Compilation of news reports – IAK staff
At least 79 Palestinians were killed in Israeli military attacks on Gaza Saturday, more than half of whom were reportedly killed while waiting for aid.
At least 300 Palestinians have now been killed, and 2,649 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 Saturday, go here.
Deadly communication blackout in Gaza
In Gaza many people were oblivious to the war with Iran and all the diplomatic maneuvering it had set off, because one of the longest communications outages of the war had plunged much of the territory into isolation.
Phone and internet networks were down from Wednesday because of damage to key fiber-optic cables, the UN said. “Since April, Israeli authorities have denied more than 20 requests to carry [urgent repair] work,” the UN aid coordination office said.
That meant they could not see new evacuation orders posted by Israel’s military spokesperson, or warnings that the war in Gaza would continue “with extreme force”.
They also could not access announcements from the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, the new US and Israeli backed organization distributing some food in the strip from compounds guarded by the Israeli military.
GHF uses only Facebook to communicate with Palestinians. So hungry, oblivious crowds approached centers on Saturday morning, as they had done since late May. Gunfire from Israeli soldiers killed at least 15 of them.
Communication was restored Saturday.
EDITOR’S NOTE: According to firsthand accounts, Gazans who rely on electronic wallets (cash is very hard to come by) were unable to purchase food during the blackout.
Strikes on Iran ease pressure on Israel to end starvation in Gaza
In the hours after Israel attacked Iran, food shipments and distribution in Gaza stopped and a French-Saudi summit meant to pave the way for wider recognition of a Palestinian state was postponed indefinitely.
International pressure over starvation and civilian killings in Gaza had apparently dissipated in little more than the time it took for the smoke of the first missile strikes to clear over Tehran.
Israel’s military moved fast to declare Iran its top priority, with the battle for Gaza relegated to second place. That shift was echoed in foreign ministries and newsrooms around the world.
For now, at least, that sense of diplomatic momentum that might halt the war in Gaza has gone. Even governments that have become more openly critical of Netanyahu’s war in Gaza will be reluctant to press for its end while missiles from Tehran are killing people in Tel Aviv (continue reading here).
RELATED: IDF Expands Gaza Evacuation Zone to 70 Percent
GLOBAL MARCH TO GAZA:
‘Baltagiya (scammer) thugs’ and police block Gaza aid convoy in Egypt as activists detained
Videos of attacks on members of the Gaza Solidarity Convoy in Egypt have sparked widespread outrage on social media, amid mounting accusations that Egyptian authorities are obstructing international efforts to bring humanitarian aid meant for desperate Gazans to the Rafah crossing.
Footage circulated online shows activists near the city of Ismailia being assaulted by men described by observers as “thugs”, attempting to prevent them from advancing towards Rafah. The videos have been widely condemned by pro-Palestine groups and rights advocates.
The “thugs” in question are believed to be baltagiya, gangs previously used by the Egyptian government to attack its political opponents, though this could not be verified.
In recent days, Egyptian media figures and commentators closely aligned with the regime of Abdel Fattah al-Sisi have openly criticised the land-based convoy.
The convoy, made up of international and regional activists, is expected to arrive in Cairo on Thursday and reach the Egyptian side of Rafah on Sunday (continue reading here).
The Global March to Gaza, Indonesia, and Egypt
This week, ten Indonesian citizens — among them celebrities like Wanda Hamidah, Zaskia Adya Mecca, and Ratna Galih — landed in Cairo, not for a political summit, but to join the Global March to Gaza. They came bearing no weapons, no agendas, only the unyielding conviction that humanity must speak where power has fallen silent. They came to walk.
Instead, they were watched. Monitored. Effectively detained. According to a statement posted by Abdul Somad — a widely respected Islamic preacher in Indonesia — these citizens have been placed under tight surveillance by Egyptian authorities and are unable to proceed to Rafah. Somad wrote on Instagram that their phones are monitored, their movements shadowed by police escorts, and their social media use could put them at risk of arrest.
These actions raise a chilling question — one that must be answered by both the Indonesian and Egyptian governments: why are peaceful humanitarian efforts being treated like criminal conspiracies? (continue reading here)
EXPLAINER: What is the Global March to Gaza all about?
IRAN NEWS SNAPSHOTS:
Iranian media has reported that the death toll from Israeli attacks on Friday and Saturday was at least 128, including 40 women and a “significant” number of children, with about 900 more wounded.
In Israel, the total death toll is 13 – four of which were Palestinian citizens of Israel (more below).
Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said Saturday, “The Iranian dictator is turning the citizens of Iran into hostages and creating a reality in which they, especially the residents of Tehran, will pay a heavy price for the criminal attack on Israeli civilians. If Khamenei continues to fire missiles at the Israeli home front, Tehran will burn.” [NOTE: Israel started the assault.]
Israeli warplanes attacked more than 170 targets and 720 military infrastructure sites since Friday, according to an Israeli military spokesman. “About 50 fighter jets attacked infrastructure and targets linked to Iran’s nuclear program in Tehran,” he added.
Israel has claimed to have gained control of the skies over the Iranian capital and warned that “Tehran will burn” if more missiles are fired at its territory, but the Iranian leadership remained defiant, vowing a “more severe and powerful response” and threatened to widen the war by striking ships and bases of Israeli allies.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi on 14 June called off nuclear talks with the US: “Continuing indirect negotiations between Iran and the United States while the Israeli entity persists in its brutality is unjustifiable.”
Araghchi also said his country does not want to expand the war unless it is forced to do so. Speaking at a press conference in Tehran, Araghchi says his country’s response to the Israeli attacks will stop only if “the aggressions stops”.
Iran’s air defense force successfully shot down an Israeli F-35 fighter jet – the third since the start of Israel’s attack – in the western sky of the country on 14 June, Iranian state media IRNA reported. The pilot reportedly ejected from the fighter jet. His fate is currently unknown. Israel has denied that Iran successfully targeted any F-35s. Iran’s air defenses also reportedly shot down three Israeli drones.
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Saturday confirmed that RAF fighter jets have been deployed to the Middle East to offer “contingency support across the region.” He said the British aircraft are positioned near the area where Israel and Iran have been exchanging missile fire, according to UK media.
The Iranian Navy intercepted a British destroyer in the northern Indian Ocean meant to help guide Israeli missiles toward Iranian territory, state news agency IRNA reported Saturday. According to a statement, the destroyer was detected by Iranian intelligence systems Friday night and warned by combat drones before it could advance toward the Persian Gulf. The vessel is said to have been forced to change course.
President Trump told The Post Friday that he knew Israel would strike Iran if the theocratic regime didn’t quickly agree to a revised nuclear deal with the US.
“I always knew the date [of Israel’ attack on Iran],” the president said in a brief phone interview with the New York Post. “Because I know everything. I know everything. I know everything.”
MORE ON IRAN:
A preemptive strike on diplomacy: Israel’s attack and the precipice of a wider American war
Israel’s latest strike on Iran had nothing to do with dismantling the Iranian (civilian) nuclear program. Despite Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s assertion that “the timing was fixed back in November 2024,” the real zero hour was designated only to undercut possible diplomatic framework that could have legitimized Iran’s nuclear development under international, verifiable, supervision.
This war is not a preemptive blow against Iran —it is a preemptive strike against diplomacy itself. The Trump administration made a grave error by keeping Israeli officials closely informed of the sensitive progress in the secret negotiations. This privileged access allowed Israel to strategically time its military strike to sabotage diplomatic efforts at a critical juncture—undermining further progress just as it was beginning to take shape, and before any agreement could fully mature.
Multiple independent leaks had pointed to progress in the Oman brokered negotiation between the U.S. and Iran, inclusive of intrusive International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspections, capped enrichment, and restart of oil exports under strict monitoring. An agreement of that sort would have undercut Israel’s decades-long doctrine that only isolation and coercion can keep Iran “in its box” (continue reading here).
Iran was prepared to make “an all-out agreement with the Americans”
Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araghchi said his country has a “firm conviction not to possess a nuclear weapon”.
“Those who are willing to deprive Iran of our right to possess the nuclear program for peaceful purposes, they have no right to do so,” he added.
Araghchi also said that Iran was “prepared to provide the necessary assurances to the Americans” during the sixth round of negotiations with the US that was scheduled for Sunday in Oman.
“Our proposal could have opened doors for an all-out agreement with the Americans,” he said.
Netanyahu: without an Israeli attack on Iran, “it’s 100% that we will die”
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Friday that he had given the order to attack Iran as it had become clear that Tehran’s nuclear and missile programs were building into an immediate existential threat to the Jewish state, with the danger so urgent he was prepared to launch the strikes even without US support.
“If we don’t attack, then it’s 100% that we will die,” he argued in a video statement to the nation, hours after Israel launched blistering attacks on the heart of Iran’s nuclear and military structure Friday, deploying warplanes and drones previously smuggled into the country to attack key facilities and kill top generals and scientists.
“If we don’t attack, then it’s 100% that we will die,” he argued. “So even if it’s not perfect, we have to do it, because we have to change the direction of Iran’s military build-up, both its ballistic weapons and nuclear weapons.”
“US support, or at least US non-opposition, is something that is extremely desirable,” he continued.
RELATED: Seven Lies about Israel’s Attack on Iran
Israel and US modified F-35s to enable Iran attack without refueling, sources say
The US and Israel altered Israel’s F-35 warplanes to extend their range without the need for refueling or compromising on stealth to help Israel’s attack on Iran, Middle East Eye can reveal.
The modification is secret, but two US officials speaking to MEE on condition of anonymity confirmed that Israel did not use mid-air refueling during its Friday attack on Iran or land their warplanes for refueling at any nearby countries.
Instead, the US officials told MEE that Israel and the US modified the F-35’s system to carry additional fuel that did not impact the F-35’s stealth features.
The F-35 is the only long-range stealth fighter in the world, and its features make it difficult for radar or infrared sensors to track it (continue reading here).
Israelis cheer as Iranian missile strikes Arab town in country’s north
A group of Israelis celebrated an Iranian missile strike on a predominantly Arab town in the country’s north, which killed four Palestinian citizens of Israel and injured dozens of others.
In a video which has since gone viral on Israeli social media accounts, the group of Israelis could be heard cheering as a missile appeared to fall on Tamra, a predominantly Christian and Muslim town some 25km from Haifa.
“On the village, on the village!” a man could be heard shouting as the missile appeared to slam into Tamra.
He and the others, which included female Israelis, then broke into singing the anti-Arab song “may your village burn” – popularised by the Israeli pop singer Kobi Peretz – as others began clapping and cheering as other missiles rained down.
Residents told Middle East Eye that four Christian women from the same family were killed in Saturday’s attack, including a mother and her two daughters, aged 13 and 20 (continue reading here).
שישרף לכם הכפר, כך צהלו בני משפחה יהודית כשראו שהטילים האיראנים נופלים על העיר טמרה. בושה וחרפה. pic.twitter.com/grhSStcU5f
— Jafar Farah (@Jafarfarah1) June 14, 2025
MORE IRAN HEADLINES:
Large Numbers in Congress Back Attack on Iran, Call for US to Support Israel
US senator to introduce bill blocking US military action against Iran without Congressional approval
WEST BANK HEADLINES:
(For background on the West Bank, read this and this)
‘I Wished for Death: A Palestinian Man’s Torture at an Israeli Checkpoint
Jenin: Israeli Forces Shoot One, Abduct Many, Raid Homes
NEWS AROUND ACTIVISM, CENSORSHIP, ETC:
(For background on the student protest movement, read this)
Academic censorship on Palestine even extends to discussing Palestinian dance
Columbia student forced into exile over Palestine activism
Under Pressure From Pro-Israel Groups, Canadian Cities Are Restricting Protest
NOTABLE QUOTES:
Ramona Wadi, for Middle East Monitor:
We must not lose sight of Gaza. Gaza remains central to Israel, not because of any threat, but because it is a bulwark against Zionist colonization. Israel needs to conjure enemies because that is how it maintains its existence. It needs to focus on resistance movements, on other countries’ nuclear weapons, to maintain an image of a vulnerable, helpless state.
The truth, however, is that Israel is a settler-colonial entity that obtained the world’s approval to openly commit genocide in Gaza, sides maintaining its policy of ambiguity over nuclear weapons while attacking Iran for its own program.
STATISTICS OCTOBER 7, 2023 – JUNE 14, 2025:
- At least 56,353 Palestinians killed, 137,526 injured – including:
- at least 55,362 killed in Gaza (~16,500 children)
- at least 991 killed in the West Bank (~199 children)
- at least 128,741 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 5,071 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 14, 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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