Compilation of news reports – IAK staff
Israeli forces killed at least 97 Palestinians, including aid seekers and families sheltering in schools, and wounding many more. Among the dead were 21 aid-seekers and at least one journalist.
For detail on Israeli attacks in Gaza on Monday, go here.
GAZA NEWS & HEADLINES:
BRUTAL ISRAELI ATTACK: At least 30 people including women, children and a local journalist were killed on 30 June in an Israeli airstrike on a beachfront cafe in Gaza City, medics have said. UPDATE: At least 39 were killed in this incident. Israeli missiles killed at least 60 people across Gaza in some of the heaviest attacks in weeks as Israeli officials were due in Washington for a new ceasefire push by Donald Trump. Israeli tanks pushed into the eastern areas of Zeitoun suburb in Gaza City and shelled several areas in the north, while aircraft bombed at least four schools after ordering hundreds of families sheltering inside to leave, residents said.
HOSPITAL/SHELTER TARGETED: Israeli forces also targeted the courtyard of Al-Aqsa Hospital in central Gaza’s Deir el-Balah on Monday, where thousands of families had sought shelter, reportedly without issuing any warnings. Journalists were also reporting from the location. Al Jazeera reporter Tariq Abu Azzoum said, “The site of the attack [was] about 10 meters [33ft] from our broadcast point. This is not the first time the hospital’s courtyard has been attacked. At least 10 times, this facility has been squarely targeted by Israeli forces.”
MENINGITIS IN GAZA: The number of confirmed meningitis cases among children in the besieged enclave is now 40, Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza says. Doctors and aid workers have warned of epidemics given the dire humanitarian situation, and with the enclave’s health system on its knees. The UN has reported rising cases of severe acute malnutrition, chickenpox, jaundice and upper respiratory tract infections. Israel continues to heavily restrict medicine and medical supplies into the Gaza Strip.
Israel caught in a lie: We did cause harm to Palestinian civilians at Gaza aid sites, but ‘lessons learned’
The Israeli military acknowledged on Monday that Palestinian civilians were harmed at aid distribution centers in the Gaza Strip, saying that Israeli forces had been issued new instructions following what it called “lessons learned.”
Since Israel lifted an 11-week aid blockade on Gaza on May 19, allowing limited U.N. deliveries to resume, the United Nations says more than 400 Palestinians have been killed while seeking handouts of aid (NOTE: other sources report the number as closer to 600).
“Following incidents in which harm to civilians who arrived at distribution facilities was reported, thorough examinations were conducted in the Southern Command and instructions were issued to forces in the field following lessons learned,” the Israeli military spokesperson said in a statement.
The statement followed a Friday report in the newspaper Ha’aretz that Israel’s Military Advocate General had ordered an investigation into possible war crimes over allegations that Israeli forces deliberately fired at Palestinian civilians near the sites (continue reading here).
Unnamed officials in the Israeli army’s Southern Command acknowledged “that civilians had been killed due to ‘inaccurate and uncalculated’ artillery fire,” according to the report.
They confirmed that “in the most serious incident involving shelling of civilians, between 30 and 40 people were targeted—some killed, others wounded to varying degrees.”
“The shelling was aimed at maintaining order at food distribution sites,” they added.
NOTE: Previously, Israel’s military had denied all accusations, and the Gaza Humanitarian Fund (backed by Israel) had claimed that distribution was going smoothly. The Israeli military claimed to have fired warning shots at people who seemed “threatening” – although the Palestinians around them were weak, dehydrated, and starving.
The Israeli military has consistently rejected accusations of wrongdoing at the aid sites. Hundreds of witnesses have reported their experiences to the media; hundreds of Gazans lost their lives; doctors reported large numbers of gunshot wounds to the head, abdomen, and back. But when confronted with allegations, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz issued a statement calling the allegations a “blood libel.” Now, several days later, Israel admits that its military has been killing aid seekers all along.
Israel’s self-investigations – on the rare occasions when they do take place – consistently whitewash its crimes and fail to appropriately punish the perpetrators.
Israel has a long track record of lying.
RELATED: Food aid or firing squads: How the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation became Gaza Assassination Trap
Trump admin says it will not halt $1M a day to Gaza “aid” org despite Israeli admission of civilian harm
When asked whether Trump would reconsider US assistance to the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) after Israel admitted it has been killing aid-seekers, State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce responded: “Well, I think the answer to that certainly is no.”
“The IDF and Israel have announced that they are, of course, investigating* certain incidents,” she said. “It is a good time for a reminder here that Hamas is responsible** for the current situation in Gaza,” she added.
*NOTE: Israel’s self-investigations consistently whitewash its crimes and fail to appropriately punish the perpetrators. The Israeli military’s self-investigation tend to focus on individuals and individual incidents, ignoring the dangerous, far-reaching policies and assumptions rampant in Israeli thinking: impunity, lethality, and dehumanization.
**Israel’s narrative claims that Hamas “started a war” on October 7th, implying that on October 6th there was peace. In reality, Israel has been at war with the Palestinian people since its creation. Hamas was exercising – albeit imperfectly – its internationally recognized right to resist the oppressor and occupier of its people.
For years, Palestinians have tried rational, peaceful methods of achieving justice: they have held thousands of peaceful protests. They have petitioned the International Criminal Court, the International Court of Justice, and the United Nations – where the United States consistently exercises veto power in Israel’s favor.
As the death toll from Israel’s forced starvation of Palestinians continues to rise amid the ongoing U.S.-backed genocidal assault and siege of the Gaza Strip, Rep. Rashida Tlaib on Monday led 18 congressional colleagues in a letter demanding that the Trump administration push for an immediate cease-fire, an end to the Israeli blockade, and a resumption of humanitarian aid into the embattled coastal enclave.
“We are outraged at the weaponization of humanitarian aid and escalating use of starvation as a weapon of war by the Israeli government against the Palestinian people in Gaza,” Tlaib (D-Mich.)—the only Palestinian American member of Congress—and the other lawmakers wrote in their letter to U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio. “For over three months, Israeli authorities have blocked nearly all humanitarian aid from entering Gaza, fueling mass starvation and suffering among over 2 million people. This follows over 600 days of bombardment, destruction, and forced displacement, and nearly two decades of siege.” (continue reading here; read the letter in full here).
Hundreds of Palestinians have died of malnutrition and/or lack of medicine in recent days.
Juliette Touma, communications director of the U.N. Palestinian refugee agency, said, “We have over 3000 trucks, not only of food, but also medicines that are lining up in places like Jordan, like Egypt, that are waiting for the green light to go in.”
NOTE: Only 19 Congress members out of 535 signed on to this letter to Secretary Rubio. The Western political establishment is heavily influenced by the Israel lobby, one of the wealthiest most powerful lobbies in the hallways of Congress–which lobbies on behalf of a foreign government without the oversight such groups should have. The Israel lobby works to portray those who oppose the genocide of Palestinians as villains, and the perpetrator of genocide as the victim.
US WEAPONS SALE TO ISRAEL: The US has approved a $510 million sale of munitions guidance kits and related support to Israel, the State Department announced Monday. The potential sale includes over 7,000 JDAM guidance kits that turn “dumb bombs” into “smart bombs.” About 3,800 kits are for BLU-109 bombs (High-Explosive-Concrete-Piercing, hard-target, penetrator Aircraft-Bombs); the rest are for MK-82s (500-pound “general purpose” bombs).
UK WEAPONS TO ISRAEL: A ruling by the UK High Court on Monday confirms that the UK can continue supplying F-35 parts to Israel despite Israel’s genocidal conduct in Gaza. The Palestinian human rights group Al-Haq, backed by Oxfam, Amnesty International UK, and Human Rights Watch, argued that there was a genuine risk that F-35 components could be used in violations of international humanitarian law in Gaza.
Hamdan says US unfit to mediate while Netanyahu blackmails the world with Palestinian blood
When will I graduate high school in Gaza?
WEST BANK/EAST JERUSALEM NEWS AND HEADLINES:
West Bank Palestinian dies in Israeli detention, death toll rises to 73 since October 2023
Lo’ay Faisal Mohammed Nasrallah, 22, from the West Bank city of Jenin, died at Soroka Medical Center in southern Israel after being transferred from Negev Prison, the Commission of Detainees’ Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoner Society said in a joint statement.
Nasrallah was arrested by Israeli forces in March 2024 and held under Israel’s policy of administrative detention* without charge or trial, the statement said.
His death brought to 73 the number of Palestinian detainees who lost their lives in Israeli custody since October 2023, according to Palestinian figures.
Palestinian rights groups estimate the number of Palestinians held by Israel at over 10,100, including 45 women and over 400 children.
*NOTE: Administrative detention is a form of imprisonment in which prisoners are held without charge or trial. Administrative detention is intended to be used only in “exceptional” circumstances, but Israel uses it widely. Read more here.
Israel holds its Palestinian prisoners inhumane conditions where many are systematically tortured
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Israeli Paramilitary Colonizer Rams Palestinian Youth Near Salfit
Widespread Invasions, Abductions, And Demolitions Across West Bank
IRAN AND IRAN-ADJACENT NEWS AND HEADLINES:
NEARLY 1K IRANIANS KILLED: Israel killed at least 935 people in Iran during its unprovoked 12-day war with the Islamic Republic, judiciary spokesperson Asghar Jahangir announced on 30 June. The number includes 38 children and 132 women.
OTHER NEWS:
Trump signs executive order ending most Syria sanctions
Norway’s largest pension fund divests from companies selling to Israeli military
STATISTICS OCTOBER 7, 2023 – JUNE 30, 2025:
- At least 57,645 Palestinians killed, 142,890 injured – including:
- at least 56,647 killed in Gaza (~16,500 children)
- at least 998 killed in the West Bank (~200 children)
- at least 134,105 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 6,315 people. 32 Israeli soldiers (most recent June 29) have been killed during the same time period.
At least 600 Palestinians have been killed while trying to access aid parcels from the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, which started operating on May 26, 2025.
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 30, 2025: ~1,621 – including ~1,139 on October 7, 2023 (~36 children), 436 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 222 Palestinian journalists and media workers; Palestinians have killed 4 Israeli journalists (other groups have tallied between 185 and 290 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.
- Human rights reports on Israel-Palestine (regularly updated)
- Israeli forces fatally shoot 13-year-old Palestinian boy in the back near Ramallah
- The future of 12 Palestinian villages in the West Bank under threat
- Things Netanyahu Might Say if Injected With Truth Serum
- Trump to give $30m to Gaza Humanitarian Foundation despite violent and chaotic rollout of food distribution
- “Starving a Generation” report indicts Israel for weaponizing starvation as a tool of genocide
- Israel’s War in Gaza Has Killed Over 17,000 Children. These Are the Stories of 28 of Them
- 100,000 Dead: What We Know About Gaza’s True Death Toll
- Israel is building a tunnel to cut off Palestinians from the heart of the West Bank
- “No Evidence”: WTKR’s Attempt to Sink the USS Liberty Reunion
- The infants who died at the sound of bombs: Death without weeping
- In Light of Israel’s War on Iran, the Late David Glick’s 2015 Essay Proves Sadly Predictive
- ‘The Hunger Games’: Inside Israel’s aid death traps for starving Gazans
- Trump official to The Grayzone: CIA’s Ratcliffe acts as ‘Mossad stenographer’ on Iran
- The Iran war is Trump’s unconditional surrender to Israel
- Israel is luring the US into a trap
- ‘Trapped in incubators’: Gaza’s premature babies caught between Israeli siege and world silence
- What Life Is Like for a Palestinian in Israel as It Attacks Iran
- Genocide goes Squid Game as Israel outsources ‘aid’ to Gaza gangs
- AIPAC demands Democrats “stand with Israel” on Iran
