Former Israeli Defence Minister Moshe Yaalon has called Israel’s killing of Palestinians “a messianic, nationalist, and fascist ideology."

“This ideology of the (Benjamin) Netanyahu government is supported by rabbinic rulings that say there are no innocent people in Gaza," he said in a post on X.

On Tuesday, Israeli opposition leader Yair Golan accused Israel of killing Palestinian children in Gaza as “a hobby.”

Yaalon said Golan was “mistaken” in his comments. “It is certainly not a hobby, but a messianic, nationalist, and fascist ideology,” he said.

One Palestinian was injured by Israeli army fire in a military raid in the occupied West Bank, medics have said.

The Palestinian Red Crescent Society said that a young Palestinian was shot in the abdomen in the northern town of Qabatiya and was hospitalised for medical attention.

According to the witnesses, Israeli forces raided the town and began to destroy streets and infrastructure in the area.

Several homes were searched and dozens of residents interrogated in the field during the raid, they added.

Italy has renewed its call for Israel to stop attacks on Gaza and allow humanitarian aid into the besieged Palestinian enclave.

“I once again called on Israel to halt military operations involving civilians and to immediately open all crossings to allow humanitarian aid to enter,” Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said on X.

“We want a ceasefire and the release of the hostages: the war in Gaza must end,” he said.

The government of Australia has been urged to target at least two Israeli ministers with sanctions amid Tel Aviv’s ongoing genocidal campaign against Palestinians in Gaza.

“The need for such action has been reinforced by the Ministers’ recent alarming statements in relation to Israel’s ongoing military assault on Gaza,” said the Australian Centre for International Justice (ACIJ), referring to Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir.

Smotrich called for the destruction of Gaza “within a few months,” while Ben-Givr has publicly demanded a complete stop to humanitarian aid to Gaza.

“Israeli officials responsible for the maintenance of the illegal settlement enterprise or grave violations of international law in Gaza must not be immune from sanctions,” it said.

The amount of aid Israel has started to allow into war-ravaged Gaza is not nearly enough and is "a smokescreen to pretend the siege is over," the MSF aid group said.

"The Israeli authorities' decision to allow a ridiculously inadequate amount of aid into Gaza after months of an air-tight siege signals their intention to avoid the accusation of starving people in Gaza, while in fact keeping them barely surviving," said Pascale Coissard, Medecins Sans Frontieres ( Doctors Without Borders) emergency coordinator in Gaza's Khan Younis.

The Israeli army has killed at least 23 more Palestinians in relentless bombing of homes across the war-devastated Gaza.

The official Palestinian news agency Wafa reported that 11 people have been killed and 13 others wounded in an Israeli air strike on a home belonging to the "Nabhan" family in Jabalia town, northern Gaza.

Five others were killed, including three children, in an Israeli air strike on another home in Deir al Balah city, central Gaza, according to a local source.

In southern Gaza, four Palestinians were also killed in an Israeli air strike on a home belonging to the Abu Salah family in Abasan town, Khan Younis, while three others were killed in an Israeli strike on a home in the city's southern Maen area.

An Israeli soldier was killed and another injured during fighting in southern Gaza amid ongoing Israeli genocidal war in the Palestinian enclave, a military statement has reported.

The statement identified the soldier as Staff Sgt. Danilo Mocanu of the army's 7th Armored Brigade's 82nd Battalion.

According to the army's initial probe, the soldier was killed in a building collapse, after an explosive device was detonated.

The other soldier was lightly wounded in the incident, the army added.

According to Israeli official figures, the death toll among the Israeli soldiers since October 2023 has risen to 858, while the number of injured soldiers has risen to 5,892.

Pro-Palestinian demonstrations have been staged at several universities in the Netherlands as students and activists demanded an end to academic cooperation with Israeli institutions.

Protesters occupied buildings and classrooms at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU) as well as Utrecht, Radboud and Maastricht universities, calling on Dutch institutions to sever ties with Israeli academic bodies.

At VU Amsterdam, a group of students and faculty members operating under the name "VU Palestine Coalition" launched a protest in one of the campus lecture halls and organised a day-long alternative educational program to highlight the situation in Gaza.

Banners saying "Silence is complicity" and "VU must be transparent about cooperation with Israeli institutions" were hung across the campus and lecture hall, while slogans such as "We can't carry on as if nothing is happening" and "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free" were written on blackboards.

Recent statements by the European Union and major countries such as the UK, France and Spain on trade relations with Israel give some hope of preventing further bloodshed in Palestine, Türkiye’s trade minister has said.

Noting that Türkiye had suspended trade relations with Israel as of May 2024, Omer Bolat said in a press release that it was only a year later that some European countries slowly began to reciprocate, adding that "it is as if the consciences of the Western world are waking up, albeit too late!"

The UK's decision to suspend free trade negotiations with Israel and the EU's decision to review the EU-Israel Association Agreement at the proposal of the Netherlands are also significant, said Bolat.