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June 7 - 4, 2024 <<Live: Israel pounds Gaza from ground, air and sea as war enters its ninth month... and <<Live: 'Positive signs' from Hamas on Gaza truce, Egyptian state-linked media report... and <<At least 36,654 Palestinians killed since Oct.7... and <<UK urged to admit 11 Gaza children hurt in the war for urgent treatment... and <<Middle East Youth Initiative to hold conference in Beirut and <<Israeli attacks on refugee camps in Gaza kill 15 and more news but most with a 'give way or go away' yell! Next update Sunday June 9 20.00 hours GMT

June 4 - 2, 2024 <<Live: Mediator Qatar calls for 'clear position' from Israel on ceasefire proposal... and <<Death toll in Gaza rises to 36,550... and <<Members of 'Thousand Youths for Palestine' released and <<Live: More than half of all Gaza buildings destroyed or damaged, UN says... and <<'80 Palestinian journalists have been detained by Israeli forces since Oct.7'... and <<Huge protests call on Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu to approve US ceasefire deal and release hostages... and 'Food for thought': Strong (Hamas) soldiers move in silence. and more news but most with a 'give way or go away' yell!

May 23, 2024 In commemoration of Roshdi Sarraj and tribute to Shrouq Al Aila for   Click here to go throughout May and earler, 2024

 When one hurts or kills a women
one hurts or kills hummanity and is an antrocitie.
Gino d'Artali
and: My mother (1931-1997) always said to me <Mi figlio, non esistono notizie <vecchie> perche puoi imparare qualcosa da qualsiasi notizia.> Translated: <My son, there is no such thing as so called 'old' news because you can learn something from any news.>
Gianna d'Artali.

France 24 - June 7, 2024
<<Live: Israel pounds Gaza from ground, air and sea as war enters its ninth month
Israeli strikes hammered large parts of the Gaza Strip from the ground, air and sea on Friday, targeting several homes including at least one in a refugee camp, witnesses said. The fresh assaults come as the Israel-Hamas war enters its ninth month. Follow our liveblog for all the latest developments.
Summary:
Hamas has not yet given its response to the latest proposal for a ceasefire in the war in Gaza to mediators and is still studying it, Qatari foreign ministry spokesperson Majed Al-Ansari said on Thursday. Egypt received <positive signs> from Hamas over the proposed Gaza truce and hostage release deal, state-linked Al-Qahera News said Thursday.
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has accepted an invitation from Republican and Democratic party leaders to address lawmakers in the US Congress on July 24, a congressional source told AFP.>>
Read more and watch video here:
https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20240607-%F0%9F%94%B4-live-israel-s-netanyahu-to-address-us-congress-on-july-24


France 24 - June 6, 2024 - by Vedika BAHL
<<The US-built Gaza aid pier broke apart. Here's what we know
Just over a week after its completion, a slew of poor weather off Gaza's coast battered the US-built humanitarian aid port off the enclave, which President Biden said would ramp up deliveries to those in need. Social media users claim the pier had drifted away or sunk entirely, but this is not entirely true. Vedika Bahl explains in this edition of Truth or Fake.>>
Source and watch video here:
https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/truth-or-fake/20240606-the-us-built-gaza-aid-pier-broke-apart-here-s-what-we-know

France 24 - June 6, 2024 - By NEWS WIRES
<<Dozens reported killed in Israeli 'targeted air strike' on UN-run school in Gaza
Israel hit a Gaza school on Thursday with what it described as a targeted airstrike on up to 30 Hamas fighters inside, while a Hamas official said 40 people including women and children were killed as they sheltered in the U.N. site. The strike took place at a sensitive moment in mediated negotiations on a ceasefire agreement entailing the release of hostages seized by Hamas on Oct. 7 and some of the Palestinians held in Israeli jails. Hamas seeks a permanent end to the war. Israel says it must destroy the Islamist group first. The United States issued a joint statement with other countries on Thursday calling on Israel and Hamas to make whatever compromises were necessary to finalise a deal as the two sides gave contradictory accounts of the school attack. Ismail Al-Thawabta, the director of the Hamas-run government media office, rejected Israel's assertion that the U.N. school in Nuseirat, in central Gaza, had hidden a Hamas command post. <The occupation uses ... false fabricated stories to justify the brutal crime it conducted against dozens of displaced people,> Thawabta told Reuters. Israel's military said its fighter jets had carried out a <precise strike> and circulated satellite photos highlighting two parts of a building where it said the fighters were based. We're very confident in the intelligence,> military spokesperson Lt Col. Peter Lerner told reporters, accusing Hamas and Islamic Jihad fighters of deliberately using U.N. facilities as operational bases. He said 20-30 fighters were located in the compound, and many of them had been killed, but had no precise details as intelligence assessments were being carried out. <I'm not aware of any civilian casualties and I'd be very, very cautious of accepting anything that Hamas puts out,> he said. The school, run by the U.N. Palestinian refugee agency (UNRWA), was sheltering 6,000 displaced people at the time, UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini said. <At least 35 people were killed and many more injured,> he wrote on X. <Claims that armed groups may have been inside the shelter are shocking. We are however unable to verify these claims. Attacking, targeting or using UN buildings for military purposes are a blatant disregard of International Humanitarian law.> Media in Hamas-run Gaza had earlier put the toll at 35-40. Thawabta and a medical source said 40 had been killed, including 14 children and nine women.
Ceasefire efforts
Israel announced a new military campaign in central Gaza on Wednesday as it battles fighters relying on hit-and-run insurgency tactics. It says there will be no halt to fighting during ceasefire talks, which have intensified since U.S. President Joe Biden outlined a proposal on Friday. <At this decisive moment, we call on the leaders of Israel as well as Hamas to make whatever final compromises are necessary to close this deal,> said the statement issued by the White House jointly with Argentina, Austria, Brazil, Britain, Canada and others. In another sensitive development, the Israeli military reported a rare attack near the Israel- Gaza border, saying a squad of Palestinian fighters killed a soldier and three of them were killed in return fire. It did not name a location but a statement by Hamas armed wing, Al-Qassam Brigades said its fighters had conducted an operation behind enemy lines in the Rafah area of southern Gaza, a location corresponding to the Israeli military's account. <Al-Qassam fighters managed to penetrate the barrier and attacked the enemy command headquarters,> it said. The incident was likely to challenge efforts to restore a sense of security in Israeli border communities that were overrun by Hamas-led gunmen on Oct. 7 last year. On Wednesday, the Israeli military said it was setting up a quick-response commando unit made up of border residents as a precaution against further armed incursions. CIA director William Burns met senior officials from mediators Qatar and Egypt on Wednesday in Doha to discuss the ceasefire plan. Two Egyptian security sources said talks continued on Thursday but had shown no sign of breakthrough. Biden has repeatedly declared that ceasefires were close over the past several months, but there has been only one, week-long truce, in November. Last week's announcement coincides with intense domestic political pressure on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to chart a path to end the eight-month-old war and negotiate the release of hostages held by Hamas. But far-right members of his government have pledged to quit if he agrees to a peace deal that leaves Hamas in place. Hamas precipitated the war by attacking Israeli territory last Oct. 7, killing around 1,200 people and capturing more than 250 hostages, according to Israeli tallies. About half the hostages were freed in the November truce. Israel's military assault on Gaza has killed more than 36,000 people, according to health officials in the territory, who say thousands more dead are feared buried under the rubble. U.S. and Israeli officials have told Reuters about half of Hamas's forces have been killed in the conflict. Hamas does not disclose fatalities among its fighters and some officials say Israel exaggerated the figures.
Israel's own military death toll is almost 300.
(Reuters)>>
Source incl. video:
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20240606-israel-says-deadly-strike-hit-hamas-compound-in-un-school

France 24 - June 6, 2024
<<Live: 'Positive signs' from Hamas on Gaza truce, Egyptian state-linked media report
Egypt has received <positive signs> from Hamas over a proposed Gaza truce and hostage release deal, state-linked Al-Qahera News said Thursday, citing a high-level source. The news came as Spain said it will join South Africa’s case accusing Israel of genocide in Gaza, its foreign minister announced. Follow our liveblog for all the latest developments.
Summary:
Egypt has received <positive signs> from Hamas over a proposed Gaza truce and hostage release deal, state-linked Al-Qahera News said Thursday.
Spain said it will join South Africa's case accusing Israel of genocide in Gaza, its foreign minister announced​
At least 37 people were killed in an Israeli air strike early Thursday on a UN-run school in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, the Al-Aqsa Martyrs hospital said.
The Israeli military said it has <operational control> over two areas of central Gaza as it carries out ground incursions and air strikes in a possible broadening of its months-long war against Hamas.
In Jerusalem, thousands of mostly ultranationalist Israelis marched through a sensitive Palestinian area of the city, with some stoking already surging wartime tensions by chanting <Death to Arabs>.>>
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https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20240606-%F0%9F%94%B4-live-israeli-army-claims-deadly-strike-on-hamas-compound-inside-un-school-in-gaza

France 24 - June 5, 2024 - By NEWS WIRES
<<Israel bombs central Gaza as mediators discuss truce-hostage plan
Israel's military pounded central Gaza with heavy air strikes on Wednesday as international talks to secure a truce and hostage release deal resumed. Tensions were high in annexed east Jerusalem as thousands of police guarded Israel's annual <flag march> that has sparked clashes between Jews and Arabs in previous years. The bloodiest ever Gaza war, sparked by Hamas's October 7 attack on southern Israel, raged on with jets bombing targets overnight and Palestinian officials reporting yet more deaths. Urban combat and shelling intensified in Gaza's southern city of Rafah, while fighting resumed in central areas. The army announced targeted operational activity in the areas of Bureij and eastern Deir al-Balah.
Bombardment of central Gaza killed 11 people near the Al-Maghazi camp and two near Deir al-Balah, said witnesses and Palestinian officials. Families rushed the wounded, including children, to hospitals where civilians were once more packing their belongings on pickup trucks and wheelchairs to flee. The charity Medicines Sans Frontiers (MSF) said at least 70 dead and more than 300 wounded, mostly women and children, had been brought to Al-Aqsa hospital since Tuesday, after <heavy Israeli strikes> in central Gaza. Karin Huster, an MSF medical adviser in Gaza, described the situation as <overwhelming>. <There are people lying everywhere on the floor, outside... bodies were being brought in plastic bags,> she said on X.
Sticking points
US President Joe Biden on Friday outlined what he called a three-phase Israeli plan to halt the fighting for six weeks while hostages are exchanged for Palestinian prisoners and aid is stepped up. G7 powers and Arab states have backed the proposal, although sticking points remain -- Hamas insists on a permanent truce and full Israeli withdrawal, demands that Israel has flatly rejected. A source with knowledge of the negotiations confirmed to AFP that a meeting took place on Wednesday <between the Qatari prime minister and head of Egyptian intelligence with Hamas in Doha to discuss a deal for a truce in Gaza and the exchange of hostages and prisoners>. Hamas political chief Ismael Haniyeh said Hamas would <deal seriously and positively> with any offer meeting those demands. Biden has urged Hamas to accept the deal and deployed CIA chief Bill Burns to Qatar for a renewed push after months of negotiations. The source said Burns would <continue working with mediators on reaching an agreement between Hamas and Israel on a ceasefire in Gaza and the release of hostages>. Qatar said Tuesday it had yet to see statements from either side <that give us a lot of confidence>, but that it was <working with both sides on proposals on the table>. Biden earlier told Qatar's emir that <Hamas is now the only obstacle to a complete ceasefire>, and <confirmed Israel's readiness to move forward> with the terms he set out last week.
A senior Hamas official in Beirut on Tuesday accused Israel of seeking <endless> negotiations and reiterated the group's position rejecting any deal that excludes a permanent ceasefire. Muhammad al-Najjar, a 35-year-old man from northern Gaza twice displaced by the war, told AFP in Deir al-Balah: <We just want to solve and end the catastrophic situation that we are living. What matters to us is that the war made us exhausted, destroyed us and destroyed everything in our lives.>
Flashpoint Jerusalem march
Israeli police deployed 3,000 officers in Jerusalem ahead of the annual march by right-wingers commemorating Israel's capture of the Old City in the 1967 Arab-Israeli war. The march draws Israeli religious ultranationalists and Zionist youth groups and leads through the city's Muslim Quarter to the Western Wall. It has been a lightning rod for Israeli-Palestinian tensions in recent years. The latest Gaza war was sparked by Hamas's October 7 attack on southern Israel which resulted in the deaths of 1,194 people, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally based on Israeli official figures.
Militants also took 251 hostages, 120 of whom remain in Gaza, including 41 the army says are dead. Israel's bombardment and ground offensive have killed at least 36,586 people in Gaza, also mostly civilians, according to the Hamas-run territory's health ministry. Israel has faced growing diplomatic isolation, cases against it before two international courts and several European governments, most recently Slovenia, recognising a Palestinian state.
Amid the Gaza war, tensions have also spiralled elsewhere in the region between Israel and its allies on the one hand, and Iran-backed armed groups in Lebanon, Iraq, Syria and Yemen on the other. The Israeli army and Lebanon's Hezbollah movement have traded near-daily cross-border fire, causing deaths, forcing mass evacuations and igniting wildfires on both sides. Washington appeared to warn Israel against action on Wednesday, with the state department saying that any <escalation> there would risk Israeli security. <We don't want to see that escalation of the conflict which would just lead to further loss of life from both Israelis and the Lebanese people and would greatly harm Israel's overall security and stability in the region,> said State Department spokesman Matthew Miller. The UN, meanwhile, said it was <obviously very concerned> about tensions along the border and called on all parties to de-escalate. The violence since early October has killed at least 455 people in Lebanon, mostly fighters but including 88 civilians, according to an AFP tally. On the Israeli side, the army says at least 14 soldiers and 11 civilians have been killed.
(AFP)>>
Source:
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20240605-israel-bombs-gaza-as-mediators-discuss-truce-hostage-plan


At least 36,654 Palestinians killed since Oct.7
Jinha - Womens News Agency - June 6, 2024
<<At least 36,654 Palestinians killed since Oct.7
The death toll in Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip has risen to 36,654, the Gaza's health ministry said in a statement on Thursday.
News Center- The Gaza's health ministry has released a statement on the death toll in Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip since October 7,2023.
At least 36,654 Palestinians have been killed, 83,309 others injured in Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip since October 7,2023, the statement said. At least 68 Palestinians were killed, 235 others injured in the last 24 hours, the ministry added. According to the statement, there are many dead bodies under rubble and the civil defense crews cannot reach them due to ongoing Israeli attacks.>>
Source:
https://jinhaagency.com/en/actual/at-least-36-654-palestinians-killed-since-oct-7-35183?page=1


39 people killed in Israeli strike on UNRWA school
Jinha - Womens News Agency - June 6, 2024
<<At least 39 people killed in Israeli strike on UNRWA school in Gaza
At least 39 people were killed in an Israeli strike early Thursday on an UNRWA school sheltering displaced Palestinians in central Gaza.
News Center- Israel launched a strike on a school run by the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) in the Nuseirat refugee camp early Thursday, the Government Media Office in Gaza said in a statement. The Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in the nearby town of Deir al-Balah received at least 27 dead and dozens of injured people from the strike, according to local health officials. <The facility does not have the capacity for more patients. The hospital is already overflowing with wounded people, many of whom are being treated on the floor,> the Gaza's health ministry announced on Tuesday.>>
Source:
https://jinhaagency.com/en/actual/at-least-39-people-killed-in-israeli-strike-on-unrwa-school-in-gaza-35179?page=1


Kareem
Sky News - June 5, 2024 - by Alistair Bunkall Middle East correspondent
<<UK urged to admit 11 Gaza children hurt in the war for urgent treatment
Charities want Britain to let the children in, saying medical and travel costs will be covered and they will only stay for a short time. Doctors of some of the injured fear they could die if they stay in Gaza. Kareem saw the tanks and yelled. His mother and sister ran outside to find him, and then the tank fired. The pain was so excruciating that Kareem begged the doctors to amputate his leg. Because of the war, they had to do it without an anaesthetic. His screams were so loud that people on the floor above thought someone was giving birth.
<My husband, daughter, Kareem and I were all injured,> explains his mother.

Kareem's 2 doctor says he could die if he isn't taken abroad for treatment
<My husband lost his eyesight and is currently awaiting treatment. His intestines are damaged. Kareem underwent surgery on the upper part of his body. The flesh around his leg is completely gone, leaving only the bone. Meanwhile, I have splinters in my eye.>

Kareem has had infections in his bones and now weighs only 4st
The 14-year-old boy, who was top of his class and dreamt of owning his own bike, now thinks he will never ride one again.>>
Source and watch movie here:
https://news.sky.com/story/uk-urged-to-admit-11-gaza-children-hurt-in-the-war-for-urgent-treatment-13147931

Sky News - June 5, 2024
<<Woman from viral video on how she escaped Gaza after brutal operation
A young woman whose kitchen table amputation went viral speaks to Sky News about her ordeal, her recovery, the kindness she has found in strangers and her feelings for America where she is now receiving treatment.>>
Source and watch video here:
https://news.sky.com/video/woman-from-viral-video-on-how-she-escaped-gaza-after-brutal-operation-13147480


Iraqi Fighters Attack Israel From Air & Sea
https://youtube.com/watch?v=ePOSmeiRr2A&si=UWf5yXlpOFLFLCE _

France 24 - June 5, 2024
<<Live: Dozens killed as Israel launches new military offensive in central Gaza
Israel announced a new military campaign against Hamas in central Gaza on Wednesday, with at least 44 Palestinians killed in air strikes since Tuesday, according to health officials in the besieged enclave. The fresh offensive comes ahead of talks between US and Qatari mediators to try to finalise a ceasefire deal. Follow our liveblog for all the latest developments.
Summary:
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu toured the country's northern border with Lebanon on Wednesday and said that Israel was prepared for strong action in the north. Israel is phasing out the use of a military-run detention camp for Palestinians captured during the Gaza war where rights groups alleged there has been abuse of inmates, justice officials said on Wednesday. Israel announced a new military campaign against Hamas in central Gaza on Wednesday and Palestinian medics said air strikes there had killed dozens of people ahead of talks between US and Qatari mediators to try to finalise a ceasefire deal.
US President Joe Biden swiped at Binyamin Netanyahu in an interview with Time magazine published Tuesday, saying there was <every reason> to conclude the Israeli prime minister was dragging out the Gaza war to save himself politically.>>
Read more and watch video here:
https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20240604-live-gaza-hamas-israel-fighting-rages-on


Middle East Youth Initiative
Jinha - Womens News Agency - June 5, 2024
<<Middle East Youth Initiative to hold conference in Beirut
The Middle East Youth Initiative will organize a two-day youth conference in Beirut, Lebanon. The initiative calls on all youth organizations and personalities to attend the conference to <work together for a more humane, just and prosperous world.>
Beirut- The Middle East Youth Initiative has announced that the initiative will organize a youth conference in Beirut, Lebanon, with the motto, <Youth and building a free future> from June 8 to June 9 with the participation of many youth organizations. <Youth are the driving force for change in societies,> said the statement released by the initiative on Tuesday. <However, the capitalist modernity's soft warfare seeks to transform this power into a negative energy that distracts attention from national issues and the real challenges facing youth and societies. Soft warfare involves the use of the media and the promotion of consumerist and materialistic values, which leads to the dissipation of youth energy and diverts their attention to matters unrelated to their national interest, making them fodder for wars and victims of unemployment and drugs.> During the two-day conference, youth will discuss many issues such as the future of the Middle East and North Africa, the existing problems and crises in the Middle East and North Africa and the ways and means to solve them and women's freedom issues to launch <a youth intellectual revival based on free will, justice and equality among all people and nations regardless of gender, race, religion and creed, to create a youthful intellectual renaissance.>
The statement released by the initiative continues as follows:
<Youth play a crucial role in shaping the future. They are the driving and creative force that contributes to the development of societies and progress. Young people become innovators, rights defenders, and participants in social and political action as vanguard and leaders. By educating themselves, developing their skills and preserving their privacy and will, young people can be a key factor and vanguard in achieving positive change and building a better future.
We, the Middle East and North Africa Youth Initiative, are organising a youth conference under the slogan: (Youth and building a free future) which brings together many youth movements conscious of their historical role with the aim of discussing issues that concern us as youth and the future of our homelands, discussing existing problems, issues and crises and searching for appropriate ways and means to solve them, fighting intolerance and dogmatic beliefs in all their forms, discussing women's freedom issues, activating the role of youth in the Middle East and North Africa, and launching a youth intellectual revival based on free will, justice and equality among all people and nations regardless of gender, race, religion and creed, to create a youthful intellectual renaissance.
In order to realize our common goals and lay the foundations for joint action, we decided to meet and gather through the assembly, with the aim to build and strengthen coordination between youth organisations in the region, and approaching responsibly towards all crucial issues. In order to rise and emerge together from under the rubble in the midst of the fires of the wars raging in the region to shape our common destiny and determine the features of our future by our will on the foundations of freedom and democratic socialism.To build a free and dignified life that ensures coexistence and achieves justice and equality for all sects, components and genders, in accordance with the principles of humanity and a decent life. Calling on all youth organizations and personalities to attend the conference Middle East Youth Initiative. We, the vanguard youth, are the power and the hope. Let us work together for a more humane, just and prosperous world.>
The organizing committee of the Middle East Youth Initiative Conference consists of:
Iraqi Democratic Youth Union, Student section of the Yemeni Socialist Party, Syriac Progressive Youth Union, Youth Movement for Future Mauritania, Progressive Youth Union (Egypt), Young Women's Union, Armenian Social Council Youth, Nabraa Tim Kosh Foundation for Heritage, Culture and Philanthropy, Democratic Syria Youth Council, Beth Nahrin National Union Youth, Kurdistan Youth Organization, Youth of the Syrian Revolutionary Left Current, Kurdistan Students and Youth Renaissance Organization, Alternative Path Youth Egypt, Sudanese Communist Party Youth, Kurdistan Youth Union, Peoples Democratic Conference Youth Council, Yemen Writers and Activists Collective, Humanitarian Aid Society for Women and Children in Afghanistan and Activists from Western Sahara.>>
Source incl. video:
https://jinhaagency.com/en/actual/middle-east-youth-initiative-to-hold-conference-in-beirut-35174?page=1


White phosphorous attacks
Jinha - Womens News Agency - June 5, 2024
<<HRW: Israel's white phosphorous use risks civilian harm in Lebanon
Israel's widespread use of white phosphorus in south Lebanon is putting civilians at grave risk and contributing to civilian displacement, Human Rights Watch said on Wednesday.
News Center- Human Rights Watch (HRW) has said in a report on Wednesday that they verified the use of white phosphorus munitions by Israeli forces in at least 17 municipalities across south Lebanon since October 2023, including five municipalities where airburst munitions were unlawfully used over populated residential areas. The Israeli military told The Associated Press (AP) that it upholds international law regarding munitions and the use of white phosphorus, using the chemical only as a smokescreen, not to target civilians. <Israel's use of airburst white phosphorus munitions in populated areas indiscriminately harms civilians and has led many to leave their homes,> said Ramzi Kaiss, Lebanon researcher at Human Rights Watch. <Israel forces should immediately stop using white phosphorus munitions in populated areas, especially when less-harmful alternatives are readily available.>
Photos and videos indicating the use of white phosphorus munitions |click on url below|
HRW interviewed eight south Lebanon residents and verified and geolocated 47 photos and videos from south Lebanon posted on social media or shared directly with researchers indicating the use of white phosphorus munitions. In the report, the human rights group calls on Lebanon to <promptly file a declaration with the International Criminal Court (ICC), enabling the investigation and prosecution of grave international crimes within the court's jurisdiction on Lebanese territory since October 2023.>
Since October 2023, more than 400 people have been killed and tens of thousands of people have been displaced in Lebanon.>>
Source:
https://jinhaagency.com/en/actual/hrw-israel-s-white-phosphorous-use-risks-civilian-harm-in-lebanon-35172?page=1


Attacks on refugee camps
Jinha - Womens News Agency - June 5, 2024
<<Israeli attacks on refugee camps in Gaza kill 15
Israel has launched airstrikes on al-Maghazi camp and al-Bureij camp since last night, killing 15 Palestinians.
News Center- Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip have entered their 243rd day.
According to the local sources, the Israeli ground troops have moved into Gaza's al-Bureij refugee camp. The Israeli military said on Tuesday that its troops backed by airstrikes have launched a ground operation into the Al- Bureij refugee camp, attacking Hamas targets. In addition, Israeli airstrikes have targeted al-Maghazi camp in the central Gaza Strip since last night.
According to the statement released by the Gaza's health ministry, 15 Palestinians have been killed and dozens of Palestinians injured in Israeli attacks on al-Bureij refugee camp and al-Maghazi camp. <More than 15 martyrs and dozens of injuries reached the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in the last several hours,> a spokesperson for the ministry said on Tuesday, adding that the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital is the only medical facility currently offering services to more than one million people in the area. <The facility does not have the capacity for more patients. The hospital is already overflowing with wounded people, many of whom are being treated on the floor.>
Displaced Palestinians fleeing to Nuseirat camp
As smoke and flames rise over al-Bureij refugee camp, hundreds of displaced Palestinians have fled from the camp to Nuseirat refugee camp or the city of Deir al-Balah. According to the local sources, Israeli airstrikes targeted five civilian buildings in al-Bureij refugee camp last night.>>
Source:
https://jinhaagency.com/en/actual/israeli-attacks-on-refugee-camps-in-gaza-kill-15-35170

France 24 - June 5, 2024
<<Live: Fighting rages on in Gaza as major powers push for ceasefire
Heavy fighting rocked Gaza on Tuesday after G7 and Arab powers urged both Israel and Hamas to agree to a truce and hostage-release deal outlined by US President Joe Biden. Meanwhile Slovenia became on Tuesday the latest EU nation to recognise Palestine as an independent state in a parliament vote.
Summary:
Heavy fighting rocked Gaza on Tuesday after G7 and Arab powers urged both Israel and Hamas to agree to a truce and hostage release deal outlined by US President Joe Biden. Mediator Qatar said it had yet to see statements from either side <that give us a lot of confidence>, but the foreign ministry said Doha was <working with both sides on proposals on the table>.
Slovenia recognised a Palestinian state on Tuesday after its parliament voted overwhelmingly in favor of the move, following in the recent steps of three other European countries.
US President Joe Biden swiped at Binyamin Netanyahu in an interview with Time magazine published Tuesday, saying there was <every reason> to conclude the Israeli prime minister was dragging out the Gaza war to save himself politically.
An independent group of experts warned Tuesday that it's possible that famine is underway in northern Gaza but that the war between Israel and Hamas and restrictions on humanitarian access have impeded the data collection to prove it. <It is possible, if not likely,> the group known as the Famine Early Warning Systems Network, or FEWS NET, said about famine in Gaza.
At least 36,550 Palestinians have been killed and 82,959 wounded in Israel's war in Gaza, according to the territory's Hamas-run health ministry. Some 1,170 people were killed in the Hamas-led October 7 attacks and 250 people were taken hostage, with about 120 remaining in Gaza, according to Israeli tallies. Many have been declared dead by Israeli authorities.
Gunman fires shots at US Embassy in Lebanon, army says A gunman fired shots at the US Embassy in Lebanon on Wednesday and was injured in an exchange of fire with the army. The army said the attacker, a Syrian national, was taken to hospital for treatment and that it was continuing to comb the area. The US Embassy said <small arms fire> was reported in the vicinity of its entrance at around 8:34 am local time, adding that its facility and team were safe. A security source told Reuters that a member of the embassy's security team was wounded in the attack, and that the Lebanese army wounded one of the attackers in the stomach and was combing through the area to find the other attackers. The embassy lies north of Beirut in a highly secured zone with multiple checkpoints along the route to the entrance. It moved there from Beirut following a suicide attack in 1983 which killed more than 60 people.
Blast at Israeli base injures nine soldiers
Nine Israeli soldiers were injured, two of them seriously, when ordnance exploded at a military base in the south, the army announced on Wednesday. <An explosion of munitions occurred on a military base in southern Israel. The incident is under investigation,> an army statement said of the Tuesday blast. It added that the injured soldiers were receiving treatment. Israeli media reported that the explosion took place at a base in the Negev Desert.
US House passes proposal sanctioning ICC after it sought Netanyahu arrest warrant
The US House of Representatives passed legislation Tuesday that would sanction the International Criminal Court (ICC) for requesting arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and other Israeli officials. The 247-155 vote amounts to Congress' first legislative rebuke of the war crimes court since its stunning decision last month to seek arrest warrants for the leaders of Israel and Hamas. The move was widely denounced in Washington, creating a rare moment of unity on Israel even as partisan divisions over the war with Hamas intensified. While the House bill was expected to pass Tuesday, it managed to attract only modest Democratic support, despite an outpouring of outrage at the court's decision, dulling its chances in the Senate. The White House opposes the legislation, calling it overreach.
US says still waiting for response from Hamas on ceasefire proposal
A response from Palestinian Islamist group Hamas on Israel's ceasefire proposal that US President Joe Biden revealed on Friday is still being awaited, White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan told reporters on Tuesday. <We are waiting for a response from Hamas> through the Qatari mediators, Sullivan said. CIA Director Bill Burns will be in Doha to consult with Qatari mediators on the Gaza ceasefire proposal, Sullivan added. A spokesman for Hamas, which has ruled Gaza since 2007, reiterated on Tuesday it could not agree to any deal unless Israel makes a <clear> commitment to a permanent truce and complete withdrawal from Gaza. For his part, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has also repeated that there can be no permanent peace unless Hamas is eradicated, as he struggles with profound political divisions at home over the US-backed truce proposal.
Columbia University and Jewish student agree on settlement that imposes more safety measures
Columbia University has agreed to take additional steps to make its students feel secure on campus under a settlement reached Tuesday with a Jewish student who had sought a court order requiring the Ivy League school provide safe access to the campus amid protests over the Israel-Hamas war. The law firm representing the plaintiff in the lawsuit, filed as a class action complaint, called the settlement a <first-of-its-kind agreement to protect Jewish students from extreme on-campus Gaza war protestors>. Under the agreement, Columbia must create a new point of contact - a Safe Passage Liaison -- for students worried for their safety. The liaison will handle student safety concerns and coordinate any student requests for escorts through an existing escort program, which must remain available 24/7 through at least December 31, according to the agreement. The settlement also makes academic accommodations for students who couldn't access campus to complete assignments or exams, among other provisions.
Board shuts down Columbia Law Review website after article criticising Israel is published
Student editors at the Columbia Law Review say they were pressured by the journal’s board of directors to halt publication of an academic article written by a Palestinian human rights lawyer that accuses Israel of committing genocide in Gaza and upholding an apartheid regime. When the editors refused the request and published the piece Monday morning, the board - made up of faculty and alumni from Columbia University's law school - shut down the law review's website entirely. It remained offline Tuesday evening, a static homepage informing visitors the domain <is under maintenance.> Several editors at the Columbia Law Review described the board's intervention as an unprecedented breach of editorial independence at the periodical, which is run by students at Columbia Law School. The board of directors oversees the nonprofit's finances but has historically played no role in selecting pieces.>>
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<<Israel wants 'endless' truce negotiations, Hamas says
Senior Hamas official Osama Hamdan accused Israel on Tuesday of prolonging truce negotiations and repeated the Palestinian militant group's position which rejects any deal that excludes a permanent ceasefire. The statement came as mediator Qatar said it was awaiting a <clear position> from Israel on a proposed Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal outlined by US President Joe Biden. Read our liveblog to see how all the day's events unfolded.
Summary:
Senior Hamas official Osama Hamdan accused Israel on Tuesday of prolonging truce negotiations and repeated the Palestinian militant group's position which rejects any deal that excludes a permanent ceasefire.
French President Emmanuel Macron called on Hamas on Tuesday to accept the ceasefire agreement put on the table by his US counterpart Joe Biden, saying that the Palestinian militant group bore a <crushing> responsibility.
Mediator Qatar said Tuesday it was waiting for a <clear position> from Israel on a proposed Gaza ceasefire and hostage-release deal outlined by US President Joe Biden. <We have yet to see a very clear position from the Israeli government towards the principles laid out by Biden,> foreign ministry spokesman Majed al-Ansari said, adding there had been no <concrete approval> from either side.
Israel believes that more than a third of the remaining Gaza hostages are dead, a government tally showed on Tuesday, as the United States sought to advance their recovery under a proposal to wind down the war with Hamas.
Israeli authorities were battling intense forest fires Tuesday in the north of the country that broke out shortly after rocket and drone strikes from neighbouring Lebanon, forcing the partial evacuation of one town.>>
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