Compilation of news reports – IAK staff
Israeli forces killed at least 60 Palestinians in Gaza on the first day of Eid al-Adha, one of Islam’s holiest festivals, according to eyewitnesses and medical sources.
For detail on fatal Israeli attacks in Gaza on Friday, read:
UPDATE Gaza Friday: 60+ Killed, Thousands Forced to Flee As Bombardment Continues
Israel orders evacuation of neighborhoods of displaced people on Eid’s 1st day with plan to bomb
Negating religious values with intense genocidal attacks on Gaza on the first day of Eid al-Adha, Islam’s major religious festival, the Israeli army also ordered on Friday the evacuation of several neighborhoods in northern Gaza, with plans to launch a bombardment of civilian infrastructure.
Israeli army spokesperson Avichay Adraee described the warning as a “pre-attack alert,” claiming that the Israeli army would “target any area used to launch rockets.”
The warning comes despite the fact that no rockets were fired from Gaza on Friday, according to reports.
The residents of the targeted areas are previously displaced Palestinians.
RELATED: We are the Eid al-Adha sacrifice this year
MSF: Gaza doctors give their own blood to patients after scores gunned down seeking aid
Doctors in the Gaza Strip are donating their own blood to save their patients after scores of Palestinians were gunned down while trying to get food aid, the medical charity Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said on Thursday.
MSF Switzerland’s director general, Stephen Cornish said staff at one of the hospitals where MSF operates had to give blood as most Palestinians are now too poorly nourished to donate.
Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF)-related deaths
Israel has regularly attacked hungry aid seekers since the GHF began to operate in late May, causing hundreds of casualties.
The Gaza Government Media Office has published a breakdown of the casualty numbers near aid distribution points since the GHF opened its doors:
- Tuesday, May 27: 3 killed, 46 wounded, 7 missing in Rafah
- Wednesday, May 28: 10 killed, 62 wounded in Rafah
- Sunday, June 1: 35 killed, 200 wounded in Rafah; 1 killed and 32 wounded, 2 missing at the Gaza Valley Bridge
- Monday, June 2: 26 killed, 92 wounded in Rafah
- Tuesday, June 3: 27 killed, 90 wounded in Rafah
- Friday, June 6: 8 killed, 61 wounded in Rafah.
NOTE: This is not the first spate of such killings of starving Palestinians. In 2024, Israel killed at least 560 Palestinians and injured 1,523 in similar incidents, the most deadly on February 29, when over 100 were killed and 760 were injured. UN experts reported that “the 29 February massacre followed a pattern of Israeli attacks against Palestinian civilians seeking aid, with over 14 recorded incidents of shooting, shelling and targeting groups gathered to receive urgently needed supplies from trucks or airdrops between mid-January and the end of February 2024.”
Boston Consulting Group CEO apologizes for Israel-backed Gaza aid project
The chief executive of one of the world’s top consulting firms apologized to staff and admitted “process failures” in the company’s decision to help design and run a controversial Israel-backed group, Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), that supplanted the work of the United Nations to deliver aid to the Gaza Strip, according to an email obtained by The Washington Post.
Christoph Schweizer, the CEO of Boston Consulting Group, said his company had fired two partners involved in the Israeli-American effort and launched a “formal investigation” to ensure “this does not happen again.”
“I deeply regret that in this situation, we fell short — of our own standards and of the trust that you, our clients and our broader communities place in BCG,” he wrote. “I am sorry for how deeply disappointing this has been to many BCGers around the world.”
GHF shutters aid sites ‘until further notice’ amid Israeli massacres, internal shakeup
UNRWA urges Israel to provide evidence against allegations
UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, has requested cooperation and evidence from Israeli concerning allegations Tel Aviv made against the agency, as all requests have gone unanswered.
“After 20 months, UNRWA has not received any response, nor has the Government of Israel shared any sufficient evidence,” the agency said in a post on X.
UNRWA stated it remained committed to its mandate and is “ready to deliver humanitarian assistance at scale in Gaza, together with other UN agencies”.
NOTE: Israel’s unsubstantiated allegations against UNRWA led to the banning of the group from performing aid distribution in Gaza, although they are the only group equipped to do the job properly.
Netanyahu defends arming Palestinian clans accused of ties with jihadist groups
The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has admitted arming clans in Gaza that he says are opposed to Hamas, after allegations that members of these criminal gangs looted humanitarian aid and have ties to jihadist groups.
The admission came after Israeli media reports quoted defense sources as saying Netanyahu had authorized giving weapons to a clan reportedly led by a man known as Yasser Abu Shabab, a Rafah resident from a Bedouin family, known locally for his involvement in criminal activity. Israel allegedly provided Abu Shabab’s group, which calls itself the “Anti-Terror Service”, with Kalashnikov assault rifles, including weapons seized from Hamas.
“On the advice of security officials, we activated clans in Gaza that oppose Hamas. What’s wrong with that?” Netanyahu said in a short video he posted on social media. “It only saves the lives of Israeli solders, and publicizing this only benefits Hamas” (continue reading here).
RELATED: Inside the Hamas unit fighting Israeli-armed gangs that loot aid and facilitate displacement in Gaza
Israel to issue over 50,000 conscription orders for ultra-Orthodox students amid coalition crisis
WEST BANK HEADLINES:
(For background on the West Bank, read this and this)
More than 1,000 Palestinian fruit trees uprooted by Israeli settlers in May alone
130 Days of Israeli Siege on Tulkarem: 5,000 Displaced, 400 Homes Destroyed
Updated: Israeli Assault on Jenin & Suburbs Continues: 7 abducted, 2 injured Friday
Israeli Forces Shoot a Child, Abduct Two Young Men, in Qalqilia
Occupation Forces Abduct Many Palestinians, Including Women, in the West Bank
Soldiers Shoot A Young Man, Settlers Invade, Near Ramallah
University of Michigan using undercover investigators to surveil student Gaza protesters
The University of Michigan is using private, undercover investigators to surveil pro-Palestinian campus groups, including trailing them on and off campus, furtively recording them and eavesdropping on their conversations, the Guardian has learned.
The surveillance appears to largely be an intimidation tactic, five students who have been followed, recorded or eavesdropped on said. The undercover investigators have cursed at students, threatened them and in one case drove a car at a student who had to jump out of the way, according to student accounts and video footage shared with the Guardian.
Public spending records show the University of Michigan paid at least $800,000 between June 2023 and September 2024 to Ameri-Shield, the parent company of Detroit-based City Shield, a private security group that the undercover investigators appear to work for (continue reading here).
(For background on the student protest movement, read this)
NEWS ON MEDIA BIAS & CENSORSHIP:
(Find more on media bias and censorship here and here)
GOP Rep introduces resolution labeling “free Palestine” slogan as “antisemitism”
Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR): Israeli ‘Aid’ Is Part of Genocide Plan
In 1973, I reported freely on Israel at war. Now its censorship has made that impossible
Israel asked US to send $500M to new Gaza aid fund, sources say – it would come from USAID
The State Department is weighing giving $500 million to Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), the group providing aid to war-shattered Gaza, according to two knowledgeable sources and two former U.S. officials, a move that would involve the U.S. more deeply in a controversial aid effort that has been beset by violence and chaos.
The sources and former U.S. officials said that money would come from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), which is being folded into the U.S. State Department.
This comes as the Trump administration faces criticism for cutting critical USAID programs around the world.
Europe doubles weapons purchases from Israel despite growing calls to end Gaza genocide
Israel’s defense industry reached a new milestone in 2024, with annual arms exports surging to a record $14.8 billion, marking the fourth consecutive year of growth, even as calls for boycotts over the war in Gaza intensified across Europe.
Despite growing political opposition to Israeli military actions in Gaza, 54 percent of all Israeli defense exports in 2024 were sold to European countries, up sharply from 35 percent the previous year. Sales to Europe totaled $8 billion, nearly doubling from 2023, as European governments rushed to bolster air defense and missile systems amid concerns about a future war with Russia.
Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz praised the export boom: “The world sees Israeli strength and seeks to be a partner to it.”
NOTE: European states’ financial patronage of Israel continues in spite of Israel’s standing in the International Court of Justice and the United Nations, where it faces accusations of plausibly committing genocide, illegal occupation, apartheid, extermination, and a targeted campaign of starvation – to name a few.
Gaza Flotilla update
Follow the Gaza flotilla journey here.
Map the Madleen’s progress here.
[Editor’s note: The flotilla movement was begun by Greta Berlin, Paul Larudee, Mary Hughes-Thompson, Sharyn Locke, AND Eliza Ernshire. Afterward, Jewish Voice for Peace and some others tried to ‘cancel’ Greta Berlin and Ann Wright, despite their heroic and extremely consequential actions.]
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STATISTICS OCTOBER 7, 2023 – JUNE 6, 2025:
- At least 55,753 Palestinians killed, 134,619 injured – including:
- at least 54,772 killed in Gaza (~16,500 children)
- at least 981 killed in the West Bank (~199 children)
- at least 125,834 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 4,497 people. 15 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 6, 2025: ~1,605 – including ~1,139 on October 7, 2023 (~36 children), 422 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 218 Palestinian journalists and media workers; Palestinians have killed 4 Israeli journalists (other groups have tallied between 181 and 280 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)
- I told the truth about the West Bank and was threatened and assaulted. Now I’m relying on you to act
- 58 years since the Naksa, Israel’s destructive West Bank military operation fuels mass forced displacement of Palestinians
- John Kiriakou: Israel’s Negative, Disproportionate and Widespread Influence on the U.S. National Security State
- The Corporate Media’s Refusal to Accurately Cover Genocidal Terrorist Benjamin Netanyahu
- Trump confirms he told Netanyahu ‘I don’t think it’s appropriate’ to attack Iran
- Mahmoud Khalil Alleges the Trump Admin and Pro-Israel Groups Coordinated to Target Him
- I used to believe the myth that the US was the most democratic nation
- Veterans Launch 40-Day Fast to Protest Israel’s Starvation of Gaza
- Israel lobby adapts to power shift from Congress to White House
- Iran’s Christian Heritage
- 15 Years Ago I Was on a Gaza Flotilla Mission That Ended in the Deaths of 10 and Wounding of 50 by Israeli Commandos
- The Madeleine ship: A message of solidarity with Gaza and resolve to break the blockade
- Why Did Burning Girls Matter in Vietnam but Not in Gaza?
- Israel-Backed Militias Linked to ISIS Loot Gaza Aid Under IDF Watch
- ‘Global March to Gaza’: Activists from 31 countries plan march to Rafah border
- Israeli displacement orders in Gaza are psychological warfare
- New Israeli Law Allows Palestinians as Young as 12 to Be Imprisoned for Life
- It Took 24 Hours to Speak the Names of 12,000 Children Israel Killed in Gaza – A Fraction of the Total
- Israeli education minister announces plan to make Jewish, Zionist studies core curriculum
