Updates: Israel forces slaughter dozens in Gaza after seven soldiers killed

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You can read about the deadly attacks by settlers and the Israeli military in the occupied West Bank today here.

Watch the moment US President Donald Trump said he doesn’t care if the US and Iran sign a nuclear agreement here.

Or read our feature that maps Israel’s expanding battlefronts across the Middle East here.

We will be closing this live page soon. Here’s a recap of the latest news:

• Israel’s deadly attacks killed dozens of Palestinians across the Gaza Strip including 33 people waiting near aid distribution centres, medical sources told Al Jazeera.
• At least three Palestinians were killed and seven others wounded in a settler attack on the town of Kafr Malik, northeast of Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank.
• CIA Director John Ratcliffe said credible intelligence indicates recent US strikes severely damaged Iran’s nuclear programme and it would take years to rebuild.
• Iran reopened the airspace over the country’s east following a ceasefire with Israel that ended 12 days of deadly fighting.
• Iran sharply criticised NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte after he appeared to praise US strikes on Iranian territory, calling his comments an endorsement of “a criminal act of aggression”.

US President Donald Trump’s recent remarks that appear to contradict a US intelligence report are “quite shocking”, Laicie Heeley, a defence analyst, tells Al Jazeera.

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Palestinians in Gaza City have expressed frustration that Israel’s war has dragged on for nearly two years, while the conflict between Israel and Iran lasted 12 days before a ceasefire.

“I live in a tent, and now, my tent is gone too, and we’re living in suffering here. The war between Israel and Iran ended in less than two weeks, and we’ve been dying for two years,” said Um Zidan, a woman displaced from northern Gaza.

Mazen al-Jomla, a displaced resident from the Shati camp, questioned why the war in the coastal enclave has stretched on, noting Israel’s assault on Iran was based on accusations of possessing nuclear weapons.

“We have been suffering for two years – from horrors, destruction, martyrs and injured people,” he said. “What do they [Israel] have left here? There are no houses, trees, or rocks, or humans left. Everything was destroyed.”

US President Donald Trump has demanded CNN fire its correspondent over a news report on recent US air strikes on Iran.

“Natasha Bertrand should be FIRED from CNN!” Trump wrote on Truth Social, accusing her of spreading “fake news” and calling for her to be “thrown out like a dog”.

The CNN report cited US intelligence as saying the strikes on three Iranian nuclear sites likely set the programme back by only months.

Trump claimed Bertrand was “attempting to destroy our Patriot Pilots” and added: “She doesn’t have what it takes to be an on camera correspondent, not even close. FIRE NATASHA!”

French President Emmanuel Macron has warned the ceasefire between Iran and Israel is “volatile and fragile” and urged renewed diplomatic negotiations on Iran’s nuclear programme.

″We should resume diplomatic and technical work on the nuclear question″ with Iran, the US, and European countries, he said, noting ″In the coming weeks, we will have a choice to make on this issue.”

European powers are seeking to create a diplomatic path with a view to reaching an agreement to curb Iran’s uranium enrichment activity in advance of an October 2025 deadline, when United Nations sanctions related to a 2015 accord on Iran’s nuclear programme with world powers expire.

Tehran has consistently denied seeking nuclear weapons, insisting its programme is peaceful.

United States Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth will hold a “major” news conference on Thursday morning, President Donald Trump said, as his administration pushes to quell doubts over the damage done by the US attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities.

“Hegseth, together with Military Representatives, will be holding a Major News Conference tomorrow morning at 8am EST [08:00 GMT] at The Pentagon, in order to fight for the Dignity of our Great American Pilots,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social.

“The News Conference will prove both interesting and irrefutable,” he added.

The White House has addressed reports about Iran’s stockpile of enriched uranium surviving the US strikes last week.

Iran has said it moved 400kg (880 pounds) of enriched uranium before the US bombed its nuclear sites.

“I can tell you, the United States had no indication that that enriched uranium was moved prior to the strikes as I also saw falsely reported,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told Fox News.

“As for what’s on the ground right now, it’s buried under miles and miles of rubble because of the success of these strikes on Saturday evening,” she said.

The head of the UN’s nuclear agency Rafael Grossi told France 2 television “The IAEA lost visibility on this material the moment hostilities began,” but he added, “I don’t want to give the impression that it’s been lost or hidden.”

US Vice President JD Vance, asked about the uranium on Sunday, said the United States would discuss the issue with Iran.

“We’re going to work in the coming weeks to ensure that we do something with that fuel,” Vance told ABC News.

Rafael Grossi, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, has urged all sides to engage “constructively and with resolve” with Iran, saying there’s a “real possibility for diplomacy and dialogue”.

After meeting President Emmanuel Macron at the Elysee Palace, Grossi thanked him for “strongly supporting IAEA’s work on non-proliferation worldwide”.

Macron said France “stands firmly alongside the IAEA”, calling its role “vital for nuclear safety and security”.

“It is urgent that the agency be allowed to resume its mission in Iran,” said Macron.

Mossad spy agency director David Barnea says Israel’s 12-day war against Iran inflicted more damage on Iran than it expected.

“The Iranian threat to our security has been significantly thwarted. Our achievement is greater than we planned,” Barnea told Israel’s Channel 12 news.

Israel’s military killed dozens of top Iranian military commanders and nuclear scientists during its 12-day war with Iran after launching a surprise attack on June 13.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has ruled out a “peaceful” relationship with Israel as long as the country continues its war on Gaza.

Speaking at the end of a NATO summit, Erdogan criticised Israel’s blockade of humanitarian aid to Gaza, saying organisations such as the Red Cross are being obstructed.

“Peace and harmony between us is not possible as long as they [Israel] continue in this manner,” Erdogan said. “Israel cannot ensure the safety of its own people by destabilising the region.”

Turkiye and Israel were once close allies, but ties have soured under Erdogan’s two-decade-long rule. He has denounced Israel’s treatment of Palestinians while Israel objects to his support for Hamas.

Irish lawmakers have called on the government to include services in new legislation that would ban imports from Israeli settlements.

The Israeli Settlements Bill, approved by the Republic of Ireland’s cabinet this week, would make it an offence under the Customs Act to import goods from Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory.

While the bill bans goods exported from the settlements, it does not cover services – a gap that some lawmakers say weakens the legislation and fails to hold companies accountable for war crimes in the occupied territories.

Paul Murphy, an Irish member of parliament, told Al Jazeera that services should be included in the bill.

“The International Court of Justice is clear that there should be no trade … with the occupied territories. And yet the government is creating this artificial distinction between goods and services.”

Murphy also pointed to international pressure influencing the bill’s scope, saying the Irish government is “under pressure from the Trump administration and the American Chamber of Commerce”.

Despite this, Ireland has consistently positioned itself as one of the most outspoken European governments on Palestinian rights – while the government has signalled its intent to use the bill as a way of encouraging other EU member states to follow suit.

CIA Director John Ratcliffe says credible intelligence indicates that Iran’s nuclear programme was severely damaged by recent US strikes and would take years to rebuild.

“This includes new intelligence from a historically reliable and accurate source/method that several key Iranian nuclear facilities were destroyed and would have to be rebuilt over the course of years,” Ratcliffe said in a statement.

His comments echo US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, who said earlier that “new intelligence” confirmed Iran’s nuclear facilities were “destroyed”.

This came after a “top secret” intelligence report – published by major US news outlets – said that the US strikes on three key Iranian nuclear sites on Sunday failed to destroy underground facilities and only set back the country’s nuclear programme by a few weeks.

Iran has reopened the airspace over the country’s east following a ceasefire with Israel that ended 12 days of deadly fighting.

“The airspace over the eastern half of the country has been reopened to international overflights as well as domestic and international flights solely with origin or destination in airports located in eastern Iran,” Transport Ministry spokesman Majid Akhavan said, according to the official IRNA news agency.

Mashhad airport, which Israel said it had struck during the war, was among the airports that reopened, he said. Other reopened airports include Chabahar, Zahedan and Jask.

Iran had closed its skies since June 13 after Israel launched a major bombing campaign that prompted Iran to retaliate with waves of missile strikes. A ceasefire between the two came into effect on Tuesday.

Nuclear enrichment and weaponisation by Iran are red lines for the United States, President Trump’s Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff says.

“We can’t have weaponisation, that will destabilise the entire region. Everyone will then need a bomb and we just can’t have that,” Witkoff told CNBC.

Witkoff also told the US network: “We think we have big announcements on countries coming into the Abraham Accords,” without specifying which nations might be involved.

During his first term, Trump managed to broker the Abraham Accords between Israel and several Arab countries, including the United Arab Emirates, which established formal relations with the US ally independently of the Palestinian issue.

Iran has sharply criticised NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte after he appeared to praise US strikes on Iranian territory, calling his comments an endorsement of “a criminal act of aggression”.

“It is disgraceful, despicable and irresponsible for #NATO’s SG to congratulate a ‘truly extraordinary’ criminal act of aggression against a sovereign state,” Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei wrote on X.

“Who endorses an injustice lacks integrity. Who supports a crime is regarded as complicit.”

His comments were in response to a text message of praise Rutte sent to US President Donald Trump on Tuesday after the US attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities.

The Palestinian Authority (PA) has condemned escalating settler violence across the occupied West Bank, accusing the Israeli government of backing the attacks.

“The settler violence and rampage, under the protection of the occupation army, is a political decision by the Israeli government, implemented by the settlers,” Vice President Hussein al-Sheikh said in a post on X.

Al-Sheikh also accused Israeli authorities of deliberately escalating tensions in the occupied Palestinian territories.

“The Israeli government’s behaviour and decisions are pushing the region toward an explosion,” he wrote.

Israel’s recent conflict with Iran has renewed efforts to push for a ceasefire in Gaza.

Israel’s war on Gaza raged on during its recent conflict with Iran, which ended with a US-brokered ceasefire. Meanwhile, Qatar has announced renewed mediation efforts to end the genocide.

So what are the prospects for peace now? Watch the latest episode of Inside Story to find out: