Updates: Israel unleashes new wave of deadly air strikes on Gaza

For the latest developments on the Gaza ceasefire negotiations, read this.

Find out more about the US imposing sanctions on UN expert Francesca Albanese over her Gaza reporting, here.

Medicide is a central part of Israel’s goal of making Palestinian life in Gaza impossible, writes Ghada Ageel, here.

And you can follow all our coverage of Israel’s war on Gaza here.

This live page will be closing soon. Here are the day’s main developments:

• Since dawn, Israeli attacks across Gaza have killed at least 74 people, medical sources told Al Jazeera.
• Talks to secure a ceasefire continue as Israel and Hamas put out statements on points of contention, including the withdrawal of Israeli troops from Gaza.
• US President Donald Trump said there is a “very good chance” of a ceasefire deal, “this week or next”.
• Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he and Trump are “in lockstep” over Gaza, but reiterated he will not accept a truce deal “at any price”.
• Hamas said it is continuing to take part in truce negotiations, and announced it would release 10 living Israeli captives during the ceasefire.
• Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza issued a desperate warning as its fuel supplies run out, with the facility in the “crucial and final hours”.
• The US imposed sanctions on the UN special rapporteur on human rights in the occupied Palestinian territory, Francesca Albanese, citing her work on Gaza.

Israeli soldiers raided the Deheishe refugee camp, south of Bethlehem, in the occupied West Bank.

According to the Wafa news agency, citing security sources, Israeli forces fired sound bombs and tear gas at residents and assaulted a kiosk owner on the Jerusalem-Hebron road.

At the same time, Israeli troops stormed the village of Kafr Qaddum, east of Qalqilya, in the occupied West Bank.

Soldiers stormed the village from its main entrance. So far, no arrests or raids have been reported.

Amnesty International’s chief has criticised the United States for imposing sanctions on UN special rapporteur Francesca Albanese.

Secretary-General Agnes Callamard defended Albanese’s investigations, saying she’s “working tirelessly to document and report on Israel’s unlawful occupation, apartheid and genocide, on the basis of international law”.

The comments follow an announcement from US Secretary of State Marco Rubio that Washington will sanction Albanese following her investigations into Israel’s war on Gaza.

Aid groups say Israeli restrictions and the breakdown of law and order have made it extremely difficult to deliver humanitarian assistance to Gaza, leading to widespread hunger and fears of famine.

In the sprawling coastal al-Mawasi area, where hundreds of thousands of people live in tents after being forcibly displaced from their homes, Abeer al-Najjar said she struggled during the constant bombardment to get food and water for her family.

“I pray to God that there would be a pause, and not just a pause where they would lie to us,” she said, referring to an earlier ceasefire that Israel broke in March. “We want a full ceasefire.”

Her husband, Ali al-Najjar, said life has been especially tough in the summer, with little access to drinking water.

“We hope this would be the end of our suffering and we can rebuild our country again,” he said, before running through a crowd with two buckets to fill them from a water truck.

Could Netanyahu’s third trip to the United States during President Donald Trump’s administration mean a truce in Gaza is close at hand?

The Take podcast speaks with Daniel Levy, the president of the US/Middle East Project and a former Israeli negotiator, about the possibility of a desperately needed ceasefire.

Listen to the discussion below:

The Israeli military announced that one of its soldiers was killed during fighting in the southern Gaza Strip.

According to the army, the soldier was killed in Khan Younis when Palestinian fighters “who emerged from underground” attempted to abduct him.

Earlier, the Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, said its fighters clashed with Israeli forces in Abasan al-Kabira, east of Khan Younis.

In a separate statement, the group said: “Our fighters advanced towards Israeli soldiers and clashed with them with light weapons, and attempted to capture one of the soldiers. However, the conditions on the ground did not permit this, so they killed him and seized his weapon.”

The Qassam Brigades also said it attacked a Merkava tank and two Israeli armoured personnel carriers with Yassin-105 rockets.

This paramedic in Gaza is trying to resuscitate a baby while driving an ambulance.

Rescue workers have been repeatedly targeted and killed by Israel’s army as they try to save victims of earlier attacks.

Relentless Israeli strikes are killing Palestinians at aid sites, schools and cafés – with more than 100 people killed in 24 hours.

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The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has warned continuing Israeli bombardment is driving up casualties, displacing civilians and destroying essential infrastructure.

More than 1,500 medical workers have been killed in Gaza since 2023, according to the Health Ministry.

In recent days, attacks on tents and residential buildings in Gaza City and Deir el-Balah killed dozens of Palestinians, including medics and their families.

“Partners working in health are providing services to those injured during these mass casualty incidents, despite very limited resources,” OCHA said.

While 11 WHO aid trucks carrying surgical supplies and other essentials entered Gaza on Tuesday, OCHA stressed it’s “a fraction of what is needed”, and called for all crossings to be opened to ensure large-scale, sustained aid delivery.

Benjamin Netanyahu says he and Donald Trump are “in lockstep” over Gaza, but insisted he will not accept a ceasefire deal “at any price”.

Speaking at the US Capitol, Netanyahu told reporters, “President Trump and I have a common goal. I want to achieve the release of our hostages. We want to end Hamas rule in Gaza. We want to make sure that Gaza does not pose a threat to Israel any more.”

Netanyahu denied Israel is attempting to forcibly expel Palestinians, saying: “It’s called the freedom of choice … If people want to leave Gaza, they should have the right to do so.”

His comments come after Israeli media reported Netanyahu told Likud lawmakers the military is demolishing every building in Gaza to push Palestinians to leave.

Crowds of people bid farewell to 10 members of the Shaaban family killed in an Israeli strike while they were inside their tent in Khan Younis.

“I found all my children dead and my daughters’ three children dead,” said Um Mohammad Shaaban, a moniker that means “Mother of Mohammad Shaaban”.

“It’s supposed to be a safe area where we were.”

As she wept over the bodies of her three grandchildren, others holding the bodies struggled to let go before they were sent to burial.

She said Israeli attacks have intensified even as hope for a ceasefire has risen. “The hospital last night was jam-packed,” she said.

Let’s bring you up to speed.

• At least 74 people have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza, including 19 in the northern part of the enclave since dawn, medical sources tell Al Jazeera.
• Hamas says it agreed to release 10 captives, but issues remain on the withdrawal of Israeli troops, the unfettered flow of aid into Gaza, and US guarantees to end the war.
• Israel’s military chief says “conditions have been created” for the advancement of a ceasefire deal.
• President Donald Trump says there is a “very good chance” of a ceasefire in Gaza “this week or next”.
• The US announced it had imposed sanctions on the UN special rapporteur on human rights in the occupied Palestinian territory, Francesca Albanese, for her Gaza reporting.

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) condemned the reported delivery of dozens of US bulldozers to the Israeli military as it attacks Gaza and the occupied West Bank.

“The Trump administration must stop using American taxpayer dollars, American weapons and American equipment to fund the Israeli government’s literal destruction of Palestinian life,” said Edward Ahmed Mitchell, CAIR’s national deputy director, in a statement.

“Sending bulldozers that will be used to destroy more Palestinian homes and steal more Palestinian land deepens our nation’s moral and legal culpability in the Israeli occupation’s crimes.

“These machines are not tools of construction – they are tools of destruction, dispossession, ethnic cleansing, and apartheid.”

Israeli police have detained several international activists in al-Auja Spring village, north of the occupied West Bank city of Jericho.

According to the al-Baidar Organisation in Defence of Bedouin Rights, Israeli settlers, protected by police, barged their way into the community and released their herd.

As local Palestinians and international solidarity activists attempted to drive the sheep out and fend off the attack, Israeli police arrived at the scene and detained them.

Israeli settlers have been releasing livestock into the community in what al-Baidar Organisation called “systematic policy to force the residents of the Arab al-Mlaihat clan to leave the area”.

Attacks by Israelis from illegal settlements against Palestinians and their property are routine in the occupied West Bank and are rarely prosecuted by Israeli authorities.

In his third meeting with President Trump at the White House this year, Prime Minister Netanyahu is discussing a possible Gaza ceasefire.

While the official talks are being held privately, what has openly been discussed are post-war plans for Gaza, which appear to include forcibly displacing Palestinians.

Al Jazeera’s Inside Story speaks to experts on what Israel and the US are hoping to do with Gaza.

Hamas says it is continuing intensive efforts to ensure “success” in the latest round of ceasefire negotiations to end “the aggression against our people”.

“As part of its commitment to the success of the ongoing efforts, the movement has demonstrated the necessary flexibility and agreed to the release of 10 prisoners,” Hamas said in a statement.

“The core issues remain under negotiation, most notably: the flow of aid, the withdrawal of the occupation from the Gaza Strip, and the provision of genuine guarantees for a permanent ceasefire,” it added.

The Palestinian group said that despite the difficulty in negotiations because of Israel’s “intransigence”, Hamas continues to work “diligently and in a positive spirit with the mediators”.