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Children have been killed repeatedly in Israeli attacks on Gaza in the past week, with the death toll since the end of October reaching nearly 1,108.
The attacks include the July 8 attack on Israel killed at least eight people, including a 10-year-old boy killed in a tent strike at al-Mawasi “humanitarian center” and the shooting of a six-year-old in the Zeitoun neighborhood of Gaza City, Palestinian health officials said. A day later, the driver of World Central Kitchen, Ahmad Nasser Saleemhe was shot with his hands raised by carrying joint support from the wheel of Karem Abu Salem.
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On July 12, nine-year-old Tala Jumaa Abu Matar was killed by Israeli fire near the Nuseirat refugee camp, according to medical sources cited by Wafa. Attacks on the shelters of refugees in al-Mawasi took place throughout the week, according to Gaza activist Hamza al-Masri.
On July 10, an Israeli plane it hit the grounds of Kamal Adwan’s hospital in northern Gaza, injured workers despite the fact that the area is inside the “green zone” controlled by Israel; Gaza’s Ministry of Health called it part of Israel’s “medical surveillance”.
The number of people killed since Israel’s war in Gaza began in October 2023 has reached 73,231, with 173,686 injured.
Desires are real
Among the daily reports, COGAT, Israel’s military aid agency, released a report that humanitarian supplies entered Gaza that “exceeded” the needs of the UN. Its commander, Major-General Yoram Halevy, said that anyone who disputes COGAT’s published figures is “expanding Hamas’ propaganda”, according to the Times of Israel.
In contrast, the UN data, which was published the next day, described the lack of basic necessities in Gaza. In its report on July 10, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said that the food parcels that were distributed to more than 53,500 people at the beginning of July only covered 75 percent of the minimum caloric needs, and that energy-enhancing biscuits had been stopped to keep the stocks running low. Only 56 percent of the aid supplies that passed through the Egyptian corridor were successfully unloaded at the Karem Abu Salem crossings. The number of families receiving housing assistance has dropped by 37 percent from May to June amid a lack of funding and Israeli restrictions on resources.
Essential services for an estimated 350,000 people with chronic illnesses are severely disrupted amid access restrictions. Likewise, OCHA’s Health Cluster partners recorded 18,000 new cases of chicken pox, skin diseases, and viral infections in one week.
On the ground, Gaza’s hospitals were fell into darkness Due to the lack of fuel, 38 hospitals are already damaged or out of service and surgeons are forced to cut short surgeries. The Ministry of Health warned that its laboratories and blood banks are facing a complete shutdown.
New elections are promised
A few days later the government of Gaza controlled by Hamas announced his resignation to make way for a technical committee before entering Gaza, on July 9, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. issued a decree to establish legislative elections in Palestine for November 28 – the first vote in 20 years. This announcement, which seems to be responding to international pressure to change the rule of the Palestinian Authority, is facing serious obstacles: Israel has not allowed to vote in East Jerusalem, buildings in Gaza have been destroyed, and the civil registry has expired.
In addition to the number
A report published on July 7 by the Israeli rights groups and research groups Peace Now and Kerem Navot documented what they called the de facto annexation of the occupied West Bank very quickly: between 2023 and 2025, it found, 185 new settlements were established, 118 Palestinians were expelled, 102 new pastoral villages were created. controlling more than 1.1 million dunams (1.1 billion sq meters) of land – 18 percent of the entire West Bank – working together as a “one government project”.
The situation in the West Bank followed this general plan. In the northern Jordan Valley, Israeli bulldozers uprooted more than 300 olive and grape trees near Atuf and cut the water lines that serve about 45,000 farms as part of the “Crimson Thread” military roads and wall, according to Tubas chief Mutaz Bisharat. Near Jenin, more than 1,500 olive trees were destroyed by Israeli forces in Zububa since early July, Wafa reported.
The demolition was consistent: during the week, the Israeli army destroyed houses, agricultural buildings and a four-room house across Shuqba, Jit, Nablus, Sur Baher, Khirbet al-Miyah and Bruqin, according to Wafa and activist reports. Settlers demolished Yanun Elementary School, which served 15 children, eight months after the community was cleared, according to Wafa. On July 13, Wafa said that Israeli authorities forced the Abu Tir family to destroy their home in East Jerusalem, charging them 80,000 shekels and leaving seven homeless.
The Colonization and Wall Resistance Commission said that Israeli authorities issued 49 military occupation orders in the first half of 2026 – more than the 47 that were issued in all of 2025 – covering 2,093 dunams, mostly along residential roads including Route 60.
Settler violence continues – unabated
Much of the weekend’s violence in the West Bank followed a familiar script: settlers attacking under Israeli military protection. For five consecutive days, Osama Makhamreh activists said, the settlers attacked the family of a Old Ibrahim Ismail al-Jabour in the Huwara area of Masafer Yatta; The military arrived to fend off the attackers, and by July 12 they had detained al-Jabour while seven of his siblings, including two children, were wounded by residents. After those days, no foreigner was arrested.
Elsewhere, about 150 residents attacked Deir Jarir, east of Ramallah, from four sides on July 9 when Israeli forces blocked ambulances, according to Wafa. In al-Mughayyir, northeast of Ramallah, terrorists repeatedly left people wounded with fire, rubber-coated bullets and explosive bombs – including a 10-year-old boy who was hit in the head – while Israeli soldiers seized the keys to an ambulance, according to Wafa and local sources. Near Jenin, residents and soldiers together evicted four families from Khirbet Asaeed who had lived there for more than 70 years, Wafa said.
OCHA, in its latest report, recorded at least 35 residences that suffered damage or property damage in one week, which brought the number of 2026 to more than 1,200 in more than 240 areas – almost six per day.
Hard to explain
As scrutiny of Israel’s foreign affairs has intensified, disputes over the underlying reasons have plagued even visiting US politicians. US Congressman Ro Khanna he said he and his group were detained for an hour by the colonists, before the soldiers stopped him from leaving, while visiting the deserted village of Khirbet Zanuta in the West Bank. The Israeli army said that its forces “dispersed” the settlers when they arrived; “The (Israeli army) is lying,” Khanna told NBC News.
A similar disregard for international observers continued in Israel’s courts. Haaretz reported that the Israel Prison Service imposed new restrictions on Red Cross visits to Palestinian prisoners, despite a unanimous Supreme Court ruling last month. Oded Feller of the Association for Civil Rights in Israel said that the purpose of the decision was to “continue to cover up the atrocities that are taking place in IPS offices”.
Even conventional dialogue was opposed; Israel prevented the secretary general of the Arab League from entering the West Bank to meet with President Abbas, according to Wafa – another move that, aside from the external aspects, undermines and violates the court’s rules, emphasizing the path that is moving slowly on one side: shameless resistance.
