Action Against Hunger names two aid workers killed by Israel in Gaza

The charity says two of its staff members, Mohammed Hussein and Obada Abu Issa, were killed in an Israeli air strike in a densely populated area of Gaza that had not received evacuation orders.

Neither was on duty at the time of the strike, which took place yesterday, the group said.

Mohammed, 20, had worked as an office guard and was hoping to renew his contract. “He gave those around him sincere support without asking for anything in return,” the NGO said.

Obada, 30, was a field assistant with the water, sanitation and hygiene team. He leaves behind a wife and two children.

Action Against Hunger has called for “the protection of civilians, including humanitarian workers, and asked for an immediate and permanent ceasefire”. The organisation added that it will continue its mission in Gaza.

Dehumanisation, chaos and death ‘cannot become the new norm’ in Gaza: UNWRA chief

The US and Israeli-backed aid distribution system in Gaza “has become a killing field”, says UNWRA chief Philippe Lazzarini.

“Instead of ‘orderly food distribution’, this system brings dehumanisation, chaos and death. This cannot become the new norm,” he said in a post on X.

“A ceasefire is needed and the siege must be lifted to bring back a standard flow of basics including food, medicine, soap and fuel,” Lazzarini urged.

Swiss authorities issue warning to controversial Gaza Humanitarian Foundation

The Geneva affiliate of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) – a group backed by both the Israeli and US governments – has been warned by Swiss authorities to fix legal shortcomings or face possible court action.

The GHF began distributing food parcels in Gaza at the end of May, overseeing a new, militarised model of aid delivery that has drawn sharp criticism from UN agencies. Hundreds of Palestinians have been killed trying to access supplies from convoys operating under this system.

The GHF, officially registered in the United States, set up a Swiss affiliate on February 12. However, a legal filing published Thursday on the Commercial Register of the Canton of Geneva said the affiliate has “deficiencies in the organization that is mandatory by law”. The group has been given 30 days to rectify the problems, or face court or regulatory action.

This warning is separate from a possible investigation by the Swiss Federal Department of Home Affairs, which has said the foundation lacks basic legal compliance, including not having the required number of board members, a Swiss address, or a local bank account.

Israeli army issues new forced displacement orders for Gaza

The Israeli army has issued forced displacement orders to multiple areas of Gaza, including the municipalities of Nuseirat, Zahraa, and Mughraqa, and the neighbourhoods of the northern coast, al-Nuzha, al-Bawadi, al-Basma, al-Zahraa, al-Basatin, Badr, Abu Hureira, al-Rawda, and al-Safa.

“For your sake, evacuate immediately south to the al-Mawasi area and do not return to areas affected by the fighting,” the army’s Arabic-language spokesperson, Avichay Adraee, said in a post on X.

The Israeli army “is operating with extreme force to destroy the organisational capabilities in these areas, as all areas are being used for launching rockets”, Adraee added.

Main events on June 27th

• Israeli officers and soldiers have told the Haaretz newspaper they were instructed to shoot at unarmed Palestinians seeking aid at designated distribution zones in Gaza, despite the crowds posing no threat.
• 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.
• Iran has rejected a “meaningless” request by International Atomic Energy Agency chief Rafael Grossi to visit facilities bombed by Israel and the US.
• Israel has killed more than 30 senior security officials and 11 senior nuclear scientists during its 12-day war with Iran, according to a senior Israeli military official.

Israeli report claims soldiers ordered to shoot at unarmed civilians in Gaza

An Israeli newspaper report saying that soldiers were ordered to shoot at unarmed civilians waiting for food aid in Gaza has been strongly rejected by Israel's Prime Minister.

The head of the organisation distributing aid has denied that hundreds of deaths from shootings are linked to its collection points. Johnnie Moore, from the US and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, told the BBC that international agencies, including the United Nations, are spreading disinformation.

PROOF: IDF Troops Ordered To Shoot People Queuing For Food

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Palestine Action group to be banned, home secretary confirms
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g83l33wdeo

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has said she will proscribe Palestine Action under anti-terror law. It comes days after activists from the group broke into RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire and spray-painted two military planes red - an incident Cooper called "disgraceful".

The move effectively brands the group a terrorist organisation and, if passed in Parliament, would make membership of and support of the group illegal.

More setback for Netanyahu as own media reveals truth on Iranian success

Benjamin Netanyahu is fast realising his mistakes to have attacked Iran as he sees the catastrophic impact on his country’s economy. Rifat Jawaid focuses on Netanyahu’s bigger headache, which is an Israeli TV channel’s candid admission that Iranian missiles attacks were far more successful than what was reported.

Meanwhile, IAEA Chief Rafael Grossi desperately wants to be invited to Iran to carry out inspections of Iran’s nuclear facilities.

Is China helping Iran build its air defence system to thwart Netanyahu’s plans?

A former Us diplomat has advised Iran to use the ceasefire period to urgently collaborate with China and Russia to rebuild its air defence system against Israel. Rifat Jawaid explains how there are already conversations between Beijing and Tehran on supplying the Islamic Republic highly effective J10CE wjichbisnequiooes with KLJ-10 Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) radar. This costs just $40 million but was responsible for the failure of Indian fighter jets such as Rafale, Sukhoi 30 and MiG 29 during its recent conflict with Pakistan.

Israeli military carries out deadly overnight attacks across Gaza

The Israeli military has continued its assault on Gaza overnight, carrying out several attacks that have killed and injured dozens of people.

Our Al Jazeera Arabic colleagues report the following attacks over recent hours:

Trump is talking up a Gaza ceasefire, but major obstacles remain

Donald Trump has said a ceasefire in Gaza could be achieved in a week. That’s welcome news to Palestinians in Gaza who continue to be bombed and starved nonstop. But there are actually no negotiations happening anywhere at the moment around this.

What we do know is that talk of a ceasefire in Gaza has increased exponentially after the ceasefire between Israel and Iran.

Israel does not want to talk about ending the war – in fact, Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu would be risking a lot if he did. But there is an understanding, according to many reports, that Netanyahu would have to agree to some sort of ceasefire in exchange for the normalisation deals with other countries being talked about by the Trump administration.

What Hamas would want, according to its statements, is first of all for the slaughter to end, but also for Israeli troops to withdraw from the areas they’ve taken in Gaza after Israel broke the ceasefire in March. Right now, they’ve taken up to 80 percent of Gaza.

Hamas also wants US guarantees that negotiations would continue, and that Israel wouldn’t break the ceasefire again if more time were needed for negotiations.

Houthis claim ballistic missile strike on southern Israel

We have been reporting on the Israeli claims of a missile strike from Yemen that was “most likely successfully intercepted”.

Now, the Yemeni armed group has confirmed they launched a ballistic missile, saying it was against a “sensitive” target in the Israeli city of Beersheba in southern Israel.

According to a statement released by the group, the attack was carried out by the group’s missile unit using a Dhu al-Fiqar ballistic missile. “The operation successfully achieved its goal,” it said.

Moreover, the statement claimed that, earlier last week, the Houthis had launched several operations targeting sites in Beersheba, Jaffa, and Haifa using ballistic missiles and drones.

Since November 2023, the Houthis have launched attacks on Israeli cities and vessels linked to Israel, in an effort to pressure it to stop its nearly 21-month war on Gaza.

Fuel crisis in Gaza threatens lifesaving services: UNRWA

The health sector in the Gaza Strip remains under intense strain, with widespread damage to medical facilities, the UN agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) has said.

The health crisis in the Gaza Strip was further compounded by ongoing restrictions on the entry of essential medical supplies and fuel, UNRWA said in its latest situation report.

“The fuel crisis in the Gaza Strip has reached deeply worrisome levels. Humanitarian organisations warn that without the immediate entry of fuel, lifesaving and life-sustaining services are at risk of shutting down imminently,” the UN agency said.

Our latest on the situation in📍#Gaza and the #WestBank:

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— UNRWA (@UNRWA) June 28, 2025

Nine Israelis arrested as settlers rampage through West Bank village

Several dozen Israeli settlers have reportedly attacked Israeli military reservists while rampaging through the occupied West Bank village of Kafr Malek – the scene of a deadly settler assault earlier this week.

Israeli’s Kan public broadcaster said the settlers beat, choked and hurled rocks at the soldiers after they responded to a riot in the village on Friday night. The assailants also slashed the tyres of a police cruiser and tried to run over an officer, according to the same outlet.

Several Israeli soldiers were lightly injured, with nine suspects arrested in connection with the incident.

Israeli settlers rampaged through Kafr Malek under the protection of Israeli soldiers on Wednesday, provoking clashes with local residents that resulted in three Palestinians being killed.

Israeli forces arrest dozens of Palestinians in occupied West Bank: Report

Israeli forces have conducted a series of raids, arresting more than 25 people in the governorates of Nablus, Qalqilya, and Salfit, according to the Palestinian Prisoners’ Media Office (ASRA).

Among those arrested was journalist Mujahid Bani Mufleh from Beita, in Nablus governorate, the statement published by ASRA said. Israeli forces stormed dozens of homes during the raids, it added.

Israeli army confirms settlers attacked troops in West Bank’s Kafr Malek

We have reported earlier several dozen Israeli settlers reportedly attacked Israeli military reservists while rampaging through the occupied West Bank village of Kafr Malek, leading to arrests.

Now, the Israeli military statement published on Telegram said the incident took place overnight when several Israeli civilians were driving towards an area designated as a closed military zone.

“Upon the arrival of the security forces, dozens of Israeli civilians hurled stones towards them and physically and verbally assaulted the soldiers, including the Battalion Commander,” it said, adding that the group vandalised and damaged the military vehicles as well as attempting to ram the security forces.

The security forces dispersed the gathering, and six Israeli civilians (settlers) were apprehended and transferred to the Israel Police for further processing, the statement said.

Bodies of two aid seekers recovered in northern Gaza: Medical source

A source at Ahli Hospital has told Al Jazeera the bodies of two Palestinians were recovered among a crowd of people waiting for aid, at the Netzarim Corridor south of Gaza City.

Netanyahu’s denials of military wrongdoing undermined by daily slaughter

It’s no surprise that the statement from the Israeli prime minister’s office is denying any wrongdoing by the military in Gaza in response to an explosive Haaretz newspaper report yesterday.

The report quoted Israeli soldiers as saying that commanders had instructed them to fire at Palestinians approaching food aid distribution sites in Gaza.

Netanyahu has consistently denied wrongdoing by the Israeli military since the war began nearly two years ago. This time, Netanyahu has dismissed the report as a “blood libel”, saying that the Israeli military operates in incredibly difficult conditions and does what it can to minimise the harm to civilians.

That’s a little hard to believe given the fact that more than 56,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israel’s onslaught.

The Israeli soldiers quoted in this report said Gaza has become a killing field, especially in the areas near the aid distribution sites.

Number of children dead from malnutrition rises to 66 in Gaza: Media Office

The development comes due to the ongoing closure of crossings by Israeli forces and “prevention of the entry of baby milk and nutritional supplements designated for vulnerable and weak groups, especially infants and the sick”, according to Gaza’s Government Media Office.

“This behaviour constitutes a war crime and a crime against humanity, and reveals the ‘Israeli’ occupation’s deliberate use of starvation as a weapon to exterminate civilians, especially children, in flagrant violation of international humanitarian law and the Geneva Conventions,” it added.

US- and Israeli-backed aid system in Gaza an ‘abomination’

Chris Doyle, director of the Council for Arab-British Understanding, has labelled the aid distribution system in Gaza that is run by the US- and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Fund (GHF) an “abomination and utter disgrace”.

“It is an inversion of all the global humanitarian principles about independence, impartiality and neutrality,” he told Al Jazeera.

The UN and aid groups say the GHF does not abide by humanitarian principles, accusing it of weaponising aid since it began operating in late May.

“As we’ve seen, around about 550 Palestinians have been killed in trying to get food there, to travel by foot, long journeys, and then the families worry whether they’ll ever come back again,” Doyle said.

Pointing to the lack of accountability and the urgent need to change the current aid system, Doyle described the situation as another example of where “Israel enjoys complete and utter impunity from any of the norms of war, of international law.

“This has to be dismantled now, and the proper systems of delivery and distribution of aid set back up,” he added.

Daily raids in occupied West Bank conducted to make life ‘miserable’

The large-scale campaign of Israeli arrests in the occupied West Bank since October 7, 2023 is part of a concerted effort to destabilise Palestinian communities and push young people out of the territory, analyst Amjad Abu el-Ezz has told Al Jazeera.

“This is a policy being conducted by the Israeli occupation power under justifications like October 7,” said Abu el-Ezz, a professor at the Arab American University in Ramallah.

“But the truth behind this policy is to create fear, to make our life in the West Bank miserable and difficult, and to push the Palestinian youth to leave the land and become immigrants in Europe or elsewhere.”

Moreover, he added that Israeli soldiers are conducting daily raids, arresting young people even in towns and villages that have seen no unrest.

“Why is this policy being conducted when some towns and villages don’t have any problems, don’t have any activities, but they’re still being targeted?” he questioned.

Gaza death toll rises

At least 81 Palestinians have been killed and 422 injured in Israeli attacks across Gaza in the past 24 hours, according to the enclave’s Health Ministry.

The total toll in Israel’s war on Gaza has risen to 56,412 killings and 133,054 injuries since October 7, 2023.

At least 6,089 killings and 21,013 injuries came after Israel broke the ceasefire on March 18.

Girl with Down syndrome among 11 killed by Israel in Gaza City

We have reported earlier that 11 Palestinians were killed in an Israeli attack on the Tuffah neighbourhood of Gaza City.

Mahmoud Basal, a spokesman for Gaza’s Civil Defence, confirmed the figure in a statement on Telegram, adding that a girl with Down syndrome was among the women, children and elderly killed in the attack.

‘No one sure’ if ICC will survive Trump pressure as attacks on Gaza aid seekers continue

We’ve spoken to Triestino Mariniello, a legal representative for Gaza victims at the International Criminal Court (ICC), about potential legal ramifications over the killings of aid seekers in Gaza.

He said Israel was violating international humanitarian law by setting up the controversial Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) to deliver aid in the territory, which he added had been created to “bypass” the fundamental principles of humanitarian aid delivery: independence, impartiality, neutrality and humanity.

Beyond the violations of international humanitarian law in the aid delivery, Mariniello told Al Jazeera that intentional attacks on civilian aid seekers amounted to war crimes, which both individual members of the Israeli military and the GHF would bear liability for before the ICC.

Asked whether the families of those killed near GHF aid sites in Gaza could feel comfortable in getting justice, he said that they should – but acknowledged that it would require political support for the ICC, as it faced an unprecedented attack from the Trump administration.

The Trump administration has sanctioned ICC judges, and is reportedly considering pulling funding for groups that investigate war crimes.

“The court is under incredible pressure and no one is sure, including the ICC staff, if in the next few months there will still be an International Criminal Court,” said Mariniello, adding that the court was “the only possibility” for the families of victims to get justice.

He said recent moves in Washington sent “a very dangerous” message about the new US approach to international human rights law: that “there must be no accountability for serious violations of international law, according to the Trump administration”.

_{A Palestinian man was wounded as a crowd gathered to receive aid supplies in Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza}