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12 July 2025 10:36am 10:36AM US citizen killed in West Bank settler attack A Palestinian American man was beaten to death by settlers in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and a second man was shot dead, the Palestinian Health Ministry said in a statement. US citizen Sayafollah Musallet, 20, also known as Saif, was severely beaten in the incident on Friday evening in Sinjil, north of Ramallah, the ministry said. Hussein Al-Shalabi, 23 was shot in the chest. Musallet's family, from Tampa Florida, said in a statement that medics tried to reach him for three hours before his brother managed to carry him to an ambulance, but that he died before reaching the hospital. 'This is an unimaginable nightmare and injustice that no family should ever have to face. We demand the US State Department lead an immediate investigation and hold the Israeli settlers who killed Saif accountable for their crimes,' the family statement said. The Israeli military said Israel was probing the incident in the town of Sinjil. It said confrontations between Palestinians and settlers broke out after Palestinians threw rocks at Israelis, lightly injuring them. The military said forces were dispatched to the scene and used non-lethal weapons to disperse the crowds. 10:31AM In pictures 10:19AM Latest strikes kill 14 Palestinians Gaza's civil defence agency said at least 14 Palestinians were killed in the latest wave of Israeli strikes across the territory on Saturday. More than 30 people were killed on Friday, including 10 people who were waiting for aid handouts, the agency said. The Israeli military on Saturday said it had attacked 'approximately 250 terrorist targets throughout the Gaza Strip' in the last 48 hours. 10:15AM Gaza ceasefire talks held up by Israel withdrawal plans Indirect talks between Hamas and Israel for a ceasefire in Gaza are being held up by Israel's proposals to keep troops in the territory, Palestinian sources with knowledge of the discussions told AFP on Saturday. One Palestinian source said Israel's refusal to withdraw all of its troops from Gaza was holding back progress on securing a deal. 'The negotiations in Doha are facing a setback and complex difficulties due to Israel's insistence, as of Friday, on presenting a map of withdrawal, which is actually a map of redeployment and repositioning of the Israeli army rather than a genuine withdrawal,' the source said. Hamas has said it wants the complete withdrawal of Israeli troops from Gaza, which is home to more than two million people. The source said, however, that the Israeli delegation presented a map at the talks which proposed maintaining military forces in more than 40 per cent of the Palestinian territory. 'Hamas's delegation will not accept the Israeli maps... as they essentially legitimise the reoccupation of approximately half of the Gaza Strip and turn Gaza into isolated zones with no crossings or freedom of movement,' the source added. A second Palestinian source said 'some progress' had been made on plans for releasing Palestinian prisoners and getting more aid to Gaza. But they accused the Israeli delegation of having no authority, and 'stalling and obstructing the agreement in order to continue the war of extermination'. 10:12AM Gaza ceasefire talks 'on verge of collapse' The Gaza ceasefire talks are 'on the verge of collapse' with Palestinian officials accusing Israel of deliberately stalling progress and 'buying time.' Delegations from both sides began discussions in Qatar last Sunday to try to agree on a temporary halt to the 21-month conflict sparked by Hamas's attack on Israel on October 7, 2023. Both Hamas and Israel have said that 10 living hostages would be released if an agreement for a 60-day ceasefire were reached. But one senior official told the BBC that Israel deliberately stalled process by sending a delegation to Doha with no real authority to make decisions on key points of contention. They also said that Israel was only attempting to create a positive diplomatic backdrop for the visit to Washington. 'They were never serious about these talks,' one senior Palestinian negotiator told the BBC. 'They used these rounds to buy time and project a false image of progress.' The two sides remain deeply divided on several contentious issues, in particular, the withdrawal of Israeli troops and humanitarian aid distribution.