Compilation of news reports – IAK staff
At least 82 Palestinians were killed across Gaza by the Israeli army on Friday, sources said, including 34 killed by Israeli fire while waiting for humanitarian aid.
At least 450 Palestinians have been killed while seeking aid.
GAZA:
UN places Israeli military on ‘List of Shame’ again, illustrating the horrific impact of genocide on children
Last year was the most devastating year for children in armed conflict in two decades, according to the new annual report from United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. The UN verified 41,370 grave violations against children in 2024, a 25 percent increase over 2023, the previous record high.
The highest number of abuses verified in 2024 took place in Israel/Palestine, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Somalia, Nigeria, and Haiti. The 8,554 violations documented in Israel/Palestine are more than double any other context, with nearly 85 percent committed by Israeli forces. The Israeli authorities have starved, killed, and maimed thousands of Palestinian children in Gaza and are responsible for ongoing war crimes, crimes against humanity, and acts of genocide (read the full report here).
The United Nations verified 8,554 grave violations against 2,959 children in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories amid Israel’s relentless attacks on the Gaza Strip.
Of the 2,959 children,15 were Israelis and 2,944 were Palestinians.
RELATED: UNICEF warns of ‘man-made drought’ in Gaza as Israel razes vital infrastructure
GLOBAL MARCH TO GAZA
From 32 countries around the world, voices united in powerful solidarity for justice and freedom in the Global March to Gaza
IRAN-ISRAEL-US NEWS SNAPSHOTS:
Israel targeted another hospital in Tehran early Friday, raising the total number of hospitals struck in the capital to three, according to a spokesman for Iran’s Health Ministry. “Six ambulances and a comprehensive health service center have also been brutally attacked by the Zionist enemy,” Health Ministry spokesman Hossein Kermanpour said in a statement.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Friday that Tehran has received multiple “serious” US messages requesting negotiations, but Iran has “nothing to say” to Washington. “We have no negotiations with anyone about our missile program,” Araghchi said in a televised interview. “No rational mind would accept entering talks over its own defense capabilities.”
MORE ON IRAN-ISRAEL-US:
Grossi says IAEA report ‘not basis for war’ after threat of legal action from Iran
The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Rafael Grossi, said that the agency’s report accusing Iran of secret and illicit nuclear activity is not the reason behind Israel’s war against the country, after Tehran signaled it would take legal action against him.
“A report on the nuclear verification in Iran could hardly be a basis for any military action. Military action, from whomever it comes, is a political decision that has nothing to do with what we’re saying,” Grossi told CNN.
“In that report, I also said that, at this point, we do not have any indication that there is a systemic program in Iran to manufacture a nuclear weapon,” he added.
When asked about a potential “timeline” in which Iran could build a nuclear weapon, Grossi said discussing a timeline would be nothing but “pure speculation” (continue reading here).
Satellite Images Reveal Trump’s Dilemma Over Iran Nuclear Complex
As the world waits to see if the US joins Israel in its war with Iran, the latest evidence from the ground suggests they would need to significantly escalate attacks if they want to eradicate the Islamic Republic’s nuclear capabilities.
Satellite images show atomic installations were only grazed after four days of bombardment. Damage to Iran’s central enrichment facility in Natanz, located 300 kilometers (186 miles) south of Tehran, is primarily limited to electricity switch yards and transformers, based on pictures from June 17. While those installations are critical, experts say they can be repaired within months.
They did damage but left a lot intact,” said Robert Kelley, a former inspector at the International Atomic Energy Agency, or IAEA, who previously ran one of the US-government’s premier satellite imagery labs (continue reading here).
Trump says US intelligence ‘wrong’ about Iran not building nuclear bomb
United States President Donald Trump has said his director of national intelligence was “wrong” when she testified that Iran was not building a nuclear weapon and that Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei had not re-authorized the country’s suspended nuclear weapons program.
The comments come after Trump earlier this week cast doubt on Tulsi Gabbard’s March 25 report to Congress, in which she reiterated the US intelligence community’s assessment. On Tuesday, Trump told reporters, “I don’t care” that the intelligence community’s finding contradicted his own claims, saying Iran was in the late stages of developing a nuclear weapon.
On Friday, a reporter asked Trump, “What intelligence do you have that Iran is building a nuclear weapon? Your intelligence community said they have no evidence.”
The president responded, “Then my intelligence community is wrong. Who in the intelligence community said that?”
“Your DNI [director of national intelligence], Tulsi Gabbard,” the reporter replied.
“She’s wrong,” Trump said.
Israel’s War on Iran Is Costing Hundreds of Millions of Dollars a Day
Interceptor missiles used to shoot down Iranian ballistic missiles have been the most expensive, along with ammunition, aircraft, and the widespread destruction caused by missile attacks, which has been called “unprecedented.”
Over 400 ballistic missiles have been fired by Iran at Israel since Tel Aviv launched its war on the country on 13 June.
Israel uses its Iron Dome at $50,000 each time, David’s Sling at $700,000, and Arrow 3 systems at a whopping $4 million apiece to intercept as many of the daily missile launches as it can.
Experts estimate interception operations alone cost up to $200 million per day.
The damage caused by the missiles that make impact has also been significantly costly.
IRAN-ISRAEL-US HEADLINES:
Iran hacking security cameras across Israel to improve missile accuracy
Israel received 14 weapon shipments from US, Germany since start of Iran war
‘No diplomacy until Israel stops war, faces consequences for crimes’: Iran FM
CIA Chief Echoes Mossad Finding on Iran Nuclear Program
Gabbard Falls in Line, Claims Iran Close to Nukes
WEST BANK/EAST JERUSALEM NEWS:
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Israel bars thousands of Palestinians from Friday prayers at Al-Aqsa Mosque
Only about 450 people were reportedly permitted to enter the mosque for prayers, and most prayer areas and courtyards within Al-Aqsa appeared completely empty because of Israeli restrictions. Normally, about 50,000 worship at Al Aqsa Mosque on Fridays.
Israel security minister calls to arrest anyone who watches Al Jazeera channel
Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir called Thursday for the arrest of anyone watching Al Jazeera TV channel which provides 24 hours coverage of the Israel-Iran conflict, claiming the network poses a “threat” to national security.
He also called to halt Al Jazeera’s broadcasts inside Israel. Ben-Gvir said, “We will not allow Al Jazeera to broadcast from Israel. It endangers our national security”. “I call on the public to report anyone who watches Al Jazeera”, said the far-right minister.
PROTEST NEWS:
Mahmoud Khalil released from ICE detention after more than three months
Columbia University graduate Mahmoud Khalil was released from US immigration detention, where he had been held for more than three months over his activism against Israel’s war on Gaza.
Khalil, the most high profile of the students to be arrested by the Trump administration for their pro-Palestinian activism, and the last of them still in detention, was ordered to be released by a federal judge on Friday afternoon from an Ice facility in Jena, Louisiana, where he has been held since shortly after plainclothes immigration agents detained him in early March in the lobby of his Columbia building.
The federal judge, Michael Farbiarz, said during the hearing on Friday that Khalil is not a flight risk, and “is not a danger to the community. Period, full stop.”
“It is highly, highly unusual to be seeking detention of a petitioner given the factual record of today,” Farbiarz also said during the hearing (continue reading here).
MORE HEADLINES:
Majority of Germans now hold negative view of Israel : Survey
STATISTICS OCTOBER 7, 2023 – JUNE 20, 2025:
- At least 56,900 Palestinians killed, 139,923 injured – including:
- at least 55,908 killed in Gaza (~16,500 children)
- at least 992 killed in the West Bank (~199 children)
- at least 131,138 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 5,599 people. 23 Israeli soldiers (most recent June 18) 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 20, 2025: ~1,613 – including ~1,139 on October 7, 2023 (~36 children), 428 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.
- Human rights reports on Israel-Palestine (regularly updated)
- Mahmoud Khalil released from ICE detention after more than three months
- Why BBC editors must one day stand trial for colluding in Israel’s genocide
- American Committee on Foreign Relations Miseducates Public and Censors Truth-Telling Analysts
- UC San Francisco fired me for speaking out against genocide, but as a physician I could not remain silent
- Is Israel’s favorite US general helping to push us into war?
- Israel blocks its Palestinian citizens from bomb shelters during Iran strikes
- Meet the American military veterans fasting for Gaza
- IAEA report didn’t say Iran is producing nuclear weapons
- BBC coverage of Israel’s war on Gaza ‘systematically biased against Palestinians’
- Zionism Is Not an American Principle
- Massie, Democrats move to block US strikes on Iran
- Professor John Mearsheimer: Israel gets the US to do its bidding
- America Has Betrayed Palestinians. We Will Still Prevail.
- Pure Orwell: Europe condemns Iran for attacks on its own territory
- Israel’s Hidden Front: How Israel’s Military Embeds Itself Among ‘Civilians’
- ‘I Wished for Death’: A Palestinian Man’s Torture at an Israeli Checkpoint
- Trump’s “aid” boss oversees lethal food distribution in Gaza
- The rise of Abu Shabab: Mapping the Gaza militia armed by Israel
- Israel uses antisemitism as cover for Gaza genocide. It’s a trap
