Overview

• An updated UN Commission of Inquiry report says Israeli policies show a clear intent to entrench military control over Gaza and to engineer a Jewish majority in the occupied West Bank, citing expanded buffer zones and systematic demolition of civilian infrastructure.
• Israel’s mission in Geneva dismissed the report as politically driven, while the findings build on a separate UN-backed expert assessment that labeled the Gaza campaign genocide.
• A Palestinian medical charity says its main Gaza City facility was flattened after an evacuation order, other centers were hit or surrounded, and WHO’s chief condemned the attack as hospitals across the city shut due to nearby operations.
• Two dozen Western nations urged Israel to restore a medical evacuation corridor to East Jerusalem and the West Bank and to ease restrictions on medicines and equipment entering Gaza.
• Gaza’s Health Ministry reports at least 65,382 deaths as Israeli ground forces push deeper into Gaza City, with Israel saying the offensive seeks to pressure Hamas to surrender and free remaining hostages.