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Pro-Palestine activists threw rocks and sprayed red paint on 20 branches of the British bank Barclays over its ties to arms firms supplying Israel in its ongoing war on Gaza.
Protest group Palestine Action claimed responsibility for the targeting of the buildings on Monday, adding it worked in coordination with the climate group Shut the System.
In a statement, the group said it “aims to halt the Palestinian genocide by undermining suppliers of weapons to the Israeli military… along with financial companies involved with these weapons suppliers".
Palestine Action has previously targeted the Israeli arms manufacturer Elbit Systems in so-called direct action protests, which involve physical damage and occupation of British properties associated with the company.
The group says it has “adopted radical direct action tactics which include sabotage of key infrastructure to physically prevent continued support for destructive and lethal business operations".
READ MORE: UK: Pro-Palestine activists smash windows at Barclays branches over Israel arms links
Senior Hamas official, Sami Abu Zuhri, has hit back at the US Secretary of State Antony Blinken about his comments blaming Hamas for stalling the US-backed ceasefire proposal.
He told Reuters that the speech he made during a visit to Egypt is "an example of bias towards Israel" offering "American cover to the holocaust conducted by the occupation in Gaza".
More details are emerging from the Qassam Brigades' attack on Israeli forces in Rafah City.
Al Jazeera is reporting that the group detonated a booby-trapped house containing Israeli soldiers, managing to blow up the entire building. Numbers of casualties are still unknown.
Israeli helicopters started evacuating the injured to hospitals for treatment.
According to Al Jazeera, Israeli forces managed to throw smoke grenades in order to cover for evacuating the soldiers.
A survey by UN Women has revealed that 35 percent of offices belonging to women-led organisations in Gaza have been damaged by Israeli attacks since 7 October.
Despite this, over half of women-led organisations continue to operate in the enclave, providing life-saving assistance and relief through a large volunteer network.
“Despite all their suffering and deprivation, Palestinian women, and the organisations they lead, are… at the heart of the current humanitarian response,” said the UN organisation.
📢 Our new Gender Alert on #Gaza reveals the staggering challenges women-led organizations are facing.
— UN Women (@UN_Women) June 10, 2024
Yet their commitment to saving lives is UNWAVERING.
We call for urgent, coordinated investment in their operations on the ground.
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The US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said that Hamas is the only outlier in not accepting the US-backed ceasefire proposal, adding that Israel has agreed to the deal.
Blinken made the comments on the first leg of a Middle East tour beginning in Cairo, aimed at securing the ceasefire proposal.
Israel has not offered guarantees for a “permanent” ceasefire and a complete withdrawal from Gaza in its response to a plan presented by mediators, a copy of the proposal seen by Middle East Eye shows.
Israel instead agreed to a “temporary cessation of military operations” for 42 days, which would be followed by open-ended talks to reach a permanent ceasefire.
Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas has claimed an attack on Israeli forces in Rafah city, which they said has "killed and wounded" an unspecified number of soldiers in the Shaboura camp of Gaza’s Rafah city.
The group said in a statement on Telegram that they had detonated a booby-trapped house with Israeli forces inside.
"Immediately upon the arrival of the rescue force, our fighters fired mortar shells at the vicinity of the house that was blown up," it said.
The details of the joint US-Israeli military operation that killed and wounded almost 1,000 Palestinians in the Nuseirat refugee camp on Saturday hardly speak of the celebratory heroism or precision that western media headlines gushingly splayed on their front pages.
But in a dystopian world where the graphic killing of at least 50,000 men, women and children in the span of eight months hardly warrants batting an eyelid among the ruling echelons of the Global North’s ruled-based order, one could be forgiven for thinking that any mission that destroys hundreds of civilian lives while retrieving four captives is a cause for celebration.
Even worse is when the 274 Palestinians killed and 698 wounded in Nuseirat refugee camp massacre are deliberately erased from news coverage, or pithily acknowledged either as an afterthought in a headline or vaguely in a subheading.
The Sunday cover of the New York Times, a newspaper that has willingly destroyed its last vestiges of credibility to act as a blatant stenographer for Israeli propaganda, proudly displayed the headline "Israeli military frees 4 hostages in Gaza mission".
The front cover is accompanied by a smiling photo of a released Israeli captive (mentioned by name) and surrounded by triumphant soldiers. The Palestinians killed are relegated to a footnote.
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The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) has said that Israeli forces continue to seal off the Rafah crossing "amidst imminent acute levels of famine across the Gaza Strip."
In a post on X, the society said that this constitutes "collective punishment" of Palestinians in Gaza and "not only further exacerbates the humanitarian situation in the Strip, but also comes as a direct violation of the International Court of Justice’s May Order on Provisional Measures and international humanitarian law."
The Israeli Occupation continues to close off the #Rafah Crossing amidst imminent acute levels of famine across the Gaza Strip.
— PRCS (@PalestineRCS) June 10, 2024
📌 This enforcement of collective punishment on the Palestinian population in #Gaza not only further exacerbates the humanitarian situation in the… pic.twitter.com/8suRJK6dP1
Lebanon's Hezbollah group have said they attacked the headquarters of the Israeli army’s 146th Division east of Israel’s northern city of Nahariyya with a "swarm of drones.'
The group said in a statement on Telegram that Israeli forces were killed and wounded, and their settlements destroyed in the attack.
It added that the air strike was in response to Israel's attack on the Lebanese villages of Aitaroun and Markaba, in which two Hezbollah fighters were killed on Saturday.
At least eight Palestinians have been killed, and others wounded, in an Israeli air strike on a house near the European Hospital in the town of town of Al Fukhkhari, south of Gaza’s Khan Younis city, Al Jazeera is reporting citing local sources.
According to local sources, the targeted house belonged to the Kwarea family.
Video footage verified by Al Jazeera’s Sanad news agency revealed injured, including infants and young children being treated at the European hospital.
Over half of Gaza's buildings have been destroyed by Israeli forces since 7 October, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (Unrwa) has said, citing data from the United Nations Satellite Center (UNOSAT).
“The destruction in Gaza is indescribable,” the agency said in a post on X.
“Clearing the rubble will take years. Healing from the psychological trauma of this war will take even longer," it said.
“This suffering must come to an end."
The destruction in #Gaza is indescribable. More than half of all buildings have been destroyed, according to @UNOSAT.
— UNRWA (@UNRWA) June 10, 2024
Clearing the rubble will take years. Healing from the psychological trauma of this war will take even longer.
This suffering must come to an end. #CeasefireNow pic.twitter.com/cRQoYo8ZZQ
White House officials are reportedly considering striking a unilateral deal with Hamas to release five American captives in Gaza if Israel does not reach a hostage exchange deal with the group, NBC news is reporting, citing two current and two former US officials.
According to the officials, the deal would be facilitated by Qatari mediators and would exclude Israel.
According to the White House, five US captives are still in Gaza, as are the remains of three other American citizens killed on 7 October.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has arrived in Cairo for the first leg of a Middle East tour aimed at securing the US-backed ceasefire agreement that President Joe Biden outlined last month.
Blinken will travel to Israel where he'll meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli defence minister, Yoav Gallant and Benny Gantz, who has just resigned from the Israeli war cabinet.
Blinken will then travel to Amman to meet with Jordan’s King Abdullah II and then to Doha to meet Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani.
Ismail Haniyeh, the head of Hamas’s political bureau, said that the Israeli attack on the Nuseirat camp, which killed almost 300 Palestinians, was intended to block any ceasefire agreement.
Haniyeh told Al Jazeera Arabic that the US role in the attack made the Biden administration "no less criminal" than Israeli leaders.
He added that Benny Gantz and Gadi Eiskenot had resigned from the Israeli war cabinet in order to "jump off the boat...before it sinks," and showed that the Israeli political system is on the brink of "collapse".
Furthermore, he said that Gantz, who is perceived as a centrist alternative to Netanyahu, is no different from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
“Both are murderers seeking destruction,” he said.
At least six anti-tank missiles launched from Lebanon have struck settlements in the Upper Galilee region of northern Israel, Israel's Army Radio have reported.
According to the report, the missiles sparked fires and damaged a home in the northeastern kibbutz of Menara, but no casualties were reported.
Since 7 October, tensions have erupted along the Israeli-Lebanese border, with frequent exchanges of fire between Hezbollah and Israeli forces prompting tens of thousands to evacuate on both sides of the border.
