Gaza live: Concerns about all-out regional war rise following Golan Heights deadly attack

According to the UN, Palestinians in the devastated northern Gaza Strip, where humanitarian aid has been slower to arrive amid Israeli military attacks, continue to be forced to move south.

The UN stated that it is collaborating with its partners to register and deliver aid to these displaced individuals, who must navigate dangerous roads while carrying their remaining belongings. 

A crowd of over 200 people gathered Wednesday at San Francisco Airport to welcome a Palestinian teen who lost both his legs and half of his left hand in an Israeli strike in Gaza. The 15-year-old, known only by his first name, Ahmed, will receive prosthetic and rehabilitative treatment in the US after being wounded by a bombing in Khan Younis on 16 February.

The crowd brought gifts, banners and flowers. Dozens of children also showed their support.

Bay Area emergency room doctor Mohammad Subeh, who treated Ahmed as part of his second medical mission in Gaza, was among the people receiving the teen.

Dr Subeh called Ahmed’s survival a “miracle”, given the low probability of surviving a double amputation, especially in conflict zone conditions.

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) recently said that all healthcare facilities in southern Gaza are at “breaking point”.

Read more: Gaza teen who lost both legs in Israeli strike arrives in California for treatment

On Thursday, Australia imposed sanctions on seven Israelis for their involvement in violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.

The announcement from the Australian foreign ministry did not disclose the names of the individuals, but Australian media identified them as Elisha Yered, a former parliamentary aide to Jewish Power parliamentarian Limor Son Har-Melech; Yinon Levy, Zvi Bar Yosef, Neria Ben-Pazi, David Hai Hisdai, Eitan Tanjil, and Meir Ettinger.

According to the Wall Street Journal (WSJ), officials from the US, Israel and certain Arab states support the idea of Mohammed Dahlan, a highly controversial former Palestinian security chief and Fatah member, governing Gaza after the war as part of a "day after plan".

The WSJ report suggests that negotiators view Dahlan as a temporary solution for post-war Gaza's leadership. They consider him a suitable figure for managing security in the region, acceptable to Israel, Hamas and foreign powers, including the US and Arab Gulf states.

However, the pro-Israel conservative WSJ did not cite its sources for these claims.

In 2007, the Bush administration funded Dahlan with money and weapons in an attempt to overthrow the democratically elected Hamas. The plan failed, and Dahlan fled the territory.

He now lives in luxury in the United Arab Emirates and has extensive business dealings, including in Serbia.

A 2008 Vanity Fair article on Dahlan's attempt to take over the Gaza Strip stated: "There is no one more hated amongst Hamas members than Muhammad Dahlan, long Fatah’s resident strongman in Gaza."

US President George W. Bush once described Dahlan as “our guy".

The Israeli military has confirmed that three soldiers were injured in the drive-by shooting attack near an-Nabi Elyas in the occupied West Bank. None of the soldiers sustained serious injuries.

The Israeli military stated that the soldiers were patrolling the area and noted that Israeli forces are now boosting their presence in the region and surrounding nearby Palestinian villages in an effort to locate the assailant. 

Israeli forces have detained at least 22 Palestinians from the occupied West Bank overnight, according to the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society and the Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs.

The organisations reported that those detained included journalists, former prisoners, and a child.

The detentions occurred in Ramallah, Hebron, Tulkarem, and occupied East Jerusalem.

Since 7 October, Israeli forces have detained over 9,800 Palestinians, they added

Um Yousef and her husband have lived in their home in the Nur Shams refugee camp near Tulkarem in the occupied Palestinian West Bank ever since they married 43 years ago.

And they are still there today. Even though it’s in ruins. The furniture smashed. No outside wall. Rubble everywhere. We are sitting on plastic chairs in what used to be the kitchen. There’s no running water or electricity.

Um Yousef says she has no intention of moving out and nor has her husband.

“This is the investment of 40 years of our life.”

She says she misses her sons and grandchildren, whose school books can still be seen scattered amid the debris. They used to live on the top floor but Israeli soldiers destroyed the stairs so they had to move out.

Read more: Inside the West Bank refugee camp terrorised by Israeli air strikes, bulldozers and snipers

The Israeli military announced on Thursday that a soldier has died from injuries sustained in a car-ramming attack in central Israel on 14 July. 

Two other Israeli soldiers were hurt when a Palestinian resident of occupied East Jerusalem rammed his car at the group.

Wearing a keffiyeh around his face, and a Palestine flag hoodie, a man in a recent viral video proclaimed in Arabic that “rivers of blood” would flow through the streets of Paris during the upcoming Olympics. 

In the video, first posted to X on Sunday, the masked man lambasts the French people, and President Emmanuel Macron, for supporting “the Zionist regime in its criminal war against the people of Palestine”.

“You invited the Zionists to the Olympic Games. You will pay for what you have done,” he said, referring to the event that begins later this week.

“Rivers of blood will flow through the streets of Paris. This day is approaching, God willing. Allah is the greatest,” the man concluded, before holding up a fake severed head.

Social media users were quick to attribute the video to Hamas - an accusation the group denied.

Read more: Video of 'Palestinian fighter' threatening Paris Olympics debunked

On Wednesday, the United States criticised an Israeli bill that seeks to designate the UN agency for Palestinian refugees as a terrorist organisation, calling such efforts “incredibly unhelpful.”

State Department spokesman Matthew Miller stated, “UNRWA is not a terrorist organisation, and we urge the Israeli government and the Knesset to stop advancing this legislation.”

He added, “The Israeli government’s attacks on UNRWA are highly counterproductive. They do nothing to further the goal of delivering humanitarian aid to civilians in Gaza."

Local Palestinian media reports indicate that three Israeli soldiers were wounded in a drive-by shooting on the road between Qalqilya and Nablus in the occupied West Bank.

An unidentified gunman fired from a vehicle near the towns of Azzun and an-Nabi Elyas. 

Ambulance crews are treating the soldiers for minor injuries.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faced a depleted House when he addressed a joint seating of the US Congress on Wednesday, after dozens of lawmakers opted to either boycott or skip his speech.

Reasons given for not being present for Netanyahu's address range from opposition to his far-right government to opposing his approach to the war on Gaza to having scheduling conflicts.

Outside the US Capitol building and across downtown Washington DC, thousands of pro-Palestinian and anti-war activists from all over the country were on the streets to show their ire against the Israeli war on Gaza, with their centre of attention being Netanyahu, who they accuse of leading a genocide on Palestinians in Gaza.

The goal of the protesters: arrest Netanyahu for alleged war crimes and genocide committed by Israeli forces in Gaza.

Read more: Thousands of US protesters demand Israel's Netanyahu be locked up

The Israeli military has reported that two soldiers were severely wounded in battles in the southern Gaza Strip. One paratrooper was seriously injured on Wednesday, and a member of the Givati Brigade sustained serious injuries on Tuesday during the fighting.

Both soldiers were evacuated to Israel for treatment, according to the military.

Recent military figures show that 683 Israeli soldiers have been killed since October 7, with 326 of those deaths occurring in Gaza or along its border with Israel since the ground operation began.

Additionally, 2,147 Israeli soldiers have been injured since the start of the offensive against Gaza.

From 7 October, a total of 563 Palestinians have been killed in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem by Israeli forces or armed Israeli settlers, according to the UN.

The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reports that Israeli forces have killed 548 Palestinians since October, while Israeli settlers have killed 10. In seven cases, it is unclear whether the perpetrators were soldiers or settlers.

During this period, OCHA has documented 1,143 attacks by Israeli settlers on local Palestinians.

Additionally, Israeli authorities have demolished or forced the demolition of 1,247 Palestinian-owned structures in the occupied West Bank, including 481 homes, leading to the displacement of 2,836 Palestinians, including 1,245 children. 

The Israeli military has recovered the bodies of four captives from Gaza during an operation in Khan Younis, southern Gaza.

The captives included two civilians, 56-year-old Maya Goren and 33-year-old Oren Goldin, and two soldiers, 19-year-old Sergeant Kiril Brodski and 20-year-old Staff Sergeant Tomer Yaakov Ahimas.

These individuals were killed on 7 October, and their bodies were subsequently taken to Gaza.

Troops from the 98th Division, along with members of the Shin Bet agency, carried out the recovery operation. Details of the operation have not been disclosed.

It is now estimated that 112 of the 251 captives taken to Gaza on October 7 remain within the territory