Urgent health update: Consequences of war on Gaza, the West Bank/East Jerusalem, and Lebanon - July 11, 2026

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After 1,000 days of genocide in Palestine, 1700 medical workers have been killed; 38 hospitals damaged, destroyed, or put out of service; and 197 ambulances targeted. More than 2.1 million cases of infectious diseases have been recorded, and over 22,000 patients need treatment abroad but are unable to leave Gaza due to Israeli restrictions. (Drop Site 7/2)
Another analysis of the 1,000 days: IOF have continued to perpetrate this crime before the eyes of the world, while the international community has failed to fulfil its legal obligations to protect civilians, halt the ongoing genocide, and hold its perpetrators accountable. PCHR

‍As military actions and restrictions in Gaza & settler attacks & home demolitions in the West Bank/East Jerusalem continue, we see an eroding of “household resilience, deepening humanitarian needs, & increasing dependence on humanitarian assistance” which is also under attack, “undermining safety, dignity, & well-being”. OCHA ‍ ‍

Action Alerts‍ ‍

From Doctors Against Genocide: ‍ ‍

Campaign to release Dr. Abu Safiya and all healthcare hostages and launch the July 15 Hour of Action, we are asking you to: ‍ ‍

1.      Record a short video, less than 1.5 minutes (best to record with your phone in vertical upright position - Portrait mode)‍ ‍

2.      Wear your scrubs or white coat if you are a healthcare worker‍ ‍

3.      Share your commitment to this action, demand the release of Dr. Abu Safiya, and invite others to join‍ ‍

We act on July 15 and every day before and after, until every healthcare hostage is free.‍ ‍

Some messaging suggestions:‍ ‍

The people of Gaza have endured over 1,000 days of genocide and continue to suffer due to global complicity. Doctors and healthcare workers have been targeted, killed and have suffered torture and illegal detention for far too long.‍ ‍

Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, pediatrician and director of Kamal Adwan Hospital, has been detained for over 558 days and his life is under threat. His own words haunt us: he told his colleagues he did not see himself leaving detention alive. We refuse to let that happen.‍ ‍

On July 15 at noon your local time, Doctors Against Genocide is launching theHour of Global Solidarity, a one hour rolling global action moving across the world, time zone by time zone, demanding the release of Dr. Abu Safiya and all detained healthcare workers.‍ ‍

Everyone can give one hour.‍ ‍

1.      One hour to make our voices louder than repression.‍ ‍

2.      One hour to demand an end to genocide.

‍3.      One hour to hold our governments and institutions accountable.‍ ‍

We will share your videos on Instagram, X, YouTube and LinkedIn to grow this movement.‍ ‍

 Drop your videos here (please don’t send by whatsapp):

‍ If you would like us to tag you when we post, please add your social media handles in the same folder along with your video.‍

• Call for a vote on the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA)

• Congress will be voting when they return from recess on 7/13. Every year, Congress passes the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) to set U.S. military policy. Tucked inside this year’s massive bill are provisions that would significantly expand defense and intelligence integration with the Israeli government. 

• This comes at a critical time when American public approval of the Israeli government is at an all-time low, and the U.S. Intelligence Community recently designated Israel as a "critical" level espionage threat. Yet, these provisions might skip public scrutiny entirely by riding through as part of this must-pass package without a stand alone vote or real debate. 

  Take Action: Senators Van Hollen, Sanders, Merkley, Welch, Markey, and Warren are refusing to move forward on the NDAA until this integration is properly debated and voted on. We need your help to urge your Senators to do the same. A New Policy

• STOP PINKWASHING Storytelling is a form of resistance, a way we can reclaim the narrative, speak as our full selves, and disrupt dehumanization. Today and every day, amplify queer Palestinian voices. You can follow WARD Gaza on Instagram, and share their call for creatives. In the U.S., our movement has been organizing to confront pinkwashing and to ban police, weapons manufacturers, and complicit corporations from Pride events. If this vision resonates with you, check out our No Pride in Genocide toolkit made in partnership with the Muslim Alliance for Sexual and Gender Diversity (MASGD). It was written for queer and trans organizers who want to confront pinkwashing at their local Pride, pressure organizations to cut ties with weapons manufacturers, and push to end U.S. military intervention. ‍

• Tell Congress: Pass Lebanon War Powers Resolution! click here

‍Webinars

JVP Health Advisory Council webinar: Palantir in our hospitals: How the company powering the Gaza genocide and ICE Surveilance is expanding into healthcare: 7/12/26, 10 am Pacific/ 1 pm Eastern. Co-sponsors: AFSC, National Nurses United, No Palantir in the NHS (England). Register here: ‍ ‍

‍Watch this informative video about how Palantir functions and its fascist origins: here ‍ ‍‍ ‍

United Nations

‍·       UN Panel Reaffirms Israel Commits Genocide; Calls for Palestinian Doctor’s Release. A U.N. commission has called on Israeli authorities to free Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, provide him with medical care and free all other arbitrarily detained Palestinian medical personnel. Consortium News, Common Dreams

‍‍·       Responding to the Board of Peace’s statement that “UNRWA has no place in the new Gaza,” the Palestinian Foreign Ministry rejected attempts to undermine UNRWA, describing the agency as “an indispensable lifeline” for Palestinians. The ministry said the agency plays an essential role in providing education, healthcare, social protection and emergency assistance across the occupied Palestinian territories and in Palestinian refugee camps throughout the region. It stressed that UNRWA operates under a UN mandate and in accordance with international law, describing it as “irreplaceable” and “a key pillar of stability.” The ministry further rejected efforts to weaken the agency without addressing the root causes of the Palestinian refugee issue, emphasizing that humanitarian aid cannot replace Palestinians’ “inalienable rights,” including refugee rights under UN General Assembly Resolution 194. (Palestine Chronicle 7/2)

‍Reports

‍·       The Palestinian Feminist Collective, in partnership with Progressive International, released a report, “A Predatory State: Israel’s Systemic Sexualized and Gendered Violence Against Palestinians.” The report exposes the relationship between Israel’s sexualized violence and the systematic targeting of reproductive health and freedom. Download and read the full report at: Predatory State

‍·       Gaza’s Hidden Epidemic of Male Infertility. Decades of siege, aerial bombardment and heavy metal exposure had has created an epidemic of male infertility. In Gaza, male infertility is both endemic and systematically suppressed, too ubiquitous to dismiss and too taboo to confront. New Lines Magazine‍ ‍

‍·       Unshielded Childhood: Palestinian children and teenagers killed by Israel in the West Bank in 2025. A report by Btselem. Btselem

‍‍·       Israel’s campaign of erasure: The demolition of eastern Gaza. A months-long analysis of satellite imagery points to Israel creating a blank slate where Palestinian communities once stood and then establishing infrastructure to maintain a long-term presence in the areas of eastern Gaza it controls. The demolition has involved numerous violations of international law, and is evidence of war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide, according to legal experts. The New Humanitarian ‍ ‍

‍·       Powerful essay by  psychotherapist, Lama Khouri. Most Documented. Least Protected.  substack

‍·       Buried Alive: How Israel’s War Mutilates Gaza’s Children Gaza genocide

GAZA

‍New displacement driven by expansions of military-imposed access-restricted areas (occasionally marked by yellow cement blocks) or by airstrikes & shelling. Hundreds of tents burned to the ground.

‍As of 7/8/26, 73,110 casualties, 173,599 injuries in total, since the “ceasefire,” 1,053 casualties, 3,406 injuries.

‍For more info: OCHAOPT

‍Israeli attacks

‍·       6/29: mother and baby killed in Al Mawasi area of Khan Younis, 400 families’ tents destroyed or damaged, leaving 200 people without shelter in summer heat. (OCHA, Haaretz

‍·       6/27: child injured during 6/23 airstrike died, 17 year old girl killed on was to sit for high school exams

‍·       6/26-27 more than 20 families displaced from eastern Deir al Balah, more than 12 from eastern Gaza City, quadcoptors announced while Israeli forces advanced to the areas.

‍·       6/30, Several Palestinians were wounded  after an Israeli airstrike targeted a group of people near the Sheikh Radwan junction in Gaza City. In southern Gaza, Israeli troops carried out four large-scale demolitions of homes and civilian structures in Khan Younis, while artillery shelled northwestern Rafah. In Gaza City, Israeli forces destroyed homes in the Al-Tuffah neighborhood, alongside heavy gunfire in Shujaiya. (Drop Site 6/30)

‍·       7/3, Palestinian child was killed and another wounded after an Israeli quadcopter dropped a bomb on them as they attempted to collect water in Gaza City’s Old City. According to the Civil Defense, the two children were filling containers with water behind the Al-Omari Mosque when the drone attack struck. One child was killed instantly while the second sustained injuries. (Palestine Chronicle 7/3)

‍·       7/7, In Gaza City, an Israeli strike on the Sabra neighborhood killed Palestinian aid official Mohammed al-Wahidi, along with a taxi driver and two children — 10-year-old Hamza al-Deri and his 8-year-old brother Fari. Al-Wahidi was director of public relations for the Egyptian Relief Committee in Gaza and had just organized a public screening of the Egypt-Argentina World Cup match. Israel killed him less than an hour before kickoff. (Democracy Now 7/8)

‍·       7/9, Health officials reported at least nine Palestinians had been killed by Israeli airstrikes and gunfire over the last 24 hours. Among the victims was Ahmad Nasser Saleem, a driver who was delivering food for the U.S.-based nonprofit World Central Kitchen. In Khan Younis, an Israeli missile hit a tent for displaced people in the al-Mawasi area, killing at least four people, including a 10-year-old child. (Democracy Now 7/9)

‍·       The father of Ahmad Nasser Salim, the Palestinian truck driver who was shot and killed by Israeli forces while transporting aid for the World Central Kitchen, reported that his son died after an Israeli army ambulance that arrived at the scene did not evacuate him. Salim’s father, Nasser Salim, explained that his son was also a mechanic and that he had tried to help another truck that had broken down while traveling from Kerem Shalom crossing into Gaza. His father recounted that after Salim got out of his truck, an Israeli soldier asked him “‘What are you doing? Put your hands up, show me your stomach,’ and then shot him between the eyes, without saying a word.” Salim leaves behind two children, a two-year-old daughter and a son born less than a month ago. Haaretz

‍Aid

‍·       20 households suffering total losses received tents, blankets, hygiene kits, dignity kits, jerrycans, tarpaulins.

‍·       June, 41,800 pallets of aid offloaded at Kerem Shalom Crossing, decreased from 46,600 in May. This is only operational crossing for cargo.

·       Ashdod corridor offloading down to 65 truckloads, (problem with scanner).

·       Egypt Corridor, 42% of cargo successfully offloaded (high return & rejection rate)

‍·       6/22-28: 831 commercial truckloads into Gaza, 52% food, 29% nonessential goods, 11% shelter materials, 5% hygiene items. Only 3 truckloads of medicine & animal feed, 2 of insecticides, 1 of baby care items.

‍Food security

‍·       Last updated by OCHAOPT 5/15/26, Nutrition last updated 12/19/25

‍·       Gaza farmers have rehabilitated ~24 hectares of greenhouse infrastructure since ceasefire, also early signs of livestock recovery through cash assistance, livestock support, technical guidance. Still, 80% of greenhouse infrastructure remains out of production, most agricultural land inaccessible

‍·       7/1, Gaza officials say famine has returned: Only 25% of the food needs of Gaza’s population are  entering  the Strip through crossings, per Gaza’s Social Development Ministry. Deputy Minister Riyad al-Bitar attributed the crisis to severe aid restrictions, economic collapse, and Israeli control over commercial trucks; he said Israel allows just 120 to 150 aid and commercial trucks daily against the 600 agreed upon under the October ceasefire.

‍Water Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)

‍·       84% of households in Gaza City, Deir al Balah, & Khan Younis: moderate to high levels of water insecurity, 63% were below minimum standards for drinking water

‍·       86% facing challenges to access to clean, safe sanitation facilities

‍·       97% facing barriers to accessing hygiene and non-food items, (insufficient distribution, high cost)

·       43% noted sold waste accumulation in their vicinity

·       52% noted sewage/sludge near shelters

·       64% reported skin diseases

‍·       82% reported availability of soap at their shelters

‍·       In assessed displacement sites, 83% have widespread rodent & ectoparasite infestations, sewage in streets, accumulation of solid waste, stagnant water, poor sanitation. Households lack appropriate water storage, are using improvised containers which increase risk of water contamination.

Health

‍·       31 emergency medical teams, including 104 national and 60 international personnel are functioning

‍·       7/1 – 7/7: 68 patients (8 children) & 119 companions evacuated by Rafah

‍·       Health services: 34 fully functioning, (includes 3 hospitals, 5 field hospitals) 268 partially functioning, (includes 2 hospitals, 4 field hospitals), 379 nonfunctioning

‍·       7/1-7/7, humanitarian missions: 31 facilitated, 3 impeded, by Israeli authorities

‍·       7/3, 9300 cases of chickenpox in 2 weeks, partners responding with antihistamines, antibiotics, fever relievers, etc. Increase water to high-burden sites, intensification of chlorination, latrine clearing, disinfection

·       Health Cluster and WASH following up high risk areas for skin disease, overcrowding, poor sanitation, waste accumulation, vector & rodent risks

‍ ·       85% of solid waste is collected, health & environmental risks (which are very high) from unmanaged waste & pests have not increased

‍·       Shortage of sodium bicarbonate at Al Shifa Hosp: severely affecting hemodialysis, capacity now 240 patients with end stage kidney disease. Dialysis sessions reduced from 3 to 2 times per week, with shorter sessions, increased daily shifts. This all critically adversely affects patients.

‍·       Three cancer patients are dying every day in Gaza, where around 11,000 people are living with cancer and about 4,000 urgently require medical evacuation, according to Dr. Saleh Sheikh Al-Eid, head of the Oncology and Blood Department at Nasser Medical Complex. Al-Eid said cancer patients are “waiting for death” as the collapse of Gaza’s healthcare system due to Israeli attacks and severe shortages of medicines leave doctors unable to provide lifesaving treatment. (Drop Site 7/7)

‍Shelter

‍·       Gaza has more than 1600 active displacement sites hosting 1.7 million people. Site Management Cluster covers ~34% of those needing support. This increases the risk of communicable diseases.

‍Economy

‍·       ICRC reports with rising temperatures, there is sharp increase in the price of second-hand fans,  from $84 to $168, also a shortage of batteries to power the fans, amid a lack of electrical infrastructure. The price of batteries has reportedly reached $671. OCHA, Haaretz

Yellow line

‍·       Residents of southern Gaza have reported a further expansion of the so-called “Yellow Line” marking Israeli-controlled areas in the Strip. When the so-called “ceasefire” agreement was signed10/25, 53% of Gaza was under Israeli control. This percent has continued to increase as Israeli relocates the yellow concrete barriers marking the boundary. UN OCHA has said that dozens of humanitarian facilities, water and sanitation infrastructure, health centers, and schools, now sit beyond the Yellow Line. Haaretz

·       9 months into a ceasefire, Israel now controls nearly 70% of Gaza. This includes the eastern half of Gaza and an “orange zone” that runs north to south and is between the yellow zone and the western part of Gaza where Palestinians are theoretically allowed to live. Entering the orange zone requires a prior authorization from the Israeli military and the area is subjected to repeated tank shelling and gunfire. NPR

‍WEST BANK/EAST JERUSALEM

‍Increasing displacement secondary to new settlement outposts, increased home demolitions, & movement restrictions in the face of rising humanitarian needs & deteriorating economic conditions. These factors “undermine access to housing, livelihoods, & essential services, heighten protection risks & mental health & psychosical support needs, particularly among children & their caregivers, disrupt access to education, & further erode household coping capacities while constraining humanitarian response.”

‍In 2026, 63 Palestinians killed (15 children), 1,109 killed (243 children) since 10/7/23

For more info: OCHAOPT‍ ‍

‍Health care

‍·       Child protection partners see over 1,800 children per week through structure individual & group activities, 715 caregivers receive mental health & psychosocial support.

‍·       Israel dumps some of its most toxic waste on Palestinian land in the West Bank. In places like Hebron, families living near electronic waste dumps face serious health repercussions, with no relief in sight. Mondoweiss

‍Access barriers

‍·       The Tawjihi, (high school exams) have mostly continued, but students & teacher report major disruptions & access delays & interference and arrests by Israeli forces.

·       The first 22 kilometers of a planned 500-kilometer Israeli military barrier are cutting off Palestinians from a large swathe of some of the most fertile agricultural land in the occupied West Bank. (Dropsite)

‍‍Demolitions and displacement

‍·       1/2023 – 6/2026, 121 communities have experienced full or partial displacement, mostly Bedouin & herding communities in Area C. This includes 6,200 Palestinians (more than 3,000 children). In 2026 alone, 2,300 were displaced (more than 1,000 children).

‍·       Demolitions of East Jerusalem neighborhoods on “West Bank” side of apartheid wall, accounts for 37% of all lack of permit demolitions in EJ, doubling average over previous 6 years.

‍·       For instance, 12 homes were demolished, affecting 48 people in Shu’afat Camp. During the assault, Israeli authorities destroyed front panels of ~100 commercial shops, merchandise, air-conditioning units, affecting 100 more households. There were no demolition orders given. The 10 hour operation involved firing tear gas & rubber bullets at Palestinians.

‍·       6/23-29, Israeli authorities demolished 14 structures due to impossible to obtain Israeli-issued permits – 12 in EJ & 2 in Area C.

‍Settler attacks

‍·       Israeli forces and settlers carried out 11,074 attacks against Palestinians and their property across the West Bank during the first half of 2026, according to the Palestinian Commission Against the Wall and Settlements. Attacks included land seizures, settlement expansion, forced displacement, extrajudicial killings, land bulldozing, tree uprooting, property destruction, and movement restrictions through road closures and military checkpoints. Israelis carried out 3,488 of the attacks and killed 17 Palestinians. Israeli authorities also approved the construction of 7,963 settlement units in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem in the first half of the year. (Drop Site 7/6)

‍·       In 2026, more than 2,300 Palestinians displaced due to settler attacks & access restrictions. There is growing pressure on Palestinian communities near Jewish settlements, including in Salfit governate - Kafr ad Dik, Nablus governate –Jalud village, Jerusalem governate – Khan al Ahmar-Makab as Samen. Since establishment of Israeli settler outposts, at least 6 attacks on Al Bowereh & 11 on Hiwara resulted in casualties, property damage or both.

‍·       6/23-29, 37 settler attacks resulting in casualties, property damage or both, with repeated targeting of essential civilian infrastructure 7 livelihood assets (electricity networks, water infrastructure, irrigation systems, agricultural structure, farmland)

‍·       Ismail Tmaizi, a Palestinian farmer in the West Bank, was paralyzed after being shot by an Israeli settler who set fire to his land and then shot multiple rounds at Tmaizi and his brother Mohammed with M-16 rifles. Israeli soldiers stood next to the settlers and did not intervene. Tmaizi had worked and lived most of his life in southern Israel working for a building supplies and technical equipment business for 38 years. Tmaizi began farming on his family’s plot of land in the West Bank after losing his job when the border crossings were shut down after October 7, 2023. Haaretz

‍·       Israeli colonists stormed the courtyards of the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied East Jerusalem under the protection of Israeli police. The Jerusalem Governorate reported that dozens of colonists entered the compound, carried out provocative tours in its courtyards, and performed Talmudic rituals under the protection of Israeli occupation forces. (Zeteo 7/1)

‍·       Repeated exposure to violence, intimidation, & insecurity is having profound psychosocial impacts, especially on children & challenges accessing health care & maintaining livelihoods. ‍

Israeli military operations

‍·       6/23-29, Israeli forces killed 3 Palestinians (1 child), in Salfit, Ramallah, & Jenin governates, 2 bodies were withheld. 20 Palestinians injured, 16 by settlers, 4 by Israeli forces.

‍·       1 Palestinian injured during Israeli attack in 12/2024 confirmed dead

·       6/28, Israel forces shut down the headquarters of a Palestinian nonprofit in the West Bank city of Nablus, saying it supported terrorism. The building housing the headquarters of Al-Tadamon Charitable Society had been sealed off, its metal front gate welded shut. A source said the move was linked to accusations of coordination with the Gaza-based rights group Addameer, which Israel has blacklisted as a terror group. Al-Tadamon provided services for orphans and ran at least three schools and a clinic.” Nablus governor Ghassan Daghlas, speaking to reporters outside the organization’s headquarters, said: “To target Al-Tadamon charity is to target all the poor among our people.” (Times of Israel 6/30)

·       Israel has said that it is holding the body of a Gaza resident who died in detention for negotiations over prisoner and missing persons even though no Israelis are currently being held hostage. A report released by the rights group Gisha found that Israel “continues to hold the bodies of more than 100 Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza who died in its custody.” The deceased, a photographer and father of four, was arrested in December 2023 and died a day later while in Israeli custody. His family did not know what happened to him for nearly two years. Gisha’s report states that “holding the bodies and refusing to return them lacks legal basis and constitutes arbitrary punishment of bereaved families, driven by extraneous considerations.” Haaretz

‍Education

‍·       Schools across the West Bank have slashed instruction as Israel withholds billions in Palestinian tax revenues.  Since October 10/7, the vast majority of public schools in the West Bank have operated just three days a week, often for just four or five hours a day. Because the Palestinian Authority (PA) cannot pay the full salaries of teachers—or any public sector employees, including doctors, who went on strike in May—hundreds of thousands of children have had their education cut in half, leading many, like the former students selling goods in the street, to drop out altogether. (Jewish Currents 7/7)

·       Israel is stoking a financial crisis in the West Bank by withholding funds from the PA. Among the sectors most affected is education, where teachers' salaries have been cut and classes have been shuttered. The impacts might last a generation. Mondoweiss

‍Economy

·       Since 10/7/23, Israel has been withholding a significant portion of the Palestinian Authority’s tax dollars—some $5 billion, according to the PA. The dramatic shortfall has meant that it has been unable to pay medical staff their full salaries, import medicine, or reimburse insurance claims for procedures and prescriptions. With the West Bank’s already-shaky public health infrastructure now in a state of collapse, patients have been forced to turn to private hospitals and providers—which cost too much for the average person—or else seek help from NGOs. For many, simply managing a chronic condition can now mean scrambling to ration the little medication they can find, buying it on the black market, or simply not taking it at all. (Jewish Currents 7/2)

‍LEBANON

‍·       Israel recently damaged Lebanon’s vital Qaraoun Dam, raising fears of a structural failure. Experts say the attack reflects Israel’s long-standing ambition to control Lebanon’s water — and mirrors the water apartheid it imposes on Palestinians. Mondoweiss

‍       6/29, Israel has no territorial claims in Lebanon, but will not withdraw “a millimeter” from the areas it occupies in the country, per Defense Minister Katz, and will follow the same strategy as in Gaza. Visiting southern Lebanon, PM Netanyahu said that “everything above ground and below ground that served [Hezbollah] as a means of attacking us – infiltration routes, terror tunnels, terrorist villages – it’s all going down. That’s the directive: Leave nothing behind.” (Haaretz 5/30)

‍·       The psychological toll mounts as Lebanese villages are erased by Israeli attacks. The pain of having lost their homes is devastating, but experts expect an even greater psychological burden should these people eventually return to their villages. “When a village is flattened, and even the landmarks around it are gone, people lose more than their homes. They lose the markers that told them where they belonged, and that’s part of why we’re seeing such deep distress, including in people who have never struggled with their mental health before,” Basma Alloush of the International Rescue Committee told Al Jazeera.

‍ISRAEL

·       Israel Police data show that investigations into incidents of Israeli settler terrorism and Jewish nationalist crimes against Palestinians in the West Bank increased more than 560% since 2019. However, only 6.6% of these cases have resulted in an indictment. National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir’s bureau had delayed release of the data for about six months, only agreeing to release it after the NGO The Movement for Freedom of Information in Israel petitioned for its release in court. Haaretz

·       Israeli authorities also approved the construction of 7,963 settlement units in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem in the first half of the year. (Drop Site 7/6)

·       Israeli Plan to Herd Palestinians Into Controlled “Shelters” to Begin “Within A Matter of Weeks.” Israel is preparing to channel Palestinians into fenced “humanitarian shelters” in areas outside Hamas’s control, policed by a foreign force, while its military deepens its occupation of the rest of Gaza. Unarmed civilians would be directed to a first zone in Tel al-Sultan. A “multinational force” - the ISF - operating under the Trump administration’s “Board of Peace” would deploy there from a newly built base, equipped to police the zones, while the Israeli military “continues to maintain and deepen its hold” beyond the Yellow Line. Described as a “pincer movement”: the military seizing more territory as the population is siphoned into the controlled zones, in the hope that Hamas is left “without a population, territory or resources.” Officials said the areas would receive caravans and aid, but not the concrete needed to actually rebuild Gaza. ️ Dropsite

Prisoners

·       Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya has been in Israeli captivity for 18 months, ever since Israeli forces shut down the crucial Kamal Adwan Hospital – the second largest in northern Gaza – in the winter of 2024. Now, Physicians for Human Rights Israel (PHRI) is relaying a warning from Abu Safiya’s lawyer, Nasser Odeh, that the prominent Palestinian pediatrician and hospital director is in “life-threatening condition” and enduring “daily violence and beatings.” (Zeteo 6/6)

·       Israel detained 3,000 Palestinians in the first half of 2026, including 109 women and 212 children: The detentions, reported by the Palestine Center for Prisoners Studies via Shehab Agency, come amid an escalation in mass arrest campaigns, home raids, property destruction, and arbitrary detention by Israel in the occupied West Bank. The center added that Israel had released 321 detainees from the Gaza Strip while continuing to hold around 2,000 others, who continue to face “enforced disappearance, torture, and starvation.” (Drop Site 6/29)

·       The Palestine Center for the Defense of Prisoners has warned that detained Gaza physician Marwan Al-Hams faces life-threatening conditions after months without heart medication. Dr. Al-Hams, director of the Palestine Health Ministry’s field hospitals, was abducted while traveling to a medical mission in July 2025. He has reportedly lost around 20 kilograms in Israeli custody. The organization called for urgent international intervention and his immediate release. (Palestine Chronicle 7/7)

·       Israeli lawmaker Ofer Cassif, the only Jewish member of the anti-occupation Hadash party in the Knesset, said on 6/29 that lawmakers defeated a bill that would have barred the Red Cross from visiting Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons. Cassif said the measure was intended to prevent the world from seeing “the marks of torture and inhumane conditions” on Palestinian prisoners. He called for the immediate resumption of Red Cross visits to prisons. (Drop Site 6/30)

·       A Collapsing Society: Israel Suffers a National Mental Crisis Due to the War, Anxiety, sleep disorders, domestic violence, eating disorders, road accidents. Statistic after statistic reveals the unprecedented impact of the war on Israelis' mental health. Haaretz

·       Even an Israeli newspaper has a sympathetic report on attempts to release Dr. Abu Safiya “Even Eichmann got humane detention’: Israeli doctors pressured over jailed Gaza hospital director.” ynet‍ ‍

UNITED STATES

·       US Democrat Lawmakers Urge Israel to Release 'Kidnapped' Gaza Hospital Director Hussam Abu Safiya. Prominent Democrats, including Bernie Sanders and Chris Van Hollen, cited reports that the physician's life is in danger in Israeli detention, with some calling for Washington to suspend aid to Israel until he is freed. Haaretz

·       After years of operating on the fringe of Democratic values, pro-Palestinian activists felt validated after the primary wins by several candidates who oppose Israel’s actions. NYT

·       Annual conference in Chicago was a place for the AMA to discuss policy, especially around advocacy. Resolutions were introduced about Palestine and the attacks on its healthcare workers and infrastructure, such as: RESOLVED, that our AMA supports efforts to protect, release, and provide restitution to detained noncombatant healthcare workers in all areas of conflict, including Gaza. The resolution was not passed, but two resolutions did pass about the general “protection of healthcare workers and facilities in conflict areas.” Counterpunch

·       The Hind Rajab Foundation has called on the US to investigate Israel’s far right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir for war crimes, including those against US nationals, ahead of his visit to New York City for the UN Chiefs of Police Summit on7/7 and 8. The foundation said Ben-Gvir is “one of the chief architects and champions of the genocide against the Palestinian people.” (Truthout 6/29)

·       Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has canceled a planned visit to New York following calls for his prosecution initiated by the Hind Rajab Foundation and the Center for Constitutional Rights, in addition to pressure mounted by grassroots mobilization organized by the Palestinian Youth Movement and others. hindrajabfoundation

·       6/29, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez introduced an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act that could effectively halt offensive and defensive US military aid to Israel. The proposal would require US defense transfers to comply with international law and, building on Section 620I of the Foreign Assistance Act, require the president to affirmatively certify that a recipient isn’t restricting US-backed humanitarian aid. (Drop Site 6/30)

·       In Washington, 75 Democratic lawmakers urged Secretary of State Marco Rubio to investigate whether Israel violated arms transfer agreements by using US-supplied weapons for the mass destruction of Lebanese civilian infrastructure, rather than legitimate self-defense. "If US-origin arms are confirmed to be used in these unauthorized activities, we ask the Trump administration to enforce existing law and stop arms transfers being used in these operations until these violations cease," the lawmakers said in a letter sent on 6/26 (Haaretz 6/30)

·       More than 60 members of the United States Congress have called on Israel to lift restrictions on Palestinian  cancer patients in Gaza  so that they may seek treatment in hospitals in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem. Fifty-one members of the House of Representatives and 11 members of the Senate signed the letter, addressed to Secretary of State Marco Rubio. They include Senators Bernie Sanders and Chris Van Hollen and Representatives Madeleine Dean and Greg Casar. (Al Jazeera 6/11, Dawn 7/1)

·       JVP was one of the convening organizations for a protest in Washington, DC’s Union Station to end funding of Israel’s genocide amidst the first annual summit of Christians United for Israel or CUFI, the largest “pro-Israel” organization in the United States. (FOSNA 7/7)

·       Dr. Thaer Ahmad, who practices emergency medicine in Chicago and has volunteered in Gaza, responded to Amy Goodman’s question on Democracy Now on 7/7 about the significance of Dr. Abu Safiya: “…This is somebody whose voice in Gaza and outside of Gaza had become sort of the symbol of Palestinian resilience, of the Palestinian medical care system. And he knew very well… that the Israeli military was targeting the healthcare system.  …even in his last moments right before the Israeli military had him approach a tank, you saw Dr. Hussam appeal to the world, saying that if this hospital [Kamal Adwan] goes down, people will unnecessarily suffer and die, and specifically children.”

INTERNATIONAL

·       Legal repression of the Palestine solidarity movement in the UK did not deter a new direct action group called People Against Genocide from blockading the arms company Ultra I&C in Maidenhead, west of London. Campaigners say that Ultra I&C is a key supplier to the Israeli drone maker Elbit Systems’ factory in Leicester in the north. A member of the group said the blockade was a message of defiance to the Court of Appeal’s ruling that the Labour government’s “terrorism” ban on Palestinian Action was lawful. (Electronic Intifada 6/26)

·       Addressing the Second Jewish Anti-Zionist Congress in Dublin via video link from Palermo on Friday, UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese argued that the genocide in Gaza has evolved into far more than Israel’s war against the Palestinian people. Instead, she said, it has become the clearest expression of a global political and ideological system that has normalized Palestinian dispossession while exposing the failures of international law, democratic institutions and the post-war international order itself. (Palestine Chronicle 6/28)

·       Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) will reportedly revise its definition of who qualifies as a journalist in a move that would broadly exclude slain Palestinian and Lebanese journalists working for government-funded outlets, while journalists from Israel, the US, and Ukraine at state-funded or military-embedded outlets would remain classified as journalists. The change follows pressure from the right-wing publication The Free Beacon, which has repeatedly alleged that Palestinian and Lebanese journalists were militants or cited their political views to justify their killings by Israeli forces. (Drop Site 6/30)

·       Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is in damage-control mode amid a furor over a review of Palestinian journalists in its Gaza casualty database and attempts to change the definition of who is a journalist to exclude some Palestinians. A group of current and former CPJ insiders say the Gaza database review is a capitulation to Israel’s agenda and a damaging distraction from CPJ’s actual obligation to pursue accountability for the killing of journalists on an unprecedented scale. CPJ has meanwhile confirmed that it is now reviewing the status of at least four individuals whose names were removed from its database of Palestinian journalists and media workers killed in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza. (Electronic Intifada 7/8)

·       Ireland’s Dáil passed the Occupied Territories Bill on 7/7 without a vote, setting Ireland up to become the first European Union country to legislate a ban on imports from Israeli settlements. The bill heads to the Seanad next week and is expected to be law before mid-July, making settlement imports an offense under Ireland’s Customs Act. The government’s version of the bill bans only goods, however, while exempting services which make up about 70 percent of Ireland’s trade with Israel, said a foreign affairs spokesperson for Ireland’s Labour Party. (Drop Site 7/9)

·       Amnesty International called for war crimes investigations into three Israeli air attacks on homes in Lebanon’s Tyre, Sidon, and Nabatieh districts on March 6, 12, and 13 that killed 24 civilians, including 12 children, six women and six men, with at least 18 others wounded. (Drop Site 7/10)

·       The #SaveDrAbuSafiya campaign now has >1140 signatories, from 47 countries. The majority are “health care workers, with some renowned researchers, clinicians, ethicists and philosophers, as well as concerned individuals.” The letter was sent to the World Medical Association and will be released publicly soon. (ynet & personal communication)

SOURCES

OCHAOPT, Haaretz, Consortium News, Zeteo, Counterpunch, Electronic Intifada, New York Times, Palestine Chronicle, Drop Site, Mondoweiss, Aljazeera, DAWN, Jewish Currents, Predatory State, FOSNA, Democracy Now, Ynet, New Lines Magazine, The New Humanitarian, Gaza Genocide, substack, Hind Rajab Foundation, Truthout

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