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Here’s where things stand on Friday 6 June 2025:
- The UN says that the number of Gaza children facing acute malnutrition has soared since February, with more than 2,700 now suffering from it.
- The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation says it resumed aid distribution at two of its points in the Strip. The organisation ceased operations for more than a day after hundreds of aid seekers were killed and wounded by the Israeli military.
- Israel bombed the southern Beirut suburbs of Dahiyeh and several areas in South Lebanon late yesterday, in what Lebanon’s president says is a “blatant violation” of Israel’s ceasefire agreement with Hezbollah.
- Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 54,677 Palestinians and wounded 125,530, 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.
US sanctions ICC judges; Rubio says court’s cases are ‘baseless and politicised’
In an unprecedented move, the Trump administration has sanctioned four judges of the International Criminal Court over what it calls “baseless and politicised targeting” of America and Israel.
The ICC has slammed the sanctions, calling them a clear attempt to undermine the independence of the court and saying it will continue its work.
Triestino Mariniello, a law professor at Liverpool John Moores University and a member of the legal team representing Gaza victims before the ICC, joins Al Jazeera from Liverpool.
UN warns of surge in acute malnutrition among Gaza’s young children
More than 2,700 children below the age of five in Gaza have been diagnosed with acute malnutrition, marking a steep increase in the number of children suffering from the serious medical condition since screening in February, the United Nations reports.
Of almost 47,000 under-fives screened for malnutrition in the second half of May, 5.8 percent (or 2,733 children) were found to be suffering from acute malnutrition, “almost triple the proportion of children diagnosed with malnutrition” three months earlier, the UN’s humanitarian office says.
The number of children with severe acute malnutrition requiring admission to hospital also increased by around double in May compared with earlier months.
Meanwhile, Israel continues to allow only a trickle of aid into Gaza, and its distribution scheme has proved fatal or at least extremely dangerous for hundreds of Palestinians, shot by Israeli troops as they attempted to collect food.
Read more in our story here.
Israel raids Beirut’s southern suburbs on eve of Eid al-Adha
Israeli raids have hit Beirut’s southern suburbs overnight, as well as several areas of south Lebanon, as Muslims prepared to celebrate the Eid al-Adha holiday.
Israeli military spokesman Avichay Adraee had ordered residents living near buildings in the neighbourhoods of Hadath, Haret Hreik and Burj al-Barajneh in the Dahiyeh suburbs to evacuate.
The Wafa news agency reported that 100 housing units were destroyed. The Israeli military claimed that these units held underground facilities used by the Lebanese group Hezbollah for drone production.
The attack is the fourth time Israel has bombed Beirut since a ceasefire with Hezbollah went into effect in November.
Child among victims of Israeli attacks on southern Gaza
Medical sources have told Al Jazeera that a child was killed by Israeli army fire northwest of Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip.
The Israeli military hit the centre and north of Khan Younis with raids and artillery shelling, as well as the northern part of the Nuseirat camp in central Gaza.
It also attacked the Tuffah neighbourhood, east of Gaza City, Al Jazeera correspondents have said.
A recap of recent developments
- Israeli warplanes carried out air raids on Beirut’s southern suburbs, reportedly destroying 100 housing units, in what Lebanon’s president said was a “blatant” violation of Israel’s ceasefire with Hezbollah.
- Hamas said it is ready for a new round of negotiations with US mediators to reach a ceasefire agreement.
- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu admitted his government was coordinating with “clans” in Gaza, some of whom have been accused of stealing humanitarian aid, as part of an effort to weaken Hamas.
- The UN warned of a surge in acute malnutrition among Gaza’s young children, with more than 2,700 children below the age of five suffering from the serious medical condition.
- UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres expressed disappointment over the US veto of a Security Council draft resolution that called for an immediate, permanent ceasefire in Gaza – the fifth time the US has used its veto power since the war began.
- Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni urged Israel to immediately halt its military campaign in Gaza, saying the response to Hamas has grown disproportionately and must end.
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