Updates: Israel presses Gaza City seizure, UN warns 1mn could be displaced

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For more on the US decision to revoke Palestinian officials’ visas, check out our story here.

Al Jazeera’s The Take podcast also explored how Israeli spy veterans are shaping big tech in its latest episode, here.

Or check out this video report from a children’s aid site in Gaza City that is grappling with famine.

And, you can always check out our comprehensive coverage of Israel’s war on Gaza here.

We will soon be closing this live page. Here’s a look at the day’s key events:

• The death toll in the Gaza Strip has surpassed 63,000 people since Israel began its war on the enclave, the Palestinian Health Ministry has reported. That figure includes at least 322 Palestinians who have died of starvation.
• The UN agency for Palestinian refugees has warned that Israel’s push to seize control of Gaza City could forcibly displace as many as one million Palestinians, as the Israeli military declared the major urban centre a “combat zone”.
• US President Trump’s administration says it has refused and revoked visas for PA and PLO officials ahead of next month’s UN General Assembly, drawing criticism from Palestinian leaders.
• Turkiye says it will sever economic and trade ties with Israel, as well as close its airspace to Israeli aircraft, in response to the country’s deadly war on Gaza.

A group of healthcare workers staged a rally in Greece earlier today to protest Israel’s attack on Nasser Hospital that killed 20 people, including five journalists.

Healthcare workers gathered outside the Israeli embassy in Athens to condemn that attack and held Palestinian flags and chanted pro-Palestine slogans.

Some protesters came to the rally dressed in doctors’ coats with blood-red paint to draw attention to Israeli attacks on healthcare facilities in the besieged enclave.

Lea Kayali, an organiser with the Palestinian Youth Movement, has noted that this weekend’s People’s Conference for Palestine comes amid a crackdown on pro-Palestine organising in the United States.

“There is a relentless assault on an overwhelmingly popular movement for Palestinian freedom,” Kayali told Al Jazeera from the event in Detroit, Michigan.

“We’ve seen the Trump administration and even before that the Biden administration crack down on organisers. We saw the imprisonment of Mahmoud Khalil and other students that dared to speak up for Palestine, [and] the blanket labelling of any organisers as antisemitic.”

Kayali added that the world is at a “critical juncture”; “We either reject Zionism or we reject our own humanity,” she said.

Al Jazeera’s Shihab Rattansi is in the US city of Detroit for the second annual People’s Conference for Palestine, a three-day series of seminars and other events aimed at strengthening support for Palestinians.

“It really feels larger than last year. Some 4,000 people have registered,” Rattansi said from one of the conference halls, which has been named after Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif, who was killed in a targeted Israeli attack in Gaza this month.

“There is a very interesting discussion under way right now about how to turn … [a] new understanding of the Israeli genocide into more practical calls not just for a ceasefire but for an arms embargo,” Rattansi said.

UNICEF says “famine is absolutely ravaging Gaza City” as aid workers at a nutrition centre warn that parents have run out of options to feed their children.

Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud visited the centre. See more in his report below:

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has condemned an Israeli military attack on journalists with German broadcaster Deutsche Welle in the West Bank city of Ramallah.

Sara Qudah, CPJ’s regional director for the Middle East and North Africa, said the journalists were “threatened at gunpoint and fired on with tear gas by Israeli soldiers, despite clearly identifying as press”.

“Targeting journalists is unacceptable and must be thoroughly investigated,” Qudah added.

Deutsche Welle said its senior international correspondent, Fanny Facsar, a DW cameraman and a local colleague were in Ramallah to report on the risks journalists face when Israeli soldiers pointed their weapons at them.

“All three wore protective gear clearly marked ‘PRESS.’ Nevertheless, the soldiers fired tear gas, hitting the group, but no one was injured,” the broadcaster said. The incident took place during a massive Israeli raid in Ramallah this week that left dozens of Palestinians injured.

🚨 "CPJ condemns the attack on the DW crew in the West Bank, where journalists were threatened at gunpoint and fired on with tear gas by Israeli soldiers, despite clearly identifying as press. Targeting journalists is unacceptable and must be thoroughly investigated." — Sara… https://t.co/RRfFBBQqYG pic.twitter.com/eI74FIHmoS

— Committee to Protect Journalists (@pressfreedom) August 29, 2025

The Europa League draw has handed Maccabi Tel Aviv Football Club away games in Germany, England, and Greece, despite calls from rights groups for Israeli teams to be banned from European football competitions.

In November, Maccabi Tel Aviv fans clashed with apparent pro-Palestinian protesters before and after a Europa League football match in Amsterdam.

Videos shared on social media at the time showed them singing anti-Arab songs, vandalising a taxi and burning a Palestinian flag.

Maccabi Tel-Aviv will play in Germany against Stuttgart and Freiburg, and will also travel to play Aston Villa in Birmingham, England and PAOK in Greece.

Israeli clubs have been playing UEFA-organised games in neutral countries due to security concerns, and Maccabi Tel-Aviv has hosted European games this season in Backa Topola, Serbia.

Maccabi Tel-Aviv’s home games are against Dinamo Zagreb, Lyon, Midtjylland and Bologna.

Al Jazeera is reporting from Amman, Jordan because it has been banned in Israel and the occupied West Bank.

It wouldn’t be the first time that a leader has addressed the United Nations virtually, but the PA has not released any sort of statement about that.

The Palestinian Authority has said their presence there is necessary because they are a UN observer state … and that they have a lot to say, especially when it comes to Israel’s war on Gaza and Israel’s overall occupation that has been suffocating the Palestinian people.

So, how PA officials will move forward with this is still unclear.

Palestinian news agency Wafa is reporting that the Israeli military has conducted raids in Beit Liqya and el-Bireh, near Ramallah in the occupied West Bank.

Citing local sources, Wafa said Israeli troops fired tear gas at Palestinian youth who tried to stop the army’s incursion into Beit Liqya.

In el-Bireh, Israeli forces fired live ammunition after they stormed the city from the illegal Israeli settlement of Psagot.

Palestinians in the West Bank have faced a wave of intensified Israeli soldier and settler violence for months in the shadow of Israel’s war on Gaza.

Unit 8200, Israel’s elite cyber-intelligence division, has long been compared to the US National Security Agency.

Now, its veterans are embedded in US tech companies, shaping how the world’s data is managed, and making deals worth billions.

Al Jazeera’s The Take speaks to Murtaza Hussain, a journalist with Drop Site News, about what this means for privacy and security, in the video below:

The Israeli newspaper Haaretz is reporting that Israeli Police have ordered the cancellation of a fundraising event for civilians in Gaza that was planned to be held in Jerusalem.

The newspaper cites the order to cancel the event, issued by the commander of Jerusalem District Police on the grounds of the Israeli “anti-terrorism” law, the event would feature activity whose “goals, purpose, and results may serve and/or fund the Hamas terror group.”

It said the Standing Together movement, a Jewish-Arab coexistence organisation, organised the fundraiser.

The organisers had been summoned to a police station in Jerusalem the previous night, where they were informed that an order had been issued to ban the event, following a complaint lodged by a prominent right-wing activist, Haaretz stated.

US Senator Chris Van Hollen has called for justice for Palestinian Americans killed by Israeli settlers and troops in an uptick in violence across the occupied West Bank.

In a video posted on X, the Democratic lawmaker said he and fellow Senator Jeff Merkley met with the families of slain US citizens during a visit to the Palestinian territory.

“We want to get justice and accountability for those families. If we can’t get justice and accountability for American citizens, God help us,” Van Hollen said.

“Our government says that we prioritise the protection of American citizens and yet here you have American citizens who’ve been murdered on the West Bank.”

He added: “We need justice not just for them, but we need to end the settler violence on the West Bank … Right now, settlers are engaging in violence with absolute impunity; in fact, with the complicity – the complicity – of the Netanyahu government.”

As the humanitarian disaster in Gaza continues, we cannot look away from rising Israeli settler violence in the West Bank.@SenJeffMerkley and I met families of Americans killed there and visited a town subjected to attacks. Illegal settlements and violence MUST end. pic.twitter.com/yvteNTLAos

— Senator Chris Van Hollen (@ChrisVanHollen) August 29, 2025

The Palestinian Authority presidency has expressed “deep regret and astonishment” at Washington’s decision to revoke visas for Palestinian officials set to take part in high-level UN General Assembly meetings next month.

“The Presidency stressed that this decision stands in clear contradiction to international law and the UN Headquarters Agreement, particularly since the State of Palestine is an observer member of the United Nations,” it said in a statement carried by the Wafa news agency

“It called on the US administration to reconsider and reverse its decision, reaffirming Palestine’s full commitment to international law, UN resolutions, and obligations toward peace.”