Mediators urge Israel, Hamas to finalise truce Israel’s war on Gaza

Israel to finalise an agreement that embodies the principles outlined by US President Joe Biden on May 31, 2024.
The World Health Organization (WHO) says there are almost no health services remaining in Rafah after the city’s last partially functioning hospital, the al-Helal al-Emirati, shut down amid the ongoing hostilities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Qatar condemns Israeli plan to designate UNRWA as ‘terrorist organisation’
Qatar has condemned Israel’s move to designate the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) as a “terrorist organisation”, its Foreign Ministry said.

In a statement, the ministry called on the international community to stand firm in the face of Israel’s plans to “deprive” Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank of “its necessary services”.

Hezbollah moving forces further from border, changing attack tactics: Report
Hezbollah has dialled back the use of close-range precision missiles to target Israel, and is now using cheaper, less effective drones it can launch from further way, reports Israel’s Maariv newspaper, citing military sources.

The four drones fired this morning, two of which landed in Israeli territory, are of this variety, according to the Maariv report.

Hezbollah has made the shift partly to protect its elite Radwan Force, which can now operate 20-30kms (12-19 miles) from the border, reports Maariv.

During the Gaza war, Israel and Hezbollah have traded near daily, cross-border fire. The attacks have killed 499 people in Lebanon, including 318 Hezbollah members, according to Lebanese security sources.

Israel’s military offensive in the Gaza Strip has killed at least 36,439 Palestinians and wounded 82,627 since October 7, the Palestinian enclave’s health ministry said.

There have been 60 Palestinians killed and 220 injured in the past 24 hours, the ministry statement added.

Palestinians carry the body of a Gazan killed in an Israeli strike in the Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza on June 1
Palestinians carry the body of a person killed in an Israeli strike in the Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza on Saturday [Omar Al-Qatta/AFP]
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In Gaza, more children have been killed since the start of Israel’s war. Thousands more have witnessed their parents’ deaths.

Orphans are now cared for by friends or wider family members, who have to carry the extra responsibility.

Al Jazeera’s Tareq Abu Azzoum reports from Deir el-Balah on Gaza’s children bearing the brunt of the war.

The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) says it has found a second ambulance destroyed in northern Gaza’s Jabalia camp, after Israeli forces partially withdrew from the territory on Thursday.

Rescuers with PRCS attempting to reach killed and injured Palestinians have regularly faced threats and attacks from Israeli forces. Since October 7, the organisation says it has lost 30 of its staff members, including 17 killed while on the job.

In its weekly summary, the Israeli army said 1,858 trucks carrying humanitarian aid had entered the Gaza Strip via the Karem Abu Salem (Kerem Shalom) and Western Erez crossings.

The numbers included 764 Egyptian trucks, 312 flour trucks by the World Food Programme and 124 Jordanian trucks.

Thirteen tankers also carried “over half a million litres of fuel” into the besieged enclave.

Israel has arrested 8,985 Palestinians in West Bank since October 7
Israeli forces have arrested at least 10 people, including a minor and several former prisoners, in their latest round of raids throughout the occupied West Bank, reports the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society.

The arrests started last night in the governorates of Jenin, Hebron, Bethlehem and Nablus, according to the group.

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