Final goodbyes to Gaza City: ‘I look at the walls of my house, even the lamp, and it breaks my heart, the little details. It feels strange to think I won’t have a house. This thought will haunt you no matter where you go.’

The UK, Canada and Australia have officially announced their recognition of a Palestinian state. France is expected to imminently follow suit.

‘Silencing their voices’: Israel’s decimation of Gaza City has left around 800,000 Palestinians in a total internet and telecommunications blackout.

Gaza City is facing an internet and mobile network blackout amid Israel’s ground offensive and intensified attacks.

Israel’s attack on Doha ‘sets a dangerous precedent for international mediation more broadly: if neutral negotiating venues are now legitimate targets, this fundamentally alters the calculus for future conflict resolution.’

Four times as many people have been charged in the UK under Section 13 counterterrorism powers since Palestine Action was proscribed in July than during the entire ‘war on terror’ since 2001, Middle East Eye can reveal.

Bellingcat’s analysis points to the use of improvised incendiary munitions, dropped from above, in both attacks on the Gaza flotilla this week - even as Tunisian officials cite ‘no evidence of any hostile act or external targeting.’

The senior Hamas members targeted by Israel in Doha all survived the attack, according to Middle East Eye’s sources.

Several blasts have been heard in Doha, amid reports of an Israeli assassination attempt against Hamas officials.

Netanyahu is calling on residents of Gaza City to ‘leave now,’ as Israeli forces prepare to ramp up attacks on the city of one million people.

‘I could hear the sound of shrapnel and debris hitting everything, horrifying noises’ - At the centre of Israel’s new wave of violence in Gaza City is its latest battlefield tactic: remotely controlled, explosive-packed vehicles.

Palestinians in Gaza City are expecting a ‘very violent day,’ as the Israeli military has announced its intentions to continue levelling high-rise buildings in densely populated residential areas.

‘In all the dizzying plans for ports, airports, cities with vertiginous skyscrapers … one small detail is missing. What place would there be in Trump’s Gaza Riviera for a monument to the more than 63,000 Palestinians who have been killed and 160,000 wounded in Israel’s genocide?’

Disability can become a death sentence in Gaza today, ‘as Israel violently maims the host population while disabling the very infrastructure that supports life in the territory.’

‘Life takes on a different meaning in Gaza: the hungry family who gives a handful of flour to a widowed neighbour; the person who collects bones, then wraps and buries them … What survives from the city, what manages to escape the ashes of destruction, will not vanish with the smoke.’

Yemen’s Houthis have confirmed that an Israeli airstrike killed their government’s leader, along with a number of ministers, in the capital Sanaa.

‘Israel cannot stand looking at itself in the full-size mirror these journalists in Gaza hold up to it, day in and day out.’

Gaza genocide: ‘The true number of dead is likely to be in the hundreds of thousands. All of this would have been clear much sooner had we been readier to listen to Palestinian journalists, rather than the evasions and equivocations of the BBC and Piers Morgan.’

‘Israel cannot hide the truth of the genocide it is waging in Gaza, so it is killing as many of those who record each strike as it can.’

Israeli air strikes on Nasser Medical Complex have killed 20 Palestinians, including journalists, healthcare workers, rescue personnel and patients. Middle East Eye contributor Mohamed Salama was among the victims.

Famine has been officially declared in Gaza for the first time by the UN-backed global hunger monitor.

A senior official in Libya's internationally recognised government has held talks with Israeli officials over a proposal to resettle hundreds of thousands of Palestinians expelled from Gaza, multiple sources tell Middle East Eye.

Nearly two years into the Gaza genocide, Netanyahu’s expansionist vision is unmistakable: ‘Israel’s existing borders are a mere pit stop on the collective journey to the ultimate goal - the biblical Land of Israel.’

At least 1,760 Palestinians have been killed while seeking aid in Gaza since late May, according to UN data.

‘If the Ben Gvir and Smotrich applications just disappear, the opportunity to prosecute one of the most blatant examples of apartheid in the world today will likely be lost forever,’ an ICC source tells Middle East Eye.

As Israel moves ahead with plans for mass ethnic cleansing, the West is panicking: ‘Netanyahu is pulling the rug out from under their cherished, decades-long pretext for supporting Israel’s ever-greater criminality: the fabled two-state solution.’

Egypt has been training Palestinian forces for months to take over the security administration of the Gaza Strip, as part of its plan for postwar reconstruction and governance of Gaza, security and diplomatic sources tell Middle East Eye.

As Israeli leaders mobilize for the final phase of ethnic cleansing in Gaza, ‘Sharif and his colleagues were too dangerous to their propaganda. The next wave, the Israeli government intends, will unfold in darkness.’

‘Gaza is dying. And we die with it.’

Al Jazeera’s Anas al-Sharif has been killed in an Israeli attack on a tent for journalists outside Al-Shifa hospital.

Police in London have arrested hundreds of people at a protest in support of Palestine Action, which was recently classified as a ‘terror organisation’ by the British government.

‘Cramming a demoralised, traumatised and severely malnourished population into a small area with little or no infrastructure makes the spread of disease in conflict settings even more dangerous. This is now taking shape in Gaza.’

‘Were the atrocities of the past to be reactivated in the present day, they might find no more advanced or horrifying mode of execution than Israel’s genocidal programme in the Gaza Strip, which continues under the gaze of the entire world.’

‘A million calls an hour’: Israel relying on Microsoft cloud for expansive surveillance of Palestinians

UN experts are calling for the ‘immediate dismantling’ of the Israeli/US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, decrying it as ‘an utterly disturbing example of how humanitarian relief can be exploited for covert military and geopolitical agendas in serious breach of international law.’

The UN has decried the scale of children being killed in Gaza, which averages out to 28 a day - ‘the size of a classroom.’

For decades, Israel has been ‘rewarded for its illegal occupation and criminal policies, and has been endlessly appeased. That it took a genocide, and two years after its onset, for western governments to reconsider this state of affairs is the true scandal.’

‘Since he came into this world, he has never even known what fruit is. He came into life in the midst of starvation and deprivation.’

Carney says Canada will recognize a Palestinian state in September if the Palestinian Authority meets certain conditions, including holding elections.

The UK will recognise a Palestinian state by September - unless Israel agrees to a ceasefire in Gaza before then, Starmer says.

‘Alarming and deadly turning point’: The world’s leading hunger monitoring system has issued a warning that the ‘worst-case scenario of famine’ is unfolding in Gaza due to Israel’s siege.

Gaza genocide: ‘The images now shocking the nation did not appear in a vacuum. They are the final chapter of a story that the UK media has helped write from the beginning.’

More than 100,000 children in Gaza could die within days if baby formula is not delivered immediately, Palestinian officials warn.

The US and Israel have both withdrawn from Gaza ceasefire talks.

Macron says France will recognize Palestine as a state at the UN in September, amid global anger over Israel’s policy of starvation in Gaza.

‘Those who remain silent should come to a sombre realisation: if you do not stand up now for Palestinians, a people facing total eradication, you will likely never stand for anything meaningful again.’

At least 15 people, including four children, have died of starvation in Gaza over the last 24 hours amid Israel’s siege, according to the Palestinian health ministry.

The UN agency for Palestinian refugees says it has received ‘desperate messages of starvation’ from inside Gaza, including from its own staff.

‘Israel may redraw maps, exploit minorities, strike capitals and starve children, but it cannot bomb its way into permanence. It cannot silence a region forever. It cannot build its future atop the ruins of others - because those ruins remember.’

Another blast has been heard in Damascus after Israel announced it was continuing to attack targets in the city, including Syrian army headquarters.