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In Gaza, it has been 1,000 days since Israel’s civil war began. The Gaza Government Media Office reported this more than 90 percent of the Strip had been destroyed.
As of July 6, the Gaza Ministry of Health counted the number of people killed since the October “ceasefire” at 1,072, and the number since October 2023 reached 73,098.
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The killing did not stop at the memorial. The Israeli army to be killed at least three Palestinians were struck by a drone near al-Hilu station on July 1 and seven more In the next 48 hours, among them a child who was killed by a bomb dropped by a quadcopter at Shujayea intersection and 10-year-old Tareq Sabah, who was killed near Khan Younis, according to local reports. Attacks on displaced shelters in the occupied al-Mawasi area have also taken place throughout the week.
The enclave’s sick and wounded – without access to essential medical care in the devastated Strip – protested outside al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City forcing Israel to lift restrictions on people leaving the hospital, with Gaza health officials saying more than 20,000 people are waiting to leave via the Rafah border crossing.
Separately, Elyas Abu Safiya, the son of the director of Gaza’s Kamal Adwan Hospital, Dr Hussam Abu Safiya, said father’s health It was severely damaged after more than 555 days in Israeli prison.
Elyas Abu Safiya said on Sunday that his father’s lawyer had returned from a recent trip and said that Hussam Abu Safiya had difficulty breathing and speaking.
“His face was marred by torture and agony, and the blood he endured in prison, especially after the last torture. part of the court in Jerusalem,” said Elyas Abu Safiya.
The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention has called for Dr Abu Safiya’s immediate release, saying that his continued detention violates the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
The next part of Gaza
Meanwhile, signs of a power transfer began in Gaza. In the Cypriot resort of Ayia Napa, representatives of the US-led Peace Council, including former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, met to advance “temporary reconstruction” the designated Gaza areas without Hamas control.
On Monday, the government controlled by Hamas in Gaza announced that it would resign and transfer its powers to a technical committee appointed by the Peace Board, led by US President Donald Trump to end the war and oversee the reconstruction process, although the powers should not be given.
Ali Shath, the head of the technical committee of the National Committee for the Administration of Gaza, said that his committee was ready to fulfill its mandate “when the necessary capabilities and resources are available”, and listed the necessary items for a single authority to rule under one law and power – referring to the unresolved question of disarming Hamas.
The Peace Council, meanwhile, announced at the beginning of the week that the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, “has no place in the new Gaza” – a statement that the Palestinian leadership denied as removing the question of refugees completely.
Making extras
On Sunday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stood at the former Qalandia airport, north of the city of East Jerusalem, and laid the foundation stone of Israel’s new “heritage center” on the site of the former Palestinian airport, as part of the major Atarot settlement project.
Three days earlier, on July 3, the Israeli Defense Minister said approved the establishment of 13 new villages in Benjamin’s Bloc in the central West Bank, along Route 60 leading to the Jordan Valley. The Jerusalem government said the plan was designed to strip East Jerusalem of its Palestinian territories and break up the territories, with the first phase of four to six settlements expected in the next few months as well as other grazing areas – the main means of expelling the Bedouin population from the area – ready for legal approval.
The decision came amid an increase in construction outside the city. Data from the Palestinian Forum for Israel Studies shows that after about eight per year between 2012 and 2022, the number of new settlements increased sharply to 32 in 2023, 62 in 2024 and 86 in 2025. of Jenin, near the settlement of Dotan, and on July 6, the human rights group Al-Baidar reported that it was established at a distance of 500 meters from the area of al-Ma’azi Bedouin near Jaba, northeast of Jerusalem.
The consolidation of Israeli rule continued with the confiscation of land. The Israeli government has approved a 27 million shekel ($9m) plan to expand its hotel business in the occupied West Bank, according to Haaretz.
In Hebron, the head of the Tourism and Antiquities Directorate, Jabr al-Rajoub, told Wafa that the Israeli authorities are moving to transfer 142 archaeological sites from the military to Israeli civilians, and tie the sites – among them the renovation that took place recently in the Ibrahimi Mosque – to the establishment project. On Monday, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich boasted of the latest developments, calling them “only the beginning of economic reforms”.
Trapped as a weapon
Sunday evening, four-month-old Ahmad Marouf Zeid died of cardiac arrest after Israeli soldiers prevented his family from reaching an ambulance waiting on the far side of the military gate at the entrance to the Deir Ammar refugee camp, west of Ramallah.
Laila Ghannam, the governor of Ramallah and el-Bireh, said the baby – the only child of the family, who was born after years of waiting – died after Israeli soldiers prevented him from going to the hospital for an hour despite his serious medical condition, calling the baby’s death “a stain on the conscience of the people”.
A system of gates and checkpoints runs the length of the occupied West Bank. In Sinjil, north of Ramallah, Wafa said that the Israeli army sealed the town behind six main gates and the second 16 and agricultural roads, after a few days. officials announced 465 dunams (465,000sq meters) of town land “government land”. Around Ramallah, the Atara and Nabi Saleh checkpoints were closed and the Aboud and Ein Siniya gates were closed.
Settler violence this week was often planned and defended by the Israeli army. On Sunday night, activist Jonathan Pollack said, residents attacked Jalud, south of Nablus, evicting residents and besieging families in their homes with the help of an army that did not intervene. On July 4, settlers stole four sheep in Umm Safa, northwest of Ramallah, before Israeli soldiers fired rubber-coated bullets that wounded three people, according to council chief Marwan Sabbah. In Masafer Yatta, Wafa and Osama Makhamreh activists reported that the settlers beat the al-Masry family in Khallet al-Hummus and injured six people separately on the night of July 5 in Umm al-Khair. Near Nablus on July 5, residents broke into and burned a restaurant near al-Lubban Asharqiya, stealing money before setting it on fire; the owner posted losses of about $330,000.
The demolition went hand in hand. Over the course of the week, the Israeli army shot up the 60-year-old Battir boys’ school near Bethlehem, the house where he lives in Tuqu, and the farm house in Duma, according to Wafa reports.
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reported that more than 2,300 Palestinians, more than 1,000 of them children, will flee their homes in the West Bank in 2026 alone; 121 communities have been fully or partially relocated since 2023.
