Updates: Israel ‘engineering massacres’ in Gaza as 3 more die of hunger

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• At least 82 more Palestinians were killed by Israel in Gaza, with three more people, including two children, among those who died of starvation as Israel blocks needed aid to the enclave.
• Israeli army chief Eyal Zamir visited invading troops in Gaza and said they will know “in the coming days” whether there will be a ceasefire or the fighting will continue without halting.
• The Israeli military allowed three European nations to join the limited air drops of aid over Gaza, but the UN and international agencies warned that this is highly insufficient.
• US envoy Steve Witkoff and Washington’s ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee made a choreographed visit to an aid site run by the notorious GHF, as Hamas rejected Donald Trump’s claim that it is systematically looting food and medicine.
• The Houthis in Yemen confirmed they launched a ballistic missile at the Ben Gurion International Airport in Tel Aviv, with the Israeli army saying the projectile was intercepted.
• Israeli settlers launched more violent attacks on Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank with support from soldiers, leading to clashes with local residents in Jenin and other places.
• Renowned Israeli writer and novelist David Grossman acknowledged with “immense pain and a broken heart” that Israel is currently committing “genocide” in Gaza.

Israeli forces have confiscated more Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank to drive Palestinians from their homes.

Landowner Jihad Amarneh told the Wafa news agency that Israeli authorities placed markings around his 13-dunam (about 3.2 acres) land owned by his family in the village of Dahr al-Abed, and began bulldozing it to pave the way for an illegal Israeli settlement.

Last week, Israeli forces began levelling streets in the nearby area of Khirbet Masoud, located west of Jenin, with the aim of expanding a pastoral settlement established in 2019.

Local Palestinian sources report that the citizens of the village of Deir Jarir, located east of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, repelled an attack by Israeli settlers.

Israeli soldiers also reportedly provided protection for the settlers, according to Wafa, which said they fired live bullets and tear gas canisters at the Palestinians. No injuries have been reported so far tonight, but a young man was wounded by a bullet during a similar incursion on Thursday.

Settlers also stormed the outskirts of Duma village in Nablus with protection from Israeli soldiers, with clashes reported.

Translation: A glimpse of young men confronting the settlers’ attack on the outskirts of Deir Jarir village, northeast of Ramallah.

The French government has halted all evacuations from Gaza after one female student allegedly reposted content on social media that was deemed “anti-Semitic” and “Hamas propaganda”.

“She must leave the country. She does not have a place in France,” Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot said in an interview with radio station France Info, without elaborating on details or saying whether she will be deported to Gaza.

French authorities have not revealed the contents of the posts, but the unnamed woman has already been expelled from her university in the northern French city of Lille.

The Houthis in Yemen have organised another weekly large-scale demonstration in the capital, Sanaa, in opposition to the war on Gaza.

Casper Veldkamp, Holland’s foreign minister, says on X that his country will participate in the “international coalition” currently airdropping supplies into Gaza after Israel decided to allow such missions last week.

The UN, major international humanitarian NGOs and Palestinians themselves say that aid airdrops are humiliating for starving people, ineffective and dangerous.

Several people have been injured by aid parcels falling from the sky already since this new round of airdrops began, and yesterday, we brought you testimony from a Palestinian journalist who said that people were forced to pick through rice mixed with sand after it was airdropped on the ground.

Israeli soldiers have stormed the Aqtaba suburb and Anabta town, east of the city of Tulkarem in the occupied West Bank.

Israeli forces moved towards the suburb’s main street and a major mosque, firing bullets to frighten local Palestinians, the Wafa news agency said, without reporting any injuries or arrests so far.

They also closed the eastern entrance to al-Khader, south of Bethlehem, and launched another raid in Jenin.

Translation: The moment of the occupation soldiers’ arrest of a young man near Jabal al-Salma, threatened with settlement, on the outskirts of Raba village, southeast of Jenin.

Hundreds of mourners attended the funeral for 40-year-old Khamis Ayyad, who died from smoke inhalation after an Israeli settler arson attack in the occupied West Bank.

His death follows a surge in settler violence this year.

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Israel is severely limiting the number of aid trucks into Gaza, which means many return home to their families from aid distribution points and warehouses with nothing to eat.

But some do not make it back alive – more than 1,300 Palestinian aid seekers have been killed by Israeli forces while seeking aid across Gaza.

One woman in Gaza, who says she braved an Israeli attack to get a bag of lentils at a GHF site, recounted her experiences to Al Jazeera.

“I stood behind a rock, and they started shooting. I kept crawling until I reached the trailer, and then I got down,” she said. “I managed to secure a bag of lentils. That was after several attempts.”

She said she went to the site by herself as her husband is sick and disabled, and she has six daughters.

“That’s why I’m the one who goes to get the aid. I don’t have sons or boys who can bring the aid for me,” she said.

The deputy spokesperson for the United Nations secretary-general has said that, “as far as he was aware”, US Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Wikoff did not meet anyone from the United Nations during his visit to Gaza on Friday.

“I checked with all the various offices and agencies, and none of them have replied about any meeting,” Farhan Haq told Al Jazeera’s Gabriel Elizondo during a news conference in New York.

Haq said that Witkoff, who visited an aid site run by the controversial Israeli and US-backed GHF in southern Gaza, could certainly also have visited UN workers and facilities if he had requested a meeting.

“We trust and expect that the US officials will continue to be in touch with us. We certainly have made clear what our operations on the ground are, and we’ve been in touch with them, as with other [UN] member states,” Haq said.

The UN has repeatedly criticised the GHF for being unable to provide aid on the scale required to hunger-ravaged Gaza, for violating basic humanitarian principles, and for the dire security at and around its aid sites, where more than 1,000 Palestinians have been killed while seeking aid.

Senior Hamas official Izzat al-Rishq says Trump “does not tire of repeating Israeli accusations and lies, and we will not tire of rejecting and refuting them”.

“We strongly condemn the repeated claims and lies by US President Trump accusing Hamas of stealing and selling humanitarian aid in Gaza,” he wrote in a statement released online.

He said the accusations are false and unsupported by evidence, adding that they “exonerate the criminal and blame the victim”.

The official reminded that an investigation by the US Agency for International Development (USAID) found no evidence of massive Hamas theft of aid last week. He called what is happening in Gaza a “systematic starvation and extermination” that is directly backed by Washington.

The armed wing of Hamas has released a video of multiple attacks on invading Israeli forces in southern Gaza, including the detonation of three roadside bombs and mortar strikes.

The footage claims to show the targeting of Israeli vehicles in the al-Batin al-Samin area, southwest of Khan Younis, and of shelling Israeli positions and gatherings at the incursion axes in Khan Younis with rockets and mortars.