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Here’s where things stand on Tuesday 3 June 2025:
- Gaza’s Government Media Office has accused Israel of “a horrific, intentionally repeated crime”, saying it has lured starving Palestinians to aid centres run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation and killed 102 of them in the past eight days.
- At least 27 Palestinians have been killed in the latest such attack in southern Gaza’s Rafah governorate, according to the enclave’s Health Ministry.
- The Israeli military says three of its soldiers have been killed in northern Gaza’s Jabalia area, in what appeared to be the deadliest attack on them since they ended a ceasefire with Hamas in March.
- 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.
Photos: Palestinians queue for drinking water in Gaza amid severe shortages
New GHF chief lauded Trump’s plan for removing Palestinians from Gaza
We reported earlier that the US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation has appointed evangelical leader Johnnie Moore as its new chief.
There have been concerns that GHF could be used as a vehicle for displacing Palestinians inside Gaza, and to push them to leave the territory.
In February, Moore praised Trump’s plan to remove all Palestinians from Gaza and turn the enclave into the “Riviera of the Middle East”.
“President Trump always sees war through the eyes of its human cost, & he thinks creatively — never bound by conventional wisdom. He stops wars & makes peace,” Moore wrote in a social media post.
“The USA will take full responsibility for future of Gaza, giving everyone hope & a future”.
Global think tank to Europe: ‘Words are not enough’
In a statement titled “Europe on Gaza: Words Are Not Enough”, the International Crisis Group urges European leaders to back their stated concern over the humanitarian crisis in Gaza with action.
In recent weeks, several European countries have employed stern language to rebuke Israel’s blockade that has brought hundreds of thousands of people in Gaza to the verge of starvation.
But most European countries enjoy warm ties with Israel and continue to export weapons to the country. The EU is Israel’s top trade partner.
“For European Union members and the UK to have any hope of contributing to changes in Israel’s policy, they need to throw more of their economic and diplomatic weight into signalling to Israel that the Gaza campaign must end”, the International Crisis Group said.
“A starting point would be to ban arms sales to Israel or, at least, forbid the use of weapons from Europe in Gaza; commit to upholding the International Criminal Court’s arrest warrants for top Israeli officials, including Netanyahu himself, if they travel to Europe; curb preferential trade benefits; and sanction those senior officials and ministers pushing illegal settlement policy, while threatening further steps if the assault does not stop.”
US ‘aid’ group for Gaza appoints pro-Israel evangelical leader as new chief
The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) has announced Johnnie Moore – a US evangelical leader staunchly supportive of Israel – as its new executive chairman.
Moore has been talking up the foundation’s work in Gaza and denying Israeli attacks, which have killed dozens of Palestinians, near the aid distribution sites.
UN agencies and the overwhelming majority of the humanitarian community have rejected diverting aid from the existing mechanism to allow GHF to exclusively distribute assistance in Gaza.
Critics say the foundation risks the militarisation and privatisation of the aid and could be used to displace Palestinians in Gaza.
Moore succeeds the former head of GHF, Jake Wood, who quit the group saying that it is not possible to implement private aid distribution plan “while also strictly adhering to the humanitarian principles of humanity, neutrality, impartiality, and independence”.
WHO calls for protection of health facilities after demolition of dialysis centre
The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) has called for a ceasefire in Gaza and “the urgent protection of all health facilities and personnel”.
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus made the comments after Israeli forces this week demolished the Noura al-Kaabi Kidney Dialysis Centre in northern Gaza.
According to Tedros, the centre had been providing care to about 40 patients each week.
“Last week, WHO moved 20 of the 23 dialysis machines out of the center to keep them safe,” the director general said in a post on X.
Israeli military and settler attacks reported across the occupied West Bank
The Palestinian news agency Wafa has reported a number of Israeli military and settler attacks in the occupied West Bank today. Here is a quick summary:
- Israeli forces attacked Palestinian civilians in the town of Beit Ummar, north of Hebron, and confiscated two agricultural tractors.
- Israeli forces raided several archaeological sites in the town of Qarawat Bani Hassan, west of Salfit in the occupied West Bank.
- Israeli military forces on Tuesday carried out land-levelling operations in the village of Deir Jarir, close to Ramallah.
- Israeli settlers destroyed dozens of olive trees in the village of Kafr Malek east of Ramallah.
Photos: Palestinians leave Khan Younis after evacuation orders
Western European opinion of Israel plummets: Survey
Public opinion of Israel has plunged to record lows across Western Europe, with widespread condemnation of its military operations in Gaza, according to the latest YouGov Eurotrack survey.
The survey, conducted in Britain, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy and Spain, reveals a stark shift in sentiment, with net favourability ratings in Germany, France and Denmark for Israel reaching their lowest levels since tracking began in 2016.
In each of the six countries surveyed, only 13 percent to 21 percent of respondents expressed a favourable view of Israel, while 63 percent to 70 percent said their opinion was unfavourable.
Only 7-18 percent said they sympathised most with Israel, according to YouGov.
Israeli attacks kill three in Deir el-Balah, four near Khan Younis
Medical sources at Nasser Hospital tell Al Jazeera Arabic that an Israeli drone has killed at least four Palestinians in the Joura area near Khan Younis in southern Gaza.
A separate Israeli attack in central Gaza killed three Palestinians and injured several others in Deir el-Balah.
Lufthansa extends Israel flight suspension
Germany’s Lufthansa is suspending flights to Israel for another week over ongoing security concerns, the aviation group has announced.
Flights operated by the group, which also owns carriers such as Austrian Airlines, Brussels Airlines, SWISS and Eurowings, will remain suspended until June 22.
Lufthansa halted connections following a missile strike launched from Yemen on Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion Airport last month.
Palestinian pilgrims from the West Bank face Israeli violence on journey to Hajj
Palestinians from the occupied West Bank will also be in Mecca for Hajj.
Just getting there, they’ve faced military checkpoints, travel restrictions and Israeli violence.
Despite that, they say it’s a chance to pray for peace for one of the most devastated places in the world.
‘Children cannot unsee what they’ve seen’ in Gaza: Save the Children
It feels like aid workers in Gaza are working with “two hands tied” behind their backs, Georgia Tacey, Save the Children’s Gaza response director, tells Al Jazeera.
“At the moment, we are just running services instead of being able to deliver a lot of the usual aid like food hygiene kits, shelter kits, because our warehouses are empty and all of our stock is stuck in thousands of trucks on the border,” Tacey said.
It is “a roller-coaster of emotions here between anger and frustration and despair. … I’ve been working in the sector for 20 years. We haven’t seen anything like this before,” she said.
Referring to the GHF’s takeover of aid distribution in Gaza, she said: “When you have only four distribution sites instead of the 400 that we’re used to working with in terms of the UN and NGO community, people are going to act desperately, and they’re humiliated that they’re acting this way, and they shouldn’t be expected to act politely.”
“This system was set up by design to fail, so all we’re asking is to open those borders. Let us do our jobs. Children cannot unsee what they’ve seen. They can’t unknow what they know now, which is that it appears human rights are only for children in certain countries,” she said.
UN official condemns killings of Palestinians near aid sites
Jeremy Laurence, spokesperson for the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, has voiced deep concern over the killing of more than 100 Palestinians near US-backed aid sites in Gaza.
“Can you imagine someone who is so desperate for food that they are making this trek over a long distance, and the fear that they must have – that they could even be shot or that they may even come back with no food?” Laurence told Al Jazeera.
“They’re at the risk of starvation. As the high commissioner [Volker Turk] says, it’s unconscionable.”
Laurence said attacks directed against civilians “constitute a grave breach of international law”.
“That is a war crime,” he said, adding that wilfully impeding access to food or other life-sustaining supplies for civilians “may also constitute a war crime”.
Israeli forces targeted heads, chests of Palestinians collecting food
The civil defence teams have described the distribution points where Palestinians are supposed to get food as death traps.
Israeli forces situated these distribution points in the western parts of Rafah, an area that is known as a safe humanitarian zone.
Israeli forces opened fire on thousands of Palestinians who were going there only for the sake of getting food.
Now, talking to people, collecting testimonies, there are Palestinians who were killed as they were holding food parcels. A woman was trying to feed her children and her family.
Many of the injured are still in hospital. They’re in the ICU because the Israeli forces mainly targeted the heads, the chest and the upper parts of the body.
Doctors are saying that most of those injured are in a very serious, critical situation that’s why they were calling for blood donations, as Nasser Hospital has been running out of blood units and also running out of medical supplies.
According to the Health Ministry, since those distribution points were set up, at least 102 Palestinians have been killed and more than 460 have been injured.
Witnesses recount deadly shooting at Rafah aid centre
We have been reporting on the 27 Palestinians killed by Israeli fire at the US-backed aid distribution site in southern Gaza’s Rafah governorate.
Rania al-Astal, 30, said she had gone to the area with her husband to try to get food.
“The shooting began intermittently around 5am [03:00 GMT]. Every time people approached Al-Alam roundabout, they were fired upon,” she told the AFP news agency.
Another witness, Mohammed al-Shaer, said at first, “the Israeli army fired shots into the air, then began shooting directly at the people.”
“A helicopter and quadcopters [drones] started firing at the crowd to prevent them from approaching the tank barrier. There were injuries and deaths,” the 44-year-old told AFP.
“I didn’t reach the centre, and we didn’t get any food.”
Photos: Dead, wounded recovered from rubble in Gaza City
Gaza health system teeters amid staff and equipment shortages: MSF director
Fadi al-Madhoun, medical director for Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in Gaza, has described the dire challenges facing the health system in the enclave.
Here are his translated comments:
- The health situation in the Gaza Strip is complex, and there is a shortage of staff and equipment.
- If Nasser Hospital goes out of service, it will be a major disaster for the residents of southern Gaza.
- We call for the health system in the Gaza Strip to be kept away from any military operations.
- We call for providing health services to the population in the Gaza Strip without any restrictions or conditions.
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Here are the latest developments:
- At least 58 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza since dawn, according to medical sources speaking to Al Jazeera.
- The total death toll from Israel’s war on Gaza has risen to 54,510 killed and 124,901 injured since October 7, 2023, the enclave’s Health Ministry says.
- The United Nations human rights office says the impediment of access to food and relief for civilians in Gaza may constitute a war crime, describing attacks on civilians trying to access food aid as unconscionable.
- Spain’s Defence Ministry will not go ahead with the purchase of Spike antitank missiles from Israeli firm Rafael, according to Spanish media.
- About 58 percent of respondents in Germany favour a temporary halt to arms exports to Israel, according to a study by polling firm INSA.
Norway’s wealth fund reviews Israeli bank stakes over West Bank settler loans
The ethics watchdog for Norway’s $1.9 trillion wealth fund is scrutinising Israeli banks’ practice of underwriting Israeli settlers’ housebuilding commitments in the occupied West Bank in a review that could prompt up to $500m in divestments.
The Council on Ethics, a public body set up by the Ministry of Finance, has, however, decided not to object to the fund’s investments in accommodation platforms such as Airbnb that offer rentals in the illegal Israeli settlements.
The body checks that firms in the portfolio of the world’s largest wealth fund meet ethical guidelines set by Norway’s parliament.
Gaza hospitals operate in ‘catastrophic’ conditions: Ministry
Gaza’s Health Ministry has provided an update on the conditions at hospitals in the coastal enclave amid ongoing Israeli attacks.
Here are its translated comments:
- Operating rooms, intensive care units and emergency rooms are experiencing catastrophic conditions with an increase in serious injuries.
- Shortages of life-saving medicines, medical supplies and diagnostic imaging equipment prevent urgent surgical interventions for the wounded.
- Medical teams are working under complex conditions and extended hours in attempts to treat the wounded and save their lives.
- Community appeals for blood donations have become ineffective as malnutrition among citizens worsens.
- Generators are operating on limited fuel reserves to supply vital departments with electricity.
Israel kills 58 Palestinians in Gaza since dawn
At least 58 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza, according to medical sources speaking to Al Jazeera.
Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza’s Khan Younis received 35 of those killed today, including 27 aid seekers who were shot dead at an aid distribution site in Rafah governorate.
Six others were received by Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in central Gaza’s Deir el-Balah.
In Gaza City, al-Shifa Hospital received 14 bodies, and three more were delivered to al-Ahli Arab Hospital.
Spain cancels $325m arms deal with Israel’s Rafael firm
Spain’s Defence Ministry will not go ahead with the purchase of Spike antitank missiles from Israeli firm Rafael, according to Spanish media.
The $325m deal was finalised four days before Israel’s war on Gaza erupted on October 7, 2023, the reports said.
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Hamas says former US official’s admission of Israeli war crimes exposes Washington
The group says recent remarks by former US State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller under the Biden administration, who acknowledged that Israel committed war crimes in Gaza, as “an important admission”.
“[It] condemns the occupation, confirms its crimes, and exposes the US administration’s attempts to obscure the truth about this brutal war against innocent civilians in the Gaza Strip,” Hamas said in a statement.
Miller recently told UK broadcaster Sky News that it was “without a doubt true that Israel has committed war crimes” in Gaza.
Hamas highlighted Miller’s statement that “he was not permitted to tell the truth” while in office “exposes the deep political complicity of the US administration with the occupation and its criminal cover-up of its brutal violations”.
“This admission not only condemns the occupation, but also holds Washington directly accountable as an actual partner in the war crimes and genocide perpetrated against our Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip, through funding, arming, providing political and diplomatic protection, and misleading media coverage,” it added.
Israeli army blocks journalists from touring occupied West Bank villages
Israeli soldiers have barred journalists from entering villages in the occupied West Bank on a planned tour organised by the directors of the Oscar-winning movie No Other Land.
The directors of the film, which focuses on Israeli settler attacks on Palestinians in the occupied territory, said they had invited the journalists on Monday’s tour to interview residents about increasing settler violence in the area.
In a video posted on X by the film’s co-director, Yuval Abraham, an Israeli soldier tells a group of international journalists there is “no passage” in the area because of a military order.
Basel Adra, a Palestinian co-director of the film who lives in the area, said the military then blocked the journalists from entering two Palestinian villages they had hoped to visit.
“They don’t want journalists to visit the villages to meet the residents,” said Adra, who had invited the journalists to his home. “It’s clear they don’t want the world to see what is happening here.”