Funeral Held for Six Palestinian Police Officers Killed in Israeli Strike on Gaza Station

Mourners gathered at al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City on July 14 for the funeral of six Palestinian police officers killed in an Israeli strike on a police station. The death toll in Gaza since the October ceasefire reached at least 1,108 as of that date, according to Palestinian health officials.

Israeli strikes on July 8 killed at least eight people, including a 10-year-old in a tent in the al-Mawasi humanitarian zone and a six-year-old shot in Gaza City’s Zeitoun neighbourhood.

On July 9 a World Central Kitchen driver, Ahmad Nasser Saleem, was shot dead with his hands raised while transporting aid. On July 12 nine-year-old Tala Jumaa Abu Matar was killed near the Nuseirat refugee camp. An Israeli drone struck the courtyard of Kamal Adwan Hospital on July 10, wounding staff inside the Israeli-controlled green zone.

The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reported on July 10 that food parcels distributed to more than 53,500 people covered just 75 percent of minimum caloric needs. Only 56 percent of aid cargo through the Egypt corridor was offloaded at the Karem Abu Salem crossing. The number of families receiving shelter assistance fell 37 percent from May to June.

OCHA partners recorded more than 18,000 new cases of chickenpox, skin infection and parasitic infestation in one week. Gaza’s Ministry of Health warned that labs and blood banks face shutdown from fuel shortages, with 38 hospitals already destroyed or inoperable.

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas issued a decree on July 9 setting legislative elections for November 28, the first such vote in 20 years.

A July 7 report by Peace Now and Kerem Navot documented 185 new outposts, 102 new settlements and the expulsion of 118 Palestinian herding communities in the West Bank between 2023 and 2025. Illegal farm outposts controlled more than 1.1 million dunams, or 18 percent of the West Bank.