Overview

• A joint statement by 109 aid and human rights organizations, including Doctors Without Borders and Oxfam, called for an immediate ceasefire and the removal of all barriers to relief deliveries.
• The United Nations reports that every one of Gaza’s 2.1 million residents is now food insecure under the tightened Israeli blockade.
• Gaza’s health ministry says at least 111 Palestinians, including 80 children, have died from malnutrition and starvation in recent weeks.
• UN figures show more than 1,000 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire while seeking food aid since the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation began operations on May 27.
• Ceasefire talks in Doha, opened July 6, remain deadlocked as Hamas demands UN and Red Crescent oversight and Israel insists on the US- and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation model.