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Here’s where things stand on Monday 2 June 2025:
We’ll be closing this live page soon. Here’s a recap of the day’s major developments:
- Israel continued its relentless bombardment of the Gaza Strip, killing at least 54 people, while maintaining a strict blockade as a famine looms.
- Israeli tanks and drones opened fire on Palestinians gathered at aid distribution sites run by a Israel-and-US-backed group, killing more than 30 people as they searched desperately for food.
- Israeli forces completely destroyed the Noura al-Kaabi Dialysis Hospital, the only facility for dialysis patients in northern Gaza, which served more than 160 people after having been renovated and reopened just weeks ago.
- The United Nations said more than 632,000 Palestinians have been displaced since Israel broke the nearly two-month-old ceasefire with Hamas in Gaza on March 18.
- Mediators Qatar and Egypt announced renewed efforts to secure a ceasefire deal based on a US-backed proposal for a 60-day truce and the entry of humanitarian aid.
- Yemen’s Houthi rebels claimed responsibility for a ballistic missile attack on Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv, Israel. The missile was intercepted, authorities said.
Greta Thunberg: ‘Silence is more dangerous than sailing to Gaza’
A new Freedom Flotilla vessel is sailing towards Gaza to try to break Israel’s siege after the first mission was halted when a drone attack hit and damaged the ship in international waters.
Activist Greta Thunberg is on board the Freedom Flotilla mission, among 11 other international activists attempting to deliver humanitarian aid to Palestinians.
She said that silence is more dangerous than sailing to Gaza.
Israel demolishes record number of Palestinian buildings in East Jerusalem
The Israeli army demolished 33 Palestinian structures in occupied East Jerusalem last month, a record number this year.
The destroyed buildings included 16 residential units and 17 non-residential structures, Israeli rights group Ir Amim said in a statement.
The demolitions brought the number of Palestinian structures razed by Israel in the occupied city to 93 – with 23 buildings demolished in January, 15 in February, 14 in March and eight in April.
Israel widely uses the pretext of a lack of construction permits to tear down Palestinian homes, as only a small number of permits are issued for Palestinians in East Jerusalem annually.
‘World is watching’: UN experts demand safe passage for Freedom Flotilla
UN legal experts have called for the protection of a ship operated by the Freedom Flotilla Coalition as it sails to besieged Gaza carrying food, water and medical supplies.
“Aid is desperately needed for the people of Gaza to forestall annihilation, and this initiative is a symbolic and powerful effort to deliver it,” the UN experts said in a joint statement.
“Israel should remember that the world is watching closely and refrain from any act of hostility against the Freedom Flotilla Coalition and its passengers.”
The experts emphasised the legal right of Palestinians to receive aid through their own territorial waters, and of the vessel to navigate freely in international waters.
They voiced concern for the safety of those on board, referencing a previous Freedom Flotilla ship reportedly bombed by a drone off Malta’s coast in early May.
Israel has enforced a complete blockade on Gaza for 17 years, intensifying it since March 2, with aid almost entirely cut off.
A look at Israel’s targeted assault on the Gaza health sector
Israel has carried out an assault on Gaza’s healthcare sector, targeting hospitals and other medical facilities since its military bombardment began.
According to the latest update from the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA):
- The World Health Organization (WHO) documented 29 attacks on healthcare in Gaza between May 2 and 22.
- “According to WHO, at least 94 percent of hospitals in the Gaza Strip have been damaged or destroyed,” OCHA said.
- Between May 14-28, “four partially functional hospitals had to suspend operations” because of Israel’s attacks, bringing the number of partially functioning hospitals down to 18.
- Al-Awda Hospital – northern Gaza’s last functioning hospital – was repeatedly hit by Israel in May before the military ordered its closure last week.
For more on what happened at al-Awda Hospital, check out our story here.
Call for UN peacekeepers in Gaza to halt Israel’s starvation policy
UN legal experts have urged the General Assembly to invoke a 1950 UN resolution to deploy a peacekeeping force to Gaza to put an end to Israel’s “starvation and genocide”.
Calling the current situation “the most horrific” phase of the Gaza crisis, the experts urged the UN General Assembly to authorise peacekeepers to accompany humanitarian aid trucks under the “Uniting for Peace” mechanism.
Uniting for Peace – a resolution passed during the Korean War by the UN General Assembly – was designed to circumvent any Soviet veto that would have blocked the Security Council’s efforts to defend South Korea from North Korean aggression.
“Member states have a legal obligation and a moral imperative to stop starvation and genocide in Gaza,” the UN experts said.
Amnesty urges action to stop Israel’s use of starvation as weapon of war
Amnesty International says the recent killings of Palestinians at aid distribution points in Gaza harken back to the so-called “flour massacres” last year, “when desperate individuals seeking food were killed by Israel’s military”.
“Such deadly patterns must not be allowed to continue,” the rights group wrote on social media, calling for an independent probe into this week’s deadly violence.
Amnesty also stressed that humanitarian aid distribution “must be conducted through safe, dignified, and effective means” and “managed by professional humanitarian workers, not security contractors” – as is the case with the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.
“The international community, notably led by the USA, has permitted this appalling humanitarian catastrophe & genocide to unfold for far too long,” it added.
“The use of starvation of civilians as a method of war is a war crime that the global community must urgently put an end to.”
Genocide of the Palestinian people ‘starts with words’
Journalist Rula Jebreal says US media narratives have been complicit in the normalisation of Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people.
Death toll rises to 45 as Israel intensifies strikes on Gaza
At least 45 people have been killed in Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip since dawn, medical sources tell Al Jazeera.
The majority of those killed were in northern Gaza, including six children who died after a home was bombed in Jabalia.
Since Israel broke the ceasefire with Hamas on March 18, 4,201 Palestinians have been killed and 12,652 injured, mostly women and children, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry.
WFP says insecurity will remain unless Gaza sees surge in aid
The UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) says it cannot confirm reports that Palestinians have been gunned down while seeking food at an aid distribution site in Gaza, but the agency noted UN chief Guterres has called for an investigation into what happened.
“An estimated 2.1 million people are experiencing extreme hunger in Gaza, with many at risk of starvation. Unless we flood Gaza with food, insecurity and unrest will remain a challenge,” the WFP said.
US rights group denounces senator’s ‘hope they can swim’ post
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has warned that comments by US Senator Lindsey Graham about the aid flotilla heading for Gaza could signal “a green light” for Israel to attack the activists’ vessel.
Climate activist Greta Thunberg and Game of Thrones actor Liam Cunningham are among those joining the mission, which set sail from Italy to break Israel’s blockade.
On Sunday, Graham wrote on X: “Hope Greta and her friends can swim.” CAIR called his remarks “both inhumane and reckless”.
“By mocking peaceful, unarmed civilians risking their lives to deliver humanitarian aid, he is dehumanizing them and potentially signaling US sanction for Israel to repeat its past deadly state terrorism attacks on flotilla ships,” said Robert S McCaw, CAIR’s director of government affairs.
“These are not enemies, they are volunteers risking their lives. If Senator Graham has any sense of decency he should retract his statement and make clear that the United States does not condone violence against peaceful human rights defenders.”
Iran warns Israel over attack on its nuclear facilities
Iran has warned that Israel will “regret” any strikes on the country’s nuclear facilities as tensions rise between the two regional foes.
“Any threat against peaceful nuclear installations is a gross violation of international law,” Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi told a press conference in Cairo. “If Israel commits such a mistake, it will be the one to regret it.”
The Iranian minister accused Western powers of applying double standards regarding nuclear issues in the Middle East.
“Unfortunately, we have seen both official and unofficial Israeli figures threatening to use nuclear weapons in Gaza, yet the West has ignored these threats,” Araghchi said. “At the same time, they continue to pressure Iran over its peaceful nuclear programme.”
The top diplomat reiterated Iran is ready to provide assurances to any party concerned over its civilian nuclear efforts.
Houthis claim responsibility for missile attack near Tel Aviv
Yemen’s Houthi rebels have claimed responsibility for a ballistic missile attack that targeted Israel’s Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv.
Earlier, the Israeli army said the missile was intercepted by its air defence system.
Yahya Saree, spokesperson for the Houthis, said in a statement that the attack “successfully achieved its goal” and managed to halt air traffic and force Israelis into shelters.
The Houthis have previously launched missiles towards the airport. They have also attacked numerous vessels in the Red Sea linked to Israel and its allies in what they say are acts of solidarity with the besieged people of Gaza.
US congresswoman attacks UN chief over call to probe Gaza aid killings
Elise Stefanik, a US congresswoman, has attacked UN chief Antonio Guterres as an “anti-Semite”.
Stefanik – a staunch supporter of Israel – described as “outrageous” Guterres’s call for an independent investigation into the Israeli military’s deadly shootings of Palestinian aid seekers in Gaza over the past several days.
“This is outrageous and the culmination of morally bankrupt leadership as Secretary General of the UN,” she wrote on X.
As we’ve been reporting, the Health Ministry in Gaza says at least 75 Palestinians have been killed since the US- and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation began distributing limited food aid in Gaza last week.
Despite Israeli and US denials that Palestinians were shot dead while trying to get food parcels, witnesses have said Israeli soldiers opened fire on the crowds of desperate people.
Stefanik had been tapped by Trump to be the US ambassador to the UN, but her nomination was withdrawn in March to keep her congressional seat in the Republican Party’s hands.
Israeli forces storm Indonesian Hospital in northern Gaza
Israeli soldiers have raided the Indonesian Hospital in Beit Lahiya after medical staff and dozens of people, including critically ill patients, were forced to flee the facility.
Quoting witnesses, the Palestinian news agency Wafa said about 55 people, including a child in intensive care, were forced to leave the hospital after nearly 10 days without access to food or water.
The forced evacuation was carried out in coordination with international organisations, Wafa said, adding that it occurred during fears of incoming Israeli air strikes.
Witnesses said there are concerns Israeli forces may destroy the hospital, which has been targeted multiple times throughout the war, despite serving as one of the last functioning medical centres in northern Gaza.
Photos: Palestinians struggle to get food at community kitchen
Two killed in Israeli attack on house in Gaza City
A spokesperson for Gaza’s Civil Defence agency says people have also been injured in Israel’s bombardment of the house in the city’s Tal al-Hawa area.
The home belonged to the al-Nadim family, the spokesperson said in a post on Telegram.
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Let’s bring you up to speed on the latest developments:
- Gaza’s Health Ministry confirms 75 Palestinians have been killed since the US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) started its aid operations last week.
- The Israeli army has ordered Palestinians in several areas of Gaza’s Khan Younis city to immediately flee, warning that it “will operate with great force”.
- Israeli air strikes have killed at least two Palestinians and wounded several in central Gaza’s Deir el-Balah. At least 38 people have been killed since dawn in the enclave.
- A spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says Israeli authorities have prevented five UN missions from distributing potable water to displacement camps in Jabalia in northern Gaza.
- Matthew Miller, a US State Department spokesman under former President Joe Biden, has admitted it’s “without a doubt true that Israel has committed war crimes” in Gaza. His comments have drawn criticism that Miller refused to speak out while in office.
More survivor accounts of Israeli forces shooting Gaza civilians amid denials
Israel’s military, the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), and the US ambassador to Israel have all denied that desperate civilians in Gaza were gunned down while attempting to receive food aid.
One 33-year-old at the scene on Sunday told AFP news agency it was “before sunrise” when gunfire erupted as crowds gathered before heading to the GHF aid distribution site 1 kilometre (0.6 mile) away.
“Of course it was the Israeli army who shot live bullets,” said the witness, who declined to be named for fear of Israeli reprisals.
“Thousands of people were waiting at al-Alam roundabout … but the army fired and everyone ran away. There was fear and chaos. I saw with my own eyes martyrs and wounded in the area.”
Another witness in the crowd, Mohammed Abu Deqqa, 35, said, “At first, we thought they were warning shots. But it didn’t take long before the shooting intensified.
“I began to see people lying on the ground, covered in blood. That was around 5:30am. People started running, but many couldn’t escape. The bullets were chasing people even as they tried to flee.”
Palestinians face ‘systematic starvation, militarised aid’: UK charity
The United Kingdom-based charity Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) has slammed the US-and-Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation as “state violence disguised as humanitarianism”.
In a series of posts on X, the group said Gaza’s hospitals “are overwhelmed with blood supplies nearly exhausted, and staff pushed far beyond their limits” as a result of the Israeli blockade.
“MAP’s team at Nasser Hospital reports that the nutrition crisis is now so severe that it is preventing people from safely donating blood – a tragic and avoidable consequence of systematic starvation,” it said.
The organisation also called on the British government to suspend all weapons transfers to Israel as the country has “militarised aid”.
“The UK must help enforce a ceasefire, suspend all arms transfers to Israel, and support genuine accountability for attacks on civilians and the systemic denial of aid,” MAP said.
Jordan condemns incursion by Israelis into Al-Aqsa Mosque compound
Jordan denounced the storming of Al-Aqsa Mosque compound by Israeli settlers, condemning what it called “provocative and unacceptable actions” aimed at desecrating the holy site.
In a statement, Foreign Ministry spokesman Sufyan Qudah said repeated incursions, carried out under the protection of Israeli police, represent a flagrant violation of international law and threaten the status quo of the site.
A Jordan-appointed, Islamic authority known as the Jerusalem Waqf oversees the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, known to Muslims as al-Haram al-Sharif (the Noble Sanctuary).
Under Waqf management, only Muslims are allowed to pray at the compound.
Qudah reaffirmed the Waqf remains the sole legitimate authority responsible for overseeing Al-Aqsa Mosque and regulating access to the site.
Satellite analysis shows Israel ‘changed the shape’ of Gaza: Report
About 80 percent of Gaza is now classified as Israeli military-occupied or areas where displacement orders have been issued as the enclave’s 2.3 million people continue to be herded into a tiny area in the south, a new analysis shows.
Israeli officials have been unambiguous in their plan to push the entire Palestinian population into the border region with Egypt as they promote “voluntary migration”.
The United Kingdom’s Financial Times reported that critics of the forced mass displacement said it has been into a “desert wasteland with no running water, electricity or even hospitals” and represents clear-cut “ethnic cleansing”.
“The Financial Times analysed hundreds of these evacuation orders, including about 30 issued since Israel shattered a ceasefire with Hamas in March,” it said. “Taken together they illustrate how Israel – which has authorised its military to occupy the entire enclave – has changed the shape of Gaza, leaving less and less land for Palestinians.”
Satellite imagery shows Israel’s military clearing areas and setting them up for army outposts, indicating a long-term military occupation of Gaza, the report said.
‘Blood on his hands’: Ex-Biden official denounced for ‘war crimes’ admission
Raed Jarrar – advocacy director at DAWN, a Washington-based think-tank and advocacy group – says it’s “outrageous” that former US State Department spokesman Matthew Miller waited until he was out of office to admit Israel committed war crimes in Gaza.
As we reported earlier, Miller said during an interview with Sky News that it is “without a doubt true” that Israeli forces committed war crimes in the Palestinian territory.
“US officials who know atrocities are being committed and continue defending them from behind the podium are not neutral, they are complicit. Miller’s silence while in government helped Israel with its genocide. He has Palestinian blood on his hands,” Jarrar told Al Jazeera in an email.
“Anyone guilty of aiding and abetting genocide should be held accountable by the International Criminal Court or other international mechanisms.”
Israeli troops shoot another Palestinian teen near Nablus
Israeli forces have shot and injured a 17-year-old Palestinian boy during a raid on the town of Beit Furik, east of Nablus, in the occupied West Bank.
The Palestine Red Crescent Society reported its medical teams treated the teenager for gunshot wounds to both legs sustained during confrontations with Israeli soldiers.
Beit Furik has experienced repeated Israeli military incursions in recent days, the Wafa news agency said.
Guyana’s UN envoy says action needed to address Gaza aid crisis
Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett, Guyana’s representative at the United Nations, has been speaking to reporters in New York as she takes up her role as UN Security Council president for the month of June.
Rodrigues-Birkett said the South American country has been “vocal on Palestine” long before it joined the council, driven by a belief “that occupation is wrong, that colonisation is wrong, and that the self-determination of the people of Palestine must be exercised”.
“This is what we brought to the Security Council,” she said, adding Guyana is among several council members that have been “frustrated” by the UN body’s inaction as Israel continues its bombardment of Gaza.
“We will continue to exert our efforts to work towards a solution; in the immediate term, a ceasefire,” Rodrigues-Birkett added.
“We are extremely concerned about the humanitarian situation and the aid blockade in Gaza at this point in time, and we’re hoping that we will have some movement on this at scale in the not-so-distant future. This should have been in place since long before yesterday.”
Israeli forces detain 3 Palestinians near Ramallah
Israeli forces have arrested three Palestinians at the entrance to the village of Nabi Saleh, north of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank.
The arrests are part of a broader Israeli military campaign that has intensified since Israel’s war on Gaza began. According to the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society, Israeli forces have detained more than 17,000 Palestinians across the West Bank since October 7, 2023, including women, children and journalists.
While many have been released during prisoner-captive exchange deals between Israel and Hamas, thousands are still being held under harsh conditions.
The majority of these arrests have occurred during nightly raids on homes and public spaces, often accompanied by reports of abuse, property destruction and the use of administrative detention, a widely criticised practice that allows for imprisonment without charge or trial.
Missile fired from Yemen intercepted: Israel army
Israel’s military says a missile launched from Yemen has been intercepted by its air defence systems.
Minutes earlier, air raid alert sirens rang out in central Israel.
Last month, Yemen’s Houthi rebels fired a “hypersonic ballistic missile” at Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv, narrowly missing a control tower but damaging a roadway to the facility.
The Houthis have also attacked numerous vessels in the Red Sea linked to Israel and its allies in what they say are acts of solidarity with the besieged people of Gaza.
MSF slams new US-backed aid mechanism in Gaza
Doctors Without Borders has condemned the killing of dozens of Palestinians near a food distribution site in Rafah, calling it a “massacre”.
The killings are a direct result of a “dehumanising, dangerous and severely ineffective” aid system backed by the US and Israel, said the aid group, which is known by its French acronym MSF.
MSF said its teams at Nasser Hospital received people who sustained serious wounds as a result of Israeli gunfire.
“MSF reinforces that, along with displacement orders and bombing campaigns that kill civilians, weaponising aid in this manner may constitute crimes against humanity.”
Israeli army says missile launched from Yemen
The military says Israel’s defence systems are working to intercept the missile that was launched towards Israeli territory.
We’ll bring you more on this when we can.
Israeli forces kill Palestinian teenager near Ramallah
Israeli forces shot and killed Yousef Fuad Abdel Karim Faqha, 14, in the town of Sinjil northeast of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank.
Faqha succumbed to his wounds after being shot by Israeli troops, and the Israeli military is holding his body, Wafa news agency reported.
Witnesses said Israeli forces later raided the home of a nearby resident, Ayed Ghafri, and erased footage from security cameras in the area where the boy was shot dead.
UN says Israel blocked effort to bring clean water to northern Gaza
A spokesperson for United Nations chief Antonio Guterres says Israeli authorities have prevented five United Nations missions from distributing potable water to displacement camps in Jabalia.
Stephane Dujarric told reporters at UN headquarters in New York City that an attempt by the UN to collect humanitarian supplies from the Karem Abu Salem (Kerem Shalom) crossing into Gaza was also denied today.
“Another [attempt] is still ongoing, awaiting a green light from Israeli authorities, a pause in the bombing along the route, and the allocation of a viable path,” he said.
Dujarric added that even when the crossing is open, “severe restrictions on what we can bring in – both in terms of volume and variety – means it’s still just a trickle of what people actually need”.
US criticised for ‘ridiculous’ aid moves in starved Gaza
As the Gaza Strip faces an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe because of Israeli attacks and blockades, growing criticism has been directed at multiple failed attempts made by the United States to get aid into the besieged enclave.
Despite high-profile announcements and costly logistical initiatives, observers say Washington has done little to alleviate the suffering of Palestinians in Gaza.
“The US has continually failed to ensure that proper levels of aid reach Palestinians right from the start and even before October 7 when Gaza was under blockade,” Chris Doyle, director of the Council for Arab-British Understanding, told Anadolu news agency.
“The very fact that the US had to resort to airdrops and that ridiculous pier is an indicator of the extreme lengths that they would go to avoid having to put pressure on Israel to allow aid in.”
Hamas slams Israeli destruction of Gaza dialysis centre
The Palestinian group says the destruction is “yet another crime in the systemic targeting and destruction” of Gaza’s health sector.
As we reported earlier, witnesses filmed Israeli military excavators in northern Gaza demolishing the Noura al-Kaabi Kidney Dialysis Centre – the only specialised facility in the bombarded coastal enclave.
“The fascist occupation government continues its policy of targeting all aspects of life in the Gaza Strip, including hospitals and medical centres, as part of the brutal war of extermination” against Palestinians, Hamas said in a statement.
“Tens of thousands of patients – including women, children, and the elderly – today lack any medical care or centres for treating chronic and incurable diseases, especially kidney failure, cancer, and other diseases due to the humanitarian catastrophe created by the occupation in the Strip.”
Hamas also condemned Washington for providing “political and military cover” to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government to continue its violations of international law.
Israeli settlers storm village near Bethlehem
A group of Israeli settlers have stormed the Khalayel al-Louz area southeast of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank, surrounding the home of resident Ibrahim Abayat.
Quoting security sources, the Wafa news agency said the incursion sparked fear among the town’s residents.
The area has been subject to repeated attacks by settlers and Israeli forces, the latest of which included the demolition of a house and a sheep barn.
Settler violence across the West Bank has surged in recent months with Palestinians reporting frequent raids, vandalism and physical assaults. These attacks often occur under the protection of Israeli soldiers.
Israeli forces arrest brothers after raiding village near Jenin
Israeli forces have arrested two Palestinian brothers during a raid on the village of Misilyah, southeast of Jenin, in the occupied West Bank.
Local official Imad Abu al-Rub told the Wafa news agency that Israeli soldiers in several army vehicles stormed the village, searched multiple homes, and detained Abdul Aziz and Qassem Mohammed Abu Naim from a family residence.
Israeli military incursions across the West Bank, particularly in and around Jenin, have intensified significantly since the start of the war on Gaza in October 2023.
Jenin in particular has become a focal point as the city and its refugee camp have long been centres of Palestinian resistance.
The raids have resulted in the killing of scores of Palestinians, including children, and the displacement of thousands of families. They have also caused major damage to civilian infrastructure, such as houses, roads and medical facilities.
More Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks on central, southern Gaza
Israeli air strikes have killed at least two Palestinians and wounded several others in central Gaza’s Deir el-Balah, the Palestinian news agency Wafa reports.
Meanwhile, a medical source at Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza’s Khan Younis said another Palestinian was killed in an Israeli drone strike in the city’s north.
Separately, several people were wounded after an Israeli air strike targeted an apartment building in the al-Amal neighbourhood, west of Khan Younis.
At least 38 people have been killed in Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip since dawn – 27 in the north of the Strip, medical sources told Al Jazeera.
Israel orders more Gaza civilians to flee Khan Younis
Israel’s army has ordered Palestinians in several areas of Gaza’s Khan Younis city to immediately flee for their lives.
The military “will operate with great force in the areas where you are present”, army spokesman Avichay Adraee said in a statement.
The order does not include al-Amal Hospital, he added.
Israel’s military has followed up previous displacement orders with heavy air strikes and troop deployments in those areas.
US embassy in Israel accuses media of spreading ‘misinformation’
The US embassy in Israel has issued a statement criticising what it calls “media misinformation” related to Israeli military attacks on Gaza civilians seeking humanitarian relief.
The statement named The New York Times, CNN and The Associated Press, saying their reporting on Palestinians killed at aid distribution points run by the Israel-US-backed GHF was “false”.
“Drone video and first-hand accounts clearly showed that there were no injuries, no fatalities, no shooting, no chaos,” US Ambassador Mike Huckabee said in the statement.
“We are demanding an immediate retraction of the lies and are appealing to all media sources to act with objective professionalism to cover actual events instead of being a partner of terrorism by blindly following Hamas news releases,” it added.
Dozens of aid seekers have been killed or wounded while trying to get food from GHF distribution points over the past week while Israel maintains a crippling blockade on the bombarded enclave, where a famine looms.
‘They knew’: Biden administration official admits Israel committing war crimes
Matthew Miller, the US State Department spokesman under former President Joe Biden, has told UK broadcaster Sky News it is “without a doubt true that Israel has committed war crimes” in Gaza.
Miller, who spent more than a year justifying Washington’s unwavering support for Israel despite mounting evidence it was violating international law in Gaza, said it was an “open question” whether the Israeli state “has pursued a policy of deliberately committing war crimes”.
“I think what is … almost certainly not an open question is that there have been individual incidents that have been war crimes, where Israeli soldiers and members of the Israeli military have committed war crimes,” Miller said, adding that Israeli soldiers have not been held accountable.
Responding to the interview, Matt Duss, executive vice president at the Center for International Policy think tank, said the Biden administration deceived the American people.
“They misled the public and the Congress because Biden wanted to keep sending weapons” to Israel, Duss wrote on social media. “I’m glad Miller is speaking up now, even if it’s late. We need to hear from more of his colleagues, because once again: They all knew.”
From the start of the war in October 2023 to when Biden left office on January 20, his administration funnelled billions of dollars in military assistance to Israel despite reports US weapons were being used in deadly attacks on Palestinian civilians.
US laws prohibit arming countries engaged in human rights abuses. But advocates said Biden’s administration skewed the facts and denied well-documented Israeli violations.
You can read more about the Biden administration’s stance in our story from March last year here.
Freedom Flotilla on its way to Gaza as critics call for ship to sink
Critics, including US officials, are calling for the Freedom Flotilla Coalition’s new mission to fail as 12 volunteers, including Swedish activist Greta Thunberg, are on board its ship.
The flotilla is trying to break the Israeli blockade of Gaza.
Hamas condemns incursion by Israelis into Al-Aqsa Mosque compound
The Palestinian group says the move is a “crime and a blatant violation of the sanctity of Al-Aqsa Mosque” in the Old City of occupied East Jerusalem.
The Palestinian news agency Wafa reported earlier that Israelis performed prayers “at the gates of Al-Aqsa Mosque” under Israeli police protection.
A Jordan-appointed, Islamic authority known as the Jerusalem Waqf oversees the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, known to Muslims as al-Haram al-Sharif (the Noble Sanctuary).
Under Waqf management, only Muslims are allowed to pray at the compound.
‘People come in search of bread only to be gunned down’
The UK-based charity Islamic Relief has condemned the worsening humanitarian crisis in Gaza, calling the new aid sites run by the Israel- and US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) “death traps”.
“People come in search of bread only to be gunned down, arrested or humiliated,” the group said in a statement.
“Many more people across Gaza will soon die from hunger and disease unless international governments urgently put meaningful pressure on Israel to fully end its siege, reopen all crossings and allow large-scale, safe and unimpeded humanitarian access.”
The charity also criticised the GHF-run system, saying it “violates all core humanitarian principles and is putting even more lives in danger”.
“Palestinians and humanitarian agencies have repeatedly warned that the controversial new GHF system is not about getting aid to people and saving lives – it’s about weaponising aid and entrenching Israeli control,” it added.
Israeli army ‘escalation a pattern’ against hungry Gaza civilians at aid sites
There was another bloody incident this morning where three Palestinians were killed, more than 30 injured near one of the designated aid distribution points by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation in southern Rafah.
Gaza’s Health Ministry has confirmed 75 Palestinians have now been killed since the US-backed foundation started its controversial operations last week. The UN has refused to take part in such a chaotic mechanism for aid distribution.
We’ve been working on the ground to gather firsthand accounts from eyewitnesses on what they saw. One told me all routes to the designated points are guarded by quadcopter drones and snipers in nearby hills.
The Israeli military opened fire on civilians trying to get their hands on any kind of food aid without any kind of warning. This is a pattern that’s been widely condemned by international aid organisations because it enhances the breakdown of civil order without ensuring humanitarian relief can be received by those desperately in need.
We’re getting reports that escalation continues every time people get close to these aid sites.
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- At least 38 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli raids on the Gaza Strip since dawn, sources tell Al Jazeera, as Israel’s attacks continue across the enclave.
- Six children are among the 14 Palestinians killed in an Israeli attack on a home in northern Gaza, the Palestinian Civil Defence agency says.
- An official from the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) slams the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid scheme, telling Al Jazeera that Palestinians are being treated like “herded animals in pens”.
- UN chief Antonio Guterres says he’s “appalled” by recent deadly violence at aid distribution points, calling for an independent investigation.
- Nearly 550 Palestinian women have been arrested by Israel’s forces since its war on Gaza began, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Media Office says.
Israeli government’s goal remains ‘ethnic cleansing’ in Gaza
Political analyst Xavier Abu Eid says the international response to Israel’s war on Gaza has been “horrible” and lacking any concrete action.
“And we should not take things out of context,” Abu Eid told Al Jazeera. “The Israeli government has been very clear with regards to what their plan is about in Gaza. It is about ethnic cleansing.”
He explained that, as the occupying power in Gaza, Israel has a responsibility under international humanitarian law to provide for the needs of the population under its control.
Referring to the limited aid being delivered to Palestinians via the Israeli- and US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), Abu Eid said it is understandable for Palestinians to be wary of the scheme.
A number of aid seekers have been killed or wounded while attempting to get food from GHF distribution points over the past days.
“Of course people are not going to trust the same two parties who have been largely responsible for this ongoing genocide,” Abu Eid said, referring to Israel and the US.
Doctors struggling to treat patients amid lack of supplies
Reporting from Deir el-Balah, central Gaza
Today, 35 Palestinians were shot with live ammunition and transferred to the hospital.
Doctors are saying the first thing they do is prioritise cases. They do not have equipment – the gauze, the gloves, the painkillers – and it’s very hard for them to treat the wounds of those Palestinians.
Most of Gaza’s hospitals are suffocating. It’s not only the food security situation that is lacking; it is also the medical supplies.
Germany decries Israeli settlement expansion plan in occupied West Bank
Germany has condemned Israeli plans to expand settlements in the occupied West Bank, describing the move as “unacceptable”.
“We call on the Israeli government to halt the expansion of the settlements but, above all, the practice of land seizure, destruction of homes and expulsion of the Palestinian population,” Foreign Office spokesperson Josef Hinterseher said at a news briefing in Berlin.
Germany views the Israeli announcement “as unacceptable because it runs counter to a two-state solution” and it “naturally rejects any annexation efforts”.
The settlements are illegal under international law, but last week, the Israeli government said it will establish 22 settlements on Palestinian land in the West Bank. That plan includes the “legalisation” of some outposts already built without government authorisation.
Photos: Aftermath of Israeli attack on Deir el-Balah
In Gaza, aid kills
Today, three Palestinians have been killed and 35 wounded by Israeli fire near an aid distribution centre in the Gaza Strip’s southern city of Rafah.
If the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’s Gaza debut is any indication, the militarised distribution of food will continue to provide opportunities for mass killing as crowds of starving Palestinians gather around aid hubs.
The phrase “shooting fish in a barrel” comes to mind – as if the Gaza Strip weren’t enough of a barrel already.
To be sure, the idea of luring starving people to specific geographical points to facilitate Israel’s genocidal conquest is singularly diabolical.
And as the US persists in enabling Israel’s fish-in-a-barrel approach, any remotely moral world would refuse to stomach the arrangement any longer.
Read more of this opinion piece here.
Family mourns father of 6 killed near Rafah aid point in Gaza
At Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, the family of 37-year-old Hussam Wafi, a father of six who was killed near the Rafah aid distribution point on Sunday, gathered to bid him farewell before his burial.
“The US and Israel, what do they tell us? Go and get your food and water, and the aid. When the aid arrives, they hit us. Is this fair?” Wafi’s brother Ali told Reuters.
Meanwhile, Wafi’s neighbour, Abu Youssef, told Reuters that the victims were “going peacefully” when they were killed.
“They went to get food and water for their children, to get a can of hummus or fava beans, a box or whatever is available, and they got shot, they died,” he said.
Israel demolishes Gaza’s only kidney dialysis centre
Witnesses have filmed Israeli military excavators in northern Gaza demolishing the Noura al-Kaabi Kidney Dialysis Centre – the only specialised facility in Gaza.
It is the latest medical facility Israel has destroyed or blocked off as it forces Gaza’s population to the south.
Gaza death toll rises again
At least 38 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli raids on the Strip since dawn today, sources tell Al Jazeera.
Of them, 27 people were killed in northern Gaza. Israel’s war on Gaza has killed more than 54,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children, according to the Health Ministry.
UN chief ‘appalled’ by deaths of Palestinians seeking aid
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says he is appalled by reports of Palestinian casualties while seeking aid in Gaza.
He called for an independent investigation.
“It is unacceptable that Palestinians are risking their lives for food,” Guterres said in a statement.
Nearly 550 Palestinian women arrested by Israeli forces since Gaza war erupted: Prisoners’ group
The Palestinian Prisoners’ Media Office has released a statement on the latest situation of female Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails:
Here is a summary of what they said:
- 47 female prisoners are being held in Israeli prisons, including a child and two pregnant women.
- 545 women have been arrested since October 7, 2023, excluding those detained in Gaza.
- Testimonies document repeated beatings, threats, starvation, and isolation.
- Most of the charges relate to “incitement”, and eight female prisoners are being held administratively under secret detention.
- Women are being used as hostages to pressure those being persecuted.
- Poor and substandard food leads to illness and severe weight loss.
Israeli soldiers next to armoured vehicles during a military raid in the West Bank city of Nablus, May 27, 2025
Boulder, Colorado, attack on rally in support of Gaza captives: What we know
Eight people have been injured in an attack on a group of people in the United States city of Boulder, Colorado, who were campaigning for the release of captives held by Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups in Gaza.
Police arrested a man who on Sunday allegedly threw incendiary devices towards people. The FBI said it was investigating the attack as an “act of terror”.
In a social media post, Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar described the attack as an anti-Semitic act.
Read more here.
Gaza’s daily death toll rises again
At least 32 Palestinians have been killed across the coastal enclave since dawn, health officials at Nasser, al-Ahli and al-Shifa hospitals tell Al Jazeera.
Earlier, we reported at least 14 people were killed in an Israeli attack on a home in northern Gaza’s Jabalia al-Balad area.
UNRWA calls for safe passage, open borders for critical aid distribution
To carry out an orderly food distribution operation across Gaza, conditions on the ground must be created similar to what they were during the nearly two-month ceasefire that Israel broke in March, according to UNRWA’s chief in Gaza, Sam Rose.
“We need exactly what UNRWA and the World Food Programme and others were able to do during the ceasefire … We need safe passage. We need an opening of the border … and we need to use our established distribution networks,” he said.
Warning against delays, he said, “One thing you don’t do in a crisis is start afresh. We do not have the time. The people of Gaza do not have the time.”
Rose said UNRWA has “the infrastructure to do it. We need to be allowed to do our jobs.”
Six children among 14 killed in attack on northern Gaza home: Civil Defence
Earlier, we reported citing Gaza’s Civil Defence that two Palestinians were killed in an Israeli attack on the al-Barash family home on Old Gaza Street in the northern area of Jabalia al-Balad.
Mahmoud Basal, spokesman for the rescue service, says the death toll has now reached 14, including six children and three women.
More than 20 missing are still under the rubble, he added.
Armed wing of Hamas claims attack on Israeli forces in southern Gaza
Qassam Brigades fighters have targeted a group of Israeli soldiers east of the southern town of al-Qarara with 13 mortar shells of 120mm and 60mm calibres, the group says, without elaborating on the results.
The attack took place on May 31, the group said in a statement on Telegram.
Separately, on the same day, the Israeli military’s Ein al-Thalatha site east of the city was targeted with three short-range Rajum missiles, it added without reporting on the results.
Gaza reduced to ‘herded animals in pens’: UNRWA official
Speaking on the recent killings at GHF’s aid distribution points, the acting director of UNRWA in Gaza has described the situation in the coastal enclave as “horrific”.
“What’s happened over the last couple of days in a war … that we thought couldn’t plumb to new depths and things couldn’t get any worse, we’re seeing a new side of that,” Sam Rose told Al Jazeera from Oxford, UK.
“This is what people have been reduced to, literally to herded animals in pens,” he said.
Rose warned that if “these scenes” did not prompt action from those “that have the influence to take action, then we’re lost”.
“We cannot comprehend any more what’s going on, what people are being put through in Gaza. It’s completely unimaginable and completely unacceptable,” he added
Gaza death toll rises
At least 51 Palestinians have been killed and 503 injured in Israeli attacks across Gaza in the past 24 hours, according to the enclave’s Health Ministry.
The body of a person killed in a previous Israeli attack was also recovered from the rubble in the war-torn territory, the ministry said.
The total death toll from Israel’s war on Gaza has risen to 54,470 killed and 124,693 injured since October 7, 2023, it said.
Israel has killed 4,201 Palestinians and injured 12,652 since breaking a ceasefire in March this year.
The number of aid seekers killed since May 27 has also risen to 75, following the killing of 35 people yesterday, the ministry said. The total number of aid seekers injured crossed 400, it said.
Israel prevents rescuers from reaching injured people near Rafah aid point
Palestinians were gathering in groups and trying to approach distribution points to see if any food would be delivered or handed out. As they moved closer to the distribution site, Israeli forces opened fire, killing three Palestinians.
Doctors treating the wounded reported that most injuries were caused by live ammunition. It is unclear whether the shots came from Israeli quadcopters or soldiers on the ground.
According to the Civil Defence teams, most of those injured are in serious or critical condition. The Civil Defence teams also stated that Israeli forces are preventing them from reaching and rescuing more of the injured since this morning.
If you’re just joining us
Here are the latest developments:
- At least four Palestinians have been killed after Israeli forces attacked a tent in southern Gaza’s al-Mawasi area near Khan Younis, according to Al Jazeera’s Hind Khoudary, reporting from Deir el-Balah.
- Marwan al-Hams, the director of field hospitals at Gaza’s Health Ministry, tells our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic that most of the enclave’s hospitals will soon shut down due to fuel shortages.
- Claire Menara, an emergency coordinator with Doctors Without Borders, at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, says the staff are working in dire conditions, facing severe shortages of medical supplies.
- Al Jazeera Arabic is reporting that Israeli forces have demolished the wall of the European Gaza Hospital in Khan Younis while also carrying out bulldozing activities in the vicinity of the hospital.
- UK PM Keir Starmer says the situation in Gaza is getting “worse by the day” and that it is important to ensure it receives more humanitarian aid urgently.
Smoke billows over buildings in north Gaza, seen from southern Israel, June 2, 2025
Gaza hospitals face imminent shutdown as fuel shortages worsen
Marwan al-Hams, the director of field hospitals at Gaza’s Health Ministry, has provided our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic with an update about the dire healthcare situation in the coastal enclave.
Here are his translated comments:
- Most hospitals will soon shut down due to fuel shortages.
- We cannot provide a single morsel of bread for hospital patients or doctors.
- We call on the world to provide protection for the hospitals in the Gaza Strip.
Hospital in southern Gaza overwhelmed amid ongoing Israeli attacks: MSF
Claire Menara, an emergency coordinator with Doctors Without Borders (MSF) at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, says the staff are working in dire conditions, facing severe shortages of medical supplies.
“There is no room for all of the patients. We have patients in corridors… and more come in today, dead and wounded,” she told Al Jazeera.
“The cases are critical, and we don’t have enough supplies to treat them because of the [Israeli] blockade that has been going on now since March 2.”
Menara added that hospital staff were donating their own blood to help keep patients alive.
“We can’t continue like this. We need an immediate and sustained ceasefire and to be able to give aid at scale,” she added.
PIJ’s armed wing claims to have shelled Israeli soldiers in Gaza’s Khan Younis
The armed wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), the al-Quds Brigades, says its fighters have ambushed a group of Israeli soldiers and vehicles in southern Gaza.
The troops had penetrated the vicinity of the customs police area southeast of Khan Younis when they were attacked with mortar shells, the group said in a statement on Telegram, without elaborating on the results.
The attack was carried out in cooperation with the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades – a Palestinian armed group associated with the Fatah movement, the announcement said.
Photos: Palestinians in Gaza mourn loved ones
Israel kills 4 displaced people in southern Gaza’s al-Mawasi
Four Palestinians have been killed and dozens more injured after a tent in the al-Mawasi area, near Khan Younis, was hit by an Israeli attack.
Israel has designated al-Mawasi as a safe humanitarian zone, where most of the population of Rafah and Khan Younis has now been squeezed due to continuous evacuation orders.
The makeshift tents are very close to each other. Some caught fire after the attack.
The injured Palestinians are being treated for burns caused by the artillery shelling that struck the tent.
Palestinians are aware that al-Mawasi has been targeted multiple times, but say there is simply nowhere else for them to go, as most of their homes in the eastern parts of Khan Younis are now in an evacuation zone.
Three aid seekers killed in Rafah: Gaza Media Office
At least three “starving civilians” have been killed and 35 others injured near a US-backed aid distribution centre in southern Gaza’s Rafah area, the enclave’s Government Media Office confirmed.
The latest Israeli violence against aid seekers has brought the total number of people killed in Rafah and the so-called Netzarim Corridor in central Gaza while waiting for food to 52, since Israel’s new aid mechanism started operations on May 27, the statement said.
The office added that at least 340 people were injured since that date.
Israel continues “the policy of starvation and systematic targeting of civilians for 93 days”, the statement said.
GHF claims to have distributed aid in Rafah ‘without incident’
Without addressing the reports of three killings and dozens of injuries among aid seekers near its facility, Israel’s US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation claimed to have handed out thousands of aid boxes in southern Gaza’s Rafah area “without incident”.
The GHF statement cited by The Times of Israel newspaper, said that “21 truckloads of food”, or 18,720 boxes, were handed out to aid seekers in the first two hours after the Rafah aid distribution site opened today.
“Operations … were once again smooth and no security incidents occurred. Aid was distributed without incident despite ongoing acute needs in the Strip,” GHF claimed.
Israel dares global community to intervene in new settlement project
Israel says its settlement expansion is to “prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state”, as it announced 22 new settlements in the occupied West Bank.
Palestinian lawyer Diana Buttu says Israeli officials are daring the world to stop them.
Palestinian child succumbs to injuries sustained in Deir el-Balah attack: Report
A child, Mohammad Hussein Aqeilan, has died of wounds he sustained when Israeli warplanes bombed his family’s home in Deir el-Balah two days ago, Wafa reports.
The agency did not give his age, but said his whole family was wiped out and erased from the Palestinian civil registry.
Israeli forces arrest at least 9 Palestinians in West Bank’s Dura city
Israeli forces have arrested nine Palestinians during a raid in Dura city, south of Hebron, according to the Wafa news agency, citing security sources.
The report said the troops raided the homes of those arrested, searched and ransacked their contents, and stormed the towns of ad-Dhahiriya, as-Samu, Beit Ummar, and several neighbourhoods in the city of Hebron.
Child killed in Israeli attack on Gaza City
Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic are reporting that a Palestinian child has been killed in Tal al-Hawa, southwest of Gaza City.
The victim’s age or name is not known.
Earlier, we reported that at least five Palestinians have been killed since morning, according to local medical sources.
Israeli attacks continue across Gaza
Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic are reporting that an unspecified number of Palestinians were injured in an Israeli attack on a house in the al-Barakah area, south of Deir el-Balah, in central Gaza.
Several people were also wounded as a result of Israeli artillery shelling in the Tuffah neighbourhood, east of Gaza City.
If you’re just joining us
Here are the latest developments:
- At least three Palestinians have been killed and 35 wounded in an attack on aid seekers at the US-backed aid distribution point in southern Gaza’s Rafah.
- Cindy McCain, the executive director of the World Food Programme, has urged Israel to grant the agency access to the Gaza Strip “so we can do our job”.
- German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has spoken to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the phone, urging him to allow more emergency aid into Gaza.
- Gabriel Boric has promised to step up the pressure against Israel over its war in Gaza during his government’s last nine months in office.
At least 5 Palestinians killed in Gaza since morning: Medical sources
Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic, citing sources at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, have reported that at least five Palestinians were killed in the Gaza Strip since dawn.
We will bring you more as further information becomes available.
Aid distribution being sabotaged by Israeli forces: PNGO chief
Amjad Shawa, head of the Palestinian NGO Network (PNGO), has spoken to our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic about the US-backed Israeli aid distribution system currently in place in the coastal enclave.
Here are his translated comments:
- The so-called aid centres are merely military outposts serving the agenda of the Israeli occupation.
- The occupation is working to sabotage the previous aid distribution systems.
- The deterioration of humanitarian conditions in the Gaza Strip is unprecedented worldwide.
- The occupation caused famine to force people to seek aid centres.
- The occupation forces shoot at civilians near aid centres with the intent to kill.
US envoy says France can ‘carve’ Palestinian state out of Riviera
Mike Huckabee, the US’s ambassador to Israel, has lashed out at France’s advocacy for recognition of a Palestinian state ahead of a UN conference aimed at resurrecting the idea of a two-state solution.
France is co-chairing that conference along with Saudi Arabia this month.
It also says it could recognise a Palestinian state itself this year.
Huckabee, in an interview with Fox News, called the initiative at the UN “incredibly inappropriate when Israel is in the midst of a war”.
“October 7 changed a lot of things,” he said.
“If France is really so determined to see a Palestinian state, I’ve got a suggestion for them — carve out a piece of the French Riviera and create a Palestinian state. They are welcome to do that, but they are not welcome to impose that kind of pressure on a sovereign nation.”
Israeli attacks near aid points part of tactic to pressure Palestinians: Health official
Muhammad al-Mughayyir, the director of the medical supplies for Gaza’s Civil Defence, has spoken to our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic on the recent Israeli attacks near aid centres.
Here are his translated comments:
- The Israeli occupation is adept at killing and targeting civilians near aid centres.
- The occupation confines the population to narrow areas to pressure the Palestinians.
‘This is famine parallel to genocide’
Gaza’s civilians face impossible choices: risk Israeli drone strikes at US-backed aid sites or starve as food prices soar and markets empty.
The new Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, replacing UNRWA, is accused of weaponising aid, with distribution points becoming “death traps”.
Hospitals battle malnutrition-induced anaemia, leaving even blood donors too weak to contribute.
“This is famine parallel to genocide,” says one woman, describing hours-long queues for scraps of food.
Instead of bread, ‘they gave him a bullet in his head’
We’ve been covering Israel’s continued attacks on Palestinians who gather at the aid distribution sites run by the US-backed GHF.
Among those wounded on Sunday was Shuaib Abu Tayr, a father of four.
He was shot in the head and is now “between life and death” at the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, according to his sister-in-law Asmaa Abu Salah.
“He went for food and drinks for his children. His children need food, [they say] ‘we want food, dad’. This is the most difficult word,” she said.
“He went to get aid [distributed by] the US. He went to get a loaf of bread. Instead of giving him a loaf of bread, they [Israelis] gave him a bullet in his head … We responded to the US forces to come for aid, in order for [Palestinians] to get flour and food for the children and the young people, all of us are dying of hunger.”
Israel’s deadly attacks on Gaza hospitals
The destruction of the Noura Al-Kaabi Kidney Dialysis Centre is the latest Israeli assault on a medical facility in Gaza.
Israel has bombed and burned at least 36 hospitals across the Strip since the war began, according to officials, despite the fact that such attacks are considered a war crime under the 1949 Geneva Convention.
Here are some of the worst attacks:
- Al-Ahli Hospital: Hundreds of people sheltering in the car park of the facility were killed in an attack in October 2023. In the days leading up to the incident, the hospital director reportedly received warnings from Israel.
- Al-Awda Hospital: An Israeli air raid in November 2023 killed Dr Mahmoud Abu Nujaila and Dr Ahmad al-Sahar of Doctors Without Borders (MSF), and another doctor, Ziad al-Tatari. Israeli forces raided the hospital the following month and detained Dr Adnan Al Bursh, who later died in Israeli custody.
- Al-Shifa Medical Complex: Israeli forces stormed the hospital in November 2023, killing at least 25 Palestinians, including three medical workers, and leaving it non-functional. They stormed the hospital a second time in March of last year, killing at least 22 people, according to the UN. After they withdrew, three mass graves were found and at least 80 corpses were retrieved.
- Nasser Medical Complex: Israeli forces laid siege to the facility for more than a week in February last year, killing dozens who approached the site, and then stormed it and arrested more than 200 people. At least eight patients reportedly died during the siege. This year, Israeli forces also bombed the hospital’s emergency department and a media tent there, killing several people.
- Kamal Adwan Hospital: The Israeli military laid siege to and raided the facility in December, killing at least 20 Palestinians and arresting more than 240, including its director, Dr Hussam Abu Safia.
Germany’s Merz urges Netanyahu to let more aid into Gaza
The dpa news agency is reporting that German Chancellor Friedrich Merz spoke to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the phone on Sunday and urged him to let in more emergency aid into the Gaza Strip.
Following the call, a spokesman for Merz said that “it was urgent that Israel immediately allow sufficient humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip and to ensure its safe distribution”, the agency reported.
The report came as international criticism grows of Israeli forces shooting and killing desperate aid seekers at aid distribution points run by the US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.
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