Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has set out his plan for recognising Palestinian statehood.

I could not bear to watch my seven children starve any longer.

Donald Trump appeared to push back against a comment from Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu.

A 25kg sack of flour is now more expensive than a Michelin-star dinner in Paris

A third of people in Gaza ‘are not eating for days’ says the World Food Programme.

Israel is set to permit parachute aid deliveries to the blockaded Gaza Strip.

People in Gaza have been gripped by hunger and disease during Israel’s military offensive following the October 7 Hamas attacks.

As images of skeletal children and desperate parents have emerged, the World Health Organisation has warned of ‘man-made mass starvation,’ which Israel has denied.

Now the IDF, the Israeli military, is reportedly allowing foreign aid to be dropped into Gaza on parachutes.

A senior IDF official told Sky News: ‘Starting today, Israel will allow foreign countries to parachute aid into Gaza.

‘Starting this afternoon, the WCK organisation began reactivating its kitchens.’

The WCK, the World Central Kitchen aid charity, was one of many organisations forced to pull out of Gaza after its workers were killed in an Israeli airstrike last year.

One in five children in Gaza City is suffering from malnourishment, according to the UN aid agency.

At least 32 Palestinians trying to get food from distribution hubs have been killed by Israeli soldiers, Gaza’s health ministry has said.

Witnesses of a recent incident accused the troops of firing at the crowd ‘indiscriminately.’

Israel blocked food deliveries to Gaza in March, which led to the death of more than 100 people from starvation, the territory’s health ministry said.

The aid blockade was lifted in May, but with limitations to prevent supplies from ending up in the hands of Hamas militants, Israel said.

In the first two weeks of July, UNICEF treated around 5,000 children at risk of acute malnutrition in Gaza, the UN children’s organisation said.

The UK has previously taken part in international efforts to get food to Palestinian civilians.

In March last year, the RAF airdropped aid packages of water, rice, cooking oil, flour, tinned goods and baby formula.

Volunteers from the UK working in the Palestinian territory have reported escalating levels of suffering in Gaza.

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Sam Sears, a paramedic volunteer with UK-Med, said they are seeing ‘lots of patients in the local area coming in with blast injuries, shrapnel wounds, gunshot wounds, poly trauma and we are also seeing a lot of malnourished, dehydrated patients.’

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The Prime Minister called the ‘starvation’ in Gaza ‘indefensible’

Sam Sears said ‘countless’ patients are being treated for critical injuries.

‘It is unacceptable that tourists from Israel continue to be welcomed here while the Palestinians are suffering in the Strip.’

When so-called mistakes equals the killing of innocent people, surely we need to stop Israel from making them.

The shooting occurred near hubs operated by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), which launched operations in May, officials said.

Gaza’s only Catholic church – a refuge for many Christians during Israel’swar on Palestinians – has been bombed this morning.

Strikes pounded the Holy Family Church, killing two people and wounding several others, including the parish priest.

Father Gabriel Romanelli was very close with the late Pope Francis and the two spoke every night since the beginning of Israel’s massacre on Gaza.

The church was damaged in the attack, which witnesses said appeared to be an Israeli tank shelling.

Fr Romanelli had earlier said that no one was killed in the Israeli assault, but doctors at the Al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza City said two women had died.

Footage published by Palestinian photographer Abdalaziz Khalil shows the priest being treated for his injuries.

His right leg is being bandaged, but otherwise he is believed to be in good condition. 

Italian premier Giorgia Meloni blamed Israel for the church strike, saying: ‘The attacks on the civilian population that Israel has been demonstrating for months are unacceptable.

‘No military action can justify such an attitude.’

Foreign minister Antonio Tajani also described the attack as a ‘serious act against a Christian place of worship,’ adding that it is ‘time to stop and find peace.’

‘The attacks by the Israeli army against the civilian population in Gaza are no longer acceptable,’ he wrote on X.

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The arrests came as Israeli forces killed at least 28 Palestinians in air strikes and 31 others at aid sites.

The revelation came just before Starmer and Macron signed a historic new defence relationship.

Netanyahu’s very public nomination wasn’t just political theatre, it was an insidious show of power.

President Donald Trump (left) was set to welcome Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) for the third time since he began his second term in the White House (Picture: Reuters)

President Donald Trump was set to welcome Israeli Pr…

The donkeys that are keeping Gazans alive are suffering.

Dr Al-Sultan is the 70th healthcare worker to be killed by Israeli attacks in the last 50 days. Targeting medics is a war crime.

‘@realDonaldTrump has successfully resolved several serious conflicts around the world.’

‘@realDonaldTrump has successfully resolved several serious conflicts around the world.’

President Donald Trump said he hopes Hamas will ‘take this Deal because it will not get better — IT WILL ONLY GET WORSE’.

Israel has claimed they were striking militant targets in northern Gaza in their latest attack.

Israel has claimed they were striking militant targets in northern Gaza in their latest attack.

The funeral was being held for 60 dead, including four women and four children.

The funeral was being held for 60 dead, including four women and four children.