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Here’s where things stand on Tuesday, June 3:
- Israel’s military has warned starving Palestinians in Gaza against approaching roads to the US-backed aid distribution sites run by the controversial Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), which will be closed for a whole day for “renovation, reorganisation and efficiency improvement work”.
- The United Nations Security Council is set to vote on a resolution calling for a ceasefire and humanitarian access to Gaza, a measure expected to be vetoed by the United States.
- Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 54,510 Palestinians and wounded 124,901, according to the 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.
At least 2 Palestinians killed in Israeli attack on Gaza City home
A source at Gaza City’s al-Ahli Hospital has told our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic that Israel attacked a home in the city’s Sabra neighbourhood.
Bodies of at least two people killed in the attack were received at the hospital, the source said, adding there were some injured people as well, whose number was not known.
Hospital chief appeals for urgent entry of blood units into Gaza
Dr Mohammed Abu Salmiya, director of Gaza City’s devastated al-Shifa Hospital, has made an urgent appeal for the entry of blood units into the war-ravaged enclave, saying large numbers of wounded were dying each day due to blood shortages.
“We are completely unable to provide blood units for the wounded and sick,” he said. “Young men and women come to us to donate blood, only to discover that they themselves need blood transfusions due to severe malnutrition.”
He said medical staff were “losing a large number of wounded people every day due to the lack of blood units, amid a continuous and massive influx of casualties every minute”.
He continued: “We are asking nothing from the world except for the immediate entry of blood units into the Gaza Strip … now, not tomorrow.”
Israel kills 18 Palestinians in attack on school in southern Gaza’s Khan Younis
At least 18 people have been killed, including children, in an Israeli air attack on a school sheltering displaced people in the southern city of Khan Younis, according to a medical source at Nasser Hospital quoted by our colleagues.
Residents said air raids and shelling had ramped up in parts of the city, after leaflets were dropped instructing people to leave and head west. The leaflets said Israeli forces would be attacking Hamas fighters in the area.
Palestinians recall Gaza aid massacre horror
Yazan Musleh, 13, lies in a hospital bed set up in a tent on the grounds of Nasser Hospital, his T-shirt pulled up to reveal a large white bandage on his thin torso.
Beside him, his father, Ihab, sits fretfully, still shaken by the bloodied dawn he and his sons lived through on Sunday when Israeli forces opened fire on thousands of people gathered to receive aid from the Israeli-conceived, and United States-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF).
Ihab, 40, had taken Yazan and his 15-year-old brother, Yazid, from their shelter in al-Mawasi, Khan Younis, to the Rafah distribution point that the GHF operates.
They set out before dawn, walking for about an hour and a half to get to the al-Alam Roundabout in Rafah, near the distribution point. Worried about the size of the gathering, hungry crowd, Ihab told his sons to wait for him on an elevation near the GHF gates.
“When I looked behind the hill, I saw several tanks not far away,” he says. “A feeling of dread came over me. What if they opened fire or something happened? I prayed for God’s protection.”
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Israel names soldier killed in northern Gaza
An Israeli reserve soldier has been killed in fighting in northern Gaza, the Israeli military says.
In a statement, the Israeli army named the soldier as Alon Farkas, a 27-year-old reservist from Kabri, a kibbutz in northern Israel, who fought in the 6646th Reconnaissance Battalion.
The military said another reservist from the same unit had been seriously injured in clashes and taken to hospital for treatment.
UNSC set to vote on resolution calling for Gaza ceasefire, aid access
The UN Security Council will vote at 20:00 GMT on a resolution calling for a ceasefire and unrestricted humanitarian access in Gaza, a measure expected to fail due to a US veto.
It is the 15-member body’s first vote on the subject since November last year, when the United States – a key Israeli ally – also blocked a text calling for an end to fighting.
The new resolution “demands an immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire in Gaza respected by all parties”. It also calls for the “immediate, dignified and unconditional release of all hostages held by Hamas and other groups”.
Underlining a “catastrophic humanitarian situation” in the Palestinian territory, the resolution additionally demands the lifting of all restrictions on the entry of humanitarian aid into Gaza.
US-backed GHF suspends Gaza aid for full day
The United States- and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) will suspend aid distribution in the war-torn territory on Wednesday, a day after Israeli forces again opened fire on Palestinian aid seekers near a GHF distribution site, killing at least 27 and injuring more than 100.
Israel’s military also said that approach roads to the aid distribution centres will be “considered combat zones” on Wednesday, and warned that people in Gaza should heed the GHF announcement to stay away.
Read more here.
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