Archive August 3, 2025

Since early on Saturday, 72 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire in Gaza, according to hospital sources in the besieged enclave. The majority of those killed are aid workers.

38 Palestinians were among the victims who reportedly sought aid at Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) distribution centers, which are run by the conflicting US and Israeli governments.

Despite Israel’s announcement last week that it would begin implementing “tactical pauses” in some areas of fighting to give Palestinians greater access to humanitarian aid, the deaths are the most recent reports of killings reported close to GHF-operated sites.

On July 27, Israel announced the start of daily military pauses. The UN Human Rights Office in the occupied Palestinian territory reported on Friday that 105 Palestinians were killed just on Wednesday and Thursday.

The human rights office reports that at least 1, 373 Palestinians had died trying to access aid as of Friday.

93 children and 169 Palestinians have died from starvation or malnutrition since the start of Israel’s war in October 2023, according to information from Gaza’s Ministry of Health.

Palestinians in the enclave have reported numerous instances of Israeli soldiers and American security personnel intentionally shooting aid recipients close to the distribution centers.

Israel has recently allowed airdrops of aid into the enclave by nations like Jordan, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Spain, Germany, and France despite growing international condemnation of the conditions in Gaza.

However, UNRWA, a UN agency for Palestinian refugees, has urged Israel to facilitate the flow of aid via land after being warned that the airdrops are insufficient.

Just 36 aid trucks entered the enclave on Saturday, according to Gaza’s government media office, which is far below the 600 trucks it claimed were required to meet the population’s humanitarian needs.

A Palestinian Red Crescent Society employee was killed and three others were hurt in Khan Younis when an Israeli attack on the organization’s headquarters, according to the aid organization.

After Israeli forces attacked the Society’s headquarters in Khan Younis, invoking a fire on the first floor of the building, one Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) employee died and three others were hurt, according to a PRCS statement posted on X on Saturday.

According to a report from Deir el-Balah in central Gaza earlier on Saturday, Hind Khoudary from Al Jazeera reported that Palestinians have not seen any improvement in their situation despite recent aid deliveries.

You hardly ever find food in the supermarkets. Palestinians are still forced to risk their lives to obtain whatever they can get, according to Khoudary, who said that everything is very, very expensive.

UNRWA’s head, Philippe Lazzarini, stated on Saturday that the “politically motivated” GHF had been trying to replace the UN-led aid system with Gaza.

“United Nations Relief is not affected by claims of aid diversion to armed groups,” according to S. In a post on X, Lazzarini stated that the intention is to collectively pressure and punish Palestinians who reside in Gaza.

320, 000 young children are among those who are at risk of acute malnutrition, according to UNICEF’s warning that malnutrition in Gaza has exceeded the threshold for famine.

After President Donald Trump withdrew his controversial first pick, conservative activist Edward Martin Jr., the US Senate confirmed former Fox News TV personality Jeanine Pirro as the top federal prosecutor in Washington, DC. Pirro will succeed Pirro.

With a vote of 50 to 45 on Saturday, Pirro, a former county prosecutor and elected judge, was confirmed. She co-hosted the Fox News program The Five on weekday nights, where she frequently spoke with Trump, before taking over as acting US attorney for the District of Columbia in May.

After a key Republican senator said he couldn’t support him because of Martin’s outspoken support for rioters who stormed the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, Trump yanked Martin’s nomination. Martin is currently the Justice Department’s pardon counsel.

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, who co-hosted Fox &amp, Friends Weekend, and Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy, a former Fox Business co-host and reality TV show competitor, are other cable news hires.

Democrat Andrew Cuomo defeated Pirro in a failed attempt to run for both the US Senate and New York Attorney General. The latter race was unsuccessful.

She began gaining more attention from 2008 to 2011 by hosting the weekday television program Judge Jeanine Pirro. She co-hosted the network’s show The Five from 2011 until she joined Fox News Channel to host Justice with Judge Jeanine, which ran for 11 years.

Additionally, Pirro co-authored several books, including Liars, Leakers, and Liberals: The Case Against the Anti-Trump Conspiracy, which was released in 2018. In its support for Trump, The Washington Post described the book as “sycophantic.”

Pirro was named a defendant in a defamation lawsuit brought by Dominion Voting Systems, which claimed Fox had broadcast false information about the business after promoting unsupported conspiracy theories alleging election fraud in 2020.

For nearly $800 million, Fox News settled the dispute.

After Democrats left to protest Emil Bove’s nomination as a judge of the federal appeals court, Senate Judiciary Committee members unanimously voted to send Pirro’s nomination to the Senate floor.

Before taking office in January, Pirro, a graduate of Albany Law School from 1975, has much more experience in the courtroom than Martin, who had never tried or prosecuted a case. Before serving three terms as the county’s elected district attorney, she was elected as a judge in 1990 in Westchester County Court, New York.

On Sunday, August 3, 2018, this is how things are going.

Fighting

• Residents of the Ukrainian capital were advised on Saturday night by the military administration of Kyiv to seek shelter following the launch of a Russian MiG-31K, the launch pad for the Russian Kinzhal air-launched ballistic missile.
• The “auxiliary facility” 1, 200 meters from the Ukrainian Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, which is under Russian control, was reported to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
• A civilian was killed by Ukrainian shelling, according to the plant’s administration, which was headed by the Russians. The plant’s administrators posted a message on Telegram claiming to bring a fire that broke out close to the facility under control.
• Vyacheslav Fedorishchev, the governor of Russia’s Samara region, reported a fatal accident involving an elderly man who was a victim of falling Ukrainian drone debris inside a house that caught fire.
• According to acting governor Yury Slyusar, a Ukrainian drone attack on an industrial facility claimed the lives of two workers and the blaze in the Rostov region of Russia. Slyusar wrote on Telegram that “the military resisted a massive air attack during the night,” destroying drones over seven districts.
• Five soldiers from the Russian-backed Akhmat unit were killed on Saturday in an explosion near Russian-occupied Melitopol, according to the military intelligence agency (HUR) of Ukraine.
• In the village of Sveska in the Sumy region of Ukraine, a 12-year-old boy was killed by a Russian drone attack, and a 13-year-old was taken to a hospital with shrapnel wounds, according to Governor Oleh Hryhorov.
• Ukrainian drones have been launched into Ukraine’s Primorsko-Akhtarsk military airfield, which has been the site of long-range drone launches. The SBU claimed it also targeted a Penza factory, which it claimed provides electronics to Russia’s military.
• According to Ukraine’s Unmanned Systems Forces, Ukrainian forces struck an oil refinery in Ryazan, which is located about 180 kilometers (110 miles) southeast of Moscow, igniting a fire on its premises.
• The head of the military administration in the southern port city of Kherson, Ukraine, urged residents to flee after Russian forces damaged a bridge that connected the neighborhood to the city’s rest of the city.
• Oleksandro-Kalynove, a village in eastern Donetsk, was taken on Saturday by Russian forces, according to the Russian Ministry of Defense.
• 338 Ukrainian drones were downed overnight into Saturday morning, according to the Moscow-based defense ministry’s daily report. The number of Ukrainian drone launches was not specified.
• The air force of Ukraine reported that 45 of 53 Russian drones had been shot down as of Saturday morning, overnight.
• According to the Kyiv Independent, Russia launched 6,129 Shahed-type drones against Ukraine in July 2025, a total of 14 times as many as the 423 drones launched in the same month last year.

diplomacy and politics

Two unnamed Indian officials, according to The New York Times, claimed that their nation would continue to buy Russian oil despite President Trump’s recent announcement toimpose an undisclosed fine for buying Russian military equipment and oil.
• The Armenian Ministry of Defense announced that its peacekeeping brigade would conduct joint exercises with the US military, according to Interfax. Russian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan claimed that Russia’s war in Ukraine prevented it from meeting Armenia’s security requirements ahead of a previous joint drill with the US in September 2023.
• Just days after lawmakers restored the independence of the country’s two main investigative bodies, several officials were detained by Ukrainian authorities for a “large-scale corruption scheme” in the defense sector.