Israel forces slaughter dozens in Gaza after 7 troops killed

Israeli forces kill at least 78 Palestinians in Gaza – including 33 aid-seekers at distribution sites – as dozens of settlers launch a deadly attack on a village in the occupied West Bank.
President Trump says US and Iranian officials will talk next week to continue a dialogue interrupted by the 12-day conflict between Israel and Iran.Iran partially reopens airspace after ceasefire with Israel
Iran has reopened the airspace over the country’s east following a ceasefire with Israel that ended 12 days of deadly fighting.

“The airspace over the eastern half of the country has been reopened to international overflights as well as domestic and international flights solely with origin or destination in airports located in eastern Iran,” Transport Ministry spokesman Majid Akhavan said, according to the official IRNA news agency.

Mashhad airport, which Israel said it had struck during the war, was among the airports that reopened, he said. Other reopened airports include Chabahar, Zahedan and Jask.

Iran had closed its skies since June 13 after Israel launched a major bombing campaign that prompted Iran to retaliate with waves of missile strikes. A ceasefire between the two came into effect on Tuesday.Witkoff hints at ‘big announcements’ on Abraham Accords
Nuclear enrichment and weaponisation by Iran are red lines for the United States, President Trump’s Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff says.

“We can’t have weaponisation, that will destabilise the entire region. Everyone will then need a bomb and we just can’t have that,” Witkoff told CNBC.

Witkoff also told the US network: “We think we have big announcements on countries coming into the Abraham Accords,” without specifying which nations might be involved.

During his first term, Trump managed to broker the Abraham Accords between Israel and several Arab countries, including the United Arab Emirates, which established formal relations with the US ally independently of the Palestinian issue.Iran criticises NATO chief’s praise for US bombardment
Iran has sharply criticised NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte after he appeared to praise US strikes on Iranian territory, calling his comments an endorsement of “a criminal act of aggression”.

“It is disgraceful, despicable and irresponsible for #NATO’s SG to congratulate a ‘truly extraordinary’ criminal act of aggression against a sovereign state,” Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei wrote on X.

“Who endorses an injustice lacks integrity. Who supports a crime is regarded as complicit.”

His comments were in response to a text message of praise Rutte sent to US President Donald Trump on Tuesday after the US attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities.

Israeli settler violence ‘pushing region toward an explosion’: PA
The Palestinian Authority (PA) has condemned escalating settler violence across the occupied West Bank, accusing the Israeli government of backing the attacks.

“The settler violence and rampage, under the protection of the occupation army, is a political decision by the Israeli government, implemented by the settlers,” Vice President Hussein al-Sheikh said in a post on X.

Al-Sheikh also accused Israeli authorities of deliberately escalating tensions in the occupied Palestinian territories.

“The Israeli government’s behaviour and decisions are pushing the region toward an explosion,” he wrote.