Israel’s war on Gaza updates: Seven killed in Gaza City drone strike

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We will be closing this live page shortly. Here is a recap of today’s main events:

• Gaza’s Civil Defence says at least seven people were killed and several wounded in an Israeli attack on Palestinians fishing in Gaza City.
• The latest Israeli military evacuation order has forced injured Palestinians to flee Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in central Gaza’s Deir el-Balah. The Health Ministry says the hospital will try to remain operational.
• The Health Ministry says five people have been killed in an attack by Israeli forces at the Nur Shams refugee camp in the occupied West Bank’s Tulkarem governorate.
• Far-right Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has sparked outrage by saying he wants to see a synagogue built in the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, which settlers again stormed today.
• Restrictions imposed by Israeli authorities and dire conditions in Gaza continue to hamper humanitarian aid efforts, while Israeli military evacuation orders continue to limit access to water in Deir el-Balah, UN agencies report.
• A Palestinian journalist, Ali Nayef Ta’ima, has been killed in Gaza, according to the Government Media Office.

Turkey’s Foreign Ministry has said that an Israeli attack on journalists from Turkish public broadcaster TRT is an “effort by bloodstained Israel to conceal the truth”.

“We stand in solidarity with all journalists who are tirelessly working to expose Israel’s oppression to the world,” the ministry wrote in a statement on X.

A cameraman for TRT Arabi was wounded on Monday in Israeli shelling in the southern Gaza Strip.

Mohammad al-Zeineen sustained an eye injury from a piece of shrapnel after the Israeli army targeted a car beside a tent for journalists near Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis.

Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani says Israel has lost its deterrent power as it was unable to anticipate the time and place of Hezbollah’s “limited and managed attack” on Sunday morning.

Earlier, we reported that several people were injured in an Israeli settler attack in the Wadi Rahhal village south of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank.

Our reporters on the ground say one person has now been confirmed killed and six others were injured following the attack on Palestinian homes in the village.

Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic are reporting that three people have been killed and many wounded in an Israeli raid on the Maghazi camp.

Earlier, we reported the Israeli military saying that it was expanding a ground invasion of the outskirts of Deir el-Balah in central Gaza.

Four people have been injured by gunfire following an attack by Israeli settlers in Wadi Rahal village south of Bethlehem, Wafa news agency is reporting.

In footage shared online and verified by Al Jazeera’s fact-checking unit Sanad, sounds of intense gunfire can be heard.

A Palestinian journalist, Ali Nayef Ta’ima, has been killed in Gaza, according to the Government Media Office. This brings the total number of journalists killed since the conflict began to 171.

“The Government Media Office condemns in the strongest terms the targeting and killing of Palestinian journalists by the ‘Israeli’ occupation,” it said, adding that Ta’ima had worked with several media outlets.

Israel says it launched a preemptive attack on positions in Lebanon from which Hezbollah was preparing to attack Israel.

Hezbollah launched its own attack on Israel later on Sunday morning, targeting several military and intelligence targets.

Al Jazeera spoke to experts to get answers to five questions about Sunday’s exchange of attacks.

To read more, you can view this story here.

Qatar has “strongly” condemned Israel’s National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir’s comments about building a synagogue at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound.

“The Ministry of Foreign Affairs warns of the impact of these provocative statements on the ongoing efforts to reach a ceasefire agreement in the Gaza Strip, and stresses the need for the international community to take urgent action to deter the occupation and assume its moral and legal responsibilities towards Jerusalem and its holy sites,” a Qatar Foreign Ministry statement said.

“The Ministry reiterates the State of Qatar’s firm position on the justice of the Palestinian cause and the legitimate rights of the brotherly Palestinian people, including the full right to practice their religious rituals without restrictions, and to establish their independent state on the 1967 borders, with East Jerusalem as its capital.”

Israeli human rights group B’Tselem has released the following video of a group of settlers harassing Palestinians in the occupied West Bank’s Hebron town and threatening them with sexual assault.

The incident took place on Sunday morning when many masked settlers arrived with a vehicle and a herd of cows on the land of a Palestinian family in Khirbet Wadi a-Rakhim in the South Hebron Hills.

One of the settlers names the infamous Sde Teiman prison, where a Palestinian inmate was recently gang-raped by Israeli guards, and threatens the Palestinians with “rape in the name of God”.

ח'ירבת ואדי א-רח'ים, דרום הר חברון: המתנחל שם טוב לוסקי מטריד פלסטיני מינית ומאיים עליו במרומז באונס.
Kh. Wadi a-Rakhim, South Hebron Hills: Settler Shem Tov Luski sexually harasses Palestinian and implicitly threatens rape.
Read the full report: https://t.co/viRLAiSttv pic.twitter.com/dqmLwF3yVz

— B'Tselem בצלם بتسيلم (@btselem) August 26, 2024

Two Palestinians have been wounded after they were shot at by Israeli forces using rubber-coated bullets in the occupied West Bank town of Idhna, according to a Wafa news agency report.

Dozens of other Palestinians suffered tear gas inhalations during the raid this evening.

The report added that Israeli forces fired live bullets, sound bombs and tear gas canisters at the town’s residents.