Israel war on Gaza live: Palestinians experiencing ‘subhuman’ conditions
- Israeli strikes hit a crowded evacuation centre in Gaza City and a camp for displaced people in Khan Younis.
- At least 15 people killed, rescue workers searching for survivors trapped under the rubble of a home destroyed by an Israeli strike in northern Gaza’s Beit Lahiya.
Israeli forces arrest 20 in latest West Bank raids
Most arrests took place in Hebron and Jenin governorates, while others were in Bethlehem and Qalqilya, according to the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society.
Among those arrested was the mother of a Palestinian man who is wanted by Israeli authorities and several other former detainees, said the group.
Since October 7, Israeli forces have made 9,400 arrests in daily raids throughout the occupied West Bank, according to the society.
At least 553 people, including 137 minors, have also been killed and about 5,300 have been wounded.
WATCH: Ambulance services in Gaza face deadly risks
Israeli forces have repeatedly targeted health workers in Gaza throughout the war, arresting at least 310 of them while on the job and killing more than 500, according to the enclave’s health ministry.
Some of those arrested, like ambulance worker Fadi Afaneh, have been subjected to abuse while in Israeli custody.
Civil defence rescues 13 people from bombed home in Gaza City’s Daraj area
Gaza’s Civil defence says its crews have responded to the scene of a bombed home in Gaza City’s Daraj neighbourhood.
The rescuers have managed to pull 13 people alive from the home, located on Jaffa street, the announcement said on Telegram.
We’ll bring you more on this as we have it.
Death toll from Israeli air strike on home in Beit Lahiya rises to 15
We have reported earlier that Israel’s air strike had levelled to the ground the Abu Awad family home in northern Gaza’s Beit Lahiya town, killing four people.
Al Jazeera’s team on the ground now says the death toll reached 15 and rescuers are still working to pull victims from under the rubble.
Gaza’s Department of Medical Services said that about 40 people, mostly women and children, were inside the house when it was struck.
Palestinian homes demolished in occupied West Bank’s Beitillu and Jericho
Israeli forces have demolished a Palestinian home in the village of Beitillu, west of Ramallah, and two more in the city of Jericho in the occupied West Bank, according to the Wafa news agency.
The houses in the Matar neighbourhood, east of Jericho, were owned by Firas Abu Al-Zeit and Kamal Mahmoud Baraka, and the one in Beitillu belonged to Mohammad Wajih Bazar, the report said.
The homes were demolished for lacking building permits, according to Israeli officials, a common reason cited for the destruction of Palestinian homes even as Israeli settlements – illegal under international law – expand.
They are among more than 990 Palestinian homes to be demolished in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, since October 7, displacing more than 900 people, according to UN figures.
‘The suffering is unforgivable’
Footage shared online, and verified by Al Jazeera, shows dozens of Palestinians in Gaza’s Jabalia camp lining up with bowls before an aid distribution point.
One resident said they had waited three hours to get a “small amount of soup”, which they said would not be enough to feed the 15 people waiting at home.
“The suffering in northern Gaza is unforgivable,” said another resident queueing for food. “Since the 1948 war, there has been no such famine. If it were not for these simple [aid] projects, we would have lost our lives with hunger.”
Israeli military claims strikes on Hezbollah posts in southern Lebanon
According to Israel’s military, its warplanes hit several Hezbollah sites in southern Lebanon overnight, including an observation post in the area of Matmoura and additional infrastructure in Shebaa.
In a post on X, the military shared purported footage of the strikes.
The attacks are part of escalating cross-border clashes between Israel and Hezbollah during the Gaza war, which have raised fears of all-out war.
Israeli military arrests 11 people in Hebron
The Israeli military has arrested 11 Palestinians following raids in Hebron governorate, the occupied West Bank, the Wafa news agency reports.
Israeli forces arrested one man from Dhahiriya town, three men in the al-Fawar camp, and seven men in the town of Dura, Wafa reports.
Earlier, we reported that the Israeli military had arrested five people in Jenin. Wafa now confirms that a sixth man has been arrested there.
Since October 7, more than 9,354 arrests have been made by the Israeli forces across the illegally occupied West Bank.
Israeli shelling kills, injures people in Gaza City: Report
Israeli forces have shelled several areas of Gaza City, killing and wounding an unknown number of people, reports the Wafa news agency.
The attacks targeted the neighbourhoods of Zeitoun, Sabra and Tal al-Hawa.
Towards the centre of the Strip, Israeli artillery hit the eastern party of Bureij refugee camp, as well as farmland west of Nuseirat.
We’ll bring you more information on these attacks as we have it.
India exports rockets and explosives to Israel amid Gaza war
On June 6, in the aftermath of Israel’s bombing of a UN shelter at Nuseirat refugee camp in Gaza, the Quds News Network released a video of the remains of a missile dropped by Israeli warplanes.
Amid the tangled parts, a label clearly read: “Made in India.”
Analysts say a lack of transparency on India’s transfers helps them slip under the radar.
Norway pension fund divests from Caterpillar Inc due to Israeli military sales
The largest pension fund in Norway has announced it will no longer invest in Caterpillar Inc over the US construction equipment manufacturer’s sales to the Israeli military, Reuters news agency reports.
KLP said it had excluded Caterpillar from its portfolio over concerns the Israeli military is using its heavy machinery to carry out human rights abuses and violate international law, including the demolition of homes and infrastructure, in Gaza and the occupied West Bank.
KLP said it had engaged in dialogue with Caterpillar over several months, but did not receive satisfactory assurances on the issue, resulting in a June 17 decision to divest shares worth 728 million Norwegian crowns ($69m).
WATCH: Israel’s Supreme Court rules ultra-Orthodox men must be drafted into military
Israel’s Supreme Court has ruled that the army must conscript the country’s ultra-Orthodox Jews, a decision that could split Netanyahu’s coalition government.
Ultra-Orthodox parties are part of the government and without their support, it will collapse and force new elections.
The court said Israel’s compulsory military service applies to the ultra-Orthodox like every other citizen.
Hamas ‘replenishing’ weapons stockpiles, recruits in Gaza: Monitors
US-based defence think tanks, the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) and the Critical Threats Project (CTP) said Hamas will likely use the end of Israel’s “intense phase” of ground operations in Gaza to “reconstitute its combat units” and reassert “governing authority”.
Israel’s Army Radio announced on Tuesday that Israeli forces will transition to raid operations once they have declared Hamas defeated in Rafah, which the military says will happen in the coming days.
However, the latest battlefield report by ISW/CTP points out that thousands of Palestinian fighters departed Rafah prior to the Israeli ground incursion and these forces could provide the “human resources to reorganise themselves into composite, fully combat effective units”.
The think tanks, which have previously noted the limitations of Israeli raids, reiterated the limited effectiveness of the plan in Gaza.
“Hamas is capable of regrouping in the Gaza Strip in the absence of sustained military pressure and a viable alternative to its rule. Raids can temporarily disrupt but will not stop a reconstitution process,” the ISW/CTP report states.
