Urgent health update: Consequences of war on Gaza, West Bank/East Jerusalem, and Lebanon - July 5, 2025
ACTION ITEM
-July 13, 2025, at noon eastern, JVP HAC webinar: The Gazafication of the West Bank
A report from Diana Buttu, Esq, Esteemed Human Rights Lawyer
Diana Buttu is a lawyer who previously served as a legal advisor to the Palestinian negotiating team and was part of the team that assisted in the successful litigation of the Wall before the International Court of Justice. She frequently comments on Palestine for international news media outlets such as CNN and BBC; is a political analyst for Al Jazeera International and is a regular contributor to The Middle East magazine. She maintains a law practice in Palestine, focusing on international human rights law.
COSPONSORS:
American Friends Service Committee (AFSC)
USA Palestine-Global Mental Health Network
Healthcare workers for Palestine Salt Lake City
Voices from the Holy Land
Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism
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-July 6, 2025 at 12 PM EST, Doctors Against Genocide webinar
Register to attend here.
“Left Behind and Under Fire: Disability, Genocide, and the Relentless Assault on Gaza Medics! Join Doctors Against Genocide for a vital conversation at the intersection of disability justice and genocide.
-Ask your friends and organizations to sign this petition here and forward it to your contacts:
We demand the immediate deployment of a U.N. multinational armed protection force with the following mandate:
Protect civilians from further violence and displacement.
Ensure full, safe and sustained humanitarian access to food, water, shelter, energy, and medical care.
Assist in the initial stages of reconstruction, enabling families to return to their homes and rebuild with dignity.
Preserve and secure evidence of potential war crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide, and human rights violations to enable future accountability and justice mechanisms
-URGENT CALL TO ACTION
Dismantle the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation: Aid Must Not Be a Tool of Genocide
What’s unfolding in Gaza is state-engineered violence disguised as aid. The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), backed by the U.S. and Israel, has turned food distribution into a death trap. Civilians are being shot while trying to collect survival rations in fenced, militarized zones. Over 500 killed and thousands wounded since May. This is genocide by starvation and trauma and the U.S. just committed $30 million to fund it.
Doctors are sounding the alarm. This is cruel and collective punishment.
Add your name and Demand accountability by SIGNING THIS PETITION: here
-Doctors Against Genocide is urging you to join the Day on the Hill—July 16th—to increase pressure on policymakers to act.
We will deliver our "Medical Prescription to End the Genocide" directly to members of Congress. JOIN DAG ON THE HILL DAYS on July 16th: Sign Up Here
JOURNALS & REPORTS
BMC Nephrology: A cross-sectional study of 105 end-stage kidney disease patients undergoing dialysis at Al Aqsa Hospital in central Gaza found that, between October-November 2024, 81% reported damage to dialysis machines, 91.4% were affected by electricity cuts, 63.8% experienced gaps in dialysis due to displacement, and 33.3% cited a shortage of medical staff. here
Scientific Reports: A cross-sectional study of 556 university students in the West Bank in June-July 2024, found that more than half of students experienced moderate (41.2%) or high (10.1%) levels of psychache— “an intense psychological pain marked by despair, humiliation, and helplessness”— an established risk factor for suicidal ideation and suicide. here
International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation: The authors used satellite imagery to assess the impact of war on air quality in the Gaza Strip and found correlations between bombings and military actions and increases in harmful air pollutants like PM2.5 and carbon monoxide. The study also found “pollution hotspots” that corresponded to the operational phases of the IDF. here
Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery: A retrospective study of civilian patients with war-related physical trauma admitted to a French humanitarian mission near Rafah in November 2023, found that pediatric patients under the age of 15 represented 42% of casualties. Nearly all injuries (95%) were caused by explosions and the median Injury Severity Score was 10. Key challenges in trauma care included managing severe pain, treating wound infections often associated with antimicrobial resistance, and blood management requiring transfusions. here
Health & Social Work: Interviews with 16 Palestinian feminists in Gaza explore how feminist organizing can act as a powerful social determinant of health by building empowerment, joy, and justice even in the context of occupation, military violence, and settler colonialism. here
BMJ: In an open letter, scholars from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine call on the UK government to take a clearly defined set of actions in response to the ongoing humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza including “immediately suspending all direct and indirect military exports, training programmes, and intelligence cooperation with Israel; publishing a formal response to the May 2025 letter by UK lawyers and legal experts, which concluded that: ‘Genocide is being perpetrated in Gaza or, at a minimum, there is a serious risk of genocide occurring’; tracking and publicly reporting on all UK-funded humanitarian aid that is denied entry into Gaza or cannot be distributed as intended; and commission and publish an independent scientific assessment of the public health impact of Israel’s war tactics in Gaza.” here
Harvard study finds Israel ‘disappeared’ nearly 400,000 Palestinians in Gaza, half of them children. The study uses data-driven analysis and spatial mapping to highlight a severe decline in Gaza’s population due to Israel’s indiscriminate attacks and siege. here
The Israeli military has killed at least 410 people trying to get food at Israeli-run aid sites in Gaza in the past month. This constitutes “a likely war crime” that violates international standards on aid distribution, according to the United Nations. Israeli officers and soldiers said that they were ordered to deliberately fire at unarmed civilians waiting for humanitarian aid in an investigation published by the Israeli newspaper Haaretz on Friday; the military prosecution has called for a review into possible war crimes. here
Gaza Catastrophe: The Genocide in World-Historical Perspective
This book, however, argues that the new catastrophe befalling the Palestinian people is the culmination of a decades-long pattern that runs parallel with Israel’s inexorable shift to the right. It also contends that Gaza was the final nail in the coffin of the Atlanticist “international liberal order” before Donald Trump came back to the White House.
Gaza Catastrophe reckons with the lethal consequences far greater than the Nakba of 1948 and the significance of a war waged by an advanced military-industrial state—with full US participation and open support from the West. here
VIDEO
WATCH NOW: 'Gaza: Doctors Under Attack' – The Full Film They Didn't Want You To See
Exclusive: The powerful film the BBC refused to air is out now, released globally by Zeteo. It documents Israel's destruction of Gaza's hospitals and the killing of Palestinian doctors. here
GAZA
Key highlights as of 7/2/25
· Attacks on tents and schools hosting displaced people and on people trying to access food continue to be reported, resulting in mass casualties.
· Tens of thousands of Palestinians fled eastern parts of Gaza City on 6/29 after Israel warned of a major offensive. The message on social media from the IOF directed those living in several crowded neighborhoods to al-Mawasi, a coastal area much farther south that is already overcrowded and has very limited facilities. (The Guardian 6/30)
· Over 714,000 people, or a third of Gaza’s population, have been displaced over the past three months.
· Fuel is running out, placing lifesaving services, including intensive care units and water production facilities, at risk of shutting down imminently.
· Without fuel, child protection workers have been forced to operate on foot, which delays urgent missions and places unaccompanied, separated and other vulnerable children at heightened risk.
· At least 107 aid workers have been killed since the start of 2025, including nine in the past week, bringing the total to 479 since October 2023, among them 326 UN staff.
· While Israeli forces have escalated since 3/18/25, fighting between Israeli forces & Palestinian armed groups has been reported.
· 6/25-7/2: 630 Palestinians killed, 2,353 injured
· 10/7/23-7/2: 57,012 killed, 134,592 injured
· People trying to access food supplies has increased to 640 fatalities and more than 4,488 injuries since 5/27/25.
· 6/25-7/2 2 Israeli soldiers killed
· 10/23-7/2/25 437 Israeli soldiers killed, 2745 injured in or along the perimeter of Gaza
· ~50 hostages remain in Gaza
UN
· Secretary-General is appalled by the deepening humanitarian crisis in Gaza. Multiple attacks in recent days hitting sites hosting displaced people and people trying to access food have killed and injured scores of Palestinians. The Secretary-General strongly condemns the loss of civilian life.
In just one day this week, orders to relocate forced nearly 30,000 people to flee, yet again, with no safe place to go and clearly inadequate supplies of shelter, food, medicine or water.Civilians must be respected and protected, and the needs of the population must be met.
With no fuel having entered Gaza in more than 17 weeks, the Secretary-General is gravely concerned that the last lifelines for survival are being cut off. Without an urgent influx of fuel, incubators will shut down, ambulances will be unable to reach the injured and sick, and water cannot be purified. The delivery by the UN and partners of what little of our lifesaving humanitarian aid is left in Gaza will also grind to a halt.
He once again calls for full, safe and sustained humanitarian access so aid can reach people who have been deprived of the basics of life for far too long. The UN has a clear and proven plan, rooted in the humanitarian principles, to get vital assistance to civilians – safely and at scale, wherever they are.
The Secretary-General reiterates that all parties must uphold their obligations under international law. He renews his call for an immediate permanent ceasefire and for the immediate and unconditional release of all hostages.
· 6/27: UN Secretary-General António Guterres said that people in Gaza “are being killed simply trying to feed themselves and their families,” with bombs “falling – on tents, on families, on those with nowhere left to run” and families “now confined to less than one-fifth of Gaza’s land.” Humanitarian operations are being strangled, “[d]octors are forced to choose who gets the last vial of medicine, or the last ventilator [and] aid workers themselves are starving.” The UN Chief stressed that “we cannot allow the suffering of Palestinians in Gaza to be pushed into the shadows” and that “Israel, as the occupying Power, is required by international law, to agree to and to facilitate humanitarian relief.”
· Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur on Palestine, releases report accusing more than 45 entities of making money from Israel's Gaza genocide and illegal occupation of the West Bank. here, full report here
Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aka massacre site
· 7/1 more than 160 Gazan NGOs issued call for immediate action to end military controlled food distribution, as “deadly”. “Starved and weakened civilians are being forced to trek for hours through dangerous terrain and active conflict zones, only to face a violent, chaotic race to reach fenced, militarized distribution sites with a single-entry point. There, thousands are released into chaotic enclosures to fight for limited food supplies.”
· Mass casualties have continued to be reported daily over the past five weeks, as people approached or gathered near militarized, non-UN distribution sites or waited on routes designated by the Israeli authorities for the UN to collect trucks carrying aid.
· 5/27-6/28, 583 people have been killed including children (16%), women 2%) and the elderly (2%). This includes 408 people killed in incidents linked to the militarized distribution sites and 175 killed while waiting for aid convoys.
· 7/3, at least 33 aid seekers were among 73 Palestinians killed in Gaza, with correspondents in the territory describing “horror scenes” after unprovoked gunfire at so-called distribution sites. UNRWA said Palestinians “have been shot at and crushed by trucks.” (Electronic Intifada 7/3)
· Two U.S. contractors for the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) spoke to AP on condition of anonymity about the “unqualified, unvetted, and heavily armed” security staff hired at the GHF’s aid distribution sites. They reported that security staff regularly used stun grenades, pepper spray, and bullets and that “there are innocent people being hurt. Badly. Needlessly.” To date, more than 500 people have been killed and nearly 4,000 injured while trying to access aid from GHF sites. here
· Israeli soldiers and officers said they were ordered to shoot at unarmed civilians waiting for food in Gaza. (The Intercept 6/29)
· Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) noted that its medical teams have noticed a stark increase in the number of patients with gunshot wounds following frequent violence and attacks at and around the aid distribution sites.
Military attacks
6/25-7/1 other killings of Palestinians include:
6/25-8 in Ash Shuja’iyyeh, Gaza City
6/27-10 in At Tuffah, Gaza City
6/27-13 in Gaza City
6/28-11 in At Tuffah, Gaza City
6/29-at least 17 in Jabalya an Nazla, North Gaza
6/30-33 in a café on a beach in Gaza City, Israel used a 500-pound bomb, an indiscriminate weapon that generates a massive blast wave and scatters shrapnel over a wide area on an attack on a target in a crowded beachfront café. (Experts in international law said this was certainly unlawful and may constitute a war crime.)(The Guardian 7/3)
6/30, 10 in Zaitoun, southern Gaza City
7/1-10 in Khan Younis
7/1-23 in Az Zaytoun, Gaza City
· Israel Persists in Genocide Against Gaza: Forced Displacement, Mass Killings, and Systematic Destruction of Entire Cities. In a serious escalation reflecting the IOF’s intent and efforts to depopulate most neighborhoods of the Gaza Strip and erase what remains of them, the IOF, over the past few days, have intensified their airstrikes and fire belts on Gaza City and issued new widescale displacement orders for residents of eastern Gaza City. This mirrors previous actions taken by IOF in other neighborhoods and areas, where hundreds of thousands of civilians were forcibly displaced from their homes under relentless bombardment and threats, forced to flee to western Gaza City and southern Gaza Strip. here
· Even though most of Gaza’s residents have obeyed the IOF’s evacuation orders, they continue to be targeted in areas they have sought refuge in. These attacks include direct strikes on tents and gatherings of civilians, who are enduring catastrophic humanitarian conditions in worn-out tents and shelters as well as collective starvation and direct targeting at aid distribution points established in areas under the IOF’s full control. here
Healthcare & Hospitals
· 7/2 ICRC: Intensification of hostilities in past 3 days in Jabalya & Gaza City, hospitals struggling “to absorb relentless surge in critical cases,” dangerously low levels of critical supplies. Displacement orders contribute to family separation, loss of belongings, and hamper ability of first responders.
· Head of the Pediatrics Department at Al-Nasr Al-Rantisi Children's Hospital: sharp rise in meningitis, with hundreds of cases recorded at the hospital in recent weeks. 337 meningitis cases, (259 viral)
· 6/25, for the first time since 3/2, WHO supported a total of 12 trucks from WHO and health partners carrying essential medical supplies, including blood units, to be distributed to priority health services points in Gaza, representing a fraction of need.
· 6/30, tent sheltering IDPs in the courtyard of Al Aqsa Hospital in Deir al Balah was reportedly hit, injuring 5 people, damaging internal medicine department and oxygen supply line
· 7/1, Shifa Medical Complex suspended dialysis services due to a critical fuel shortage, limiting its operations to only a few hours of intensive care, 7/2 3,000 liters of fuel delivered allowing for resumption of dialysis, 2 days per week. Oxygen plant has stopped, forcing reliance on cylinders.
· There are 1,200 kidney failure patients currently in Gaza, and that nearly 50% of kidney failure patients have died since 10/23.
· After three weeks of no medical evacuations, on 7/2, WHO completed the evacuation of 19 child patients and 39 companions to Jordan and 4 patients,companions to Türkiye. “During the evacuation, strikes near the convoy damaged the bus, ambulances and vehicles transporting the patients, their companions, and WHO staff.”
· Haaretz: the devastating toll of Gaza’s collapsing healthcare system, where severely damaged hospitals and limited medical resources have turned treatable injuries into death sentences. One of the most urgent issues is the lack of functioning CT scanners—few remain operational, and those that do are reserved for only the most critical cases. After being shot near an aid distribution center, Abd al-Karim al-Kahlut underwent successful surgery to remove the bullet. But without access to a CT scan, internal bleeding went undetected, and he died the next day. He was the father of two young daughters, aged three and five. here
· US neurosurgeon Dr. Abdul Basit Khan, who is volunteering at Nasser Hospital in Gaza, describes treating patients with blast injuries and gunshot wounds from Israeli attacks while coping with a lack of basic medical supplies and widespread hunger. Dr. Khan describes his patients as people “living in tents being indiscriminately bombed” by Israeli forces. “This is the worst thing I’ve ever seen in my entire life, by far.” (Democracy Now 7/1)
· Israeli airstrikes killed Dr. Marwan Sultan, director of the Indonesian Hospital, along with his wife and five members of his family, as Gaza’s Health Ministry reports the deliberate targeting of medical personnel. Israeli airstrike struck his home in Gaza City. Dr. Sultan was one of only two cardiology consultants serving the northern region of the Gaza Strip. (Palestine Chronicle 7/2)
Women & Girls
· Gender based violence has intensified, driven by displacement, scarcity of resources including food, and the breakdown of protective family and community structures. 40% occurred in Deir al Balah which can be attributed to the concentration of service providers in that area and the issuance of displacement orders that has hindered access to other locations. The most prevalent form of GBV was the denial of access to essential services and opportunities, with the most affected group being women aged 18 to 59 years.
· Forced marriage, including child marriage and rape, remains significantly underreported due to limited movement, stigma, fear of retaliation, lack of information about available services, and the collapse of the justice system. The most requested services during the reporting period were livelihood support and dignity kits, which are unavailable owing to the continued blockade on the entry of a range of supplies.
Child protection
· Ongoing bombardment, mass displacement, and the collapse of public services have left children without safe care or access to basic services. Families are fragmented, psychosocial distress is widespread, and services for children, especially those with disabilities, have been largely destroyed.
· As of 6/30, ¼ of child friendly spaces have suspended services with sharp increases in child labor, gathering in large crowds to search for food, family separation, & neglect.
· Protection partners, provide services including mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) for children and caregivers, case management, emergency care for children without parental care, family tracing, and reunification- much of the owkr carried out on foot.
Aid
· Total number of aid workers killed: 107 since the start of 2025 and 479 since 10/23. This includes 326 UN staff, 48 PRCS, three ICRC and another 102 staff of humanitarian organizations.
· 6/25-7/1, 85 attempted planned aid movements, 27% denied, 14% initially accepted but then aborted or partially accomplished due to “impediments”, 47% facilitated, 12% withdrawn by organizers. More attempts to coordinate aid movements failed for northern Gaza than southern Gaza.
· A total collapse of humanitarian operations is imminently expected if no fuel enters Gaza. All the quantities of retrieved fuel from accessible reserves within Gaza have been allocated to humanitarian partners and operations, leaving no fuel supplies currently available for distribution. As a result, life-saving services, including health, water and sanitation, telecommunications and protection services are at imminent risk of shutting down. Including:
-Food supply & distribution
-72 of 90 health facilities, 25 ambulance points, jeopardizing ICUs, NICUs, dialysis, ambulance & vaccine services
-Water production, sewage & solid waste management
-Telecommunications
-Rescue missions, road clearance
-Aid collection at crossings
· Tribal and community leaders have united to secure aid convoys after over 500 people were killed in daily aid massacres. The effort succeeded in securing a convoy of dozens of UN aid trucks that entered through the Zikim crossing on 6/25; passed through Rashid Street, a coastal road, without incident; and arrived at UN warehouses where people lined up to receive the aid. (Drop Site News 6/27)
Displacement & Evacuation
· 6/25-27: Israeli military issued displacement orders for part of Khan Younis, Deir al Balah, North Gaza & Gaza governate, ie. 14.4 sq kilometers
· 6/29, Israeli military issued broad evacuation orders for neighborhoods of Gaza City, amid growing calls for a cease-fire deal from President Trump. here
· Since 3/18/25 Israeli military has issued 50 displacement orders covering 78% of Gaza and 714,000 Palestinians
· As of 7/2, 85% of Gaza is within militarized zone or displacement order since 3/18/25
· Israeli military continues to conduct intense military attacks on Al Mawasi area in western Khan Younis, many of which “appear to target directly makeshift tents” and kill entire families, while ordering Palestinians from other parts of Gaza to move to “known shelters” (in Al Mawasi).
· Population of Al Mawasi, area of roughly 9 square kilometres, has more than tripled over the past 3 months, from about 115,000 to over 425,000, due to the continued issuance of displacement orders and intensified military operations in Rafah and Khan Younis. It currently has an estimated population density of nearly 48,000 people per square kilometer, almost all of whom are living in makeshift tents assembled with very basic materials.
· 3/18-6/16: 112 attacks on Al Mawasi, killing 380 people, including at least 158 women and children. 6/26-6/29, strikes continue killing at least 16.
· 6/26-7/1: at least 10 schools in Gaza City, As Saftawi (North Gaza), & Deir al Balah, sheltering IDPs were bombed, killing 29, displacing tens of families. Many returned due to lack of alternative shelters.
Food & Nutrition
· WHO: Overwhelming desperation for food, many surviving on one meal or less per day. Widespread hunger and scarcity have led people to offload food supplies from convoys before they reached their intended destinations, while attacks on large crowds of people trying to access food continue. Food parcels are from WFP, UAE. As of 6/30, with limited food stock recently brought into southern and central Gaza through Kerem Shalom crossing, 260,000 meals were being prepared and delivered daily through 81 kitchens – 107,000 meals in the north and 153,000 in central and southern Gaza.
· Food production and food systems in Gaza have been decimated. Palestinian NGOs Network: 76% of vegetation, 90% of beehives, destroyed. Prices have skyrocketed.
· Nutrition situation in Gaza continues to deteriorate, in line with the dire food security situation. The latest analysis of the mid-upper arm circumference screenings among children aged six to 59 months indicate an increase in acute malnutrition rates across all governorates. May to mid-June: acute malnutrition multiplied by two to four times.
· In the absence of large-scale entry of food, the depletion since the end of June of nutrition supplies, including supplements and ready-to-use complementary food, is expected to aggravate these conditions. Moreover, health surveillance system reports show a sharp increase in acute watery diarrhea and other diseases, which could further contribute to secondary malnutrition. The deaths of two children linked to secondary malnutrition were confirmed in the past week.
· Also noted: depletion of infant formula and other breast milk substitutes for infants who cannot be breastfed, despite their efforts to maintain breastfeeding.
Energy
· More than 90% of households report having access to electricity for less than four hours per day.
· A new report, based on an assessment conducted by the Shelter Cluster and the Norwegian Refugee Council’s (NRC) NORCAP program at the end of 2024: power outages cripple health-care services by disabling ventilators, incubators, dialysis machines, and vaccine cold chains and hamper the operation desalination and sewage plants. Fuel shortages & power cripple humanitarian operations.
· Lack of lighting increases gende- based violence & restricts mobility.
WEST BANK & EAST JERUSALEM
6/24-6/30, 5 Palestinians killed, (1 child), 49 injured, (27 by settlers, 22 by Israeli forces)
Prisoners:
· 6/30, 22 year old detainee from Jenin died in Israeli prison
· 10,397 Palestinians are in Israeli custody, including 1,447 sentenced prisoners, 3,174 remand detainees, 3,562 administrative detainees held without charge or trial, and 2,214 people held as “unlawful combatants.”
Update on Iran attack
· Israeli forces have kept some key checkpoints and road gates open only for limited hours, negatively affecting the daily life of Palestinians, including access to livelihoods, markets, and emergency services.
Israeli military attacks
· 6/25, 5 Palestinians killed by Israeli forces, including three in a large-scale settler attack on Kafr Malik village, in Ramallah governorate, during which Israeli settlers set fire to, and threw stones at, homes and other property.
· 6/29 2 Palestinians shot & injured entering informal openings in the Barrier near Meitar checkpoint, Hebron governate. The incidents are recurring amid a significant deterioration in labor market conditions in the West Bank in the aftermath of 10/7/23, with over 300,000 jobs lost by mid-2024, ie unemployment went from 13% to 35%
· 6/30 (date of all fatalities between 6/24 & 6/30): 5 people, 15 year old boy from Al Yamun village, Jenin governate, 1 elderly woman in Shu’fat refugee camp, 3 killed by settlers in Kafr Malik village, Ramallah governate
Israeli settler attacks
· Some 740 settler attacks in the first half of 2025 affected over 200 Palestinian communities across the West Bank, resulting in property damage and the injury of 340 Palestinians by Israeli settlers. This is a daily average of four incidents, similar to the frequency observed in 2024. Incidents led to the injury of 492 Palestinians, including 340 (69%) by Israeli settlers, 146 (30%) by Israeli forces, and six where it remains unknown if they were injured by Israeli forces or settlers.
· June recorded the highest monthly number of Palestinians injured by Israeli settlers (95) in the past two decades – an average of three Palestinians injured per day. Incidents led to the injury of 492 Palestinians, including 340 (69%) by Israeli settlers, 146 (30%) by Israeli forces, and six where it remains unknown if they were injured by Israeli forces or settlers.
· 6/24-6/30, OCHA documented at least 28 settler attacks against Palestinians that resulted in casualties, property damage, or both. These attacks led to the killing of three Palestinians by Israeli forces and the injury of 37 others, including 10 by Israeli forces and 27 by Israeli settlers. In addition, more than 400 olive trees and saplings and 12 vehicles were vandalized. Israeli military reportedly arrested five settlers, who were released the following morning.
· Villages attacked: Kafr Malik, Ramallah governate, Dar Faza’a Bedouin community, Ramallah governate, Al Mazra’a al Sharqiya, Ramallah governate, Asira al Qibiya, Nablus governate, Hizma, Jerusalem governate, Susiya, Hebron governate
Demolitions & Displacement
· Israeli authorities carried out a mass demolition incident in Tell al Khashaba herding community in the Jordan Valley, displacing five households. This is the third mass demolition incident in the community since the beginning of 2025.
· Israeli military issued a demolition order against 104 structures in Tulkarm refugee camp.
· 6/24-6/30, Israeli forces issued four requisition orders against 22,300 dunums (5,510 acres) in Nablus, Tubas and Jenin governorates for security reasons, including the establishment of military roads.
· 6/30, after 20 years, 6 households of same extended family started dismantling their homes in Ein al Hilwas-Wadi al Faw community, northern Jordan Valley, citing recurrent attacks, intimidation, restricted access to water & grazing.
· More than 2,300 Palestinians across the West Bank have been displaced since 10/23, citing settler violence and access restrictions.
· 6/24-6/30, OCHA documented 10 demolition incidents in Area C and two in East Jerusalem for lacking Israeli-issued building permits, which are almost impossible to obtain. In total, 35 structures were demolished, including six inhabited homes, one uninhabited residential structure, 12 agricultural structures, eight livelihood structures, five water and sanitation structures and three other structures. 6 households comprising 30 Palestinians,(16 children), were displaced and some 85 people were otherwise affected.
· 6/30/25, Israeli forces, accompanied by Israeli Civil Administration officials and several bulldozers, demolished 13 structures in Tell al Khashaba herding community (with an estimated population of about 125 people), in Area C of Nablus governorate in the Jordan Valley, for lacking Israeli-issued building permits, third mass demolition in the community since early 2025.
· In recent months, Israeli forces and settlers have intensified efforts to expel roughly 2,500 Palestinian living in a cluster of villages in the southern West Bank region of Masafer Yatta. 6/17, the Building and Planning Bureau of the IOF’s Civil Administration issued an order allowing military drills in the so-called Firing Zone, which effectively gives the area’s military commander a green light to forcibly displace its inhabitants and removes the last legal barriers to the wholesale demolition and displacement of 12 of Masafer Yatta’s 20 villages. (+972 6/29) (Mondoweiss 7/3)
Developments in northern West Bank
· Since 6/13, following the start of the military escalation between Israel and Iran, OCHA documented 36 incidents whereby Israeli soldiers took over roughly 267 Palestinian homes (inhabited or uninhabited housing units) for periods ranging from several hours to a few days, in Ramallah, Hebron, Nablus, Tubas, Tulkarm and Jenin governorates. These include 237 housing units whose residents were temporarily evacuated in the six governorates in the northern West Bank.
· 6/24, Israeli forces carried out a 19-hour raid into Ya’bad town, in Jenin governorate, where it temporarily evacuated 12 families from their homes and turned them into military posts, searched about 100 homes, and arrested five Palestinians. Israeli forces also stole money and gold from several homes. During the operation, Israeli forces imposed curfew on the town and forced local shops to close.
· 6/25 Israeli forces carried out a seven-hour operation in Tammun town, in Tubas governorate, where they searched and caused damage to homes, detained some residents and interrogated them at one of the homes, and imposed curfew on the town’s 15,000 residents.
· As of 6/30, Israeli forces have continued to intensify their presence in Jenin city, establishing flying checkpoints at three key locations within the city (in Area A), including An Nasra Street, Al Askari, and the road leading to the Al Jalama checkpoint. They regularly stop and search Palestinian residents, checking their IDs and vehicles. In two separate incidents on 6/28 and 29, Israeli forces took over two residential buildings comprising four housing units, near Jenin camp, and three other homes in the eastern neighborhood of the city, converting them into temporary military outposts, affecting nearly 35 people who were forcibly evacuated from their homes.
· In Jenin refugee camp, since the issuance of demolition orders against 96 structures on 6/9, local sources have reported several waves of demolitions, involving bulldozers, that remain ongoing as of the time of reporting.
· 6/30, in Tulkarm refugee camp, Israeli forces resumed demolition operations following a pause reported on 6/18. Israeli bulldozers demolished two residential structures comprising at least eight housing units. On the same day, Israeli authorities issued and delivered new demolition orders targeting 104 residential structures inside the camp.
· MSF: Findings show that nearly half of displaced people have been displaced at least three times between January and May, with repeated displacement and uncertainty driving up mental health needs, especially among women and children. 1/3 could not reach a doctor when needed due to the high cost, long distance or lack of transport, and roughly1/2 reported inconsistent access to food and water. At times when Israeli forces granted limited access to displaced families to retrieve their belongings, they were subjected to shootings, assault and detentions and some found their homes burned, looted or occupied.
ISRAEL
· The Ministry of Diaspora and the Fight against Anti-Semitism asked the Ministry of Interior to impose entry bans on 50 individuals and five organizations from 17 countries who are operating on legal and awareness campaigns against IDF soldiers and state institutions.
· This is the first implementation of the Anti-Delegation Law, initiated by the Ministry of Diaspora, which is intended to draw a red line against elements that “deny Israel's right to exist and defend itself”. The new law constitutes a significant expansion of the BDS law that was in effect until now.
· The list of those banned also includes activists from organizations such as Al-Haq Europe, DAWN, Law for Palestine, and LPHR, who lead campaigns to “defame” the State of Israel while promoting “false claims” of "genocide," "apartheid," and "war crimes."
· Many of the individuals on the list are also active in the International Criminal Court in The Hague.
· Diaspora Minister Amichai Shikli said: "Those who defame the State of Israel, accuse IDF soldiers of war crimes, and lead false campaigns of 'apartheid' should know that they will no longer enter its gates. These are enemies disguised as human rights activists, and Israel will not continue to host them as usual. The rules of the game have changed - the State of Israel will also defend itself in the space of consciousness." here
US
· US approves over $500M arms sale to Israel ahead of Netanyahu visit. The State Department has greenlit $500 million worth of JDAM guidance kits for Israeli bombs, as hundreds continue to be killed by Israeli military gunfire and airstrikes across the Gaza. here
· How can Palestinian medics 'cooperate' with Israeli health bodies during a genocide? An editorial in a leading US health journal sidesteps genocide and the complicity of Israel's health system to undermine the growing academic boycott. The editorial in the American Journal of Public Health advocates for renewed cooperation between the Israeli and Palestinian public health sectors. here
· Founded as a paramilitary Zionist organization in 1923, Betar Worldwide has a prominent right-wing chapter in the U.S. that has aided the Trump administration’s deportation efforts by doxxing and agitating against pro-Palestine organizing. Betar U.S. largely operated out of New York City; members recently advertised their attempts to instigate a confrontation with Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral campaign. (Drop Site 6/29)
· 6/30, police arrested at least 28 people as they ended a 40-day fast outside the US Mission to the UN. Among those arrested was former Navy corpsman and Veterans for Peace organizer, who poured animal blood on the mission’s entrance to condemn U.S. support for Israel’s military. (Democracy Now 7/1)
LEBANON
· Israeli drone attack near Beirut kills at least one, injures three others. Air raid hits vehicle in Khaldeh, south of Lebanese capital, as Israel continues its near-daily attacks on Lebanon. here
INTERNATIONAL
· As a result of a series of motions to its annual reps meeting last week, adopted by large majorities, the British Medical Association (BMA, the medics’ union), is now mandated to break off relations with the Israeli Medical Association (IMA) and to seek suspension of the IMA from the World Medical Association (WMA).
· A group of 15 leading human rights and legal organizations released an open letter urging an end to the current privatized, militarized aid delivery model operated by the Gaza Humanitarian Fund (GHF) and calling for a return to internationally recognized humanitarian channels through the United Nations across the occupied Gaza Strip. The letter also warns all individuals and entities involved—including State actors, private security contractors, consulting firms, and donors—of potential legal liability for complicity in war crimes, crimes against humanity, and possibly genocide. here
· Over 170 NGOs, including Israeli and international rights groups, issued a joint statement calling for an end to Israel’s aid distribution operations in Gaza, including the US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, and the restoration of UN-led aid system. The statement describes the “impossible choice” faced by Palestinians: “starve or risk being shot while trying desperately to reach food to feed their families” and calls on states to “uphold their obligations under international humanitarian and human rights law, including prohibitions on forced displacement, indiscriminate attacks, and obstruction of humanitarian aid.” here
· Nine countries (South Africa, Malaysia, Colombia, Cuba, Bolivia, Honduras, Namibia, Senegal, and Belize) have come together to form the Hague Group in support of Palestinian rights. Their goal is to coordinate legal, economics, and diplomatic measures against Israel’s ongoing actions in Gaza and beyond. (The Guardian 7/3)
SOURCES
OCHAOPT, The Guardian, Zeteo, CCR Justice , Middle East Eye, Democracy Now, Palestine Chronicle, World Medical Association, Mondoweiss, Electronic Intifada, Haaretz, New York Times, Drop Site News