Compilation of news reports – IAK staff
Israeli forces killed more than 70 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, according to medical sources.
Among the dead were at least 36 Palestinian aid seekers (one of them a child), with another 208 injured on 10 June in attacks by Israeli troops near the US-backed, Israeli-run Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) aid sites.
Also among the dead were three Palestinian paramedics and a journalist, killed by an Israeli tank shell while attempting to evacuate injured civilians in Gaza City, the Interior Ministry said on Tuesday.
Medical officials told Al Jazeera Arabic that Palestinians are fainting in the streets of Gaza from extreme hunger, amid an absence of food, the network reported on Tuesday.
In the occupied West Bank, Israeli forces shot and killed three Palestinians during raids Tuesday (more below).
In Lebanon, an Israeli strike killed a father and son Tuesday, despite a November ceasefire.
For detail on Israeli attacks in Gaza on Tuesday, go here.
GAZA FLOTILLA UPDATE:
Five out of six French citizens aboard Madleen, the recently seized Gaza-bound aid ship, will face a forced expulsion process by Israel, the French foreign minister announced on Tuesday. The sixth agreed to leave voluntarily.
Swedish activist Greta Thunberg accused Israel of violating international law following her deportation on Tuesday after attempting to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza by sea.
“They did an illegal act by kidnapping us on international waters and against our will bringing us to Israel, keeping us in the bottom of the boat, not letting us getting out, and so on,” she told reporters.
“The real story is that there is a genocide going on in Gaza, and a systematic starvation following a siege and blockade now … food, medicine water are desperately needed …”
RELATED: Why the Freedom Flotilla matters to us in Gaza
Post-Madleen, what is the next major grassroots effort to break the siege on Gaza?
Now that the latest Gaza flotilla incident is winding down (the group has promised there will be more), we will follow the next international campaign to break Israel’s siege: the Global March to Gaza land convoy.
International activists have begun to march by land to the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and Gaza. A convoy drawing citizens from over 50 countries, and including members of labor unions, solidarity movements, and human rights organizations, is now commencing a campaign called the Global March to Gaza. Organizers and participants are planning to converge in Cairo this week, before marching from the Egyptian capital on foot towards Rafah, where they plan to stage a sit-in aimed at pressuring authorities to reopen the crossing.
The convoy hopes that their efforts with help halt the genocide against Palestinians, now nearing its second year, while forcing the resumption of humanitarian aid to the besieged coastal territory. Watch an interview with the organizers here.
The Sumud (“resilience”) land convoy (one segment of the Global March to Gaza), carrying humanitarian aid and pro-Palestine activists to Gaza, entered the Libyan city of Zawiya on Tuesday to a warm public welcome, marking a key milestone in its journey across North Africa.
The convoy consists of 12 buses and 100 private cars, nicknamed Sumoud (resilience in Arabic) with more than 1,000 participants, led by Tunisian civil society as well as participants from Algeria, Morocco, Mauritania, and Libya, set off from the Tunisian capital on Monday.
“This is a civil and popular initiative in response to the ongoing genocide in Gaza,” said one of the organizers. “We refuse to remain silent.”
“We’re not waiting for Arab summits or empty statements. We’re taking action,” said a member of the convoy’s planning committee. “Sumud reflects the spirit of Gaza – and those who stand with it.”
In addition to Tunisia, thousands of supporters from over 30 other countries are taking part in the march, with plans to reach Gaza’s border through the Rafah crossing with Egypt. Their goals include delivering humanitarian aid and expressing support for the Palestinian people.
Organizers said the participating convoys are expected to gather in Cairo on Thursday, before heading to the city of Arish in north-eastern Egypt. From there, participants will continue on foot towards the Rafah border crossing, where protest tents are planned to be set up.
The main organizers, the “Global March to Gaza”, said it has representatives in most European, North and South American countries, as well as in several Arab and Asian nations. This, it said, reflects growing international momentum in support of the Palestinian cause (continue reading here)
Follow the progress of Sumoud here.
Israeli forces kill 3 Palestinians during West Bank raids
MORE WEST BANK HEADLINES:
(For background on the West Bank, read this and this)
Israel issues demolition notices for 100 homes in West Bank
Israeli Forces Injure Several Palestinians In Nablus
US ambassador to Israel says US no longer pursuing goal of independent Palestinian state
Mike Huckabee, the US ambassador to Israel, has said that the US is no longer pursuing the goal of an independent Palestinian state, marking what analysts describe as the most explicit abandonment yet of a cornerstone of US Middle East diplomacy.
Asked during an interview with Bloomberg News if a Palestinian state remains a goal of US policy, he replied: “I don’t think so.”
The former Arkansas governor chosen by Donald Trump as his envoy to Israel went further by suggesting that any future Palestinian entity could be carved out of “a Muslim country” rather than requiring Israel to cede territory.
Yousef Munayyer, head of Palestine/Israel Program at the Arab Center Washington DC, said Huckabee was merely articulating what US policy has long demonstrated in practice.
“Mike Huckabee is saying out loud what US actions have been saying for decades and across different administrations,” he said. “Whatever commitments have been made in statements about a Palestinian state over time, US policy has never matched those stated commitments and only undercut them” (continue reading here).
France has delivered ‘uninterrupted flow’ of weapons to Israel since beginning of genocide in Gaza: Report
The flow of weapons from France to Israel by air and sea has been “uninterrupted” since October 2023, when the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza began, according to a new report by ten NGOs, including groups such as Stop Arming Israel France, the Palestinian Youth Movement, and Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS).
As covered by L’Humanite daily on Tuesday, the report claims that military equipment was exported from France to Israel in two separate categories: bombs, grenades, torpedoes, mines, missiles, and other munitions of war, plus rocket launchers, hand grenades, flamethrowers, artillery, military rifle and hunting rifle parts and accessories.
It underscored that over 15 million items in the first category and 1,868 items in the second were delivered to Israel.
RELATED: British firm sent over 1,000 ammo boxes to Israel
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).
UK Foreign Office staff told to consider resigning after challenging policy on Gaza
More than 300 Foreign Office staff have been told to consider resigning after they wrote a letter over fears the government had become complicit in Israel’s alleged war crimes in Gaza.
It is the fourth internal letter from staff about the offensive in Gaza, which started in October 2023 in response to Hamas’s deadly attack on Israel.
In their letter of 16 May the staff, from embassies around the world and at various levels of seniority, questioned the UK’s continued arms sales and what they called Israel’s “stark … disregard for international law”.
The reply told the signatories: “If your disagreement with any aspect of government policy or action is profound, your ultimate recourse is to resign from the civil service. This is an honorable course” (continue reading here).
RELATED:
UK preparing sanctions against top Israeli ministers over ‘monstrous’ Gaza comments
Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Norway, and UK sanction far-right Israeli Cabinet ministers
Canada, jointly with Australia, New Zealand, Norway, and the UK, issued sanctions and other measures on Tuesday against two far-right Israeli Cabinet ministers “for inciting violence against Palestinians in the West Bank.”
Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich, Israel’s finance minister and national security minister, respectively, “have incited extremist violence and serious abuses of Palestinian human rights,” said the joint statement, stressing that “extremist rhetoric advocating the forced displacement of Palestinians and the creation of new Israeli settlements is appalling and dangerous.”
Calling Ben-Gvir and Smotrich’s actions unacceptable, the statement noted that the allies “have engaged the Israeli Government on this issue extensively, yet violent perpetrators continue to act with encouragement and impunity.”
RELATED: US condemns sanctions by 5 countries on Israeli ministers
NEWS ON US PROTESTS, ETC:
(For background on the student protest movement, read this)
Dartmouth students launch hunger strike in support of Gaza
NOTABLE QUOTES:
Owen Jones, columnist for the Guardian: “The Madleen did not make it to Gaza’s shores. Yet its crew exposed an obscenity that has repulsed western citizens, who will one day force their governments to cease their complicity – which is why, in the end, Israel will lose. The Madleen is a symbol of human compassion in a world that has decided to look away.”
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STATISTICS OCTOBER 7, 2023 – JUNE 10, 2025:
- At least 56,094 Palestinians killed, 136,179 injured – including:
- at least 55,104 killed in Gaza (~16,500 children)
- at least 990 killed in the West Bank (~199 children)
- at least 127,394 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 4,821 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 10, 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.
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