gmt+2)
HAMAS:
Systematic targeting of schools is a challenge to civilian protection laws.
Sunday,
July 7, 03:00 am (Gmt+2)
PALESTINIAN
MEDIA: Israeli occupation army bombed the home of the Jawada family in the
Al-Zawaida area in the central Gaza Strip early Sunday morning, killing six
Palestinians and wounding a number of others.
Sunday,
July 7, 02:00 am (Gmt+2)
AL-JAZEERA:
Israeli occupation forces launched raids on various areas in Khan Yunis, south
of the Gaza Strip.
GAZA
CIVIL DEFENSE: 3 Palestinians were killed and 15 injured when an Israeli
aircraft bombed a house north of Gaza City.
PALESTINIAN
MEDIA: Israeli raid targets northern Nuseirat camp.
CHANNEL
12 POLL: 54% of Israelis believe war is continuing due to Netanyahu’s political
considerations.
Sunday,
July 7, 01:00 am (Gmt+2)
CHANNEL
14 (Citing Israeli officers): Israeli forces will not withdraw from Gaza
completely. The army will not withdraw from the Netzarim and Philadelphi axes.
Inaam Adib Barkouk
Israel has used all means to target
Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip, in addition to internationally
prohibited weapons that wiped out people, trees and stones, Israeli forces have
randomly arrested thousands of civilians including women and children, doctors,
journalists from different areas of the Strip during the ground military
operations since the beginning of the war. And the violations did not stop
there, as they turned into enforced disappearances, with families left with no
information about the fate of their loved ones.
What is enforced disappearance?
Enforced disappearance means making a
person disappear beyond his or her will, and the International Convention for
the Protection of all person from Enforced Disappearance defines it as “the
arrest, detention, kidnapping or any form of deprivation of liberty carried out
by state officials, or by persons or groups of individuals acting with or
without permission support or approval by the state followed by a refusal to
acknowledge the deprivation of a person’s liberty or concealment of the fate or
whereabouts of the disappeared person this depriving him of the protection of
the law.”
It is a strategic method that dates
back centuries and was a feature of dictatorships in Latin America and is used
in wars to spread terror in society as a whole, but Israel claims it is
arresting fighters or people connected to Hamas to investigate them. This is
false. Israel’s first and primary goal is to violate the civil rights of
Palestinian civilians and deliberately humiliate them, and undermine their
freedom in a manner that violates humanitarian and legal standards. This is
what was revealed in the testimonies of released Palestinian detainees from
Gaza Strip, who spoke of the horrors of their detention and of systematic
torture based on preventing them from food and drink, and subjecting them to
insults and other abuses which constitute a violation of international laws.
Field executions were also carried out
and bodies were found in mass graves, handcuffed and blindfolded in different
areas of Gaza Strip.
Israel’s second goal is to
psychologically torture the families of the detainees, who are left with no
details of the fate of their children after their arrest. Enforced
disappearance causes anxiety and despair to the families of those detained and
increases their suffering.
Enforced disappearance and
international criminal law
The occupation is practicing a
systematic policy of enforced disappearance coupled with an organised plan to
arrest unarmed civilians in Gaza, while refusing to acknowledge the deprivation
of the freedom and the protection guaranteed to them by law. According to the
head of the High Commission for Human Rights in the Palestinian Territories,
the Israeli occupation army rejected a UN request to provide information about
their fate or place of detention.
After more than 270 days of the war on
Gaza, we have not seen serious action from ICC; this international silence has
emboldened the occupation state to continue its policy of enforced
disappearance and increase Palestinian suffering.
The views expressed in this article
belong to the author and do not necessarily reflect the editorial policy of
Middle East Monitor or Informed Comment.
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