<article data-history-node-id="428619" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/gaza-death-toll-rises-48-dawn" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/gaza-death-toll-rises-48-dawn" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Gaza death toll rises to 68 since dawn </span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>At least 48 people have been killed in Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip since dawn.</p> <p>The death includes 32 people who were killed in intensified Israeli bombardment of Gaza City.</p> <p>The health ministry in Gaza said 346 people have been wounded over the past 48 hours.</p> <p>Meanwhile, two more Palestinians have died of malnutrition and starvation in Gaza in the past 24 hours, the territory's health ministry said on Sunday, raising deaths from such causes to at least 422 people, including 145 children.</p> <p>Over 64,800 have been killed and around 165,000 wounded since Israel's war on Gaza began, according to the health ministry.</p> </div> </div> </article>

<article data-history-node-id="426776" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/more-1000-physicists-and-scientists-demand-cern-end-cooperation-israel" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/more-1000-physicists-and-scientists-demand-cern-end-cooperation-israel" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">More than 1000 physicists and scientists demand CERN end cooperation with Israel</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Over a thousand scientists have warned the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) of being complicit in "military and terroristic campaigns in the Middle East."</p> <p>"As scientists, we cannot tolerate that the current state of war imposed by the Israeli government on Palestinians, alongside the unacceptable toll of lives and affront to human dignity, also compromises the continued peaceful collaboration of Israeli and Palestinian scientists between themselves, and with the rest of the community," the petition read.&nbsp;</p> <p>The intergovernmental organisation, which&nbsp;operates the largest particle physics laboratory in the world, admitted Israel as the Organization’s 21st Member State in early January of 2014.&nbsp;</p> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"> <p dir="ltr" lang="en">Over 1000 physicists and scientists have demanded <a href="https://twitter.com/CERN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CERN</a> to take action for Gaza.<br> <br> Their statement here <a href="https://t.co/gdJa7E9iMI">https://t.co/gdJa7E9iMI</a><br> <br> At link below, the expert opinion by Prof Alessandra Annoni &amp; I, in support, on CERN legal obligations in relation to the OPt<br> <a href="https://t.co/f2AO8dGvlr">https://t.co/f2AO8dGvlr</a> <a href="https://t.co/rxrSoYGMaU">pic.twitter.com/rxrSoYGMaU</a></p> — Luigi Daniele (@luigidaniele10) <a href="https://twitter.com/luigidaniele10/status/1952670312526725516?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 5, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> </div> </div> </article>

At least five Palestinians, including two children, have died from starvation in the past day

Ten Palestinians killed waiting for rations in Gaza, adding to nearly 800 similar deaths in six weeks, according to UN.

At least 16 Palestinians waiting for food aid were killed by Israeli troops near the Netzarim Corridor in northern Gaza.