Updates: Israel kills 110 Palestinians in Gaza, including 34 aid seekers

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To read about the killing of Sayfollah Musallet, a 20-year-old US citizen who was beaten to death by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank, and his family’s demands for Washington to pursue justice, click here.

Read our story about the shortage of blood in Gaza amid rampant malnutrition, here.

And read about the latest attack on people seeking aid in Gaza, here.

We will be closing this live page soon. Here is a recap of today’s main events:

• Israeli forces killed at least 110 Palestinians, including 34 aid seekers.
• Israel aggressively bombarded Beit Hanoon in northern Gaza, with about 40 air strikes reported in the early evening.
• Israeli strikes hit residential buildings in Jabalia, killing at least 15 people.
• An Israeli strike in Khiam in southern Lebanon killed at least one person; Israel said it targeted a Hezbollah member.
• The Reuters news agency is reporting that ceasefire talks in Qatar are stalling over the extent of Israeli forces’ withdrawal from the Strip.
• Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad have claimed several attacks against Israeli forces in Gaza City and Khan Younis.

Settlers have attacked homes in the area of Wadi Sa’eer near the village of al-Maniya, southeast of the occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem, Wafa reports.

Ziyad Kawraba, the mayor of al-Maniya, told the Palestinian news agency that settlers threw stones at homes and threatened to burn them down, creating a state of fear among the people.

Israeli settler attacks against Palestinian communities in the West Bank have been intensifying since the start of the war on Gaza.

Recently published footage shows a Palestinian fighter in Gaza emerge from ruins to run towards an Israeli tank and attack it with an explosive device, before retreating unscathed.

The video, posted on social media platform X by a reporter for the Israeli Broadcasting Authority and verified by Al Jazeera’s fact-checking agency, Sanad, shows two Israeli tanks surrounded by a devastated landscape.

A rocket-propelled grenade strikes one of the tanks, causing an explosion, before a Palestinian fighter runs towards the second tank. Once beside the Merkava tank, the fighter throws an explosive device on its roof and runs off swiftly, before the device explodes.

Itay Blumental, the Israeli military correspondent who posted the footage, said the explosive device caused no casualties as the tank’s hatch was closed. He said the scenes reflected what the Israeli military was describing as “increasing boldness” on the part of Palestinian fighters in recent days.

Translation – Documentation: Terrorist emerges from building rubble, throws explosive device at tank and flees – no casualties. This afternoon, during [Israeli army] activity in the northern Gaza Strip, a terrorist managed to emerge from the ruins of a building, throw an explosive device at a Merkava tank belonging to the 401st Brigade, and flee. The tank crew had their hatches closed, and the explosive device detonated outside the tank. There were no casualties. Earlier, an RPG was fired at the second tank. In recent days, the [Israeli army] has identified increasing boldness on the part of terrorists. Some explain this by saying that they have their backs against the wall, while others claim that with a ceasefire looming, Hamas is looking for achievements. Either way, this documentation is disturbing and points to a trend that began two weeks ago: terrorists are much more daring and active.

The family of Sayfollah Musallet, a 20-year-old US citizen from Florida who was beaten to death by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank, is calling on Washington to launch its own probe into the incident and hold the perpetrators accountable.

Musallet’s family said in a statement that Israeli settlers surrounded him for three hours during the assault on Friday and attacked medics who were attempting to reach him.

The slain young man, known as Saif, was a “kind, hard-working, and deeply-respected young man, working to build his dreams”, the family said.

“This is an unimaginable nightmare and injustice that no family should ever have to face,” the statement added.

“We demand the US State Department lead an immediate investigation and hold the Israeli settlers who killed Saif accountable for their crimes. We demand justice.”

Read our full report here.

Germany is continuing its crackdown on Palestinian rights advocates.

Earlier today, police intervened in a pro-Palestine demonstration in Berlin.

Israel’s Channel 12 reports that the Israeli prime minister has brought far-right Finance Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich into his office for discussions over the possible ceasefire deal in Gaza.

Analysts have said for months that Netanyahu may be prolonging the war in Gaza to ensure his political survival, with Ben-Gvir and Smotrich threatening to pull out of the governing coalition and collapse it if a permanent ceasefire is reached.

A witness recounts what he saw during the Israeli attack on people trying to get food aid in Rafah earlier in the day.

“We were sitting there and suddenly, there was shooting towards us. For five minutes, we were trapped under fire,” Mahmoud Makram told the Reuters news agency.

“The shooting was targeted. It was not random. Some people were shot in the head, some in the torso, one guy next to me was shot directly in the heart.”

Saturday’s mass shooting near the aid distribution point was the latest in a series of such incidents that the UN said on Friday have seen at least 798 people killed trying to get food in six weeks.

“There is no mercy there, no mercy. People go because they are hungry, but they die and come back in body bags,” Makram said.

As we reported earlier, the Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor says it has obtained evidence from witnesses that private US security contractors were involved in the latest killings of aid seekers at GHF’s sole remaining site.

The Geneva-based organisation says it has testimonies from witnesses that contractors working for GHF, along with Israeli soldiers, opened fire and launched tear gas grenades at aid seekers. It says it has also reviewed video footage showing GHF-affiliated contractors throwing grenades at civilians.

The group released a statement that quoted a survivor of the latest wave of shootings, in which at least 34 people were killed in Rafah.

The witness said that aid seekers had gotten into a large pit about 1km (0.6 miles) from the entrance to the aid point, where people often waited before the gates opened. On this occasion, there were three new sand mounds opposite the pit.

The witness said that, suddenly, three tanks mounted the mounds, “armed with machineguns and accompanied by around 30 heavily-armed infantry soldiers and snipers”.

“They began by firing several stun grenades over the people in the pit. When people tried to flee, anyone who attempted to get out was shot at directly.”

Sarah Leah Whitson, the head of rights group DAWN, says Washington is not likely to hold anyone to account after Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank beat to death a 20-year-old US citizen.

“There are limited circumstances under a law that allows the US government to pursue the murderers of American citizens overseas,” she said, adding that there are certain conditions and limitations to implementation of the process.

She stressed that the US brought charges against six senior Hamas officials for killing 40 American citizens in the October 2023 attack on Israel.

“What is really missing [in the current case] is the political will from the United States government to protect American citizens of Palestinian origin or Americans protesting Israeli actions in the West Bank,” Whitson said.

“What it really does is it sets a precedent of encouragement and sets a precedent for open season on Americans just as there is open season on Palestinians,” she added.

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has said the the GHF aid distribution mechanism imposed by Israel in Gaza amounts to a “cheap form of genocide”.

In a post on Telegram, Khamenei said that Israel had presented Palestinians in Gaza with a grim choice – “either perish under the rubble of hunger, or get shot trying to obtain a food package”.

“This is a cheap form of genocide, calculated with Western precision. A nation that once died under bombs worth hundreds of thousands of dollars now dies in food lines from bullets that cost mere dollars.”

The UN says about 800 Palestinians have been killed while trying to receive aid at GHF sites in the past six weeks.

At least 34 Palestinians have been killed near the only functioning food distribution site in the Strip.

It is run by the notorious GHF, an organisation backed by Israel and the US.

Watch Al Jazeera’s Tareq Abu Azzoum’s report from Gaza.

An Al Jazeera reporter has described horrific scenes in the hospital emergency department receiving casualties from two Israeli air strikes on the densely crowded al-Shati refugee camp, with many children among the dead.

Mohammed Qreiqea recounted harrowing chaos at Gaza City’s al-Shifa Hospital, as victims of the air strike were brought in.

“This woman carries her dead daughter after she was playing in her home,” he says. “This man is sitting on the ground, hugging his son, who was killed in this air strike.”

Another dead child was brought in on a sheet of tin carried by his neighbours, said Qreiqea.

Sources at the hospital say at least seven people were killed and 40 wounded in the two Israeli air raids on the heavily populated camp west of Gaza City.

“Many of the injuries were to the upper body and head, reflecting the force of the rocket explosion that fell on the street and homes,” said Qreiqea.

Lebanon’s National News Agency reports that an Israeli drone targeted a fisherman in the town of Naqoura with a stun grenade.

The agency also said “hostile” Israeli jets are flying over the southern coastal city of Tyre.

Another demonstration has been held in Tel Aviv, calling for a deal to release the Israeli captives held in Gaza and an end the war.

It has been another bloody day in Gaza amid non-stop Israeli attacks. Medical sources tell Al Jazeera that the Palestinian death toll has risen to 110 since dawn.

Videos circulated on social media show police brutally detaining a protester at a demonstration in support of Gaza in the German capital.

The clip, posted on Instagram and verified by Al Jazeera’s fact-checking agency Sanad, shows police officers forcefully pulling a man from a crowd in Alexanderplatz, central Berlin, and marching him from the area with an officer’s arm around his neck.

The officer then covers the detained man’s mouth and nose with his hand, before covering his eyes, while another officer grabs his arm. Other officers shove aside bystanders as they pass.

The incident is not an anomaly. Since the start of the war on Gaza, German officers have regularly detained and roughed up activists. Berlin has also shut down several events critical of Israel and banned some Palestinian rights advocates from entering the country.

[Translation: Berlin – Alexanderplatz – In a shocking scene, German police violently and brutally arrested a participant in a solidarity demonstration with Gaza, despite the peaceful nature of the event. The violence did not come from the protesters … but from those who are supposed to protect them. A video documenting the truth as it is: In Berlin, a voice for Palestine is met with repression.]

Here is a recap of the latest developments:

• At least 34 Palestinians were killed while trying to get aid delivered by the controversial US- and Israeli-backed GHF in Rafah.
• Israel has been pounding the area of Beit Hanoon in northern Gaza, with Al Jazeera Arabic reporting that about 40 air strikes have targeted the area.
• Israel plans to construct 2,339 units in the occupied West Bank, a major expansion of illegal settlements, according to a statement by the PLO’s National Office for the Defence of Land and Resistance of Settlement.
• London’s Metropolitan Police say they have detained 42 people at a demonstration in support of the banned group Palestine Action in the British capital.
• Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad have claimed several attacks against Israeli forces in Gaza City and Khan Younis.

The United States government has acknowledged its use of Canary Mission — a shadowy pro-Israel website — to identify pro-Palestine students for deportation, sparking anger and concern by rights advocates.

Activists have long suspected that the Trump administration is gathering information from the Canary Mission website to target students and professors.

But this week, that suspicion was confirmed when a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) official testified in a court case challenging Trump’s efforts to deport pro-Palestinian student protesters.

Peter Hatch, an agent with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), said the department had assembled a specialised group — dubbed a “tiger team” — to work on removing pro-Palestine college students from the country.

Read more here about Canary Mission and how it works to demonise Palestinian rights supporters.