Gaza live: Israel strike kills 30 Palestinians, mostly children

An Israeli civilian has been killed in a rocket attack from Lebanon, underscoring the risk that cross-border fire between Israel and Hezbollah could erupt into a full-blown war.

The Israeli military said 10 rockets had been fired from Lebanon on Tuesday and that one hit the kibbutz, Hagoshrim.

The death toll from an Israeli attack on Nuseirat refugee camp has risen to 12, according to Palestinian news agency Wafa.

The Israeli military targeted the entrance to Nuseirat camp earlier on Tuesday.

At least nine Palestinian men were killed by Israeli fire while transporting the bodies of dead Palestinians, according to Al Jazeera.

Al Jazeera said it obtained footage showing the bodies of nine Palestinian men after they were attacked by the Israeli army while trying to transport bodies from the Bureij refugee camp to the Nuseirat camp in the Gaza Strip. 

Al Jazeera cited unnamed local sources and witnesses who said the men were bombed when they reached Salah al-Din Street carrying the bodies in a cart. 

Israel’s military has indicted a soldier for beating Palestinian prisoners, the military said on Tuesday.

According to Israel’s military, the Israeli soldier used “severe violence” against Palestinian prisoners he was guarding between February and June.

The soldier allegedly hit the detainees with a stick and his personal weapon while filming the beatings, according to the indictment.

The case is separate from an ongoing investigation into nine Israeli soldiers that sparked raids on two Israeli army bases by far-right Israeli protesters.

Israeli media reports say the case revolves around charges that Israeli soldiers sodomised a Palestinian prisoner. 

Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh has met Iran’s new president, Masoud Pezeshkian, in Tehran.

“During the meeting, Haniyeh congratulated the new president for gaining the trust of the Iranian people and briefed him on the political and on-the-ground developments of the war in Gaza,” Hamas said in a statement.

The statement added that Pezeshkian reaffirmed Iran’s support for the Palestinian people “and expressed his aspiration for them and their resistance”.

Israeli soldiers shot two Palestinians with live ammunition and rubber-coated bullets in the occupied West Bank during a series of raids, Wafa, the Palestinian news agency, reported.

A 19-year-old man was shot in Shufat refugee camp in occupied East Jerusalem, according to the Palestinian Red Crescent.

Separately, a 24-year-old man was shot in the village of Hibla, south of Qalqilya in the occupied West Bank.

The waste management system in Gaza has collapsed, the UN warned in a new report.

“There is no access to the major landfills, and waste accumulates at more than 140 temporary dumping sites,” the UN development programme for the Palestinian People has said.

The UN warned that the collapse of waste collection poses “serious health and environmental risks, including a spike in diarrheal illness and in acute respiratory infections”.

At least two Palestinians have been killed in an Israeli air strike on a house in the north of Gaza City, Al Jazeera is reporting.

They added that Israeli fire also targeted the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza.

Children in Gaza are suffering from widespread skin diseases, including lice, scabies, and rashes, amid dire sanitary conditions, a report by AP has revealed.

Overcrowded conditions in camps, soaring temperatures and exposure to open sewage is causing the diseases to proliferate, according to health officials.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) said that there were more than 103,000 cases of lice and scabies and 65,000 cases of skin rashes in Gaza.

“There’s no shampoo, no soap,” said Munira al-Nahhal, living in a tent in the dunes outside the southern city of Khan Younis. “The water is dirty. Everything is sand and insects and garbage.”

On Tuesday, dozens of Israelis stormed Sde Teiman detention facility in southern Israel's Negev desert.

They gathered in response to the arrest of nine soldiers accused of raping a Palestinian prisoner. But rather than directing their anger at the soldiers suspected of the abuse, these far-right Israelis, who included MPs and a minister, were outraged that they had been arrested at all.

For many in Israel and beyond, the riot and further protests at a military courthouse symbolise the crossing of a moral event horizon, but the civil strife is just a backdrop to the litany of abuses alleged to have been carried out at Sde Teiman detention facility.

About 4,000 Palestinians have been detained from Gaza in Israel since October 2023. Most are detained and interrogated in the enclave but if they are believed to have useful information they are brought to Sde Teiman, even if a non-combatant.

Torture, rape and murder have all been reported as rife at the facility, one of several facilities where Palestinians have been mistreated for decades.

READ MORE: Sde Teiman: What are the abuses alleged to have taken place in Israeli prison?

The Gaza ministry of detainees has said that the abuses at Sde Teiman, where nine Israeli soldiers are alleged to have raped a Palestinian detainee, are systemic and enacted as a form of revenge for the Hamas-led attack on 7 October.

In a statement the ministry said that the detention of the soldiers was “charade intended to show that these violations are individual ones carried out by a few bad apples”.

“The truth is that what is happening is systematic torture that has led to several deaths of detainees,” the ministry said, calling for the centre to be shut down.

“The prisoners are being subject to torture, assault and humiliation not because they are suspected of any wrong-doing but as a form of revenge for the October 7 attacks.”

An Israeli man has been killed by a rocket barrage fired from Lebanon at settlements in the Upper Galilee on Tuesday, Israeli news outlet N12 is reporting.

The Israeli military said in a statement on X that 10 rockets had been launched from Lebanon. They had intercepted most of them, but one fell in the Gesher kibbutz in the Upper Galilee area of northern Israel.

Tensions have ratcheted along the Israeli-Lebanese border following an apparent attack on Majdal Shams in the occupied Golan Heights.

Hezbollah has said it launched a "salvo" of rockets targeting  the “al-Sahl Battalion” in the Beit Hillel settlement in northern Israel.

It said in a statement on Telegram that the attack was carried out in support of the people in Gaza and in response to an Israeli attack on the village Jebchit, in southern Lebanon.

Tensions between Israel and Hezbollah escalated following an apparent attack on the Golan Heights. Israel has said the Lebanese group were responsible for the strike, which killed 12 children, while Hezbollah emphatically denies the allegation.

The UN Human Rights Office has expressed "concern" that over 80 Palestinian families face eviction from their homes in the Silwan area of occupied East Jerusalem.

It said in a statement that 87 Palestinian families, comprising 600-680 individuals, are facing legal proceedings initiated by settlers to evict them from their homes in Batn al-Hawa. 

It added that these cases are part of "an ongoing systematic settlers' campaign" to "uproot  Palestinians from their homes, take over their property and implant Israeli settlers in the heart of Palestinian neighbourhoods in East Jerusalem."

British foreign secretary, David Lammy has reiterated calls for British nationals to avoid travel to Lebanon, warning that the risk of a full-scale conflict between Israel and Hezbollah is "rising."

“My message to British nationals in Lebanon is clear, if you are in Lebanon – leave,” he said in video message on X.

“You should leave while commercial flights are running,” he added.

His comments came amid ratcheting tensions between Israel and Lebanon's Hezbollah after an apparent attack on the occupied Golan Heights.

My message to British nationals in Lebanon is clear – leave. https://t.co/obWtG8Kzzv

— David Lammy (@DavidLammy) July 30, 2024