- 1 Aug 2024 - 23:59(23:59 GMT)
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For more on Al Jazeera journalists Ismail al-Ghoul and Rami al-Rifi, who were killed by an Israeli strike in the Shati refugee camp, and Al Jazeera’s response to Israel’s baseless accusations against them, you can read our article here.
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- 1 Aug 2024 - 23:45(23:45 GMT)
Here’s what happened today
We will be closing this live page shortly. But before we switch over to a new page, here’s a recap of the day’s main developments:
- Hezbollah chief warned that the conflict with Israel has entered a “new phase” after the recent assassinations of Fuad Shukr and Ismail Haniyeh.
- Iran’s supreme leader led prayers at a memorial event for Haniyeh in Tehran, promising “harsh punishment” for Israel.
- At least 15 Palestinians were killed by an Israeli strike on a school sheltering dozens of displaced families in Gaza.
- Israeli authorities to expropriate 790 hectares (1,950 acres) of land near the occupied West Bank village of Salfit for use by an illegal Israeli settlement.
- 1 Aug 2024 - 23:30(23:30 GMT)
300 days of Israel’s war on Gaza
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WATCH: Are there any limits on Israeli killings and assassinations?
The Israeli military carries out high-profile attacks in Iran and Lebanon while the killing continues in Gaza.
The political leader of Hamas Ismail Haniyeh was assassinated in Iran and a senior Hezbollah commander was killed in Lebanon.
Two Al Jazeera journalists were struck down in Gaza in a targeted attack.
After killing almost 40,000 Palestinians in Gaza, can Israel continue without accountability?
- 1 Aug 2024 - 23:00(23:00 GMT)
Al Jazeera refutes ‘baseless’ Israeli allegations against killed journalist
Al Jazeera has “strongly” rejected “baseless” Israeli allegations that the network’s correspondent Ismail al-Ghoul, who was killed in an Israeli attack in Gaza, was a Hamas operative.
The Doha-based network said on Thursday that the accusation, which Israel presented without proof, is an attempt to justify the “deliberate killing” of al-Ghoul and his companion cameraman, Rami al-Rifi.
Al Jazeera Media Network said the accusation against al-Ghoul “highlights Israel’s long history of fabrications and false evidence used to cover up its heinous crimes”, underscoring that the country has barred international journalists from entering Gaza.
Read full story here.
- 1 Aug 2024 - 22:45(22:45 GMT)
WATCH: Pregnant women face attacks, lack of care and dire conditions
- 1 Aug 2024 - 22:30(22:30 GMT)
Biden pledges continued support for Israel
In a call with Netanyahu, Biden has pledged the US’s continued support for Israel as concerns grow of an escalating conflict with Hezbollah and other groups in the region, even as critics say the US should be using its leverage to bring the war in Gaza to an end.
A readout released by the White House says Kamala Harris also joined the call.
- 1 Aug 2024 - 22:15(22:15 GMT)
Israel does not want ceasefire in Gaza, Erdogan tells Biden
Turkey’s President Erdogan told his US counterpart Biden that Israel does not want a ceasefire in Gaza, adding that Haniyeh’s killing “dealt a heavy blow” to ceasefire efforts.
Erdogan added that Netanyahu’s government has shown “at every step” that it does not want a ceasefire, and his recent address to the US Congress prompted “deep disappointment” in Turkey and the world.
- 1 Aug 2024 - 22:00(22:00 GMT)
Form of retaliation by ‘axis of resistance’ remains to be seen
Al Jazeera’s senior political analyst Marwan Bishara says it remains unclear what steps Hezbollah and other members of the “axis of resistance” could take in response to the recent assassinations of top officials.
“Judging from what we heard from the Iranians and Hezbollah, notably Hassan Nasrallah, each will be carrying out their retaliation on their own, but clearly it will be coordinated in a way that will be more effective, for sure,” he said.
“Whether it’s proportionate or not, whether it is sooner or later, we don’t know.”
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What countries has Israel attacked since October 7?
According to an analysis of data from the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project (ACLED), Israel is responsible for 17,081 incidents of air/drone raids, shelling/missile attacks, remote explosives and property destruction in eight countries since October 7, including the occupied Palestinian territory, Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, Yemen, Jordan, Iran and Iraq.
A majority of these attacks were on the Palestinian territory, specifically the Gaza Strip, with 10,389 incidents accounting for more than 60 percent of the total offensives.
There were at least 6,544 incidents of Israeli attacks on Lebanon (38 percent), followed by Syria with 144 such incidents recorded.
Read more here.
- 1 Aug 2024 - 21:30(21:30 GMT)
Israel’s foreign minister threatens Hezbollah chief
Israel’s foreign minister has taken to social media to threaten Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, as concerns mount that fighting across the region could escalate.
“Hassan Nasrallah, stop the boasting speeches, threats, and lies before you pay a heavy price,” said Israel Katz in a post showing Nasrallah side-by-side with recently assassinated Hezbollah commander Fuad Shukr.
“We will act with full force to restore security to the residents of the north.”
Hassan Nasrallah, stop the boasting speeches, threats, and lies before you pay a heavy price.
We will act with full force to restore security to the residents of the north. pic.twitter.com/V7rAIjiD2f
— ישראל כ”ץ Israel Katz (@Israel_katz) August 1, 2024
- 1 Aug 2024 - 21:15(21:15 GMT)
Hezbollah, Iran likely to respond in separate attacks
Marwan Bishara, Al Jazeera’s senior political analyst, says Hezbollah and Iran will likely respond to Israel’s killing of their officials in separate attacks.
“Judging from Nasrallah’s speech, he seems to insist that there is no doubt that Hezbollah will respond to Shukr’s assassination, but he did not mention Haniyeh in that particular threat or warning,” Bishara said.
“This has been understood to mean that Iranians will respond to Haniyeh’s assassination and Hezbollah will respond to its own.”
This doesn’t mean that the two attacks won’t be coordinated, Bishara said.
- 1 Aug 2024 - 21:00(21:00 GMT)
LISTEN: Will Israel be held accountable for its killings?
The political leader of Hamas assassinated in Iran, a senior Hezbollah commander killed in Lebanon and two Al Jazeera journalists struck down in a targeted attack in Gaza.
After killing almost 40,000 Palestinians in Gaza since October, can Israel continue its actions without accountability?
Listen to our discussion below:
- 1 Aug 2024 - 20:50(20:50 GMT)
US Muslim rights group slams Biden for inaction over Israeli land grabs
The US-based Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has slammed the Biden administration over its failure to respond to surging Israeli seizures of Palestinian lands in the occupied West Bank.
Earlier today, Israeli authorities announced they would expropriate 790 hectares (1,950 acres) of land near the occupied West Bank village of Salfit, for use by an illegal Israeli settlement.
“The Biden administration’s continued silence on the daily massacres and other war crimes in Gaza, and on the de facto annexation of the West Bank, sends the clear message to the far-right Israeli government that it will never be held accountable for any action it takes, no matter how illegal or immoral,” CAIR National Deputy Director Edward Ahmed Mitchell said in a statement.
“This silence in the face of genocide must end.”
- 1 Aug 2024 - 20:40(20:40 GMT)
Israeli army demolishes Palestinian’s house in occupied West Bank
Israeli forces have demolished a house and a well belonging to a Palestinian adjacent to an illegal settlement south of Hebron in the occupied West Bank, Wafa news agency reported, citing local sources.
At least 318 Palestinian structures have been demolished by Israel and 359 demolition notices issued in the first half of this year, according to the Palestinian Authority’s Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission.
Israeli machinery demolishes a Palestinian house near Yatta in the southern area of the occupied West Bank town of Hebron, on November 2, 2020 [File: Hazem Bader/AFP] - 1 Aug 2024 - 20:30(20:30 GMT)
WATCH: UN report says Israel subjecting Palestinian detainees to torture, abuse
- 1 Aug 2024 - 20:20(20:20 GMT)
Turkey to hold day of mourning for Haniyeh
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has declared Friday a day of mourning for slain Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh.
“A national day of mourning will be declared tomorrow in solidarity with the Palestinian cause and in solidarity with our Palestinian brothers and sisters,” Erdogan said in a social media post today.
Reuters news agency reported that Erdogan will also attend Haniyeh’s funeral, which will be taking place in Qatar.
Earlier today, Pakistan also declared Friday as a day of mourning for Haniyeh, who was killed in Tehran.
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Al Jazeera rejects Israeli army claims killed journalist was Hamas member
Earlier today, Israel’s army spokesperson confirmed an air strike targeted and killed Al Jazeera journalist Ismail al-Ghoul and his colleague Rami al-Rifi in Gaza on Wednesday.
The spokesperson, Daniel Hagari, claimed that al-Ghoul was a Hamas member and took part in the October 7 attack on Israel.
Al Jazeera Media Network strongly refutes the baseless allegations made by the Israeli occupation forces in an attempt to justify its deliberate killing of our colleague.
The Israeli occupation forces had previously abducted Ismail on March 18 during their raid on al-Shifa Hospital, detaining him for a period of time before his release, which debunks and refutes their false claim of his affiliation with any organisation.
The network condemns the accusations against its correspondent, without providing any proof, documentation or video, and highlights Israel’s long history of fabrications and false evidence used to cover up its heinous crimes, while also denying journalists from around the world access to the Gaza Strip to report on the deteriorating humanitarian conditions and the suffering of Palestinians in Gaza.
Al Jazeera Media Network calls for an independent international investigation into the brutal and heinous crimes committed by the Israeli occupation forces against its journalists and staff since the beginning of the war on Gaza.
- 1 Aug 2024 - 20:00(20:00 GMT)
Hezbollah launched rockets ‘in response to Israeli attacks’
We can now bring you more on the rockets fired by Hezbollah towards northern Israel.
The Lebanese group says it launched dozens of rockets “in response” to a deadly Israeli strike in south Lebanon.
Hezbollah said it “launched dozens of Katyusha rockets… in response to the Israeli enemy’s attack on… [the southern village of Shama] that killed a number of civilians”.
- 1 Aug 2024 - 19:50(19:50 GMT)
Hezbollah launches rockets towards Israel
Hezbollah says it has launched dozens of rockets on northern Israel.
A short while ago, warning sirens sounded in northern Israel, the Israeli military said.
We will bring you more on this as soon as we can.
Israel war on Gaza updates: 15 killed in attack on shelter for displaced
These were the updates on Israel’s war on Gaza for Thursday, August 1.
Severe destruction in Khan Younis after nine days of Israeli military operations
Published On 1 Aug 2024
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- Gaza’s civil defence says at least 15 killed in Israeli strike on a school sheltering displaced Palestinians.
- Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah says war with Israel has entered “new phase” after killings of commander Fuad Shukr and Hamas’s political chief Ismail Haniyeh.
- Israeli military claims to have killed Hamas military commander Mohammed Deif in its air raid on Gaza’s Khan Younis on July 13.
- Funeral for Haniyeh and his bodyguard held in Tehran, with Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei leading the prayers.
- At least 39,480 people, including 16,314 children, have been killed and 91,128 wounded in Israel’s war on Gaza. An estimated 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the Hamas-led attacks on October 7 and more than 200 were taken captive.