Netanyahu: 'There is no hunger in Gaza'. Trump's response: 'Many people are starving'. Israeli settlers attack Christian village in the West Bank

"No alternative" to the two-state solution for Israel and the Palestinians: this was reiterated by French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot at the ongoing UN conference on Palestine, where a minute's silence was held for the victims of Gaza.

The Israeli Prime Minister's words shortly precede the news, broadcast by Al-Jazeera, of the death of another infant in Gaza due to malnutrition caused by a shortage of powdered milk. The child has been identified as Muhammad Ibrahim Adas. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), Gaza City was the most affected city by malnutrition in the Gaza Strip, with nearly one in five children under the age of five suffering from acute malnutrition.

According to an estimate by the Hamas-controlled Gaza Ministry of Health, in the last 24 hours 14 people have died in the Strip due to hunger and malnutrition. This tally, reads a statement posted on Telegram, brings the total number of deaths from hunger and malnutrition to 147 since the beginning of the war, including 88 children.

Nearly 100 people were killed yesterday while seeking aid in Gaza. This was stated by the health ministry of the Hamas-controlled enclave, Sky News reported. The ministry said 67 people were killed in northern Gaza and another six in Khan Younis in the south. The Israel Defence Forces said troops "fired warning shots to remove an immediate threat" after "a gathering of thousands was identified in the north of the Strip". "The IDF is aware of the casualty claims and the details are still being examined."

The Palestinian news agency Wafa reports that 13 Palestinians, including two children, were killed and more than 30 injured today as a result of continued Israeli shelling on various areas of the Gaza Strip.

Five Palestinians were killed following the shelling of a flat in the Al-Mawasi area, west of Khan Yunis, reads the agency suto. Five others were killed and more than 30 were injured in the shelling of a three-storey house in the Japanese neighbourhood west of Khan Yunis. Three more Palestinians died and several others were injured when Israeli forces shelled a house in the Maghazi refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.

"I do not take a position on the recognition of the Palestinian state". This was said by US President Donald Trump speaking to reporters outside his Turnberry resort in Scotland with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and his wife Victoria at his side. Trump added that he knows that Starmer has a position on the matter instead.

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer plans to discuss a UK-led peace plan for Gaza with US President Donald Trump in Scotland today. Starmer's spokesman, Dave Pares, said that London supports Trump's efforts to reach a ceasefire in the war between Israel and Hamas and that the plan aims to 'transform the ceasefire into a lasting peace'. The plan was discussed last Friday by Starmer, French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz.

Starmer will discuss this with allies "including the US and Arab states" and at an emergency meeting of his cabinet later this week, Pares pointed out. Starmer, standing next to Trump in Scotland at the tycoon's golf resort near Turnberry, said that "we have to get a ceasefire" in Gaza, calling the situation "desperate".

Israeli settlers attacked the Christian village of Taybeh in the occupied West Bank, setting fire to cars and writing threatening messages on the walls. This was denounced by the Palestinian National Authority on X, speaking of a "terrorist attack" and "racist threats in Hebrew written on houses and property". According to a resident heard by Afp one of the two cars set on fire belonged to a journalist.

The village, home to around 1,300 Palestinian Christians, many with American citizenship, and the surrounding areas have already been the target of attacks by settlers in recent months, attacks that have left three people dead, damaged Palestinian wells, and forced at least one community of shepherds to move elsewhere.

The new attack comes after 71 of the 120 members of the Knesset voted last week on a non-binding motion calling for the annexation of the West Bank, home to three million Palestinians and 700,000 settlers, 200,000 of them in East Jerusalem.

"I phoned Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa to express my solidarity after yet another violent attack by Israeli settlers in the West Bank, this time against the Christian village of Taybeh. The government of Israel has an obligation to act, to put an end to these incursions, to protect Palestinian citizens: Christians and Muslims in the West Bank deserve to live in peace and to be protected". This was written on X by Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani.

'The settlers,' Tajani continued, 'continue to overstep every boundary in the knowledge that Christians represent an element of stability. Italy is close to the victims of this attack and reiterates its commitment to a cessation of hostilities in Gaza and the West Bank. We will evaluate together with EU partners the adoption of new sanctions against the violent settlers,' the foreign minister added.

"Whether they attack a Christian village or a Palestinian Muslim herding community, these extremist settlers may claim that God has given them land. But they are nothing but abominable criminals of any faith'. German Ambassador to Israel Steffen Seibert wrote this on X, commenting on the attack by Israeli settlers in Taybeh, a Christian village near Ramallah in the West Bank.

The Houthi rebels of the Yemeni Ansar Allah movement will attack the ships of all companies working with Israeli ports within range of their weapons. This was stated by the movement's military spokesman, Yahya Saree. "The Yemen Armed Forces have decided to activate their military operations in support of the Palestinians and begin implementing Phase Four of their naval blockade, targeting all ships belonging to any company that has dealings with Israeli ports, regardless of nationality or destination and wherever they can be reached by our missiles and drones," the spokesman said in a message broadcast by the Houthi-controlled Al Masirah TV channel. Saree recommended all shipping companies to cease cooperation with Israeli ports. He called on all countries to put pressure on Israel to end its aggression in the Gaza Strip and lift its blockade of the enclave under siege.