Israeli forces attack Yemen’s Hodeidah: Report

The Houthi-affiliated Al Masirah TV is reporting that Israeli forces have launched attacks on the port city of Hodeidah in Yemen.

The reported attack comes hours after the Israeli military issued evacuation orders for Ras Isa, Hodeidah and as-Salif.

Israel confirms its navy missile ships attacked civilian port in Yemen’s Hodeidah

We have been reporting on Israeli attacks on the port of Hodeidah in Yemen, based on Houthi-affiliated media reports. The Israeli military has now confirmed the attack, claiming that the civilian port was being used by the Houthi rebels for military purposes.

“Israeli Navy Missile Ships struck terror targets belonging to the Houthi terrorist regime in the port of Hodeidah in Yemen,” the army said in a statement, citing Houthi drone and missile attacks on Israel as the reason for the operation.

“The strikes were carried out to stop the use of the port for military purposes,” it added.

Israeli drone attack kills 2 in southern Lebanon

The Lebanese National News Agency (NNA) is reporting that Israeli forces have carried out a drone attack near the town of Shebaa in southern Lebanon. The attack killed a man and his son and wounded another person, NNA reported.

Israel has been carrying out near-daily air raids across southern Lebanon, often resulting in casualties, despite a ceasefire agreed with the Hezbollah group in November last year.

_{Lebanese army officers stand guard near a car that was reportedly destroyed in an Israeli drone attack in the southern Lebanese town of al-Numairiyah on Monday}

Freedom Flotilla Coalition highlights plight of Palestinian prisoners

The FFC, which organised the Madleen’s journey to Gaza, is drawing attention to the plight of the more than 10,400 Palestinians imprisoned in Israeli jails.

“Our abducted Madleen colleagues will briefly encounter a system where over 10,400 missing Palestinian prisoners are being held hostage illegally imprisoned by the Israeli occupation,” the group said.

“[The Israeli occupation has] no jurisdiction, no legal grounding, and no right to hold them hostage,” it added.

The FFC said the Israeli system is a “regime of abduction and apartheid”, where “Palestinians are held hostage under a structure designed to crush resistance, silence truth and normalize ethnic cleansing”.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DKsh167yfNG

Rights group files war crimes complaint against Israeli Navy unit

The Belgium-based Hind Rajab Foundation (HRF) has filed a war crimes complaint in the UK over the Israeli naval raid on the British-flagged Madleen yesterday.

“The complaint targets the Shayetet 13 unit that executed the attack and Vice Admiral David Saar Salama who is the commander in chief of the Israeli Navy,” it said in a statement.

“The Madleen, sailing as part of the Freedom Flotilla Coalition, was carrying medical supplies, food, and baby formula to civilians in Gaza. The ship, legally considered an extension of UK territory, was over 60 nautical miles [111km] off the coast when it was intercepted and boarded by Israel’s elite Shayetet 13 naval commandos,” it added.

HRF, named after a Palestinian girl killed in Gaza, has previously said it filed evidence of alleged war crimes with the International Criminal Court against 1,000 Israelis over their actions in Gaza.

🚨🚨The #HindRajabFoundation has filed a criminal complaint in the UK
against elite unit Shayetet 13, under the command of Vice Admiral David Saar Salama over Israel’s illegal raid on the British-flagged aid ship #Madleen and the abduction of 12 people.
For more info read ⬇️… pic.twitter.com/ELxqpaU7BP

— The Hind Rajab Foundation (@HindRFoundation) June 9, 2025

Protesters rally in Greece, Mexico, Israel over raid on Madleen


<sub>People protest near the Israeli Embassy in Athens, following the seizure by Israeli forces of the Madleen, in Athens, Greece, June 9


A woman waves Palestinian flags during a demonstration in Mexico City, Mexico, June 9


A protester holds a placard during a gathering near the Israeli port of Ashdod on June 9</sub>

Rima Hassan refusing to sign deportation papers: Report

Israel’s public broadcaster Kan is reporting that French-Palestinian Member of European Parliament Rima Hassan has refused to sign deportation papers.

According to Kan, Hassan will be taken to a detention facility in the city of Gibeon.

In total, Kan said, eight of the Madleen’s 12 crew members are refusing to sign the deportation papers, and the four who signed will leave Israel on separate flights “during the day”.

Earlier, Suhad Bishara, the legal director at Adalah, a Palestinian-run legal centre in Israel representing the detained activists, said some of them may “not agree to fly without a legal consultation, because the assumption is that they will have to need to sign some documents”.

“In this case, they will be moved to a detention centre in Ramleh, awaiting a tribunal for immigration,” Bishara said.

Kidnapped in international waters and facing immigration tribunal? 

How have the home countries of Madleen’s crew responded to their detention in Israel?

Israeli authorities have said that diplomats from the home countries of the Madleen crew will be able to meet them at Ben Gurion airport.

The crew includes citizens of Brazil, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain and Turkiye. Here’s how those countries responded to the Israeli raid on the Madleen:

Freedom Flotillas: A history of attempts to break Israel’s siege of Gaza

The Madleen is not the first ship that has tried to break Israel’s blockade of Gaza.

In 2008, two boats from the Free Gaza Movement successfully reached Gaza, marking the first break of Israel’s naval blockade. The movement, founded in 2006 by activists during Israel’s war on Lebanon, went on to launch 31 boats between 2008 and 2016, five of which reached Gaza despite heavy Israeli restrictions.

Since 2010, all flotillas attempting to break the Gaza blockade have been intercepted or attacked by Israel in international waters.

The map below shows the approximate locations where prominent flotillas were stopped, some encountering deadly Israeli forces.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/9/freedom-flotillas-a-history-of-attempts-to-break-israels-siege-of-gaza

Greenpeace, environmental activists condemn Israeli blockade, Madleen seizure

Environment groups and climate activists have condemned Israel’s seizure of the Madleen and the ongoing blockade of the Gaza Strip.

Greenpeace said that the Madleen was “illegally seized in international waters by Israeli forces” and called for the “immediate release” of its crew. It also called for “unhindered delivery of aid” and an “end to the illegal occupation of Palestine”.

Climate Action Network, which represents climate organisations around the world, called for the immediate release of the activists and strongly condemned “Israel’s armed seizure of the Madleen on its humanitarian mission to deliver food, medicine – and hope – for Gaza’s starving population”.

Climate justice activists, including Mikaela Loach and Ayisha Siddiqa, also shared videos on social media saying, “Our friend Greta Thunberg and 11 other activists have just been kidnapped by Israel” and that “aid to Gaza was stolen”.

Greta Thunberg accuses Israel of kidnapping aid flotilla members

Greta Thunberg says members of an aid flotilla that attempted to get into Gaza were "attacked and kidnapped" by the Israeli military and taken into Israel "against our will". The 22-year-old activist was deported from Israel after she and her colleagues were prevented from docking in Gaza on Monday. She said the flotilla was attempting to open up a "humanitarian corridor" following the Israeli blockade of Gaza.

UN report accuses Israel of war crimes, crime against humanity in Gaza

A UN commission says Israeli attacks on schools, religious and cultural sites in Gaza amount to war crimes and the crime against humanity of seeking to exterminate Palestinians.

“Israel has obliterated Gaza’s education system and destroyed over half of all religious and cultural sites in the Gaza Strip, part of a widespread and relentless assault against the Palestinian people in which Israeli forces have committed war crimes and the crime against humanity of extermination,” the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory said in a report.

It paid special attention to Gaza but also focused on Israeli attacks on civilians in the occupied Palestinian territory, including East Jerusalem, and in Israel.

‘Enough is enough’: Ex-Israeli leader Olmert urges Trump to pressure Netanyahu

Ehud Olmert, Israel’s prime minister between 2006 and 2009, tells AFP in Paris that the US has more influence on the Israeli government “than all the other powers put together” and that President Donald Trump can “make a difference”.

Trump should summon Netanyahu to the White House and, facing cameras, tell the Israeli leader: “‘Bibi: enough is enough'”, Olmert said, using the premier’s nickname.

“This is it. I hope he [Trump] will do it. There is nothing that cannot happen with Trump. I don’t know if this will happen. We have to hope and we have to encourage him,” said Olmert.

The former Israeli PM denounced the continuation of the war in Gaza as a “crime” and insisted a two-state solution is the only way to end the conflict.

He said Netanyahu “failed completely” as a leader by not preventing the unprecedented October 7, 2023, attack by Hamas.

Israel kills 3 Palestinians in southern Gaza’s al-Mawasi: Medical source

At least three Palestinians from the same family have been killed in an Israeli attack on a tent housing displaced people in the al-Mawasi area near the city of Khan Younis, a source at Nasser Medical Complex has told our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic.

The displacement camp at al-Mawasi – repeatedly described as a “safe” area by Israel – is one of the most overcrowded places in Gaza, devastated by 21 months of relentless bombardment.

Israeli forces kill 9 Palestinians in northern Gaza: Medical source

The bodies of nine Palestinians have been recovered after Israeli air attacks on homes in Jabalia al-Balad, according to a source at al-Shifa Hospital cited by our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic.

Israel kills 20 people waiting for aid in central Gaza

Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic, citing al-Quds Hospital, are reporting that 20 people have been killed and more than 124 injured while waiting for aid near the so-called Netzarim Corridor, south of Gaza City.

Aid centres in Gaza turn into death traps: Charity official

Adi Dabour, an official at the Palestinian Medical Relief Society in Gaza, has spoken to Al Jazeera Arabic about the humanitarian crisis in the enclave.

Here is a summary of his translated comments:

Three paramedics killed by Israeli fire in northern Gaza

The Gaza Medical Services Directorate says three paramedics have been killed by Israeli forces while working in the Tuffah neighbourhood of Gaza City.

At least 36 people have been killed across the enclave since this morning, medical sources told Al Jazeera Arabic.

Eight Palestinians killed in Israeli attack in central Gaza

At least eight Palestinians have been killed in an Israeli air strike on a home in Deir el-Balah, a medical source at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital says, according to Al Jazeera Arabic.

An unspecified number of people were also injured in the attack, the source added.

US ambassador to Israel says US no longer pursuing goal of independent Palestinian state

Mike Huckabee suggested any future Palestinian state should be carved out of ‘a Muslim country’

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/10/mike-huckabee-independent-palestinian-state

Mike Huckabee, the US ambassador to Israel, has said that the US is no longer pursuing the goal of an independent Palestinian state, marking what analysts describe as the most explicit abandonment yet of a cornerstone of US Middle East diplomacy.

Asked during an interview with Bloomberg News if a Palestinian state remains a goal of US policy, he replied: “I don’t think so.”

The former Arkansas governor chosen by Donald Trump as his envoy to Israel went further by suggesting that any future Palestinian entity could be carved out of “a Muslim country” rather than requiring Israel to cede territory.

“Unless there are some significant things that happen that change the culture, there’s no room for it,” Huckabee was quoted as saying. Those probably won’t happen “in our lifetime”, he told the news agency.

When pressed on Palestinian aspirations in the West Bank, where 3 million Palestinians live under Israeli occupation, Huckabee employed Israeli government terminology, asking: “Does it have to be in Judea and Samaria?”

Trump, in his first term, was relatively tepid in his approach to a two-state solution, a longtime pillar of US Middle East policy, and he has given little sign of where he stands on the issue in his second term.

There is your intent for genocide from the USA, couldn't be anymore complicit nor explicit.

Israel commits ‘extermination’ in Gaza by killing civilians sheltering in schools, UN experts say

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-israel-attacks-gaza-schools-un-experts/

UN experts said in a report on Tuesday that Israel committed the crime against humanity of “extermination” by killing civilians sheltering in schools and religious sites in Gaza, part of a “concerted campaign to obliterate Palestinian life.”

The United Nations Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel was due to present the report to Geneva-based UN Human Rights Council on June 17.

“We are seeing more and more indications that Israel is carrying out a concerted campaign to obliterate Palestinian life in Gaza,” former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay, who chairs the commission, said in a statement.

“Israel’s targeting of the educational, cultural and religious life of the Palestinian people will harm the present generations and generations to come, hindering their right to self-determination,” she added.

The commission examined attacks on educational facilities and religious and cultural sites to assess if international law was breached.

Israel disengaged from the Human Rights Council in February, alleging it was biased.

When the commission’s last report in March found Israel carried out “genocidal acts” against Palestinians by systematically destroying women’s health care facilities during the conflict in Gaza, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the findings were biased and antisemitic.


Harm done to the Palestinian education system was not confined to Gaza, the report found, citing increased Israeli military operations in the West Bank and East Jerusalem as well as harassment of students and settler attacks there.

“Israeli authorities have also targeted Israeli and Palestinian educational personnel and students inside Israel who expressed concern or solidarity with the civilian population in Gaza, resulting in their harassment, dismissal or suspension and in some cases humiliating arrests and detention,” it said.

“Israeli authorities have particularly targeted female educators and students, intending to deter women and girls from activism in public places,” the commission added.

In its latest report, the commission said Israel had destroyed more than 90 per cent of the school and university buildings and more than half of all religious and cultural sites in Gaza.

“Israeli forces committed war crimes, including directing attacks against civilians and wilful killing, in their attacks on educational facilities ... In killing civilians sheltering in schools and religious sites, Israeli security forces committed the crime against humanity of extermination,” it said.

UK, Australia and Canada sanction two far-right Israeli ministers for inciting West Bank violence

New Zealand and Norway also impose measures on Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/jun/10/uk-and-allies-sanction-two-far-right-israeli-ministers-itamar-ben-gvir-bezalel-smotrich-over-monstrous-gaza-comments

The UK, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and Norway have placed sanctions on two Israeli government ministers, Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich, largely for inciting violence against Palestinians in their campaign to gain control of new settlements in the West Bank.

Ben-Gvir, the security minister in Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition government, and Smotrich, the finance minister, will face travel bans and have any assets in the five countries frozen. It was stressed that they were being sanctioned in their personal capacity, placing no restrictions on the ministries they lead. Netanyahu has promised to retaliate.

The move was quickly condemned by the US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, who called for the sanctions to be lifted and said the US stood “shoulder to shoulder” with Israel.

“These sanctions do not advance US-led efforts to achieve a ceasefire, bring all hostages home, and end the war,” Rubio wrote, adding: “We remind our partners not to forget who the real enemy is.”

Yeah it's you. You just said you want all Palestinians gone...

In a carefully prepared move, for which Israel had little advance notice, the UK foreign secretary, David Lammy, along with the foreign ministers of Australia, Canada, New Zealand and Norway, announced the sanctions in a joint statement: “We are steadfastly committed to the two-state solution and will continue to work with our partners towards its implementation.

“It is the only way to guarantee security and dignity for Israelis and Palestinians and ensure long-term stability in the region, but it is imperilled by extremist settler violence and settlement expansion.

“Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich have incited extremist violence and serious abuses of Palestinian human rights. These actions are not acceptable. This is why we have taken action now – to hold those responsible to account.

“We will strive to achieve an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, the immediate release of the remaining hostages by Hamas, which can have no future role in the governance of Gaza, a surge in aid and a path to a two-state solution.

“Today’s measures focus on the West Bank, but of course this cannot be seen in isolation from the catastrophe in Gaza. We continue to be appalled by the immense suffering of civilians, including the denial of essential aid. There must be no unlawful transfer of Palestinians from Gaza or within the West Bank, nor any reduction in the territory of the Gaza Strip.”


_{Charred agricultural equipment in the West Bank village of Dayr Dibwan after a reported attack by Israeli settlers on June 5th}

The previous UK foreign secretary, David Cameron, said he had planned to take the move against the two ministers last summer, but held back when he was told the decision was too political to take during an election campaign.

By building an alliance of five countries, the UK may hope to protect itself from being the sole subject of Israeli and US anger. It may also be intended to stress Israel’s growing international isolation, but that will not disturb Israel as long as it has the protection of the White House.

The EU requires unanimity among its 27 states to take parallel action, and would face resistance from Hungary. It is instead looking at possible trade restrictions that only require a qualified majority of EU states to approve them. Pressure has been building for concrete action in Canada, Norway and Australia.

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Gaza-bound activist convoy enters Libya from Tunisia

https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250610-gaza-bound-activist-convoy-enters-libya-from-tunisia

Hundreds of pro-Palestinian activists taking part in a convoy crossed the Tunisian border on Tuesday into Libya, aiming to keep heading eastwards until they break Israel's blockade on the Palestinian territory, organisers said. This comes after Israel intercepted an aid ship attempting to breach its blockade on Gaza, which was carrying 12 people, including campaigner Greta Thunberg. FRANCE 24's Selina Sykes has more.

"A Show of Human Solidarity": Ex-U.S. Diplomat to Join Global March to Gaza to Break Israel's Siege

Activists from around the world are planning a Global March to Gaza on June 15 in support of Palestinians enduring the Israeli blockade. The first Biden State Department diplomat to publicly resign over Gaza policy, Hala Rharrit, plans to attend the march along with thousands of others who will walk from Cairo to the Rafah border. "Silence does not ensure that we will be OK," says Rharrit. "It's quite the opposite. Silence ensures the injustice spreads." Rharrit had served as the Arabic-language spokesperson for the State Department. She joins us from Dubai as she prepares for the march.

 

Global Movements to Break Siege on Gaza

Drop Site is joined by two key organizers of the Global March to Gaza: Melanie Schweizer, a German lawyer and activist, and Saif Abukeshek, a Palestinian activist based in Barcelona and the lead organizer of the March.

We’ll break down what the march is, what it hopes to achieve, and how it fits into the growing international movement to end the blockade of Gaza. Plus, we’ll share the latest frontline reporting from our Palestinian colleagues on the ground in Gaza and the West Bank, and discuss key developments from the past week.