Compilation of news reports – IAK staff
Israel killed at least 63 Palestinians, including 19 children, seven women, and several aid seekers, in attacks across the Gaza Strip on Saturday, according to Gaza civil defense. Among the dead were at least 20 people killed by Israeli air attacks on al-Tuffah neighborhood in Gaza City, of which nine were children – one of them a girl with Down syndrome.
For detail on Israeli attacks in Gaza on Saturday, go here.
At least 13 Palestinian athletes were killed by Israeli attacks in June, said the Palestinian Olympic Committee.
At least 66 children have died of malnutrition in Gaza over the course of Israel’s war, authorities in the Palestinian enclave said.
GAZA NEWS & HEADLINES:
OXYCODONE FOUND IN FLOUR: Gaza’s Government Media Office has expressed its “deep concern and condemnation” over the discovery of “narcotic pills of the type ‘Oxycodone’” inside flour bags distributed by the #US– and Israeli-backed aid centers in the enclave. “We have so far documented four testimonies from citizens who found these pills inside flour bags. More serious is the possibility that some of these narcotic substances were deliberately ground or dissolved in the flour itself, which raises the scope of the crime and transforms it into a serious attack directly targeting public health,” said the statement published by the Media Office on Telegram.
UPDATE: It is unclear exactly how serious this danger is – given the specific circumstances in which the pills were found.
FRANCE OFFERS TO LEND A HAND: France “stands ready, Europe as well, to contribute to the safety of food distribution” in the Palestinian territory of Gaza, Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot has said. Barrot decried the fact that “500 people who have lost their life in food distribution” in Gaza in recent weeks.
THE SHOW MUST GO ON: The United Kingdom’s Channel 4 has announced it will air a documentary on the plight of medics in Gaza after the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), which originally commissioned the work, opted not to air it. The BBC commissioned Basement Films to make Gaza: Doctors Under Attack but decided not to run it, citing concerns it might create “a perception of partiality that would not meet the high standards that the public rightly expect,” according to a report by The Independent. The documentary will air on Channel 4 on July 2 at 10 pm GMT.
Will Int’l Criminal Court survive Trump pressure?
Al Jazeera spoke to Triestino Mariniello, a legal representative for Gaza victims at the International Criminal Court (ICC), about potential legal ramifications over the killings of aid seekers in Gaza.
He said Israel was violating international humanitarian law by setting up the controversial Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), which he added had been created to “bypass” the fundamental principles of humanitarian aid delivery: independence, impartiality, neutrality and humanity.
Mariniello said intentional attacks on civilian aid seekers amounted to war crimes, which both individual members of the Israeli military and the GHF would bear liability for before the ICC.
But the Trump administration has sanctioned ICC judges, and is reportedly considering pulling funding for groups that investigate war crimes.
“The court is under incredible pressure and no one is sure, including the ICC staff, if in the next few months there will still be an International Criminal Court,” said Mariniello, adding that the court was “the only possibility” for the families of victims to get justice.
He said recent moves in Washington sent “a very dangerous” message about the new US approach to international human rights law: that “there must be no accountability for serious violations of international law, according to the Trump administration”.
NOTE: President Joe Biden also undermined the ICC in his support of Netanyahu.
IRAN AND IRAN-ADJACENT NEWS AND HEADLINES:
IRAN’S NUCLEAR PROGRAM “CAN NOT BE ERASED”: Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Rafael Grossi, described Iran’s nuclear infrastructure as “vast and ambitious” and emphasized that Tehran remains “an advanced country in nuclear technology,” adding that “such a program cannot be erased by military operations or otherwise.” Grossi’s comments, made in an interview with CBS News, come in direct contradiction to US President Donald Trump’s assertion that Tehran “failed to move its stockpile” and that its nuclear program had been “completely destroyed.”
Iran bars UN nuclear agency chief from entering country, refuses surveillance at nuclear sites
Iran likely to resume enriched uranium production ‘in a matter of months’: IAEA chief
Iran is pluralistic within its self-drawn parameters: Western imaging and myths falsify the reality
WEST BANK/EAST JERUSALEM NEWS AND HEADLINES:
Israel has demolished 1,000 Palestinian homes in West Bank camps since January: Media committees
OTHER NEWS AND HEADLINES:
Fetterman Voted With GOP to Make Sure Trump Can Attack Iran Again
NOTABLE QUOTE:
On the diplomatic front, EU states must [extend] the application of the principle that undergirds the EU itself: reciprocal recognition, which sits at the core of the state-based order created in Europe in the eighteenth century and has transformed the continent into a peace project over the past 80 years.
The European Economic Community, the precursor to the EU, first called for Palestinians’ right to self-determination in 1980.
Although 14 out of 27 EU member states now recognize the state of Palestine, the EU would be much more effective if all of its member states—including the largest, France, Germany, Italy, and Poland—recognized Palestine within the 1967 borders, with mutually agreed-on land swaps.
Far from rewarding Hamas, such a step would empower moderates on all sides who champion diplomatic solutions instead of extremists who preach violence. Rather than waiting for negotiations to make a path to statehood, the EU must affirm that statehood is the pathway to negotiation.
STATISTICS OCTOBER 7, 2023 – JUNE 28, 2025:
- At least 57,498 Palestinians killed, 142,204 injured – including:
- at least 56,500 killed in Gaza (~16,500 children)
- at least 998 killed in the West Bank (~200 children)
- at least 133,419 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 6,175 people. 31 Israeli soldiers (most recent June 24) have been killed during the same time period.
At least 583 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 28, 2025: ~1,620 – including ~1,139 on October 7, 2023 (~36 children), 435 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 185 and 283 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
