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Two Swedish nationals were arrested in the southern Hebron Hills area over the weekend, Israeli police said on Tuesday.

Their detention came after settlers had filed a report on the two, with police announcing that the tourists had been engaging in "anti-Israel" activities. 

According to the police, the two tourists violated a military order issued by the commander of the Israeli army's Central Command and now risk being deported.

Over 3,000 patients suffering from hypertension and diabetes in the Gaza Strip have not received critical treatment or medication for more than three months, the director of medical relief in northern Gaza said in an interview. 

Mohammad Abu Afsh indicated that the healthcare system in the besieged enclave is in a state of continuos collapse as more patients arrive at already overwhelmed hospitals with a severe lack of medical necessities. 

He stressed the imminent risk of vision loss for nearly 4,000 patients due to the compounded effects of their diabetes and high blood pressure, as well as the critical lack in necessary medication. 

The mayor of Chalon-sur-Saone, in west-central France, has announced that he was banning the Palestinian flag in the city, calling it a "rallying sign" following the urban "riots" that broke out after Paris Saint-Germain's (PSG) victory on Saturday night.

The Parisian football club's win in the Champions League final against Inter Milan was marred by unrest and violence in various cities across the country.

"Events of the most extreme gravity took place last night in our city," Mayor Gilles Platret wrote in a statement on Sunday.

"Individuals chose to seize the opportunity to create disorder on a political basis," he said, adding that "one of the riot leaders" was "conspicuously displaying a Palestinian flag as a rallying sign".

"The Palestinian flag has become the symbol of the rioters, the rallying sign of Islamist gangs determined to defy republican institutions," the mayor said.

Read more: French mayor bans Palestine flag and protests after PSG victory incidents

The US has warned Britain and France against recognising a Palestinian state at a UN conference later this month, Middle East Eye can reveal.

France and Saudi Arabia are set to co-host a major UN conference on the two-state solution beginning on 17 June in New York.

France is reportedly gearing up to unilaterally recognise a Palestinian state at the conference. MEE understands that France has been lobbying Britain to do so as well.

French officials believe the British government is onboard with the plan, according to French media.

But Washington privately begun to warn Britain and France against unilaterally recognising Palestine, sources with knowledge of the matter in the British Foreign Office told MEE.

At the same time Arab states are urging them to proceed with the move, sources said. 

Read more: US warns UK and France not to recognise Palestinian state

At least eight Palestinians have been killed and many others wounded, including some critically, after Israeli air strikes targeted a tent sheltering displaced people in central Gaza, according to Wafa news agency. 

The tent was located in a densely populated area of al-Rimal neighbourhood in Gaza City. 

In a separate attack, at least one Palestinian was killed after Israeli forces targeted a group of civilians in the al-Shaaf area in eastern Gaza City.

Israeli forces killed 27 Palestinians on Tuesday as they attempted to reach a US aid distribution site in Rafah, according to the Palestinian health ministry.

Crowds had gathered early in the al-Alam area, west of Rafah, seeking basic food supplies from the scandal-plagued Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), amid worsening, famine-like conditions in the Gaza Strip.

Israeli artillery and warplanes then targeted civilians, eyewitnesses told Wafa news agency.

The killings mark the latest in a string of Israeli attacks on Palestinians seeking aid at newly established GHF-run distribution points.

At least 102 Palestinians have been killed and over 490 wounded in similar attacks over the past eight days since the initiative's launch, according to the Gaza-based Government Media Office.

Read more: Israel kills 27 Palestinians in latest mass killing of aid seekers

Healthcare professionals across the UK are demanding immediate government action to stop Israel’s genocide in Gaza and ensure protection for the Palestinian people.

The call comes in an open letter organised by Health Workers 4 Palestine, a coalition of British clinicians, public health experts, researchers and frontline NHS staff advocating for “medical justice and accountability” in Palestine.

The letter, launched on the evening of 30 May, has already drawn more than 2,200 signatures — including over 300 NHS consultants, alongside GPs, professors, nurses, midwives and allied health professionals.

The group is urging the UK government to “immediately suspend all military and economic cooperation with Israel and impose a full arms embargo”.

They also demand the government “exert all political and diplomatic pressure” to secure “an immediate and permanent ceasefire”, and support unrestricted access for humanitarian aid — including backing for Unrwa and Palestinian-led organisations.

In the longer term, they are calling for the UK to “resource humanitarian, health and development programmes” — including offering treatment for Palestinian patients in UK hospitals and support for Palestinian students to study in Britain.

The UN human rights office has warned that blocking food and aid from reaching civilians in Gaza could amount to a war crime. It called the repeated attacks on people seeking assistance “unconscionable”.

“For a third day running, people were killed around an aid distribution site run by the 'Gaza Humanitarian Foundation',” said Jeremy Laurence, spokesperson for UN rights chief Volker Turk, during a briefing in Geneva.

At least 27 Palestinians were killed and many more wounded after Israeli forces opened fire near a food distribution point in Rafah, according to Gaza’s health ministry. The Israeli military claimed those shot had moved outside designated aid routes.

Tuesday’s deaths marked the third consecutive day of bloodshed at aid centres. The UN says 32 people were killed on 1 June, and three more on Monday.

Turk has demanded a “prompt, independent and impartial investigation” into the killings.

“Attacks directed against civilians constitute a grave breach of international law, and a war crime,” he said in a statement.

Israeli bulldozers stormed the unrecognised Bedouin village of Al-Araqib in the Negev once again on Tuesday morning, demolishing homes and tents for the 241st time since 2010.

Residents say the aim is clear: to break their resolve and force them off their ancestral land. This marks the seventh demolition in 2025 alone. In previous years, the village was razed 11 times in both 2024 and 2023, 15 times in 2022, and 14 times in 2021.

The Israeli authorities first destroyed Al-Araqib on 27 July 2010. The last raid occurred less than a month ago, on 7 May 2025.

While Al-Araqib remains a symbol of Bedouin resistance, it is not the only target. Israeli forces continue to carry out demolitions across Palestinian communities inside the 1948 territories, citing “lack of permits” — a claim widely criticised as a pretext to dispossess Palestinian citizens.
 

Gaza’s Health Ministry says Israeli attacks over the past 24 hours have left at least 40 Palestinians dead and 208 others wounded across the besieged enclave.

One more body was pulled from beneath the rubble following an earlier strike, the ministry added.

According to updated figures, the total number of Palestinians killed since Israel’s war on Gaza began on 7 October 2023 has now reached 54,510, with 124,901 reported injured.

Since Israel ended the truce in March, its forces have killed 4,240 Palestinians and wounded 12,860 more, the ministry said.

Awoman kneels in the dust.

She is thin, trembling - not old, but famine has aged her. Her bones protrude through a threadbare dress. Her face is ash. Her fingers claw at the ground. 

Around her, others bend too - not in prayer, but in desperation, scraping at the dirt for flour. Not even full grains. Just remnants. Scraps. Whatever the wind and boots and bombs have not yet claimed.

Then she breaks.

She sinks fully to the earth, as if the weight of hunger is too heavy to carry. And she cries, not softly, but with a violence that cuts through the silence of the ruined street: “My kids will eat flour scraped from the floor.”

Read more: War on Gaza: How Israel is replicating Nazi starvation tactics

The Palestinian Mujahideen Movement has condemned what it calls a “Zionist-American crime” following the killing of Palestinians attempting to collect aid in Gaza.

In a statement posted on Telegram, the group accused Israel and its US backers of carrying out a deliberate campaign of persecution, saying the attack reflects “a systematic policy of persecuting our people and practising the most heinous forms of oppression and injustice against them”.

The group also blasted what it described as international silence over Israel’s ongoing siege and starvation tactics in Gaza. It said global powers are complicit in “genocide and ethnic cleansing”, pointing to what it called the latest atrocity — “the heinous Zionist massacre of starving and besieged people as they were heading to receive aid in the al-Mawasi area of Rafah”.

The comments come as outrage grows over repeated Israeli attacks on civilians seeking food and water, with little international accountability.

Gaza’s Government Media Office has accused Israel of committing a "horrific and deliberate crime," saying that Israeli forces are baiting desperate Palestinians with promises of food only to gun them down.

The statement, released via Telegram, said Israel has killed at least 102 Palestinians and wounded nearly 500 others at so-called aid delivery points since the US-backed Gaza Aid Foundation began operating in the besieged enclave on 27 May.

"These so-called aid centres are placed in exposed, high-risk areas controlled by the occupation forces," the office said. "They have become death traps. Starving civilians are lured in by hunger and siege, then coldly targeted and shot."

Describing the shootings as calculated and part of a broader agenda, the office said the scenes reflect “the cruelty behind this operation and expose its real intent”.

It urged the United Nations, the Security Council, and global rights groups to act immediately by forcing open official border crossings - without Israeli oversight or conditions - to prevent further atrocities. 

Israel has issued fresh forced evacuation orders for parts of Khan Younis in southern Gaza, warning residents to leave immediately as its forces prepare to “operate with great force”.

The Palestinian health ministry has condemned the move, accusing Israeli forces of deliberately targeting the already collapsing health sector.

“Israel is deliberately undermining and stifling the health system through evacuations of areas housing hospitals and healthcare centres,” the ministry wrote on Telegram.

Officials say the evacuation orders threaten to shut down the Nasser Medical Complex - the only hospital in southern Gaza capable of providing specialised care.

“Dozens of patients and wounded are in intensive care, operating rooms, and emergency rooms, as well as children in nursery wards, facing certain death if the complex is out of service,” the ministry warned.