Palestine weekly: Israel kills dozens in Gaza after Hamas disarmament deal

United States President Donald Trump announced “a historic agreement” connected July 30 for the disarmament of Hamas and different equipped groups successful Gaza, framed arsenic the long-awaited determination into the 2nd signifier of the October 2025 “ceasefire” deal.

The statement was negotiated done the Board of Peace, established by Trump to oversee post-war reconstruction and governance of Gaza.

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However, Hamas negotiator Ghazi Hamad told Al Jazeera the Palestinian radical would not instrumentality the woody unless Israel fulfilled its obligations, which see halting attacks and withdrawing troops.

A spokesperson for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office, meanwhile, said Israeli forces would not retreat until Hamas was afloat disarmed.

With that cardinal deadlock unresolved, Israeli attacks connected Gaza, which person characterised the 10-month “ceasefire”, continued, arguably with adjacent greater intensity. Within days of the announcement of the “historic agreement”, Israeli strikes killed astatine slightest 19 Palestinians successful a azygous day, bringing the play decease toll successful Gaza to 26.

Board of Peace envoy Nickolay Mladenov condemned the escalation without naming Israel directly: “Two days of strikes crossed Gaza person killed civilians and destroyed aesculapian supplies that radical beryllium on,” helium said.

The attacks capped a period that was the deadliest successful Gaza this year, and the deadliest for Palestinians successful the occupied West Bank, successful presumption of Israeli settler attacks, since 2023.

New deal, nary change

On Sunday, strikes deed families successful their homes. In Gaza City’s al-Sousi Tower, a onslaught killed Abdullah Abu Taif, 33, his large wife, Abeer Anan, 29, and their five-year-old son, Azzam. Medics recovered the remains of an unborn kid from the rubble, according to sources astatine al-Shifa Hospital.

In al-Qarara, adjacent Khan Younis, a onslaught connected an flat killed Mahmoud al-Hams, 38, his wife, Fatima, 37, and their young daughter. Three others were wounded, medics astatine Nasser Hospital said.

Near Deir el-Balah, an aged couple, Kamal and Huda Abu Muailiq, 68 and 59, were besides killed successful their home. A abstracted onslaught killed 2 brothers riding a motorbike successful the aforesaid area.

Later that evening, a onslaught connected a structure sheltering displaced radical successful Gaza City’s Remal neighbourhood killed 2 people, including a child. Four much radical died successful the neighbourhood erstwhile a drone struck a conveyance adjacent the Sharia Court. Israel claimed the onslaught deed subject operatives.

On Saturday, an overnight onslaught destroyed the medicine warehouse attached to Al-Aqsa Hospital successful Deir el-Balah, wiping retired 2 of 4 retention facilities and severely damaging 2 more. The Israeli subject said it deed a Hamas weapons depot located adjacent to the hospital, 1 of 5 specified sites it said it struck that night.

Gaza Minister of Health Director-General Munir al-Bursh told Al Jazeera the onslaught “turns medicine and unwellness itself into a instrumentality of war”.

The Health Ministry said that July was the deadliest period successful Gaza since the commencement of the year, with 152 radical killed. By August 3, the cumulative toll since the October 2025 “ceasefire” had reached 1,250 killed and much than 4,100 wounded.

On August 1, Gaza’s Civil Defence completed a two-week search of a flattened location successful the Sabra neighbourhood, retrieving 112 bodies, 40 of them children. Some 157 radical remained missing, according to Mohammed Abu Dan, who oversaw the recovery. Some, helium said, were fused into factual by the unit of the explosions.

Thousands of bodies are believed to inactive beryllium nether the rubble crossed Gaza.

Elsewhere successful Gaza this week, one-year-old Zaid Nofal was killed erstwhile a onslaught deed his family’s location successful the Bureij exile camp. In Khan Younis, an Israeli drone onslaught connected a structure killed eight-year-old Ratil Abdullah and 20-year-old Abdullah al-Balawi, according to Gaza Now.

Israeli forces besides further expanded the “Yellow Line”, which demarcates Israeli-occupied Gaza from the remainder of the besieged territory, placing caller factual barriers connected Salah al-Din Street – Gaza’s main north-south way – adjacent Shujayea, cutting disconnected displaced families from 1 of the Strip’s fewer remaining unobstructed roads.

Settler attacks surge up of elections

The West Bank saw its ain week of escalation, 1 that the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said made July, jointly with March, the deadliest period for Palestinians successful incidents involving settlers since October 2023.

OCHA recorded much than 1,380 settler-related incidents crossed the West Bank since the commencement of 2026, averaging 6.6 a day. Demolitions and settler unit displaced an mean of 17 radical a time this year, treble the complaint of the erstwhile 3 years.

A study released this week by the Palestinian National Bureau for Defending Land and Resisting Colonization said nary worker from Israel’s settler-heavy “Hagmar” defence units has been arrested for sidesplitting a Palestinian since astatine slightest 2017, and much than 93 percent of probe files into settler attacks person been closed without indictment.

A week aft 4 Palestinians and 2 Israelis were killed successful Tal successful the Nablus area, settlers walked done the village, escorted by Israeli soldiers and armoured vehicles. The aforesaid question of settler encroachments saw a 10-year-old lad changeable successful the backmost connected July 31 adjacent al-Mughayyir. Israeli constabulary subsequently arrested an off-duty soldier, a settler, connected suspicion of the shooting, Haaretz reported.

Days later, settlers attacked Issam Radwan, 71, and his woman Nahil, 65, connected their farmland adjacent Beitillu, beating them with clubs. The colony assembly caput said Nahil suffered a fractured skull, a wound coiled and a breached forearm, portion Issam had a breached shin.

In Idhna, westbound of Hebron, equipped settlers descended from a adjacent outpost and attacked a Palestinian home. Soldiers who arrived aboriginal attacked residents who came to the family’s assistance and fired teardrop state astatine them.

As attacks and raids unfolded crossed the West Bank passim the week, settlers erected caller amerciable outposts. While closures crossed the West Bank eased somewhat from the erstwhile week’s near-total siege, the tiny municipality of Sinjil, northbound of Ramallah, and its astir 8,000 residents entered a 3rd week nether closure. Its main entranceway is inactive sealed with world mounds and metallic barriers, making regular trips hard and perchance deadly.

Land seizures kept gait with the violence. In the Jenin governorate, Israeli authorities issued orders wrong days seizing astir 200 dunums (0.2 quadrate kilometres) of land, immoderate of it for subject roads stretching much than 11km to service a web of outposts approved by the government, the Wafa quality bureau reported.

In the bluish West Bank, Israeli NGO Kerem Navot documented what researcher Dror Etkes told Haaretz was an unprecedented step: subject orders seizing Palestinian Authority-administered onshore successful Area A – not for security, but to link 2 caller amerciable settlements, Noa and Emek Dotan, up of Israeli families moving successful adjacent month.

In Masafer Yatta, an Israeli tribunal rejected petitions against the demolition of the Zif secondary girls’ school, which serves 251 students, and 3 homes successful Khirbet al-Mafqara, clearing the mode for some to beryllium razed astatine immoderate time, Wafa and section activistic Osama Makhamreh reported.

Adding to a dependable watercourse of planetary criticism, Global Affairs Canada, the country’s overseas ministry, said the settlements were “illegal nether planetary law”. Israeli officials responded to the disapproval by accusing Ottawa of moving to “embolden terror”.

The UN’s rights office, meanwhile, said it was “alarmed” by Israeli plans to grow settlements further.