Compilation of news reports – IAK staff
Israeli forces killed at least 54 people on Sunday, the majority while they tried to obtain aid.
Israeli air raids on southern Lebanon killed two people Sunday, according to Lebanon’s Health Ministry, as ceasefire violations persist along the border.
Almost 50 Palestinians gunned down while trying to reach food aid site in Gaza
ANADOLU AGENCY REPORTS: A health ministry statement said that the bodies of 28 people were transferred to Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis city and 21 others to the Red Cross Field Hospital, while over 200 people were injured by Israeli live fire.
According to eyewitnesses, large crowds had assembled early in the morning at an aid distribution center run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, an American organization backed by Israel.
As people approached the site, Israeli military vehicles opened fire, and drones dropped explosives, resulting in mass casualties, they added.
Simultaneously, Israeli forces also opened fire on civilians approaching another American aid center near the Netzarim Corridor in central Gaza, witnesses said.
HA’ARETZ REPORTS: The IDF Spokesperson’s Unit said in a statement that the Israeli army opened fire on Palestinians while making their way to aid distribution sites are false.
“Findings from an initial inquiry* indicate that the IDF did not fire at civilians while they were near or within the humanitarian aid distribution site,” the statement said.
THE GUARDIAN REPORTS: The Israeli forces denied “firing at civilians”. However, an Israel Defense Forces official admitted that Israeli soldiers fired “warning shots toward several suspects who advanced toward the troops on Saturday”, near the aid distribution site, without specifying who the suspects were.
The Israeli-backed aid foundation claimed that it delivered aid “without incident” early on Sunday and has denied previous accounts of gunfire around its sites, which are in Israeli military zones where independent access is limited.
“The situation in the hospital is catastrophic, due to the massacre of the hungry in Rafah city, near the aid distribution centre,” said Dr Marwan al-Hams, 53, a medic in the emergency department at Nasser hospital, where many of the victims were brought.
DROP SITE NEWS REPORTS: Gaza’s Ambulance Director says Israeli forces are blocking ambulances from reaching civilians gunned down while en route to the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid site in western Rafah.
Ambulances are being deliberately targeted, and rescuing the wounded under fire is extremely dangerous.
An Australian doctor working at the Nasser hospital stated that all of the casualties were civilians.
*NOTE: Israel’s self-investigations – on the rare occasions when they do take place – consistently whitewash its crimes and fail to appropriately punish the perpetrators.
Israeli sources, including the government itself, have a long track record of lying (for example, this and this and this.)
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.
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Palestinians in Gaza City face unprecedented water crisis, authorities warn
In a statement, Gaza Municipality said that 75% of the city’s water wells have been destroyed by the Israeli army since October 2023.
The remaining water wells operate for a few hours daily with a limited amount of fuel due to the Israeli blockade and closure of the territory’s border crossings, it added.
“As temperatures rise and the demand for water increases among both residents and displaced persons, Gaza City is experiencing catastrophic conditions,” it said.
Israeli strikes destroy Gaza dialysis hospital treating over 160 patients
Gaza’s top health official says Israeli forces have targeted the Noura al-Kaabi Dialysis Hospital in repeated attacks, knocking out the only facility of its kind in northern Gaza.
Muneer al-Boursh, director of the Ministry of Health, shared images of the bombed-out centre, which had only recently resumed operations following renovations.
RELATED: Israel blocks entry of over 3,000 medical aid trucks into Gaza: Health Ministry
Hamas accepts Witkoff truce outline with amendments aimed at ending war
Hamas has agreed to the outline of a ceasefire deal drafted by US envoy Steve Witkoff, with amendments that include guarantees it would lead to negotiations aimed at permanently ending the Israeli war on Gaza, Middle East Eye has learnt.
The 13-point outline with Hamas changes, obtained by MEE through informed Palestinian sources, details terms the group has conditionally accepted.
These include a 60-day ceasefire, with US President Donald Trump proposed as guarantor of Israel’s compliance (read the details here).
Israeli army chief instructs to expand ‘ground operation’ in Gaza amid deepening humanitarian catastrophe
Israeli Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir on Sunday instructed the military to expand its ongoing ground offensive in the Gaza Strip to include additional areas in both the north and south amid a deepening humanitarian catastrophe in the besieged enclave.
HA’ARETZ ADDS that in addition to the expansion of ground operations in Gaza, IDF Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir notified the Israeli military to establish additional humanitarian aid distribution centers, according to a statement from the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit.
Greta Thunberg joins aid ship sailing to Gaza aimed at breaking Israel’s blockade
The climate campaigner Greta Thunberg and 11 other activists have set sail for Gaza on a ship aimed at “breaking Israel’s siege” of the devastated territory, organisers have said.
The sailing boat Madleen – operated by the activist group Freedom Flotilla Coalition – departed from the port of Catania in Sicily, southern Italy, on Sunday.
“We are doing this because, no matter what odds we are against, we have to keep trying,” Thunberg said, bursting into tears during her speech, “because the moment we stop trying is when we lose our humanity. And, no matter how dangerous this mission is, it’s not even near as dangerous as the silence of the entire world in the face of the live streamed genocide.”
Read more about the Freedom Flotilla here.
Track the Madeleine here.
RELATED: 15 Years Ago I Was on a Gaza Flotilla Mission That Ended in the Deaths of 10 and Wounding of 50 by Israeli Commandos
Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina derided Greta and the flotilla operation:
Hope Greta and her friends can swim!https://t.co/Noab4QyJtV
— Lindsey Graham (@LindseyGrahamSC) June 1, 2025
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Why is a pro-Israel group asking the US to investigate Ms Rachel?
When Ms Rachel, the beloved kids’ YouTube sensation whose given name is Rachel Griffin Accurso, began speaking out about the genocide in Gaza, pro-Israel rightwingers put a massive target on her back.
Accurso first made her stance public around May 2024, when she announced a fundraiser for children in Gaza and other war zones. Since then, she’s consistently drawn attention to the tragedy in Palestine by sharing statistics on the crisis along with images of Palestinian children with her social media audience of tens of millions of followers, and [Israel supporters have] been after her since.
Last month, the pro-Israel group StopAntisemitism asked the Department of Justice to investigate whether Ms Rachel was operating as a foreign agent because of her posts about children in Gaza. In an open letter to the US attorney general, Pam Bondi, they asked authorities to find out whether Accurso was “being remunerated to disseminate Hamas-aligned propaganda to her millions of followers” (continue reading here).
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STATISTICS OCTOBER 7, 2023 – JUNE 1, 2025:
- At least 55,451 Palestinians killed, 132,839 injured – including:
- at least 54,470 killed in Gaza (~16,500 children)
- at least 981 killed in the West Bank (~199 children)
- at least 124,693 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 4,117 people. 11 Israeli soldiers 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 1, 2025: ~1,601 – including ~1,139 on October 7, 2023 (~36 children), 416 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 215 Palestinian journalists and media workers; Palestinians have killed 4 Israeli journalists (other groups have tallied between 180 and 274 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)
- 15 Years Ago I Was on a Gaza Flotilla Mission That Ended in the Deaths of 10 and Wounding of 50 by Israeli Commandos
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