Hamas Gaza government dissolves; Dr. Abu Safiya beaten, expects to be killed; 40,000 still missing in Venezuela

From Drop Site: Sudan’s El-Obeid Under Siege: “Civilians Should Not Have to Wait for Death” A Third Party Breached The Intercept’s Signal Tip Line and Has Been Soliciting Whistleblowers Six killed in Israeli strikes across Gaza on Monday. Hamas’s Gaza government announces dissolution; President Donald Trump’s Board of Peace says “all weapons” must be consolidated under the control of Administrative Committee. Palestinian doctor detained by Israel, Hussam Abu Safiya: “They brought me here to kill me. I don’t see myself surviving.” Israeli attacks kill at least five Palestinians in Gaza over the weekend. Israeli forces, settlers carried out over 11,000 attacks in occupied West Bank in the first half of 2026. Iranians gather to mourn late Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. Iranian officials meet with Yemeni, Lebanese, and Palestinian counterparts. U.S. Navy suspends search for missing sailor. Iran says “security of Hormuz” lies with Tehran and Oman alone following joint UK-French statement. Report : U.S. special operations task force remained on standby for possible Iran uranium recovery mission. Israel kills four in Lebanon, demolishes homes despite “ceasefire.” Netanyahu claims Lebanese Christians have asked Israel to annex their villages. Drop Site Exclusive: Internal poll finds Mallory McMorrow supporters lean toward Addul El-Sayed, giving potential boost after McMorrow quits race for U.S. Senate seat. AOC meets with NYC primary winners. Rep. Jim McGovern promises votes on Israel, Gaza, and Humanitarian Aid, if Democrats retake the House. Trump pressures FIFA to remove red card on U.S. star. Drone strike kills 18 civilians in DRC. Ansarallah attack kills 16 soldiers of Yemen’s Saudi-backed government. OPEC+ agrees to increase oil production. Death toll from Venezuelan earthquakes rises to 3,342, more than 40,000 still missing. Drop Site is now live on WhatsApp. Get our latest reporting, podcasts, and breaking news, delivered directly. Join the channel here. This is Drop Site Daily, our free daily news recap. We send it Monday through Friday. Today’s edition is being sent to more than 750,000 subscribers. Help us grow that number by forwarding and recommending this newsletter. Subscribe 🛒 Get your “ Drop [Site] News/Not Bombs ” Hoodie here: Get Your Hoodie Workers prepare graves for unidentified victims of the June 24 earthquake at La Esperanza Cemetery, northeast of Caracas, Venezuela on July 5, 2026. Photo by Miguel MEDINA / AFP via Getty Images. Subscribe Palestine Killed and wounded: Over the last 24 hours, three Palestinians were killed and seven were injured in Israeli attacks across Gaza. Two bodies were also recovered from under the rubble, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry. The total recorded death toll since October 7, 2023 has risen to 73,098 killed, with 173,571 injured, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health. Since October 11, the first full day of the so-called ceasefire, Israel has killed at least 1,072 Palestinians in Gaza and wounded 3,463, while 799 bodies have been recovered from under the rubble. Hamas’s Gaza government announces dissolution: Gaza’s Government Media Office announced Monday that its Emergency Committee has been dissolved, saying the move is intended to facilitate the transfer of administrative authority to the Palestinian-led National Committee for the Administration of Gaza (NCAG) under Trump’s Board of “Peace.” The office said it had received “full assurance” that preparations for the handover had been completed and formally presented to Palestinian factions, clan leaders, and a United Nations observer. It added that only technical and professional staff would remain in their posts to prevent “an administrative and technical vacuum,” while stressing that all public employees are “fully prepared to work” under the NCAG. The statement concluded by urging all relevant parties to “expedite the immediate entry” of the committee so it can assume its responsibilities. Hamas’s statement: Hamas spokesperson Hazem Qassem said that “a new positive step today to remove the occupation’s pretexts” was taken today, following the announcement. Hamas has repeatedly stated its willingness to hand over governance to the NCAG since signing the October 2025 agreement. BoP’s response: The “Board of Peace” said it has “taken note” of the announcement, stressing that its assessment “will be guided by actions, not promises.” In a post on X, the Board said any transition must be “comprehensive” and comply with the Roadmap’s requirements for governance, security, and political transition. It reiterated that the guiding principle remains “one authority, one law and one weapon,” adding that “all weapons” must be consolidated under the control of the NCAG. Israel and Trump’s Board have made the entry of the NCAG contingent on Palestinian acceptance of a 15-point “roadmap” that appears aimed at disarming the Palestinian resistance and the abandoning of the struggle for Palestinian national liberation. Read Drop’s Site report on negotiations between the Board and Palestinians here . Six killed in Israeli strikes across Gaza: At least six Palestinians were killed in Israeli air strikes on Gaza City and Khan Younis on Monday morning, according to WAFA. Two people were killed after an Israeli warplane struck an apartment in the Tel Al-Hawa neighborhood, southwest of Gaza City. In a separate attack, an Israeli drone struck a vehicle in the Al-Mawasi area west of Khan Younis, killing two and wounding at least 15 others. Two people were also killed in an Israeli strike on a tent sheltering displaced Palestinians in the Al-Mawasi area of the southern Gaza Strip. Civil Defense teams also recovered the remains of eight Palestinians from beneath the rubble of a home in the Sabra neighborhood, south of Gaza City, which had been destroyed in an earlier Israeli air strike. At least 9,500 bodies remain buried under the rubble in Gaza, according to Palestinian estimates. Life of imprisoned Palestinian physician is in danger, report says: Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya’s life is in immediate danger, Physicians for Human Rights Israel and his lawyer warned Saturday, after a prison visit. The director of Kamal Adwan Hospital had fresh, severe injuries to his head, eyes, ears, and neck, they said, leaving him so disfigured his own attorney initially struggled to recognize him. Attorney Nasser Odeh, who saw Abu Safiya Thursday at the underground Rakefet interrogation facility in Nitzan Prison, said he arrived shackled hand and foot, escorted by masked guards, struggling to breathe and speak, unable to sit upright, and repeatedly on the verge of losing consciousness. Abu Safiya told him that after his Supreme Court appeal was heard June 10, four or five guards entered his solitary cell at Ganot Prison and beat him with a hammer and batons, and that since his June 24 transfer to Rakefet he has been beaten daily, losing consciousness several times and receiving no medical treatment. “This is the last time you will see me,” he told his lawyer. “They brought me here to kill me. I don’t see myself surviving. This is the end.” He has been held without charge since December 27, 2024. Dr. Abu Safiya’s son described the visit in an Instagram post, available here . Following an April petition filed by PHRI and Dr. Abu Safiya’s lawyer, Israel’s Supreme Court on Sunday ordered the state to respond by Tuesday, July 7, to a petition seeking the release of 14 Palestinian doctors detained without charge, and to specifically address the charges made about Dr. Abu Safiya’s condition. Israeli attacks kill at least five Palestinians in Gaza over the weekend: An Israeli strike on a group of civilians at a water desalination plant east of Gaza City killed two on Sunday, according to WAFA. Another man died on Sunday, following an Israeli artillery attack east of al-Masdar. Israeli forces also fired at the tents of displaced people on the outskirts of Rafah, demolished residential buildings in northwestern Gaza, and fired upon fisherman’s boats off the coasts of Rafah and Khan Younis. An Israeli drone strike killed a Palestinian man in Gaza City on Saturday evening, and wounded several others, Palestine Online reported. Also on Saturday, an Israeli strike near the Jabalia refugee camp killed another Palestinian man and wounded four others, in an attack that caused severe injuries to several, including a very young child. Israeli restrictions on crossings continue to suffocate Gaza: Five trucks of cooking gas entered the Strip, the Gaza Petroleum Authority reported on Sunday, reaching about 11,829 gas suppliers across Gaza. Under the terms of the ceasefire, at least 50 trucks of fuel are supposed to enter the Strip every day. Only 14.9% of the agreed-upon fuel has been allowed to enter Gaza, according to Palestinian figures obtained by Drop Site. On Sunday, it was reported that Israeli authorities would be moving the inspection center for Palestinians returning to Gaza from the area near the Rafah crossing to the Kerem Shalom crossing, according to Kan, Israel’s public broadcaster. The change—justified by Israel by pointing to increased “smuggling” operations—will further limit evacuations, which have already been heavily curtailed by Israel since October of 2023. Israel has only allowed about a third of agreed crossings since it re-opened Rafah. Israeli attacks on West Bank escalate: On Sunday evening, Israeli forces shot and killed a 16-year-old in the Qalandia refugee camp, near Jerusalem, the Palestinian Health Ministry reported. A four-month-old Palestinian infant died on Sunday after Israeli soldiers blocked his urgent medical transfer at the military checkpoint around his village of Deir Ammar, west of Ramallah, according to Ramallah Governor Laila Ghannam. Ghannam called his death “a stain on the conscience of humanity.” More than 100 Israeli settlers reportedly stormed and burned a café opposite Al-Zaytouna University in the Wadi al-Sha’ir area of Lubban ash-Sharqiya, south of Nablus. Additional settler attacks were reported in Khirbet al-Kharaba south of Hebron, where homes came under attack; in the al-Ka’abneh community east of Jerusalem, where livestock were released among Palestinian homes; and in Masafer Yatta, where settlers reportedly stormed a home and tampered with its electricity. In an Instagram post on Monday, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich announced his plan for a “revolution in settlement,” which would not only include the West Bank, but would extend into the Negev and the Galilee. His announcement follows last week’s approvals of 13 new settlements by the Knesset. Israeli forces, settlers carried out over 11,000 attacks in occupied West Bank in the first half of 2026: Israeli forces and settlers carried out 11,074 attacks against Palestinians and their property across the occupied West Bank during the first half of 2026, according to the Palestinian Commission Against the Wall and Settlements. Commission head Moayad Shaaban said the attacks included land seizures, settlement expansion, forced displacement, extrajudicial killings, land bulldozing, tree uprooting, property destruction, and movement restrictions through road closures and military checkpoints. He said 3,488 of the attacks were carried out by Israeli settlers, who killed a total of 17 Palestinians. Israeli authorities also approved the construction of 7,963 settlement units in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem in the first half of the year. Iran and Ceasefire Iranians gather to mourn late Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei: Hundreds of thousands of Iranians attended a funeral procession in Tehran for Ali Khamenei, the Supreme Leader of Iran murdered by a U.S.-Israeli airstrike on the first day of the war, February 28. The six-day funeral ceremony will travel from Tehran, to the Iranian holy city of Qom, the Shia holy cities of Najaf and Karbala in Iraq, and Khamenei’s hometown of Mashhad, where he will be buried on Thursday. Khamenei will be interred alongside several family members killed in the February strike, including his 14-month-old granddaughter, eldest daughter, son-in-law, and the wife of his son Mojtaba, Iran’s new Supreme Leader. Mojtaba, the Supreme Leader’s successor, is not expected to appear publicly; three of Khamenei’s other sons attended the funeral prayers, according to the Associated Press. Mourners demanded revenge for Khamenei’s killing, carrying placards with images of U.S. President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, according to Al Jazeera. President Trump told Axios on Saturday that negotiations between the U.S. and Iran would be paused until the funeral ceremonies conclude on Thursday, saying both sides agreed to “take a week off” and that “neither