Gaza
Israel Strikes Gaza After Displacement Orders
Israeli strikes killed at least two Palestinians in Gaza on Thursday, hours after the military issued evacuation orders for four areas and then hit those same locations, according to Al Jazeera. Israeli air strikes destroyed homes in the Bureij and Jabalia refugee camps and in Gaza City's Zeitoun and Tal al-Hawa neighborhoods. In contrast, a separate strike on a building in Zeitoun injured several people, a source at al-Ahli Hospital said. The Israeli military says such strikes target militant infrastructure and accuses Hamas of embedding fighters and weapons among civilian sites.This is not an isolated pattern. The UN Human Rights Office has said Israel's evacuation-order practice raises serious concerns that it intends to permanently clear civilian populations from parts of Gaza to create a buffer zone, which would amount to forcible transfer, a grave breach of the Fourth Geneva Convention, according to OHCHR. The strikes come despite a US-brokered "ceasefire"…
Israeli Strikes Kill 11 in Gaza Despite Ceasefire
Israeli strikes killed at least 11 people across the Gaza Strip late Saturday, including a family of five, in one of the deadliest single days since the October ceasefire took effect, according to Daily Sabah.A family of five, three children and their parents, was killed when a strike hit a residential apartment in northwest Gaza City, according to Gaza's civil defense agency. The family's only surviving member was a child who was not home at the time. Al-Shifa Hospital confirmed it received the five bodies, and an Israeli military spokeswoman said the strike had targeted a Hamas member, according to Daily Sabah.Three more people were killed when a strike hit a group of civilians in Gaza City's Zeitoun neighborhood. Hours later, a woman died after Israeli artillery shelling, rather than an airstrike, hit a tent sheltering displaced people east of the neighborhood, with al-Ahli Hospital confirming it received her body…
1,120 Dead in Gaza Since Ceasefire Began
Israeli attacks killed at least five Palestinians across Gaza on Thursday, according to Al Jazeera, continuing a pattern of near-daily violence nine months into a ceasefire meant to end the war. Strikes hit Tuffah in Gaza City, a displacement camp in western Gaza City, and Khan Younis, among other locations.Israeli forces withdrew to a "Yellow Line" under the ceasefire's first phase, covering roughly 53 percent of Gaza, according to Gisha. A newer "Orange Line" has since pushed that boundary further west, displacing families in Khan Younis, eastern Gaza City, and the north. The UN's humanitarian office says roughly 200 Palestinians have been killed near these shifting, often unmarked lines since October, according to NPR/Houston Public Media. The IDF says the strikes target individuals who cross the line and approach troops despite warnings, describing some as Hamas-linked; Hamas has denied involvement in specific cited incidents.Gaza's civil administration has also come under…
Morocco Joins Gaza Stabilization Force as Peace Stalls
Morocco signed an agreement in Rabat on July 15 to join the planned International Stabilization Force (ISF) for Gaza — a postwar security framework taking shape while the peace it is meant to support remains unsettled.The signing was attended by Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita, senior defence officials, Board of Peace envoy for Gaza Nickolay Mladenov and the force's commander, Moroccan state media reported, according to Reuters.Rabat plans to contribute senior officers, police and gendarmerie personnel and a military field hospital, joining Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Kosovo and Albania among five nations committed to the US-backed force. None had deployed as of July 15. Officials familiar with Board of Peace planning told The Times of Israel that Morocco is slated to deploy first, securing a projected humanitarian pilot zone in southern Gaza.The UN Security Council authorized the ISF in November 2025 to protect civilians, support demilitarization and accompany a gradual Israeli withdrawal. Many…
EU and Partners Launch $1 Billion Gaza Recovery Initiative
The European Union and 15 international partners launched the Team Gaza Initiative on July 13, committing an initial €883.6 million (about $1 billion) for early recovery projects, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced at the second Palestine Donor Group meeting in Brussels.The sum covers roughly 1.4% of the $71.4 billion in recovery and reconstruction needs identified in the April 2026 Rapid Damage and Needs Assessment (RDNA), jointly prepared by the European Union, the United Nations and the World Bank. The scale of that funding gap explains why the initiative focuses on restoring essential services – including debris removal, water and sanitation repairs, and basic healthcare – rather than financing large-scale reconstruction.Large-scale rebuilding remains heavily constrained by Israeli import controls. Israel classifies cement, steel and heavy construction machinery as "dual-use" goods requiring case-by-case approval, according to the Israeli rights organization Gisha, giving Israeli authorities effective control over the pace…
Gaza’s New Government Doesn’t Control the Land, the Water, or the Line That Keeps Moving
Call it what it is. The agricultural collapse in Gaza, with 94% to 96% of farmland destroyed or unreachable, is not a difficult early challenge for the territory’s new governing bodies to manage. It is a structural veto on the possibility of Palestinian self-governance in the near term. The National Committee for the Administration of Gaza (NCAG), the Palestinian technocratic body led by Dr. Ali Shaath, cannot administer a territory where the physical means of feeding its population, arable land and water, sit partitioned behind an Israeli military line that keeps moving forward. That is not a metaphor. It is the literal cartographic situation as of mid-2026.Gaza`s Systemic Chokepoint MapThe Line That Keeps MovingThe ceasefire that took effect in October 2025 established the "Yellow Line," an Israeli withdrawal boundary covering roughly 58% of Gaza. It did not stay fixed. By late March 2026, new maps distributed to aid agencies showed an…
