Compilation of news reports – IAK staff
Israeli forces killed at least 59 Palestinians across Gaza on Sunday, including at least 17 aid-seekers.
At least 338 Palestinians have now been killed, and 2,831 injured, at aid distribution sites since the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation began operating. This number includes only those brought to hospitals.
For detail on Israeli attacks in Gaza on Sunday, go here.
Israel scaling back troops in Gaza – but still killing Palestinians there
The Israeli army is continuing to scale back its troop presence in the Gaza Strip in order to reinforce Israel’s northern and eastern borders, amid concerns over possible infiltration attempts by militias from Jordan and Syria, as well as the potential entry of Hezbollah into the fighting, Israeli defense officials have told Haaretz.
According to the officials, the decision to redeploy forces stems from concern that Iran’s regional proxies may assist it in the conflict. The immediate goal, they said, is to thwart any attempts at raids on Israeli communities or military infrastructure near the border fence.
Within days, fewer than half the number of soldiers stationed in Gaza prior to the opening of hostilities with Iran are expected to remain.
Meanwhile, multiple Israeli air raids hammered southern Gaza on Sunday, killing at least 12 Palestinians there. Seven others were killed when an Israeli strike targeted a group of people in Beit Lahiya town in the north of the enclave, medics said. A total of at least 59 Palestinians were killed Sunday, at least 17 of whom were trying to get food at aid sites operated by the controversial United States and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), according to the Ministry of Health.
GLOBAL MARCH TO GAZA:
Global March to Gaza on Hold After Crackdown on Int’l Protesters by Egypt
The Global March to Gaza, billed as one of the largest international solidarity actions in years, has been put on hold by organizers amid a sweeping crackdown by Egyptian authorities who have detained, deported, or blocked hundreds of participants in Egypt. The march had planned to culminate in an encampment at the Rafah border crossing.
Over the weekend, organizers issued a statement urging all protesters attempting to make their way through the Sinai to the Gaza border to make their way back to Cairo. “Marchers’ safety comes first,” the statement read. “Stay safe. Stay strong.”
Activists arriving in Egypt had hoped to begin a three-day, 50-kilometer trek through the Sinai Peninsula on Thursday, starting in the northeastern city of El-Arish and ending at the border with Gaza. Many of them encountered hotel raids, roadside checkpoints and passport confiscations in an initial wave of detentions and deportations in the days leading up to the march.
On Friday, other delegations of activists reported that they, too, were being prevented from reaching El-Arish. Canada’s CBC News reported that more than 40 Canadians planning to participate in the march had their passports confiscated by authorities.
One participant said marchers had been told they would only get their passports back if they boarded buses to the airport for deportation.
Sumoud Caravan retreats to Misrata area in Libya
Another solidarity caravan for Gaza, this one originating in Tunisia, has retreated near Misrata in western Libya after being blocked by eastern Libyan authorities, who arrested 13 participants, organizers said Sunday.
Organizers said the convoy, made up of over a thousand Tunisians, Algerians, Moroccans, and Mauritanians, was placed under a military blockade on Friday. Participants were denied access to food, water, and medicine, and communications were disrupted; some were detained.
The Joint Action Coordination Committee for Palestine called for the immediate release of all 13 detainees and vowed to continue toward Rafah to “break the blockade and end the genocide of the resilient Palestinian people in Gaza”.
EXPLAINER: What is the Global March to Gaza all about?
NOTABLE QUOTES ON GAZA:
Jens Laerke, spokesperson for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA):
GHF [Gaza Humanitarian Foundation], I think it’s fair to say, has been, from a principled humanitarian standpoint, a failure. They are not doing what a humanitarian operation should do, which is providing aid to people where they are, in a safe and secure manner.
James Elder, spokesperson for the United Nations Children’s Fund UNICEF:
Every known limit of human endurance has been shattered. Mothers go without food for days just to provide a single meal for their children.
Instead of joy, families gather in silence to remember those they’ve lost, surrounded by an overwhelming sense of grief and abandonment.
There are no homes, no shelters – just loss. People spent their lives building homes and gardens, and now everything has disappeared.
Severe malnutrition makes a child 10 times more likely to die from something minor. This is the deadly cycle: hunger, dirty water, and lack of basic healthcare.
IRAN-ISRAEL NEWS SNAPSHOTS:
Iran’s Health Ministry says 224 people have been killed since Israel began its attacks on the country.
An Israeli government statement said at least 18 people have been killed and 380 hurt in Iran’s attacks on Israel; among the dead were children. This number includes 5 Israelis killed by Iranian attacks on Sunday night/Monday morning – 2 of the victims were in their “safe rooms” at the time of the attack.
An Israeli official told the Wall Street Journal that Ali Khamenei, the leader of the Iranian regime, is “not off limits”: “The official said Israel wasn’t ruling out any potential targets to destroy the nuclear program, including Khamenei.
Religious Zionism Party Knesset member Ohad Tal, commenting on the WSJ article, said, “There is still much work to be done to dismantle Iran’s nuclear program and its other military assets…Moving forward, I believe Israel must aim for the collapse of the Iranian regime.”
Israel’s leadership is concerned that international pressure may force the IDF to stop striking Iran before its mission is complete, an Israeli security source told Jewish Insider on Sunday.
Three high-ranking commanders of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) intelligence apparatus were killed in an Israeli airstrike amid escalating tensions, according to the Iranian news agency Tasnim on Sunday evening: Gen. Mohammad Kazemi, head of the IRGC Intelligence Organization; Gen. Hassan Mohaqeq, deputy intelligence chief of the IRGC; and Gen. Mohsen Bagheri, senior intelligence officer.
Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman has called Israel’s claims of “surgical strikes” with no harm to Iranian civilians a blatant lie, pointing to one strike in which 73 women and children were killed, and another where 20 children were killed, with 10 more still trapped under the rubble 48 hours later. “Targeting families, kids and women… That’s the routine barbarity,” he added.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Aragchi said Iran requested an emergency session at the UN Security Council but that the request was turned down due to ‘interference’ by the US. “Western backing of Israel only reinforces our conviction that we can count on no one but ourselves and our armed forces,” he said.
Yossi Mekelberg, a consulting fellow at the prominent think tank Chatham House, postulates that besides Netanyahu’s stated goals for the military operation in Iran, the conflict means the proceedings in his corruption trial will be postponed indefinitely, deferring any possible conviction.
Three drones were launched toward a base housing U.S. forces in Iraq following Israel’s strikes on Iran, a U.S. military official and a second U.S. official said Saturday. The drones were shot down, the officials said. No group claimed responsibility for the attack on Ain al-Asad air base in western Iraq.
U.S. officials confirmed over the weekend that America helped Israel stop drone and missile fire from Iran on Friday. In turn, Tehran reportedly issued a warning that it would take aim at U.S., British and French forces in the region if they assist Israel in thwarting future Iranian attacks.
Live updates on the Israel-Iran situation are available here.
MORE ON IRAN-ISRAEL:
Israel’s Palestinian citizens not provided with bomb shelters
When an Iranian missile bound for the industrial port of Haifa dropped out of the sky on the Israeli town of Tamra [a town made up almost exclusively of Palestinians] on Saturday night, it fell on Israel’s most vulnerable, and in one devastating flash, lit up the country’s deepest divide.
The missile demolished a three-story stone house and killed four members of the same family: Manar Khatib, and her two daughters – Shada, a university student, and Hala, a 13-year-old schoolgirl – as well as Manar’s sister-in-law, Manal.
For three-quarters of the country there are underground bunkers, a virtual guarantee of survival.
But the Khatib family did not have a bunker. They were Palestinian citizens of Israel, like the rest of the 37,000 population of this old hillside town in the Lower Galilee. And in common with most Palestinian-majority towns, Tamra does not have a single underground shelter. Like much else in Israel, there is nothing equal about the way death comes from the sky (continue reading here).
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IRAN-ISRAEL HEADLINES:
WEST BANK HEADLINES:
(For background on the West Bank, read this and this)
Israeli forces raid several neighborhoods in Jerusalem
Palestinian injured after Israeli assault in Bethlehem
Israeli forces detain 19 Palestinians across Hebron
STATISTICS OCTOBER 7, 2023 – JUNE 15, 2025:
- At least 56,423 Palestinians killed, 137,708 injured – including:
- at least 55,432 killed in Gaza (~16,500 children)
- at least 991 killed in the West Bank (~199 children)
- at least 128,923 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 5,139 people. 20 Israeli soldiers (most recent June 14) 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 15, 2025: ~1,610 – including ~1,139 on October 7, 2023 (~36 children), 425 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 221 Palestinian journalists and media workers; Palestinians have killed 4 Israeli journalists (other groups have tallied between 184 and 281 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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