From the Gaza Ministry of Health

We warn of a total paralysis threatening transport and ambulance services due to the ongoing blockade and the ban on the entry of tires, batteries, spare parts, and oils.

- 70% of the Ministry’s vehicles are out of service due to direct targeting and the accumulation of technical malfunctions.

- Out of 82 ambulances, 39 are completely out of service, while 17 require urgent maintenance.

- Ministry teams carry out approximately 5,000 transport trips weekly for patients and medical staff, in addition to 140 truck trips weekly to transport medicines and medical supplies, amidst the threat of a system-wide shutdown.

- 100 service vehicles are out of service—including 30 that are beyond repair—while another 80 await emergency maintenance.

- The remaining vehicles suffer from a severe shortage of operational supplies and require 250 liters of oil monthly, while the ban on importing tires, batteries, and spare parts continues.

- The crisis has extended to buses from private transport companies contracted with the Ministry, which have been operating without periodic maintenance for months.

How Israel Lost Americans


July 8, 2026 Michelle Goldberg THE NEW YORK TIMES

It's not just Israel’s policies toward the Palestinians that have eroded Americans’ good will toward Israel. Perhaps as important has been Israel’s role in American politics.

It’s been obvious for some time that Americans are souring on Israel, but a Gallup poll that came out on Friday marks a turning point. For the first time in the poll’s 25-year history, it found, more Americans sympathize with the Palestinians than with the Israelis. The shift wasn’t just among Democrats, whose opinion of Israel has been in free fall in recent years. According to Gallup, only 30 percent of independents now sympathize with Israel; 41 percent sympathize with the Palestinians. Among adults under 35, support for Israel has fallen to a record low of 23 percent. With numbers like this, bipartisan backing for Israel, long a constant in American politics, will in time become unsustainable.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel famously prides himself on his ability to shape American policy. As he said in a secretly recorded 2001 conversation, “I know what America is. America is a thing you can move very easily, move it in the right direction.” Yet he has presided over an ongoing collapse in American Zionism and could eventually go down in history as the prime minister who lost Israel’s most important ally.

Israel’s imploding reputation is largely a consequence of its oppression of the Palestinians, in particular the mass killings in Gaza, which millions of Americans watched up close on social media. At the same time, Israel’s occupation of the West Bank — which is increasingly turning into outright annexation — is making Zionism and liberalism seem incompatible. Today, between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea, about 7.2 million Jews preside over a slightly larger number of Arabs, if you combine Israel’s Palestinian citizenry with the populations of Gaza and the West Bank. The majority of those Palestinians are stateless and have almost no guaranteed rights, as we see in the growing number of settler pogroms in the West Bank and the systematic ethnic cleansing of villages.

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UN welcomes Hamas move to transfer Gaza governance to national committee

UN said such efforts would help advance the ceasefire agreement, protect civilians, and ensure the unhindered delivery of humanitarian aid. (July 6)

The UN has welcomed the Palestinian resistance group Hamas' decision to dissolve its Government of Emergency Committee and transfer administrative responsibilities in Gaza to a newly formed national body, saying the move could support implementation of the ceasefire agreement.

"We've taken note of Hamas' announcement concerning the dissolution of the Government of Emergency Committee and the transfer of administrative responsibilities to the National Committee for the Administration of Gaza,” UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said on Monday.

"We welcome any step that contributes to the implementation of the ceasefire agreement and advances the objectives reflected in relevant Security Council resolutions, including the full implementation of the ceasefire, the protection of civilians, and the unhindered provision of humanitarian aid," he said.

Dujarric added that "we continue to support efforts towards unified Palestinian governance under the Palestinian Authority."

Civil administration

Early Monday, Gaza's government announced the dissolution of its Emergency Committee and the resignation of its acting chairman, saying the move was intended to facilitate the transfer of governance to the National Committee for the Administration of Gaza (NCAG) as part of a roadmap agreed upon by Palestinian factions.

NCAG describes itself as a non-political body responsible for managing the territory's day-to-day civil affairs.

Composed of Palestinian national figures, it has operated from Cairo since mid-January but has not yet begun carrying out its duties from inside Gaza.

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