<article data-history-node-id="426374" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/over-40000-newborn-risk-death-due-israeli-blockade-baby-formula" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/over-40000-newborn-risk-death-due-israeli-blockade-baby-formula" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Over 40,000 babies at risk of death due to Israeli blockade on baby formula </span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>The Gaza-based Government Media Office has warned of an imminent danger to the lives of over 40,000 infants, as Israel continues to block the entry of baby formula for the past 150 days.</p> <p>This ongoing blockade threatens an unprecedented humanitarian disaster and the slow death of tens of thousands of children, the office said.&nbsp;</p> <figure role="group" class="align-center media-block"> <div class="group-inner"> <div alt="A prematurely born baby lies inside an infant incubator at the al-Aqsa Martyrs hospital in Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on 15 March 2025 (AFP) " data-embed-button="file_browser" data-entity-embed-display="image:image" data-entity-embed-display-settings="{" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="74a689f2-a503-47ed-bac7-455b73fe0345" data-langcode="en" class="embedded-entity"> <img src="https://www.middleeasteye.net/sites/default/files/000_372E63C%20%281%29.jpg" width="2000" height="1125" alt="A prematurely born baby lies inside an infant incubator at the al-Aqsa Martyrs hospital in Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on 15 March 2025 (AFP) " typeof="foaf:Image" fetchpriority="high"> </div> <figcaption>A prematurely born baby lies inside an infant incubator at the al-Aqsa Martyrs hospital in Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on 15 March 2025 (AFP)</figcaption> </div> </figure> <p><span style="background: url(&quot;https://www.middleeasteye.net/modules/contrib/ckeditor/vendor/plugins/widget/images/handle.png&quot;) rgba(220, 220, 220, 0.5); top: -15px; left: 0px;"><img height="15" role="presentation" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAPABAP///wAAACH5BAEKAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAICRAEAOw==" title="Click and drag to move" width="15" loading="lazy"></span></p> <p><span style="background: url(&quot;https://www.middleeasteye.net/modules/contrib/ckeditor/vendor/plugins/widget/images/handle.png&quot;) rgba(220, 220, 220, 0.5); top: -15px; left: 0px;"><img alt height="15" role="presentation" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAPABAP///wAAACH5BAEKAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAICRAEAOw==" title="Click and drag to move" width="15" loading="lazy"></span></p> <p><img alt height="15" role="presentation" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAPABAP///wAAACH5BAEKAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAICRAEAOw==" title="Click and drag to move" width="15" loading="lazy"></p> </div> </div> </article>

<article data-history-node-id="426375" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/ministers-gather-un-delayed-conference-palestinian-statehood" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/ministers-gather-un-delayed-conference-palestinian-statehood" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Ministers gather at UN for delayed conference on Palestinian statehood</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Dozens of ministers from around the world are set to gather&nbsp;at the United Nations on Monday for a delayed conference discussing the establishment of a Palestinian state.&nbsp;</p> <p>The US and Israel are boycotting the event.</p> <p>The 193-member UN General Assembly had decided in September last year that such a conference would be held in 2025, to be hosted by France and Saudi Arabia. However it&nbsp;was&nbsp;postponed&nbsp;in June after&nbsp;Israel's surprise attack on Iran.</p> <p>French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot said on Sunday that he&nbsp;would use the conference to push other countries to join France in recognising a Palestinian state.</p> <p>France intends to&nbsp;recognise a Palestinian state&nbsp;in September at the annual gathering of world leaders at the United Nations General Assembly, President Emmanuel Macron announced last week.</p> <p>"We will launch an appeal in New York so that other countries join us to initiate an even more ambitious and demanding dynamic that will culminate on September 21," Barrot said. He added that he expected Arab countries by then to condemn Hamas and call for its disarmament.</p> <p>The&nbsp;UN has long endorsed a&nbsp;Palestinian&nbsp;state in the occupied West Bank, occupied East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip.</p> <p>The UN General Assembly in May last year overwhelmingly backed a Palestinian bid to become a full UN member by recognising it as&nbsp;qualified to join&nbsp;and recommending the UN Security Council "reconsider the matter favourably." The resolution garnered 143 votes in favour and nine against.</p> <p>The General Assembly vote was a global survey of support for the Palestinian bid to become a full UN member - a move that would effectively recognise a Palestinian state - after the&nbsp;US vetoed&nbsp;it in the UN Security Council weeks earlier.</p> </div> </div> </article>

Israel’s renewed push for clan rule in the West Bank and Gaza aims to undermine national unity and destroy the concept of a Palestinian state

UN says ‘vast amounts of aid’ needed to prevent catastrophic health crisis in Gaza Here are some pictures from Gaza taken over the weekend showing chaotic scenes of masses of Palestinian people walking in the heat carrying aid: Israel imposed a total aid blockade for 11 weeks starting in March (ostensibly to put pressure on Hamas to release hostages), and the trickle of food, fuel and medical supplies allowed in since May has not relieved extreme hunger. Continue reading...

<article data-history-node-id="426376" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-settlers-torch-cars-vandalise-property-taybeh-dawn-attack" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-settlers-torch-cars-vandalise-property-taybeh-dawn-attack" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Israeli settlers torch cars, vandalise property in Taybeh dawn attack</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Israeli settlers torched two vehicles and spray-painted racist graffiti in the majority Christian-Palestinian&nbsp;village of Taybeh in the West Bank early on Monday morning.&nbsp;</p> <p>According to Anadolu&nbsp;Agency, one of the homes belonged to a Christian-Palestinian journalist and the other to a village council member.&nbsp;</p> <p>There are no reports of settler arrests, which are rare occurrences amid&nbsp;near-daily settler attacks occurring across the West Bank.&nbsp;</p> <p>Settler attacks in Taybeh have increased in recent weeks, attracting concern from Western leaders and religious figures.&nbsp;</p> <p>A visit to Taybeh from a delegation of Christian leaders and European diplomats on July 14&nbsp;was followed by a visit from US ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee on July 19, who condemnend the attacks as "unacceptable".&nbsp;</p> <p>"To commit an act of sacrilege by desecrating a place that is supposed to be a place of worship, it is an act of terror, and it is a crime," said Hukabee in a statement.</p> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"> <p dir="rtl" lang="ar">مستوطنون يحرقون مركبات ويخطون شعارات عنصرية خلال مهاجمة بلدة الطيبة شرق رام الله <a href="https://t.co/MB4PNv8SmB">pic.twitter.com/MB4PNv8SmB</a></p> — شبكة قدس الإخبارية (@qudsn) <a href="https://twitter.com/qudsn/status/1949625845439426635?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 28, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div> </div> </article>