Live Blog Update| Israel's genocide in Gaza
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Evening recap

3 August 2025 23:34 BST

Our live coverage from Gaza will shortly be closing until tomorrow morning.

Here are some of the day's key developments:

  • The Israeli captive families slammed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after he signalled an expansion of the war on Gaza, saying Hamas is not interested in a deal, The Times of Israel reported.

  • Australia announced today that it is making a further humanitarian contribution of $20 million in response to "the catastrophe in Gaza."

  • Philippe Lazzarini, head of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, has condemned Israel’s ban on international media entering Gaza.

  • Eleven former senior Israeli military and security officials, including former chiefs of staff, have called for an immediate end to Israel's war on Gaza, warning that Israel is facing “the dawn of defeat.”

  • Israeli police detained four protesters in Tel Aviv on Sunday evening during a demonstration against the military and police over the killing of Awdah Hathaleen, a Palestinian man shot by a settler in the occupied West Bank last week, Haaretz reported.

  • The spokesman for the Qassam Brigades, Hamas’s armed wing, said in a statement that the group is “ready to act positively and respond to any request" from the Red Cross to deliver food and medicine to captives.

  • Ahmad Sa’id Saleh Tazaza’a, a 20-year-old Palestinian held in administrative detention at Israel’s Megiddo prison, has died, the Prisoners’ Media Office said.

  • The Government Media Office in Gaza said that there are "more than 22,000 humanitarian aid trucks currently parked at the Gaza Strip crossing gates," blocked by Israel.

  • At least 70 Palestinians, including 37 aid seekers, were killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza, Wafa news agency reported, citing medical sources and eyewitness statements.