Israel’s war on Gaza live: No safe shelter as dozens killed in Rafah
- Fierce street fighting and Israeli bombardment continue in Rafah a day after tanks rolled into the centre of the southern Gaza city sheltering hundreds of thousands of civilians. Israeli strikes have killed at least 37 Palestinians, most in tents.
- Israel’s military says it has seized control of the entire length of Gaza’s border with Egypt – known as the Philadelphi Corridor – signalling it has deepened its ground invasion despite international condemnation.
Pro-Palestinian protests outside Canadian security conference
Pro-Palestinian protesters have blocked roads in Canada’s capital, Ottawa, over the city’s hosting of the CANSEC Exhibition, where representatives from the Israeli army are reported to be in attendance.
Footage shared on social media and verified by Al Jazeera shows large numbers of participants blocking roads leading to the exhibition.
Some protesters lay on the ground in clothes stained with symbolic blood, others held banners denouncing Canada’s support of Israel.
CANSEC’s website says the event “showcases leading-edge technology, products and services for land-based, naval, aerospace and joint forces military units”.
WATCH: Gaza residents face health crisis from makeshift landfills
Maghazi camp in central Gaza has been turned into a landfill, with dozens of tons of waste dumped there every day.
To stop the trash from piling up, much of it is burned, posing severe health risks to the surrounding population.
Israeli drone strike kills seven in northern Gaza
The attack hit a centre where displaced people were sheltering, our colleagues on the ground have reported.
The attack follows our reports of another strike in the Shati camp to the west of Gaza City, which killed at least one person.
In recent weeks, Israeli forces have repeatedly attacked shelters housing displaced people in the north. On May 25, at least 10 people, including numerous children, were killed in a UN-run school-turned-shelter in Jabalia.
We’ll bring you more information on the latest attack as soon as possible.
Victims of Rafah strikes rushed to Nasser Hospital
Palestinians killed and wounded in recent strikes in Rafah are being brought to Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, according to video footage verified by Al Jazeera’s Sanad fact-checking agency.
The footage, shared on Palestinian social media channels, shows a group of people, some with shirts stained with blood, crying while huddled around the bodies of several men apparently killed.
According to the Wafa news agency, Israeli attacks in Rafah have already killed 12 people since dawn today. Many of those victims, it said, were targeted while trying to retrieve the body of a person killed in Rafah centre.
Twenty arrested in latest West Bank raids
Israeli forces have rounded up 20 people across the occupied West Bank since last night, according to the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society, which keeps a daily record of arrests.
Two women and one child were among those arrested, according to the group, adding that one of the women was later released.
The majority of those apprehended were in the Hebron governorate, while the others were in the governorates of Qalqilya, Bethlehem, Tubas and Jerusalem, it said.
Since October 7, Israeli forces have made 8,955 arrests in near daily raids across the West Bank, according to the Prisoner’s Society.
‘Suspicious aerial target’ from Lebanon intercepted: Israeli military
The Israeli military says that its Iron Dome defence system intercepted an aerial target that crossed from Lebanon earlier today.
Hezbollah and the Israeli military have traded fire since October 8, when the Lebanese armed group launched an attack in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza.
The Israeli military also said a cruise missile that approached the occupied Golan Heights “from the east” was intercepted.
The Golan Heights – a hilly 1,200-square-kilometre (463-square-mile) plateau that also overlooks Lebanon and borders Jordan – is Syrian territory that was occupied by Israel in 1967 and annexed in 1981.
Ramallah vegetable market ‘in ruins’ after fire
We are now at the vegetable market, where civil defence teams are still trying to put out a fire that erupted after Israeli forces raided this area.
They raided the area at about midnight, throwing tear gas and stun grenades, causing fire to erupt. No one was able to get to the area until the Israeli raid was over. They are still putting it out after hours and hours.
Vendors usually come here every day to work. For some of them, it is their only source of income. Now it’s all in ruins.
In addition to the vegetable market, buildings nearby were also affected. A civil defence crew member is warning us that they expect one of the buildings to fall down.
More damage to hospitals, schools as Israel takes control of Philadelphi Corridor
The Israeli military is continuing to carry out air strikes and artillery shelling on Rafah city.
At the same time, it is quietly taking over the Philadelphi Corridor in what looks like part of its strategy of building a buffer zone, a demilitarised area on the Egyptian border.
We’re looking at a depth of at least 1km (0.6 miles), extending from the northern part of the Philadelphi Corridor into Rafah city.
This means the majority of residential buildings and public facilities there, including schools, hospitals and privately owned clinics, will be destroyed for this demilitarised area.
Israeli air force conducted 50 strikes on Gaza over the past day
The Israeli military says it is currently conducting operations in northern, central and southern Gaza.
This includes Rafah, the area where the ICJ has ordered Israel to halt military operations.
It also stated that over the past day, the Israeli air force has struck more than 50 targets in the Gaza Strip.
Swedish police clear out pro-Palestine encampment
Swedish police have cleared out an encampment outside a southern Sweden university where pro-Palestinian students have been camping since May 16.
Police say that some 40 people are suspected of disobeying law enforcement during the early morning action, and video shows police carrying away people who refused to leave the area outside Lund University.
Swedish broadcaster SVT said there were about 100 people in the camp.
Yesterday, Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet reported that three pro-Palestinian demonstrators were arrested, and more than a dozen were detained outside the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm.
2023 was worst year for attacks on healthcare in decade: Monitor
The Safeguarding Health in Conflict Coalition says the year 2023 saw the most attacks on healthcare in war zones since it began documenting such assaults 11 years ago.
The coalition, in a new report, identified 2,562 incidents of violence against or obstruction of healthcare in conflicts in 2023, a figure that marks a 25 percent increase from 2022.
The highest number of attacks – some 761 incidents – were documented in the occupied Palestinian territory. These included Israeli air, missile and artillery strikes on hospitals, field hospitals, and the killing, wounding and arrests of healthcare staff, including doctors, nurses, laboratory technicians, paramedics, ambulance drivers and pharmacists.
“In several cases, entire families that had multiple members who were medical professionals were killed in single attacks, usually while they were at home,” the report said.
Gaza’s women, children facing ‘exploitation, abuse’ at overcrowded shelters
Out of school and living in overcrowded shelters, children in Gaza face a heightened risk of violence, exploitation and abuse, warns the International Rescue Committee.
“They are not only being denied their childhood, but are also experiencing extreme trauma,” said Ulrike Julia Wendt, IRC’s emergency child protection coordinator, adding that young girls are at risk of being subjected to early or forced marriages.
“If the war goes long and education remains interrupted with no guidance, many will grow up without understanding their health and rights and potentially leading to the normalisation of gender-based violence,” said Wendt, who recently returned from a trip to Gaza.
In overcrowded shelters, women are also especially vulnerable to abuse, Wendt added, including violence and sexual exploitation.
Israeli seizure of Philadelphi Corridor a “red line” for Egypt
Tamer Qarmout, assistant professor in public policy at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, spoke to Al Jazeera about the Israeli military’s recent announcement that they had taken control of the Philadelphi Corridor.
He said this move signals a “red line” for the Egyptian government, adding that they are concerned about how it will impact their Camp David peace agreement with Israel.
Israel has crossed many red lines laid out by the international community, he said, and the failure of the United States to stop them has given Israel the “upper hand” in the war.
He said the latest seizure of the Philadelphi Corridor “signals a new stage” which will likely lead to “a long presence of Israeli troops in Gaza” and “reoccupation of the Gaza Strip”.
Trident Pier sent from the Gaza Strip to Israel for repairs
The US Office of Palestinian Affairs (OPA) says that over the next 48 hours, the Trident Pier will be removed from its anchored position on the Gaza Strip’s coast and towed back to Ashdod in Israel, where the US Central Command will conduct repairs.
The floating pier was built to deliver aid, but it has been criticised by aid groups as a costly and ineffective distraction from the fact that land deliveries are the most efficient way to help Palestinians in the enclave.
In a post on X, OPA said the pier was damaged when bad weather caused part of it to separate from another pier situated on the Gaza coast.
It is estimated that the pier will take a week to repair before resuming operations.
Palestinian Health Ministry condemns ‘targeted’ killing of paramedics
The ministry has denounced the Israeli military attack on an ambulance in Rafah that killed two Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) paramedics on duty.
It called the attack a “heinous crime” that confirmed the Israeli military’s “intention to annihilate” Gaza’s health system.
During the war on Gaza, Israeli attacks have killed at least 493 healthcare workers, including nurses, paramedics and doctors, with many more injured, according to the ministry.
Three killed by sniper fire in Gaza City: Report
Israeli snipers have shot dead at least three civilians in Gaza City’s Tal al-Hawa neighbourhood, reports the Wafa news agency.
The civilians were shot in the street near the University of College of Applied Sciences (UCAS), Wafa said.
We’ll bring you more information on this attack as soon as we have it.
