- At least 95 Palestinians have been killed and 440 injured in Israeli attacks across Gaza in the past 24 hours, according to the enclave’s Health Ministry.
- Israel’s military has warned starving Palestinians in Gaza against approaching roads to the US-backed aid distribution sites run by the controversial Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), which will be closed for a whole day for “renovation, reorganisation and efficiency improvement work”.
At least 10,400 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails: Monitor
As we’ve reported, Israeli forces have carried out near-daily waves of arrests across the occupied West Bank during the Gaza war.
The campaign has brought the total number of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli custody, excluding those held in military camps, to at least 10,400, according to the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society.
The figure includes 440 minors and 49 women, according to the group.
It added that over one third of the total prisoners are being held without charge under “administrative detention”, Israel’s extensive use of which has been slammed by rights groups.
PIJ’s armed wing claims to have struck Israeli soldiers near Jabalia
The armed wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), the al-Quds Brigades, says its fighters have “confirmed their success” in targeting a group of Israeli troops east of northern Gaza’s Jabalia area with two missiles.
The attack came two days ago, on Monday at 6pm local time (15:00 GMT), the statement published on Telegram said.
WATCH: What we know about Sunday’s attack on Rafah aid seekers
On Sunday morning, Palestinians gathered near GHF-run food distribution sites in Rafah were fired on, killing and wounding dozens.
Conflicting claims have emerged about what happened.
Gaza’s Health Ministry, journalists on the scene and other witnesses say Israeli drones and tanks were responsible for the deadly assault.
However, the Israeli military has denied its troops shot at civilians in or near aid distribution areas.
Activist-led humanitarian aid ship en route to Gaza
The Madleen ship, launched by the Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC), is on its way to Gaza carrying humanitarian aid and rights activists protesting Israel’s illegal blockade of the Strip.
If there are no disruptions, the ship and its 12-person crew, including climate activist Greta Thunberg, are expected to reach the enclave on June 7.
Ultra-Orthodox party poised to quit Israeli government over conscription dispute
Israel’s government has been thrown into turmoil by an ultra-Orthodox party’s threat to dissolve the ruling coalition amid a dispute about compulsory military service.
Senior rabbis have instructed their representatives in the United Torah Judaism alliance, which holds seven seats in Israel’s parliament, to pull their support for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition government, the DPA news agency and Israeli media reported.
The alliance’s withdrawal would leave Netanyahu’s right-wing, religious government with just 61 seats in the 120-member parliament.
The split has come amid a debate over compulsory military service for Israel’s ultra-Orthodox minority, known as the Haredim. The ultra-Orthodox have for decades been granted an exemption from compulsory military service, but that exemption lapsed last year.
Netanyahu’s government has not passed a law exempting the ultra-Orthodox from the draft, despite pressure from the community to do so. Many ultra-Orthodox Jews see military service as incompatible with their beliefs.
Israel’s militarised aid takeover creates ‘absurd theatre’ in Gaza
Mads Gilbert, an emergency medicine coordinator who has worked extensively in Gaza, has slammed the Israeli-conceived Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) for sidelining established aid groups and putting starving Palestinians in the line of fire.
“Israel has made a whole new set of rules, in which they exclude the common UN mechanism of distributing help to people in need and replace it with a militarised type of distribution,” he told Al Jazeera.
Pointing to recent deadly attacks on aid seekers in Rafah, Gilbert said Israel had created an “absurd theatre” in which desperate people are forced to risk their lives for parcels of food.
“What needs to happen is for Israel to keep its hands off the distribution of humanitarian aid,” said Gilbert. “We need robust sanctions and a stop to Israel’s outrageous killing of starving people.”
Israeli gunboats ‘kidnap’ fisherman from Lebanese waters
A Lebanese security source has told Al Jazeera that four Israeli gunboats surrounded a Lebanese fishing boat in Lebanon’s territorial waters off the coast of the southern town of Naqoura, kidnapping one of the fishermen.
Lebanese local media posted the picture of the fisherman Ali Fneish, from the southern town of Ma’roub, from his boat off Naqoura. They said he was taken to the occupied Palestinian territory.
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Here are the latest developments:
- About 50,000 pregnant and nursing women are at “serious risk” in Gaza due to shortages of food and essential medicines, according to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in the central city of Deir el-Balah.
- Separately, Gaza’s Health Ministry says Israeli forces have hit the roof of an administration building at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital as part of a “systematic policy of undermining” the enclave’s health system.
- Dr Mohammed Abu Salmiya, director of Gaza City’s devastated al-Shifa Hospital, has made an urgent appeal for the entry of blood units into the war-ravaged enclave, saying large numbers of wounded were dying each day due to blood shortages.
- An Israeli reserve soldier has been killed in fighting in northern Gaza, the Israeli military says.
- Israeli forces have arrested 19 Palestinians, including activists, in dawn raids in the occupied West Bank, according to the Palestinian Prisoners’ Media Office (ASRA).
- Gaza death toll rises
- At least 95 Palestinians have been killed and 440 injured in Israeli attacks across Gaza in the past 24 hours, according to the enclave’s Health Ministry.
- Two bodies of people killed in previous Israeli attacks were also recovered from the rubble in the war-torn territory, the ministry said.
- The total death toll from Israel’s war on Gaza has risen to 54,607 killed and 125,341 injured since October 7, 2023, it said.
- Israel has killed 4,335 Palestinians and injured 13,300 since breaking a ceasefire in March this year.Mujahideen Brigades says leading member killed in Israeli attack
- The Mujahideen Brigades, a smaller Palestinian armed faction active in Gaza and the occupied West Bank, has issued a statement mourning one of its senior members, who it says was killed in an Israeli “assassination”.
- The group identified him as Mahmoud Abu Nar, a member of its military council and the head of its Central Governorate Brigade.
- The Mujahideen Brigades serves as the military wing of the Palestinian Mujahideen Movement, which split from the Palestinian Fatah movement in the mid-2000s.
- About 50,000 pregnant women, nursing mothers at ‘serious risk’: Gaza hospital
- The war in Gaza is having a devastating effect on pregnant women and nursing mothers, with an estimated 50,000 at serious risk due to shortages of food and essential medicines, according to a hospital in central Gaza.
- Khalil al-Daqran, spokesperson for Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir el-Balah, said rates of miscarriage had increased sixfold since the outbreak of war and had been accompanied by a large rise in premature births, Wafa reported.
- That had left Gaza’s embattled neonatal units overwhelmed, he said.
- Al-Daqran said Israel’s targeting of the healthcare system had brought it to the brink of collapse, with far-reaching impacts on patients in Gaza.
- More than 23 hospitals had been put out of action, with those that remained only partly functioning, as a result of severe shortages of medical supplies and fuel, he said.
- That meant more than 12,000 cancer patients were left without treatment, resulting in about five deaths a day, while dialysis patients were also dying through a lack of essential treatment.
- G️aza’s Health Ministry accuses Israel of striking hospital building in Deir el-Balah
- In a statement, the ministry says Israeli forces have hit the roof of an administration building at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Gaza’s central city of Deir el-Balah.
- The attack, it said, caused “fear and confusion among medical staff, patients and their companions”.
- The ministry condemned Israel for continuing a “systematic policy of undermining” Gaza’s health system and called for the “urgent … protection of health facilities”.
