The Israel Broadcasting Corporation has published video footage of a demonstration in front of the family home of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel’s coastal Caesarea town.

The broadcaster said that the Israeli police arrested at least five people, who were protesting against Netanyahu’s policies, including on getting a deal with Hamas for the release of Israeli captives held in Gaza.

Those detained were arrested for causing “unreasonable noise”, the report added.

הפגנה מול בית נתניהו בקיסריה: חמישה עצורים הובאו לתחנת המשטרה בחדרה בגין הפרת גבול והקמת רעש בלתי סביר | תיעוד
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Freed Israeli captive calls for more protests

Islamic Jihad says captive deal can only happen after Israel’s withdrawal

Dozens of University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) graduate students staged a walk-out of their graduation ceremony to protest Israel’s war on Gaza.

A video posted on X by an activist group, showed the students chanting, “Disclose, divest, we will not stop we will not rest!”, as they left the ceremony on Friday.

Earlier this year, a pro-Palestinian and Gaza solidarity encampment at UCLA was violently attacked by a pro-Israeli mob before being cleared out by police shortly after.

grad students at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs staged a walkout from their commencement ceremony chanting “disclose, divest, we will not stop we will not rest!” ceremony was held at Royce Hall, where students were terrorized by Zionists & police at their encampment🇵🇸🇵🇸 pic.twitter.com/Ju4EtpkCjl

— People's City Council - Los Angeles (@PplsCityCouncil) June 14, 2024

Wikipedia war: Fierce row erupts over Israel’s deadly Nuseirat assault

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/6/14/wikipedia-war-fierce-row-erupts-over-israels-deadly-nuseirat-assault

Palestinian groups demand inspection of Israeli prisons as detainees are released with chronic health problems

https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/14/middleeast/israel-detention-palestinians-release-intl-latam/index.html

The Palestinian Legislative Council in Gaza has demanded international inspections of Israeli detention centers, after the release of a number of prisoners this week who appeared frail and thin after several months in detention.

Among those released was the Council’s former Speaker, Aziz Dweik, who had been held for nine months, accused of affiliation with Hamas. He appeared much thinner and greyer than before being detained.

The Council said it “looks with anger at the crimes committed by the enemy against the prisoners, and the greatest example is the photo of Dr. Aziz Dweik when he left the occupation prisons.”

The Council alleged that the prisoners had been subjected to starvation, isolation and torture.

Dweik himself said Friday that prisoners were “starved for 24 hours a day. The prisoners are in poor health conditions, suffering from skin diseases, and the food is insufficient even for children, let alone meeting the needs of men.”


CNN has asked the Israel Defense Forces and prison authorities for a response to the allegations made by the Council.

Most of the approximately 30 prisoners released from the Negev and Ofer prisoners this week were administrative detainees, who had not been charged with any offenses. One of them, according to the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society, was Saed Abu Shanab from Tulkarm, who had spent 21 years in Israeli prisons.

The Prisoners’ Society said that the condition of the prisoners “reflect some of the harsh and humiliating conditions of detention, including acts of torture, abuse and starvation, in addition to medical crimes.”

In May, CNN published an investigation based on testimonies from whistleblowers at the Negev facility which reported that “doctors sometimes amputated prisoners’ limbs due to injuries sustained from constant handcuffing; [and] of medical procedures sometimes performed by underqualified medics.”


In response to that reporting, the IDF responded that it “ensures proper conduct towards the detainees in custody. Any allegation of misconduct by IDF soldiers is examined and dealt with accordingly.”

The Israeli military has acknowledged partially converting three different military facilities into detention camps for Palestinian detainees from Gaza since the Hamas-led October 7 attack on Israel.

The Prisoners’ Society said in April that the vast majority of detainees released suffered from health problems “which required the transfer of some of them to the hospital immediately upon their release.”

Hamas’s armed wing, the Qassam Brigades, says they killed and wounded Israeli soldiers in a “complex ambush” in southern Gaza.

In a statement, the Qassam Brigades said its fighters “carried out a complex ambush against enemy vehicles penetrating the area of ​​the Saudi neighbourhood in Tal as-Sultan, west of the city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip.”

“Al-Qassam Brigades targeted a Zionist D9 bulldozer with an Al-Yassin 105 shell in Tal as-Sultan, leading to the killing and injury of soldiers,” it said.

It added that following the arrival of an Israeli rescue force, a troop carrier was targeted with an Al-Yassin 105 missile, resulting in its destruction and the “death” of those on board.

In another statement, the armed wing also said it “targeted, alongside the Al-Quds Brigades, the Sufa military site in southern Israel with a missile salvo.” The Israeli command headquarters in the Netzarim axis west of Gaza City was also targeted with “short-range missiles,” according to the statement.

Israel says 8 soldiers killed in Rafah

Pentagon Press Secretary Patrick Ryder says US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin has invited his Israeli counterpart to Washington following a call earlier this week.

Austin invited Yoav Gallant to the United States on an unspecified date and time to discuss “ongoing security developments in the Middle East. “Minister Gallant has accepted the invitation and will travel to the US soon (date/time TBD)”.

Following the dramatic Israeli operation to rescue four captives in Gaza last week, which resulted in a massacre of more than 270 Palestinians, the Israeli public is more vocal about a ceasefire deal remaining the best option to secure their safe return.

While Netanyahu has paid lip service to the public’s demand to bring the captives home, Israelis are coming to the realisation that the issue is a headache for him – it gets in the way of what seems to be his effort to prolong this war for his political career.

Al Jazeera’s The Listening Post speaks to experts to discuss the political significance of the captives.

Israeli protesters block road in Tel Aviv

Demonstrators from the Tunisian Network to Counter the Normalization System are staging their weekly rally in support of Palestinians in Gaza, in front of the US embassy in Tunisia’s capital, Tunis.

The participants waved Palestinian, Tunisian and Yemeni flags, as well as banners denouncing Israel’s actions in Gaza, as seen in footage on social media verified by Al Jazeera’s fact-checking agency Sanad.

Israeli protesters block road in Tel Aviv

After the Israeli army announced that eight of its soldiers were killed in southern Gaza’s Rafah today, the Israeli prime minister issued a video statement via X.

• We paid a heartbreaking price in our just war.
• We fight to preserve our existence and our future, and we fight to recover those who were kidnapped.
• Our brutal enemy has no intention of stopping, but rather wants to continue trying to annihilate us, so there is no alternative to victory.
• We are at the height of a difficult war on many fronts, including international forums, and we face many challenges ahead.
• Despite the destabilizing price, we will adhere to the war goals of eliminating Hamas and returning the kidnapped, and so that Gaza will not pose a threat again.

Israel’s war on Gaza, now eight months old, has, as of today, killed at least 37,296 people and wounded 85,197.

So much projection, you are the brutal enemy with no intention of ever stopping, trying to erase Palestine since the 1920's.

You can't preserve your existence as brutal oppressor running a fascist apartheid state. It's time Israel advances into the 20th century. 19th century settler colonialism has been put in the past for good reason and certainly doesn't belong in the 21st century.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that this is a heavy price to pay, but it should not divert away from the fact that Israel still has to achieve all of its goals in this war.

Nearly nine months into this deadly war in Gaza, the Israeli army has not achieved any of these goals. They have not released all of the remaining Israeli captives. They have not ensured that Gaza no longer poses a threat to Israel. And they have not dismantled Hamas’s military and political capabilities.

We also heard from Israel’s opposition leader, Yair Lapid, who essentially emphasised the same thought: That this is a heavy price to pay, and that this is a war that is going to experience losses.

We’re hearing from a wide variety of people at this hour that the Hostage and Missing Families Forum, that group’s spokesperson, has said that Israel cannot win in Gaza against Hamas. And we also heard from one Israeli captive who was released by the Israeli army in what they called a rescue mission that killed nearly 300 Palestinians, calling on the Israeli government to enter into a deal. The demands from protesters are becoming much more severe.

Israeli media outlet Ynet, citing the army’s spokesperson, reports that a 19-year-old sergeant succumbed to wounds he received in an explosion in southern Gaza’s Rafah on Monday.

In the incident in which he received the wounds, an officer and three other soldiers were killed, the spokesperson added.

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni wrapped up the three-day global event by discussing the core points of the group’s final communique.

Concerning Gaza, the document stressed the G7’s support for a ceasefire deal laid out by US President Joe Biden. It also said that Israel “must comply with its obligation under international law” and “refrain from” launching an offensive in Gaza’s southern city of Rafah.

Yet, it stopped short of condemning Israel for its conduct during this war, which is currently being investigated by the International Court of Justice – the world’s highest court – in a genocide case being brought by South Africa against Israel.

In light of the absence of strong language towards Israel’s actions in Gaza, Al Jazeera asked the prime minister what it would take for the G7 to condemn Israel or to consider steps similar to those taken against Russia, such as sanctions or a ban on weapon sales to Israel.

Meloni dodged the question. And while she said that Palestinians have the right to have their own state, she made it clear that Italy is a “friend of Israel”. “Now, what we have to do is to work for peace and it is exactly what we’re doing and work for peace we have to dialogue and we have to recognise the right of Israel to be safe,” Meloni told Al Jazeera.

White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan has said that mediators from Qatar and Egypt plan to engage with Hamas soon to see if there is still a way to push ahead with the ceasefire proposal offered by US President Joe Biden.

Sullivan said he spoke with Qatar’s Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani and that they would speak again about Gaza tomorrow while both are in Switzerland for the Ukraine peace summit.

Hamas has welcomed the ceasefire proposal and is looking to secure an end to the war, a demand Israel still rejects.

Sullivan said that US officials have examined Hamas’s response closely. He said the next step will be for Qatari and Egyptian mediators to talk to Hamas and “go through what can be worked with and what really can’t be worked with”.

“We anticipate a back-and-forth between the mediators and Hamas. We’ll see where we stand at that point. We will keep consulting with the Israelis and then hopefully, at some point next week, we’ll be able to report to you where we think things stand and what we see as being the next step to try to bring this to closure,” Sullivan said.

Israeli forces reportedly assaulted a young man from the Jenin refugee camp, in the occupied West Bank, which led to his hospitalisation, according to Palestinian security and local sources, Palestinian news agency Wafa reported.

Soldiers severely beat Saddam Abu Rmeila, a resident of the camp who was arrested two days ago, according to Wafa.

Following his assault, he was left unconscious at the eastern entrance of the town of Yabad. Abu Rmeila was subsequently transported to Ibn Sina Hospital in Jenin for medical treatment, the agency said.

Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency reports two strikes on Lebanese territory this evening.

The agency says that the villages of Aytaroun and Ayta al-Shaab were struck, the first by a drone that fired three missiles, and the second by Israeli warplanes.

Earlier today, two United Nations officials based in Lebanon warned that there is a “very real” threat of miscalculation that could lead to a wider war as cross-border fighting between Hezbollah and Israel rages.

Displaced Palestinian children in Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Gaza’s central city of Deir el-Balah are celebrating the occasion of Eid al-Adha, despite the conditions of the ongoing war.

Social media footage, verified by Al Jazeera’s fact-checking agency Sanad, showed crowds of children singing in celebration.

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Israeli forces have launched artillery attacks on several areas in the southwest of Gaza City, according to Palestinian news agency Wafa.

Israeli naval vessels bombarded the Tal al-Hawa and Sheikh Ajlin neighbourhoods, while Israeli military vehicles also opened heavy gunfire in the areas, Wafa said. Israeli warplanes also conducted low-altitude flights over Gaza City, stirring fear among Palestinians in the area, the agency reported.

Israeli forces raze homes in Rafah