Live updates on Israel's war against Hamas

The UN Office of the High Commissioner has recorded at least 57 Palestinians killed by Israel between July 13 and 20, including six children, Al Jazeera reported on Tuesday.

"The Israeli military has intensified its attacks in Gaza in recent days, killing and injuring dozens of Palestinians," spokesperson Thameen Al-Kheetan said.

"Nine months after the announcement of a ceasefire, still, nowhere is safe for Palestinians in Gaza," he added, noting that the killing of civilians raises concerns of war crimes and other possibly atrocity crimes.

Among those killed during this time, "34 were killed far away from the Israeli-imposed 'yellow line'," Kheetan said.

He added that the line is constantly being moved, "presenting a continuous threat to life as the Israeli military appears to routinely fire on Palestinians for mere presence in the vicinity of that line, in violation of international human rights law and international humanitarian law.'

Gaza's civil defence agency and witnesses said Israeli strikes killed 12 people, including a family of six, in the Palestinian territory on Tuesday.

One airstrike hit a house belonging to the Al-Masri family in central Gaza City in the north, according to the territory's civil defence agency, which operates as a rescue service under Hamas.

Witnesses said six members of the family were killed, including four children. Gaza's Al-Shifa hospital said it had received the bodies and the wounded.

At the site, AFP journalists observed extensive damage to the charred multi-storey house, whose roof had almost completely collapsed.

The civil defence agency said six other people were killed on Tuesday in another Israeli strike in Gaza, where violence has persisted despite the ceasefire.

The United Nations said on Tuesday that Israeli attacks had killed at least 57 Palestinians from July 13 to 20.

Three Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip over the last 24 hours, with 22 others injured, according to the health ministry, Al Jazeera reported, citing the health ministry.

Israel’s genocidal war has killed at least 73,283 people and wounded 173,864 since October 7, 2023, a statement said.

Daily attacks since the “ceasefire” agreed on last October have killed at least 1,158 people and wounded 3,756.

Hamas has named Khalil Al-Hayya as its overall leader, the Palestinian resistance group said on Monday.

Israeli settlers set fire overnight to a mosque in a village in the occupied West Bank, a Palestinian official said Sunday, as an AFP journalist saw the structure's entrance scorched and Hebrew graffiti sprayed on its walls.

The settlers also set fire to two houses and a dairy factory, he said, adding the attackers spray-painted Hebrew graffiti on the walls of the mosque.

The Palestinian religious affairs ministry condemned the attack.

In a statement, the ministry described the arson as "a full-fledged terrorist act", accusing Israel's "extremist occupation government" of encouraging settler violence in an effort to displace Palestinians from Masafer Yatta and turn the conflict into "a religious war".

The Israeli military has declared the region around the Gaza Strip a “closed military area,” in effect from 8am local time on Sunday to 8am on Monday, Al Jazeera reported, citing Israeli media.

The Times of Israel reported that the decision comes ahead of a large march to the area by the right-wing Nahala settler group, which supports the re-establishment of Israeli settlements inside the enclave.

The outlet said the closed area “covers the entire Gaza periphery, from Yad Mordechai in the north of the enclave to Route 232 in the east, all the way to Kerem Shalom at its extreme south”.

It also cited a military source as saying that the closure was ordered due to the settler group’s “intention of entering the Gaza Strip illegally”.

Gaza's civil defence and hospitals said Israeli attacks on Saturday killed 11 people across the territory, among them three children and their parents.

A family of five — three children and their parents — were killed when an Israeli strike hit a residential apartment in northwest Gaza City, according to the territory’s civil defence agency, which operates as a rescue service under Hamas.

Three more people were killed when an Israeli airstrike hit a group of civilians in the Zeitoun neighbourhood of Gaza City, the agency reported.

Gaza's Al-Ahli Hospital confirmed it had received the body of the woman along with several wounded individuals, including her daughter.

Health officials said two other people were killed elsewhere in Israeli attacks in Gaza.

Gaza's civil defence and hospitals said Israeli attacks on Saturday killed 11 people across the territory, among them three children and their parents.

A family of five — three children and their parents — were killed when an Israeli strike hit a residential apartment in northwest Gaza City, according to the territory's civil defence agency, which operates as a rescue service under Hamas.

"The family's only surviving member is one child, who was not inside the house at the time of the strike," Mahmoud Bassal, spokesman for the agency, told AFP.

Gaza's Al-Shifa hospital confirmed it had received the five bodies.

The European Union on Friday reiterated its call on Israel to refrain from expanding its settlements in the occupied West Bank.

"The EU reiterates its call on Israel to refrain from further settlement expansion, the legalisation of outposts, land appropriation, demolitions, evictions and other unilateral measures that undermine the viability of the two-state solution," said a statement from the EU's diplomatic service spokesperson.

Earlier this week, Israel's security cabinet approved a budget of 1.3 billion shekels ($427.8 million) for establishing 34 new settlements in the occupied West Bank.