by Umut Uras and Farah Najjar

    Israeli attacks across Gaza today have killed at least 47 people, including several aid seekers and children, according to medical sources.

    Israel’s attack on Evin Prison in Iran’s capital killed at least 71 people last week, Iranian judiciary spokesperson Asghar Jahangir says, with the dead including family members of detainees.

    At least 66 children have died of malnutrition in Gaza over the course of Israel’s war, authorities in the territory say.

    Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 56,500 people and wounded 133,419, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry. An estimated 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the October 7 attacks, and more than 200 taken captive.

    Israel launches new air raids on Gaza City

    Our colleagues on the ground are reporting that Israeli jets have launched air strikes on Gaza City.

    Israeli attacks across Gaza today have killed at least 47 people, including several aid seekers and children, according to medical sources.

    Netanyahu: We have new opportunities to free captives

    Netanyahu has claimed Israel has new opportunities to free the captives held in Gaza, according to a Channel 14 report.

    Netanyahu visited a facility belonging to Shin Bet in southern Israel, where he was briefed on activities that included special operations in Gaza and the security technologies used during the recent war with Iran.

    Netanyahu addressed personnel at the facility, telling them they had “removed a direct threat to our existence, two deadly threats in fact”.

    “Following this victory, many opportunities have opened up for us – foremost among them is the liberation of the prisoners and resolving the Gaza issue by eliminating Hamas,” he said, adding that he believes the two goals are achievable.

    “Broad regional opportunities have also emerged, and you are partners in most of them.”

    Does Glastonbury represent a new ‘radical force in politics’?

    The controversy over musical artists invoking Palestine during performances at the United Kingdom’s Glastonbury Festival reflects the event’s longstanding political character, says George McKay, a media studies professor at the University of East Anglia.

    Since the 1980s, Glastonbury has been known for embracing progressive causes – from nuclear disarmament to labour rights, he said.

    But its ties to mainstream British media, including the BBC and The Guardian, have given it a vast audience – and drawn added scrutiny, McKay told Al Jazeera.

    Referencing Kneecap, the Irish-language hip-hop group that led fans in chants of “Free Palestine”, McKay asked: “Are they going to kind of take this on and become a radical force in politics… or is this the high point and then they’re going to crumble under a combination of legal action and a sense that they’ve gone too far and that’s the end of it?

    “If it’s the latter, it doesn’t really sort of give you the sense that popular music is going to open up again and have an extraordinary new wave of radical politics,” said McKay, who authored a book on the Glastonbury Festival. “It may well be that the market wins and the politics takes a quieter turn.”