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Here’s where things stand on Friday 6 June 2025:
- The Israeli military continued its deadly attacks across the Gaza Strip, including in Jabalia and Khan Younis.
- The Israeli military issued new forced evacuation orders for parts of northern Gaza, as displaced families say they have nowhere safe to go.
- The spokesperson for Hamas’s armed wing, the Qassam Brigades, hailed the group’s attacks against Israeli forces in Gaza, including a recent incident in Khan Younis, which the Israeli army said killed four soldiers.
- French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot said France is “determined” to recognise a Palestinian state, but stopped short of saying the move will happen at an upcoming UN conference co-hosted by France and Saudi Arabia.
- The UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) reiterated a call for unimpeded humanitarian access to Gaza as the population faces the continued threat of famine.
- At least 226 journalists have been killed in Gaza since the war began, Gaza’s Government Media Office said, after Al Arabiya TV cameraman Ahmed Qaljah was confirmed killed earlier today.
- Israel carried out a series of strikes in the south of the Lebanese capital Beirut, in what Lebanon’s president decried as a “blatant” violation of Israel’s ceasefire with Hezbollah.
- The Trump administration announced sanctions against four International Criminal Court judges, citing the court’s role in probing alleged Israeli atrocities in Gaza and issuing an arrest warrant for Netanyahu.
- Netanyahu admitted that his government was coordinating with “clans” in Gaza are part of an effort to weaken Hamas. Some of those clans have been accused of stealing humanitarian aid.
- International medical organisations such as Doctors Without Borders and the World Health Organization have warned that Israeli displacement orders could cause Nasser Hospital to cease functioning, warning that closing the facility would be a “death sentence” for at-risk patients.
US considering giving $500m to contentious Gaza aid group: Report
The Reuters news agency is reporting that the Trump administration is mulling whether to give the massive funding boost to the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) despite deadly violence and chaos linked to the aid scheme.
Citing two unnamed sources with knowledge of the matter and two unnamed former US officials, Reuters reported that its sources said the funds would come from the US Agency for International Development (USAID), which is being folded into the US State Department.
Trump has overseen massive funding cuts to USAID programmes around the world.
As we’ve been reporting, the Gaza government media office said at least 110 Palestinians have been killed while trying to get desperately needed food and other assistance at GHF aid distribution sites in the enclave.
Israel’s starvation of Gaza should come as no surprise: Expert
Noah Sylvia, a research analyst at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) in the UK, writes that the Israeli policy of starvation should instead be viewed as “a logical conclusion of a campaign aimed at the destruction of life in the Strip”.
The Israeli military “has attempted to destroy every facet of life in Gaza, from eradicating infrastructure to mass killings of Palestinians”, Sylvia explained, and as a result, “starving a population is but a natural extension” of those efforts.
In a commentary piece published on the RUSI website, he said that, “unless the international community takes meaningful action against Israel, there is no reason to expect that either this violence or the starvation of two million people will end”.
“The next steps are clear: governments must immediately suspend all arms sales, military aid, and military cooperation with Israel, impose sanctions, and support the international legal mechanisms investigating these atrocities,” he added.
Israeli drone attack kills four Palestinians in al-Mawasi
Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic, citing medical sources, report that four Palestinians have been killed and others injured in an Israeli drone attack on a tent in al-Mawasi in the south of the Gaza Strip.
Al-Mawasi has been designated as a so-called “safe zone” by the Israeli forces, but it has been routinely targeted throughout the war on Gaza.
We will provide you with more information as we receive it.
Photos: Palestinians bring bodies of people killed in Israeli attacks to Al-Aqsa Hospital
A‘Gaza health system is collapsing,’ WHO chief warns
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has warned that Nasser Hospital and al-Amal Hospital in southern Gaza are “at risk of becoming non-functional”.
In a post on X, the World Health Organization (WHO) director said the two hospitals are within or just outside of a forced evacuation zone that was ordered by Israel earlier this week.
“Israeli authorities have informed the Ministry of Health that access routes leading to both hospitals will be obstructed. As a result, safe access for new patients and staff will be difficult, if not impossible,” Tedros said.
“The hospitals going out of service would have dire consequences for patients in need of surgical care, intensive care, blood bank and transfusion services, cancer care, and dialysis,” he added.
“The relentless and systematic decimation of hospitals in Gaza has been going on for too long. It must end immediately.”
Photos: Israeli soldiers block Palestinians from visiting loved ones’ graves in Jenin
‘Militarised aid’ in Gaza ‘wasting time children don’t have’ NGO chief says
The president of the NGO Save the Children has said the militarisation of aid by the Israeli- and US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) has created chaos and is putting the lives of more than 1 million children at risk in Gaza.
“The GHF’s militarised aid hubs are wasting time that children do not have. It is unthinkable that civilians threatened with looming famine have been killed while seeking food. Rather than saving lives, even more people are dying at these so-called ‘humanitarian’ sites,” Janti Soeripto said in a statement.
“Over one million children in Gaza are struggling to survive, but humanitarians are being prevented from delivering them the aid that would save their lives while the international community does nothing to help.”
Soeripto said the Save the Children team in Gaza continues to provide the services they can, but that Israel continues to block essential supplies that remain stuck in the NGO’s trucks and warehouses.
“Thousands of children and babies in Gaza have been killed. We know what is needed to prevent further death and suffering: a definitive ceasefire and full humanitarian access and aid into Gaza,” she said.
“It is unconscionable that we’re wasting precious time not making both things a reality.”
Hamas says it is ready for a new round of negotiations with US mediators
Hamas has stated that from the outset, they’ve been willing to come to the negotiating table.
That was true even before January, they say, when the initial ceasefire agreement was put into place and both parties agreed to it. At that time, Hamas was pushing for talks on phases two and three of the deal, while the Israelis were the ones who didn’t want to come to the table.
Hamas is saying they did not fully reject a previous proposal from mediators. Instead they gave it back with some amendments, because they wanted to ultimately see a total and complete end of the war.
They wanted a deal that would stop all of the aggression on the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip, which Israel had refused, saying that they would only be willing for a partial agreement for a period of up to 60 days.
Latest attacks on Lebanon underscore Hezbollah’s dilemma
There are only painful options for the group in light of the latest Israeli attacks. To paraphrase a Lebanese saying: It’s like having a razor blade stuck in one’s throat; it cannot be swallowed, and it cannot be spat out.
Hezbollah has refrained from responding to Israeli violations of the ceasefire, while warning that its patience may eventually run out.
But the ongoing intense wave of Israeli strikes further corners the group and underscores its dilemma: If Hezbollah does not reply, it would invite further strikes, as demonstrated by the previous Israeli attacks that have gone unanswered.
Inaction would also deepen the group’s political crisis, raising questions over its stated raison d’etre of protecting Lebanon from Israel.
But if the group chooses to respond, it risks reigniting an all-out conflict where Israel has enormous firepower and technological advantages.
A war would also certainly bring agony and displacement to Hezbollah’s base and Lebanon’s broader civilian population.
Drone strike reported in Ain Qana, Lebanon
The Lebanon News Agency has reportrd a drone strike in the town, after Israel earlier today issued an evacuation order for the area.
It was not immediately clear if there were any casualties.
Meanwhile, Wafa news agency reported that 100 housing units were destroyed in Israel’s strikes on southern Beirut today.
Escalation between Israel and Hezbollah unlikely: analyst
Hezbollah is unlikely to seek further escalation after Israel’s most recent attacks on Beirut, Ali Rizk, a security affairs analyst based in Beirut, told Al Jazeera.
The reticence is partly out of concern that a substantial response could give Israel a pretext to expand attacks in Lebanon, he said.
“Hezbollah has learned from its mistakes. It doesn’t want to fall into an Israeli trip or allow Israel to set the tempo of any new round of warfare,” he said.
“There’s no doubt that this particular strike is larger than the previous ones. Is it going to lead to the full-scale conflict which we saw between September and November of last year? I still remain sceptical of that,” he said.
“I think Israel might want [that], but I think Hezbollah is going to continue exercising strategic patience in dealing with the situation.”
Photos: Life for displaced Palestinians in Gaza City
MSF says putting Nasser Hospital out of service would be ‘death sentence’
The international medical group MSF has said that Israeli displacement orders and movement restrictions in Gaza have pushed Nasser Hospital to the edge of “becoming non-functional”.
“Ordering hospitals to refuse new patients and making it harder for people to reach places of care has been a pattern by the Israeli forces throughout this war, aimed at closing the hospitals,” the group said in a news release.
“Nasser is the last remaining referral hospital in the south of Gaza, a vital lifeline for people in need, and its full functionality must be immediately restored and preserved,” it said.
Jose Mas, head of MSF emergency programmes, said that putting the hospital out of commission would be a “death sentence” for severely wounded patients, the critically ill, and women in need of emergency obstetric care.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has also called for the protection of Nasser and al-Amal Hospitals in Gaza.
‘Block the bombs’: Rights groups urge passage of resolution in US Congress
Several rights groups have urged support for a congressional resolution in the US calling on the Trump administration to use “all diplomatic tools at its disposal” to ensure aid reaches Palestinians in Gaza.
“US-origin weapons have been a significant part of what we determined is an ongoing genocide in Gaza,” Amnesty International USA Director Paul O’Brien said in remarks in support of the measure.
“Despite opportunities to change course, the Biden administration failed to do so, and now the Trump administration is failing to do so,” he said.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations also released a statement on Thursday saying every member of Congress “with a shred of morality” should support the bill to end US complicity for Israeli abuses against the Palestinians.
Israeli defence minister says Lebanon attacks enforce ceasefire
In a post on X, Israel Katz has hailed today’s strikes on southern Beirut, saying they were needed to “enforce the ceasefire rules”.
Israel has repeatedly claimed that Lebanon’s government is unable to oversee the ceasefire agreement reached with Hezbollah in November of last year. It has maintained its attacks on Lebanon since the agreement was reached are in line with the ceasefire.
“We will continue to enforce the ceasefire rules without any compromises and will not allow any entity to create threats against the northern communities and all citizens of the State of Israel,” Katz said.
The UN special coordinator for Lebanon had previously called for a “halt to any actions that could further undermine” the ceasefire.
Photos: Israel’s strikes on Dahiyeh
