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By Lyndal Rowlands and Alastair McCready
     Patients and staff flee the al-Ahli Arab Hospital and the Patient’s Friends Benevolent Society Hospital after the Israeli military issues another mass evacuation order for parts of Gaza City.
      Nearly 2 million Palestinians in Gaza are experiencing “continuous displacement”, with even the sick and injured forced to flee, says a Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) spokesperson.
      Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh warns of “disastrous repercussions” for truce talks if Israeli “massacres, killings and displacement” in the Gaza Strip continue.
      The White House National Security spokesperson, John Kirby, says mediators are “trying to close those gaps as best we can” between Hamas and Israel after Egyptian, Israeli, Jordanian and US ceasefire negotiators met in Cairo on Monday.
      At least 38,193 people have been killed and 87,903 wounded in Israel’s war on Gaza since October 7. The death toll in Israel from the Hamas-led attacks is estimated at 1,139, with dozens of people still held captive in Gaza.

      Overnight Israeli attacks leave dead and wounded across Gaza

      As we have reported recently, three people have been killed and three injured in an Israeli attack on Gaza City’s Lababidi street in the Nasser neighbourhood.
      In other overnight attacks, several people were reported killed after an Israeli fighter jet attacked a house in central Gaza’s Deir el-Balah region, the Palestinian state news agency, Wafa, reports.
      Israeli artillery also attacked sites in the west of Rafah City as well as areas in the vicinity of al Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, Wafa said.
      Casualties were also reported from an attack on a school sheltering displaced people in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza.

      Brazil says Israel’s West Bank settlements are ‘flagrant violation of international law’

      Israel’s plan to expand settlements in the occupied West Bank is “a flagrant violation of international law”, Brazil’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has said in a statement.
      Brazil also criticised Israeli claims, from the country’s far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, that the approved expansion was retaliation against the Palestinian Authority’s role in successfully encouraging several countries to recognise Palestinian statehood.
      All Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank are considered illegal under international laws as they violate the Fourth Geneva Convention, which bans an occupying power from transferring its population to the area it occupies.

      New wave of Israeli displacement forces people to ‘flee under shelling’: UN

      The latest Israeli order for the evacuation of central and western areas of Gaza City affects “tens of thousands of people”, while patients and staff were forced to flee three of Gaza’s hospitals in one week, the UN said.
      Between Tuesday and Monday afternoon, 182 Palestinians were killed and 458 injured in Israeli attacks from air, land and sea on the Gaza Strip, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) also reports in its latest situation update.
      OCHA adds that assessments over the last 10 days at sites hosting new waves of displaced people found “critical levels of need across all sectors” and that nine out of every 10 people in Gaza are now estimated to be displaced.
      “New waves of displacement are mostly affecting people who have already been displaced multiple times, only to find themselves forced to flee again under shelling,” the UN said.

      Israel’s Zikim beach to reopen for first time since October 7

      Zikim Beach is set to reopen to the Israeli public for the first time since October 7, Israel’s Channel 13 reports.
      Some Palestinian fighters entered Israel through the beach, which sits just 3km (1.8 miles) from the war-torn Gaza Strip, during the Hamas-led attacks on southern Israel, killing 19 people.
      The beach incurred significant damage during the attack and Israeli authorities have carried out renovations, including building a bomb shelter. Some 20 Israeli soldiers will be permanently stationed at the beach when it reopens on August 1, according to Channel 13, and it will only be open during the day.