Updates: ‘Dehumanising’ aid chaos grows in Gaza as Israeli attacks kill 70

For more on Israel’s push to close al-Awda Hospital in northern Gaza, see our story here.

Get caught up on the continuing Israeli military attacks on southern Lebanon with this recap of recent strikes.

You can also check out a video report on the latest scenes of chaos at an aid distribution point in Gaza, here.

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

• At least 70 Palestinians have been killed since dawn in Israeli attacks across Gaza, including strikes on the central Bureij refugee camp that killed nearly two dozen people.
• Palestinians express growing frustration with a US- and Israeli-backed aid distribution scheme that has caused scenes of chaos and deadly violence over the past few days.
• The UN says Israel is blocking it from accessing and distributing much-needed humanitarian supplies to Gaza, with about 600 truckloads of goods stuck at a crossing point.
• Israel has ordered the closure of al-Awda Hospital – the last functioning hospital in northern Gaza – as the World Health Organization says dozens of people remain at the facility.
• The White House says Israel has “signed off” on a new Gaza ceasefire proposal that was delivered to Hamas; the Palestinian group says it is reviewing the plan.

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) condemned Israel’s bombardment of the Bureij refugee camp earlier today, which killed at least 23 people and injured many others.

“After expelling these Palestinian refugees from their land, the Israeli government slaughtered them in their refugee camp,” CAIR National Executive Director Nihad Awad said in a statement.

“Blowing up families sleeping in tents is a cowardly, sociopathic war crime that the Israeli occupation has committed again and again with American weapons paid for by American taxpayer dollars. The barbarity and sadism of the Israeli occupation’s war crimes knows no bounds,” he said.

“How much longer will President Trump, his administration and the world see images of dismembered children and burning tents before stopping this genocide?”

The US provides Israel with at least $3.8bn in military aid annually, and it has provided billions in additional funds since the Israeli military began its deadly bombardment of Gaza in October 2023.

Two Palestinians have been injured after Israeli forces opened fire during a raid in a town west of Hebron in the south of the occupied West Bank, the Wafa news agency is reporting.

Wafa said a 17-year-old was shot in the thigh and a 30-year-old man suffered a gunshot wound in the foot during the raid in Idhna.

The incident comes as the Israeli military has carried out an intensified wave of violence across the occupied West Bank amid the Gaza war.

Israeli settler violence has also soared, with the UN’s humanitarian office (OCHA) saying in its latest report that settlers have injured more than 220 Palestinians so far this year.

That amounts to 44 injured people per month, the highest rate in at least 20 years, OCHA said.

Hamas political bureau member Basem Naim has told the Reuters news agency that the Trump administration’s ceasefire proposal is “still under discussion” by the group.

As we’ve been reporting, the White House said earlier that Israel had “signed off” on the proposal, which Washington sent over to Hamas to review.

Naim also told the AFP news agency that the proposal meant “the continuation of killing and famine … and does not meet any of our people’s demands, foremost among them halting the war”.

“Nonetheless, the movement’s leadership is studying the response to the proposal with full national responsibility,” he said.

Once vital lifelines, Gaza’s charity kitchens have become deliberate targets under Israel’s military campaign, with more than 20 destroyed since March alone.

An Al Jazeera investigation reveals concentrated strikes on food distribution points in northern Gaza that are compounding a man-made famine exacerbated by Israel’s total aid blockade.

See more in our video report below.

An Israeli military court has sentenced two soldiers from the Nahal Brigade to prison for refusing to take part in the war on Gaza.

“Despite the Israeli army’s commitment not to imprison soldiers, two Nahal Brigade soldiers who fought in Gaza over the past year and a half were prosecuted for refusing to return to the Strip due to exhaustion,”  Israel’s public broadcaster KAN reports.

The two soldiers were sentenced to 15 and 20 days in prison, the broadcaster said, adding, “The soldiers, who were enlisted in August 2022, complained to their battalion commander that after a year and a half of operations, they were experiencing severe fatigue.”

Lebanon’s National News Agency is reporting that the Israeli military launched several air raids across southern Lebanon.

As we reported earlier, at least one person was killed in the attacks.

The most recent strikes targeted areas near the towns of Nabatieh al-Fawqa, Beit Lif, Ramyah, al-Bisariya, Wadi al-Safa and al-Sarira.

Low-flying Israeli jets and drones were also reported in several regions of southern Lebanon.

Read more in our story here.

Israel’s 22 new illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank take efforts seeking a two-state solution that would see Israelis living side by side with Palestinians “in the wrong direction,” the United Nations chief’s spokesman has said.

“We stand against any and all” expansion of the settlements, Stephane Dujarric told reporters, repeating calls by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres for “Israel to cease all settlement activities in the occupied Palestinian territory … an obstacle to peace and economic and social development”.

The Yemeni group has said it fired a ballistic missile at Ben Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv.

The firing comes in response to “the crime of genocide” being carried out against Palestinians in Gaza, the Houthis said in a statement shared on Telegram.

The Houthis have pledged to continue to launch attacks against Israel until the country ends its bombardment and blockade of the Gaza Strip.

The Israeli army said today’s missile was intercepted.

The director-general of the World Health Organization has announced that al-Awda Hospital in northern Gaza is now out of service after an Israeli order was issued to evacuate the building.

There are still 97 people, including 13 patients inside the building, and the UN is planning a mission tomorrow to transfer patients to another facility, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a statement on X, adding that the hospital’s medical equipment cannot be relocated due to impassable roads.

“With al-Awda’s closure, there is no remaining functional hospital in North Gaza – severing a critical lifeline for the people there,” he said.

“WHO pleads for the hospital’s protection and staff and patients’ safety, and reiterates its call for the active protection of civilians and health care. Hospitals must never be attacked or militarised. Ceasefire!”

Let’s bring you up to speed on the latest developments:

• The White House says Israel has “signed off” on a Gaza ceasefire proposal that the Trump administration submitted to Hamas.
• UN spokesman Dujarric says there are 600 aid trucks on the Gaza side of the Karem Abu Salem (Kerem Shalom) crossing, but Israel has blocked the world body from retrieving the supplies for the past three days.
• Palestinians in Gaza have denounced the US- and Israeli-backed aid distribution scheme as an effort to humiliate them as hunger grips the enclave.
• An employee of a contracting company carrying out “engineering work” for the Israeli military on behalf of the Ministry of Defence has been killed in northern Gaza, the army says.

Desperation is growing in Gaza as thousands of Palestinians are having to walk long distances to find food.

“We have come a long distance, around 10km [6.2 miles] to take this box tainted with blood,” Saher Abu Tahoon told Al Jazeera in central Gaza.

“We need this box because there’s no food to eat. We haven’t seen any food or flour in five days.

“We went to get food for our children from a very faraway place. I can’t even carry this box because I am too tired, and I am too hungry.”

Philippe Lazzarini says that in addition to Israel’s intense bombardment, “starvation is threatening the future of the children” in the Palestinian enclave.

“What’s urgently needed is a political will to allow the UN and partners to provide assistance at scale without hindrance or interruption,” the head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) said in a post on X.

“Allow us to do our work.”

Gaza resident Sobhi Areef has denounced the Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) aid distribution setup.

“What is happening to us is degrading. The crowding is humiliating us,” Areef told the AFP news agency after visiting one of the GHF centres in Gaza. “We go there and risk our lives just to get a bag of flour to feed our children.”

Another resident, 60-year-old Abu Fawzi Faroukh, also said the situation was “so chaotic”.

“The young men are the ones who have received aid first, yesterday and today, because they are young and can carry loads,” Faroukh told AFP. “But the old people and women cannot enter due to the crowding.”