al jazeera

By Alastair McCready and Ted Regencia

    The daily death toll in Gaza continues to mount, with Al Jazeera Arabic’s correspondent reporting that at least 56 more people were killed in Israeli attacks on the Palestinian enclave since dawn on Thursday.
    Condemnation grows over Israel’s deadly attack on Gaza’s only Catholic church, which has killed three people and left at least 10 injured.
    Syrian state media has reported an Israeli air strike in the vicinity of Suwayda in the country’s south despite efforts by Damascus to cement a ceasefire between warring Druze and Bedouin fighters.
    Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 58,667 people and wounded 139,974, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry. An estimated 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the Hamas-led October 7, 2023, attacks, and more than 200 were taken captive.

Israeli military continues raid, arrest campaign in Nablus

Earlier, we reported that the Israeli military had shot and arrested a Palestinian man during a raid in the occupied West Bank city of Nablus.

The hours-long military operation continues, the Palestinian Information Center reports, with Israeli forces launching a raid and arrest campaign on homes in the new Askar refugee camp, east of the city.

We will bring you more information when we have it.

Europeans tell Iran they will reimpose sanctions if no progress on nuclear deal

France’s Foreign Ministry has said European diplomats told Iran on Thursday they will reactivate UN sanctions if Tehran doesn’t make progress on a nuclear deal “by the end of the summer”.

A clause in Iran’s 2015 nuclear agreement, agreed with the five permanent members of the UN Security Council – China, France, Russia, the UK and the US, plus Germany and the European Union – allows for UN sanctions against Tehran to be reimposed in case of non-compliance.

Britain, France, Germany and the EU have now told Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi of their “determination” to use the “snapback mechanism” in the absence of “concrete progress” towards a deal curbing Tehran’s nuclear programme, France’s Foreign Ministry said.

The European nations are applying pressure to convince Iran of the “urgency of returning to the diplomatic path without delay”, it added.

There has been much speculation about the status of Tehran’s nuclear programme since Israeli and US strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities in June.