Doctor who lost 9 of 10 children in Israeli attack dies in hospital

Hamdi al-Najjar, who was wounded in the Israeli air attack that killed his children, has died of his wounds. Al-Najjar spent days in intensive care. His 11-year-old son is the sole survivor of the attack.

His wife, Alaa al-Najjar, who is also a doctor, left hours before Israel struck their home to go to work.

Israeli forces kill 14 Palestinians at US-backed aid site in south Gaza

Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic are reporting that Israeli forces have opened fire near an aid site run by a US-backed group in Rafah, killing at least 14 Palestinians.

More than 50 others were wounded.

Death toll at south Gaza aid site rises to 22

We are following an Israeli attack on a group of young Palestinian men near an aid distribution point run by the US-backed group in Rafah. Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic say the toll has now risen from 14 to 22.

The number of those wounded has also risen to 115.

US-Israeli aid sites in Gaza are ‘mass death traps, not humanitarian relief points’

The Government Media Office in Gaza has issued a statement confirming Israel’s killing of at least 22 people and wounding of 115 others at a US-backed aid site in Rafah, and said the toll is likely to rise.

It also said the latest killings have taken the toll at such sites to at least 39 in less than a week. More than 220 people have also been wounded. It said the killings “reflect the nature of these areas as mass death traps, not humanitarian relief points”.

It added: “We confirm to the entire world that what is happening is a systematic and malicious use of aid as a tool of war, employed to blackmail starving civilians and forcibly gather them in exposed killing points, managed and monitored by the occupation army and funded and politically covered by the occupation and the US administration, which bears full moral and legal responsibility for these crimes.”

_{Palestinians receive aid supplies from the US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, in the central Gaza Strip, May 29}

Death toll at US-backed aid site rises to 30

We are following an Israeli attack on Palestinians gathered near an aid distribution point set up by the US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation in Rafah. Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic say the death toll has risen from 22 to 30 and that at least 120 people have been wounded.

‘We hope to God that we will be rid of this war’

Palestinians are clinging to the hope that a ceasefire deal can be reached. Motasim, a displaced man in Deir el-Balah, said Palestinians would find a way to feed themselves as long as the war ends.

“We suffered, some of us died of hunger, no one cared about us, no Arab cares about us,” he said.

“We hope to God that we will be rid of this war. We want to stop the bloodshed. We don’t want aid from anyone. We will plant and feed ourselves. We hope to God that the bloodshed in Gaza will stop, the massacres that are taking place daily will stop. We are exhausted. I swear to God, we are exhausted.”

Abu Tamer Haniyeh, another displaced person, said: “A fundamental demand of every Palestinian, young and old, is to stop the war and establish calm so that aid can reach the people properly.”


_{Palestinians evacuate in the aftermath of an Israeli strike on a house, in Gaza City, May 30}

Another Palestinian killed in Israeli shooting at US-backed aid hub in central Gaza

We’ve been following an Israeli attack on the GHF’s aid site in southern Rafah, which killed at least 30 Palestinians and wounded 120 others. We are now getting reports of another deadly Israeli attack at another GHF site in central Gaza, near the so-called Netzarim Corridor.

At least one person has been killed and another wounded, according to Al Jazeera Arabic.

Israel preventing ambulances from reaching Rafah attack site: Gaza ambulance director

We’ve been reporting on the Israeli attack on the US-backed GHF aid site in Rafah that has killed at least 30 Palestinians and injured dozens.

The director of ambulance services in Gaza has now spoken to Al Jazeera about the attack, and the wider issues facing ambulance services in the coastal enclave.

Palestinians being killed while trying to secure ‘one meal for their children’

People are very stressed, and all they want is to feed their families, to secure one meal for their children.

This is why Palestinians have been going to these distribution points, despite the fact that they know that they are controversial. They [distribution points] are backed by the US and Israel, but they do not have any other option.

They’re saying that all we want, all we need, is to get food, and even the food parcels that were distributed to Palestinians are barely enough.

We’re talking about one kilo of flour, a couple of bags of pasta, a couple of cans of fava beans – and it’s not nutritious. It’s not enough for a family in Gaza nowadays. So, Palestinians are very very stressed and devastated. Whatever is coming in of the wheat flour and food is not distributed yet. And the situation is very, very dire.

Israeli forces opened fire as people went to receive aid near Rafah: Witness

Ibrahim Abu Saoud, who witnessed the Israeli attack on aid seekers near Rafah, says Israeli forces opened fire at people moving towards the Israeli-backed distribution centre.

“There were many martyrs, including women”, Abu Saoud, 40, was quoted as saying by the Associated Press news agency. “We were about 300 metres [328 yards] away from the military.”

Abu Saoud said he saw many people with gunshot wounds, including a young man who he said had died at the scene. “We weren’t able to help him.”

Timeline of Israeli attacks on new US-backed aid sites

Israel committed ‘full-fledged war crime’ by killing aid seekers in Rafah: PFLP

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) has condemned “the new massacre of the starving people in Rafah”, in which at least 30 people were killed when Israeli forces opened fire on Palestinians approaching a US-backed aid point, saying it was “a genocide with international complicity and American participation”.

“What happened constitutes a full-fledged war crime,” said the leftist group, which warned Palestinians several days ago that the aid distribution points set up by Israel and the US were “death traps”.

“We demand urgent international and Arab intervention to stop this ongoing massacre and impose strict accountability mechanisms on the criminal occupation, in addition to immediately breaking the siege,” the PFLP said.

_{Palestinians push a cart with bodies after people were reportedly hit by Israeli fire near a food distribution centre in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on June 1}

Flour prices hit $20 per kg in Gaza as Israeli blockade leaves families scavenging

Gaza’s flour markets reveal the brutal economics of survival under blockade, where a kilogram of flour, globally averaging $1.50, now costs up to $20 amid Israel’s restrictions.

With pre-war daily wages at just $18 and unemployment rampant, families ration tiny portions, some stretching a single kilogram over days while relying on besieged charity kitchens.

Parents speak of impossible choices: paying exorbitant prices or watching children beg for food as malnutrition deaths rise. Widows and vulnerable groups face hardship, often dependent on dwindling aid that rarely reaches them.

Israeli soldiers open fire when crowds grow at aid points: Charity chief

Bassam Zaqout, director of the Palestinian Medical Relief Society, has described the chaotic scenes at aid distribution points following the deadly Israeli attack in Rafah.

“People walk for miles from early morning, trying to reach the limited aid points, now just four across Gaza … and all surrounded by Israeli soldiers. When they sense the crowds grow and are not controllable, soldiers open fire on those waiting for supplies,” Zaqout told Al Jazeera from Gaza City.

Zaqout added that the healthcare system in Gaza was overwhelmed.

“The hospitals are operating with extremely limited resources. Medical staff are forced to focus only on life-saving procedures for the wounded… those patients with non-critical or mild injuries receive basic treatment so they can recover,” he said.

“But those with severe injuries who require more advanced treatments … doctors work with them to put them in a stabilisation situation … and some of them will go on a waiting list with other thousands of wounded people to reach the health assistance outside Gaza Strip.”

GHF claims Israeli soldiers fired ‘warning shots’, reports of deaths ‘false’

The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) says that Israeli soldiers fired “warning shots” as aid seekers gathered to receive food early on Sunday morning, according to the Associated Press news agency.

The Israel-backed aid group denied reports that dozens of Palestinians were killed, describing them as “false reporting about deaths, mass injuries and chaos”. In an earlier statement, the GHF said 16 truckloads of aid were distributed early on Sunday “without incident”.

Back to gaslighting...

Israeli army claims to be ‘unaware’ of deadly incident at Rafah aid point

We have been reporting on the attack in Rafah by Israeli forces near the aid distribution point that killed at least 35 aid seekers.

The Israeli army said in a statement on Telegram in English that it was “currently unaware of injuries caused by [Israeli troops’] fire within the humanitarian aid distribution site” and that the incident was still under review.

_{Bodies of victims are being brought to the Nasser Hospital for the funeral after Israeli soldiers opened fire at Palestinians trying to reach the GHF aid point west of Rafah city in the southern Gaza Strip}

Hamas condemns Israel’s ‘brutal’ Rafah attack

The Gaza-based armed group has released a statement regarding the Israeli attack in Rafah near the GHF aid distribution point.

Here are its translated comments:

GHF has been weaponising food since day one: Aid worker

Afeef Nessouli, a volunteer with medical aid organisation Glia International, says the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation “has not been able to have a successful distribution of aid” since Israel recently allowed limited aid into the enclave.

Nessouli, talking to Al Jazeera from the town of al-Qarara near Rafah in southern Gaza, said the US-backed aid group has been weaponising food since it started the job. “It has been an incredibly loud morning [in al-Qarara]. It seems these distribution sites are disorganised and have malintent [malevolent intent], to be honest,” he said.

“The GHF has not been successful to this day and has even seemed to target Palestinians when they are extremely hungry as they try to get aid,” the volunteer stressed.

_{Palestinian rescuers evacuate injured people in an ambulance at the Bureij refugee camp after an Israeli drone reportedly opened fire on civilian gatherings near an aid distribution point not far from the so-called Netzarim Corridor, in the central Gaza Strip, on June 1}

‘No room for mistakes’ as people are starving in Gaza: Aid worker

Afeef Nessouli, a volunteer with medical aid organisation Glia International, says local NGOs refuse to work with the mechanism put in place by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, the US-backed aid distribution organisation.

“It is because, in general, the mechanism that was in place with the UN and our partners in the past was tried and true,” he said. Nessouli said hundreds of distribution sites were set up through the previous mechanism backed by the UN, adding that the new system is “absolutely disorganised” in comparison.

Earlier, the distribution sites “could get food and supplies to people at home”, Nessouli said, reminding that there are many disabled people in Gaza due to the ongoing genocide.

He said the new process is implemented by people who have no experience in aid work, and the last few attempts at distribution are proof of it. “When you ghettoise the population into being absolutely starving for three months, there is going to be a lot of assertive and aggressive competition for food,” Nessouli said, adding that there has been no credible proof of the claims that Hamas is stealing aid.

Nessouli concluded that the aid distribution in Gaza went backwards at a time when there is “no room for mistakes” as people are starving in the Strip.

Witnesses recount deadly Israeli attack on aid seekers in Rafah

Sameh Hamuda, a displaced resident from northern Gaza’s Beit Lahiya city, says he has walked from Gaza City and spent the night with relatives in a tent near Rafah before heading to the aid centre at dawn to wait among a crowd of people.

“They began distributing aid, but suddenly quadcopter drones opened fire on the people, and tanks started shooting heavily. Several people were killed right in front of me,” the 33-year-old told AFP. “I ran and survived. Death follows you as long as you’re in Gaza.”

Abdullah Barbakh, 58, described “chaos, screaming, and overcrowding” at the scene.

“The army opened fire from drones and tanks. Chaos broke out, and the area was filled with martyrs and wounded. I don’t understand why they call people to the aid centres and then open fire on them,” he said. “What are we supposed to do?”

_{Victims’ bodies at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis after Israeli soldiers killed Palestinians trying to reach an aid distribution point west of Rafah, June 1}

At least 32 killed today in Israeli attacks on Gaza aid points: Media Office

Gaza’s Government Media Office says at least 31 people have been killed by Israeli gunfire and 200 wounded near an aid distribution centre in the southern city of Rafah.

One person was also killed and 32 injured at another aid distribution centre near the Netzarim Corridor in central Gaza, the statement on Telegram said.

In total, 49 Palestinians have been killed and more than 300 injured around the GHF-run distribution centres in Rafah and the Netzarim Corridor since the first such deadly incident on May 27.

Palestinians on aid point attacks: ‘They flock us towards their fire’

Witnesses in the southern Gaza city of Rafah have spoken to Al Jazeera about the chaotic scenes near the aid distribution point this morning that killed dozens of aid seekers.

“The Israelis opened fire on us. We ran to get our hands on some food, we were met with gunfire, drone bombs and shells,” one Palestinian said. “We are starving to death, just trying to get our hands on some food,” they added.

Another Gaza resident recounted a father’s desperate attempt to feed his family and his “starving children”.

“He was trying to get some flour to feed his children. He’s gone but came back carried on a stretcher,” they said. “Trump alleges it is a safe humanitarian zone, but it is all lies. They flock us towards their fire.”

Israeli air raids hit residential buildings in Gaza City

Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic are reporting that Israeli air raids destroyed three residential buildings in the Sheikh Radwan and as-Saftawi areas north of Gaza City.

Israel hits house west of northern Gaza’s Jabalia city

_{Palestinians check the destruction at a camp for displaced people after an Israeli attack on a nearby house west of Jabalia, in the northern Gaza Strip, on June 1}

UN says Israel displaced 630,000 people in Gaza since March 18

In its latest humanitarian situation update, the UN says more than 632,000 Palestinians have been displaced since Israel broke the nearly two-month-old ceasefire with Hamas in Gaza.

Moreover, at least 28 aid workers have been killed since May 1, it said, adding that 452 in total have been killed since Israel’s war began on October 7, 2023.

People in #Gaza face a crisis of survival.

Half of them are children.

Over 632,000 people have been displaced again since 18 March.

The health system is overwhelmed.

At least 28 aid workers have been killed in Gaza since 1 May.

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— OCHA OPT (Palestine) (@ochaopt) June 1, 2025

Gaza death toll rises

At least 32 Palestinians have been killed and 136 injured in Israeli attacks across Gaza in the past 24 hours, according to the enclave’s Health Ministry. Five bodies of people killed in previous Israeli attacks were also recovered from the rubble in the war-torn territory, the ministry statement said.

The total death toll from Israel’s war on Gaza has risen to 54,418 killed and 124,190 injured since October 7, 2023, it said.

Israel has killed 4,149 Palestinians and injured 12,149 since breaking a ceasefire in March this year.

_{Thick smoke and flames erupt from an Israeli air attack in Gaza City, June 1}

Gaza’s ‘so-called aid centres have become Israeli death traps’: Health Ministry

The ministry says the Israeli army is using the new mechanism for distributing aid for mass killings and as a tool for the forced displacement of Gaza residents.

Its statement, published on Telegram, quoted Dr Munir al-Bursh, the director general of the ministry, as condemning “the international silence regarding the massacres being committed against the starving residents of the Gaza Strip”.

He also indicated that hospitals in Gaza are facing dire conditions due to a severe shortage of medicines and other supplies, adding that Israel is still preventing about 3,000 trucks with medical supplies in the Egyptian city of El Arish from crossing into the enclave.

Al-Bursh also accused Israel of “deliberately spreading infectious diseases and epidemics” through the blockade.

And what better way to encourage the spread of infectious diseases than to force people together into crowds at 4 aid points....

Malnutrition in Gaza worsening blood donor availability: Health official

Sahar Ghanem, the director of the Health Ministry’s department of medical laboratories and blood banks in Gaza, has spoken to our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic about the situation of blood banks in the coastal enclave.

Five cancer patients die daily in Gaza: Hospital director

Muhammad Abu Salmiya, director of al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, has spoken to our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic about the healthcare situation in the Strip.

Families mourn loved ones killed near aid distribution point in southern Gaza

Reda Abu Jazar said her brother was among those killed as he waited to collect food in Rafah. “Let them stop these massacres, stop this genocide. They are killing us,” she said as Palestinian men gathered for funeral prayers.

Arafat Siyam said his brother had left at 11pm (21:00 GMT) the previous evening to collect food for his wife and eight children from the same distribution site in Rafah.

Siyam accused the Israeli military of killing his brother. “This is unfair. What they are doing is unfair,” he said.

_{Palestinians carry the body of a person killed while heading to a Gaza aid hub during a funeral at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis in southern Gaza on June 1}

US-backed group in Gaza denies reports of killings near aid centres

The Israel-and-US-backed aid group in charge of aid deliveries in Gaza says news reports that dozens of people have been killed and wounded near two of its distribution centres in the territory are “untrue”.

“All aid was distributed today without incident,” an unnamed spokesperson for the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation told AFP news agency. “We have heard that these fake reports have been actively fomented by Hamas. They are untrue and fabricated.”

The statement contradicts hospital evidence, witness accounts, and footage from the scenes of the attacks.

ICC arrest warrants for Trump and Witkoff need to be issued now, not that it will happen.

Operating theatres overwhelmed after Israeli attack on Rafah aid site

Tom Potoka, a consultant plastic surgeon at Nassar Hospital in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis, has described to Al Jazeera the chaotic aftermath of the Israeli attack on a food distribution site in Rafah.

“The five operating theatres upstairs were fully occupied with patients who came in from this,” Potoka said, adding patients had a range of injuries, including gunshot wounds, head injuries, and trauma to major blood vessels and abdominal organs.

“I was working with Palestinian colleagues in another block with two theatres, and one of those had to stop also to allow an emergency case in. Other patients I know have been transferred to the ICRC [International Committee of the Red Cross] field hospital.”

Earlier, Gaza’s Health Ministry said the Israeli army is using the new aid distribution mechanism for “mass killings and as a tool for the forced displacement of Gaza residents”.

GHF has a pattern of denying violence at aid distribution points

Earlier, the Israeli army said it was unaware of any sort of casualties that occurred at aid distribution sites, but it is “looking into the matter”. When Israeli media followed up asking if Israeli troops opened fire, it did not deny it.

The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) – an incredibly controversial aid group because of questions over where its funding comes from – released a statement denying any chaos or violence, claiming it was “fabricated by Hamas”. This has been a pattern from the GHF, denying any sort of incident when there is chaos and shots fired at Palestinians going to these aid distribution sites.

The GHF is no different from the IDF, or rather a tool of the IDF.

Iraq, Lebanon leaders call for urgent intervention to ‘save the people of Gaza’

The plea has come during a joint news conference in Baghdad between Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani and visiting Lebanese President Joseph Aoun. The two leaders called for an immediate intervention to “save the people of Gaza” and denounced the continued Israeli assault on the enclave amid “suspicious international silence”.

Al-Sudani expressed Iraq’s full support for political consensus within Lebanon and condemned the “ongoing aggression by the Zionist [Israeli] entity on Lebanese territory”. He also reaffirmed Iraq’s support for Syria and the preservation of its territorial unity.

Aoun emphasised Lebanon’s commitment to state sovereignty and social peace, stating the importance of preserving civil stability “without compromising the state’s authority”. He noted the delicate balance Lebanon seeks to maintain amid rising regional tensions.

Israeli drone attack kills 1 in southern Lebanon

The strike has been carried out with a guided missile and targeted a motorcycle on the road to the village of Arnoun in Lebanon’s Nabatieh governorate, according to the official National News Agency.

Israeli forces arrest 12 Palestinians in occupied West Bank

The Palestinian Prisoners’ Media Office (ASRA) has said Israeli forces arrested 12 Palestinians across the occupied West Bank in the early hours of Sunday morning.

More than half of the people detained were from Jenin, while the others were from Nablus, Tulkarem, and Ramallah.

Israeli forces have arrested 15 times as many Palestinians as they have freed in ceasefire deals since October 2023.

Palestinian journalist’s health at ‘serious risk’ in Israeli custody: Media union

Palestinian journalist Ali al-Samoudi is at risk of dying as his health deteriorates in Israeli detention, a local media union warns.

Al-Samoudi, 58, was arrested by the Israeli army in Jenin in the occupied West Bank in late April. He has since been held without charge or trial.

“Samoudi suffers from chronic illnesses and requires ongoing medical care,” the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate said in a statement. “The continued medical neglect in the occupation’s prisons puts his life at serious risk.”

The group appealed to all international and human rights organisations to “take immediate action and exert pressure on Israel to save Samoudi’s life”.