Uganda's parliament voted on August 6 to authorise deploying troops to the International Stabilisation Force for Gaza, the first formal sub-Saharan African commitment to the US-backed peacekeeping mission; Morocco has also pledged troops; the 20,000-strong force proposed under US President Donald Trump's ceasefire framework would be led by a US general and deploy only after a phased Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, but no timeline for that withdrawal exists

Hamas said on July 28 its negotiating team would travel to Egypt to continue talks on implementing the second phase of the Gaza ceasefire agreement; on the same day Israel released 60 Palestinian detainees in the single largest such release since prisoner exchanges in October, facilitated by the Red Cross at the Kerem Shalom crossing; the Jerusalem Post reported the IDF simultaneously killed a Hamas commander and the head of Hamas's internal security service in concurrent strikes

Israel's security cabinet cleared the legal path on July 26 for a multinational International Stabilisation Force (ISF) to enter Gaza as part of US President Donald Trump's ceasefire plan; forces would come from 'friendly countries' and operate in areas outside Israel's military control while Israeli forces remain present elsewhere in the territory; a peace envoy welcomed the move but The National noted Israel continues to carry out regular strikes

The Palestinian health ministry said Israeli forces shot dead two Palestinian men when settlers attacked a village in the occupied West Bank on July 20; the Israeli army said troops opened fire after being attacked while attempting to evacuate settlers from the village; the accounts diverge on whether Israeli forces were protecting settlers or accompanying the assault

An Israeli strike on a funeral in the Gaza Strip on July 17 killed at least seven people and wounded 22, hours after Israeli attacks on July 16 killed at least five Palestinians; Al Jazeera reported more than 1,100 Palestinians have been killed since a ceasefire agreement was reached in October

A new NPR analysis finds that Israel's military has expanded its territorial control within the Gaza Strip from roughly 50% at the time of the ceasefire to nearly 70% nine months later, as Israeli forces have pushed deeper into areas that were nominally covered by the truce, with Palestinians paying a deadly price in the expanded zones

Israeli human rights group B'Tselem published 'Unshielded Childhood' on June 29, documenting that Israeli forces killed 54 Palestinian children and teenagers in the West Bank in 2025 alone, with nearly one in four of all Palestinians killed since October 2023 being minors; the group says an expanded open-fire policy is driving the toll and no one has been indicted

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich announced June 29 that the Defense Ministry Settlement Administration has completed groundwork for three settlements in northern Gaza and called on Netanyahu to authorize them immediately; he also called for Israel to 'complete the conquest of all of Gaza,' with Israel controlling roughly 70 percent of the territory

Egypt-based activist Abdul Hamid Abdul Ati called for a 4 PM rally across more than a dozen Gaza locations on June 26; Hamas placed security on high alert and mosque preachers urged non-attendance

Israel's war in Gaza against Hamas, ignited by the October 7, 2023 attacks, has killed over 71,000 Palestinians and triggered genocide proceedings at the International Court of Justice.

Inquiry chair Muralidhar says evidence shows deliberate killing; roughly 30% of Gaza's dead were children; violations continue after the October 2025 ceasefire

The June 2026 Hunger Hotspots report flags Sudan, Palestine, South Sudan and Yemen at 'highest concern'; Somalia at famine risk; a 31% fertiliser spike from Hormuz runs through every figure

73,001 killed, famine confirmed, $17B pledged but 1% disbursed; Hamas offered a heavy-weapons inventory on June 12 and was told no by June 16

UN counts ~36% of allotted trucks entered since October; 77% still face acute food insecurity as Israel logs no further withdrawals and thousands of ceasefire breaches