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Here’s where things stand on Wednesday 11 June 2025:
- At least 120 Palestinians have been killed and 474 injured in Israeli attacks across Gaza in the past 24 hours, according to the enclave’s Health Ministry. Three bodies of those killed previously were also recovered from the rubble.
- At least 57 aid seekers were killed and more than 363 injured by Israel since this morning, bringing the total number of people killed at aid distribution centres to 224, with 1,858 others injured, the ministry added.
- The Israeli military has admitted its troops fired “warning shots” in the area of the Netzarim Corridor, where the majority of aid seekers were reported killed overnight, adding that it is “aware of reports regarding individuals injured, the details are under review”.
- Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 55,104 Palestinians and wounded 127,394, 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.
‘Food has become an opportunity for killing’: Former UN aid chief
Martin Griffiths, who now serves as director of Mediation Group International, says the US- and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) is a deeply flawed system.
“Food has become an opportunity for killing – I’ve never heard of such a thing in the past. It’s quite extraordinary and … more than flawed – it’s just simply wrong,” Griffiths told Al Jazeera.
The former UN humanitarian chief said the crowds that have gathered at GHF aid distribution sites were predictable given the lack of food and other critical supplies in Gaza.
“The GHF makes some broad claims about the numbers of meals it’s distributing,” Griffiths said. But he noted that there is no monitoring of where the aid is going.
“So while that’s a lot of meals, it doesn’t mean to say that it’s actually reaching necessarily the people in need. You don’t have any system to verify it.”
Photos: Chaotic scenes at an aid distribution centre near Rafah
Israel’s foreign ministry claims GHF ‘dramatic success’ despite dozens of deaths
Israel’s Foreign Ministry has described the Israeli and US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid system, which has been plagued by deadly violence and slammed by aid groups as deeply inadequate, as a “dramatic success”.
Speaking in a video shared by the Foreign Ministry, Director General Eden Bar-Tal said the new model has been successful because it gets aid to Gaza’s civilians while “bypassing” Hamas.
He claimed “happy faces” in the enclave proved the aid process is going well, ignoring reports that at least 130 Palestinians have been killed and hundreds more wounded by Israeli fire while waiting in chaotic crowds for meagre rations.
Bar-Tal also accused the UN of “aligning with Hamas” by urging Israel to return to the previous aid distribution network that proved far more effective in widely distributing aid.
Israel places two flotilla activists in solitary confinement: Lawyers
We have an update from lawyers representing the Gaza flotilla activists who were detained by Israel while trying to bring aid to the besieged enclave.
Adalah, a legal centre for Palestinians in Israel, said its lawyers have been informed that two of the detained activists were moved into solitary confinement.
Brazilian national Thiago Avila was placed in solitary at Ayalon prison due to an “ongoing hunger and thirst strike” that began this week. “He has also been treated aggressively by prison authorities, although this has not escalated to physical assault,” Adalah said.
Rima Hassan, a French citizen and member of the European Parliament, was also placed in isolation in Neve Tirza prison after writing “Free Palestine” on a wall in another prison called Givon.
“She was moved to a small, windowless cell with extremely poor hygienic conditions and has been denied access to the prison yard,” Adalah said. “The act of isolation and transfer to separate prison facilities constitutes a serious violation of the volunteer’s rights and a clear attempt to exert mental and political pressure on them.”
The rights group called on the Israeli authorities to release the activists from solitary confinement, “cease any retaliatory actions against them”, and immediately release all the detainees.
Sanctions on far-right Israeli ministers good but more needed: HRW
Daniela Gavshon, Australia director at Human Rights Watch (HRW), has welcomed the country’s decision this week to impose sanctions on far-right Israeli ministers Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich.
But Gavshon said “further measures are urgently needed”.
“Israeli authorities continue to use starvation as a method of war, flouting three rounds of provisional measures issued by the International Court of Justice in South Africa’s genocide case against Israel.
“Australia should sanction additional Israeli officials implicated in grave abuses and ban trade with illegal West Bank settlements,” she said.
She also called on the Australian government to use “its leverage to prevent further mass atrocities and hold those responsible accountable”.
Civil defence condemns world’s silence after killing of Gaza paramedics
The Palestinian Civil Defence has expressed grief after three ambulance workers were killed in an Israeli attack on Gaza City’s Tuffah neighbourhood earlier this week.
Hussein Muheisen, Raed al-Attar, and Baraa Afana were killed while attempting to rescue injured civilians, the agency said.
It called on the international community to condemn and pressure Israel to halt its attacks on health workers in Gaza.
Hamas accuses Israel’s Smotrich of implementing ‘fascist policies of annexation’
The Palestinian group has released a statement, calling Israel’s far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich’s decision to seize land east of Ramallah, near the illegal settlement outpost of Malachei HaShalom, “a practical implementation of his colonial plans” in the occupied West Bank.
The website of the Arutz Sheva news outlet, also known as the Israeli National News, reported today that the seizure of 800 dunams of land near Malachei HaShalom was approved as part of an initiative led by Smotrich.
Hamas said this move requires “the activation of all forms of popular resistance” in response, as well as “a comprehensive confrontation with the occupation”.
“We call on the international community to shoulder its responsibilities regarding the settlement invasion, organised colonial expansion, and ongoing aggression against the Palestinian people,” it said.
Israeli drone strike in southern Lebanon
Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic are reporting that an Israeli drone has bombed a car in the town of Beit Leif in southern Lebanon.
We will bring you more information as we get it.
Is time running out for Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu?
Wherever Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu looks, trouble seems to be looming. Criticism of his government’s war on Gaza is mounting, with charges of genocide and war crimes coming from both foreign leaders and former Israeli prime ministers.
Internationally, Israel is looking increasingly isolated, as images of the starvation it is inflicting on Gaza flood global media. Domestically, Netanyahu faces deep criticism of a war many believe he is only prolonging to stay in power.
Legally, the prosecution in his corruption trial has begun its cross-examination of him, while politically, he is facing a possible collapse of his governing coalition.
Netanyahu has never seemed so embattled in his career. But is this really the end for Israel’s longest-serving prime minister?
Read more here.
Israeli lawmaker accuses Netanyahu of making ‘no real effort’ to bring captives home
Vladimir Beliak, a member of Knesset with Israel’s centrist Yesh Atid party, has accused Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of putting his own political future ahead of the fate of Israeli captives.
“We do not see any real efforts from the prime minister to rescue the hostages,” Beliak told Israeli public radio, accusing Netanyahu of exploiting the crisis to keep his government in power.
“I do not recall any Israeli citizen voting for Hamas during the elections, but they voted for this government, and it is the government’s responsibility to bring them back home,” Beliak added.
Militarised assistance in Gaza not humanitarian, not aid: Amnesty chief
Agnes Callamard has slammed the Israeli-backed aid distribution mechanism that has sidelined the UN and humanitarian groups. Dozens of Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire while seeking aid at the new sites.
Speaking virtually at an event hosted by the Arab Center Washington DC, the head of Amnesty International said Palestinians are pushed to seek aid in military buffer zones, monitored by facial recognition technology, and they are getting killed while trying to get food.
“That is not humanitarian, and that is not aid,” Callamard said.
She stressed that the humanitarian crisis in Gaza is not the result of logistic or security challenges, but a deliberate Israeli policy.
Israel is “not only fully aware that this conduct would lead to the physical destruction of Palestinians Gaza, but it also intends exactly that outcome,” Callamard said. “They actually seek to secure exactly that result.”
Israeli army chief says war to continue until ‘decisive defeat of Hamas’
Eyal Zamir, the Israeli military’s chief of the general staff, says the army is “making adjustments and establishing new mandatory service and reserve service formations” as it continues to wage war on the Gaza Strip.
“We must continue operating toward the decisive defeat of Hamas,” he told Israeli troops during a visit to northern Gaza.
“The State of Israel cannot rely on a minimal force size – it requires wide security margins. In addition, increasing the number of mandatory and reserve troops will ease the burden on reservists,” Zamir said.
His comments come as the Israeli government has come under increased pressure to end the war in order to secure the release of captives held in Gaza. Recent Israeli media reports also have detailed growing exhaustion and frustrations among soldiers amid the ongoing offensive.
But Zamir said, “The campaign is not yet over.”
“We must continue working to bring all our hostages home and to defeat the enemy. We will operate to end the campaign and transition to new combat configurations that will allow us to achieve our objectives while reducing the burden on the troops,” he said.
If you’re just joining us
Let’s bring you up to speed on the latest developments:
- Gaza’s Government Media Office has released a statement, saying the Israeli military “is deliberately creating chaos in the Gaza Strip by perpetuating a policy of starvation and deliberately targeting and killing starving people seeking food”.
- The armed wing of Hamas, Qassam Brigades, says its fighters shot and killed an Israeli soldier east of Khan Younis in southern Gaza; the Israeli military has yet to comment on the incident.
- Adalah – The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel, has released a statement in which it calls on Israel to immediately release the eight detained volunteers and return them either “to the Madleen to resume their humanitarian mission to Gaza or to their countries of origin”.
- The Palestinian Prisoner’s Society says Israel has detained about 150 people in the past week across the occupied West Bank, as Israeli forces carry out daily raids and forcibly displace residents.
- The EU has urged Israel to abandon Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich’s plan to revoke a waiver that enables Israeli banks to work with Palestinian counterparts – a move that could effectively cripple the Palestinian financial system.
UNICEF shares harrowing image of malnourished 5-year-old in Gaza
The UN’s child rights agency (UNICEF) has shared the story of Osama, 5, who is severely malnourished amid Israel’s near-total blockade on the enclave.
“He now weighs only 5 kgs, dangerously below the healthy weight for his age,” UNICEF said in a post on X. “Osama is being treated at Nasser Hospital but his full recovery depends on sufficient nutrition and follow-up care – both of which are at risk.”
The UN said earlier this month that more than 2,700 Palestinian children were suffering from acute malnutrition in Gaza.
The entire population faces the threat of starvation.
UN’s Francesca Albanese calls detention of Madleen volunteers ‘arbitrary, unlawful’
The UN’s special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territory has said on X that the detention of the eight remaining Madleen volunteers is “arbitrary, unlawful and must be immediately terminated and remedied”.
She added that the countries of the unlawfully detained, “have an obligation to intervene, decisively and without delay”.
In the post, she added a link to the statement issued by Adalah – The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel, which we reported on earlier, and which called the detention of the eight individuals “completely unlawful”.
Two Israeli soldiers injured in Khan Younis battle: Report
Israel’s Army Radio reports that two Israeli soldiers were “moderately injured” in combat in Khan Younis.
It made no mention of any deaths after Hamas’s earlier claim that it shot and killed one Israeli soldier in the area.
Photos: Land convoy headed for Gaza from Tunisia passes trough Libya’s capital
Palestinian man describes Israeli attack at Gaza aid site
We’ve spoken to Issam Wahdan, a Palestinian man whose brother was killed trying to get humanitarian aid near Gaza’s Netzarim Corridor this week.
We went multiple times to get aid, but we never got lucky. So, my brother and I decided to go early to the distribution centre,” Wahdan told Al Jazeera. “When we arrived, we were surprised to see quadcopters shooting at us. We didn’t know what to do, we had never experienced this before.
“The quadcopter threw a bomb at us. There were many wounded and martyred people, including my brother, who was wounded yesterday and died today. One of our best friends was martyred on the spot.”
Wahdan added that he and his brother felt they had no choice but to go to the aid distribution point.
“We need humanitarian aid so we have to go to the centre. My brother was married and had two boys and one daughter. His youngest is 18 months old,” he said. “His children are hungry and that forced him to go there to get some aid. When your children are hungry, you need to do anything to provide them with food.”
Israel’s ‘starvation policy won’t end until war does’
Here’s more from Chris Newton of the International Crisis Group.
Speaking to Al Jazeera, he said the deliberately insufficient aid deliveries in Gaza speak to a “larger Israeli policy of starvation”.
“[Israel] has been unable to defeat Hamas decisively militarily. It is resorting to resource denial, which really means starving all of Gaza indiscriminately,” Newton said.
He added that Israel repeatedly blocks aid until international watchdogs raise alarm over famine, then allows only “a trickle” through.
International response, he said, often focuses too narrowly on the number of aid trucks rather than the structural conditions enabling “life-threatening hunger”.
At this stage, trying to “tally trucks” is a distraction from Israel’s broader “starvation policy that it has made central to the war”, Newton said, adding, “It’s a policy that won’t end until the war ends.”
Aid operations in Gaza ‘inadequate by design’
Israel’s chaotic and violence-plagued aid system in Gaza is deliberately structured to keep Palestinians desperate and hungry while pushing them southward, says Chris Newton, a senior analyst at the International Crisis Group.
“The violence, the chaos and the complete inadequacy of the types and volume of aid being given out are not so much mistakes of the system, but really by design,” Newton said of the Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF). “This is not the system you would design if your goal was to end mass starvation in the Gaza Strip.”
Newton told Al Jazeera that the GHF’s stated aim of providing 1,750 calories worth of food per person per day is well short of the minimum standard for crisis situations.
That amount of food is “closer to the ration given in a starvation experiment run in the 1940s in the US than it is to Israel’s own previous 2008 red line for the minimum calories needed to avoid malnutrition in Gaza,” said Newton. “It’s actually almost exactly 75 percent of that ration.”
“One of the main features – how much food the GHF say it’s going to give out per person per day – is designed to be horrifically insufficient, especially after 20 months of this war,” he added.
What we know about aid site killings in Gaza
Since the Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) took over aid operations in late May – restricting distribution to a handful of hubs near Israeli military positions – deadly shootings have repeatedly occurred as crowds wait for supplies.
What do we know about these attacks and why have they become so prevalent?
EU urges Israel to cancel move to cut off Palestinian banks
The EU has urged Israel to abandon Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich’s plan to revoke a waiver that enables Israeli banks to work with Palestinian counterparts – a move that could effectively cripple the Palestinian financial system.
“The European Union is deeply concerned by the instruction by Israel’s finance minister Smotrich to cancel the waiver on cooperation with Palestinian banks, which could cut them off from the Israeli financial system, devastate an already crippled Palestinian economy, and may lead to the collapse of the Palestinian Authority,” EU spokesperson Anouar El Anouni said.
“The EU calls on Israel to revert this decision immediately and to refrain from any action that could lead to the collapse of the Palestinian Authority.”
Only surviving child of Palestinian paediatrician due to arrive in Italy for treatment
Seventeen injured Palestinians are travelling to Italy today for health treatment, Italy’s Foreign Minister has announced. Among them is 11-year-old Adam al-Najjar, who lost his father and nine siblings to an Israeli attack on their home in Gaza last month.
“Adam will arrive in Milan and be treated at Niguarda Hospital because he has multiple fractures,” Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani told RTL 102.5 radio.
Adam’s mother Alaa al-Najjar, a paediatrician who was working in Gaza’s Nasser Hospital when most of her family was killed, said his condition was “stable” despite severe wounds.
He “has a head wound that is healing but his left arm is bad, the bones are fractured and the nerves damaged,” she told Italian newspaper la Repubblica.
“The damage is in my left hand, there is a problem with the nerves, I can’t feel my fingers. There’s still a lot of pain,” Adam told Turkish news agency Anadolu.
Photos: Palestinians queue up for food amid Israel’s aid blockade
US House Speaker to travel to Jerusalem later this month, will address Israeli Knesset
Mike Johnson, the Speaker of the US House of Representatives, plans to travel to Jerusalem and address the Israeli Knesset on June 22, according to the Reuters news agency.
In a statement cited by the agency, Johnson, a vocal supporter of Israel who has spoken highly of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, said ties between the US and Israel “run deeper than military partnerships and trade agreements”.
Seven killed in Gaza City’s Tuffah area
An Israeli attack in Gaza City’s Tuffah neighbourhood has killed at least seven people, according to local medical sources quoted by our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic.
Gaza death toll rises
At least 120 Palestinians have been killed and 474 injured in Israeli attacks across Gaza in the past 24 hours, according to the enclave’s Health Ministry.
Three bodies of people killed in previous Israeli attacks were also recovered from the rubble in the war-torn territory, the ministry said.
At least 57 aid seekers were killed and more than 363 injured by Israel since this morning, bringing the total number of people killed at aid distribution centres to 224, with 1,858 others injured, it added.
The total death toll from Israel’s war on Gaza has risen to 55,104 killed and 127,394 injured since October 7, 2023, it said.
Israel has killed 4,821 Palestinians and injured 15,353 since breaking a ceasefire in March this year.
Gaza’s health system on brink of collapse: Ministry
Gaza’s Health Ministry has released a statement warning that the health system in the besieged enclave, especially in the north, is on the brink of collapse. Here is a summary of its main points:
- ️Hospitals are experiencing severe overcrowding as Israeli forces continue to prevent the entry of life-saving medical supplies.️
- Hundreds of patients and wounded are suffering from incomplete treatment due to the severe depletion of the remaining medical departments.️
- The state of healthcare in northern Gaza is “catastrophic” after all hospitals were taken out of service.️
- Emergency solutions will become “meaningless” as health and humanitarian conditions deteriorate.
- The Ministry of Health renews its urgent appeal to all concerned parties to intervene immediately.
Armed wing of Hamas claims to have killed Israeli soldier near Khan Younis
In a post on Telegram, the Qassam Brigades says its fighters shot and killed an Israeli soldier near the town of Abasan al-Kabira, located east of Khan Younis city.
Israel’s military has yet to comment.
As we just reported, Palestinian Islamic Jihad – a separate armed group in Gaza – says its fighters are also clashing with Israeli soldiers in the Khan Younis area.
Israel ‘deliberately’ targets aid seekers to perpetuate ‘policy of starvation’: Gaza’s Media Office
Gaza’s Government Media Office has released a statement, saying the Israeli military “is deliberately creating chaos in the Gaza Strip by perpetuating a policy of starvation and deliberately targeting and killing starving people seeking food”.
“This has been achieved through direct, often intentional, and sometimes random, killings by quadcopters, helicopters, or tanks, targeting young men, elderly people, and children who rushed to obtain whatever food aid was available to feed their children and families,” it said.
It said this strategy began 100 days ago, when a small number of aid trucks were allowed into the besieged enclave, only to be targeted by Israeli forces or by organised robberies carried out by armed gangs supported by Israeli forces.
It said it condemns “this criminal policy pursued by the occupation army against our Palestinian people, and we hold it fully responsible for this bloody chaos”, adding that it demands the international community take “immediate action”.
PIJ’s armed wing claims to be engaged in ‘fierce clashes’ with Israeli military
The armed wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), al-Quds Brigades, says its fighters “are engaging in fierce clashes” with Israeli soldiers and vehicles that entered an area north of Khan Younis.
In a message on its Telegram channel, it said clashes were “ongoing”.
Earlier, we reported that the group claimed to have destroyed an Israeli military vehicle after detonating a “barrel bomb”.
Hamas says Ben-Gvir trying to start ‘religious war’ with Al-Aqsa Mosque compound tour
Earlier, a group of Israelis entered Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque compound and performed religious rituals in the courtyard.
The Islamic Endowment Department in Jerusalem said far-right Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir was among those who “stormed” the compound, an act he has repeatedly taken part in since joining the government in 2022.
Hamas, in a statement, slammed Ben-Gvir for undermining the “sanctity and status of Al-Aqsa”, claiming he and the government are trying to “incite religious war”.
“We warn against the escalation of settler incursions and the performance of Talmudic rituals within the Al-Aqsa compound,” said Hamas.
The mosque compound houses one of Islam’s most sacred sites as well as Judaism’s holy Temple Mount.
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PIJ’s armed wing says it destroyed Israeli military vehicle in southern Gaza
The armed wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), al-Quds Brigades, has released a statement, saying that its fighters have confirmed they have destroyed an Israeli military vehicle by “detonating a highly explosive barrel bomb”.
It said the incident took place on June 3 in the village of Qizan an-Najjar, south of Khan Younis.
Hospitals confirm Israel killed 61 Palestinians in Gaza since dawn
At least 61 Palestinians, including 39 aid seekers, have been killed by Israeli forces in various parts of the Gaza Strip since dawn, according to medical sources speaking to Al Jazeera.
- 27 bodies arrived at al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City.
- Seven arrived at al-Awda Hospital in Nuseirat.
- Two arrived at Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir el-Balah.
- 25 bodies were taken to Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis.
Photos: Wounded Palestinians seek treatment after attack at aid distribution site
Nine killed in Israeli attack on distribution centre in southern Gaza
Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic, quoting a source at Nasser Hospital, report that nine Palestinians have been killed by Israeli army fire near an aid centre in southern Gaza’s Rafah governorate.
Earlier, we reported on a separate Israeli attack on an aid distribution point in central Gaza that killed 31 people.
Rights group calls detention of Madleen volunteers ‘completely unlawful’
Adalah, The Legal Centre for Arab Minority Rights in Israel, has released a statement in which it calls on Israel to immediately release the eight detained volunteers and return them either “to the Madleen to resume their humanitarian mission to Gaza or to their countries of origin”.
In Adalah’s view, the law applied by the tribunal, which stated “illegal entry into Israel”, is inapplicable to the volunteers. It said they neither sought to enter Israel nor intended to enter Israeli territorial waters, as their planned route was from Italy’s Sicily to international waters and then directly into the internationally recognised territorial waters of the State of Palestine, into Gaza.
“The Tribunal dismissed Adalah’s arguments, asserting that the naval blockade on Gaza is lawful under Israeli law and that the volunteers knowingly attempted to breach it,” it said.
Under Israeli law, individuals under deportation orders are detained for 72 hours or more before they are forcibly deported unless they agree to be deported earlier.
However, Adalah says the tribunal has enabled the authorities to “extend detention arbitrarily, potentially for one month … without any further judicial oversight, and in clear violation of international law”.
aIsraeli forces demolish West Bank home
Israeli bulldozers have torn down a home in the Palestinian town of Kafr ad-Dik in the occupied West Bank, according to footage verified by Al Jazeera’s Sanad fact-checking agency.
The local municipality condemned the demolition, which it said is “part of a systematic policy targeting Palestinian presence and tightening the noose around our people”.
Israeli army admits shooting near aid point in central Gaza
The Israeli military statement published in English on Telegram says its troops fired “warning shots” overnight in the area of the Netzarim Corridor where dozens of Palestinians were reported killed and hundreds injured near an aid distribution point.
It claimed that “suspects” were advancing and “posing a threat to the troops”, adding that it is “aware of reports regarding individuals injured, the details are under review”.
The army also said that it was also reviewing reports of shooting by its forces “during daylight hours that corresponds with the footage circulated in the media”.
Ikea, Nestle, Carrefour bought advertising space on ultranationalist Israeli channel: Report
The Swedish newspaper ETC has published a list of international companies that purchased advertising space on Israel’s ultranationalist Channel 14 between February 27, 2024 and May 21, 2025.
The channel often broadcasts debate programmes, in which Israeli panellists advocate the total eradication of Palestinian homes in the Gaza Strip.
ETC also reported that three Israeli civil society organisations have presented extensive evidence against the channel in a petition to Israel’s Supreme Court, alleging that the television channel is inciting genocide against the Palestinians of the Gaza Strip.
The channel also receives financial benefits from the state, including significant tax exemptions and administrative costs, with the remaining funding coming in the form of advertising revenue, ETC reported.
In the past year, 50 of the 418 companies that have broadcast advertising on the channel are international or multinational companies, including the French retail giant Carrefour, the Swiss multinational food and drink processing conglomerate Nestle and multinational conglomerate Ikea, the newspaper said.
Israel says it killed Palestinian fighter in occupied West Bank’s Tammun
Israel’s military has issued a statement, saying it killed a Palestinian fighter in the West Bank town of Tammun during an overnight raid, in an apparent reference to Ra’iq Abdul Rahman Bisharat, senior member of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) armed group.
The military also confirmed arresting two other people in Tammun during the overnight operation, carried out jointly with the Shin Bet security service and a special operations unit of the Israeli police.
The military described those apprehended as members of a local “terrorist network” and said they were being processed by the Shin Bet.
Israel’s Smotrich could paralyse Palestinian economy by ending bank waiver
Israel’s far-right finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, has cancelled a waiver that Palestinian banks rely on to operate, hours after five Western governments announced he faced sanctions, along with fellow ultranationalist Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, for inciting violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.
Warnings have previously been raised that Israel’s ending of the waiver could have devastating consequences for the Palestinian economy, which is dependent on the Israeli banking system as the Palestinian Authority (PA) does not have its own central bank or currency.
“Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has instructed Accountant General CPA Yali Rothenberg to cancel the indemnity provided to correspondent banks dealing with banks operating in Palestinian Authority territories,” Smotrich’s office said in a statement on Tuesday, announcing the changes.
The statement also directly linked Smotrich’s decision to the PA’s international advocacy against the establishment of illegal settlements in the occupied territories, which the minister’s office described as the “delegitimisation campaign against the State of Israel internationally”.
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Nasser Hospital dispels rumours of upcoming evacuation
Nasser Hospital, the largest functioning health facility in southern Gaza, has issued a statement, saying “all medical, nursing and administrative staff are operating at full capacity and continuing to provide medical services to citizens around the clock”.
It added that numerous international organisations, including the Palestinian Medical Relief Foundation and the British Medical Association, continue to provide on-site support.
A medical team with Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has temporarily left, but is expected to return once the security situation improves, it added.
