American pop singer Olivia Rodrigo addressed the scenario in Gaza on Saturday, calling it “horrific and completely unacceptable.”
In an Instagram story, Rodrigo stated she was heartbroken by the struggling of harmless folks in Palestine.
Highlighting the dire situations confronted by folks in Gaza, Rodrigo stated: “Mothers, fathers, and children in Gaza are starving, dehydrated, and being denied access to basic medical care and humanitarian aid.”
“There is no child in Israel, Palestine, or anywhere in the world who deserves to suffer through what we’re seeing these children have to endure. It is horrific and completely unacceptable. To give up on them is to give up on our shared humanity,” she added.
Rodrigo added that she made donations to UNICEF “to help support the victims of this horrifying situation and encourage you to do the same if you have the means.”
Rejecting worldwide requires a ceasefire, the Israeli military has pursued a brutal offensive on the Gaza Strip since Oct. 7, 2023, killing over 58,000 Palestinians thus far, most of them ladies and kids. The relentless bombardment has destroyed the enclave and led to meals shortages and a variety of illness.
Last November, the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for warfare crimes and crimes in opposition to humanity in Gaza.
Israel additionally faces a genocide case on the International Court of Justice for its warfare on the enclave.
Over 5,800 Gazan youngsters have been recognized with malnutrition in June, the UN youngsters’s company (UNICEF) stated on Sunday.
“Child malnutrition in Gaza is rising fast,” UNICEF stated in a press release.
According to the group, no less than 5,870 youngsters have been hospitalized for pressing therapy final month, together with greater than 1,000 instances of extreme malnutrition, marking “an increase for the fourth month in a row.”
UNICEF famous that 2,068 Gazan youngsters have been admitted for pressing therapy in February, 3,259 in March, 3,444 in April, and 5,514 in May.
“Children’s bodies are wasting away. This is not just a nutrition crisis. It’s a child survival emergency.”
The UN company referred to as for a speedy and large-scale supply of humanitarian assist and an enduring ceasefire to assist save youngsters in Gaza.
According to Palestinian figures, no less than 67 youngsters have died of starvation within the war-torn Gaza Strip since October 2023.
Israel has stored Gaza crossings closed to meals, medical, and humanitarian assist since March 2, deepening an already extreme humanitarian disaster within the enclave, affecting Gaza’s 2.4 million residents. The blockade has pushed the area into famine circumstances, with many reported deaths attributable to starvation.
Rejecting worldwide requires a ceasefire, the Israeli military has pursued a brutal offensive on the Gaza Strip since Oct. 7, 2023, killing over 58,000 Palestinians to date, most of them girls and kids. The relentless bombardment has destroyed the enclave and led to meals shortages and a variety of illness.
Last November, the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for struggle crimes and crimes in opposition to humanity in Gaza.
Israel additionally faces a genocide case on the International Court of Justice for its struggle on the enclave.
Eight Gaza kids close to a water distribution level have been amongst no less than 31 Palestinians killed by Israel on Sunday as cease-fire talks stalled.
Delegations from Israel and the Palestinian resistance group, Hamas, have now spent per week attempting to agree on a brief truce to halt Israel’s 21-month genocidal warfare on Gaza.
But on Saturday, all sides accused the opposite of blocking makes an attempt to safe an settlement on the oblique talks within the Qatari capital, Doha.
There has in the meantime been no let-up in Israeli strikes on Gaza, the place many of the inhabitants of greater than 2 million have been displaced no less than as soon as throughout the warfare.
Seven U.N. companies Saturday warned {that a} gas scarcity had reached “critical levels,” threatening assist operations, hospital care and already persistent meals insecurity.
The civil protection company stated no less than 31 folks have been killed in Israeli strikes in a single day and into the morning.
Eight folks have been killed in strikes on homes in Gaza City, within the north, company spokesman Mahmud Bassal stated.
In the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, 10 folks have been killed in a strike on a home, whereas 10 others, together with eight kids, have been killed at a water distribution level, Bassal stated.
“We woke up to the sound of two large explosions,” Khaled Rayyan instructed Agence France-Presse (AFP) after a home was flattened in Nuseirat. “Our neighbour and his children were under the rubble.”
Another resident, Mahmud al-Shami, known as on the negotiators to safe an finish to the warfare.
“What happened to us has never happened in the entire history of humanity,” he stated. “Enough.”
In southern Gaza, three folks have been killed when Israeli jets hit a tent sheltering displaced Palestinians within the coastal al-Mawasi space, in response to the civil protection spokesman.
A girl sitting by salvaged belongings appears on as Palestinians examine the destruction at a makeshift displacement camp following a Israeli incursion, in Khan Yunis, southern Gaza Strip, Palestine, July 11, 2025. (AFP Photo)
Forced displacement fears
There was no quick remark from the Israeli army, which has just lately intensified its operations throughout Gaza.
On Saturday, the army stated fighter jets had hit greater than 35 “Hamas … targets” round Beit Hanoun in northern Gaza.
Media restrictions in Gaza and difficulties accessing many areas imply AFP is unable to independently confirm tolls and particulars offered by the civil protection company and different events.
Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, incursion triggered the warfare, inflicting 1,219 deaths and taking 251 hostages, largely civilians, in response to Israeli official figures.
Israel’s genocidal warfare, compared, has killed over 57,800 folks in Gaza, largely ladies and youngsters, in response to the Health Ministry, displaced virtually all the inhabitants of greater than 2 million folks, sparked a humanitarian disaster within the enclave and left a lot of the territory in ruins.
Talks to agree on a 60-day cease-fire within the preventing and hostage launch have been within the stability on Saturday after Israel and Hamas accused one another of attempting to dam a deal.
Hamas desires the entire withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gaza however a Palestinian supply with data of the talks stated Israel had offered plans to take care of troops in additional than 40% of the territory.
The supply stated Israel wished to drive tons of of hundreds of Palestinians into the south of Gaza “in preparation for forcibly displacing them to Egypt or other countries.”
A senior Israeli official stated Israel had demonstrated “a willingness to flexibility in the negotiations, while Hamas remains intransigent, clinging to positions that prevent the mediators from advancing an agreement.”
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has stated he’s ready to enter talks for a extra lasting finish to hostilities as soon as a brief truce is agreed, however provided that Hamas disarms.
Thousands of individuals gathered in Israel’s coastal hub of Tel Aviv on Saturday, calling for the discharge of the hostages.
“The window of opportunity … is open now and it won’t be for long,” stated former captive Eli Sharabi.
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Sunday mentioned that doorways of a brand new period are opening for his nation and the Century of Türkiye imaginative and prescient is popping into actuality.
“A new era is dawning for our country. Step by step, we are turning our vision of the Century of Türkiye into reality,” Erdoğan mentioned on the Justice and Development (AK) Party’s thirty second Consultation and Evaluation Meeting in Ankara.
About the “Terror-Free Türkiye” course of, the president mentioned: “We see that our messages, which reassure our friends and brothers while instilling fear in our adversaries and rivals, are reaching their target.”
He mentioned that Ankara carefully monitored the PKK terror group’s disarmament course of on the bottom by the mechanism established by the National Intelligence Organization and the Turkish Armed Forces.
“We are aware of whom and which power centers we are fighting against. Our counterparts are not the puppets themselves, but the puppeteers who operate them,” Erdoğan mentioned.
“They will not be able to prevent this country from breaking free from the half-century-long shackles of terrorism. The cost of separatist terrorism to our country is around $2 trillion,” he added.
Police within the U.Okay. cracked down on pro-Palestinian protesters Saturday, arresting many members of a bunch lately outlawed below anti-terrorism legal guidelines.
Police mentioned that they had arrested at the very least 41 individuals in London and 16 others in Manchester for displaying help for the group Palestine Action.
Campaign group “Defend our Juries” mentioned 86 individuals had been arrested throughout the U.Okay., with different protests held in Wales and Northern Ireland.
British lawmakers proscribed the group below anti-terrorism laws earlier this month after a few of its members broke right into a Royal Air Force base and broken planes in protest in opposition to Britain’s help for Israel.
“Officers have made 41 arrests for showing support for a proscribed organisation. One person has been arrested for common assault,” London’s Metropolitan Police mentioned in a press release on social media concerning the demonstration.
After the same protest in London final week, police arrested 29 individuals.
Before Saturday’s arrests in London, near 50 protesters had gathered with placards saying “I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action” close to a statue of former South African President Nelson Mandela exterior the British parliament.
The International Court of Justice within the Hague is listening to a case introduced by South Africa, accusing Israel of genocide in opposition to Palestinians within the Gaza battle, which started after a Hamas incursion into Israel in October 2023. Israel denies committing abuses.
The British authorities’s determination to categorise Palestine Action as a “terrorist group” locations it in the identical class as Hamas, al-Qaeda and Daesh (ISIS). Membership now carries a jail sentence of as much as 14 years.
Opponents of the ban say utilizing anti-terrorism legal guidelines is inappropriate in opposition to a bunch accused primarily of damaging property quite than harming individuals. However, some members have previously been charged with violence in clashes with police.
Palestine Action typically focused Israeli and Israel-linked companies in Britain, comparable to protection firm Elbit Systems, typically spraying crimson paint, blocking entrances, or damaging gear.
In an unsuccessful court docket attraction in opposition to the ban, a lawyer for Palestine Action mentioned the federal government ban was the primary time Britain had proscribed a bunch that undertook the sort of direct motion.
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NATO Chief Mark Rutte will go to Washington D.C. on Monday July 14 and Tuesday July 15 the place he’ll meet with U.S. President Donald Trump, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, NATO stated in a press launch.
The press launch didn’t give a right away cause for Rutte’s go to however Trump stated in a current interview with NBC News that the U.S. could be prepared to provide weapons to Ukraine through NATO and that he would make a “major statement” on Monday.
The Trump administration has to date solely despatched weapons authorised by former President Joe Biden, who was a staunch supporter of Kyiv.
Türkiye’s highway freight to Syria surged 60% within the first 5 months of 2025 in comparison with the identical interval final 12 months, pushed by enhancing circumstances within the nation and renewed efforts to reopen transit corridors to the Gulf, in response to the top of a Turkish worldwide transport affiliation.
Şerafettin Aras, chairperson of the board on the International Transporters Association (UND), stated Türkiye made practically 113,000 highway shipments to Syria between January and May 2025, up from round 70,000 in the identical interval of 2024.
“In the coming period, the number of trips from Türkiye to Syria will increase further,” Aras advised Anadolu Agency (AA) on Saturday. “I believe that the 50,000 transit numbers to Syria, before 2011, will increase three, four or fivefold.”
He stated Syria and Iraq stay very important to Türkiye’s commerce routes and famous progress following final month’s Global Transportation Corridors Forum in Istanbul, which introduced collectively ministers, deputy ministers and senior officers from practically 40 international locations.
“Our President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan also attended the opening ceremony. The importance of Türkiye’s position as a corridor country was once again underlined,” he stated.
Transit revival
Aras recalled that following the outbreak of battle in Syria in 2011, items have been typically returned on the Cilvegözü Border Gate. Transit exercise to Syria fell to a standstill, and bilateral commerce with Iraq and Syria slowed sharply. “Previously, we needed to transport items by means of northern Iraq and switch them into Syria from there,” he stated.
Despite a 3% year-over-year lower in general bilateral transport to Iraq and Syria, Aras stated the transit mannequin is now gaining floor once more. A memorandum of understanding (MoU) on transit transport with Syria was signed throughout the Istanbul discussion board.
He stated one among Türkiye’s transit vehicles lately departed from Izmir and delivered items to a port in Iraq for onward cargo to Gulf international locations, marking the nation’s entry into Iraq’s Truck Permit System. Three different vehicles have been loaded in Konya and routed by means of Iraq to Jordan and Kuwait.
“This improve in transit transport will deliver critical advantages to the sector and increase international trade inflows to our nation,” he stated.
Strategic worth of land routes grows
Aras pointed to present instability in maritime routes because of the Israel-Palestine battle, saying land transport by means of Syria and Iraq will turn into more and more essential for shipments to the Gulf.
He stated Türkiye won’t solely have the ability to transport European items by means of this hall but additionally increase its personal exports to international locations such because the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Saudi Arabia.
“Given our country’s location, as our president said at the Global Transportation Corridors Forum, we are a corridor country, Aras said. “If we resolve the regional points round us, transit transportation will generate extra international forex for this nation than tourism.”
Last 12 months, the Turkish transport sector accomplished round 493,000 journeys to Iraq and 190,000 to Syria. Aras stated he expects these journeys to rise considerably in 2025 as safety improves and agreements start to take impact.
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Marc Marquez cemented his standing because the “King of Sachsenring” on Sunday by successful the German Grand Prix in his two hundredth MotoGP begin, a grueling race that noticed solely 10 riders attain the end line.
Marquez’s ninth MotoGP victory on the Sachsenring stretched his championship lead over brother Alex, who completed second, to 83 factors, whereas Marc’s teammate Francesco Bagnaia completed third to take a seat 147 factors behind.
Alex had began fifth on the grid and took second in his one centesimal MotoGP begin regardless of nonetheless recovering from a fractured hand he suffered on the Dutch Grand Prix two weeks in the past that required surgical procedure.
Several riders crashed over the course of the race, particularly at flip one, together with VR46 Racing’s Fabio Di Giannantonio and Aprilia’s Marco Bezzecchi once they had been in second place.
But the day belonged to Marc as he marked his newest triumph at his favourite searching floor by standing on his bike and doing a jig as he handed the chequered flag – a fourth straight weekend the place he had received each the dash and the race.
“One more (win at the Sachsenring) was super special. From the beginning, I felt good, the confidence when I started the weekend was super high because we were coming from three victories in a row,” Marc stated.
“We are in an incredible moment. Now we can say that half the season is done. Now (the second) half, we still need to be super concentrated.”
Marc had clinched his seventh pole place of the season Saturday earlier than successful a moist dash regardless of a mistake on the first flip, however this time he had the dream begin to take the lead into flip one forward of Bezzecchi and Di Giannantonio.
As Marc slowly however absolutely began to stretch his lead, he was unaware of the battles for place behind him as Bezzecchi and Di Giannantonio swapped locations whereas Alex and Pedro Acosta fought for fourth place on the sweeping corners.
Acosta grew to become the third rider to crash early on after Lorenzo Savadori and Miguel Oliveira, with the younger Spaniard gesturing at his fallen machine in frustration.
Di Giannantonio had damaged the lap report in Friday’s observe and given Marc a tricky time early within the dash.
But the Italian was unable to push any more durable to catch as much as Marc, who discovered a cushty rhythm and tempo to surge greater than two seconds forward regardless of easing off the throttle on two laps to preserve his tires.
As Marc’s lead stretched to greater than three seconds, Di Giannantonio’s problem got here to an finish on the downhill braking zone on flip one when he misplaced management and crashed, along with his bike tumbling throughout the gravel whereas he escaped unharmed.
LCR Honda’s Johann Zarco, who began second on the grid earlier than getting pushed down the order, crashed on the identical flip seconds later.
Bezzecchi had moved as much as second however the Aprilia rider additionally bit the mud on the very subsequent lap at flip one, transferring Alex as much as second whereas Bagnaia out of the blue discovered himself within the podium positions.
“I tried to give my 100%. Also, I was a little bit lucky because (riders) sliding in front of me crashed. But this is racing, so you need to be there,” stated Alex, holding an ice pack on his left hand.
“Today, it was important to survive … So I’m really, really happy. It’s unbelievable to be here (after surgery).”
The crashes didn’t finish there as Trackhouse Racing’s Ai Ogura misplaced his steadiness on flip one and ended up taking out Honda’s Joan Mir within the course of, leaving solely 10 of the 18 starters.
Yamaha’s Fabio Quartararo completed fourth forward of Alex’s Gresini Racing teammate Fermin Aldeguer.
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At least six individuals have been killed throughout Ukraine Saturday when Russia launched greater than 620 drones and long-range missiles, whereas Kyiv introduced it was nearing a deal to amass further Patriot air protection techniques.
“The Russians continue to use their specific tactics of terror against our country, striking concentrated blows at one city or another, at one region or another,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy mentioned in his night deal with.
Moscow has stepped up aerial strikes over latest months as U.S.-led cease-fire talks have stalled.
“Twenty-six cruise missiles and 597 attack drones were launched, of which more than half were ‘Shaheds,'” Zelenskyy mentioned, referring to Iranian-made drones.
The Ukrainian air pressure mentioned it had downed 319 Shahed drones and 25 missiles, including that one missile and about 20 drones had hit “five locations.”
Zelenskyy mentioned the strikes had killed at the very least two individuals and wounded 20 within the southwestern Chernivtsi area, removed from the entrance strains of the east and south.
Twelve individuals have been wounded in Lviv, additionally within the west, whereas within the east, two individuals died in Dnipropetrovsk and three have been wounded in Kharkiv, native officers mentioned.
Russia additionally “dropped two guided aerial bombs on the homes of civilians” within the northeastern Sumy area, killing two, the native prosecutors’ workplace mentioned.
‘Deliberate and despicable’
Zelenskyy mentioned that a few of the drones despatched by Russia had been “simulators” supposed to “overload the air-defense system and make it more difficult to shoot down the ‘suicide drones.’ This is their deliberate and despicable terror.”
The Russian Defense Ministry mentioned it had focused firms in Ukraine’s military-industrial advanced in Lviv, Kharkiv and Lutsk and a navy aerodrome.
In a video message, Zelenskyy mentioned “we are close to reaching a multi-level agreement on new Patriot systems and missiles for them.” Ukraine was stepping up manufacturing of its personal interceptor techniques, he added.
A person inspects the positioning of a Russian glide bomb strike, Kharkiv, Ukraine, July 12, 2025. (EPA Photo)
U.S. particular envoy Keith Kellogg is because of start his newest go to to Ukraine on Monday as a Washington-led peace effort flounders. U.S. President Donald Trump additionally mentioned he would make a “major statement … on Russia” on Monday.
On Friday, the Kremlin restated its opposition to a European peacekeeping pressure in Ukraine, after French President Emmanuel Macron mentioned Kyiv’s allies had a plan “ready to go … in the hours after a cease-fire.”
Trump referred to as Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin final week however mentioned afterwards that there had been no progress towards ending the conflict.
The Kremlin mentioned Putin wouldn’t hand over on Russia’s conflict objectives however would nonetheless proceed to participate in negotiations.
Moscow says its goal in Ukraine is to do away with the “root causes” of the battle and has demanded that Kyiv hand over its NATO ambitions.
Weapons, sanctions
Washington’s announcement earlier this month that it might pause some armament deliveries to Ukraine was a blow to Kyiv, which is reliant on Western navy assist.
On Saturday, Zelenskyy urged his Western allies to ship “more than just signals” to cease the conflict launched by Russia in February 2022.
“The pace of Russian air strikes requires swift decisions and it can be curbed right now through sanctions,” he mentioned on social media.
Zelenskyy particularly demanded penalties for many who “help Russia produce drones and profit from oil.”
Oil exports are essential for the Russian economic system, particularly within the face of present Western sanctions.
Sanctions imposed on Russia – the world’s largest fertilizer producer – after the invasion spared its grain and fertilizer exports.
But costs skyrocketed, fueling fears of meals insecurity.
The United Nations signed a cope with Russia in July 2022 to facilitate exports of meals and fertiliser to restrict international value will increase.
But on Friday, it mentioned the accord wouldn’t be renewed when it expires on July 22.
Russia has repeatedly complained that the settlement does little to guard it from secondary sanctions.
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A political settlement was reached to advance the EU-Indonesia free commerce settlement (FTA), European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen mentioned Sunday.
The commerce deal, dubbed CEPA and brief for Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement, will create extra alternatives in key industries comparable to agriculture and the automotive sector, von der Leyen added.
“There’s a lot of untouched potential in our trade relationship, and therefore this agreement comes at the right time because the new agreement will open new markets,” she mentioned at a news convention with Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto.
“We consider Europe to be very important to us. That’s why we would like to see more European presence and more European participation in our economy,” Subianto mentioned. “I think that in this era of instability or confusion, we are setting the right example.”
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