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Gaza, Ghf: humanitarian aid distributed today. In the last 24 hours 103 dead

Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu ordered the IDF to draw up a plan within 48 hours to prevent Hamas from stealing aid. The suspension of delivery will remain in place until the plan is presented

26 June 2025

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"The European Council calls for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and the unconditional release of all hostages, leading to a permanent end to hostilities. It deplores the dire humanitarian situation in Gaza, the unacceptable number of civilian casualties and the levels of starvation. It calls on Israel to completely lift the blockade on Gaza'. This is what is stated in the paragraph on the Middle East in the conclusions of the EU summit, which has just been approved. The 27 "take note" of High Representative Kaja Kallas' report and invite the Council to continue discussions in July, taking into account the evolution of the situation on the ground.

Israel announced the suspension of aid deliveries to Gaza after ultra-right-wing minister Bezalel Smotrich threatened to resign from the government if measures were not taken to prevent aid from reaching Hamas. This was reported by a source in Channel 12, quoted by the Times of Israel.

The news came shortly after the prime minister's office announced that Benyamin Netanyahu had ordered the IDF to draw up a plan in 48 hours to prevent Hamas from stealing the aid. The suspension of aid delivery will remain in place until the army's plan is presented, the source added.

Ghf: aid distributed to Gaza today, hope stop is temporary

The interim executive director of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (Ghf), John Acree, says his organisation was the only one authorised by Israel to distribute aid in the Strip today, after a partial halt ordered by the Tel Aviv government. "Our hope is that this is a temporary pause and that all other humanitarian organisations will soon be able to resume distribution in the region," Acree said in a note, "however, it is critical that aid is distributed responsibly, directly to the people who need it." Ghf reported that it distributed 38,880 boxes of food at three of its locations today. The Times of Israel reported this.

Gaza foundation asks UN to bring food to Gaza together

Gaza humanitarian foundation (Ghf) Executive Chairman Johnnie Moore wrote a letter to UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres asking them to 'work together, as the time has come to address, without euphemism or delay, the structural failure of aid delivery to Gaza and to decisively correct course'.

EU sources: "Kallas will propose measures on Israeli violations"

European Council President Antonio Costa, on the basis of the debate that took place among the 27 following the report presented by High Commissioner Kaja Kallas on Israel's human rights violations in Gaza and the West Bank, instructed Kallas to "propose possible measures" ahead of the next Foreign Affairs Council in July. This was stated by European sources. The request did not translate into an amendment of the written conclusions but falls within Costa's prerogatives.

Wafa: 103 dead in Gaza in the last 24 hours, 219 injured

Sources from Gaza said that 103 dead bodies and 219 wounded were transported to Gaza hospitals in the last 24 hours. This was reported by the Palestinian news agency Wafa. The death toll in the Strip has reached 56,259 since the beginning of the war, 132,458 others have been injured. Medical sources confirmed that, of the total casualties, 5,936 civilians have been killed and 20,417 have been injured since the IDF resumed targeting Gaza on 18 March 2025.

Gaza Civil Defence: 56 dead in Israeli raids since dawn

Gaza's civil defence agency said Israeli forces killed 56 people in the war-torn Palestinian territory today, updating the previous death toll of 35. Civil defence spokesman Mahmud Bassal said 56 people were killed by Israeli fire across Gaza, including six who were waiting for aid in two separate locations.

Health authorities in the Palestinian enclave said an Israeli airstrike sowed death at a school housing displaced families in the Gaza City suburb of Sheikh Radwan, while another attack killed people near a tent encampment in Khan Younis, south of the Strip.

More Palestinians died and dozens were injured as crowds waited for UN aid trucks along one of the main arteries of the central Gaza Strip, local medical sources explained, confirming the latest in a series of attacks on humanitarian aid distribution points in the Palestinian enclave.