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Here’s where things stand on Tuesday 10 June 2025:
- Israeli forces have killed at least 60 Palestinians in Gaza on Monday, including at least 14 people near the US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’s (GHF) aid centre in southern Rafah.
- Israel has detained the Madleen’s 12 crew members, including Swedish activist Greta Thunberg and Al Jazeera journalist Omar Fayyad, after towing the aid ship to Israel’s Ashdod Port, their lawyer told Al Jazeera.
- The flotilla was aiming to break Israel’s illegal blockade on Gaza and was seized by Israeli commandos in international waters about 100 nautical miles (185km) from Gaza’s shores.
- Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 54,927 Palestinians and wounded 126,615, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry.
- An estimated 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the Hamas-led attacks of October 7, 2023, and more than 200 were taken captive.
Greenpeace, environmental activists condemn Israeli blockade, Madleen seizure
Environment groups and climate activists have condemned Israel’s seizure of the Madleen and the ongoing blockade of the Gaza Strip.
Greenpeace said that the Madleen was “illegally seized in international waters by Israeli forces” and called for the “immediate release” of its crew. It also called for “unhindered delivery of aid” and an “end to the illegal occupation of Palestine”.
Climate Action Network, which represents climate organisations around the world, called for the immediate release of the activists and strongly condemned “Israel’s armed seizure of the Madleen on its humanitarian mission to deliver food, medicine – and hope – for Gaza’s starving population”.
Climate justice activists, including Mikaela Loach and Ayisha Siddiqa, also shared videos on social media saying, “Our friend Greta Thunberg and 11 other activists have just been kidnapped by Israel” and that “aid to Gaza was stolen”.
Israel kills 20 people waiting for aid in central Gaza
Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic, citing al-Quds Hospital, are reporting that 20 people have been killed and more than 124 injured while waiting for aid near the so-called Netzarim Corridor, south of Gaza City.
Freedom Flotillas: A history of attempts to break Israel’s siege of Gaza
The Madleen is not the first ship that has tried to break Israel’s blockade of Gaza.
In 2008, two boats from the Free Gaza Movement successfully reached Gaza, marking the first break of Israel’s naval blockade. The movement, founded in 2006 by activists during Israel’s war on Lebanon, went on to launch 31 boats between 2008 and 2016, five of which reached Gaza despite heavy Israeli restrictions.
Since 2010, all flotillas attempting to break the Gaza blockade have been intercepted or attacked by Israel in international waters.
The map below shows the approximate locations where prominent flotillas were stopped, some encountering deadly Israeli forces.
Read more here.
Israeli forces kill 9 Palestinians in northern Gaza: Medical source
The bodies of nine Palestinians have been recovered after Israeli air attacks on homes in Jabalia al-Balad, according to a source at al-Shifa Hospital cited by our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic.
Israel kills 3 Palestinians in southern Gaza’s al-Mawasi: Medical source
At least three Palestinians from the same family have been killed in an Israeli attack on a tent housing displaced people in the al-Mawasi area near the city of Khan Younis, a source at Nasser Medical Complex has told our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic.
The displacement camp at al-Mawasi – repeatedly described as a “safe” area by Israel – is one of the most overcrowded places in Gaza, devastated by 21 months of relentless bombardment.
‘Enough is enough’: Ex-Israeli leader Olmert urges Trump to pressure Netanyahu
Ehud Olmert, Israel’s prime minister between 2006 and 2009, tells AFP in Paris that the US has more influence on the Israeli government “than all the other powers put together” and that President Donald Trump can “make a difference”.
Trump should summon Netanyahu to the White House and, facing cameras, tell the Israeli leader: “‘Bibi: enough is enough’”, Olmert said, using the premier’s nickname.
“This is it. I hope he [Trump] will do it. There is nothing that cannot happen with Trump. I don’t know if this will happen. We have to hope and we have to encourage him,” said Olmert.
The former Israeli PM denounced the continuation of the war in Gaza as a “crime” and insisted a two-state solution is the only way to end the conflict.
He said Netanyahu “failed completely” as a leader by not preventing the unprecedented October 7, 2023, attack by Hamas.
Israel confirms its navy missile ships attacked civilian port in Yemen’s Hodeidah
We have been reporting on Israeli attacks on the port of Hodeidah in Yemen, based on Houthi-affiliated media reports.
The Israeli military has now confirmed the attack, claiming that the civilian port was being used by the Houthi rebels for military purposes.
“Israeli Navy Missile Ships struck terror targets belonging to the Houthi terrorist regime in the port of Hodeidah in Yemen,” the army said in a statement, citing Houthi drone and missile attacks on Israel as the reason for the operation.
“The strikes were carried out to stop the use of the port for military purposes,” it added.
Israeli drone attack kills 2 in southern Lebanon
The Lebanese National News Agency (NNA) is reporting that Israeli forces have carried out a drone attack near the town of Shebaa in southern Lebanon.
The attack killed a man and his son and wounded another person, NNA reported.
Israel has been carrying out near-daily air raids across southern Lebanon, often resulting in casualties, despite a ceasefire agreed with the Hezbollah group in November last year.
How have the home countries of Madleen’s crew responded to their detention in Israel?
Israeli authorities have said that diplomats from the home countries of the Madleen crew will be able to meet them at Ben Gurion airport.
The crew includes citizens of Brazil, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain and Turkiye. Here’s how those countries responded to the Israeli raid on the Madleen:
- Brazil withdrew its ambassador from Israel in May 2024 but said nearby embassies were “on alert” to provide assistance. Its Ministry of Foreign Affairs urged Israel to release the detained crew members and “immediately lift all restrictions on the entry of humanitarian aid into Palestinian territory”.
- France‘s President Emmanuel Macron “asked that our six French nationals be allowed to return to France as soon as possible”. Minister for Foreign Affairs Jean-Noel Barrot said, “We have asked to be able to exercise our consular protection over them.”
- Germany‘s ambassador to Israel, Steffen Seibert, said that “we are in touch with the Israeli authorities about the ‘Madleen” and “we have offered consular assistance for one German citizen”.
- Spain has summoned Dan Poraz, charge d’affaires at the Israeli Embassy in Madrid, over the raid, according to the Spanish newspaper El Pais.
- Turkiye‘s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that Israel’s interception of the Madleen is a “clear violation of international law” that “once again demonstrates that Israel is acting as a terror state”.
The Madleen was flying the flag of the UK which urged Israel to resolve the interception of the Madleen aid ship “safely and with restraint”, stressing the need to adhere to international humanitarian law.
You can read more reactions from around the world here.
Rima Hassan refusing to sign deportation papers: Report
Israel’s public broadcaster Kan is reporting that French-Palestinian Member of European Parliament Rima Hassan has refused to sign deportation papers.
According to Kan, Hassan will be taken to a detention facility in the city of Gibeon.
In total, Kan said, eight of the Madleen’s 12 crew members are refusing to sign the deportation papers, and the four who signed will leave Israel on separate flights “during the day”.
Earlier, Suhad Bishara, the legal director at Adalah, a Palestinian-run legal centre in Israel representing the detained activists, said some of them may “not agree to fly without a legal consultation, because the assumption is that they will have to need to sign some documents”.
“In this case, they will be moved to a detention centre in Ramleh, awaiting a tribunal for immigration,” Bishara said.
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- Israeli forces have again opened fire on Palestinians seeking aid at a GHF aid site, killing at least two and wounding 92 others.
- The Israeli Foreign Ministry says the 11 activists and journalists on board the Madleen have been taken to the Ben Gurion International Airport in Tel Aviv and will be deported shortly.
- The Hind Rajab Foundation, a rights group, has filed a war crimes complaint in the UK against the Israeli military unit it says was involved in the raid on the Madleen, a British-flagged ship.
- Houthi-affiliated media say Israeli forces have launched attacks on Yemen’s Hodeidah after issuing evacuation orders for the Red Sea port city, as well as the nearby ports of Ras Isa and as-Salif.
- Qatar has slammed Israeli media attempts to “sow division and tension” in its ties with the US, after the Channel 12 broadcaster claimed documents seized from Gaza show collaboration between Doha and Hamas.
Israeli forces attack Yemen’s Hodeidah: Report
The Houthi-affiliated Al Masirah TV is reporting that Israeli forces have launched attacks on the port city of Hodeidah in Yemen.
The reported attack comes hours after the Israeli military issued evacuation orders for Ras Isa, Hodeidah and as-Salif.
We’ll bring you more when we have it.