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Wafa news agency is reporting that three Palestinians have been killed in an Israeli attack on a tent housing displaced people in the Mawasi area of Khan Younis, in southern Gaza.

Protests have erupted across French cities demanding the release of the activists aboard the Gaza-bound aid ship currently detained by Israeli authorities.

Crowds gathered outside the Place de la Republique in Paris, while rallies were also held in Lyon, Nice and Lille.

In Paris, police clashed with protesters, with video footage showing demonstrators being dragged off the streets.

The French government has drawn fierce criticism from opposition parties and humanitarian organisations over what they describe as a muted response to the Israeli seizure of the Madleen.

The French Foreign Ministry has stated that it is following the situation closely and remains in contact with Israeli authorities.

Jean Luy Melenchon, leader of La France Insoumise, lauded the detained activists. “We salute the activists who, without hesitation, boarded a small boat, armed only with their convictions and courage," he said.

"France, constrained by its inability to speak out forcefully and publicly, must now do the only thing it can, to recognize the State of Palestine," he added.

Police clashed with protesters in Paris over Israel’s seizure of the Gaza aid boat, Madleen. People at mass rallies in Nice, Lille, and Greece's capital, Athens, also demanded the release of the activists. pic.twitter.com/EtjSLEjgKF

— Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) June 10, 2025

Swedish activist Greta Thunberg has arrived in Paris after she was deported from Israel. 

Thunberg was detained by Israeli forces along with 12 other activists aboard a Gaza-bound aid ship.

Israeli forces stormed the vessel in the early hours of Monday morning as it sailed in international waters towards Gaza, carrying a symbolic amount of aid toward the territory.

"We were kidnapped in international waters," Thunberg told reporters at her arrival in Paris.

The Freedom Flotilla Coalition, who coordinated the voyage, confirmed that four of the crew members have been deported, while the eight remaining activists continue to be detained after refusing to sign deportation papers.

Reporting by Reuters

Israeli military officials have said there are no restrictions on bombing homes in Gaza, days after a prominent right-wing TV channel claimed that the country's military advocate general prevented an air strike on a building - where four soldiers later died - due to the risk of killing Palestinian civilians.

On 6 June, four Israeli soldiers died after the building they entered in Khan Younis collapsed due to an explosive device.

The Israeli army is still probing the cause of the blast and has yet to determine whether the device was a booby-trap set up by Hamas or if it was unexploded Israeli ordinance.

But within hours of the deaths, Israel's Channel 14, a right-wing network favoured by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, claimed that Israel's military advocate general bore responsibility for the deaths.

The channel, which has repeatedly portrayed Palestinians in Gaza as "animals" who must be "exterminated", reported that the army had sent the soldiers into the building rather than target it with an air strike because Military Advocate General Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi had changed army protocol to prohibit striking the structure.

Read more: Israeli military officials say there are no restrictions on bombing Gaza homes

The UK will sanction far-right Israeli ministers Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich in response to their conduct over the war on Gaza, the Times is reporting.

In a significant break from Washington, London will join Canada, Australia, New Zealand and other nations  in imposing asset freezes and travel bans on Israel's National Security Minister Ben Gvir - a West Bank settler - and Finance Minister Smotrich.

The two have fiercely opposed the entry of international aid into Gaza and advocated for the forced expulsion of Palestinians from the territory, with Smotrich pledging last month that “Gaza will be entirely destroyed” and that Palestinians will “leave in great numbers to third countries”.

Meanwhile Ben Gvir has called for Israel to "encourage the voluntary emigration of the residents of Gaza".

The announcement comes after UK Foreign Secretery David Lammy branded Smotrich's comments regarding the forced expulsion of Palestinians from Gaza as "monstrous".

“We must call this what it is. It is extremism. It is dangerous. It is repellent. It is monstrous and I condemn it in the strongest possible terms.”

A grassroots land convoy travelling from the Tunisian capital to Gaza has crossed the Libyan border en route to the besieged Palestinian enclave.

Over a thousand activists from North African countries are participating in the convoy as a "symbolic act" to spotlight Israel's crippling siege on the territory.

The "Soumoud" convoy, meaning "steadfastness" in Arabic, set off from Tunis on Monday morning, spokesman Ghassen Henchiri told Tunisian radio station Mosaique FM. 

He said it includes 14 buses and around 100 other vehicles, carrying hundreds of people.

They plan to cross to Egypt by Thursday, and continue on to the city of Rafah near the Gaza border.

Organisers have said Egyptian authorities have not yet provided passage to enter the country, but Henchiri said the convoy received "reassuring" information.

This comes a day after Israeli forces intercepted the Gaza-bound, British-flagged aid ship, the Madleen, and detained its 12-strong crew, which included climate activist Greta Thunberg.

Two Lebanese citizens were killed on Tuesday in an Israeli drone strike on the outskirts of the town of Shebaa in southern Lebanon, according to the Wafa news agency.

Wafa said a man and his son were killed in the strike on the Jana'am area, while a second son was wounded.

Israel is handling the custody of all 12 members of the Madleen aid flotilla that was intercepted by Israel as though they had entered illegally, even though "they were forcibly abducted from international waters and brought into Israel against their will", according to a statement by Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC).

FFC confirmed the names of four crew members who have been deported as Baptiste Andre and Omar Faiad from France, Greta Thunberg from Sweden and Sergio Toribio from Spain. Each of the volunteers was given two options: sign documents consenting to deportation, or remain in detention and appear before a tribunal. 

"All of them explicitly disputed the claim of unlawful entry in writing, affirming that Israeli law does not apply to them, that their mission was humanitarian in nature, and that both the boat’s interception and their detention are illegal," a statement by FFC said.

Lawyers from the Adalah legal centre were able to meet with 10 of the 12 "abducted" the statement said, adding that two of the 12, Omar Faiad, a journalist with Al Jazeera, is represented separately through legal counsel arranged by the network and Yanis Mhamdi, a journalist from Blast Media in France, is represented by private counsel.

Legal counsel will argue that the interception was unlawful, the detentions arbitrary, and that the volunteers must be released without deportation, FFC said.

Rights groups have called for the UK's National Crime Agency to investigate Airbnb over alleged money laundering offences they say it may have committed by listing holiday properties in Israeli settlements in occupied Palestinian territories.

Airbnb, according to two legal organisations which have brought the complaint, may have violated laws that make it an offence to handle money and property knowingly derived from criminal acts through its more than 300 listings in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.

On Tuesday, the organisations - the UK-based Global Legal Action Network (Glan) and Palestinian human rights group Al-Haq - announced that they have filed a criminal complaint with the National Crime Agency over Airbnb’s UK subsidiary.

Airbnb is currently listed in the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights' database of businesses involved in activities in Israeli settlements in the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the occupied Syrian Golan Heights. 

The filed complaint, one of several coordinated efforts announced on Tuesday, comes after the International Court of Justice July 2024 ruling that Israel's occupation of Palestinian territory is illegal.

Read more: Rights groups accuse Airbnb over listings in illegal Israeli settlements

Local health officials say at least 52 Palestinians were killed by Israeli strikes on Gaza on Tuesday.

UN experts said in a report on Tuesday that Israel has committed the crime against humanity of "extermination" by killing civilians sheltering in schools and religious sites in Gaza, part of a "concerted campaign to obliterate Palestinian life".

"We are seeing more and more indications that Israel is carrying out a concerted campaign to obliterate Palestinian life in Gaza," former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay said in a statement.

"Israel's targeting of the educational, cultural and religious life of the Palestinian people will harm the present generations and generations to come, hindering their right to self-determination," she added.

In its latest report, the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, chaired by Pillay, said Israel had destroyed more than 90 percent of the school and university buildings and more than half of all religious and cultural sites in Gaza.

"Israeli forces committed war crimes, including directing attacks against civilians and wilful killing, in their attacks on educational facilities ... In killing civilians sheltering in schools and religious sites, Israeli security forces committed the crime against humanity of extermination," it said.

Ahmed al-Ghalban spent nine years training as a gymnast and refused to let 16 months of Israeli war and displacement erase that effort.

Even under bombing and constant expulsion orders, he and his twin brother, Muhammad, kept practising in their makeshift shelter in central Gaza, clinging to their dream of becoming coaches and representing Palestine on the international stage.

But three months after returning to northern Gaza earlier this year, Ghalban sat in a tent at the Islamic University - both legs gone, his twin brother dead, and his future shattered.

“I started gymnastics at seven,” Ghalban, now 16, told Middle East Eye. 

“Muhammad and I trained at a club and school. We progressed fast, started coaching beginners and even performed for foreign visitors. We were meant to perform in Egypt, but the war started before we could go.

Read more: ‘They severed my gymnast limbs’: Israeli bombing shatters Gaza teen’s dream

Israel killed three medical services staff and a journalist during strikes on the Tuffah neighbourhood in Gaza City, Palestinian media, including Shehab news agency, said on Monday.

The three rescuers were killed while working to save wounded people and recover dead bodies in the neighbourhood, Shehab said.

At least 36 people have been killed across the enclave since morning, according to Al Jazeera, citing medical sources.

Israeli gunfire killed at least 17 Palestinians and wounded dozens of others as thousands of displaced people approached an aid distribution site of the US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) in central Gaza on Tuesday, local health authorities said.

Medics said the casualties were rushed at two hospitals, the Al-Awda Hospital in Nuseirat camp in central Gaza, and the Al-Quds in Gaza City, in the north.

Last week, Israel warned Palestinians not to approach routes leading to GHF sites between 6pm and 6am local time, describing these roads as closed military zones. However, many Palestinians say they have to walk for hours to reach the sites, meaning they have to start travelling well before dawn if they are to stand any chance of receiving food.

"I went there at 2am hoping to get some food. On my way there, I saw people returning empty-handed. They said aid packages have run out in five minutes. This is insane and isn't enough," Mohammad Abu Amr, 40, a father of two, told Reuters.

Adalah, the legal centre representing those who were forcibly detained on the aid flotilla Madleen, says four members of the crew have left or are on their way to their home countries, while others remain in detention.

A statement by Adalah said the lawyers met with 11 of the 12 detained volunteers who were on board the flotilla. Israeli authorities allowed those who consented to deportation to fly out of Tel Aviv.

"The remaining eight are still detained and will contest their deportation before an Israeli tribunal," the statement said.

"These volunteers are expected to be brought before the Immigration Detention Review Tribunal this morning."

Adalah lawyers are currently en route to Givon Prison in Ramleh, where the volunteers are being held, to represent them at the hearings.