Alex Tiedemann

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🟥 UPDATE NUMBER FOUR | 6 JULY 2026
Journalists on the Ground

🟥 GAZA

🔳 The International Committee of the Red Cross facilitated the release of 17 Palestinian hostages through the Kerem Abu Salem crossing. They arrived at Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis and were identified as Zakaria Bilal Eid Abu Labda (Khan Younis), Khaled Hassan Ali Abu Gharaiba (Deir al-Balah), Imad Ramadan Omar Ashtewi (Al-Zaytoun, Gaza City), Yusuf Abdullah Mohammed Al-Bashiti (Al-Maghazi), Raed Mohammed Said Abu Riyalah (Al-Shati), Mohammed Abdullah Mohammed Al-Bashiti (Al-Maghazi), Ramadan Osama Sulaiman Abu Amro, Nemr Mazen Ahmed Al-Quran, Ziad Hazem Ahmed Al-Quran, Juma Mazen Ahmed Al-Quran, and Zahir Ahmed Juma Al-Quran (all from Al-Zawayda), Mahmoud Ismail Abdul Ghafar Jhajouh and Amin Bahjat Mohammed Abu Ouda (Al-Shati), Muammar Ayman Mohammed Al-Helou (Al-Shujaiya), Musa Adel Musa Al-Sha’er (Khan Younis), Mohammed Jihad Jazaa Al-Sufi (Gaza City), and Hamada Yasser Abdel Bana (North Gaza).

🔳 Among those confirmed alive after release was Adham Al-Bana from Jabalia. Three years ago, he and his three brothers were widely reported to have been killed. Today, after years in israeli captivity, he returned alive, ending years of uncertainty for his family.

🔳 Four Palestinian fishermen from the Al-Quraan family were also released after spending a month in israeli captivity following their detention at sea off the coast of Al-Zawayda.

🔳 The israeli war criminals continued its attacks across the Gaza Strip. One Palestinian was injured after israeli military vehicles opened fire on tents sheltering displaced families in Al-Mawasi, Rafah. israeli forces also opened fire east of the Al-Tuffah neighbourhood in Gaza City and shelled eastern Khan Younis.

🔳 A limited advance by an israeli engineering force was reported along the Yellow Line east of Al-Bureij refugee camp. The force carried out excavation, bulldozing and destruction while quadcopter drones fired intermittently to secure the area during the incursion.

🔳 Five gas trucks entered the Gaza Strip through the Kerem Abu Salem crossing. Meanwhile, israeli war criminals fired smoke bombs and illumination rounds over the Al-Atatra and Al-Salateen areas of Beit Lahia. Low-flying warplanes were reported over Gaza City, while reconnaissance aircraft flew intensively at low altitude over western Khan Younis. Later in the evening, israeli military vehicles opened fire north-east of Beit Lahia.

🔳 Hamas stated that the resignation of Gaza’s Government Work Committee came in the national interest and to remove what it described as the israeli war criminal pretexts. The movement said all professional, technical and administrative procedures had been completed to transfer responsibilities to the agreed National Committee for Gaza Administration and expressed hope the committee would now be allowed to enter Gaza and begin its work.

🔳 Gaza’s water crisis continues to deepen. New reporting highlights that many families are now forced to collect water in cracked, damaged and visibly contaminated containers, often because they have no alternative. Children are frequently the ones carrying these containers, exposing them to further health risks as the shortage of safe drinking water worsens.

🔳 Mahmoud Basal, @mahmoadbasal spokesperson for Gaza’s Civil Defence, said the war has become a true test of humanity, arguing that Gaza has exposed who remained committed to humanitarian values and who abandoned them when Palestinians needed them most.

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UPDATE NUMBER THREE | 6 JULY 2026🧵🧵
Sources: journalists on the ground,

🟥 Gaza

🔳 Medical sources in Gaza hospitals reported that since dawn, at least six Palestinians had been martyred and more than twenty others injured by israeli occupation fire in several areas across the Gaza Strip.

▪️ Hamas later referenced the same toll in its statement, saying the killing of six Palestinians and the wounding of more than twenty others since dawn reflected the continued genocidal assault on Gaza and the occupation’s refusal to abide by its commitments under the ceasefire agreement.

🔳 Gaza Civil Defence crews recovered the bodies of eight martyrs who had remained trapped beneath the rubble of a destroyed home in the Al-Sabra neighbourhood, south of Gaza City.

▪️ The recovery came after intensive rescue efforts, adding another layer to Gaza’s daily grief, where families are not only burying those killed today, but also searching through the ruins of previous bombings for loved ones who disappeared beneath collapsed homes.

🔳 In Tel al-Hawa, southwest of Gaza City, Palestinians inspected the damage after israeli occupation forces bombed a residential apartment in the middle of the night, martyring two Palestinians and causing extensive destruction at the targeted site.

▪️ Scenes from the funeral of Mohammed Falah Daghmash and his wife showed mourners carrying the couple after they were martyred in that attack on their apartment in Tel al-Hawa. Another home became a grave. Another family was torn apart in the night.

🔳 In Khan Younis, heartbreaking scenes showed a young Palestinian child bidding farewell to his martyred father during a funeral in the southern Gaza Strip.

▪️ The child now joins Gaza’s growing generation of orphans, children who are being forced to understand death before life, farewell before safety, and loss before childhood.

🔳 Palestinians gathered at the Martyrs’ Mosque in Al-Nuseirat refugee camp, in the central Gaza Strip, to bid farewell to Huzayfa Al-Huwayri, a member of the Al-Qassam Brigades, after he was martyred in an israeli airstrike in Gaza City.

▪️ Funeral prayers were held before mourners carried him to his final resting place, as funeral processions continued across Gaza under the same assault that has turned burial into a daily ritual.

🔳 israeli occupation warplanes launched fresh airstrikes on Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip.

▪️ The attack came as the south remains under continued military pressure, with Rafah repeatedly targeted despite the wider political language around ceasefire implementation and administrative transition.

🔳 israeli drones dropped bombs around Bani Suheila Roundabout, east of Khan Younis.

▪️ The attack added to the pattern of drone fire, airstrikes and bombardment across the southern Gaza Strip, where displaced families and exhausted communities continue to face direct military threat.

🔳 israeli occupation warplanes also launched an attack targeting Roni Street in the Al-Mawasi area west of Khan Younis.

▪️ Al-Mawasi has repeatedly been presented as an area where displaced Palestinians are forced to seek refuge, yet it continues to be struck, proving again that the occupation’s language of “safe areas” has never protected Palestinian life.

🔳 The lawyer of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya said israeli authorities have transferred the detained hospital director to solitary confinement as a form of torture, adding that he is subjected to brutal daily assaults, held in extremely poor conditions without any formal charge, and remains in serious danger because of his deteriorating health. The lawyer also revealed that more than 100 Palestinian medical personnel are currently being held by the israeli occupation without being charged with any crime, describing Dr. Abu Safiya’s case as part of a wider campaign targeting Gaza’s healthcare workers.

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Reading out statements from the Zionist Death Cult in an attempt to justify TORTURE & FALSE IMPRISONMENT

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Dr. Husam Abu Safiya is a most selfless, dedicated & humanitarian physician who repeatedly risked his life to save his patients in Gaza. That’s why Israel abducted him & is holding him without evidence, charges or due process while subjecting him to severe torture. His life is in danger. He must be released now.

[Dr. Mads Gilbert @DrMadsGilbert]

Release Dr Hussam Abu Safia immediately! https://t.co/eUzyxEYkHC via @AJEnglish

[Dr Rahmeh Aladwan @doctor_rahmeh]

They are slowly killing him. 'israel' is slowly killing Dr Hussam Abu Safiya. Release him now. #freeDrAbuSafiya

[Dr. Mads Gilbert @DrMadsGilbert]

Release Dr Hussam Abu Safia immediately!
It’s been more than 1,000 days of genocide and 500 days of Abu Safia’s detention. We need urgent action to end both.
Dr Hussam Abu Safia’s life is in imminent danger. This is what his lawyer Nasser Odeh said after visiting him on Thursday in an underground interrogation facility, part of Israel’s Nitzan Prison.

If we do not act immediately, Gaza may lose yet another brilliant doctor, and Israel may get away with yet another brutal crime.

Abu Safia, a Palestinian paediatrician and hospital director, first captured the global spotlight on December 27, 2024. That day footage surfaced of him wearing a white doctor’s coat and walking through the bombed-out rubble of what was once a northern Gaza street towards an armoured vehicle where Israeli soldiers were waiting for him.

He was not surrendering an army; he was surrendering the small but critical Kamal Adwan Hospital after 85 days of siege as his staff and patients were forced to leave at gunpoint. A hospital that should have been protected by international law, international leaders and the United Nations but instead was attacked, deprived of medicine, electricity and supplies.

At least 30 people were killed and 20 injured in the hospital when Israeli troops stormed it on December 6, 2024. When his teenage son Ibrahim was killed outside the hospital, Abu Safia said the funeral prayers himself before rushing back to his child patients.

The photo and video of Abu Safia’s last moments of freedom were shared globally on social media, capturing the attention of millions and demonstrating the limits of social media activism. The global spotlight didn’t change his or Gaza’s fate or the politics of the rogue state of Israel.

Abu Safia is not a “terrorist” nor a “combatant”. If anything, he is the defender of life who stands by his patients: Palestinian children under Israeli occupation, targets of bombing, sniper fire and the sadistic Israeli siege causing widespread starvation, thirst, disease and premature death among them.

Israel claims Abu Safia is “affiliated with Hamas” and has detained him under the Unlawful Combatants Law. No evidence has been presented to prove these allegations, no criminal indictment has been brought, and no independent observer has been able to examine the intelligence said to justify his detention.

On June 10, Abu Safia was finally seen in public after more than 500 days of brutal imprisonment. He appeared via videolink from the dreaded Nafha Prison during an Israeli Supreme Court hearing in Jerusalem. He was handcuffed and shackled, looked emaciated and unwell, but he had a calm and dignified posture. Less than a month later, his lawyer visited him in Nitzan Prison. He had trouble recognising his client because he was so badly beaten and was losing consciousness during the meeting.

Abu Safia is one of hundreds of Palestinian medical workers whom Israel has detained. Fourteen doctors, including him, remain in Israeli detention camps and prisons. Two have not made it out alive, and 1,700 healthcare workers have been killed.

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Why are Palestinian medics and hospital staff arrested, detained, tortured and killed by Israel? For decades, Israeli occupation forces have been targeting Palestinian healthcare, in violation of international law, to promote ethnic cleansing and collective punishment as part of their settler-colonial project. The Israeli epistemicide aims to erase all signs of Palestinian knowledge, infrastructure and civil society.

To cover up their crimes, the Israeli military has claimed that Gaza’s hospitals are military hideouts or “command centres” for the Palestinian armed resistance. To date, they have not been able to produce independent, verifiable proof of this. I have myself worked in various hospitals in Gaza for 25 years, mostly at al-Shifa in Gaza City, and never ever seen any proof of such use of either hospitals or ambulances.

The arrest, abuse and torture of Palestinian medics and other staff from Gaza’s hospitals aim to force false confessions of such use of hospitals in Gaza. Unsuccessfully. My colleagues have never yielded. They have stood by the truth.

But there is another Israeli motivation for detaining and mass-killing medical workers as well. Hospital staff bear witness and are directly involved in documenting Israeli war crimes. Since the start of the genocide, paediatricians like Abu Safia have raised the alarm about Israel’s purposeful targeting of Palestinian children with the aim of extermination.

What they have said all along was finally captured in a recently released UN report that concluded that there was clear evidence of “Israel’s deliberate and direct targeting of Palestinian children” and the destruction of “the essence of childhood”.

More than 24,000 of Gaza’s children have been killed, an average of one Palestinian child killed by Israeli occupation forces every hour for 1,000 days.

As of September, at least 1,009 of the killed children were babies or toddlers. Nearly half (450) of these babies were born and killed during the war. At least 42,011 children have been injured.

One million Palestinian children remain under the sadistic Israeli siege, homeless, food insecure and without access to safe drinking water, regular schooling or proper medical care. The killing and maiming of Gaza’s children continues on a daily basis.

A senior Gaza paediatrician recently described to me the life of Gaza’s schoolchildren thus:

“The most important tasks that school students perform every morning are: firstly, the search for water; secondly, the search for food at food distribution centres; and thirdly, collecting some waste that can be used as kindling. … So every morning, you find hundreds of children rummaging through the garbage, searching for anything that can be used to start a fire.”

Like the killed and starved children of Gaza, Abu Safia is a prominent symbol of Israel’s rogue nature. That is why, the Israeli authorities continue to torture him and keep him in solitary confinement while Israeli courts deny his appeals for release.

My Palestinian colleagues in Gaza are not just calling for Abu Safia’s release, for humanitarian relief for hospitals and for an end to the targeting of medical workers. They are demanding an immediate end to the occupation and siege and the restoration of the basic conditions that make health possible: human security, dignity, food, water, justice and the protection of civilian life. The root problem in Gaza now, as it was 1,000 days ago, is the United States-supported Israeli colonial occupation, the sadistic siege, structural violence and apartheid.

Neither an international band-aid with a few Israeli-controlled visiting international medical teams nor international empty lip service with passive condemnation will change the situation. The only way forward from a preventive medical perspective is harsh formal international sanctions and isolating boycotts of Israel to stop this genocide, end the occupation and save lives.

Time is running out. History will judge us. There are no excuses.

Do something, do more – or be complicit.

This is our responsibility; this is the responsibility of each Western politician, parliament and government. Everyone can do their share. Be active, protest and organise solidarity and support for the just struggle and resistance of the Palestinian people.

Seventeen years ago during the 2009 Israeli war on Gaza, I shouted from al-Shifa Hospital:

“We wade in death, blood and amputees. Many children. Pregnant women. I have never experienced anything this horrible. Now we hear tanks. Tell it, pass it on, shout it. Anything. DO SOMETHING! DO MORE! We’re living in the history books now, all of us!”

Do something! Do more! has never been more imperative.

Mads Gilbert, July 4, 2026

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UN Inquiry Cites Evidence of Child Killings in Gaza

The israeli occupation deliberately targeted children in Gaza, and denied it, “EVIDENCE” suggests otherwise.

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BREAKING (bones)
Why does "Bring Them Home" exist only for some hostages?
Because in Apartheid Israel, where only Jewish lives matter, brutalising the Palestinians isn't an anomaly - it is the system. And the silence around it is the exact measure of our collective hypocrisy.