News roundup for Sunday, June 7, 2026, Day 975 since Israel began its 2023 genocide on the Palestinian people.
Compilation of news reports – IAK staff
LATEST FROM ISRAEL, IRAN, LEBANON – AND TRUMP
On Sunday, Israel’s conflicts with Iran and Lebanon, and power struggle with Trump, converged. Iran demanded that Israel abstain from bombing Beirut. So did Trump. Here is how it played out:
IDF Strikes Southern Beirut, Killing at Least Two, After Hezbollah Fires at Northern Israel: Israel said it had the right to respond to Hezbollah attacks earlier Sunday, with strikes on Beirut.
Eight people were reportedly killed and 13 others injured in Israeli airstrikes on the southern suburbs of Lebanon’s capital Beirut. IDF officials said they do not expect Iran to respond to a strike on Beirut, but are prepared for a Hezbollah response.
Israel’s bombing of Beirut’s southern suburbs came despite a US public and additionally reported private request last week not to attack Lebanon’s capital.
An Iranian leader said that Iran would “deliver a decisive and painful response” to the Beirut bombing, declaring that “rabid dogs must be disciplined and put back in their place.”
Iran launched missiles toward northern Israel on Sunday night, in the first such bombardment since a fragile ceasefire in early April, following Israeli attacks on the Lebanese capital Beirut.
Trump called Netanyahu and told him not to retaliate. “I call the shots. I call all the shots,” said Trump. “He doesn’t call the shots.”
The Israeli Air Force announced that it retaliated, striking Iranian military targets in an initial report on Sunday overnight – after Trump specifically instructed Netanyahu not to.
Also on Iran:
Iran says US naval blockade, support for Israel make American, Israeli assets ‘legitimate targets’: ‘They are neither committed to a ceasefire nor believe in dialogue’, says Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf.
Only 12% of Americans Believe the Iran War Has Benefited the Nation
DEATH TOLL – WAR ON IRAN (tentative):
- United States: 13 (or more)
- Iran: at least 3,636 (1,701 civilians, 254 children)
- Arab states (including Palestine, excluding Lebanon), at least 154
- At least 26 Israelis have been killed in Iranian attacks
DEATH TOLL – WAR ON LEBANON (tentative):
- At least 380 killed since “ceasefire” began on April 17, 2026 (22 children, 39 women)
- At least 3,613 people have been killed by Israel since war began on March 2, 2026
- Hezbollah attacks have killed about 30 Israeli soldiers and three Israeli civilians over that same period
WATCH: On Capitol Hill, 100 days after – at the behest of Israel – US started a war on Iran
NEWS & HEADLINES FROM GAZA:
For some basic info on the Palestine-Israel conflict, go here. For more critical context, skim this, this, and this. To read about a remarkable but underreported, 20-month-long peaceful protest in Gaza against Israel, go here.
Ten Palestinians were killed and 29 others injured in Israeli attacks on various areas of the Gaza Strip since Sunday morning, according to medical sources, as Israel continued its daily violations of the ceasefire agreement.
ISRAELI MEDIA: Israel halts humanitarian aid to Gaza until further notice: Israel’s Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) said that following Iran’s missile attack on Israel, crossings into the Gaza Strip, including Kerem Shalom and Rafah, would be closed until further notice, among other security measures. As a result, the flow of humanitarian aid into Gaza will be halted.
COGAT said the closure of the crossings is not expected to affect the humanitarian situation in Gaza. It claimed that “the quantities of food and humanitarian aid that have entered the Gaza Strip since the start of the ceasefire significantly exceed the population’s nutritional needs*, in accordance with accepted U.N. methodologies.”
*NOTE: Everything about this statement from COGAT is patently false. United Nations and other humanitarian organizations have stated clearly and consistently that Gaza is in a state of severe shortages of food, water, medical, sheltering, and sanitation supplies.
In fact, a recent Israeli study concluded that starvation in Gaza resulted from a premeditated policy, despite sustained public denial by the Israeli government (including COGAT). Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu himself said, “There is no policy of starvation in Gaza. And there is no starvation in Gaza.” Israeli Army spokesperson Effie Defrin similarly told NPR that Hamas was trying to create “an image of starvation, which doesn’t exist.”
Bottom line: Israel has no credibility on the topic of hunger in Gaza.
Israeli restrictions on fuel and supplies have hospitals in Gaza on the verge of shutting down: Health officials in Gaza say Israel is waging an aggressive campaign against Gaza’s healthcare system by deliberately calibrating restrictions on fuel and supplies to keep hospitals on the brink of collapse.
Under these conditions, the absence of cemeteries is one of the cruelest indicators of social collapse. Families in Gaza have already been forced to bury their dead in informal graveyards, empty lots and makeshift spaces because major cemeteries were damaged, inaccessible or full. A society that cannot find space to bury its dead cannot be expected to build schools, clinics, playgrounds, water tanks, greenhouses, factories or homes. Even death becomes displaced.
DEATH TOLL – GAZA GENOCIDE (tentative):
- At least 961 since ceasefire began Oct. 11, 2025 (247 children, 191 women)
- 72,971 killed (~22,000 children, 33,000 women and girls) since October 2023
- More statistics below
NEWS & HEADLINES FROM THE OCCUPIED WEST BANK/EAST JERUSALEM:
Every day, Palestinians in the West Bank and East Jerusalem endure dozens of incidents like the ones below, at the hands of Israeli soldiers and/or settlers. For background on the West Bank, read this and this. For information on the significance of Israeli settlers in the West Bank, read this and this.)
Israeli Forces Bulldoze Land, Abduct Residents In West Bank
Palestinian Family Forced to Raze Home in At‑Tur
Army Shoots Three, Abducts One, in the Balata Refugee Camp
Jerusalem Journalist Sentenced Over Social Media Posts
More West Bank Invasions, Violations, Sunday
Jerusalem Man Forced to Demolish His Home
Israel Seizes 208 Dunams of Palestinian Land in Tubas
DEATH TOLL – WEST BANK/EAST JERUSALEM (tentative):
NEWS & HEADLINES FROM ISRAEL:
Israel is a tiny country, about the size of New Jersey, with a population smaller than the US state of Georgia – about 10 million (of which about 20 percent are Palestinians), yet it is in the news constantly. As has been demonstrated again and again, however, mainstream media rarely covers Israel news accurately. IAK gets the facts – sometimes from Israeli media sites, where we can get a glimpse inside this country that is rife with turmoil and contradictions, and that receives $63 million a day from America.
Israeli media sources reported that one Israeli was killed and at least five were wounded on Sunday morning in what they described as a series of shootings at multiple locations in the Sharon region, near the Kokhav Yair settlement bloc south of the Palestinian city of Taybeh.
ISRAELI MEDIA: Home Front Command: School Canceled Nationwide; Hospitals Ordered to Move Operations Underground: Security measures were raised nationwide following Sunday’s missile barrages from Iran, while transportation will be operating at 75 percent capacity; Israel Airports Authority announced there is currently no change in operations.
Israeli legal center Adalah on Sunday called for an investigation into the rape of a German journalist who participated in the 2025 Gaza-bound humanitarian aid mission Global Sumud Flotilla. (Original story here and here.)
RELATED: The Silence That Meets the Rape of Palestinians (originally posted in the New York Times)
MORE NEWS & HEADLINES:
Israeli forces reportedly kidnapped five civilians during incursions into Syria’s Quneitra province on Sunday. This follows months of growing Israeli military activity inside southern Syria. Amnesty International reported that in recent months, Israeli forces have displaced Syrian families and demolished their homes, leaving them destitute. Amnesty concluded that “the destruction of and damage to civilian facilities in southern Syria occurred without absolute military necessity, in violation of international humanitarian law, and amounts to grave breaches of the Fourth Geneva Convention.”
*NOTE: Although Israel is not at war with Syria, the Israeli army has significantly and illegally expanded its military presence in southern Syria since the collapse of the Assad regime in December 2024. Israeli forces have reportedly carried out over 1,600 violations inside Syrian territory since August 2025.
Israel has grabbed land and resources and demanded the demilitarization of southern Syria, allegedly to prevent any “potential threat” from post-war Syria – but has vowed to stay permanently in what seems to be an informal border expansion.
UK readies sanctions against Israel to deter proposed illegal West Bank settlement*: The UK Foreign Office and a group of western countries are due to announce a package of sanctions against Israel this week designed to deter companies from becoming involved in a proposed West Bank settlement that would split the territory in two and render the concept of a two-state solution near impossible.
*NOTE: More than 700,000 settlers live illegally on Palestinian land in over 500 settlements and settlement outposts in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem. In a landmark advisory opinion on July 19, 2024, the International Court of Justice declared Israel’s decades-long occupation of Palestinian land “illegal” and demanded the evacuation of all settlements.
Daughter of 2028 Olympics Chair Dreams of Competing in LA — for Israel: Hollywood scion Casey Wasserman faced criticisms as Los Angeles Olympics chief for his connections to the late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, and to Israel.
ICYMI, A SELECTION OF YESTERDAY’S HEADLINES:
Israeli strikes killed at least nine people in Gaza Saturday
ISRAELI MEDIA: IDF Soldier Filmed Beating Palestinians in Settler* Raid on West Bank Town
Pope Leo says US-Israeli war against Iran not ‘just war’
Israeli attacks in Lebanon kill 12 people, including high-ranking officers
The Real “Divide” Among Democrats Over Israel Is Between Party Leadership and Voters
(Read yesterday’s daily update here.)
STATISTICS OCTOBER 7, 2023 – June 7, 2026*:
- At least 74,129 Palestinians killed, 185,758 injured – including:
- Gaza: at least 72,971 killed (~22,000 children, 33,000 women and girls), 173,128 injured
- West Bank/East Jerusalem: at least 1,168 killed (~244 children), 12,666 injured
*NOTE: Thousands of remains in Gaza have yet to be identified, and thousands more are still buried under rubble; others are reportedly missing.
Reported Israeli death toll from October 7, 2023 – June , 2026: ~1,661 – including ~1,139** on October 7, 2023 (~36 children), 472 military forces since the ground invasion began in Gaza, about 52 military and civilians (by one count, there have been 59 victims) in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Israel (these numbers do not include deaths from the conflicts with Lebanon or Iran).
**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)
- One Gaza Flotilla Boat Made It to Gaza—in Pieces
- The Disappearing Aid Check: The Future of US–Israel Defense Support
- Pentagon raised threat of Israeli spying on U.S. to highest level, sources say
- Thomas Massie Won’t Back Down
- In Historic Event Massie to Honor USS Liberty Crew on House Floor
- Senate is quietly working on new legislation that includes MANDATORY, expansive intelligence sharing with Israel
- Congress wants to tie the United States to Israel with this new legislation. It’s a trap.
- We Were Ordered to Kill’: The 1967 Nakba That Israelis Don’t Know About
- Pro-Israel voices win out, kill bill to stop US-Israel military integration
- Revealed: Israel’s curriculum for ‘influencing public consciousness’
- Finally: House votes to end Trump’s war with Iran
- Iran Never Threatened to ‘Wipe Israel Off the Map’
- Israel’s invasion of southern Lebanon devastates centuries of history
- This Pro-Israel Group Paved the Way for Trump’s Disastrous War in Iran
