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Here’s where things stand on Sunday 28 June 2025:
- Israel’s attack on Evin Prison in Iran’s capital killed at least 71 people last week, Iranian judiciary spokesperson Asghar Jahangir says, with the dead including family members of detainees.
- Israeli forces killed at least 60 people in Gaza on Saturday, hospital sources tell Al Jazeera, including at least nine children in an attack on Gaza City’s Tuffah neighbourhood, as hunger continues to stalk the territory.
- The Israeli army says it killed senior Hamas figure Hakham Muhammad Issa al-Issa in fighting in Gaza City. Hamas has not commented.
- Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 56,412 people and wounded 133,054, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry. An estimated 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the October 7 attacks, and more than 200 taken captive.
German minister praises Israel’s surprise attack on Iran
German Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt has offered unqualified support for Israel’s attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities during an unexpected visit to Tel Aviv.
“Iran has been destabilising this region for years, for decades, one has to say, with its support for terrorist groups to the north, to the south, to the east of Israel,” he said on the first visit by a senior German politician since Israel’s 12-day war with Iran.
The Iranian nuclear programme is “a real threat to Israel’s right to exist and also a threat well beyond, a threat for Europe as well”, Dobrindt said.
Tehran has been sent a clear signal that Israel, the US and other supporters such as Germany cannot accept Iran acquiring a nuclear weapon, he added. Tehran insists its nuclear programme is for purely civilian purposes.
Dobrindt made the comments while visiting the site of a deadly Iranian missile strike in the city of Holon with Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar.
He described the attack as a “war on the civilian population” and expressed the conviction that Iran would use any nuclear bomb it developed against Israel.
Qassam Brigades hit Israeli forces in southern Gaza
The armed wing of Hamas says it targeted a military bulldozer in the Bani Suhaila area east of Khan Younis.
A 105-mm Al-Yassin missile was used in the attack, it added. It was unclear with their were any casualties.
Last week seven Israeli soldiers were killed in a single attack in southern Gaza, the military’s deadliest day in the territory since it broke a ceasefire with Hamas in March. They died when a explosive device planted on their armoured vehicle in ignited a fire, the military said.
Gaza health system ‘obliterated’ as staff ‘swamped’ with mass casualties: Red Cross
Hisham M’hanna, the Gaza spokesperson for the International Committee of the Red Cross, has provided a snapshot of the massive challenges faced by healthcare workers in the besieged territory as Israeli attacks continue unabated.
“Since the resumption of hostilities on March 18, we haven’t witnessed one week without a report on an incident that happened or impacted a healthcare facility, a hospital, an ambulance team, or a doctor and nurse, including those who are on duty,” he told Al Jazeera from Deir el-Balah in central Gaza.
M’hanna said medical staff are “constantly subjected” to the impact of the fighting and “swamped” by the high numbers of people killed and wounded.
“Our field hospital in Rafah, which has only a 60-bed capacity, has been receiving since last month a large influx of mass casualties,” he added.
“The vast majority of them are injured with gunshot wounds. Many of them have reported that they were attempting to reach the aid distribution sites in Rafah.”
M’hanna said the situation “has not only been exhausting” the workers’ capacity but also the hospital itself.
“For most of the days, the hospital is operating at nearly double its capacity, consuming its resources that are extremely limited and impacted by the restrictions on the entry of humanitarian aid,” he added, noting that the field hospital is the only fully functional facility in Rafah and overall one of the best equipped in Gaza.
“That gives you a stark example of how deteriorated and obliterated the healthcare system is in Gaza.”
Four aid seekers killed in Rafah
Israeli forces have opened fire on people waiting for aid in northern Rafah, killing at least four of them, according to local emergency workers quoted by our colleagues on the ground.
Since the US- and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) took over aid deliveries in Gaza in late May, Israeli soldiers have regularly shot at Palestinians near distribution centres, killing more than 540 people.
A recent report by Israel’s Haaretz newspaper quoted unnamed Israeli soldiers as saying they had received orders to fire at crowds of unarmed aid seekers to disperse them.
“It’s a killing field,” one soldier said.
Settler violence in West Bank up 30 percent this year: Report
There have been 414 “nationalist crimes” committed by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank so far this year, up from 318 during the same period last year, reports Israeli Army Radio.
The crimes include arson, stone-throwing, vandalism, assaults, and other forms of “violent confrontations”, according to “security establishment data” cited by Army Radio.
A senior Israeli military officer said the settler crimes are not only growing, but also getting severe.
Two more killed in Gaza City, today’s death toll at 17
An Israeli attack has killed two people in Gaza City’s Zeitoun neighbourhood, according to a local medical source cited by our colleagues on the ground.
A separate attack in the city’s Daraj neighbourhood, to the east, also injured a woman, our colleagues report.
According to medical sources, the total number of people killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza so far today has risen to at least 17.
Israeli strike on Iran prison – ‘worst way to do that’
The death toll is much higher than expected, with at least 71 people killed in Israel’s attack. Among those killed were inmates, their family members, administrative staff and guards.
Evin Prison was built in 1971 during the previous Pahlavi regime. Up until the Islamic revolution in 1979, most of the people held there were members of the opposition, including one of Iran’s former presidents, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani.
This prison is not dedicated to specific crimes; we see political prisoners, journalists, financial offenders, and foreign detainees. In 2018, the United States put Evin Prison on its sanctions list, and the European Union did the same in 2021 because of human rights violations.
Iranians are saying, if Israel’s aim was to free the prisoners, definitely the worst way to do that is to bomb the facility itself and kill civilians.
Several children killed as Gaza civilians continue to bear brunt of Israeli attacks
Heavy bombardment continues across the Gaza Strip, as we continue to get reports of a series of deadly incidents since dawn today.
Two children were killed following an Israeli air strike on a residential house in the Zeitoun neighbourhood, at the eastern end of Gaza City.
Further south, the city of Khan Younis has witnessed a series of deadly attacks in the past few hours. The Israeli military struck a makeshift tent in the coastal area of al-Mawasi, west of Khan Younis, killing at least five Palestinians, including a woman and two children.
Witnesses report that booby-trapped explosives have been used to blow up entire residential neighbourhoods, as the Israeli military says it is concentrating operations in Khan Younis to defeat Hamas battalions there.
However, civilians continue to bear the brunt of these ongoing ground operations. In Deir el-Balah, a series of explosions have been heard. Residents report a wave of panic, especially in the eastern areas, forcing some families to flee in search of safety.
Israel facing growing pressure at home and abroad to reach Gaza ceasefire
There are more evacuation threats and more Palestinians forcibly displaced across the Gaza Strip, as Netanyahu convenes his cabinet and later will hold security consultations about the idea of a ceasefire.
Trump previously said Israel could wrap up its operations inside Gaza within the next two weeks. But while Israeli officials have hinted they are closer to achieving their objectives, they are in no way there.
They haven’t completed any of the goals they set out to achieve more than 20 months ago, and all the pressure is being upped on them, both domestically and internationally, to reach a deal.
Last week, Netanyahu said mediators were still talking to negotiators behind the scenes to try to secure a 60-day pause in the fighting that wouldn’t mean an end to the war, but the prime minister also denied that there were any talks towards formally ending the war.
Israeli attacks have killed at least 14 Palestinians today: Sources
Medical sources have told Al Jazeera that at least 14 people have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza since dawn today.
The figure includes at least one aid seeker, they said.
We’ll bring you more as soon as we have it.
‘Lack of food impacting everyone in Gaza, especially children’
We’ve spoken to Hisham M’hanna, the Gaza spokesperson for the International Committee of the Red Cross, about the increasing levels of malnutrition in the besieged territory after authorities said at least 66 children had died of malnutrition over the course of Israel’s war.
Here’s what he said from Deir el-Balah, in central Gaza:
“There’s an issue of providing food for everyone in the Gaza Strip that has been prolonged for many months now, since the outbreak of this horrible conflict.
“At the ICRC field hospital in Rafah, which also includes a maternity ward, we receive mothers who come either to deliver babies or to consult with health specialists.
“Their tests are not as they should be, as healthy as they should be, as a result of the acute malnutrition that some of them, including over the course of their pregnancy period, have shown.
“Where we go and visit hospitals, we also see babies and children, infants who are not in the health conditions they should be; they have showed less weight measure[ments] and … height, etc.
“So this is definitely impacting everyone in Gaza, including and especially children who are the majority of this population.”
Netanyahu says US, Israel to make Middle East ‘great again’
The Israeli prime minister has thanked the US president after Trump condemned the ongoing corruption trial against Netanyahu.
“Thank you again, Donald Trump. Together, we will make the Middle East Great Again!,” he posted on X.
Trump on Saturday lashed out at prosecutors in Israel over the corruption case against Netanyahu, saying the US, having given billions of dollars’ worth of aid to Israel, was not going to “stand for this”.
Netanyahu was indicted in 2019 on charges of bribery, fraud and breach of trust, all of which he denies. The trial began in 2020 and involves three criminal cases.
He is also wanted by the International Criminal Court for alleged war crimes in Gaza, where Israeli attacks have killed more than 56,000 people since October 2023. In addition, thousands of people have also been killed in Israeli attacks on Lebanon and Iran.
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More details on Israel’s deadly Evin Prison attack in Iran
Earlier, we reported an Iranian official saying 71 people were killed in Israel’s bombardment of Evin Prison in Tehran last week.
Images shared by Iran’s judiciary showed destroyed walls, collapsed ceilings, scattered debris, and broken surfaces across waiting areas at the facility.
Evin’s medical centre and visiting rooms had been targeted, the judiciary said.
Iran had previously not announced any death figures. It confirmed that top prosecutor Ali Ghanaatkar, whose prosecution of dissidents drew condemnation from human rights campaigners, was killed in the attack and would be buried at a shrine in Qom.
Prisoners held at Evin have included Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi as well as several French nationals and other foreigners.
