-Audrey Landmann, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) medical coordinator in Gaza has told Sky News that the situation in Gaza is deteriorating rapidly. Medical supplies are stuck at the border and rescue teams are unable to operate safely in Gaza. She said the situation was worsening daily, adding that at the last count more than 150,000 were now gathered in shelters, many more trying to find safety in their homes.
-The current escalation in violence is significantly impacting on UNRWA operations and capacity to respond to urgent needs of the civilian population in Gaza. Movements are severely restricted by a 3km ‘buffer zone’ instituted by the Israeli Defense Force (IDF), which encompasses roughly 43 percent of the entire territory; as well as by heavy fighting in some other areas.
-A total of 84 UNRWA installations have been damaged since 1 June, 2014. In the past 24 hours, 7 UNRWA installations were damaged, including six schools in Middle Area and One School in North Gaza.
-Palestinians said residents of two southern villages were trapped by days of tank shelling, with medics unable to evacuate wounded.
-The Guardian’s Peter Beaumont has visited a UN-run school sheltering displaced Palestinians that was hit by Israeli shelling Thursday. Peter confirms a Gazan ministry of health report saying at least 10 people were killed and many wounded in the attack.
-The Hamas-affiliated al-Qassam Brigades said on Thursday that they had killed eight Israeli soldiers in northeastern Gaza City in what was potentially the deadliest attack on the military since the ground invasion began last week.
-Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon tells Golani Brigade troops on the Gaza border to prepare for the next mission ahead as the Israel Defense Forces reaches the end of this stage of locating and destroying tunnels. “We are preparing the next stages of the fighting after dealing with the tunnels and you need to be ready for any mission,” Y’alon says. “You need to be ready for more important steps in Gaza and the units that are now on standby need to prepare to go in.”
-150 Palestinians suspected of participating in terror arrested by IDF forces in Gaza. “IDF: Most of those arrested in the operation – are uninvolved and have been released”
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-Brazil decided Thursday to recall its ambassador in Tel Aviv to protest what it has called “disproportionate use of force by Israel” in the Gaza Strip.
-The Foreign Press Association in Israel has released a statement condemning “deliberate official and unofficial incitement against journalists” reporting on the fighting in Gaza, the New York Times says. That includes “forcible attempts to prevent journalists and TV crews from carrying out their news assignments,” the FPA says. The statement cites an assault on a reporter for BBC Arabic, Firas Khatib, during a live television report from Ashkelon, as well as the Israeli strike on Al Jazeera’s offices in Gaza City.
-The UN has said Israel may have committed war crimes in its offensive against Hamas in Gaza, in which hundreds of Palestinian civilians have been killed in two weeks. In Geneva the UN human rights council voted to launch an international inquiry, with the US opposing the move and 17 countries abstaining.
-Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has backed calls by Hamas for an end to the economic blockade of the Gaza Strip as a condition for a ceasefire.
-Protests against the Israeli assault continued in the West Bank meanwhile, where two Palestinians have been shot dead and dozens injured by Israeli forces in solidarity marches in the last week since the Israeli ground assault began.
-Both the American and European aviation authorities have lifted a ban on flights going in to Tel Aviv. The US national aviation agency and the European Aviation Safety Agency issued a ban two days ago when a rocket fired from Gaza landed a mile away from Tel Aviv airport.
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