Updates: Israel kills more than 100 in Gaza, 51 who were waiting for aid

If you’d like to read more about the intensifying attacks faced by Palestinians in Gaza at aid sites run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), you can read our reporting here.

You can also read our story about a recent United Nations report listing companies that have benefitted from Israel’s war in Gaza, amid growing calls for accountability.

And you can follow all our coverage of Israel’s war on Gaza here.

We will soon be closing this live page. Here’s a recap of the day’s main developments:

• At least 101 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip on Thursday, medical sources tell Al Jazeera, including dozens attacked while seeking desperately needed aid.
• The UN’s special rapporteur on human rights in the occupied Palestinian territory, Francesca Albanese, has called for countries to break trade ties with Israel over what she dubbed its “economy of genocide”.
• Pressure continues to build on the US- and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) after an Associated Press report found that American contractors fired on Palestinian aid seekers; the GHF has denied any wrongdoing.
• An Israeli drone attack on a vehicle very near Lebanon’s capital, Beirut, has killed at least one person and injured three others as the Israeli military continues to strike sites across the country despite a months-long truce with Hezbollah.

The US president, whose administration approved an additional $510m in weapons sales to Israel earlier this week and has expressed strong support for the Netanyahu government despite mounting evidence of abuses by Israeli forces in Gaza, has said that Palestinians in Gaza have “gone through hell”.

“I want the people of Gaza to be safe, more importantly,” Trump told reporters when asked if he still wanted the US to take control of Gaza, an idea he has previously floated while musing about the real estate potential of the Palestinian enclave.

“I want to see safety for the people of Gaza. They’ve gone through hell.”

An Israeli drone attack on a car killed at least one person and injured three others near the Lebanese capital Beirut on Thursday during rush hour, according to local authorities.

Al Jazeera’s Zeina Khodr was at the scene as officials inspected the wreckage.

Watch below for our report:

Tarek Loubani, an emergency physician working in southern Gaza, has said that Palestinians seeking aid in Gaza are being consistently and intentionally attacked by Israeli forces, and that Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’s (GHF) denials that its security contractors have shot Palestinians seeking aid are “obscene”.

“As medical people, very often we’re in a situation where you wonder what the intent was. But in this specific case, it’s obvious. Patients can sometimes be sitting there, doing nothing, waiting for the site to open, and then they get shot in the head. I’ve seen that numerous times,” he told Al Jazeera.

“Patients often get lined up and brought into these very compressed spaces, and then they get fired on, with spreadshot fire where someone pulls a trigger on a machine gun. They have artillery fire on them. It is deliberate. There is no doubt. I did not need to see the [Associated Press] video to know that it is deliberate. Patients tell me, the injury patterns tell me, the ways in which people are killed, the massive numbers in which they are killed, tell me.”

Loubani stated that there is “no doubt” of GHF involvement in the massacres, stating that denials by the group have been “delusionally obscene”.

Although it’s not clear if Israeli leaders want to end the war they launched on Gaza in the aftermath of the Hamas attack of October 7, 2023, the US has enough leverage to force a truce, says Khaled Elgindy, a visiting scholar at Georgetown University.

“It really depends… on what [the US government is] willing to accept in terms of a day-after scenario,” Elgindy told Steve Clemons, host of Al Jazeera’s The Bottom Line.

“If they go along with this idea of Hamas being completely eradicated – which, of course, is not achievable – then we’re talking about Netanyahu gets his ‘Forever War’ in Gaza, and then he wins,” he said.

See more of the discussion in our video below:

The UN secretary-general has warned of dire consequences if fuel is not allowed into the Strip.

“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,” Guterres wrote on X.

He reiterated that the UN is prepared – and able – to deliver humanitarian assistance to Palestinians in Gaza, but must be allowed to carry out its work “safely and at scale”.

As we’ve been reporting, Israel has blocked most humanitarian assistance from entering Gaza while promoting an alternative aid scheme that bypasses the UN.

Hundreds of Palestinians have been killed in recent weeks while trying to get food at US- and Israeli-backed aid distribution points run by the so-called Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.

I am appalled by the deepening humanitarian crisis in Gaza.

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 @UN has a clear…

— António Guterres (@antonioguterres) July 3, 2025

Amal al-Samouni, a Palestinian mother in Gaza, says her husband routinely braves deadly violence to try to get food parcels from US- and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’s distribution sites.

“What he brings is too little,” al-Samouni told Al Jazeera. “The journey to get food from these distribution centres is very dangerous.”

See more in our video report below:

The White House has shared an image showing Trump meeting with Edan Alexander, an Israeli American who was released from captivity in Gaza through a deal between Hamas and the US in May.

“Edan Alexander endured hell — held hostage by Hamas for 584 days. President Trump promised to bring him home — and kept that promise. Today, President Trump welcomed him to the Oval Office,” the White House said in a social media post. “We won’t stop until every hostage is reunited with their family.”

During their interaction, Alexander can be he heard implying that Hamas began to treat him and other captives better once Trump won his November election over former President Biden.

“Wow”, the president responded to the news.

Trump’s Middle East envoy, Steve Witkoff, can be heard off-camera saying that the supposed better treatment of captives was “because they were afraid” of Trump.

Edan Alexander endured hell — held hostage by Hamas for 584 days. President Trump promised to bring him home — and kept that promise. Today, President Trump welcomed him to the Oval Office.

We won’t stop until every hostage is reunited with their family. 🇺🇸🎗️ pic.twitter.com/JBYlCkJOlZ

— The White House (@WhiteHouse) July 3, 2025

For weeks, a contentious tax and spending package has been at the centre of US politics, prompting debate about what policies and ideas should receive priority when it comes to shaping economic policy. The bill, which Trump is expected to sign into law this afternoon, includes massive cuts to social programmes providing services such as healthcare.

But as that debate has unfolded, one area remains a subject of largely bipartisan consensus among US lawmakers: Continued arms transfers to Israel, despite widespread evidence of Israeli abuses in Gaza.

“Remember this as Trump prepares to cut billions from Medicaid and SNAP: He’s used over $12 billion of our taxes for weapons to Israel since taking office,” the IMEU Policy Project, a pro-Palestine advocacy organisation based in the US, said in a social media post. “He announced $510 million more for weapons to Israel just this week.”

The semiofficial Iranian news agency Tasnim has reported that most of Iran’s airports are open for flights and the country’s airspace is again largely open to international transit after the country’s war with Israel led to temporary restrictions.

“Domestic and international flights will be operated at all airports in the country, except for Isfahan and Tabriz airports, during the day from 5 am to 6 pm,” the agency reported.

The Palestinian Football Association has confirmed the death of Muhannad al-Lelee, a player for the club Khadamat Al-Maghazi.

“The number of martyrs from the Palestinian sports community since October 7, 2023, has risen to 585, including 265 from the football community,” the association said in a post on X.

The Palestinian news agency Wafa reported that al-Lelee suffered “severe head trauma and a major skull haemorrhage” after an Israeli drone launched a missile that struck his bedroom on Monday.

“Despite days of medical struggle, he succumbed to his injuries on Thursday morning,” Wafa said.

Palestinians have called on FIFA, world football’s governing body, to ban Israel from competition amid its deadly war on Gaza.

Israel's crimes against Palestinian sports continue. The latest:
– The martyrdom of Muhannad Al-Lelee, a player for Khadamat Al-Maghazi Clum, in a direct bombing of his home in the Gaza Strip.
– The number of martyrs from the Palestinian sports community since October 7, 2023,… pic.twitter.com/B9E1F6G3S0

— Palestine Football Association (@Palestine_fa) July 3, 2025

CAGE International says the decision by British lawmakers to proscribe the Palestinian rights group as a “terrorist” organisation this week amounts to “a wholesale collapse of all sense”.

The UK Parliament voted 385-26 in favour of the measure yesterday, after Palestine Action activists broke into a military base last month and sprayed red paint on two planes in protest at the UK’s support for Israel’s war on Gaza.

“The UK government has once again employed draconian anti-terrorism powers to continue its defence and support for the genocide in Gaza,” Anas Mustapha, CAGE International’s head of public advocacy, said in a statement.

“MPs and Lords have now voted in favour of Palestine Action’s proscription. This is a wholesale collapse of all sense and total political surrender to Zionist and permanent war lobbies that are exacting a genocide in Gaza.”

We have more details about the Israeli military’s fatal shooting of a Palestinian man in the northern West Bank, which we reported on a short while ago.

Palestinian sources told Al Jazeera that Walid Hassan Saad Bdeir was at the eastern entrance of the Nur Shams refugee camp when Israeli forces opened fire on him.

He was seriously wounded in the thigh and pronounced dead upon arrival at the hospital.

As we’ve been reporting, Palestinians in the West Bank have faced a wave of intensified Israeli violence during the Gaza war. Refugee camps near the northern cities of Tulkarem and Jenin have been particularly hard hit.