Compilation of news reports – IAK staff
Bodies of at least 103 Palestinians were brought to hospitals in Gaza in the last 24 hours, while 427 people were injured, according to the ministry of health.
Among the dead were at least 32 civilians who were seeking to get aid in the besieged territory, medics said.
For detail on Israeli attacks in Gaza on Thursday, go here.
Also killed Thursday, in the West Bank, was Khaled Munir Abdul Qader Houbi, 40, after he was shot by Israeli forces near Jenin; the army confiscated the body.
At least one person in southern Lebanon was killed in Israeli strikes Thursday, in new violations of a ceasefire agreement.
One civilian was killed and seven others were abducted by Israel in southwestern Syria.
Israel has denied over 80% of UN attempts to access fuel stocks in Rafah since April 13
The UN said Wednesday that Israeli authorities have denied 29 of its 35 attempts to access fuel stocks in Rafah since April 13, warning that the lack of fuel threatens to collapse critical infrastructure across the Gaza Strip.
UN spokesperson Farhan Haq warned at a news conference that “the shortage of accessible fuel could force more health, water and sanitation facilities to shut down.” He added that vaccines and vital communication lines require fuel.
“Yet our attempts to access available stocks of fuel in Rafah continue to be rejected,” he said, noting that Israel on Monday alone denied 12 of 24 UN coordination requests to carry out humanitarian operations in Gaza, including missions to truck potable water to vulnerable populations in northern Gaza, retrieve critical nutrition and fuel supplies, and repair key roads in the south, Haq said.
RELATED: Internet, phone services completely cut off in Gaza after Israeli strikes
IRAN NEWS:
The Israeli army on Thursday night began bombing major Iranian sites, including the capital, nuclear facilities and military bases, inflicting severe damage to Iranian military forces. The offensive is reportedly ongoing, and the Israeli government said it was prepared for a counter-offensive.
The IDF said the attack was based on “high-quality intelligence” and “in response to the Iranian regime’s ongoing aggression against Israel.”
Netanyahu characterized the attack, named Operation Rising Lion, as a “pre-emptive strike,” before declaring a state of general emergency inside Israel in anticipation of a likely Iranian retaliation. In a speech delivered Thursday night, Netanyahu detailed a full-scale military operation targeting Iranian nuclear and missile infrastructure, claiming it was necessary to stop Iran from building nuclear weapons and vowing that the strikes would continue “for as many days as it takes.”
(The name of the operation was taken from the Bible – Numbers 23:24: “Behold, the people shall rise up as a great lion, and lift up himself as a young lion.” Netanyahu reportedly placed a note containing the verse between the stones of the Western Wall.)
In a video statement, Netanyahu told citizens of Israel, “It’s very likely you will be required to stay in protected spaces for an extended period—much longer than we are used to,” he forewarned.
Netanyahu urged the Israeli public to not only stock up on supplies for the coming war, but “most importantly on patience, faith in the justice of our cause and confidence in our victory.”
“With God’s help, we are going to achieve a lot of accomplishments thanks to you and thanks to our brave soldiers,” the prime minister concluded.
Iran’s Tasnim news agency and Tehran Times newspaper say Hossein Salami, commander-in-chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, has been killed in an Israeli strike.
There are several reports and leaks in the Israeli media talking about a very large number of senior military commanders, in addition to prominent academics and nuclear scientists.
Ahead of Israel’s airstrikes on Iranian military and nuclear facilities on Thursday night, Mossad, Israel’s espionage agency, had smuggled a stockpile of drones into Iran, a senior Israeli security source said Friday. At the onset of the attack – and in parallel with Israel Air Force strikes – the Mossad activated systems already in place, the source said. The source further said that the Mossad’s operations had been planned over a long period and that intelligence had been gathered over many years.
The Israeli military has attacked at least six military bases around Tehran, The New York Times reports, citing four unnamed senior Iranian officials.
Iran’s Tasnim news agency reports that nuclear scientists Mohammad Mehdi Tehranchi and Fereydoun Abbasi were killed in the Israeli strikes.
“A number of people, including women and children, were martyred in a residential complex in Tehran,” the official IRNA news agency reported.
In a televised address, Israeli military chief of staff Eyal Zamir said the army is “mobilizing tens of thousands of soldiers and preparing across all borders”, as he warned that “anyone who tries to challenge us will pay a heavy price”.
“People of Israel, I can’t promise absolute success. The Iranian regime will attempt to attack us in response. The expected cost will be different from what we are used to,” Zamir said.
“This operation will continue as long as necessary, until we complete the mission,” Netanyahu said in a statement.
President Donald Trump said that the “the U.S. will defend itself and Israel if Iran retaliates,” hours after Israel launched airstrikes across Iran. He later added, “I think it’s been excellent. We gave them a chance and they didn’t take it. They got hit hard, very hard. They got hit about as hard as you’re going to get hit. And there’s more to come. A lot more.”
Hawkish Republican lawmaker Lindsey Graham – a Trump ally – voices support for Israel as it attacks Iran. “Game on. Pray for Israel,” he wrote in a social media post.
Harrison Mann, a former U.S. army major and executive officer of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) for the Middle East/Africa Regional Center. “The only thing that you can really achieve by trying to bomb Iranian nuclear sites is to provoke a reprisal by Iran that helps escalate the situation into a larger war and draws in the United States. That’s what any purported effort to bomb away the Iranian nuclear program is actually aiming at.”
New York Times journalist Farnaz Fassihi reported that Iranian officials viewed the assassination of Shamkhani as “Israel targeting and killing nuclear diplomacy with the U.S.”
“This action ordered by Prime Minister Netanyahu appears to deliberately undermine ongoing American diplomatic negotiations about Iran’s nuclear program, with the latest talks scheduled for this weekend,” said U.S. Sen. Andy Kim (D-N.J.) in a statement. “Conflict should always be a last resort, especially when diplomacy is ongoing.”
Follow the situation between Iran and Israel in real time here.
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as IAK reported Wednesday:
IAEA an ‘instrument for Israel,’ secret documents seized by Iran reveal
The thousands of sensitive documents on Israel’s nuclear program, which Tehran said its intelligence managed to obtain, reveal direct cooperation between Tel Aviv and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) against Iran, according to an Iranian media report.
“These documents clearly show that instead of playing a neutral role, the IAEA has become an instrument serving the objectives of the Zionist regime,” Fars news agency cited an informed source as saying on 10 June.
The documents prove that “Iran’s official and confidential letters to the IAEA – containing sensitive information – were channeled to the espionage agencies of the Zionist regime through covert conduits,” the report added.
The report also notes that several top Iranian nuclear scientists ended up getting assassinated due to their names being disclosed by the IAEA (continue reading here).
GLOBAL MARCH TO GAZA
Egyptian authorities have detained and questioned more than 200 people who arrived in Cairo to participate in the Global March to Gaza, an international action intended to break Israel’s siege on the territory, the organizers said on Thursday. Dozens were subsequently deported.
The activists had flown to Cairo to join the grassroots land convoy which set off from the Tunisian capital on Monday, in the hopes of reaching Egypt’s Rafah border with Gaza as a “symbolic act” to spotlight Israel’s crippling 18-year siege on the territory.
Israeli Defense Minister Yisrael Katz has instructed the Israeli army to prevent a convoy of pro-Palestinian activists from reaching the besieged Gaza Strip, and labelled them as “foreign jihadists”.
Katz said he expects the Egyptian authorities to prevent the “jihadist demonstrators” from reaching the Egyptian-Israeli border, and to prevent them from carrying out provocations or attempting to enter Gaza.
He claimed the group shares antisemitic affinities with Hamas* and wants to impose radical Islamic ideology across the region, with the support of the Iranian axis of evil.”
The convoy began its journey on Monday from Tunisia, with more than 7,000 participants and around 300 vehicles.
The initiative is part of a global movement of thousands of solidarity activists from as many as 80 countries aimed at stopping the Israeli genocidal war on Gaza, breaking the siege, and delivering aid to more than two million Palestinians facing the threat of famine, according to the convoy organizers.
NOTE: Actual antisemitism is not as prevalent as Katz would like us to think. Most of the animosity Israel experiences – including from Hamas – is opposition to Zionism. – the ideology under which Israel exiled them to Gaza and other locations. The so-called “demonization” of Israel is in most cases a legitimate criticism of Israel’s policies of occupation, apartheid, and genocide, and other illegal practices.
Follow the journey of the Global March to Gaza here.
FURTHER READING: What is the Global March to Gaza all about?
Gaza flotilla activists to be ‘imminently’ deported by Israel
Eight pro-Palestinian activists including a French member of the European Parliament will soon be forcibly deported from Israel, three days after the Israeli navy prevented them from sailing into Gaza, their legal advisers said on Thursday.
Four other members of the 12-strong crew aboard the charity vessel, including Swedish campaigner Greta Thunberg, agreed to leave Israel voluntarily on Tuesday, hours after the navy had brought them ashore.
The other eight crew refused to leave, accusing Israel of acting illegally, and have been held in a detention center while an Israeli court reviewed their legal status; they ultimately lost this battle, and will all be deported in the next day or so.
Israeli Minister Calls for Israeli Control Over Syria and Lebanon
Unusually far-right even in the generally far-right Israeli cabinet, Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu has sparked some new controversy today in a speech to an ultra-nationalist youth conference, where he called for Israel to have full control over both Syria and Lebanon, on top of annexing Gaza and the West Bank.
Eliyahu asked the crowd “Do we want Judea and Samaria [the West Bank]? Do we want Syria? Do we want Lebanon? Do we want Gaza?” leading to thunderous cheers and him admonishing that the crowd needs to “shout it out” (continue reading here).
WEST BANK HEADLINES:
(For background on the West Bank, read this and this)
Israeli Forces Kill a Palestinian Near Jenin, Demolish Homes in the Jenin Refugee Camp
Israeli Army Occupies a Residential Building in Hebron
Palestinian Activists Came to Speak at California Synagogue — But Faced Deportation at the Airport
Two Palestinian activists from the West Bank were detained upon landing in the San Francisco airport Wednesday and face deportation after immigration officials unexpectedly revoked their tourist visas.
Eid Hathaleen and Awdah Hathaleen, cousins from the Masafer Yatta village of Um Al Khair, have been unreachable for the past day, according to organizers and a local lawmaker advocating on their behalf.
CBP officials did not disclose the reason for the pair’s detainment and did not respond to The Intercept’s request for comment.
“These were Palestinian activists and humanitarians who were here to bridge relations with the Jewish community,” said Ben Linder, who helped organize the tour. “They were being sponsored by Jewish synagogues — these are exactly the people we need in our country right now, to bridge the divide that we have happening globally. Yet our federal government is denying them a voice” (continue reading here).
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(For background on the student protest movement, read this)
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NOTABLE QUOTES:
Raz Segal, an Israeli associate professor of holocaust and genocide studies at Stockton University, on Israel’s war with Gaza:
Israeli Jews are imagining that they’re fighting a colonial war against barbarians. [They] are completely thinking they are outside the law. [This] goes back to the origins of international law, which emerged in order to regulate wars between civilized nations – that is, between Europeans.
It was never supposed to apply to what we might call today ‘counterinsurgency’ or ‘colonial warfare’.” This kind of social and political atmosphere doesn’t change quickly at all. It’s an intergenerational process. In 1945 Nazi Germany is defeated, right? Does that mean that millions and millions and millions of Nazis in Germany change their mind?
US President Donald Trump, addressing Iran situation, and implicating the United States:
I told them it would be much worse than anything they know, anticipated, or were told, that the United States makes the best and most lethal military equipment anywhere in the World, BY FAR, and that Israel has a lot of it, with much more to come – And they know how to use it.
Certain Iranian hardliner’s spoke bravely, but they didn’t know what was about to happen. They are all DEAD now, and it will only get worse! There has already been great death and destruction, but there is still time to make this slaughter, with the next already planned attacks being even more brutal, come to an end.
Iran must make a deal, before there is nothing left, and save what was once known as the Iranian Empire. No more death, no more destruction, JUST DO IT, BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE. God Bless You All!
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STATISTICS OCTOBER 7, 2023 – JUNE 12, 2025:
- At least 56,198 Palestinians killed, 136,606 injured – including:
- at least 55,207 killed in Gaza (~16,500 children)
- at least 991 killed in the West Bank (~199 children)
- at least 127,821 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 4,924 people. 19 Israeli soldiers (most recent June 6) 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 12, 2025: ~1,605 – including ~1,139 on October 7, 2023 (~36 children), 424 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.
(This article has been edited to correct an inaccurate death toll statistic.)
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