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LIVE: Israel bombs Gaza hospital, advances plans to displace Palestinians

Aug 11, 2025 - 10:30 AM Updates

• Israeli forces have killed five Al Jazeera staff, including correspondent Anas al-Sharif, in a targeted strike on their media tent outside al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City.
• Israel’s military has claimed responsibility for the assassination in a statement, falsely claiming al-Sharif led a unit of Hamas’s armed wing.
• Al Jazeera correspondent Mohammed Qreiqeh, cameramen Ibrahim Zaher and Moamen Aliwa, and their assistant Mohammed Noufal, were also killed in the attack.
• Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 61,430 people and wounded 153,213. An estimated 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the October 7, 2023, attacks, and more than 200 were taken captive.
• Funerals have been held for five Al Jazeera staff assassinated by Israel in a targeted attack in Gaza City.
• Al Jazeera condemns the killing of correspondents Anas al-Sharif and Mohammed Qreiqeh, cameramen Ibrahim Zaher and Moamen Aliwa, and their assistant Mohammed Noufal, calling it a “desperate attempt to silence the voices exposing the impending seizure and occupation of Gaza”.
• The Committee to Protect Journalists is calling for accountability, the National Press Club urged an inquiry and the Freedom of the Press Foundation appealed for action to halt further attacks on the media.
• Australia says it will recognise Palestinian state at the United Nations in September.
• Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 61,499 people and wounded 153,575. An estimated 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the October 7, 2023, attacks, and more than 200 were taken captive.

Aug. 12, 2025 - 1:30 PM Updates

• At least 89 Palestinians, including 31 aid seekers, have been killed and 513 injured in Israeli attacks across Gaza in the past 24 hours, according to the enclave’s Health Ministry.
• As Israel keeps pounding Gaza, five more Palestinians, including two children, have starved to death in the enclave, according to the Health Ministry, raising the total number of hunger-related deaths to 227, including 103 children.
• Palestinians have held funerals for four Al Jazeera journalists assassinated by Israel in Gaza as protesters rallied around the world against the killings, including in London, Berlin, Tunis and Ramallah.
• The European Union, China and Israel’s close ally Germany have condemned the targeted attack, while the United Nations has described it as a “grave breach of international humanitarian law”.
• Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 61,599 people and wounded 154,088. An estimated 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the October 7, 2023, attacks, and more than 200 were taken captive.

August 15, 2025 12:24 PM Updates

• At least one more Palestinian child has starved to death in Gaza over the past day, raising the total number of hunger-related deaths to 240, including 107 children, the enclave’s Health Ministry says.
• At least 41 Palestinians, including 16 aid seekers, have been killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza since dawn, medical sources tell Al Jazeera.
• Israel faces international condemnation after far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich announces his intention to approve the construction of more than 3,000 homes in an illegal settlement project in the occupied West Bank, bisecting land that would be used for a future Palestinian state.
• Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 61,827 people and wounded 155,275. An estimated 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the Hamas-led October 7, 2023, attacks, and more than 200 were taken captive.

Aug. 17, 2025 - 1:30 PM Updates

• Israeli forces bomb al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza City, killing at least seven people, as the military advances plans to forcibly displace Palestinians to concentration zones in the south.
• The Palestinian Health Ministry says 11 more people have died of Israel-induced starvation in the past 24 hours, taking the death toll to 251. The victims include 108 children.
• Tens of thousands of Israelis rally in Tel Aviv, calling for an end to the war on Gaza and the return of the captives held by Hamas, as global protests continue over Israel’s killing of Al Jazeera’s journalists.
• Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 61,827 people and wounded 155,275. An estimated 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the Hamas-led October 7, 2023, attacks, and more than 200 were taken captive.

Israel killed at least seven people in its strike on the al-Ahli Hospital courtyard, according to a medical source [Saeed M. M. T. Jaras/Anadolu]

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