Gaza’s death toll rises

Gaza’s Ministry of Health says attacks have killed at least 74 people and wounded 391 others in the past 24 hours, adding that crews also recovered the bodies of five people killed in earlier strikes.

The casualties bring the total toll of the war to 56,156 killed and 132,239 injured in the enclave, according to the ministry.

The killing of Palestinian aid seekers, once met with shock and international condemnation as Israeli-backed aid sites opened late last month, has now become a daily occurrence, as the starving population remains desperate to get any food aid that they can, even at the cost of their safety.

Aftermath of Israel strike on Gaza City’s Tuffah


_{Palestinians wounded in the Israeli army attack on the Tuffah neighbourhood are brought to al-Ahli Hospital for treatment in Gaza City}

Two people killed, children injured near Gaza City

An Israeli air strike has killed at least two people in al-Karama area, northwest of Gaza City, reports the Wafa news agency. The bombardment, targeting a house in the area, also wounded numerous children, some severely, according to the report.

Gaza situation deteriorates over past 24 hours with Israeli attacks

The Israeli military has escalated ground attacks across the Gaza Strip. We have seen renewed incursions from the Israeli military in the city of Khan Younis in southern Gaza.

In the north, there have been expanded military activities, particularly in Jabalia, where people have been forced to relocate. Residents there have reported constant tank shelling and sniper fire that has forced the vast majority in the area to flee to the western end of Gaza City.

The humanitarian toll is rising not just from the deliberate strikes on heavily populated neighbourhoods, but also from attacks on aid seekers who have been shot and killed near the controversial Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.

Witnesses and health officials confirm the Israeli military has opened fire against people near these aid centres in the central and southern parts of Gaza, killing 14 Palestinians today.

Medical staff in Gaza are ‘beyond burned out’

Dr Bushra Othman, a general surgeon on a volunteer mission with the Palestinian Australian New Zealand Medical Association, spoke to Al Jazeera from Deir el-Balah.

Here is a summary of what she said:

‘I’ll never forget the wailing of the father saying goodbye to his son’

Palestinians in Gaza are sometimes having to head to aid distribution sites in the middle of the night “to try to fight for whatever aid they can get,” says Dr Bushra Othman, a volunteer surgeon.

A “state of chaos” at the distribution sites exists because of the desperation of the people, the doctor with the Palestinian Australian New Zealand Medical Association told Al Jazeera from Deir el-Balah.

“We’re seeing gunshot wounds, either to the brain or to the chest … shrapnel injuries that are either piercing spinal cords and making people paraplegic.

“We had a 13-year-old boy the other day who’d had shrapnel injury through his brain, [that] tore through his right eye, pierced through his heart and shattered his intestines.

“I’ll never forget the wailing of the father saying goodbye to his son who passed away on the operating table.

“We’re seeing really horrific injuries in the emergency department, with gunshots coming in through the front of the face and going back, through the back of the mouth or the throat or the spinal cord again, and plenty of severely life-threatening abdominal injuries as well.

“In the clamour of all of the chaos, people are sometimes getting run over by either the cars or the trucks that are there. So we’re seeing limbs that are mangled and shattered. “On top of all of that, you’ve still got bombs going off, or you’ve got quacopters firing at people”, Othman said.


_{An injured boy and other mourners at a funeral for Palestinians killed by Israeli fire while trying to receive aid in central Gaza at al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City}

More Gaza aid hub killings as GHF called ‘an abomination’

At least 60 Palestinians were killed while trying to get aid in Gaza in the past 24 hours.

More than 500 have been killed since the US-and-Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation took over distribution, a process condemned as a “death trap” by UN officials.

I’m in northern Gaza. I would rather starve than take GHF aid

It has been two months since I last ate bread. Food in the markets has been fading away since Israel blocked nearly all aid into Gaza on March 2.

Following the blockade, food prices skyrocketed. Sugar and flour vanished, fruits and vegetables became a rare sight, and only red lentils remained available in the markets.

Unlike many others who stored food during the January truce, fearing another harsh round of famine, my family and I made the risky decision not to store anything. We had previously done so but lost everything when Israeli soldiers reached our area with their tanks.

Main events on June 25th

• Israel’s deadly attacks killed at least 78 Palestinians across Gaza on Wednesday, including 33 people waiting near aid distribution centres.
• At least three Palestinians were also killed and seven others wounded in a settler attack on the occupied West Bank town of Kafr Malek, northeast of Ramallah.
• Iran has reopened its airspace over the country’s east following a ceasefire with Israel that ended 12 days of deadly missile attacks.
• President Donald Trump has said US and Iranian officials will talk next week to continue the interrupted dialogue on Tehran’s nuclear programme.
• CIA Director John Ratcliffe has said credible intelligence indicates last week’s US strikes severely damaged Iran’s nuclear programme and it would take years to rebuild.
• But the White House continues to face scrutiny over reports Iran’s stockpile of enriched uranium survived the strikes, with Trump’s press secretary Karoline Leavitt claiming there is “no indication” it was moved prior to the assault.
• Iran has criticised NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte after he appeared to praise US strikes on Iranian territory, calling his comments an endorsement of “a criminal act of aggression”.

Israeli settlers attack another Palestinian town in the West Bank

Israeli settlers have set fire to Palestinian homes and vehicles in the Christian town of Taybeh, east of Ramallah, according to a Palestinian activist in the occupied West Bank, Ihab Hassan.

It’s the latest settler assault on a Palestinian community in the area after three people were killed and seven others wounded in an attack on the nearby town of Kafr Malek, northeast of Ramallah.

Israeli military bombs another tent in southern Gaza, killing at least 5

We have been reporting on the Israeli military’s deadly attacks across Gaza over recent hours, including at least two strikes on tents housing displaced Palestinians in the al-Mawasi area of southern Gaza.

Al-Aqsa TV and the Palestinian Information Center now report that the Israeli military has bombed another tent housing the Abu Arab family in the Majayda neighbourhood of Khan Younis in southern Gaza, killing at least five people and injuring several more.

‘This is what ethnic cleansing looks like’: Israeli rights group says of settler attacks

Yesh Din, an Israeli rights group working in the occupied Palestinian territory, has shared video clips of the deadly Israeli settler attack on the Palestinian communities of Kfar Malek, as well as the attack on Taybeh, in the occupied West Bank.

At least three people were killed in Kfar Malek after more than 100 Israeli settlers stormed the village, in the presence of Israeli soldiers, and set fire to several Palestinian homes and opened fire on local residents.

Earlier, masked settlers set Palestinian homes and cars on fire near Taybeh junction. In security camera footage of the Taybeh attack, Yesh Din notes that “the perpetrators can be heard speaking Hebrew to each other.”

“Under the approval of the government and the military, settler violence in the West Bank becomes deadlier from day to day,” the rights group said.

“This is what ethnic cleansing looks like,” it added.

Israeli military arrests 14 Palestinians in Nablus raids

The Israeli military has stormed the occupied West Bank city of Nablus and arrested at least 14 Palestinians, the Palestinian Information Center reports.

Among the detained is journalist Mujahid Tabanja, who was arrested after Israeli forces stormed his home in the Khallat al-Amoud area of Nablus, the Quds News Network reports.

A second unnamed man was also arrested during the raid, according to the Live Quds outlet, which published footage of Israeli soldiers leading the two blindfolded men away.

“One Mass Casualty After Another”: U.S. Doctor in Gaza on Ongoing Israeli Massacres at Aid Sites

In Gaza, at least 41 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks since midnight, including more Palestinians targeted by Israeli forces while seeking food and humanitarian aid. This comes as UNICEF is warning Gaza is facing what amounts to a “man-made drought” with children at risk of dying from thirst due to Israel’s blockade. We go to Dr. Mark Brauner, an emergency medicine physician who is currently volunteering at the Nasser Hospital in Gaza. He describes “execution-style” killings of Palestinians at food distribution sites and the desperate lack of baby formula leading to the deaths of children suffering from malnutrition and starvation.

Starvation and Profiteering in Gaza (w/ Francesca Albanese) | The Chris Hedges Report

Francesca Albanese joins Chris Hedges to break down the current starvation campaign in Gaza, and her upcoming report detailing the profiteering corporations capitalizing on the erasure of Palestinians.

Iran’s Quds force chief ‘reappears’ in Tehran after reported Israeli assassination

The commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Quds Force, Brigadier General Esmail Qaani, has “reappeared” during celebrations in Tehran despite claims of being assassinated by Israel.

A video clip captured by Iran’s Fars news agency and shared by our Al Jazeera Arabic colleagues showed a man, said to be Qaani, interacting with several people during a rally in the downtown area of the Iranian capital.

A similar video posted by Iran’s English-language state broadcaster Press TV also showed Qaani, the successor of the late commander Qassem Soleimani, who was killed in a US strike in Iraq in 2020.

Israel claimed that it killed Qaani during a series of assassinations targeting Iran’s most senior military leaders when it launched its attack on the country on June 13. The Iranian government neither confirmed nor denied the Israeli report.

Previously, it was also reported that Qaani was killed alongside Hezbollah officials during an Israeli attack in Lebanon in 2024.

Iran warns of continued Israeli activities domestically, despite ceasefire

Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence has warned of continued Israeli “malign” activities inside the country, despite an ongoing ceasefire, the Iranian news agency Fars reports.

Fars quoted the ministry as saying that Israeli operatives have been behind a campaign of “mass phone calls” to Iranians, with the aim of “telephone espionage and obtaining national information”.

The ministry also warned of the spread of “fake news” to incite Iranians to act “against national unity and cohesion”.

As the ceasefire with Israel continues to hold, Iranian authorities have been ramping up security crackdowns and arresting hundreds of people they accuse of spying for Israel, raising concerns among human rights groups.

Iran approves bill to suspend IAEA cooperation

According to Iran’s YJC news outlet, a spokesperson for the country’s Guardian Council says the body has approved a bill passed yesterday by parliament that suspends cooperation with the UN’s nuclear watchdog.

Rhetoric against the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) from Iranian leaders has resulted from Israel’s assault on the country, with officials blaming the agency for giving Israel and the US justification for carrying out its attacks.

Tehran and Washington issue conflicting claims over status of Iran’s nuclear programme

In his first speech after the ceasefire announcement, Iran’s supreme leader said US attacks have failed to undermine Iran’s nuclear programme.

He’s saying that Iran is not going to give up on its nuclear activities and is going to continue enriching uranium. He also says that claims by the US officials, particularly Trump, are exaggerated.

We heard from US officials saying the attacks dismantled, obliterated and shattered the Iranian nuclear programme, but the supreme leader stated that this is not the reality on the ground.

The only international body that can really confirm what has happened with Iran’s nuclear programme, whether it was destroyed or largely damaged, is the International Atomic Energy Agency.

Two killed in separate Israeli attacks on Lebanon

The Lebanese Ministry of Public Health says two people have been killed in two Israeli air attacks in the south of the country.

One person was killed in an Israeli drone attack on a bulldozer operating between the towns of Chaqra and Barashit, and another was killed in a separate drone attack on a motorcycle in the town of Beit Lif.

Israel has continued striking Lebanon and killing people on a regular basis despite a ceasefire that went into effect between it and Hezbollah in November of last year.

Israel charges 22-year-old for spying for Iran

Israeli media outlet Haaretz is reporting that the country’s state prosecutor has indicted a 22-year-old from northern Israel for spying on behalf of Iran.

The indictment states that the individual, identified as Basher Mussa, “performed a series of tasks at the request of his agent, including hanging signs reading ‘Bibi is a traitor’, and throwing spikes on the road”, the report said.

Netanyahu, Katz instruct Israeli army to show plan to prevent Hamas ‘seizing’ aid

Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and Defence Minister Israel Katz have issued a joint statement saying they have instructed the Israeli military to present a plan to stop Hamas from “seizing” aid in Gaza, according to reports in several Israeli media outlets.

“Following information received today that Hamas is again taking control of humanitarian aid entering northern Gaza and stealing it from civilians, the Prime Minister and Defense Minister have instructed the [Israeli military] to present within 48 hours an action plan to prevent Hamas from seizing the aid,” said the statement, reportedly issued just before midnight on Wednesday.

Citing an unnamed official, Israel’s Channel 12 news reported that the government has already halted aid deliveries to Gaza, with the pause to remain in place until the Israeli military presents its plan.

The unconfirmed report comes after Israel’s far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich reportedly threatened to quit the government if immediate action was not taken to prevent aid from reaching Hamas, according to The Times of Israel and The Jerusalem Post.

In March, Israel imposed an almost three-month blockade on all humanitarian aid from entering Gaza, bringing millions of Palestinians in the besieged enclave to the brink of famine. Since lifting its blockade in late May, Israeli forces have carried out numerous deadly massacres of Palestinian aid seekers gathering at delivery points.

Forcible transfer of Palestinians through new Israeli law a war crime: UN

Israeli authorities have “expedited measures to forcibly transfer large numbers of Palestinians from longstanding Palestinian towns and communities” in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, according to the UN Human Rights Office in the occupied Palestinian territory (OHCHR).

The forced displacement is being procured through a directive by the Israeli Civil Administration to reject all building and planning permits submitted by Palestinians in Masafer Yatta, South Hebron Hills, on the grounds that the Israeli army needs the area for military training, OHCHR said.

“Over the past months, Israel has dramatically ramped up home demolitions, as well as the arbitrary arrest and ill-treatment of Palestinians and human rights defenders, alongside intensifying movement restrictions in and around Masafer Yatta, to force Palestinians out,” the UN organisation said in a statement.

“In parallel, Israeli settlers from nearby outposts [who are] not subjected to eviction – have conducted daily attacks and harassment of Palestinians, including older people, women and children, in order to force them to leave.”

At least 1,200 Palestinians may face the forcible transfer, a war crime and a potential crime against humanity, the organisation said.

Trump pressure could force end to Gaza conflict, as in Iran – but no sign he wants to

With hostilities in Israel’s conflict with Iran coming to a halt following US pressure, attention is shifting back to the ongoing bloodshed in Gaza, and with it the question of whether Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu could be pressured to change course there.

Mairav Zonszein, a senior Israel analyst with the International Crisis Group, tells Al Jazeera that “if Trump wants to, he can get Netanyahu to stop this war.”

But so far, the US has given Israel weapons and impunity “to do whatever it wants” in Gaza.

“I don’t see a US president stopping that, unless he has interests that directly conflict,” she said.

“But for now, with Trump, he’s allowing Israel carte blanche.”

Israeli forces killed 13-year-old boy who posed ‘no threat’: Rights group

Child rights group Defense for Children International – Palestine (DCI-P) has released details of the killing of a 13-year-old boy by Israeli forces on Monday afternoon in the occupied West Bank.

The young victim, Ammar Motaz Mostafa Hamayel, was shot in the back by Israeli forces while walking with a friend near the bypass road adjacent to the Palestinian village of Kafr Malek – which came under Israeli settler attack on Wednesday night, which left three local people dead.

Israeli forces, concealed among pine trees, opened fire on the 13-year-old and his friend from a distance of some 500 to 1,000 metres (1,640 to 3,281 feet), the organisation said. A single bullet entered Ammar’s back and exited his neck, according to DCI-P.

The Israelis detained Ammar at the scene of the shooting for about two hours before handing him over to an ambulance crew who brought him to hospital where he was pronounced dead.

“While Israeli forces detained Ammar after shooting him, they physically assaulted multiple family members and neighbours who attempted to reach him and provide aid,” DCI-P said.

The boy was the 29th Palestinian child to be killed by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank so far this year, the group added.

More than 20 Palestinians detained in Israeli raid on West Bank

Sources told our Al Jazeera Arabic colleagues that Israeli forces have carried out a raid in the village of al-Arooj in the occupied West Bank and detained more than 20 Palestinians.

The village is located southeast of Bethlehem in the occupied Palestinian territory. Earlier, we also reported that Israeli forces carried out a separate raid in Nablus and detained 14 people. Several areas in the city of Hebron were also targeted early on Thursday.

Israeli forces have been carrying out daily raids in the occupied West Bank since the Hamas attack in October 2023.

More Israeli settler incidents reported in West Bank

We have been reporting on Israeli settler attacks on Palestinian communities in the occupied West Bank over the past day, including in the towns of Kafr Malek, where three Palestinians were killed, and Taybeh in Ramallah governorate.

The Wafa news agency now reports that Israeli settlers have “stormed” the Palestinian village of al-Malihat, northwest of Jericho, under protection of Israeli soldiers.

Israeli settlers have also reportedly attacked Palestinian vehicles near al-Maniya village, southeast of Bethlehem, by throwing stones at them.

Death toll from Israeli attack on school rises to nine

A source at al-Shifa Hospital tells us that the death toll following an Israeli bombing of a school housing displaced people in the Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood of Gaza City has risen to nine.