Live: At least 75 killed in Israeli strikes on second day of Eid al-Adha

The UK and France will abandon previous plans to recognise a Palestinian state at an upcoming conference, according to diplomats.

France had been lobbying the UK and other European allies to recognise a Palestinian state at the conference in New York, due to be held between 17 and 20 June.

President Emmanuel Macron had described the move as “a moral duty and political requirement”, suggesting it could come in return for Saudi Arabia recognising Israel at the conference.

However, The Guardian has reported that French officials briefed their Israeli counterparts this week that the conference would not be the moment for recognition.

Instead, it will now focus on outlining steps towards recognition, contingent on a series of measures and concessions from the Palestinians.

Read more: UK and France abandon plans to recognise Palestinian state at conference

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Here are the day's key developments:

- On the first day of Eid al-Adha in Gaza, Israel killed 38 Palestinians since dawn, local officials in the strip confirmed by sundown. 

- Israel confirmed the deaths of four of its soldiers and the wounding of five others in a booby-trapped building in Khan Younis, in southern Gaza, on Friday.

- The Reuters news agency, citing its own unnamed sources, said the Trump administration is considering funding the scandal-plagued Gaza Humanitarian Foundation to the tune of $500m.

- French anti-terror prosecutors have opened probes into "complicity in genocide" and "incitement to genocide" after French-Israelis allegedly blocked aid intended for Gaza last year.

- The French foreign ministry on Friday called on Israel "to fully withdraw from Lebanese territory as quickly as possible", following a spate of air strikes it conducted on southern Beirut one day earlier, adding that it's the Lebanese military's job to fish out unauthorised military sites. 

- A new poll conducted by the The Israel Democracy Institute showed that 48 percent of Jewish Israelis do not believe that the continuing war on Gaza will bring back the captives held there. 

The US State Department is weighing giving $500 million to the new foundation providing aid to war-shattered Gaza, according to two knowledgeable sources and two former US officials, a move that would involve the US more deeply in a controversial aid effort that has been beset by violence and chaos.

The sources and former US officials, all of whom requested anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter, said that money for Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) would come from the US Agency for International Development (USAID), which is being folded into the US State Department.

The plan has met resistance from some US officials concerned with the deadly shootings of Palestinians near aid distribution sites and the competence of the GHF, the two sources said.

The GHF, which has been fiercely criticized by humanitarian organizations, including the United Nations, for an alleged lack of neutrality, began distributing aid last week amid warnings that most of Gaza's 2.3 million population is at risk of famine after an 11-week Israeli aid blockade

- Reporting by Reuters

The head of the World Health Organisation (WHO), Tedros Ghebreyesus, warned on Friday that Gaza's residents will lose all access to health services unless the last two hospitals that are still operational are saved. 

"Gaza's health system is collapsing, with Nasser Medical Complex - the most important referral hospital left - and Al-Amal Hospital at risk of becoming non-functional. Without them, people will lose access to health services," Ghebreyesus wrote on X. 

"These hospitals lie within or just outside the evacuation zone announced on 2 June. Israeli authorities have informed the Ministry of Health that access routes leading to both hospitals will be obstructed. As a result, safe access for new patients and staff will be difficult, if not impossible," he added.

"The hospitals going out of service would have dire consequences for patients in need of surgical care, intensive care, blood bank and transfusion services, cancer care, and dialysis. The relentless and systematic decimation of hospitals in Gaza has been going on for too long. It must end immediately."

Israel has sold a record amount of debt in the US since its war on Gaza erupted on 7 October 2023, according to a report by Bloomberg on Friday. 

The government of Israel’s US-based bond broker, Israel Bonds, says it has sold $5bn worth of debt in the last twenty months. The level of bond issuance is more than double that raised by Israel Bonds, in similar time periods previously.

Israel’s war on Gaza started after the 7 October 2023 Hamas-led attacks on southern Israel killed around 1,200 people. Israel responded by pummelling the Gaza Strip and invading it. More than 54,000 people, mainly women and children, have been killed in the Israeli attacks, and the population is facing "imminent famine", the United Nations says. 

Read more: Israel Bonds is affiliated with Israel’s finance ministry and sells bonds inside the US to both retail and institutional investors

A new poll conducted by the The Israel Democracy Institute showed that 48 percent of Jewish Israelis do not believe that the continuing war on Gaza will bring back the captives held there. 

Half of all Arab Israelis, who make up some 20 percent of the population, agree with that sentiment, the results showed. 

Half of Jewish Israelis also do not believe the war will defeat Hamas in Gaza. 

On the first day of Eid al-Adha in Gaza, Israel killed 38 Palestinians since dawn, local officials in the strip confirmed by sundown. 

The French foreign ministry on Friday called on Israel "to fully withdraw from Lebanese territory as quickly as possible", following a spate of air strikes it conducted on southern Beirut one day earlier. 

It added that the "dismantling of unauthorized military sites on Lebanese soil remains a priority for the Lebanese Armed Forces", suggesting that it is not a job for Israel.

The Israeli army had said it was targeting infrastructure used by Hezbollah.

"France condemns the Israeli airstrikes that hit Beirut on June 5. France calls on all the parties to abide by the ceasefire signed on November 26, 2024, in order to ensure the safety of civilian populations on both sides of the Blue Line," the ministry's statement said.

"France notes that the monitoring mechanism established by the ceasefire agreement is there to help the parties deal with threats and prevent any escalation that would undermine Lebanon and Israel's security and stability."

The US State Department announced sanctions on Thursday against four judges of the International Criminal Court (ICC), targeting them over investigations involving the United States and its ally Israel.

The move follows the designation of ICC chief prosecutor Karim Khan in February, under an executive order issued by US President Donald Trump shortly after he was reinaugurated.

The governments of the Netherlands, Belgium and Slovenia have been among the first to denounce the sanctions as an attempt to obstruct the work of the court. 

The sanctioned judges are: ICC Second Vice-President Reine Alapini-Gansou (Benin), Solomy Balungi Bossa (Uganda), Luz del Carmen Ibanez Carranza (Peru) and Beti Hohler (Slovenia).

Read more: Here are the profiles of the four judges sanctioned by the Trump administration on 5 June 2025

Israel has confirmed the deaths of four of its soldiers and the wounding of five others in a booby-trapped building in Khan Younis, in southern Gaza, on Friday.

Responding to reporters ' questions, Israeli army spokesperson Effie Defrin, cited by The Times of Israel, said: “Sometimes there’s no choice but to investigate a tunnel route."

“To do this, without being harmed by an explosive, we carry out a variety of methods. We will investigate this incident,” he added. 

This comes as the al-Quds Brigades - the military wing of Palestinian Islamic Jihad - said it ambushed multiple Israeli military vehicles also in Khan Younis on Friday, using barrel bombs and other explosives. 

French anti-terror prosecutors have opened probes into "complicity in genocide" and "incitement to genocide" after French-Israelis allegedly blocked aid intended for Gaza last year.

The two investigations, opened after legal complaints, were also to look into possible "complicity in crimes against humanity" between January and May 2024, the anti-terror prosecutor's office said on Friday.

They are the first known investigations in France to be looking into alleged violations of international law in Gaza, sources with knowledge of the cases told AFP.

In a separate case made public on the same day, the grandmother of two children with French nationality who were killed in an Israeli strike in Gaza has filed a legal complaint in Paris, accusing Israel of "genocide" and "murder", her lawyer said.

The French judiciary has jurisdiction when French citizens are involved in such cases.

The probes were opened after two separate legal complaints.

In the first, the Jewish French Union for Peace and a French-Palestinian victim filed a complaint in November targeting alleged French members of hardline pro-Israel groups "Israel is forever" and "Tzav-9".

It accused them of "physically" preventing the passage of trucks at border checkpoints controlled by the Israeli army.

Lawyers for the plaintiffs, Damia Taharraoui and Marion Lafouge, told AFP they were happy a probe had been launched into the events in January 2024 - "a time when no-one wanted to hear anything about genocide".

A source close to the case said prosecutors last month urged the investigation in relation to events at the Nitzana crossing point between Egypt and Israel, and the Kerem Shalom crossing from Israel into Gaza. 

At the time, far-right Israeli protesters - including friends and relatives of captives held in Gaza - blocked aid trucks from entering Gaza and forced them to turn back.

A second complaint from a group called the Lawyers for Justice in the Middle East accused members of "Israel is forever" of having blocked aid trucks.

It used photos, videos and public statements to back up its complaint.

In the separate case, Jacqueline Rivault, the grandmother of six- and nine-year-old children killed in an Israeli strike, filed her complaint accusing Israel of "genocide" and "murder" with the crimes against humanity section of the Court of Paris, lawyer Arie Alimi said.

Though formally against unnamed parties, the complaint explicitly targets Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli government and the military.

Reporting by AFP

Basem Farajallah speaks with his sister in Gaza every day. She is diabetic and surviving on scraps of bread. He has 80 family members still alive in Gaza - but 40 others have been killed in Israeli attacks since October 2023, including 25 who were wiped out in a single strike.

Farajallah emphasised that he is not alone. He is the co-founder of the UK Gaza Community, a group of some 350 British Palestinians with relatives in Gaza.

For the last 18 months, they have been forced to watch them disappear under the rubble of their homes under relentless Israeli bombardment. Now, they are watching them starve amid Israel’s ongoing blockade on the territory.

Since Israel's war on Gaza began in October 2023, the group has been fruitlessly pushing to bring their families to the UK, launching a petition that garnered over 100,000 signatures demanding the government create a Ukraine-style visa scheme to reunite them.

While UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has pronounced Israel’s blockade on Gaza “intolerable”, Farajallah said they have been “neglected” by the government, which has rejected their calls for the creation of the scheme.

“For us, its like torture,” Farajallah told Middle East Eye. “We are not talking about huge numbers, when we created our list of the family members we wanted to bring to the UK, it was less than 2000 people”.

Read more: British Palestinians demand UK action as Gaza relatives face starvation

The death toll from an Israeli strike that targeted Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip earlier on Friday has risen to 10, according to Wafa news agency.

An Israeli air strike targeted a house belonging to the Najjar family in Jabalia, killing at least 10 civilians and wounding several others.

Elsewhere, an Israeli drone targeted a charging point for mobile phones between tents sheltering displaced people to the west of Khan Younis, killing four Palestinians and injuring others.

Israeli air strikes rocked the southern suburbs of Lebanon's capital on Thursday night, on the eve of the Eid al-Adha holiday, marking the latest major violation of the November ceasefire agreement.

Lebanese news agency Ani said Beirut was hit by about 10 strikes, two of which were "very violent" and saw thousands fleeing their homes. 

The Israeli army said it had struck the southern suburbs targeting forces belonging to Hezbollah's "air unit".

About an hour before the strikes began, Avichay Adraee, the Arabic-speaking spokesman for the Israeli army, told residents to evacuate a radius of at least 300 meters around four buildings located in the Al-Hadath, Haret Hreik, and Bourj el-Barajneh neighbourhoods.

Lebanese President Joseph Aoun denounced the attacks as a "flagrant violation" of the ceasefire that ended a year of conflict last year.

Read more: Israeli jets bombard Beirut suburb on eve of Eid al-Adha