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Here’s where things stand on Monday 29 June 2025:

• Israel has launched at least 50 aerial attacks across Gaza with a particular focus on the eastern part of Gaza City after the military issued forced evacuation threats, raising fears of an intensified assault.
• Israeli forces killed at least 68 Palestinians in Gaza on Sunday, including at least 47 in Gaza City and the north of the territory, medical sources told Al Jazeera.
• Egypt’s foreign minister says his country is working on a new Gaza deal that includes a 60-day ceasefire in exchange for the release of some Israeli captives.
• Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 56,500 people and wounded 133,419, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry. An estimated 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the October 7 attacks, and more than 200 were taken captive.

Hardline minister calls out arson attack on Israeli military base

Earlier, we reported on Israeli citizens setting fire to and vandalising an Israeli army base used for surveillance in the Ramallah area of the occupied West Bank.

Far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir says attacking the Israeli military is a “red line” that must be dealt with “with the utmost severity”.

A hardline supporter of illegal Israeli settlements, Ben-Gvir was previously convicted in Israel of racist incitement and support for “terrorist groups”, and has called for the deportation of all Arab citizens from Israel.

Though once widely shunned by Israel’s politicians, Ben-Gvir’s influence has grown and, alongside a shift to the right in the country’s electorate, further emboldened violence from extremist settlers in the occupied West Bank.

The incident is the latest in a series of violent attacks by Israeli settlers in the occupied territory. Three Palestinians were killed last week during a raid on the town of Kafr Malek, northeast of Ramallah. Seven others were injured.

The settlers opened fire using weapons and burned vehicles and homes as Palestinian residents confronted them.

Israel has so far built more than 100 settlements across the West Bank, which are home to about 500,000 settlers – Israeli citizens living illegally on private Palestinian land in the West Bank and occupied East Jerusalem.

Judges rule that decision for UK to provide Israel fighter jet parts ‘not for the courts’

We’ve been reporting on the verdict of a UK court to allow the transfer of components for F-35 fighter jets to Israel as it bombs the Gaza Strip.

In a 72-page ruling, judges said the case was about a “much more focused issue” than supplying Israel military hardware in its deadly 20-month attack.

“That issue is whether it is open to the court to rule that the UK must withdraw from a specific multilateral defence collaboration, which is reasonably regarded by the responsible ministers as vital to the defence of the UK and to international peace and security, because of the prospect that some UK manufactured components will or may ultimately be supplied to Israel, and may be used in the commission of a serious violation of international humanitarian law in the conflict in Gaza,” the ruling said.

“Under our constitution that acutely sensitive and political issue is a matter for the executive, which is democratically accountable to Parliament and ultimately to the electorate, not for the courts.”

Usual cooperation with IAEA not possible due to lack of safety guarantees: Iran

Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei says Iran cannot be expected to maintain cooperation with the IAEA when nuclear sites are being attacked by the US and Israel.

He said the “security of agency inspectors cannot be guaranteed” just days after nuclear facilities were hit.

On Friday, Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi had said on X that IAEA chief Rafael Grossi’s insistence on visiting the bombed sites is “meaningless and possibly even malign in intent”.

UK court rejects bid to halt transfer of F-35 parts to Israel

A London court has ruled the UK government’s decision to allow the export of F-35 fighter jet components to Israel during its war on Gaza is lawful.

The human rights group Al-Haq argued at a hearing last month that the decision was unlawful because it was in breach of Britain’s obligations under international law, including the Geneva Conventions. Tens of thousands of Palestinians – mostly women and children – have been killed by Israel in its bombardments of Gaza.

But the High Court dismissed the group’s challenge in a written ruling.

The United Kingdom contributes components to an international defence programme that produces and maintains the F-35s.

Defence Secretary John Healey said a suspension would impact the “whole F-35 programme” and have a “profound impact on international peace and security”.

British judges to rule if UK may supply parts for Israeli fighter jets

UK magistrates will decide on a legal challenge brought by a Palestinian human rights organisation seeking to block the country from supplying components for Israeli F-35 fighter jets.

Israel has used the jets to devastating effect in its bombardment of Gaza with tens of thousands of mostly Palestinian civilians killed.

In its claim to the High Court, rights group Al-Haq – supported by Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Oxfam and other groups in its case – is seeking a court order to stop the supply of UK-made parts for the US warplanes.

Lawyers for Al-Haq said the government had known there was a “clear risk” Israel would use the jet parts to commit violations of international law in its war on Gaza.

The UK government suspended some export licences for military equipment after concluding there was a risk Israel could be breaching international humanitarian law, but it made an exemption for some parts for Lockheed Martin F-35 stealth jets.

The London court is due to give its ruling at 09:30 GMT.

Settler attacks on Israeli security site crosses ‘red line’: Smotrich

Earlier, we reported on the Israeli army’s claim that several Israeli citizens had “set fire to and vandalised” an Israeli security site used for surveillance in the Ramallah area of the occupied West Bank.

Now, Israel’s far-right finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, has taken to X to call out the settlers involved in the incident, calling them “criminals”.

“Violence against beloved [Israeli army] soldiers and Israel Police and the destruction of property are forbidden and cross a red line,” he said.

This marks a rare criticism of settlers in the occupied West Bank by Smotrich, who has openly pushed for more Israeli settlements – illegal under international law – as steps towards annexation.

Israeli settler violence against Palestinians, often under the protection of the Israeli army, has soared across the occupied West Bank since the war on Gaza began in October 2023.

13 aid seekers killed in Khan Younis

The Palestinians seeking food have been killed by an Israeli air strike in Khan Younis in southern Gaza, sources at Nasser Medical Complex tell Al Jazeera. Fifty people have been wounded in the attack.

At least 48 people have been killed in Israeli attacks since morning, sources at hospitals across Gaza said.

Photos: Aftermath of Israeli attack on al-Falah School in Gaza City

‘Unprecedented’: Trump intervention into Israel’s legal system

Gideon Levy, an Israeli author and Haaretz columnist, has expressed dismay at the “unbelievable” intervention of US President Trump in the corruption trial of Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu.

“He really recruited himself, or Netanyahu recruited him, to help make the court cancel [the charges]. This is really unprecedented and there’s no other explanation other than to be astonished,” Levy told Al Jazeera.

“That the president of the United States dares to interfere in the legal procedure in another country – this we never saw before.”

At the weekend, Trump launched a scathing attack on Israeli prosecutors over Netanyahu’s ongoing corruption trial, calling it “insanity” and linking Washington’s financial support to the proceedings.

“The United States of America spends billions of dollars a year… protecting and supporting Israel. We are not going to stand for this,” he wrote on social media.

No painkillers to treat Gaza children for ‘extremely painful injuries’

Hospitals in Gaza are “completely overwhelmed; there’s not enough beds; there’s not enough staff to treat them; patients are on the floor”, Hannah Grace Pan, a paediatric nurse volunteer from the UK, tells Al Jazeera.

She said many patients and small children are being treated for “extremely painful, explosive injuries and burns with no pain treatment at all because it’s not available”.

Grace Pan used the example of a three-year-old child brought to the hospital last week – the only survivor after his entire family was killed in an air attack. But there was no burn specialist to treat him, and with insufficient fluids and no food, his wounds would take much longer to heal.

One of the most shocking cases she witnessed was a 30-week pregnant woman hit in her tent by shrapnel from an Israeli attack that pierced her chest and cut through her abdomen.

When medical staff removed the baby from her abdomen, they discovered it had been killed by the flying metal, Grace Pan said.

Photos: Israeli attack destroys Gaza City’s Yafa School

Israeli forces kill 27 across Gaza, including aid seekers

Among the dead are 10 Palestinians searching for food who were killed in an Israeli air strike at an aid distribution warehouse in Gaza City.

The Israeli attack hit the warehouse in the Zeitoun neighbourhood in southern Gaza City, sources at al-Ahli Hospital told Al Jazeera.

Two aid seekers were also killed by Israeli fire near an aid distribution centre in southern Rafah, sources at Nasser Medical Complex said.

Old sticking points remain over ceasefire deal

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has led a high-level security meeting. The main agenda item was the war on Gaza and if there could be a ceasefire.

However, according to Israeli media and the prime minister himself, there was nothing concrete that came out of this meeting.

It happened at the military southern command base in Beersheba, in the southern part of the country, and Netanyahu had his top security chiefs with him, talking about a wide variety of things when it comes to the war on Gaza.

Military sources have said they are close to wrapping up their ground operation in Gaza, meaning that there are no more strategic gains for them to be met, and that anything further that they do on the ground could endanger the captives that are still being held in the Palestinian territory.

Netanyahu himself said just last night that he believes both things can be achieved – defeating Hamas and also the idea of releasing the captives through military means.

However, there are main sticking points when it comes to any possibility of a ceasefire. Mediators keep pushing Israel to send a delegation to either Cairo or Doha but Israel wants a temporary pause in the fighting, one that can guarantee a return to war after 60 days, and Hamas wants a complete end to the war.

This is nothing new; this has been the case for months and it is still the main point of disagreement between the two sides.

Gaza’s elderly ‘especially vulnerable’ with healthcare system destroyed

The UN agency for Palestinian refugees says the collapse of healthcare services in Gaza is endangering the lives of the entire 2.3 million population, with elderly people especially vulnerable.

“Falling ill means facing it alone without ambulances, shortage of medical supply or support,” it said in a post on X.

UNRWA repeated its call for a permanent ceasefire “to protect them”.

Iran minister says US must rule out further attacks before talks: Report

Majid Takht-Ravanchi, the Iranian deputy foreign minister, says the US must rule out any further attacks on Iran if it wishes to resume diplomatic efforts.

In an interview with the BBC, Takht-Ravanchi said the Trump administration had told Iran through mediators that it wanted to return to the negotiating table week but had not made its position clear on the “very important question” of more strikes while discussions are under way.

The minister added that Iran would “insist” on being able to enrich uranium for peaceful purposes, rejecting allegations that it is secretly moving towards developing a nuclear weapon.

“The level of that can be discussed, the capacity can be discussed, but to say that you should not have enrichment, you should have zero enrichment, and if do you not agree, we will bomb you – that is the law of the jungle,” he told the news outlet.

Australian injured at pro-Palestine protest could lose sight in one eye

A former political candidate from the Australian Greens says she may permanently lose vision in her right eye after her “interactions with police” at a peaceful pro-Palestine protest in Sydney last week.

Hannah Thomas, who ran against Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in his electorate at the recent federal election, recorded a video from hospital before undergoing surgery, saying that the “draconian anti-protest laws” in Australia “demonise protesters, especially protesters for Palestine”.

“They’ve emboldened the police to crack down with extreme violence and brutality,” Thomas said.

Thomas added that what she experienced “is obviously nothing compared to what people in Gaza are going through because of Israel”, including children “going through amputations without anaesthetic”.

In a separate statement, Greens state representative Sue Higginson called for an independent investigation into the incident.

Protesters have accused the Labor government of allowing weapons parts for Israel to be made in Australia.

Thomas was protesting outside SEC Plating, which protesters claim is making components for F-35 fighter jets and other weapons. SEC Plating has denied the allegation, according to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

Israeli attacks kill at least 16 in Gaza since dawn

At least 16 people have been killed in Israeli attacks across the besieged enclave since dawn, Gaza hospital sources tell Al Jazeera.

The areas targeted include Khan Younis in the south, as well as Gaza City and Jabalia in the north.

Israeli attack on northern Gaza kills 4

Four Palestinians have been killed in an Israeli air strike on the Jabalia al-Balad area of northern Gaza, sources at al-Shifa Hospital tell Al Jazeera.

An unspecified number of people were also injured.

Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 56,500 people and wounded 133,419 others since October 2023, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry.

What’s the latest on the Gaza ceasefire?

• Hamas says it is willing to free the remaining 50 captives in exchange for a full withdrawal of Israeli troops and an end to the war in Gaza. Israel rejects the offer, saying it will agree to end the war if Hamas surrenders, disarms and goes into exile – something the group refuses.
• Ron Dermer, a top adviser to Netanyahu, will travel to Washington, DC, this week for talks on a ceasefire, the AP reports, adding plans are being made for the prime minister to travel there in the coming weeks, a sign there may be movement on a deal.
• But talks between Israel and Hamas have repeatedly faltered over a major sticking point – whether the war should end permanently as part of any ceasefire agreement.
• Trump has said Netanyahu “is right now in the process of negotiating a deal with Hamas, which will include getting the hostages back”.
• Netanyahu says Israel’s “victory” over Iran in their 12-day war has created “many opportunities”, including for freeing Israelis held in Gaza.

Norway’s largest pension fund divests from companies selling arms to Israel

Norway’s largest pension fund, KLP, says it will no longer do business with two companies – Oshkosh Corporation and ThyssenKrupp – that sell equipment to the Israeli military because the hardware is possibly being used in the war on Gaza.

Oshkosh, a US-based company, is focused on trucks and military vehicles, and German industrial firm ThyssenKrupp makes a broad range of products – from lifts and industrial machinery to warships.

“In June 2024, KLP learned of reports from the UN that several named companies were supplying weapons or equipment to the [Israeli army] and that these weapons are being used in Gaza,” Kiran Aziz, the head of responsible investments at KLP Kapitalforvaltning, told Al Jazeera.

Read the full story here.

Trump denies offering Iran ‘anything’

The US president says he’s not speaking to Iran and isn’t offering the country “anything” as the ceasefire with Israel continues to hold after a 12-day war.

Trump reiterated his assertion that the US “totally obliterated” Tehran’s nuclear facilities.

Trump on Friday dismissed media reports that his administration discussed possibly helping Iran access as much as $30bn to build a civilian-energy-producing nuclear programme.

Israeli drone attack wounds 2 in Gaza City

At least two people have been wounded in an Israeli drone strike on al-Sikka Street in the Zeitoun neighbourhood of Gaza’s biggest city.

The Israeli army has escalated its air strikes and artillery shelling on the southern and eastern parts of Gaza City, especially the districts of Zeitoun, Shejayah and Tuffah. On Sunday, the military issued a forced evacuation order for Gaza’s north, indicating an imminent ground assault.

Earlier, we reported that four people were killed in an Israeli attack in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis. Israeli forces also killed one Palestinian and injured others in shelling targeting their tents in the al-Mawasi area “safe zone”, according to medical sources.

Israeli military says settlers torched West Bank ‘security site’

Israel’s army says “several Israeli citizens set fire to and vandalised” an Israeli “security site” used for surveillance in the Ramallah area of the occupied West Bank.

Photographs shared by the military in a post on X appear to show burned computer servers and other equipment as well as graffiti in Hebrew.

“Damage to the site poses a danger to the safety of residents,” the Israeli army said.

“The [Israeli military] condemns any act of violence against security forces and expects the security forces to bring to justice those Israelis who harm the security forces fulfilling their role in protecting the safety of Israeli civilians.”

According to The Times of Israel, the incident occurred after settlers earlier rioted outside a nearby army base.