Compilation of news reports – IAK staff
At least 102 Palestinian civilians were killed and 490 injured while seeking humanitarian aid from Israeli-designated centers in the Gaza Strip in eight days, Hamas said on Tuesday.
For more detail on fatal Israeli attacks in Gaza on Tuesday, read:
Tuesday UPDATE from Gaza: Toll from ‘Aid Massacre’ Tops 62; Bombing Continues
At least 27 Palestinians killed by Israeli fire at food point, Gaza officials say; Israel claims innocence
In a statement, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said troops fired shots near a Gaza food distribution complex after noticing “a number of suspects moving towards them”.
“The forces fired evasive shots, and after they did not move away, additional shots were fired near the individual suspects who were advancing towards the forces.
“The individuals were moving towards forces in a way that posed a threat to them,” the military said, without specifying who the suspects were.
Israel also said a stampede around the trucks caused “significant harm to civilians.” EU and U.N. officials at the time said most of the casualties were from Israeli fire.
“There were three children and two women among the dead,” Mohammed Saqr, the head of nursing at Nasser hospital, which received the 27 bodies, told the Guardian. “Most of the patients had gunshot wounds, others had shrapnel all over the bodies, which means they were targeted with tanks or artillery munitions.”
(Eyewitness reports did not mention any stampedes.)
‘‘Going back to the aid distribution is a huge risk and a potential death sentence, but everyone who went had no other choice. If they aren’t killed by bullets or shelling, they will die of hunger,’’ said one eyewitness.
“Anyone who tried to help the wounded was also shot at,” said another.
“Deadly attacks on distraught civilians trying to access the paltry amounts of food aid in Gaza are unconscionable,” UN human rights chief, Volker Türk said. “Attacks directed against civilians constitute a grave breach of international law and a war crime.”
An Israeli military spokesperson on Tuesday said roads leading to the distribution centers set up by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) were considered “combat zones.”
Prior to the latest attack, the Gaza Health Ministry reported that 75 Palestinians were killed and more than 400 wounded by Israeli attacks on GHF aid sites since the controversial initiative was launched on 27 May.
The new massacre brings the total number up to at least 102.
❗️A Palestinian mother, Reem Zeidan, mother of eight, went with some of her children to secure aid from the Israeli occupation’s military-run Gaza Humanitarian Foundation death camp in Rafah and came back in a body bag.
Her son Ahmad says Israeli occupation forces opened fire on… pic.twitter.com/h1tWK0wZ6Y
— Translating Falasteen (Palestine) (@translatingpal) June 3, 2025
Israel using drones to terrorize Palestinians in Gaza, rights group warns
The Israeli occupation army has intensified its use of quadcopter drones as tools of psychological intimidation, surveillance, and direct killing of Palestinians in Gaza, Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor has reported.
Multiple incidents have been documented in which quadcopters were used “to broadcast eerie, distressing sounds deliberately intended to incite panic among civilians,” the rights group explained. In other cases, “quadcopters entered crowded homes at night, hovered within rooms, filmed sleeping families, and then exited through windows, leaving behind deep psychological trauma.”
Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor’s field team documented the frequent low-altitude flights of Israeli quadcopters, which would deliberately hover outside windows, in corridors of shelters, and above displaced persons’ tents.
The drones would circle slowly before broadcasting disturbing sounds including the sounds of dogs savaging children, screams of children in pain, cries from elderly people, and women ululating in grief, alongside constant ambulance sirens designed to suggest massacres were occurring nearby (continue reading here).
U.S. consulting firm quits Gaza humanitarian aid effort amid criticism
On Friday, a leading U.S. management consulting firm hired last fall to help design the program and run its business operations withdrew its team operating on the ground in Tel Aviv. A spokesperson for the firm, Boston Consulting Group (BCG), said the company had terminated its contract with the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) and placed one of the senior partners leading the project on leave, pending an internal review.
Boston Consulting Group had helped design and run the business operations of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.
“They are actually making the wheels turn,” said someone closely connected to both the GHF and BCG.
Gaza Humanitarian Foundation names US evangelical leader as new chair
An evangelical leader and adviser to Donald Trump on interfaith issues has been appointed the new head of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) as the controversial US- and Israeli-backed initiative attempts to recover from top-level resignations during a tumultuous rollout last week.
Johnnie Moore, a member of the US Commission on International Religious Freedom and founder of the boutique advisory firm Kairos Company, was appointed the new head of the GHF after Jake Wood, a former marine, resigned, saying that he could not guarantee the GHF’s independence from Israeli interests.
Moore told UN chief, António Guterres, on X that reports of Palestinians killed and injured while seeking aid in Gaza was “a lie … spread by terrorists”.*
A biography on Moore’s business website calls him a “noted evangelical friend of the State of Israel” and says that he played an important role in the conclusion of the Abraham accords to normalize relations between Israel and Arab states.
*NOTE: The killing of dozens of aid-seeking Palestinians over the last week has been well-documented.
The use of the word “terrorist” for a group that resists occupation and oppression is a political, not fact-based choice. In reality, international law supports the efforts of resistance groups against an occupying power, the UN extending that right to the point of armed resistance.
‘Humanitarian staff’ in Gaza are US intelligence agents engaged in espionage, rights group warns
Personnel working for the US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) are affiliated with the American military and intelligence services, the Coalition of Lawyers for Palestine – Switzerland (ASAP) has warned.
The group said the GHF is carrying out a mission aimed at collecting data that would enable control over Gaza.
Majed Abusalama, head of the coalition, said yesterday that when residents arrive at aid distribution sites, “people in Gaza are shocked by the number of quadcopters, other types of drones, and surveillance units set up around the area particularly in Rafah” (continue reading here).
Israel just took another huge step towards West Bank annexation, explained
The Israeli government’s decision last Thursday to create 22 new settlements in the West Bank was reported as regular news in most mainstream media. Although it received official condemnations from the UK, Finland, and some Arab states, the decision passed with absolutely no practical consequence for Israel, despite European threats to impose sanctions.
On the other hand, within Israeli politics, the decision was regarded as far from ordinary and received with widespread fanfare. The Israeli Defense Ministry called the decision “historic,” while the Defense Minister, Israel Katz, said that the decision “reinforces Israel’s control over Judea and Samaria,” Israel’s term for the occupied West Bank.” Israel’s hardline Finance Minister, Bezalel Smotrich, celebrated the move as “a great day for the settlement movement and an important day for the State of Israel” (continue reading here).
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US detainee Leqaa Kordia: The forgotten prisoner
Leqaa Kordia is a young Palestinian who had been taken from her life and thrown into Prairie Land Detention Center in Texas. Someone who had protested the murder of more than 100 of her family members in Gaza and, in response, had been abducted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Leqaa told me her story with quiet resolve. She spoke of being held in overcrowded cells for several weeks. Sleeping on concrete. Being denied halal food and basic hijab and clothing accommodations. No respect for modesty when male guards entered the cell. Denied accommodations to fast during Ramadan. Months of this. Alone.
And what had she done? She raised her voice for Gaza, among hundreds of other students at Columbia University, and made herself vulnerable by letting a student visa lapse, an offense that would never have resulted in detention halfway across the country from her home (continue reading here).
US warns UK and France not to recognize Palestinian state
The US has warned Britain and France against recognizing a Palestinian state at a UN conference later this month, Middle East Eye can reveal.
France and Saudi Arabia are set to co-host a major UN conference on the two-state solution beginning on 17 June in New York.
France is reportedly gearing up to unilaterally recognize a Palestinian state at the conference. MEE understands that France has been lobbying Britain to do so as well.
French officials believe the British government is onboard with the plan, according to French media.
But Washington privately begun to warn Britain and France against unilaterally recognizing Palestine (continue reading here).
Who’s on board the Madleen Gaza flotilla, and where has it reached so far?
The Madleen ship, launched by the Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC), is en route to Gaza carrying humanitarian aid and human rights activists protesting against Israel’s blockade of Gaza.
The vessel set sail in response to Israel’s total aid blockade of the Palestinian enclave starting on March 2, which has resulted in the deaths of dozens of children due to starvation. Israel has since allowed a trickle of aid into Gaza.
The Madleen, named after Gaza’s first and only fisherwoman, departed Catania, Sicily, on Sunday, just one month after drones bombed Conscience, another Freedom Flotilla aid ship, off the coast of Malta. Freedom Flotilla blamed Israel for the attack (continue reading here).
Read more about the Freedom Flotilla here.
Track the Madleen (also spelled Madeleine) here.
[Editor’s note: The flotilla movement was begun by Greta Berlin, Paul Larudee, Mary Hughes-Thompson, Sharyn Locke, AND Eliza Ernshire. Afterward, Jewish Voice for Peace and some others tried to ‘cancel’ Greta Berlin and Ann wright, despite their heroic and extremely consequential actions.]
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STATISTICS OCTOBER 7, 2023 – JUNE 3, 2025:
- At least 55,588 Palestinians killed, 134,126 injured – including:
- at least 54,607 killed in Gaza (~16,500 children)
- at least 981 killed in the West Bank (~199 children)
- at least 125,341 injured in Gaza
- at least 8,785 injured in the West Bank
According to Palestinian authorities, during the ceasefire Jan. 19 – March 18 2025, Israeli attacks killed at least 170 Gazans, and Israel committed at least 962 ceasefire violations.
Since the Israeli army resumed its assaults on Gaza on March 18, it has killed at least 4,335 people. 15 Israeli soldiers have been killed during the same time period.
Thousands of those killed in Gaza have yet to be identified, and an estimated 14,000 more are still buried under rubble.
Reported Israeli death toll from October 7, 2023 – June 3, 2025: ~1,605 – including ~1,139 on October 7, 2023 (~36 children), 420 military forces since the ground invasion began in Gaza, 46 military and civilians in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Israel.
By one count, Israeli attacks have killed approximately 215 Palestinian journalists and media workers; Palestinians have killed 4 Israeli journalists (other groups have tallied between 180 and 274 Palestinian journalists killed – depending on the criteria used).
NOTE: It is unknown at this time how many of the deaths and injuries of Israelis on October 7 were caused by Israeli soldiers.
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