Israeli veterans say settler attacks on Palestinian village a ‘routine in hell’

Breaking the Silence, a rights group formed by veterans of Israel’s armed forces that now monitor abuses of Palestinians in the occupied territory, said the deadly attack by Israeli settlers on the West Bank village of Kafr Malek followed a “routine”.

- First, the settlers arrived and destroyed Palestinian property on Wednesday and shot at residents.
- Then the Israeli military arrived close on the heels of the settlers.
- When Palestinian residents of the town attempted to protect their homes and families from attack, they were then shot by the military.

“Routine in hell,” is how the rights group described the play of events.

Three Palestinians were killed in the attack on Kafr Malek, and five settlers held as suspects in the violence have been freed without charge by Israeli police, according to reports.


Israeli settlers clash with Palestinians near Nablus holy site

Israeli settlers have clashed with Palestinians near Joseph’s Tomb, east of Nablus in the occupied West Bank, according to the Live Quds news outlet.

Joseph’s Tomb – a holy site in Judaism, Islam and Christianity – is a regular flashpoint as Israeli soldiers routinely escort settlers through the Palestinian city to reach the religious monument.

Israeli settlers stormed Nablus holy site without military protection: Reports

Earlier, we reported that Israeli settlers had clashed with Palestinians near the holy site of Joseph’s Tomb, east of Nablus in the occupied West Bank. Israeli media now reports that the settlers stormed the area without prior coordination with the military and they were not protected by an official escort, as is often the case.

The settlers and the Palestinian residents of the city threw stones at each other, with several Israelis sustaining minor injuries before being removed by Palestinian Authority police, according to Israel’s Walla news site.

The settlers involved are reportedly members of the Shuvu Bonim cult, led by convicted sex offender Rabbi Eliezer Berland, according to The Times of Israel.

At least 23 Israeli settler attacks on Palestinians recorded in one week: UN

In the seven-day period between June 17 and 23, the UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said it documented at least 23 attacks by Israeli settlers on Palestinians that resulted in casualties, property damage or both.

The attacks left one Palestinian man dead and 14 injured, OCHA said.

Arson, killing, and vandalism of sapling trees – mostly olive – were recorded during the attacks carried out on Palestinian communities across the occupied West Bank, the UN agency said.

UN report highlights mass ‘forced displacement’ by Israel in the West Bank

The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has raised the alarm on an Israeli military notice that all buildings will be destroyed in 13 Palestinian communities in the Masafer Yatta area in the occupied West Bank.

At least 1,200 people, including more than 500 children, are now at risk of “forced displacement” if the military carries out its planned demolitions, the OCHA said.

In its latest situation report on deteriorating conditions for Palestinians in the West Bank, OCHA also reports that in the period between June 13 and 23 , Israeli soldiers temporarily “took over” 240 Palestinian homes to use them as military outposts and interrogation centres.

The owners of the homes were either forcibly evicted or detained, the UN said, during the military’s home invasions.

In the West Bank’s Tulkarem and Nur Shams refugee camps, nearly 100 structures – mostly homes – were also demolished by the Israeli military this month, and in occupied East Jerusalem, almost 320 residents in three Palestinian communities face renewed eviction and demolition threats, OCHA said.

Israeli settlers destroy Palestinian olive trees, establish illegal outpost near Nablus

We have been reporting on overnight clashes between Israeli settlers and Palestinians in the Nablus area of the occupied West Bank.

Now, the Quds News Network reports that settlers have levelled land and bulldozed olive trees belonging to Palestinian farmers on the outskirts of the town of Aqraba, southeast of Nablus.

Israeli settlers have also reportedly entered the Palestinian village of Kafr Qallil, east of Nablus, the Palestinian Information Center reports. Shlomo Raichman, a journalist with Israeli Army Radio, reports that a new illegal Israeli outpost has been established near the existing settlement of Kedumim, west of Nablus.

“During the night, a new neighbourhood was established west of Kedumim – ‘Nofei Gideon’,” Raichman wrote in a post on X. “In recent months, a road was paved to the neighbourhood and infrastructure was set up. Tonight, the buildings were erected, and 10 families began residing in the area,” he added.

Israeli settlers are levelling land and bulldozing olive trees on the outskirts of the town of Aqraba, located southeast of Nablus in the occupied West Bank. pic.twitter.com/fmWLDB6eYR

— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) June 27, 2025

Palestinian woman hospitalised after assault by Israeli settlers

A Palestinian woman in the Masafer Yatta area in the southern West Bank has been hospitalised after she was assaulted in an attack by Israeli settlers, local sources tell Al Jazeera.

They said the assault took place during an attack by settlers on Palestinian homes in the village of Susiya last night. Other residents were injured when they resisted the attack.

The woman sustained bruises and was taken to Yatta Governmental Hospital for treatment, sources said.

EU urges Israel to curb ‘steep rise’ in settler violence in occupied West Bank

The European Union has called on Israel to prevent increasing settler violence in the occupied West Bank, warning that the situation there is “worsening rapidly”.

“In recent days, there has been a steep rise in settler violence, intimidation, and the destruction of homes and property – including the killing of three Palestinians in Kafr Malik on Wednesday,” said a statement by Anouar El Anouni, spokesperson for EU foreign affairs and security policy in the EU’s diplomatic service.

“This must come to an end.”

El Anouni called on Israel “to take concrete action to prevent settler violence against Palestinians and ensure the perpetrators of crimes are held accountable”.

“In the current difficult situation, all efforts should be directed at de-escalating tensions,” he said. “The EU recalls that settlements are illegal under international law and constitute an obstacle to peace.”


_{An Israeli settler at an outpost of Evyatar, near Jabal Subeih in the occupied West Bank in 2021}

Two children beaten, detained by Israeli troops in occupied West Bank: Report

Israeli forces assaulted and detained two children while they were playing in the street in Yabad town, south of Jenin, in the occupied West Bank, according to the Wafa news agency.

The children were eventually released after being held in Israeli military vehicles for a period of time, the report said.

Israeli army says jets struck Hezbollah target in southern Lebanon

The site was used “as a hub for managing the fire and defence array” of Hezbollah in the Beaufort Castle area in southern Lebanon, according to an army statement.

It was part of an underground Hezbollah site that was previously hit by Israeli strikes, an army statement added. Hezbollah has been trying to restore the site, and therefore, the infrastructure in the area was attacked, the military said.

The attack was also reported by the Lebanese media.

In recent days, Israel has stepped up its attacks against what it calls Hezbollah targets across southern Lebanon. Yesterday, two people were killed in Israeli drone attacks, with the army saying its raids hit Hezbollah members.

Israel has kept up regular raids on Lebanon, particularly in the south, despite a November 27 ceasefire meant to end more than a year of hostilities that left Hezbollah weakened.

سلسلة غارات تستهدف النبطية الفوقا#الجنوب_اللبناني pic.twitter.com/hZtkBw7Aco

— Fatima.Fatima (@Fatimash28) June 27, 2025

Translation: Series of raids target upper Nabatieh.

Lebanese PM slams Israeli attack in south of country

Nawaf Salam says on X that he “strongly condemns” the Israeli attacks in the vicinity of Nabatieh.

He called it “a blatant violation of national sovereignty and the arrangements for the cessation of hostilities reached last November, as well as a threat to the stability we are keen to preserve”.

One killed, 20 wounded in Israeli attacks on southern Lebanon

Lebanon’s Health Ministry says one woman was killed and 20 people injured in a series of Israeli air raids on Nabatieh, southern Lebanon, earlier today. The ministry says the woman was killed and 13 other people injured when an air raid hit a residential apartment building in Nabatieh.

Seven others were wounded in air raids on the outskirts of the city, officials say.

Lebanon’s president calls on international community to end Israel’s attacks

Joseph Aoun has joined the country’s PM, Nawaf Salam, in condemning Israel’s attacks on south Lebanon earlier today. As we reported, the attacks killed at least one woman and wounded 20 other people.

“Israel continues to disregard regional and international resolutions and calls to stop violence and escalation in the region, which necessitates effective action from the international community to put an end to these attacks that do not serve the efforts made to establish stability in Lebanon and the region’s countries,” Aoun wrote on X.

Four injured in Israeli drone strike on southern Lebanon: Ministry

Four people have been injured in an Israeli drone strike on the southern Lebanese town of Chaqra, according to Lebanon’s Health Ministry, marking another breach of the ceasefire agreement signed last November.

The ministry’s Public Health Emergency Operations Center confirmed the casualties, which occurred in the district of Bint Jbeil, a frequent target of Israeli air raids in recent months.

Katz instructs Israeli military to prepare ‘enforcement plan’ against Iran

Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz has said he instructed the military to prepare an enforcement plan against Iran following their 12-day war.

The plan “includes maintaining Israel’s air superiority, preventing nuclear advancement and missile production, and responses to Iran for supporting terrorist activities against Israel”, Katz added.

So planning to have the same kind of 'ceasefire' as with Lebanon...

Trump demands Iran open to inspections after US bombing of nuclear sites

US President Donald Trump has said Iran must open its nuclear facilities to international inspection – just days after US and Israeli forces carried out coordinated strikes on Iran.

Speaking at a White House news conference on Friday, Trump said any future engagement with Iran would require the International Atomic Energy Agency “or somebody that we respect, including ourselves”.

It comes as Iran, a member of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and a signatory of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), has approved a bill to suspend cooperation with the IAEA, a move widely seen as a direct response to the strikes.

UNRWA renews call for Israel to lift blockade on Gaza

The UN Relief and Works Agency, the backbone of Palestinian humanitarian aid, has urged Israel to lift the Gaza “siege”, which has prevented the delivery of much-needed humanitarian aid to the estimated two million Palestinians in the territory.

“UNRWA remains the lifeline to people in Gaza,” the UN agency posted on its account on X. “Since the war began in Gaza, UNRWA has never stopped working – not through bombardment, displacement, or despair,” it added.

At present, humanitarian aid in Gaza is being delivered by the US-backed Israeli organisation Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), which is accused of causing the deaths of hundreds of Palestinians waiting for food aid.

Well-known aid groups and the UN have refused to work with the new organisation, saying it violates basic humanitarian principles by coordinating delivery with Israeli troops backed by privately hired and armed US security personnel.

GHF staff could be criminally liable for aid seeker deaths, says rights lawyer

A human rights lawyer says staff working for the controversial group behind the violence-plagued aid distribution programme in Gaza could be held criminally liable for complicity in war crimes.

Speaking to Al Jazeera from London, Kate Mackintosh, executive director of the UCLA Law Promise Institute Europe, said that the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) could bear criminal liability for the killings of hundreds of aid seekers near its distribution points.

“It’s very unclear why these people are being targeted and killed, but I think it’s pretty clear that these are unarmed civilians who are desperately trying to get food for their families,” she said.

“Firing upon people in that situation prima facie is a war crime.” She said that people working for the GHD would “have to think about the extent to which they could be complicit in those crimes”.

“If they’re aware that this is going to happen – or even in some jurisdictions they’re aware of the substantial risk of this happening, which it seems they must be, given what we’ve seen since these operations began – then they could be held criminally liable for participating in those crimes.”

Israeli soldiers say they were ordered to fire at unarmed aid seekers: Report

Israeli officers and soldiers have told a local newspaper that they were instructed to shoot at unarmed Palestinians seeking aid at designated distribution zones in Gaza, despite the crowds posing no threat.

Israel’s Haaretz reported that it had learned that the military prosecutor’s office has demanded that the military’s supreme command launch an investigation of suspected war crimes at the aid hubs.

In the report, the soldiers described how they fired on crowds of aid seekers to prevent them approaching or disperse them, rather than using non-lethal crowd control measures.

“It’s a killing field … where I was, between one and five people were killed every day,” one soldier said.

“They fire on them as if they were an attacking force: they don’t use riot control devices, they don’t shoot tear gas, they shoot everything you can think of – a heavy machine gun, a grenade launcher, mortars.

He added: “We communicate with them through fire.”

According to the Gaza Health Ministry, at least 549 people have been killed near aid centres since they began operating in late May. The US has just approved $30m in funding for the group, despite the routine violence at its sites and warnings from human rights lawyers that its staff could be held criminally liable for complicity in war crimes.

Israeli soldier confessions over killings at aid centres detail ‘war crimes’: Media office

“War crimes” are taking place at US and Israeli-backed aid distribution centres in Gaza, according to the enclave’s Government Media Office.

The statement referencing “the shocking confessions” of Israeli soldiers published by the Haaretz newspaper of “deliberately shooting starving Palestinian civilians” near the aid points said the testimonies are evidence of “war crimes”.

“The report’s direct military orders to fire on unarmed civilians who pose no threat, and the use of heavy machine guns, artillery, and shells against peaceful gatherings waiting for food, are further evidence that the Israeli occupation army is pursuing a systematic policy of genocide under the false guise of ‘relief’,” the media office said.

Gaza official says 17,000 children suffer from malnutrition in enclave

The director of medical relief in Gaza tells our Al Jazeera Arabic colleagues that the situation in the Strip is getting worse for children. “We expect a large number of children to die from malnutrition unless a serious intervention occurs,” he said.

“Pressure must be put on the occupation to allow the entry of baby milk and medicine,” the official said, adding that “many surgeries have been postponed due to a shortage of staff, medical supplies, and medicine.”

In past 24 hours, 72 Palestinians killed in Gaza: Ministry

Gaza’s Ministry of Health says at least 72 bodies and 174 wounded people have arrived at hospitals over the past 24 hours.

Since Israel broke a truce agreed with Hamas in March, at least 6,008 Palestinians have been killed and more than 20,591 have been wounded.

The total death toll from the Israeli attacks has risen to 56,331, with 132,632 wounded since October 7, 2023.

Drugs found in flour bags distributed by US-Israeli aid centres in Gaza: Media Office

Gaza’s Government Media Office has expressed its “deep concern and condemnation” over the discovery of “narcotic pills of the type ‘Oxycodone'” inside flour bags distributed by the US- and Israeli-backed aid centres in the enclave.

“We have so far documented four testimonies from citizens who found these pills inside flour bags. More serious is the possibility that some of these narcotic substances were deliberately ground or dissolved in the flour itself, which raises the scope of the crime and transforms it into a serious attack directly targeting public health,” said the statement published by the Media Office on Telegram.

“We hold the Israeli occupation fully responsible for this heinous crime of spreading addiction and destroying the Palestinian social fabric from within, as part of a systematic policy that constitutes an extension of the genocide it is waging against our Palestinian people,” it added.

“The Israeli occupation’s use of drugs as a soft weapon in a dirty war against civilians, and its exploitation of the blockade to smuggle these substances as ‘aid and assistance’, constitute a war crime and a grave violation of international humanitarian law,” the statement said.

Gaza’s civil defence says 62 Palestinians killed by Israeli forces since dawn

Mahmoud Basal, a spokesperson from the emergency service, has told the AFP news agency that six people were killed in southern Gaza near one of the aid distribution sites operated by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), and one more in a separate incident in the centre of the territory, where the army denied shooting “at all”.

Another three people were killed by a strike while waiting for aid southwest of Gaza City, Bassal said.

He said that 10 people were killed in five separate Israeli strikes near the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis, east of which he said “continuous Israeli artillery shelling” was reported on Friday.

Basal added that 30 people were killed in six separate strikes in northern Gaza, including a fisherman who was targeted “by Israeli warships”. He specified that eight of them were killed “after an Israeli air strike hit Osama bin Zayed School, which was housing displaced persons” in northern Gaza.

In central Gaza’s al-Bureij refugee camp, 12 people were killed in two separate Israeli strikes, Basal said.

Toddler burned alive in ongoing attacks in Gaza today

In the past few hours, we have recorded a surge of Israeli air strikes and artillery shelling in multiple locations across Gaza.

Israeli fighter jets struck the Osama bin Zayed School in the northern part of Gaza. It was sheltering displaced families. So far, we know that eight Palestinians were killed in the strike, including a female toddler who, according to witnesses, was completely burned alive.

In central Gaza, in particular in Bureij refugee camp, which is only 6km (about 3.7 miles) away from where we are, the Israeli military struck a group of civilians, and five of them have been confirmed killed. Their bodies were transported to al-Awda Hospital.

In Khan Younis in the past hour, we saw huge plumes of smoke coming from different directions.

Israel kills Red Crescent medic in central Gaza

The 50th medic from the Palestine Red Crescent has been killed in Gaza since the start of the war, the PRCS says in a statement. Haitham Bassam Abu Issa, a nurse at the PRCS clinic in Deir el-Balah in the centre of the enclave, was killed while off duty on Thursday, the PRCS said.

“This brings the total number of PRCS staff and volunteers killed during the conflict to 50 – a deeply shocking figure,” the PRCS said.