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Israeli forces have raided the occupied West Bank village of Arqa, west of Jenin, Wafa news agency is reporting, citing local sources.

According to reports, Israeli military vehicles entered the village and patrolled its streets. No injuries or arrests were reported.

Meanwhile, sources also confirmed that Israeli forces deployed reinforcements to the outskirts of Jenin refugee camp, with military vehicles reported in central Jenin.

The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations said in an advisory note on Wednesday that it was aware of increased tensions in the Middle East which could lead to an escalation of military activity having a direct impact on mariners.

UKMTO advised vessels to use caution when passing through the Gulf, the Gulf of Oman and Straits of Hormuz.

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At least seven Palestinians have been killed in an Israeli attack on Gaza City'ss Tuffah neighbourhood, Al Jazeera is reporting citing medical sources.

Over 60 Palestinians have been killed by Israel in attacks across Gaza since dawn.

Israel has killed at least 120 Palestinians and injured another 474 in attacks across Gaza in the last 24 hours, the enclave's health ministry has reported, adding that the bodies of three people were also recovered from the rubble.

It said that of that figure, 57 aid seekers were killed and over 363 injured by Israeli forces since dawn.

This brings the the total number of people killed at aid distribution centres to 224, with 1,858 others injured.

The total number of Palestinians killed since October 2023 has risen to at least 55,104, with another 10,000 misisng and presumed dead, according to the health ministry.

The armed wing of Hamas, the Qassam Brigades, said in a post on Telegram that its fighters killed an Israeli soldier near the town of Abasan al-Kabira, east of Khan Younis city.

The Israeli military has yet to comment.

Meanwhile, the armed wing of Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), al-Quds Brigades, said its fighters are engaged in "fierce clashes" with Israeli soldiers in Khan Younis. Earlier, the group claimed to have destroyed an Israeli military vehicle by "detonating a highly explosive barrel bomb".

This followed a statement by the Israeli military that it had killed a Palestinian fighter in the occupied West Bank, seemingly in reference to senior PIJ fighter Ra’iq Abdul Rahman Bisharat, who was killed during a raid in the town of Tammun.

At least 61 Palestinians, including 39 aid seekers, have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza since dawn, Al Jazeera is reporting, citing medical sources.

Gaza City's al-Shifa Hospital confirmed that it had received 27 bodies, while seven arrived al-Awda in Nuseirat, two at a-Aqsa in Deir al-Balah, and 25 at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis.

In a statement, Gaza's Government Media Office said that the Israeli military is “is deliberately creating chaos in the Gaza Strip by perpetuating a policy of starvation and deliberately targeting and killing starving people seeking food”.

“This has been achieved through direct, often intentional, and sometimes random, killings by quadcopters, helicopters, or tanks, targeting young men, elderly people, and children who rushed to obtain whatever food aid was available to feed their children and families,” it said.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemned the “arbitrary arrest” of journalist Omar Faiad, released under conditions by Israel, and called for the “immediate and unconditional” release of fellow Madleen flotilla journalist Yanis Mhamdi.

Al Jazeera journalist Faiad landed in France on 10 June after being held by Israeli authorities for over 24 hours after the aid ship was intercepted by the Israeli navy in international waters. Mhamdi, from the French news outlet Blast, remains in custody. 

To secure his release, Faiad said he had to sign a series of documents, including a ban on entering Israeli territory.

According to Blast, Mhamdi refused to sign the documents that included “an agreement to be deported, an acknowledgement of the illegality of the Madleen's humanitarian mission, and a commitment never to set foot on Israeli soil again.”

“These practices by the Israeli authorities are illegal and abusive,” Martin Roux, the head of the RSF crisis desk, said in a statement.

“We commend both journalists for their professionalism in covering the Madleen mission, and for their courage in trying to break the media blockade imposed by Israel on Gaza.”

Jean-Luc Melenchon, the leader of La France Insoumise (LFI) party, has condemned the "ineffectiveness and impotence" of the French government over its silence about the detention of French-Palestinian Member of European Parliament Rima Hassan and three other French citizens by Israeli forces.

Hassan was detained along with other members of the Madleen aid boat carrying international activists attempting to break the blockade of the Gaza Strip in the early hours of Monday.

"By attacking the LFI, Macron's minister effectively signalled support for Netanyahu, who is illegally detaining Rima Hassan and three members of the Madleen crew," Melenchon said on social media.

"Fifty hours of detention of a European MP have passed without action or condemnation from Europe," he added, saying that the vessel was intercepted 100 nautical miles off the Palestinian coast, in international waters.

Baptiste Andre, a French doctor who returned on Tuesday, described "acts of mistreatment", including "sleep deprivation" and "difficulty accessing water and food." Journalist Omar Faiad, also released, reported physical threats against Hassan during detention.

Melenchon called for the Israeli ambassador in Paris to be summoned "to explain himself", and said public mobilisation remained the only available pressure point as protests demanding the release of the Madleen crew continue in Paris.

An 11-year-old Palestinian boy who survived an Israeli air strike in Gaza last month, which killed his father and nine siblings, is due to arrive in Italy's Milan on Wednesday for treatment.

Adam al-Najjar and his mother, paediatrician Alaa al-Najjar, are due to take a plane carrying Palestinians in need of medical care to Milan in northern Italy on Wednesday evening alongside his aunt and four cousins, Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said.

Adam had a hand amputated and suffered severe burns across his body following the strike on the family house in the city of Khan Yunis on 23 May.

His mother was at work when the bomb hit the house, killing nine of her children and injuring Adam and his father, doctor Hamdi al-Najjar, who died last week. Najjar ran to the house to find her children charred beyond recognition.

"But when I remember it's too painful, so I try to keep my mind focused entirely on Adam," she said in an interview published on Wednesday ahead of their arrival.

Asked by his mother during the interview to describe his hopes, Adam said he wanted to "live in a beautiful place" where "there are no bombs... a beautiful place [where] my arm works again and my mother is not sad," according to La Repubblica.

Hamas has killed at least 50 members of a Palestinian gang in Gaza armed by Israel, according to a statement by the militia group.

The gang, which is helmed by Yasser Abu Shabab, a clan leader known for criminal activity, said in a press statement that Hamas killed “over 50 of our volunteers” while they “guarded aid convoys and redistributed supplies that were otherwise destined for corrupt entities linked to Hamas”.

The announcement comes amid Israeli news reports this week of Israeli soldiers intervening in clashes between Hamas fighters and members of the militia group in order to protect Abu Shabab.

Israeli news channel i24 reported that an Israeli drone strike targeted Hamas fighters while they were clashing with members of Abu Shabab’s militia, describing it as “the first Israeli strike on Gaza whose sole objective was to assist the Abu Shabab militia”.

Meanwhile, Israeli news outlet Ynet reported that Abu Shabab’s militia had killed six members of Hamas’ “Arrow” unit, which is responsible for targeting collaborators with Israel.

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We reported earlier that Israeli forces shot and killed a man during a raid in the town of Tammun in the occupied West Bank.

The Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) armed group has identified him as Ra’iq Abdul Rahman Bisharat and told Al Jazeera that he was one of its senior members “treacherously assassinated" by Israel.

In a statement, Hamas condemned the killing of Bisharat, a senior PIJ member previously jailed by Israel.

“As we mourn the martyred freed prisoner Ra’iq Abdul Rahman Bisharat […], we affirm that our people and their resistance will not rest until the occupation is expelled from our land and holy sites,” Al Jazeera reported Hamas as saying.

Hamas said that Israel’s war on Gaza and attacks in the occupied West Bank "compels us all to unite". 

The co-leader of Germany's The Greens party, Franziska Brantner, has called for Berlin to join other countries in imposing sanctions on Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir.

Speaking to DPA news agency, Brantner accused the ministers of "openly calling for violence against the Palestinian population and long having propagated a policy of annexation and displacement.

"This costs human lives, displaces entire communities and poses enormous hurdles on the path to a peace process," Brantner said.

A Palestinian man from the town of Tammun, south of Tubas in the occupied West Bank, was shot and killed by Israeli forces overnight, Wafa reported, citing local sources.

He was identified as Ra'iq Abdul Rahman Basharat and was reportedly killed after Israeli special forces entered the town, opened fire on him, and seized his body.

Sources added that Israeli forces obstructed the work of medical crews, preventing them from reaching the scene and transferring the body to the hospital.

The raid in Tamoun lasted several hours and involved house searches, detentions, and the arrest of two other young men, one of whom was injured.

Israeli military strikes killed at least 35 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, most of them at an aid site operated by the US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation in central Gaza, local health officials said.

Medical officials at Shifa and Al-Quds Hospitals said at least 25 people were killed as they approached the aid site near the former settlement of Netzarim, and dozens were wounded.

Ten other people were killed in other Israeli military strikes in Khan Younis in the south of the enclave, they added.

Israeli forces are forcibly displacing residents of Khillet al-Daba’, a village in Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron in the occupied West Bank, ahead of demolishing tents they had erected on the remains of previously destroyed homes, according to the Quds News Network.

This morning, dozens of Palestinians from the village of Khillet al-Daba' in Masafer Yatta region, south of Hebron, were forcibly displaced from their homes by the Israeli army ahead of demolishing tents that the residents erected on the ruins of previously destroyed structures. pic.twitter.com/WZCVnEwwGB

— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) June 11, 2025