Overview

• Prime Minister Keir Starmer said the UK will recognize the State of Palestine at the UN General Assembly in September unless Israel agrees to a Gaza ceasefire, resumes unimpeded UN humanitarian aid deliveries and abandons plans to annex parts of the West Bank.
• UN agencies including the World Food Programme, UNICEF and the FAO have issued urgent appeals to flood Gaza with large-scale, immediate and unobstructed food assistance to avert a looming mass famine.
• Gaza’s Hamas-run Ministry of Health reports that more than 60,000 Palestinians have been killed since the conflict began, with women, children and the elderly accounting for over half of the deaths.
• Israeli officials have rejected ceasefire calls, with Foreign Minister Gideon Saar stating operations will continue while Hamas remains in power and Security Cabinet member Zeev Elkin threatening possible territorial annexation as leverage.
• A coalition of 17 nations released the Declaration of New York urging the disarmament of Hamas and the revival of a negotiated two-state solution.