Israeli forces kill 1, round up 10 in West Bank raids: Report

Israeli forces carried out a series of familiar overnight raids across the occupied West Bank, killing one person and arresting at least 10, according to the Wafa news agency.

In Tammun town, near Tubas city, special forces shot dead a man and prevented health workers from accessing his body, it reported. Two others were arrested during the hours-long incursion, Wafa said.

Elsewhere, Israeli forces arrested:

Australian PM defends sanctions on far-right Israeli ministers

Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Norway and the United Kingdom have announced sanctions on far-right Israeli ministers Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich, accusing them of repeatedly inciting violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.

The ministers openly support illegal settlements and the expulsion of Palestinians from their territory. Israel denounced the sanctions as “outrageous”, while the US also condemned the move.

Despite the backlash, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has defended the move, calling the reactions from Israel and the US “predictable”.

“The Israeli government does need to uphold its obligations under international law, and some of the expansionist rhetoric that we’ve seen as well is clearly in contradiction of that from these hardline right-wing members of the Netanyahu government,” Albanese said in an interview with ABC Radio Sydney.

“We, along with those other countries and the broader international community, believe we can only see peace in the Middle East when we deal with two states and when both Israelis and Palestinians can live in peace and security,” he said in a TV interview with Seven.

UK MPs detect sinister deal with US in sanctions against Netanyahu’s colleagues

The UK government on Tuesday announced in the parliament about sanctioning two ministerial colleagues of Benjamin Netanyahu. They are Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich.

However, the timing of the announcement, just before a global conference to recognise the State Of Palestine left many MPs baffled as they asked if the Keir Starmer government had struck a secret deal with the Trump administration. They suspected that, as part of the deal, the UK government may have pledged to give up the recognition of a Palestinian statehood plan.

The minister, Hamish Falconer, had no convincing answer.

Germany’s second-largest opposition party calls for sanctions on Smotrich, Ben-Gvir

Franziska Brantner, the head of Germany’s Green Party, has called for Berlin to join other countries in sanctioning Israeli far-right ministers Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben-Gvir for inciting violence against Palestinians and open support of illegal settlements and the expulsion of Palestinians from their territory.

Brantner, who co-leads Germany’s second-largest opposition party, accused the two ministers of “openly calling for violence against the Palestinian population and long having propagated a policy of annexation and displacement”.

“This costs human lives, displaces entire communities and poses enormous hurdles on the path to a peace process,” Brantner told the DPA news agency.

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”.

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”.


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.”

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.

I already changed my coffee preference from Nestle to a local Canadian brand. No more Nestle chocolate either.

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.

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”.

_{Palestinians, desperate for food due to an ongoing Israeli blockade}

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.

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.”

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.

_{A Palestinian man displays the aid supplies he received from the US-supported Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, June 5}

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.”

Land convoy headed for Gaza from Tunisia passes trough Libya’s capital


<sub>Activists, heading towards Gaza by land with the aim of breaking the siege on the Palestinian territory, are greeted by Libyans in Tripoli’s Martyrs Square on June 11, 2025, one day after crossing into Libya from Tunisia



Hundreds of people participated in a land convoy named ‘Soumoud’, meaning ‘steadfastness’ in Arabic, that crossed the border into Libya on June 10 with the aim of continuing their trip in solidarity with the Palestinians through Egypt to reach Gaza</sub>

Mexican activists join global convoy to Rafah border

As Mexicans joining the Global March to Gaza, they hope to influence their government. Oriana Gonzalez reports from Mexico City.


I wonder how they'll get into Egypt though

Why Sisi won't lift the Gaza blockade

"Partially because he's weak, partially because he hates the Palestinians." Speaking to Middle East Eye, Egyptian journalist Hossam el-Hamalawy explained Egypt's refusal to lift Israel's blockade on Gaza and allow aid through the Rafah crossing.

Attributing Egypt's policy both to "regional decline" and Sisi's "cowardice", Hamalawy added that Egypt saw the Palestinians as a source of political instability and pressure for democratic governance rather than a cause to be supported.

Egypt is dependent on US money, 1.3 Billion annually. Sisi is just another US puppet. US loves to support dictators.

Former U.S. President Donald Trump was quoted calling Sisi "my favourite dictator".
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/egypts-sisi-authoritarian-leader-with-penchant-bridges-2023-12-08/

Inside Gaza's criminal gang backed by Israel

In a segment released on Tuesday, the UK's Channel 4 News reported on the rise of the Israel-backed militia in Gaza led by former drug trafficker Yasser Abu Shabab.

Thought to number around 300 men, the militia grew infamous in Gaza over the past year as residents accused the gang of looting aid trucks entering the strip in areas under Israel's military control.

For months, many questioned how Israeli forces could let the gang loot aid in areas under its control without intervening. Since then, Israel's Prime Minister Netanyahu admitted his government was supporting the gang.

Abu Shabab has now been placed in charge of aid distribution at sites run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, where several shootings of Palestinians seeking aid have taken place over recent weeks.

Activists head to Gaza in protest of aid blockade • FRANCE 24 English

Following the detention and deportations of activists sailing to Gaza to deliver humanitarian aid, activists left Tunisia in a multi-vehicle convoy on Tuesday destined for Gaza to protest Israel's aid blockade on the enclave. Although the convoy is not carrying aid, the symbolic gesture represents mounting international pressure on Israel to lift its siege on Gaza, which threatens to cause mass starvation in the enclave.

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.

Osama, 5, was once a healthy child in #gaza .

But months of inadequate food and nourishment have left him severely malnourished. He now weighs only 5 kgs, dangerously below the healthy weight for his age

Osama is being treated at Nasser Hospital but his full recovery depends on… pic.twitter.com/z8qLQoPtTH

— UNICEF MENA - يونيسف الشرق الأوسط وشمال إفريقيا (@UNICEFmena) June 11, 2025

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.


_{Eyal Zamir visits the Western Wall in Jerusalem’s Old City in March}

And what is a decisive defeat? When the last person has either died or left Gaza?


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.

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.


_{Chaotic scenes at an aid distribution centre near Rafah, June 11}

Look at all those happy faces....

The US will echo the Israeli propaganda like a good lap dog while distracting the population with ICE escalations.

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.”


_{People carry relief supplies from the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation on June 8}

‘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.”

US warned countries against taking part in UN conference on Palestine: Report

The Reuters news agency is reporting that the Trump administration has warned countries against attending a United Nations conference on the two-state solution.

Citing a cable sent on June 10, Reuters reported that Washington said countries that take “anti-Israel actions” on the heels of next week’s conference will be viewed as acting in opposition to US foreign policy interests and could face diplomatic consequences.

The cable also said the US government would oppose any steps that would unilaterally recognise a Palestinian state – something conference co-host France said would be on the table during the UN event.

Al Jazeera could not immediately verify the Reuters report. The news agency said the US State Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The US is Israel’s staunchest backer, providing the country with at least $3.8bn in military assistance annually and billions more since the Gaza war began. Washington also has consistently offered diplomatic support for the Israeli government amid growing international condemnation of the war.

Yeah it's fully a US genocide now. The US can't sink any lower, but I'm sure Trump will find a way.

White House skirts question on reported pressure ahead of UN conference

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has failed to answer a question about whether the Trump administration is exerting pressure on countries that take part in an upcoming United Nations conference on the two-state solution.

As we reported earlier, Reuters said today that Washington had warned nations participating in next week’s event that they could face diplomatic consequences if they take “anti-Israel actions”.

“Right now, the president views the situation in Israel and Gaza as deeply unfortunate and needing to end, and the president is realistic about the current state of affairs in this region of the world,” Leavitt replied, without addressing the question.

“That’s why the president has said the number-one focus and priority of the administration is to release all of hostages from Gaza and to end this conflict as soon as possible,” she said.

“Clearly, Gaza is an uninhabitable place. It needs to be rebuilt with the help of our Arab partners, and the president wants to see that happen, as well.”

Trump has promoted a plan to force Palestinians out of Gaza so that the enclave can be transformed into “the Riviera of the Middle East”. Palestinians and human rights groups have rejected that push as amounting to ethnic cleansing.

Palestinian PM urges EU to pressure Israel over Gaza war

Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Mustafa has discussed taking concrete steps to stop the war on Gaza with Christophe Bigot, the EU’s newly appointed special representative for the Middle East peace process.

The discussion comes before next week’s UN-hosted International Peace Conference in New York, focused on pushing for a ceasefire in Gaza, an end to the occupation, and the creation of a sovereign Palestinian state.

Mustafa also urged stronger European pressure on Israel to release withheld Palestinian tax revenues and halt illegal deductions from clearance funds.

EU envoy Bigot stressed the need for coordinated diplomatic efforts to revive a political horizon based on a two-state solution. He reiterated the EU’s opposition to illegal Israeli settlement expansion and annexation, and said securing humanitarian aid access and a lasting ceasefire in Gaza must be top priorities on the path to the reconstruction of Gaza.