A Palestinian mourner cries during the funeral procession of people killed while waiting for aid.
Mera Aladam – Middle East Eye July 3, 2025
The Israeli army has carried out over 26 massacres in less than 48 hours, killing more than 300 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip, the local Government Media Office said on Thursday.
According to the office, the latest attacks targeted densely populated areas, including shelters, displacement centres, leisure spaces, homes, markets, hospitals and aid distribution points.
“The majority of the martyrs are women and children – all unarmed civilians – reflecting the occupation’s deliberate targeting of the most vulnerable groups,” the office said.
Since dawn on Thursday alone, at least 73 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli strikes across the besieged enclave, 33 of whom were seeking humanitarian aid, according to Al Jazeera.
The Palestinian health ministry confirmed that 118 people were killed on Wednesday and 142 the day before.
Meanwhile, the Palestinian Ministry of Endowments and Religious Affairs warned on Wednesday that the more than 600-day war on Gaza has led to a critical shortage of burial space.
“The crisis is worsening due to the occupation’s blockade on the entry of food, medicine, shrouds, construction materials, and other essentials needed for grave preparation,” the ministry said in a statement.
“This is preventing martyrs from being honoured and buried in accordance with Islamic law.”
The Israeli military has reportedly completely or partially destroyed over 40 cemeteries across the besieged strip, further contributing to the shrinking availability of burial space and the depletion of existing graveyards.
The ministry described a “severe shortage” of graves for both martyrs and other deceased individuals.
Forced displacement orders have also reduced available land for new cemeteries, resulting in bodies awaiting emergency burial being temporarily stored in hospitals, schoolyards and even homes.
There has also been a dramatic shortage of burial materials, particularly shrouds used in Islamic funeral rites.
Prices for these items have surged, with the cost of preparing a single grave now estimated at between 700 and 1,000 shekels (approximately $208 to $297).
The ministry has issued an urgent appeal to Arab and Islamic nations, international aid organisations and local initiatives to help provide essential burial supplies, including shrouds, construction materials and other equipment.
US guards shoot at aid seekers
Dozens of those killed in recent days have been aid seekers, according to health officials.
Since late May, Israeli forces have killed at least 600 Palestinians queueing up for limited food distrubted by the controversial US and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF).
On Wednesday, the AP revealed that American contractors have also used live ammunition and stun grenades on starving Palestinians attempting to secure aid from these centres.
Two American contractors, speaking to AP, said that hired staff were usually “unqualified, unvetted, heavily armed and seemed to have an open license to do whatever they wished.”
“There are innocent people being hurt. Badly. Needlessly,” one of the contractors guarding aid distribution told the news agency.
In addition to the deadly conditions at distribution points and the overall lack of humanitarian supplies entering Gaza, Palestinians have reported finding more narcotic pills hidden in aid parcels.
The Government Media Office published photographs showing one such incident, where pills were discovered inside a flour sack in Deir al-Balah.
500lb bomb dropped on cafe
Elsewhere, The Guardian has revealed that a 500lb (230kg) bomb was dropped by Israeli fighter jets on a Gaza City beach cafe earlier this week, which killed least 33 Palestinians.
Fragments identified by ordnance experts – as well as the huge crater left following the strike – show that the parts were that of the US-made MK-82 general purpose 230kg bomb.
Experts say the use of such munition on civilians may constitute a war crime, the report said.
Source https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1ApNA-Gt0E
Earlier this week, Middle East Eye’s Maha Hussaini spoke with Mohammad al-Baqa, one of the owners of the cafe, who described the horrific aftermath.
“We gathered a big sack full of human flesh,” he said, underscoring the devastating impact of the strike.
Gaza’s government media office confirmed in a statement that Palestinian photojournalist Ismail Abu Hatab was among those killed. Hatab had worked with several media outlets and curated multiple photography exhibitions about Gaza abroad.
Visual artist Frans al-Salmi was also reportedly killed in the attack.
KNEECAP
‘We will beat Government for second time in court’ – Kneecap at largest ever gig
Story by Pol Allingham •
Next month will see “the second time Kneecap have beat the racist British Government in court”, the Irish rap trio said at their largest gig to date.
The 45,000-strong crowd in Finsbury Park, London watched them walk on in front of a screen that said “Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people”.
They were supporting Irish band Fontaines DC, whose front man Grian Chatten joined to perform their collaboration Better Way To Live.
People echoed the Belfast group’s chants when they repeated the “f*** Keir Starmer” and “you’re just a racist shit Kier Starmer” comments made at Glastonbury the previous weekend.
Liam Og O hAnnaidh, who performs as Mo Chara, appeared at Westminster Magistrates’ Court earlier this month charged with a terror offence and will return next month. They were supporting Irish band Fontaines DC, in support of palestine
Wearing a keffiyeh, O hAnnaidh responded: “I appreciate the 20th of August is going to be the second time Kneecap have beat the British Government in court – in their own court, on their own terms, and we’re going to beat them for the second time.
“I tell you what, there is nothing like embarrassing the British Government.”
Last year Kneecap won a discrimination challenge over a decision by former business secretary Kemi Badenoch to refuse them a £14,250 funding award.
The UK Government conceded it was “racist and unlawful” after the band launched legal action claiming the decision to refuse the grant discriminated against them on grounds of nationality and political opinion.
It was agreed that the £14,250 sum would be paid by the Government to the group.
During the performance the group intermittently broke off the mosh pits and raucous crowd by addressing the war in Gaza, which is a recurring theme of their shows, to huge applause from the public
O hAnnaidh said: “It’s usually around this point of the gig that we decide to talk about what’s happening in Palestine.
“I understand that it’s almost inhumane that I’m thinking of new things to say on stage during a genocide, for sound bites.
“It’s beyond words now, like, we always used to say obviously they’re being bombed from the skies with nowhere to go, but it’s beyond that now.
“They’ve been being starved for a few months on end, and not only that, the areas that they have set up, to collect aid and food, have turned into killing fields and they’re killing hundreds a day trying to collect food.”
He continued: “It’s beyond words, but again, we played in Plymouth last night to 750 people and we did the same thing, so it doesn’t matter how big or small our audience is, Kneecap will always use the platform for talking about the genocide”
O Caireallain had said earlier in the show: “They can try and silence us, they can try and stop us, but we’re not going to stop talking about Palestine – as long as there’s a genocide happening in Palestine we’re going to keep talking about it and you are going to keep talking about it, and they can’t stop us.”
The UN human rights office has recorded 613 killings near humanitarian convoys and at aid distribution points in Gaza run by an Israeli-backed American organisation since it began operations in late May.
On Friday its spokeswoman Ravina Shamdasani said the rights office was able to attribute responsibility for the killings, but “it is clear that the Israeli military has shelled and shot at Palestinians trying to reach the distribution points” operated by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF).
The GHF has denied any serious injuries or deaths on its sites and says shootings outside their immediate vicinity are the Israel’s military.
Feelings are very strong in ireland and the IRS are being reformed to attack jewish targets, and if kier Starmer doe not stop support for israel terrorism
the UK could also suffer
Quit with the shite reports.
Can’t afford to bury the dead, ?
No space to bury the dead. ?
and the daftest claim of all, (I really do need to quit this site).
A Bombed cafe ???????????????? 500lb bomb lol,
In Gaza, ?
A ‘cafe’..yet they are being snipered while they que up for food scraps supposedly allowed in.
A ‘CAFE’ ?????????
We are continually told a encircled ghetto for many years.
Yet they somehow managed to Obtain & operate paragliders & attack their tormentors,
a Good 12+ years after the Economist magazine predicted such an attack on the front cover.
a jew mag’ by the way…
Worst destruction than Dresden in Gaza we are told. & It looks like it too
, & they are in cafe’s while they have no food or the spare cash for shrouds to bury the dead.
Immigrants OUT, Jews OUT.
Brits choosing sides in this pantomime are also surplus to requirement.
“You can’t build a nation on the lives of another people. This atrocity will bring us all down.” — fellow jew, Henry Makow — who sees the writing on the wall for all jews.
Gaza holocaust IDF burned women + children
alive in their tents . when will Iran destroy all
airport + military runways ?
“yeah but yeah but yeah but hitler hitler hitler gas gas gas, lamp shade soap lamp shade soap lamp shade soap” q.e.d.
What is transpiring in Israel is nothing short of madness. How can people be so blind that they cannot see how wicked they have become when they participate in outright murder? Neither side has an excuse for what they are doing. How is it that they cannot see how they are acting compared to the hatred of the NAZIs during WWII?
As far as the Palestinians are concerned, are they as blind when they even teach their children to hate other human beings based on nothing but hate?
Yet never any physical proof of any of this. The Truman Show must go on.
Glenn Ashton on July 6, 2025 at 7:27 am
Quit with the shite reports. ‘Liar’ had posted links to YouTube videos of gaza walkabouts.the channel is called ‘arab ambiance ‘.it was clear there was nothing going on in gaza.the market stalls were stocked.the pallies looked well fed and dressed.all overhead infrastructure intact.they all had SMERSH phones.
Glenn Ashton on July 6, 2025 at 7:27 am. ‘Worst destruction than Dresden in Gaza we are told’.80.000 metric tonnes of modern explosives were dropped on an area of 365 square kilometers.that is 200?tonnes per square km.gaza would be one giant crater by now.the med would flow into this hole and fill it.
We gathered a big sack full of human flesh,” he said, underscoring the devastating impact of the strike. ‘Your power hungry sellin’ soldiers in a human grocery store
Ain’t that fresh? Well
I don’t need your civil war, oh-oh, yeah’. GnR civil war. Lost in the garden of eden? Mr.brownstone.no,just an appetite for destruction
it appears others are finally beginning to realize its all a psyop- hoax..though liar, nico x and 1 or 2 others (possibly markie) were saying it since oct 7
‘The Israeli military has reportedly completely or partially destroyed over 40 cemeteries across the besieged strip, further contributing to the shrinking availability of burial space and the depletion of existing graveyards. ‘ this is a coverstory for the fact that there are no 500000 bodies in graves ,in an area of 365 square km.