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Israel on Tuesday said Swedish campaigner Greta Thunberg was leaving the country on a flight to France, after she was detained along with the other crew members of the Gaza-bound aid boat Madleen and taken to a Tel Aviv airport for deportation.

"Greta Thunberg is departing Israel on a flight to France," Israel's foreign ministry said on its official X account, along with two photos of the activist on board a plane. 

Turkish Foreign Ministry sources said that Turkish diplomats met with two Turkish citizens from the Madleen aid flotilla this morning.

The sources added that Turkey is providing consular services to its citizens and informing their relatives of their current condition.

US President Donald Trump should tell Israel's leader Benjamin Netanyahu "enough is enough", a former Israeli prime minister told AFP, denouncing the continuation of the war on Gaza as a "crime" and insisting a two-state solution is the only way to end the conflict.

Ehud Olmert, prime minister between 2006-2009, said in an interview in Paris that the United States has more influence on the Israeli government "than all the other powers put together" and that Trump can "make a difference".

He said while the international community accepted Israel's right to self-defence after 7 October, this changed when Netanyahu spurned chances to end the war in March and instead ramped up operations. 

"If there is a war which is not going to save hostages, which cannot really eradicate more of what they did already against Hamas and if, as a result of this, soldiers are getting killed, hostages maybe get killed and innocent Palestinians are killed, then to my mind this is a crime," said Olmert. 

"And this is something that should be condemned and not accepted," he said.

The Al-Amal Hospital in Gaza, one of the few still operating in the Palestinian territory, is now "virtually out of service" due to intense military activity, the head of the WHO said Monday.

"Access to the hospital is obstructed, preventing new patients from reaching care, and leading to more preventable deaths," the World Health Organization's director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus posted on X.

Tedros said two emergency medical teams - one local, the other international - "are still doing their best to serve the remaining patients with the limited medical supplies left on the premises."

"With the closure of Al-Amal, Nasser Medical Complex is now the only remaining hospital with an intensive care unit in Khan Younis," he said.

Al-Amal Hospital in Khan Younis, #Gaza, is now essentially out of service due to increasing hostilities in its vicinity.

Access to the hospital is obstructed, preventing new patients from reaching care, and leading to more preventable deaths. The hospital still has patients who… pic.twitter.com/21VwZq4wtK

— Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (@DrTedros) June 9, 2025

Good morning Middle East Eye readers, 

Here are the latest updates from Israel's war on Gaza:

• The Israeli Foreign Ministry said the 10 activists and two journalists detained from the Madleen aid ship have “arrived at Ben Gurion Airport to depart from Israel and return to their home countries.” Adalah, the legal centre representing the crew, said they “are expected to face hearings before their deportation to their home countries.”

• Israeli forces have launched attacks on the port city of Hodeidah in Yemen, the Houthi-affiliated Al Masirah TV reported.

• Hind Rajab Foundation has filed a war crimes complaint in the UK over the Israeli naval raid on the British-flagged Madleen yesterday.

• Israeli attacks killed at least 16 and wounded 92 aid seekers at a GHF site in central Gaza and southern Rafah, Al Jazeera reported, citing a medical source.

• The death toll from Israeli attacks on journalists in Gaza rises to 227 after another journalist, Moamen Mohammed Abu al-Auf, was killed by an Israeli attack, according to the Government Media Office in Gaza.

The Israeli military is continuing the large-scale demolition of residential buildings in the Tulkarm refugee camp for the fourth day running, reported Wafa news agency on Monday.

Israeli bulldozers intensified the demolition of dozens of residential buildings in the neighborhoods of Al-Balawneh and Al-Okasha in the camp in Tulkarm city in the northwest of the West Bank. Tulkarm camp is one of the most densely populated refugee camps in the West Bank.  

The demolitions are part of a plan targeting 106 buildings in both the Tulkarm and Nour Shams refugee camps — 58 of which are located in Tulkarm. These structures include more than 250 residential units and numerous commercial establishments.

Wafa also reported that large numbers of Israeli military personnel have been deployed in the targeted neighborhoods preventing residents from returning to their homes or retrieving personal belongings, and also reported soldiers have been firing at anyone approaching the area.

In Nour Shams camp, demolitions over the past few days have already resulted in the destruction of more than 20 buildings. Nour Shams camp is located a few kilometres from Tulkarm city.

The demolitions have impacted more than 5,000 families and more than 25,000 individuals from both camps. At least 400 homes have been destroyed, and another 2,573 have been partially damaged.

The Israeli military claims the demolitions are part of an effort to widen roads and reshape the refugee camps — assertions widely rejected by Palestinian officials and human rights groups.

A young girl has died from starvation and dehydration in the city of Khan Younis in southern Gaza, reported Wafa news agency on Monday.

Staff at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis said the child died from severe malnutrition - caused by the ongoing Israeli blockade of humanitarian aid, food, and water.

Medical staff warned that thousands of children across Gaza are suffering from malnutrition and dehydration due to a lack of access to water and food after nearly 100 days of Israel preventing food, clean water, medical supplies, and fuel from entering the besieged strip.

Bassam Zaqqout, director of the non-governmental organisation Palestinian Medical Relief Society, described the situation as catastrophic, declaring: “Gaza has become a place of death. The famine rate has reached 100 percent”

Israel has been accused of using food as a weapon of war by human rights organisations.

Hamas released a statement accusing Israel of running an organised crime ring by luring in hungry civilians and then opening fire on them, according to Al Jazeera Arabic on Monday. 

They also said aid distribution centres had been turned into "death traps" managed by security and military forces.

The Israeli military has taken a boat carrying humanitarian aid to a port in Israel after intercepting it in international waters near the Egyptian coast around early on Monday. 

The boat was carrying a civilian crew, including climate and political activist Greta Thunberg and a member of the European Parliament, Rima Hassan.

Israel called the mission a "media provocation whose sole purpose was to gain publicity" and said the crew members were being taken to Israel where they would be deported.

The boat - called the Madleen after a fisherwoman from Gaza - was taken to the Port of Ashdod, 40km south of Israel.

The leader of the left-leaning Le France Insoumise party, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, said the siege on Gaza must be lifted, reported Al Jazeera Arabic on Monday.

Melenchon also said France must immediately recognise a Palestinian state to thwart Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu's war on Gaza. He added that the French government allows Netanyahu to do whatever he wants, and he [Melenchin] refuses to bow down to him.

He also said that Israel had committed piracy on Monday morning in international waters by detaining everybody on board a ship carrying humanitarian aid. He commended the bravery of the crew on board, which includes climate and political activist Greta Thunberg and a member of the European Parliament, Rima Hassan. 

People have been protesting outside the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office in London on Monday to demand that the government secure the release of all 12 unarmed crew members on board a boat with humanitarian aid bound for the Gaza Strip. 

The crew, including Swedish climate and political activist Greta Thunberg, were in international waters at the time the boat - named the Madleen after the first fisherwoman in Gaza - was stormed by Israelis in the early hours of Monday morning. 

Protestors are arguing that the raid was illegal as the boat was sailing in international waters and that, under international maritime law, the UK has full jurisdiction over the vessel and a legal duty to protect the crew as the boat is British-flagged.

At least seven Palestinian civilians have been killed and several others injured on Monday when an Israeli drone strike targeted a tent sheltering displaced people west of Khan Younis, according to a report by Wafa news agency.

The tent was in the Al-Mawasi area, west of Khan Younis, which has been designated as a "safe zone" for Palestinians displaced by Israel.

Al-Mawasi is a 10-mile strip of farmland that stretches along the Mediterranean coast, with dunes and a beach close to the sea. It was first designated as a “safe zone” by the Israeli military in early December.

Wafa also reported that Israeli attacks have killed at least 51 Palestinians on Monday.

A land convoy of around 1,000 people left Tunisia on Monday and is on its way to Gaza to "break the siege", according to activists.

Organisers said the nine-bus convoy was aimed at symbolically breaking the Israeli blockade on Gaza.

The "Soumoud" convoy, meaning "steadfastness" in Arabic, includes doctors and aims to arrive in Rafah, in southern Gaza, in around a week.

The convoy will travel through Libya and Egypt, although Egypt has yet to provide necessary permits.

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Social media reports show people in Berlin, Germany, are protesting against Israel's interception of the Freedom Flotilla and preventing activists on board from delivering humanitarian aid to Gaza. Amnesty International is calling Israel's interception of the flotilla illegal due to international agreements on aid delivery. 

Israel intercepted the Gaza-bound ship called Madleen in the early hours of Monday.

Israeli planes and artillery are striking Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, according to eyewitness reports.

The artillery shelling and air strikes began on Monday early evening, local time, and follow Israel's bombardment on other areas north of Khan Younis.