The head of the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees warned that airdrops are 'expensive, inefficient and can even kill starving civilians' and won’t reverse the increasing starvation.

A pair of leading Israeli human rights groups has accused Israel of “committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza,” becoming the first such organizations to make the claim.

Two prominent Israeli rights groups on Monday, July 28 2025 said their country is committing genocide in Gaza. This marks the first time that local Jewish-led organizations have made such accusations against Israel during nearly 22 months of war.

For the first time, two major Israeli human rights organisations — B’Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights Israel (PHRI) — are openly calling Israel’s war in Gaza “genocide”. Their reports landed in Jerusalem this week, calling on the world to act and putting Israel’s government under even greater scrutiny.

The Israeli government is defending a top military officer who dismissed images of starving Palestinians as “fake” over the weekend, despite President Trump stating Monday that he believes the pictures are real.

"In August and September, there are probably still going to be ... large numbers of deaths because children have already passed the tipping point," Mark Brauner, who volunteered in Gaza last month, told HuffPost.

After a long silence, prominent Israelis and activists are increasingly raising alarms about potential war crimes being carried out by the government.