Israel war on Gaza live: Fighter jets hit school, hospitals forced to close

  • Patients and staff flee the al-Ahli Arab Hospital and the Patient’s Friends Benevolent Society Hospital after the Israeli military issues another mass evacuation order for parts of Gaza City.
  • The Israeli military said its warplanes attacked “a school complex” in the Nuseirat refugee camp area of central Gaza. A medical source told the AFP news agency that wounded people were treated in hospital after an attack on a UNRWA facility in Nuseirat.
  • Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh warns of “disastrous repercussions” for truce talks if Israeli “massacres, killings and displacement” in the Gaza Strip continue.
  • The White House National Security spokesperson, John Kirby, says mediators are “trying to close… gaps as best we can” between Hamas and Israel after Egyptian, Israeli, Jordanian and US ceasefire negotiators met in Cairo on Monday.
  • At least 38,193 people have been killed and 87,903 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.
  • Israeli air attack kills five people in central Gaza’s BureijAt least five people have been killed and several others injured in an Israeli air attack on the Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, according to our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic.The victims were taken to Al Aqsa Hospital in Deir el-Balah.
  • Israeli forces blocking aid for 64 days: Government Media Office“The [Israeli] occupation’s prevention of the entry of aid threatens to increase the number of deaths from hunger, especially among children,” the office has said in a statement.Aid trucks have been piling up at the Rafah crossing, at the southern border of Gaza, and the Karem Abu Salem (Kerem Shalom) crossing, the two main entry points for aid in to the Strip.A very limited amount of aid has entered Gaza since Israel began its ground offensive on Rafah, the territory’s southernmost city, nearly two months ago.
  • We are still scared’: Northern Israel residents hesitate to return near Lebanon borderIsrael’s Channel 12 broadcaster says despite reports of a possible ceasefire agreement on the Lebanese border, there is no sign of an imminent return of Israeli residents who have evacuated their homes.Nearly half of Kiryat Shmona residents are considering not returning to their homes, while 13 percent say they have made the decision not to return, the report said.Dorit, a resident of Kiryat Shmona who was evacuated from her home, said she did not feel there was a real change in the security situation in the north – even nine months into the war.“We are still scared. Even after nine months, we know that nothing has been resolved in the north, and that at any moment terrorists can breach the border and come to our homes,” she told the broadcaster.“With all due respect to the assassinations and military operations carried out by the [Israeli army], there has been no real change in the security situation and deterrence has not been achieved, on the contrary,” Dorit said.
  • Israeli captive’s family releases video to pressure government over Gaza truceThe family of a captive held in Gaza has allowed the publication of a video that purports to show the soldier, Daniel Gilboa, 19, urging the government to do more for her release.The footage was shared with the family months ago but had remained unpublished, Israeli media said.Her mother, Orly Gilboa, told the Israeli Broadcasting Authority she decided to make the footage available to put pressure on Israeli leaders to reach a ceasefire agreement to secure the return of all captives.In the video, Daniel Gilboa identifies herself as a soldier taken from the Nahal Oz military base on October 7 and says she had been held in the enclave for 107 days.
  • Red Crescent says all of its medical facilities out of service in Gaza CityNebal Farsakh, spokesperson for the Palestine Red Crescent Society, has said Israel’s latest evacuation orders in Gaza City took all of the medical facilities affiliated with the medical charity out of service.The directive displaced thousands of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip’s largest city, prompting Hamas to warn of “catastrophic consequences”.The UN estimates at least nine out of 10 people in the Gaza Strip have been displaced at least once since October 7.

Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/7/9/israels-war-on-gaza-live-two-gaza-city-hospitals-close-on-israeli-orders

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