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The armed wing of Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the Al-Quds Brigades, has said that captives will only be released following a withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gaza.
On Thursday, Hamas responded to the US-mediated ceasefire proposal with amendments including an end to the 17-year blockade on the enclave and the withdrawal of Israeli forces from the strip.
A German government spokesperson has declined to comment on reports of funding cuts targeting professors who supported pro-Palestine student demonstrations.
The funding cuts were reported by the public radio and television broadcaster NDR following an open letter in May on the Free University of Berlin’s response to protesters, which accused the university of exposing demonstrators to "police violence".
The death toll of Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in Gaza since 7 October has risen to at least 37,296 people, with another 85,197 wounded, according to Gaza's Health Ministry.
The ministry added that, of them, 30 were killed and another 95 wounded in the last 24 hours.
Palestine Civil Defence teams retrieved the bodies of nine Palestinians from under the rubble of buildings across Rafah, Wafa news agency reported, citing medical sources.
The European Hospital in Khan Younis reported that the bodies were unearthed from the rubble of houses destroyed by Israeli attacks across Rafah.
Israeli forces have detained five Palestinians following dawn raids across the occupied West Bank, Wafa news agency reported, citing security and local sources.
Two of the detainees were arrested by Israeli forces following raids of the town of Beita, south of Nablus.
Another was detained as Israeli forces stormed Jalazoun refugee camp, north of Ramallah, and another was arrested in the al-Masayef neighbourhood in Ramallah city.
Meanwhile, a Palestinian woman was detained by Israeli forces in Hebron.
Unicef spokesperson James Elder said that he witnessed Israeli forces shooting dead two Palestinian men who were fishing in shallow water.
Speaking to journalist Owen Jones, Elder described how he saw the men fishing while he was waiting at a checkpoint, when an Israeli tank drove up and opened fire on two of them as they tried to flee.
"One is shot in the back, one is shot in the neck," Elder said.
He added that he was with a paramedic, who radioed to Israeli officials asking for permission to treat the men, which was denied.
"One of these fishermen still had a fishing net trapped round his leg," he said.
Speaking to @OwenJones84, UNICEFs James Elder describes how, while he was waiting for hours at an Israeli checkpoint in Gaza, he watched several Palestinian men fishing, trying to get food for their families
— Saul Staniforth (@SaulStaniforth) June 15, 2024
Israeli soldiers shot & killed two of them on the beach in cold blood pic.twitter.com/emVwFTX6kC
The Israeli military has confirmed its drone attack on a motorcycle travelling between the southern Lebanese towns of towns of Bint Jbeil and Aitaroun.
The army said in a statement on Telegram that it had struck a "Hezbollah terrorist" in the area.
"Moreover, [Israeli army] artillery fired to remove a threat in the area of Aitaroun."
A UNICEF aid truck carrying nutritional and medical supplies for 10,000 children from Deir el-Balah to Gaza City was denied access by Israeli forces on Wednesday, UNICEF spokesperson James Elder told Al Jazeera.
“It took 13 hours and we spent eight of those around checkpoints, arguing around paperwork – was it a truck or a van,” he said. “The reality is, this truck was denied access. Those 10,000 children did not get that aid.”
“Israel as the occupying power has the legal responsibility to facilitate that aid.”
Footage circulated online and verified by Al Jazeera has revealed Israeli bulldozers demolishing evacuated homes west of Rafah, that were damaged in attacks by Israeli forces.
هذا ما يفعله الجيش الان في تل السلطان غرب رفح pic.twitter.com/jssUgr6lM5
— ترجمة الصحف Breaking News 🚨 (@galebsami) June 15, 2024
On 23 May, hundreds of far-right British nationalists and Israel supporters gathered outside the entrance of a small arthouse cinema in North London.
Brandishing Union Jacks, Israeli and Israeli military flags, they swarmed round a group of some 80 pro-Palestine activists who were staging a vigil on the far side of the road.
The vigil was part of a campaign to protest against the cinema’s hosting of a private screening of a documentary about the Hamas-led attacks on southern Israel on 7 October, as part of the Israeli-government sponsored film festival, Seret.
The vigil organisers had braced themselves for a backlash. The week before, another demonstration outside the Everyman Cinema in Hampstead had drawn a much smaller crowd of counter-protesters.
But the numbers outside the Phoenix Cinema in East Finchley had ballooned to close to 1,000, anti-fascist investigation group Red Flare estimated.
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A Doctors Without Borders (MSF) logistician trapped in Gaza has reported having to eat pigeon food in order to survive.
“After about four or five months, some food became available – canned food and a small amount of lentils and rice. But the prices are extremely high," he said in a video published by the NGO.
He added that there is no treatment available for his hypertension and diabetes, and that people are forced to use alternative herbal treatments instead of medication.
Eating pigeon food.
— MSF International (@MSF) June 15, 2024
No diabetes medicines.
Still treating people for burns and trauma.
Some of our staff, trapped in #Gaza City since the start of the war, describe what life has been like over the last few months and how they have been treating patients in a pop-up clinic. pic.twitter.com/MeTtlxg4fN
An Israeli drone strike has targeted a motorcycle between the southern towns of Bint Jbeil and Aitaroun in southern Lebanon, Lebanese media is reporting.
Casualties are currently unknown.
Tensions between Hezbollah and Israeli forces have escalated in the last few days, after the latter’s assassination of Taleb Abdullah, the most senior Hezbollah commander killed since 8 October.
At least 19 Palestinians, including a baby, have been killed and 50 others wounded in Israeli air strikes targeting homes near Gaza City, Wafa news agency is reporting.
The Palestinian Civil Defence teams have recovered the bodies of five people, including a baby, from the rubble of two homes belonging to the Al-Jamasi and Al-Ramlawi families in the al-Shaaf area in the al-Shujaiya neighborhood, east of Gaza City, according to Wafa.
Rescue teams are still working to look for the injured under the rubble.
Israeli forces have killed at least 547 Palestinians, and injured another 5,200, including 800 children, in the occupied Palestinian territories since 7 October, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has said.
WHO said in a statement that the casualties are adding "to the growing burden of trauma and emergency care at already strained health facilities".
"As of 28 May, WHO has documented 480 attacks on health care in the West Bank since 7 October 2023, resulting in 16 deaths and 95 injuries. The attacks affected 54 health facilities, 20 mobile clinics and 319 ambulances," it added.
"The closure of checkpoints, arbitrary obstructions, and detentions of health workers, rising insecurity, as well as the siege and closure of entire towns and communities has made movement within the West Bank increasingly restricted, impeding access to health facilities. Extensive infrastructure and housing damage, particularly in the northern West Bank, have compounded the situation by obstructing access for ambulances and first-aid responders."
Israeli police arrested five protesters who staged a demonstration outside Prime Minister Netanyahu's residence in Israel's coastal town of Caesarea, Israeli media is reporting.
The Israel Broadcasting Corporation published footage of the demonstration, which was protesting against Netanyahu's policies and the stalling of a hostage deal with Hamas.
The protesters were arrested for causing "unreasonable noise", according to the report.
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