Israel-Gaza war live: More than 8,600 pupils killed in Gaza and West Bank since October 7

At least 8,572 Palestinian pupils have been killed in Gaza and 100 in the occupied West Bank since Israel began its war on Gaza, the Wafa news agency reported citing the Palestinian Education Ministry.

The ministry added that at least 497 teachers and administrators were killed and 3,402 wounded in both Gaza and the West Bank.

Read our long read feature on how Israel’s destruction of schools and universities will set Gaza back decades.

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Al Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, said it has clashed with Israeli forces in the Shujaiya district of Gaza city. This comes after intense Israeli ground operations and raids in the area.

It claimed in a post on Telegram that a number of Israeli soldiers were killed and injured during the clashes, without providing further details.

Earlier in the day, Al Qassam Brigades said it had attacked two Israeli Merkava 4 tanks with Al Yassin 105 rockets in Rafah city.

The Israeli army did not comment on either incident. 

At least 37,925 people have been killed and 87,141 wounded in Israeli attacks on Gaza since October 7, the Health Ministry in the Palestinian enclave has said.

At least 25 were killed and 81 wounded in the 24-hour reporting period, the ministry added.

The Israeli army estimates that an additional four weeks are needed to complete its military operation in Gaza’s southern city of Rafah, according to Israel’s Channel 12 broadcaster.

The report claims that the military requires this time to eliminate the remaining tunnels in the city.

Uber driver Hussein Khalil was battling traffic in Beirut when he found himself in the Gaza Strip - according to his maps app, anyway - as location jamming blamed on Israel disrupts life in Lebanon.

"We've been dealing with this problem a lot for about five months," says Mr Khalil, 36.

"Sometimes we can't work at all," the disgruntled driver told AFP on Beirut's chaotic, car-choked streets.

"Of course, we are losing money."

Pilots, taxi drivers and others are being forced to use alternatives to GPS to find their way in the air and on roads in Lebanon, because of the jamming and “spoofing”.

Authorities in Lebanon say Israeli GPS jamming has been disrupting civilian road and air traffic for months.

The Israeli army has now told people fleeing Khan Younis to head to the "Al Mawasi humanitarian zone", clarifying a post from more than 13 hours ago that simply stated, "you must evacuate immediately to the humanitarian zone".

"The call to move toward the Al Mawasi humanitarian zone does not apply to the patients in the European Hospital or the medical staff working there," the Israeli military said.

"There is no intention to evacuate the European Hospital in the Khan Younis area," they added.

Although Al Mawasi is described as a humanitarian zone by the Israelis, Palestinians recently fled the area due to Israeli tank fire and air strikes. 

The Palestine Red Crescent Society also evacuated its temporary headquarters in Al Mawasi on June 29.

"Where will we go?" asked Tamer, a 55-year-old businessman, who has been displaced six times since October 7."

Every time people go back to their homes and begin to rebuild some of their lives even on the rubble of their houses, the occupation sends the tanks back to destroy what is left," he told Reuters via a chat app.

Eight Palestinians were killed and dozens wounded when Israeli forces bombarded several areas of Khan Younis and Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, health officials said on Tuesday, as thousands of people fled their homes under fire.

The Israeli army had ordered residents of several towns and villages in eastern Khan Younis to evacuate on Monday, prior to tanks re-entering the area the military had left several weeks ago.

Thousands who had not heeded the call were forced to flee their homes in the dark overnight, as Israeli tanks and planes bombed Karara, Abassan and other areas named in the evacuation orders, residents and Hamas media said.

The Israeli military arrested at least 16 Palestinians in raids across the occupied West Bank early on Tuesday, the Palestinian Wafa news agency reported.

Most of the arrests were in the Bethlehem governorate, where Israeli forces detained 10 people from various areas, including six individuals from Aida Camp, north of Bethlehem. Two people were also arrested in the village of Artas and one each in the towns of Nahalin and Husan.

The UN has said Israel’s latest assault on Khan Younis and the forced displacement of Palestinians in Gaza “shows yet again, that no place is safe in Gaza, more efforts need to be made to protect civilians".

"Unfortunately, there [are] little to no shelter materials or other critical supplies available to support these newly displaced people,” UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said.

He added that it is nearly impossible to collect humanitarian aid from the Karem Abu Salem crossing and distribute it inside Gaza.

This is due to the lack of public order and safety, ongoing hostilities, damaged roads, fuel shortages, and access restrictions.

Since launching a ground offensive in Gaza on October 27, Israeli forces have progressively moved south in the Palestinian territory, seeking to destroy Hamas battalions. However, heavy fighting has restarted in the north.

Pro-Palestine protesters gathered outside Wimbledon on Monday with a giant tennis ball and strawberries "tainted with Palestinian blood" to demonstrate against Barclays Bank's sponsorship of the event.

The protest, organised by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, saw about 100 protesters stand outside the main entrance to the south-west London tennis club on Monday - the first day of the Grand Slam competition.

Critics have questioned the British multinational bank’s financial relationship with nine defence companies that supply arms to Israel.

Protesters set up a giant tennis ball with the words "Barclays sponsors Wimbledon and genocide" written on it, along with plates of strawberries covered in red sauce.

On the strawberries were written the words: "Wimbledon strawberries tainted with Palestinian blood, courtesy of Barclays".

Queuing fans looked on as protesters chanted "stop bombing schools, and stop bombing hospitals". A speaker played the Italian song Bella Ciao as attendees held a sign that read "Stop The Genocide".

Lewis Backon, 28, from London, a spokesman for the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, said Barclays was financing companies supplying weapons to Israel.

- PA

Israel carried out more strikes in the south of Gaza on Tuesday, forcing hundreds of Palestinians to flee after the army once again ordered the evacuation of certain densely populated areas.

Witnesses reported strikes in and around the city of Khan Younis, where eight people were killed and more than 30 wounded, according to a medical source and the Palestinian Red Crescent.

The bombardment came after a rare rocket barrage claimed by the militant Palestinian Islamic Jihad group, which has fought alongside Hamas.

The rockets were aimed at Israeli communities near the Gaza border and were fired in retaliation for Israeli "crimes... against our Palestinian people", said the Al Quds Brigades, the armed wing of the PIJ.

The Israeli military said about "20 projectiles were identified crossing from the area of Khan Younis", most of which were intercepted. It reported no casualties and said artillery was "striking the sources of the fire".

Medical teams at Gaza's European Hospital began evacuating on Monday night following an Israeli order to leave Al Fokhari area, where the hospital is located, along with other eastern areas in the city of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip.

The order suggests Khan Younis will be the latest target of Israel’s raids into parts of Gaza it had previously invaded in the war.

Although the army did not specifically order the hospital to evacuate, its location in Al Fokhari area prompted concerns among staff. The Gaza European Hospital is one of the few remaining hospitals still functioning in the strip.

The Lufthansa Group is temporarily suspending nighttime flights to and from Beirut, German news agency DPA reported on Monday, in response to the escalating conflict between Hezbollah in Lebanon and the Israeli military.

The airline group, which also includes carriers Austrian, Swiss and Brussels Airlines, is suspending night flights to and from Beirut until July 31, it told DPA.

Daytime flights to and from Beirut will continue to be offered, it said.

- AP