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DE ISRAELISCHE MEGA-MISDRIJVEN TEGEN

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JEGENS DE PALESTIJNEN !

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15 juni 2025

Hind Rajab Foundation Files UK Complaint Against Israeli Elite UnitShayetet 13 Over Raid on Freedom Flotilla Vessel Madleen  

The Hind Rajab Foundation has filed a war crimes complaint in the UK over the Israeli navy's assault on the British aid ship Madleen.

Elite Shayetet 13 commandos, under Vice Admiral David Saar Salama, raided the vessel in international waters.

Twelve unarmed civilians, including Greta Thunberg and MEP Rima Hassan, were forcibly abducted and detained.

Chemical agents were used, humanitarian aid was seized, and activists were denied legal and consular rights.

The complaint cites grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions, UK law, and binding ICJ orders.

The Foundation demands the UK act urgently to free the abductees and investigate the war crimes.

This case challenges Israeli impunity and tests Britain's commitment to international law.

 

Read the full press release below.

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​Brussels / London, 9 June 2025 — The Hind Rajab Foundation has formally filed a war crimes complaint with the Metropolitan Police War Crimes Unit (Counter Terrorism Command, SO15) concerning the Israeli naval raid on the British-flagged humanitarian vessel Madleen, which took place in international waters on 8–9 June 2025. The complaint targets the Shayetet 13 unit that executed the attack and Vice Admiral David Saar Salama who is the commander in chief of the Israeli Navy.

 

​The Madleen, sailing as part of the Freedom Flotilla Coalition, was carrying medical supplies, food, and baby formula to civilians in Gaza. The ship, legally considered an extension of UK territory, was over 60 nautical miles off the coast when it was intercepted and boarded by Israel's elite Shayetet 13 naval commandos. Shayetet 13 operates under the Israeli Navy, commanded by Vice Admiral David Saar Salama, and is known for its maritime interdiction operations.

The Hind Rajab Foundation strongly calls on the United Kingdom to fulfil its legal responsibilities and immediately intervene to secure the unconditional release of the abducted activists who remain unlawfully detained in Israel. Their freedom is a matter of urgent humanitarian and legal concern.

 

Criminal Complaint Filed Under UK and International Law

 

The complaint, filed under the Geneva Conventions Act 1957, the International Criminal Court Act 2001, and Section 134 of the Criminal Justice Act 1988 (on torture), accuses Israeli forces of grave breaches of international humanitarian law, war crimes, and violations of UK jurisdiction.

Key allegations include:

The unlawful use of chemical irritants from drones;

Forcible detention and incommunicado confinement of 12 unarmed civilians;

Denial of legal and consular access;

Confiscation of humanitarian aid and personal belongings;

Degrading and inhuman treatment.

Among the passengers were high-profile activists and humanitarians, including Greta Thunberg and MEP Rima Hassan. Eyewitnesses report that passengers were physically assaulted, exposed to choking white substances sprayed from drones, and denied communication with the outside world.

 

Parallels to the 2010 Mavi Marmara Incident

 

The filing draws clear legal parallels to the 2010 Mavi Marmara raid, referencing the UN Human Rights Council report (A/HRC/15/21) that found Israel's conduct during that operation unlawful. The same legal framework applies to the Madleen: unlawful military action in international waters, against a civilian ship conducting humanitarian operations, resulting in arbitrary detention, confiscation of property, and interference with humanitarian relief.

 

Violation of Binding ICJ Orders and Maritime Law

 

The complaint underscores that the Madleen was operating in compliance with three binding International Court of Justice orders (January, March and May 2024) requiring unimpeded humanitarian access to Gaza. Israel's blockade enforcement against the ship violates:

Article 23 of the Fourth Geneva Convention;

Rules 55 and 56 of the ICRC Customary IHL;

Article 92 of UNCLOS on exclusive flag state jurisdiction;

And peremptory norms (jus cogens) of international law.

Legal Basis for UK Jurisdiction

As a UK-flagged vessel, the Madleen is under British criminal jurisdiction even outside territorial waters. Crimes committed aboard the vessel are deemed to have occurred on British territory. The UK has an international legal obligation to investigate grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions, torture, and war crimes, particularly when they occur within its legal jurisdiction.

 

Hind Rajab Foundation's Call for Action

 

The Foundation has requested that UK authorities:

Open a criminal investigation against the Israeli naval and political officials responsible;

Interview and collect testimony from the Madleen passengers;

Refer the case to the CPS for legal action and arrest warrants;

Monitor suspects who may enter UK territory;

Coordinate with Interpol, the ICC, and relevant UN Special Rapporteurs.

 

Next Steps

 

The Hind Rajab Foundation is currently compiling supporting documentation, including passenger testimonies, media coverage, video evidence, and expert legal analyses. These will be submitted to support the UK investigation.

This filing is part of the Foundation's broader mission to end impunity for war crimes and uphold international law, especially in the context of the ongoing siege of Gaza. The Madleen case marks a watershed moment in holding perpetrators accountable for attacks on humanitarian missions.

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14 juni 2025

Wij trekken opnieuw de rode lijn!

Zien we jou morgen ook op het Malieveld?

Sami Simreen zal vanaf het podium de kernboodschap van BDS verwoorden: de oproep van de Palestijnen aan de wereld tot boycot, desinvesteren en sancties.

Het team van Albert Heijn ApartheidVrij staat klaar om met zoveel mogelijk mensen in gesprek te gaan over deze BDS-campagne. Wil je aansluiten? Wil je zelf een lokale groep starten? Ga dan met ze in gesprek!

De artsen van Artsen voor Gaza kunnen je alles vertellen over de medeplichtigheid van het Israëlische farmaceutisch bedrijf TEVA.

Meer weten over onze campagnes tegen Booking.com of EBS? Over de ApartheidVrije Zones? Culturele boycot? Sportboycot? Wat jij kunt doen? Je kunt ons onder andere herkennen aan de vlaggen met het BDS logo.

Tot morgen. Free Palestine!

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14 juni 2025

Today's headlines

Israel continues to claim victimhood, even as it slaughters children in Iran

We are told, again and again, that Israel is defending itself. But it is only defending its right to act with impunity throughout the Middle East to maintain its supremacy. Israel's attack on Iran is just the latest example.

Trump, lawmakers, and Israel lobby all celebrate Israel’s attack on Iran

Donald Trump called Israel's attack on Iran "excellent" and warned there is "more to come" as Israel lobby groups and U.S. lawmakers threatened further bombings and escalation in the region.

How Israel and the U.S. manufactured a fake crisis with Iran that could lead to all-out war

The long-dreaded war in the Persian Gulf between a U.S.-backed Israel and Iran appears imminent, and it is all based on a manufactured crisis aimed at undermining the Iran nuclear negotiations.

Israel launches unprecedented attack on Iran days before U.S.-Iran nuclear negotiations

Qassam Muaddi

The Israeli army launched a series of wide-ranging overnight strikes on Iran, targeting nuclear facilities, top military leaders, and nuclear scientists. Israel says these attacks are just the beginning.

Palestinians call U.S.-run aid sites in Gaza ‘death traps.’ They still go because there’s no alternative.

Tareq S. Hajjaj

Palestinians refer to the locations where the U.S.-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation is distributing aid as "massacre sites” and “death traps" due to near-daily killings. But they are forced to visit because there is no other way to get food.

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13 juni 2025

Israel Is Dragging The United States Into Another War: Demand President Trump Stop The Needless Acts of War NOW

Israel has unleashed a catastrophic assault on Iranian cities, deliberately targeting residential neighborhoods and civilian areas with U.S.-supplied weapons. Iranian health officials report at least 78 civilians killed, including children, with 329 injured, as American-made bombs are devastating apartment complexes and homes across Tehran. This is not a military operation; instead, it is an attack on civilian areas executed with full U.S. knowledge and support. In response, President Trump called these attacks on residential areas “excellent” and promised that there was “more to come.” Meanwhile, a U.S. source confirmed America provided “exquisite intelligence” to enable this incredible act of regional aggression. President Trump cannot deny involvement, as earlier this year, his Administration bypassed Congress to rush $4 billion in emergency weapons to Israel, including the same 2,000-pound bombs that obliterated entire neighborhoods in Gaza.

TAKE ACTION: DEMAND Congress Exercise Constitutional War Powers to STOP Trump and Israel’s Illegal War

Only Congress has the power to authorize acts of war. Yet, like President Biden, Trump has shredded this fundamental principle, implicating the United States in military action against Iran without consulting Congress. President Trump is continuing to publicly endorse continued attacks and commits America to Israel’s defense “if needed,” committing our military to a conflict that Congress never approved. This is precisely the unchecked executive war-making our Founders sought to prevent, yet Trump acts as if the Constitution doesn't exist, risking American lives for Israel's expansion while lying to the American people about his commitment to peace.

For 18 months, we watched in horror as U.S. weapons have been used, and continue to be, to commit genocide in Gaza. American weapons have been used to bomb hospitals, homes, and schools in Gaza—now they’re being used to do the same in Iran. Experts have argued that Israel’s genocidal violence would not be limited to Gaza, and now we’re seeing that prediction come true. Across the region once again with U.S. weapons, enabled by an administration circumventing Congress in order to prioritize a foreign nation over American interests, Israel is bombing Iran. 

The IAEA, the international agency charged with inspecting nuclear weapons and technology, has warned that Israel’s strikes on nuclear facilities risk catastrophic regional contamination. Iran has already launched 100 drones in retaliation. If those drones hit American bases, if our soldiers die, and gas prices soar and our national security is compromised, that blood will stain the hands of every official who failed to stop this illegal aggression.

 

In solidarity,
Americans for Justice in Palestine Action

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Today's headlines

Joining forces: Time for Jews to unite in the struggle against Zionism, apartheid and genocide

The First Jewish Anti-Zionist Congress will take place from June 13 to 15 in Vienna, Austria, with the aim of amplifying Jewish voices against Zionism and assisting the global movement for justice and liberation in Palestine.

Israel just changed how land ownership works in the West Bank. Here’s what that means.

Qassam Muaddi

The Israeli government has effectively legalized the annexation of over 60% of the West Bank, but no one’s talking about it.

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Aanstaande zondag trekt Nederland in Den Haag opnieuw een rode lijn tegen de genocide in Gaza en tegen de medeplichtigheid van de Nederlandse regering. Maar daar stopt de rode lijn niet. Wereldwijd worden er momenteel demonstraties voor Palestina georganiseerd, in navolging van onze Rode Lijn-demonstratie op 18 mei.

Wereldwijd Rode Lijnen
Zo kwamen duizenden mensen in steden als Londen en Rome afgelopen week bijeen om een einde te eisen aan het geweld tegen de Palestijnen in Gaza. Dit weekend worden er, net als in Den Haag, Rode Lijn-demonstraties georganiseerd in Antwerpen en Brussel: ‘Tegen genocide. Tegen etnische zuivering. Tegen honger als wapen en moord als beleid. Tegen het doden van kinderen, het platbombarderen van wijken, het breken van een volk. Tegen de schaamteloze straffeloosheid.' Na het weekend volgen er ook nog demonstraties in Zweden (17 juni) en Denemarken (18 juni).

Demonstranten vormen een rode lijn rondom het Britse Lagerhuis, en eisen een einde aan de medeplichtigheid van het Verenigd Koninkrijk aan de genocide in Gaza. [c] Akira Suemori / Alamy Stock Photo

Egypte
De meeste gedurfde actie vindt op dit moment plaats in Egypte, waar duizenden mensen van over de hele wereld naartoe reizen om deel te nemen aan een protestmars richting de grens met Gaza. Ook vanuit Nederland zijn er zo’n honderd mensen naar Caïro afgereisd. Door Libië trekt een stoet van duizenden Algerijnen en Tunesiërs richting Egypte. Of zij de grens over komen, is zeer twijfelachtig.

Het is namelijk al duidelijk dat Egypte de protestmars – met geweld – gaat dwarsbomen. Een Nederlandse delegatie werd donderdagochtend tegengehouden op het vliegveld in Caïro en op een vlucht naar Istanbul gezet.

Los van de tegenwerking in Egypte is het signaal duidelijk. Steeds meer mensen wereldwijd willen dat er maatregelen komen om de Israëlische vernietigingscampagne van Gaza te stoppen. Ze trekken een rode lijn.

Ook wij doen dat, aanstaande zondag op het Malieveld in Den Haag.
Tegen de genocide in Gaza, tegen de medeplichtigheid van Nederland, en voor rechtvaardigheid voor de Palestijnen.

Ben jij er ook weer bij? 

Nee, ik ben er niet bij. Het  rooie lijnen-gelul stelt niks voor, anders dan één grote NUL. Sancties jegens Israel, die moeten er komen! Maar die worden, met dat rooie lijnen-gepraat, zorgvuldig en expres vermeden.

Praktische informatie
 Wanneer: zondag 15 juni, vanaf 13:00
 Start: Den Haag, Malieveld. Bekijk hier de route van de demonstratie. Klik hier om een kaartje te bekijken met de looproute van station Den Haag Centraal naar het Malieveld, en hier voor een plattegrond van het Malieveld inclusief toiletten en EHBO- en waterpunten.
 Kleding: Trek rode kleding aan om de rode lijn zichtbaar en krachtig te maken

Tussen 13.00 en 14.00 uur is op het Malieveld een programma, met bijdragen van o.a. Dabke Night, Salih el Saddy, Chef’Special, Jan Pronk, Karima el Fillali, Mitchell Esajas en Disco Arabesquo.

Kan je zondag niet naar Den Haag komen? Bekijk dan hier wat je thuis kunt doen om een rode lijn te trekken.Bepalend debat
De demonstratie op zondag wordt cruciaal. Volgende week staat in de aanloop naar Europese topoverleggen een Tweede Kamerdebat op de agenda, dat zonder twijfel zal worden overheerst door (de Nederlandse medeplichtigheid aan) de Israëlische genocide.
 
Ook de voortgang en betekenis van het door minister van Buitenlandse Zaken Caspar Veldkamp (NSC) in gang gezette EU-onderzoek komen aan de orde.
 
Wat zeker niet mag gebeuren, is dat maatregelen tegen Israëls genocide ‘over het zomerreces worden getild’. Evenmin mogen die aan de EU worden overgelaten en door Brussel over het zomerreces worden getild. Die politieke rituelen verhouden zich niet met genocide. Dat maakt de Rode Lijn op 15 juni extra relevant.

Tot zondag op het Malieveld!

Wij strijden tegen oorlogsmisdaden, annexatie, bezetting en onderdrukking. Helpt u mee?

Nee, ik steun The Rights Forum niet. TRF komt niet met eisen, want wil in elke geval goeie vrindjes blijven met Israël. En dus saboteert TRF  sancties tegen Israel

Foute durfinvesteerder KKR bezit ook Nederlandse uitgeverijen

Onder de uitgeverijen die bij VBK zijn aangesloten zijn Ambo Anthos, Atlas Contact en Alfabet. Zij publiceren werken van schrijvers als Adriaan van Dis, Geert Mak, Lucas Rijnveld, Herman van Veen en Simone van der Vlugt.

Banden met de bezetting
KKR is een doelwit van de BDS-campagne (Boycot, Desinvestering en Sancties) omdat het onder meer eigenaar is van bedrijven die de verkoop en verhuur van vastgoed in illegale nederzettingen op de bezette Westelijke Jordaanoever faciliteren. Daarnaast investeert het in meerdere Israëlische tech-startups en in de bouw van een groot datacenter in Tel Aviv. De Israëlische tech-sector is nauw verweven met de Israëlische oorlogs- en bezettingsindustrie, bijvoorbeeld bij het ontwikkelen van surveillance-apparatuur.

Ter herinnering: in oktober 2023 was al duidelijk dat Israëls aanval op de Gazastrook een genocidaal karakter had. En toen VBK in zee ging met Simon & Schuster was dus ook bekend dat KKR de eigenaar was.

Vanuit de uitgeverijen die eigendom zijn van KKR, of de schrijvers die bij hen zijn aangesloten, is het vooralsnog stil gebleven.

Lees hier meer over KKR en de band met Nederlandse uitgeverijen >

Deze week op onze website

Verder uit onze agenda
zaterdag 14 juni t/m zaterdag 21 juni

Demonstraties en wakes
• Demonstratie 'Stop met het exporteren van honden naar het bezettingsleger' op zaterdag 14 juni in Oss, Sterrebos 2 (14.30 uur)
• Landelijke demonstratie De Rode Lijn op zondag 15 juni in Den Haag, Malieveld (13.00 uur)
• Stil protest van gate48 - de organisatie van kritische Israëli's in Nederland op zondag 15 juni in Amsterdam, 't Spui (17.00 uur)
• Sit-in rijksambtenaren op donderdag 19 juni in Den Haag, Ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken, Rijnstraat 8 (12.00 uur)
• Wake op zaterdag 21 juni in Groningen, Waagplein (13.00 uur)

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13 juni 2025

Statement on Gaza by Tom Fletcher, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator

New York, 12 June 2025

Attacks on civilians in Gaza – including the killing and injury of hungry people seeking food and those delivering aid – are unacceptable.

United Nations convoys carrying humanitarian aid have been intercepted by armed Palestinian gangs, who endangered our staff and drivers. Civilians in desperate need of the food we're able to bring in have not been spared; some have been shot by Israeli forces, and others crushed by trucks or stabbed while trying to retrieve food.

Other incidents have concentrated around militarized distribution centres, where starving people tell us that Israeli forces opened fire on them. Hospitals report that they have received 245 fatalities and over 2,150 injuries from these areas over the past two weeks. And yesterday the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation stated that Palestinians involved in their distribution were killed, injured, and captured by Hamas.

Without immediate and massively scaled-up access to the basic means of survival, we risk a descent into famine, further chaos, and the loss of more lives.

Hunger must never be met with bullets. Humanitarians must be allowed to do their work. Lifesaving aid must reach people in need, in line with humanitarian principles.

We stand ready, as we have repeatedly emphasized, to deliver lifesaving aid at scale. Let us do our work.

Media contact: ochamedia@un.org

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13 juni 2025

The United States-Israel War Machine Is Destroying The Middle East And Will Have Dire Consequences for Both

[WASHINGTON D.C., JUNE 12, 2025] — Americans for Justice in Palestine Action (AJP Action) unequivocally condemns Israel’s illegal and unprovoked strikes on Iran, a brazen act of aggression that has taken aim at Iran's capital and risked killing civilians. This aggression has the consequence of dragging the entire region—and the United States- into a catastrophic war.

Let us be clear: This attack is not an isolated incident or two countries at war; instead, it is a deliberate expansion of Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza. The Zionist settler-colonial state, emboldened by decades of unconditional U.S. support, is threatening to drag the United States into a new war in the Middle East, threatening American lives and interests, while killing thousands of innocent people.

Despite public denials, the Biden and Trump administrations both laid the groundwork for this assault. The withdrawal of U.S. personnel from embassies in the region days before the attack signals foreknowledge. Reports are stating that the scheduled sixth round of the U.S.-Iran nuclear negotiations in Oman lulled Iran into a false sense of security, providing Israel with a perfect cover to strike.

This is a clear betrayal of diplomacy. The United States provided Israel with the political shield and military backing necessary to execute this war crime. Now, with 40,000 U.S. troops stationed across the region, America is being dragged into a broader regional war that it helped ignite. According to Axios, President Trump’s Special Envoy to the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, told Senate Republicans the U.S. is concerned Israel’s air defenses could be overwhelmed by a retaliatory attack, and it could lead to a “mass-casualty” event.

Israel’s illegal assassinations, destruction of residential buildings, and premeditated attacks on Iran’s nuclear facilities are violations of international law. The targeting of civilian infrastructure and densely populated areas constitutes collective punishment and risks mass civilian casualties. Already, state media reports at least a dozen civilians dead in Tehran.

This path leads only to more death, destabilization, and endless war.

“The ongoing escalation in the region—and Israel’s relentless drive to ignite conflicts it cannot contain—is a direct consequence of the brutal, unchecked campaign of genocide it has waged in Gaza for over 19 months. Washington has not merely allowed this atrocity to unfold and enabled it; it is complicit. It is equally clear that Trump, following in Biden’s footsteps, has either lost control of the war criminal Netanyahu or is willfully participating in the crimes perpetrated by Netanyahu and his government. This dangerous trajectory must stop NOW,” said Dr. Osama Abu Irshaid, Executive Director of AJP Action.

The United States must not continue to act as Israel’s accomplice. The consequences of complicity will be counted in human lives; more than enough people have died thus far.
 

In solidarity,
Americans for Justice in Palestine Action

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12 juni 2025

AJP Action Applauds The Ruling Requiring The Release of Mahmoud Khalil And Stands In Solidarity With The Immigrants Across The Country

 

[WASHINGTON D.C., JUNE 12, 2025] — Americans for Justice in Palestine Action (AJP Action) applauds the landmark federal court ruling declaring the detention of Mahmoud Khalil unlawful and demands his immediate and unconditional release. Khalil, a lawful permanent resident, and Columbia University graduate and vocal advocate for Palestinian rights, was unjustly targeted and detained four months ago under a politically motivated pretext by federal authorities in retaliation for his activism and has yet to be released.

The arrest and detention of Mahmoud on March 8, carried out without a warrant or criminal charges, exemplifies a broader and dangerous trend of authoritarian state repression disproportionately targeting Palestinian advocates. Khalil’s detention, justified through Cold War-era laws, illustrates how tools initially deployed against marginalized communities—particularly pro-Palestinian activists—have expanded into mechanisms of widespread domestic repression. The Trump administration is now deploying militarized forces against anti-ICE protesters and threatening these protesters with terrorism charges and insurrection.

“Khalil’s arrest was not an isolated incident,” said Dr. Osama Abu Irshaid, Executive Director of Americans for Justice in Palestine Action (AJP Action). “It is a canary in the coal mine—a disturbing warning that authoritarian tactics of surveillance, federalizing the National Guard and mobilizing U.S. Marines against American citizens and residents, militarized police violence, and ICE raids, perfected against Black liberation and pro-Palestinian voices, are now openly deployed against the broader American public.”

California law enforcement agencies have acquired thousands of military-style rifles, dozens of armored vehicles, drones, and less-lethal weaponry from the U.S. military. These weapons were used to commit war crimes overseas, and now they’re used for repression here at home.

For instance, the Garden Grove Police Department possesses over 140 semi-automatic rifles, 10,000 rounds of ammunition, flash-bang grenades, and armored vehicles. Similarly, the Fullerton Police Department maintains 160 AR-15 rifles, 15 M4 rifles, seven drones, and sniper rifles—many acquired through the federal 1033 Program. Yet, these likely do not represent the full extent of police militarization in California. Despite transparency mandates under California’s AB 481, agencies such as the LAPD continue to evade complete disclosure. A 2024 audit by the LA City Controller highlighted significant gaps, noting incomplete and inaccurate reporting.

“As we’ve been saying since March, today it is Mahmoud Khalil; tomorrow it will be anyone who dares to dissent,” continued Dr. Abu Irshaid. “Tomorrow has come, and the repression facing pro-Palestinian advocates foreshadows the erosion of rights for all communities who challenge state violence and injustice.”

AJP Action demands:

• The immediate release of Mahmoud Khalil and dismissal of any immigration actions grounded in political retaliation.
• For the Department of Homeland Security to refrain from amending or refiling the grounds of Mahmoud’s detention that a federal judge has already ruled unconstitutional.
• An end to the use of immigration enforcement as a political weapon.
• Congressional investigations into abuses of power that target political dissent.

“Khalil’s freedom is a step forward, but the fight against authoritarianism must continue. We stand in unwavering solidarity with the people of Los Angeles and communities nationwide who courageously resist repression,” said Dr. Abu Irshaid.
 

In solidarity,
Americans for Justice in Palestine Action

Americans for Justice in Palestine Action (AJP Action) is a 501(c)(4) nonprofit organization advocating for legislation supporting the human rights of the Palestinian people and endorsing candidates for office who support those rights.

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On June 14, the Basque company CAF will hold its shareholders’ meeting in Besain, and it’s our moment to turn up the pressure.
 

CAF is operating and expanding the Jerusalem Light Rail’s (JLR) “Red Line” and building the new “Green Line,” providing rolling stock and technical services. Both lines connect illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory with West Jerusalem.
 

As such, the JLR is part of Israel’s illegal de jure annexation of occupied East Jerusalem, including its illegal colonial settlements. These settlements entail the transfer of Israeli civilians into occupied territory and the forcible displacement of Indigenous Palestinians from the occupied city, constituting a war crime under international law.

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Happening now! Storm CAF's social media and leave a comment!

  

In July 2024, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled that Israel’s entire occupation of Gaza, and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, is illegal and that it's guilty of apartheid - a crime against humanity.

 

Join us in escalating BDS pressure on CAF to end its complicity with Israel’s genocidal regime of settler colonialism, military occupation, apartheid and genocide against Palestinians!

 

Take action against CAF, flood CAF’s Youtube channel and LinkedIn pages to expose CAF’s complicity in Israel’s crimes against the Palestinian people!

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Too Slow a Shift on Israeli Abuses

 

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12 juni 2025

Today's headlines

Federal judge blocks Trump from continuing to detain Mahmoud Khalil over his political activism

A federal judge has ruled that the Trump administration cannot detain or deport Mahmoud Khalil based on Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s determination, in a decision hailed by his legal team as "a huge win."

Trump sanctions Palestinian human rights organization over alleged political connections

The Trump administration has imposed sanctions on Addameer, a leading Palestinian prisoner rights group, and five other charities for alleged links to Palestinian political factions deemed by the U.S. and Israel as "terrorist organizations."

Israeli forces kill two Palestinian brothers in massive West Bank raid

Qassam Muaddi

Israeli forces killed two brothers and injured more than 30 in a large-scale military invasion in Nablus. According to witnesses, one brother was killed in a confrontation with soldiers after they ordered him to pull his pants down and he refused.

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 Read the Full Call to Action

 

Current List of Palestinian Signatories:

Palestinian BDS National Committee

The Palestine Institute for Public Diplomacy (PIPD)

Al-Haq

Al-Haq Europe

The Civic Coalition for Palestinians Right in Jerusalem

Applied Research Institute - Jerusalem (ARIJ)

Union of Agricultural Work Committees (UAWC)

Filastiniyat

Bisan Center for Research and Development

Visualizing Palestine

The Social Development Committee (SDC)

The Community Action Center at Al-Quds University

Law for Palestine

MUSAWA - Palestinian Centre for the Independence of the Judiciary and the Legal Profession

Beitna - Palestinian Collective in Belgium 

QADER for Community Development

British Palestinian Committee

Women’s Studies Centre

The Palestinian Initiative for the Promotion of Global Dialogue and Democracy- MIFTAH

Palestinian Youth Association for Leadership and Rights Activation

Center for Refugee Rights - Aidoun

Defense for Children International- Palestine

Palestinian Working Woman Society for Development-PWWS

The Palestinian Center for the Missing and Forcibly Disappeared (PCMFD)

AMAN Coalition

Palestinian Grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign (Stop the Wall)

The Palestine New Federation of Trade Unions

BuildPalestine

Adalah Justice Project

Urgence Palestine

The International Commission for Supporting the Rights of the Palestinian People “Hashd”

Friends of Palestinian Medical Relief Society (PMRS)

Social Developmental Forum (SDF)

The Psychosocial Counseling Center for Women

US Campaign for Palestinian Rights (USCPR)

Rihannah Society,  al-Azzeh Refugee Camp

Alrowwad Cultural & Arts Society

Reviving Gaza

Gaza Families Reunited

UK Gaza Community

Makan Rights

Sabeel - Ecumenical Liberation Theology Center

 

The call to action is open for endorsements by International groups

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11 juni 2025

Humanitarian Situation Update 296
Gaza Strip

11 June 2025

Displaced people in Khan Younis, 7 June 2025. Photo by OCHA/Olga Cherevko

Key Highlights

 

• Shooting toward Palestinians trying to access food supplies in Gaza continues to be reported, resulting in mass casualties.
• Most of the 6,000 metric tonnes of wheat flour that entered Gaza since 19 May was offloaded by hungry people in dire need to feed their families, reports the Food Security Sector.
• Humanitarian organizations call for the full protection of Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis as access to health care across Gaza is becoming increasingly compromised.
• The ongoing fuel blockade, now entering its fourth month, is placing life-sustaining services at severe risk.
• At least 463 aid workers have been killed in Gaza since October 2023, including three over the past week.
• A new report highlights the degrading physical hardships and profound psychological distress facing women and girls in displacement camps across Gaza, forcing them to adopt extreme coping mechanisms.

Humanitarian Developments

 

• Since 18 March 2025, Israeli forces have escalated bombardment from the air, land and sea across the Gaza Strip and expanded ground operations. This has resulted in hundreds of casualties, destruction of civilian infrastructure, and large-scale displacement. According to the Site Management Cluster (SMC), more than 664,800 Palestinians in Gaza were displaced between 18 March and 11 June. With no safe place to go, many people have sought refuge in every available space, including overcrowded displacement sites, makeshift shelters, damaged buildings, streets and open areas. People have been confined to ever-shrinking spaces, with 82 per cent of the Gaza Strip now within Israeli-militarized zones or placed under displacement orders since 18 March. Fighting between Israeli forces and Palestinian armed groups has been reported. One rocket was reportedly fired by Palestinian armed groups in Gaza toward Israel on 10 June and intercepted.
• According to the Ministry of Health (MoH) in Gaza, between 5 and 11 June, 497 Palestinians were killed, and 2,053 were injured. Between 7 October 2023 and 11 June 2025, the MoH in Gaza reported that at least 55,104 Palestinians were killed and 127,394 Palestinians were injured. This includes 4,821 people killed and 15,353 injured since the re-escalation of hostilities on 18 March 2025, according to MoH.
• On 7 June, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) reported the killing of one of its staff members in an Israeli airstrike on 6 June on his family home in Jabalya, in North Gaza, reportedly along with more than 36 members of his extended family. On 5 June, a female psychologist of the Union of Palestinian Women’s Committees was reported killed in an airstrike on Gaza city. Additionally, Ma’an development centre reported the killing of one of their staff members in Gaza city on 4 June. Since October 2023, at least 463 aid workers have been killed, including 319 UN staff members.
• On 5 June, an Israeli airstrike hit the yard of Al Ahli Hospital in Gaza city, killing at least four journalists and injuring three others. According to COGAT, the IDF took steps “to mitigate harm to civilians” and struck the yard of the hospital, where a person allegedly affiliated with Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) “operated from a command and control center.” The UN Human Rights Office (OHCHR) condemned the repeated targeting of journalists, with 18 reportedly killed in May 2025, and stated that this is at least the third instance of journalists apparently targeted and killed at hospitals; on 7 April 2025, two journalists were killed in Nasser Medical Complex, in Khan Younis, and on 26 December 2024, five journalists were killed in Al Awda Hospital, in Deir al Balah. OHCHR further stated: “The apparent targeting of Palestinian journalists in Gaza, combined with the denial by Israel of access of foreign journalists to Gaza for over 18 months, except a few visits controlled by IDF, appear to indicate a deliberate attempt by Israel to limit the flow of information to and from Gaza and prevent reporting on the impact of its attacks and denial of humanitarian assistance.” In another incident on 9 June, a journalist and three Palestinian Civil Defence paramedics were reportedly killed during a rescue and retrieval operation following an attack on At Tuffah neighbourhood in eastern Gaza city.
• Between 5 and 9 June, deadly incidents included the following:
  • On 5 June, at about 13:30, nine Palestinians were reportedly killed and others injured when a group of people was hit near Al Shifa tower, northwest of Gaza city.
  • On 6 June, at about 11:15, a Palestinian female was reportedly killed and several others injured when a school housing internally displaced people (IDPs) was hit in Jabalya Al Balad, in North Gaza.
  • On 6 June, at about 11:45, at least 10 Palestinians were reportedly killed and several others injured during heavy artillery shelling on Jabalya al Balad, in North Gaza, including residential buildings and an IDPs centre.
  • On 7 June, at about 14:00, eight Palestinians, including two children, were reportedly killed and others injured when a group of people was hit in Jabalya an Nazlah, in North Gaza.
  • On 7 June, at about 18:00, six Palestinians were reportedly killed and others injured when two houses were hit in Jabalya al Balad, in North Gaza.
  • On 7 June, at about 5:00, seven Palestinians from the same family, including a mother and her four children, were reportedly killed when a residential building was hit in Gaza city.
  • On 9 June, at about 9:50, six Palestinians including two females were reportedly killed and others injured when an IDP tent was hit in Al Mawasi area in Khan Younis.
  • Between 1 and 9 June, at least 21 incidents were reported where IDP tents were allegedly hit, resulting in the reported killing of about 73 people and the injury of tens of others.
• Between 5 and 11 June, four Israeli soldiers were killed in Gaza, according to the Israeli military. Between 7 October 2023 and 11 June 2025, according to Israeli forces and official Israeli sources cited in the media, more than 1,624 Israelis and foreign nationals were killed, the majority on 7 October 2023 and its immediate aftermath. This includes 424 soldiers killed, in addition to 2,702 soldiers injured, in Gaza or along the border in Israel since the beginning of the ground operation in October 2023. Of these, 17 soldiers were killed and 118 injured since the re-escalation of hostilities on 18 March 2025. On 5, 7 and 11 June, the bodies of five hostages, including four Israelis and one Thai national, were retrieved from Khan Younis and Rafah. As of 11 June, it is estimated that 53 Israelis and foreign nationals remain captive in Gaza, including hostages who have been declared dead and whose bodies are being withheld.
• Shooting at people trying to reach food supplies, including at the militarized distribution points, continue to be reported. Multiple such incidents reportedly occurred as people were walking towards or waiting at the militarized distribution points in Rafah and Deir al Balah. As of 11 June, Gaza MoH reported that hospitals have received 224 people killed and over 1,858 people injured from the areas newly designated for food distributions. In the last two weeks, the Red Cross Field Hospital in Rafah has had to activate its mass casualty incident procedure 12 times, receiving high numbers of patients with gunshot and shrapnel wounds, reporting that an “overwhelming majority of patients from the recent incidents said they had been trying to reach assistance distribution sites.” During this period, ICRC received 933 cases, including 41 declared dead upon arrival, which is higher than all mass casualty incidents the field hospital handled over the preceding twelve months combined. “Medical personnel are struggling to cope with the overwhelming number of patients arriving at the field hospital. They are working under constant exposure to stray bullets, endangering the safety of those providing and receiving medical care,” ICRC stated. According to ICRC, “recent days have also seen an increase in hostilities around the few remaining and functional hospitals. This has made patient transfers between facilities increasingly challenging, and in many cases, patients cannot receive the intensive or specialized care they require.” Commenting on the work of the distribution points, on 10 June, UNRWA’s Commissioner General, Philippe Lazzarini, reiterated that this “humiliating system continues to force thousands of hungry and desperate people to walk for tens of miles excluding the most vulnerable and those living too far. This system does not intend to address hunger. Aid deliveries and distribution must be at scale and safe.”

• After three weeks without medical evacuations, on 11 June, the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesu, stated that WHO supported the medical evacuation of 16 child patients and 48 companions from Gaza to receive specialized medical care in Jordan. According to WHO, more than 10,000 patients, including over 4,000 children, remain in urgent need of medical evacuation.
• On 9 June, WHO’s Director-General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesu, reported that “Al-Amal Hospital in Khan Younis 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.” Two emergency medical teams are still serving the remaining patients with the limited medical supplies available. On the same day, WHO called for the expedited flow of medical supplies into and across Gaza via all possible routes and for the protection of Nasser Medical Complex, the only remaining health facility in Khan Younis with an intensive care unit (ICU) and the only one capable of providing dialysis for up to 350 patients as well as neurosurgery. WHO reported that the ICU at Nasser was operating at double its capacity despite having recently expanded from 20 to 42 beds. It stressed that the hospital is overwhelmed, food for patients is scarce, fuel supply is low, and many essential medicines, medical supplies and blood units have run out. Moreover, the hospital’s oxygen plants require urgent maintenance, particularly since Nasser provides oxygen for all nearby health facilities.
• Similarly calling for the full protection of Nasser Medical Complex, on 10 June, Médecins sans Frontières (MSF) emergency coordinator warned that the facility “has the last functioning intensive care units for children and newborns in the south, which cannot be moved” and added that the hospital is “the only remaining hope for Palestinians in southern Gaza, especially women and children.” MSF further stated: “Israeli forces’ displacement orders and bombings in the close vicinity of Nasser hospital have forced [MSF] to adjust its operations in the hospital and move part of its burn and orthopedic activities to [the MSF] field hospital in Deir Al Balah.” MSF added that its support to Nasser Medical Complex continues at the maternity and paediatric wards as well as through the provision of technical expertise, specialist visits, and financial support.
• Extreme operational challenges continue to face the emergency health response in Gaza. Since the resumption of hostilities on 18 March 2025, WHO has coordinated and facilitated the deployment in Gaza of 37 emergency medical teams (EMTs) from 22 partner organizations, including 35 international and two national EMTs. In total, 74 EMT staff have been granted access to Gaza while 58 have been denied, hampering lifesaving interventions. Moreover, entry into Gaza is often granted at the last minute, delayed, or not approved, severely hindering efforts to coordinate and implement timely deployment plans. Health care operations are additionally compromised by restrictions on the entry of essential medicines, medical consumables and equipment, serious obstacles to safe movement, and attacks on health care. Since 18 March, only 134 pallets of medical supplies from WHO stocks in Gaza have been delivered to EMTs. The inability to deliver more has hindered the ability to meet growing health needs. Attacks on health facilities, ambulances, and EMT accommodations have further undermined the ability of pre-hospital care providers to operate, often necessitating that they be escorted by international agencies to carry out missions safely in high-risk areas. Combined, these constraints jeopardize both the continuity of medical operations and the safety of international EMT staff.
• Between 1 January and 31 May 2025, WHO recorded 76 attacks on health care across the Gaza Strip, reportedly killing 38 people and injuring 65 others and affecting 23 health facilities and 24 health transport vehicles. Fifty-three per cent of these attacks included violence with heavy weapons while 40 per cent involved obstruction to health care delivery. These include 56 attacks on health care documented since 18 March 2025, of which 42 occurred in May. Furthermore, movement restrictions, insecurity and displacement orders are worsening access to health care and hampering the ability of health workers to reach health facilities. No hospitals are currently functional in two of Gaza’s five governorates, namely North Gaza and Rafah. As of 11 June, only 37 per cent (213 out of 572) of health facilities remain functional (all partially except one field hospital that is fully functional). These include 17 out of 36 hospitals, seven out of 15 field hospitals, 63 out of 162 primary health care centers, and 126 out of 359 medical points/mobile clinics.

Women and girl's safety, privacy and dignity in Gaza's overcrowded makeshift shelters

 

• The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) released a new report that highlights the dire conditions faced by women and girls in makeshift displacement sites across Gaza. “These camps lack even the most basic humanitarian necessities, suffering from severe shortages of clean water, the absence of sanitation, and the total collapse of medical care,” rendering them unfit for human habitation, according to PCHR. Women and girls are disproportionately affected, facing an acute lack of privacy and heightened risks of gender-based violence (GBV), including harassment and assault. The report describes the harsh realities they endure, including the absence of partitions between tents and the need to share overcrowded spaces and tents, which causes profound discomfort and a sense of insecurity for women and girls and severely restricts their freedom of movement. In the absence of safe and adequate sanitation, many women and girls resort to desperate measures to manage their hygiene and protect their dignity; according to PCHR, women and girls have adopted extreme coping mechanisms, such as: limiting the number of times they shower including after the menstrual cycle; avoiding to drink water and risking severe infections to reduce the need for toilet use; taking birth control pills continuously to suppress their menstrual cycles; and using buckets to urinate in inside the tent. Breastfeeding mothers also struggle to find private, safe spaces for nursing, and some are forced to stop breastfeeding altogether, directly affecting their health and that of their infants. In addition to the degrading physical hardships, the report draws attention to the profound psychological distress and loss of dignity women face daily in Gaza’s displacement sites after 19 months – underscoring the urgent need for safe, gender-sensitive shelter, sanitation and protection interventions.

Shrinking Humanitarian Space

 

• Since 19 May, after almost 80 days of a full blockade on the entry of aid and any other supplies into Gaza, the Israeli authorities have allowed only a select number of UN agencies and international non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to resume the delivery of aid into Gaza and have authorized the entry of only very limited amounts of certain food items, nutrition supplies, some health supplies, and water purification items. The entry of other aid supplies, such as shelter materials, hygiene products, and medical equipment remains blocked, and so is the entry of cargo through the Egypt and West Bank routes. Both sides of Kerem Shalom crossing are tightly controlled by the Israeli authorities, and the UN has not been permitted to deploy monitors at the site, significantly limiting visibility over the aid pipeline.
• Moreover, although Israeli authorities have reauthorized the use of the “Fence Road” – which is the only viable route currently available for aid destined to northern Gaza – transport capacity remains limited due to the insufficient number of Palestinian drivers who have been vetted by the Israeli authorities. Between 5 and 9 June, Israeli authorities did not authorise cargo manifest and offloads at Kerem Shalom crossing, due to Jewish holidays and citing the congestion of platforms. Concurrently, following a violent looting incident on 4 June, the Special Transport Association announced the suspension of truck operations until further notice, due to concerns about the safety of drivers. On 9 June, collections recommenced, following direct negotiations between organizations and their own contracted transporters. Overall, limited access, long delays in movement approvals (sometimes up to 36 hours and beyond), constantly shifting, insecure convoy routes, intensified military operations, and a breakdown of public order and safety with a very high risk of looting continue to severely constrain operations to collect aid from Kerem Shalom crossing and are placing humanitarian staff, drivers and trucks at significant risk. Collections are frequently cancelled, re-routed, or significantly delayed, aid deliveries have become largely unsafe, unpredictable and inefficient, and the limited assistance that comes through is increasingly being offloaded directly from trucks by hungry civilians and, in some cases, intercepted by armed gangs.
• The ongoing fuel blockade, now entering its fourth month, is placing life-sustaining services – including health and water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) facilities – at severe risk. Despite maximum efforts to ration available fuel, partners warn that these services may soon cease in some areas if the entry of fuel is not urgently restored. Additionally, without immediate access to fuel that is already inside Gaza but located in hard-to-reach areas that are either militarized or subject to displacement orders, more critical services are at risk of suspending operations soon. Between 15 May and 9 June, missions to retrieve fuel from northern Gaza were denied by the Israeli authorities 14 times and about 260,000 litres of it were recently looted.
• In vast areas across the Gaza Strip, humanitarian teams are required to coordinate their movements with the Israeli authorities. Between 4 and 10 June, out of 102 attempts to coordinate planned aid movements across the Gaza Strip, nearly 47 per cent (48) were denied outright by the Israeli authorities, five per cent (five) were initially accepted but faced impediments, including blocks or delays on the ground potentially resulting in missions being aborted or partially accomplished, 30 per cent (31) were fully facilitated, and 18 per cent (18) were withdrawn by the organizers for logistical, operational, or security reasons. These include 49 attempts to coordinate aid movements in or to northern Gaza, of which 41 per cent (20) were facilitated, 37 per cent (18) were denied, four per cent (two) faced impediments and 18 per cent (nine) were withdrawn. In southern Gaza, out of 53 attempts, 21 per cent (11) were facilitated, 56 per cent (30) were denied, six per cent (three) faced impediments and 17 per cent (nine) were withdrawn.
• Between 5 and 11 June, the Israeli military issued four displacement orders for parts of North Gaza and Gaza governorates. Combined, the orders cover eight square kilometres. Since 18 March, the Israeli military issued 39 displacement orders, placing about 277.6 square kilometres under displacement orders (76 per cent of the Gaza Strip). As of 11 June, 82 per cent of the Gaza Strip’s territory is within Israeli-militarized zones or have been placed under displacement orders (they largely overlap). On 8 June, an evacuation warning was reportedly sent to two schools in Jabalya al Balad, in North Gaza governorate, forcing about 20,000 people who were sheltering in the two schools and surrounding buildings to flee. Successive airstrikes were launched, after the warning, destroying the two schools, with no casualties reported.
• On 10 June, the World Food Programme (WFP) reported that “almost three weeks after limited supplies were allowed to enter Gaza, WFP has transported over 700 trucks of aid to the Kerem Shalom border crossing point. This compares to 600-700 trucks of [humanitarian] aid [and other goods] transported per day during the ceasefire earlier this year.” Meanwhile, WFP has more than 140,000 metric tonnes (MT) of food, enough to feed the entire population for two months, within or on its way to the region. According to the Food Security Sector (FSS), most of the 6,000 MT of wheat flour that entered Gaza since 19 May was offloaded by hungry people in dire need, mostly coming from the north, to feed their families, and in some cases by armed criminals, before reaching warehouses or designated distribution points. Israeli authorities also continue to prohibit partners from conducting food parcel distributions (see other challenges above). As of 10 June, 246,000 meals were prepared and delivered by 15 cluster partners through 59 kitchens. This represents a 77 per cent reduction from the 1.07 million meals distributed daily by 180 kitchens at the end of April. These conditions are heightening the risk of worsening food insecurity, eroding community trust, and increasing security threats, FSS warns. “To stave off starvation, stabilize markets and calm desperation, we need to consistently support the entire population with basic food requirements every month,” WFP stated, underscoring that this is “the only way to reassure the population and to push back starvation.”
• On 10 June, a major telecommunications and internet service provider reported a critical infrastructure failure, resulting in a blackout of internet connectivity and significant disruptions to mobile networks in Gaza city and northern Gaza. This new fibre cut compounds a series of unresolved damages along the critical Salah ad Din and Al Rasheed backbone routes, sharply increasing the risk of a total communications collapse across Gaza. The Emergency Telecommunications Cluster (ETC) is coordinating closely with relevant stakeholders to expedite access and facilitate urgent repair efforts to restore connectivity. Furthermore, the ETC warns that without the immediate delivery of fuel and engine oil to operate generators that power key infrastructure, telecommunications services are expected to shut down imminently. This could lead to a complete collapse of telecommunications and internet services. Such a collapse would severely impact humanitarian coordination, operational continuity, staff safety, and the ability of affected populations to access life-saving information and services.
• Severe fuel shortages are crippling water production and disrupting critical WASH operations, forcing partners to drastically ration limited supplies. According to the WASH Cluster, without urgent fuel deliveries, hundreds of groundwater wells are at risk of shutting down, desalination systems will suffer permanent damage, and water trucking from the few remaining water sources may cease entirely, compromising public health and increasing the risk of disease outbreaks and social unrest. The fuel crisis is also threatening solid waste collection and sanitation services. In the absence of fuel, these operations will come to a halt, leading to further accumulation of waste and a surge in pests and rodents – exacerbated by the lack of pesticides – endangering public health. In response to growing public health risks, water quality monitoring has been significantly scaled up across the Gaza Strip by WASH partners; a total of seven field laboratories, operated and supported by seven WASH partners, are now actively conducting water quality testing to ensure safe water access and mitigate the risk of waterborne diseases, up from four operational labs in previous months.

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Gaza Humanitarian Response Update

25 May - 7 June 2025

UN officials visit a neonatal unit at Al Helou Hospital in Gaza city, where generators powered by fuel keep life-saving equipment running. These services are at risk of shutting down unless more fuel is allowed into Gaza. Photo by OCHA/Olga Cherevko

Food Security Sector (FSS)

 

Response

• Since 19 May, and as of the morning of 11 June, partners have brought in only around 5,600 metric tonnes (MT) of wheat flour, or about 224,000 25-kilogramme bags. Most of this assistance was offloaded by hungry people, and in some cases by armed criminals, before reaching warehouses or designated distribution points. FSS estimates that 8,000–10,000 MT is required to provide at least one bag of wheat flour to every household in Gaza to address needs, which would also help stabilize markets before resuming targeted household distributions.             
• During the reporting period, partners attempted to deliver food from southern to northern Gaza. In three of the recent convoys that were facilitated, food supplies were offloaded by hungry people along the road in Netzarim area.
• As of 9 June, 258,000 meals were prepared and delivered by 15 cluster partners through 62 kitchens. This represents a 76 per cent reduction from the 1.07 million meals distributed daily by 180 kitchens at the end of April.

Challenges

• Limited access to crossings, long delays in movement approvals (sometimes up to 36 hours or even beyond), constantly shifting, insecure convoy routes, intensified military operations, and a breakdown of public order and safety continue to severely constrain operations to collect food stocks from Kerem Shalom crossing and are placing community members, humanitarian staff, drivers and trucks at significant risk. To ensure a sustained and scaled-up flow of food assistance into Gaza, it is urgent to have multiple entry points simultaneously open, including at least one crossing for the north (e.g. Zikim) and one for the south (e.g. Kerem Shalom), to reduce the number of holding points, shorten waiting times for cargo collection, and expand the list of vetted drivers to allow for rotations and multiple movements.
• With 82 per cent of Gaza within an Israeli-militarized zone and/or under displacement orders, access is becoming increasingly difficult, and people are increasingly offloading the limited aid that is coming through directly from trucks. In some cases, armed actors are intercepting moving supplies.
• If the entry of flour continues to be limited, partners will be prevented from meeting the minimum requirement of one 25-kilogramme bag of flour per household. Israeli authorities also continue to prohibit partners from conducting food parcel distributions. These conditions are heightening the risk of worsening food insecurity, eroding community trust, and increasing security threats. Furthermore, the lack of sustained, large-scale deliveries are destabilizing wheat flour availability, pricing, and affordability.  Flour prices remain elevated to unprecedented levels. In areas affected by looting, market prices temporarily dropped slightly before rebounding to previously high levels within hours.
• According to the full IPC analysis released on 6 June, with the announced expansion of military operations throughout the Gaza Strip, the persistent inability of humanitarian organizations to access populations in dire need of assistance, and the continued mass displacement of people, the risk of Famine in the Gaza Strip is not just possible - it is increasingly likely. A recent market monitoring and food security analysis by the World Food Programme (WFP) shows that there was an alarming and unprecedented decline in access to diverse and nutritious food in May, further pushing the population into severe food insecurity. This followed already severe restrictions in April and surpassed the extremely low levels recorded in December 2024 and January 2025.
• Food production and food systems in Gaza have been severely weakened by the lack of safe access of farmers, breeders, and fishers to their lands, livestock and the sea. Since 18 March 2025, access to cropland available for cultivation has significantly declined. As food supplies continue to dwindle and as fresh produce remains scarce and unaffordable, some wholesalers, fishers and farmers are forced to take grave risks to reach areas near or within the Israeli-militarized zones or the sea. In April and May, several incidents were reported in which fishing boats were hit or came under Israeli fire near the shore, resulting in casualties among fishers. Since October 2023, the Israeli authorities have banned sailing off Gaza's shore and over 70 per cent of fishing assets have been destroyed or damaged, but some fishers have continued to work within less than one nautical mile from the shore using non-motorized boats.

Nutrition

 

Response

• In May, Nutrition Cluster partners distributed nutrition supplements – such as small and medium-quantity lipid-based nutrient supplements (LNS-SQ and LNS-MQ) and High Energy Biscuits (HEB) – to nearly 200,000 people, including 167,000 children under five and 28,000 pregnant and breastfeeding women (PBW) through the blanket supplementary feeding programme (BSFP) and outpatient site visits. Additionally, 17,605 children from six to 24 months were reached with ready-to-use complementary food/baby jar food. During the reporting period, the number of BSFP sites fluctuated between 125 to 145 locations across the Gaza Strip due to the suspension and/or relocation of services following the issuance of displacement orders.
• In May, 5,149 out of 97,744 children under five screened by partners were diagnosed with acute malnutrition. In the second half of May, 5.9 per cent of screened children (2,755 out of 46,738) were diagnosed with acute malnutrition and enrolled in treatment programmes, up from 4.7 per cent in the first half of May (2,394 out of 51,006), 4 per cent in April (3,290 out of 83,262), and nearly triple the proportion of children diagnosed with acute malnutrition in February (2.3 per cent or 2,068 out of 88,062). This trend indicates a significant and worsening deterioration in the nutritional status of children.
• In May, 30,423 pregnant and breastfeeding women (PBW) were screened for malnutrition, of whom 790 enrolled in the management of acute malnutrition programme. This represents an increase of more than 47 per cent compared with April, when 535 women were newly enrolled. Since the beginning of the year, less than 3,300 PBW have been enrolled. The programme requires significant scale-up to reach the roughly 17,000 PBW estimated to require treatment in Gaza. Analysis of screening data reveals a sharp deterioration of the nutrition status of PBW during May. In Deir al Balah, acute malnutrition was detected in 18 per cent of screened PBW, up from 10 per cent in February and 9 per cent in March. In Gaza city, 17 per cent of PBW were diagnosed, compared with 9 per cent in February and 10 per cent in March. In North Gaza, 12 per cent were diagnosed with acute malnutrition, a significant rise from just 2 per cent in each of February and March. There is not enough screening data from Khan Younis and Rafah in this regard.
• Partners continued to provide individual counselling to address infant and young child feeding challenges. In May, a total of 3,676 women received one-to-one counselling on young child feeding practices, including 488 who received lactation support, either in person or through individual online sessions.

 

Challenges

 

• Shrinking humanitarian space and access constraints continue to impede malnutrition detection and treatment efforts, while the nutrition situation continues to deteriorate.
• Although limited supplies are entering, ongoing restrictions on the entry of aid and other essentials continue to severely limit the availability of supplies required to implement nutrition programmes.
• Severe food shortages have contributed to frequent looting of nutritional supplies, including LNS-MQ supplements and ready-to-use infant formula that have entered the Strip during the reporting period, further undermining partners’ ability to reach children and PBW in urgent need. According to a recent UNICEF market survey conducted in the second week of May, 49 per cent of vendors expressed concern about the risk of robberies to them or their clients, while 23 per cent feared potential looting.
• The recent UNICEF market survey also showed that most food items essential for children's dietary diversity are either non-existent on the market or prohibitively expensive. Many essential goods have been completely out of stock for two months, including meats and dairy products. The continued unavailability or skyrocketing prices of essential food items are having a severe impact on nutrition, particularly vulnerable groups such as young children and PBW. The lack of dietary diversity compromises nutritional intake, increasing the risk of acute malnutrition and related health complications.
• Partners are reporting a growing number of children with acute malnutrition with complications due to underlying medical conditions such as cleft palate or disabilities, which cannot be treated in the current environment.

Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)

 

Response

• Between 25 May and 7 June, the Palestinian Water Authority (PWA) and Coastal Municipalities Water Utility (CMWU) reported an average daily water production from public utilities of about 78,000 cubic metres, representing a near 15 per cent drop from the previous reporting period (9 to 22 May). This reflects a continued decline in water supply, a trend observed since the collapse of the ceasefire. The reduction in water production can mainly be attributed to critical shortages in fuel supply, the consequent need to ration existing supplies across accessible groundwater wells, and repeated damage, repairs or maintenance of the Mekorot supply lines. Of the total amount, 20,000 cubic metres was of drinking quality, sourced from seawater and brackish water desalination plants and Mekorot lines. The remaining 58,000 cubic metres came from groundwater wells and was classified as domestic water given its high salinity levels. However, updated estimations indicate that 50 to 80 per cent of the water produced is lost due to leakages caused by damaged distribution networks. The WASH Cluster continues to advocate for the immediate entry of sufficient quantities of fuel, repair materials, and water treatment supplies to enable lifesaving WASH activities and for access to be granted to conduct necessary repairs.
• During the reporting period, on average, 19,000 cubic metres of drinking water and 8,400 cubic metres of domestic water have been distributed daily by 33 WASH partners through water trucking across the Gaza Strip. This represents a 20 per cent and 38 per cent reduction respectively since the previous reporting period.
• Solid Waste collection continues in accessible locations of Gaza city, Khan Younis and Deir al Balah, despite significant challenges in transferring waste to temporary dumping sites.
• On 28 May, marking Menstrual Hygiene Day, WASH partners - together with the Gender-Based Violence Area of Responsibility (GBV AoR) and the Health Cluster - launched a Menstrual Hygiene Management (MHM) campaign. The initiative featured the distribution of MHM and dignity kits, along with interactive engagement sessions (see the health section).
• Following 80 days of a full aid blockade, a three-week supply of chlorine entered the Gaza Strip. The chlorine was utilized by public utilities to disinfect water that is produced and distributed. This marks a critical step towards improving water safety and public health.
• In response to growing public health risks, water quality monitoring has been significantly scaled up across the Gaza Strip. A total of seven field laboratories, operated and supported by seven WASH partners, are now actively conducting water quality testing to ensure safe water access and mitigate the risk of waterborne diseases. This is compared with four laboratories that were operational in previous months.
• WASH partners, supported by more than 1,500 hygiene mobilizers, continued to deliver hygiene promotion activities. During the reporting period, approximately 200 hygiene awareness sessions were conducted, alongside an estimated 80 cleaning awareness campaigns across various locations.
• In southern Gaza, 30 pest and rodent control campaigns were implemented, benefiting over 32,000 people.

 

Challenges

 

• Severe fuel shortages are crippling water production and disrupting critical WASH operations, forcing partners to drastically ration limited supplies. Without urgent fuel deliveries, hundreds of groundwater wells may shut down, desalination systems could be permanently damaged, and water trucking may soon cease, threatening public health and increasing the risk of disease outbreaks and social unrest.
• Recurrent interruptions in water supply from the Mekorot supply lines, the Gaza Strip’s primary external water source, continue to undermine access to safe drinking water for hundreds of thousands of residents. These disruptions exacerbate water scarcity, especially in displacement sites where alternative water sources are limited or non-existent.
• The need for new sanitation facilities is urgent, as existing ones are either insufficient or damaged and construction is stalled due to the lack of materials. Over 10,000 sanitation units are currently awaiting entry into the Gaza Strip, leaving thousands of people without access to safe and dignified sanitation.
• Shortages in hygiene kits, including menstrual hygiene supplies, and water containers are undermining efforts to promote basic hygiene practices among displaced people. Without these critical items, vulnerable groups - especially women and children - face heightened risks of infection, poor menstrual hygiene, and a loss of dignity in already dire conditions. Of note, there are significant gaps in reaching over 700,000 women and girls who require access to essential menstrual hygiene supplies across Gaza.
• Stocks of pesticide supplies (including insecticides) are almost completely depleted, severely limiting pest and rodent control efforts. The absence of vector control measures is increasing the risk of disease outbreaks, particularly in overcrowded shelters, where waste accumulation is already a major concern.
• Due to displacement orders and insecurity, key dumping sites like Al-Berka 2, in Deir al Balah, are now inaccessible, forcing solid waste to be redirected to already overwhelmed sites such as Al-Zawayda, in Deir al Balah, which has reached full capacity. At present, several dumping sites have reached full capacity. With limited alternatives and unsafe conditions at remaining sites like Al-Amal and Feras Market, urgent action is needed to secure access, rehabilitate facilities, and protect waste management personnel.

Health

 

Response

• Between 25 and 31 May over 370,000 medical treatments, consultations and interventions were conducted by 69 Health Cluster partners, providing primary and secondary health services across Gaza.
• As of 10 June, there were 21 Emergency Medical Teams (EMTs) in the Gaza Strip: six in Gaza governorate, six in Deir al Balah, eight in Khan Younis and one in Rafah. These include two national EMTs (312 local staff) and 19 international EMTs (55 international staff).
• During the reporting period, UNFPA distributed to six hospitals and four primary health care centres (PHCs) infection, prevention and control (IPC) materials, medical consumables, and sexual and reproductive health (SRH) supplies aimed to support approximately 1,545 people in Gaza city, Deir al Balah, and Khan Younis.
• The Health Cluster’s Sexual and Reproductive Health Working Group (SRH WG), together with GBV AoR, UNFPA and WASH Cluster, published an advocacy brief on the menstrual hygiene crisis in Gaza.
• During the reporting period, WHO conducted a three-day capacity-building workshop on integrated management of child health (IMCH) for 15 health providers. In addition, WHO facilitated training on antenatal and postnatal care guidelines for 21 health providers.

 

Challenges

 

• Critical fuel shortages are severely disrupting health services. The Health Cluster warns that nearly 80 per cent (67 out of 85) of health facilities providing lifesaving services, including 17 hospitals, seven field hospitals, and 43 PHCs may soon run out of fuel. This is expected to result in immediate loss of life, particularly among infants in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs), patients in critical care units (CCUs), and other electricity-dependent wards. Hemodialysis services are also expected to cease. Ambulance services and patient referrals are expected to come to a halt, effectively eliminating the critical "golden hour" for trauma care - the crucial first hour after traumatic injury when medical treatment is most likely able to save a person's life - leading to increased mortality rates. Additionally, vaccination services will be disrupted due to cold chain failures.
• Al-Amal Hospital in Khan Younis is now essentially out of service due to intensified hostilities in its vicinity. Access to the hospital is obstructed, preventing new patients from receiving care, and leading to more preventable deaths. Two emergency medical teams - one national and one international – remain on site, striving to care for the remaining patients with the limited medical supplies remaining 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.
• Attacks on health care continue to take place, with 42 incidents reported during May 2025, further disrupting the already fragile health care system, overburdening hospitals that remain partially operational.
• Furthermore, movement restrictions, insecurity and displacement orders are worsening access to health care and hampering the ability of health workers to reach health facilities and provide lifesaving services. Three hospitals, five primary health care centres (PHCs), and 18 medical points are located within 1,000 metres of areas placed under displacement orders on 9 and 10 June 2025.
• As of 11 June, only 37 per cent (213 out of 572) of health facilities remain functional (all partially except one field hospital that is fully functional). These include 17 out of 36 hospitals, seven out of 15 field hospitals, 63 out of 162 PHCs, and 126 out of 359 medical points/mobile clinics.
• The current trauma care pathway continues to face innumerable challenges:
  • There are no hospitals functional, even partially, in North Gaza.
  • The 100 per cent bed occupancy rate (BOR) is being exceeded across all partially functional health facilities and is most critical at Nasser Medical Complex with a 150 per cent BOR, resulting in hospital corridors overflowing with admitted patients in need of emergency care.
  • Emergency Departments (ED), ICUs and Operating Rooms (OR) in the few remaining, partially operational hospitals are functioning with severely deteriorated equipment and surgical sets, alongside a lack of critical equipment, such as portable x-ray machines and anesthesia machines.
  • The main oncology hospital is no longer functional, and oncology drugs have run out, leaving cancer patients in southern Gaza without access to treatment.
  • As of 11 June, only five hemodialysis centres remain functional, compared to nine prior to October 2023. These centers collectively operate 114 dialysis machines, currently serving 684 patients. A critical concern is the Nasser Medical Complex; if this health facility becomes non-operational, then there is no alternative hospital in southern Gaza capable of absorbing its dialysis caseload. This would result in a major disruption to life-sustaining care for a significant number of patients.
  • Acute shortages of consumables, including external and internal fixators, are hampering the ability of medical teams to carry out orthopedics and vascular surgeries. In total, 87 per cent of orthopedic supplies are out of stock.
  • Stocks of carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide and ethylene are completely depleted, further constraining the capacity to carry out operations, while other vital medicines (such as anesthesia, non-communicable disease medications and IV fluids), lab and surgical consumables are at zero stock. In total, 43 per cent of 271 essential medicines are out of stock. Blood supplies, micro reagents, and blood bank materials are nearly depleted.
  • There is a critical need for parenteral nutrition (intravenous feeding) for the ICU patients and food for patients. Currently, patients admitted in surgical units lack adequate access to nutritious hot meals.

Protection

 

Response

 

• Child Protection
  • Between 1 January and 31 May, 6,000 children received case management services – including unaccompanied and separated children (UASC), child survivors of violence (including gender-based violence), and children with conflict-related injuries and disabilities. Moreover, 39 partners provided nearly 132,000 children and 36,000 caregivers with mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) services. As of 31 May, community-based awareness-raising activities on Explosive Ordnance Risk Education (EORE), prevention of family separation, and child protection messaging reached about 560,000 people, of whom 24 per cent were children and 64 per cent were caregivers.
  • Between 1 January and 31 May, nearly 1 million people — including 55 per cent children and 45 per cent caregivers — were reached with child protection services, including case management, cash assistance, MHPSS, family tracing and reunification, legal aid, safe shelter and childcare services, family- and community-based alternative care, and referrals to critical medical and nutritional services.
  • Positive parenting in crisis curriculum was also piloted in May 2025, through sessions organized by 10 partners to support caregivers of UASC, benefiting 500 caregivers in Gaza city and North Gaza governorates during the reporting period. During the reporting period, 46 case workers received training to strengthen the capacity of CP frontline staff. On 2 and 4 June, CP AoR organized training sessions for Site Management and WASH actors to promote safe identification and referrals to CP services. In collaboration with health actors, UNICEF facilitated a training session for the Trauma Working Group to ensure that injured children and UASC are promptly referred and receive urgent protection and case management support, particularly in the aftermath of mass casualty incidents. Furthermore, the CP AoR and the Education Cluster have developed a joint strategy to expand community-based child protection and education interventions in Gaza.
• Mine Action – During the reporting period, MA actors delivered two EORE CP package sessions to 116 humanitarian workers (49 women and 67 men). Between 17 and 31 May, MA partners conducted 2,375 EORE sessions for host community members and internally displaced persons (IDPs), reaching a 32,489 people. No new explosive ordnance (EO) incidents were recorded during this period. However, 87 backdated EO-related incidents have been documented since October 2023, which resulted in 33 fatalities and 190 injuries (48 of whom were children). To promote safety and mitigate risks, MA teams conducted four Explosive Hazard Assessments (EHAs) and supported four inter-agency missions, providing technical expertise and contributing to safety during humanitarian missions.
• Gender-Based Violence (GBV) - During the reporting period, dedicated teams from 34 GBV partners, including four hospitals, continued to deliver lifesaving GBV services, throughout the Gaza Strip. Efforts focused on providing survivor-centered GBV case management, cash assistance, individual and group psychosocial support (PSS), and referrals. These services were provided in-person at Women and Girls' Safe Spaces (WGSS) or IDP shelters, and remotely via helplines. Due to recent displacement waves, partners have largely shifted their service delivery to coastal areas, where some GBV partners have recruited additional social workers to meet the increased service demand. To ensure continued, effective support for survivors amid a rapidly shifting operating environment, the GBV referral map for complex cases and the real-time interactive map of WGSS has been updated. Additionally, training sessions continued, reaching 41 case workers.
• Housing, Land and Property Technical Working Group (HLP TWG) finalized and published a one-page fact sheet outlining the types of land ownership in Gaza, aimed to raise awareness and inform programming. Efforts are underway to verify and update the service map of legal aid and HLP service providers active inside Gaza to support improved coordination and referral pathways.
• Legal Task Force (LTF) - During the reporting period, the LTF and its partners continued to provide legal assistance, civil documentation, and legal awareness across Gaza, with a focus on ensuring access for vulnerable groups. During the past 25 days, one partner provided 85 legal awareness sessions in shelters across the Gaza Strip and assisted 60 women in obtaining property documents (legal deeds) through Sharia Court. In collaboration with local justice actors, legal partners have rolled out legal assistance for displaced women in their shelters, enabling lawyers to identify cases, prepare and submit documentation, and coordinate with judges for on-site visits and allowing legal deeds to be processed without requiring women to travel and expose themselves to risk. Meanwhile, some partners petitioned the Israeli High Court demanding the immediate opening of crossings, submitting factual evidence of violations; a decision is pending.
• Between 17 and 29 May, UNRWA's protection teams: 
  • Carried out 31 protection monitoring visits, 30 key informant interviews and 21 focus group discussions in Khan Younis (including Al Mawasi), Deir al Balah and Gaza city.
  • Facilitated referrals to specialized services and distributed in-kind assistance to 306 people, including dignity kits and limited supplies of children's diapers in Deir al Balah, Khan Younis and Rafah.
  • Conducted 85 awareness-raising sessions on CP, EORE, MHPSS and prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse (PSEA), reaching 765 women, 611 girls, 72 men and 432 boys.
  • On 26 May and 4 June, a total of 22 Palestinian detainees were released to Gaza from Israeli detention centres, UNRWA's protection team is following up on their long-term needs and will provide support when available.

 

Challenges

 

• Ongoing bombardment, displacement orders, and restrictions on the entry of aid and other supplies continue to constrain the ability of partners to deliver critical services. Several partners have been forced to relocate or suspend activities, with the impact being particularly acute in Khan Younis and northern Gaza. During the reporting period, 15 protection centers and safe spaces have suspended activities, affecting 4,000 people. Two WGSS were temporarily closed due to displacement orders in Khan Younis, affecting about 2,000 women. UNRWA's protection activities have also been severely disrupted, with all its protection staff in northern Gaza displaced to Gaza city. GBV services are under immense strain, grappling with staff burnout, surging caseloads, lack of referral options, and critical shortages of protection supplies, including dignity kits.
• Children in Gaza face escalating protection risks and families are increasingly resorting to unsafe survival strategies, including child labour, begging, and the use of children to support informal transport activities, such as riding donkey carts or carrying heavy goods. Partners have also reported a sharp rise in forced child marriage and family separation. The destruction of 20 child-friendly spaces and care facilities has drastically reduced the availability of safe environments for children. Recent child injuries at recently established distribution points underscore emerging and alarming risks for children. Concurrently, health risks are mounting, with rising numbers of respiratory illnesses among children linked to poor shelter conditions, dust, and potential asbestos exposure. A recent comprehensive mapping of MHPSS services revealed critical gaps in support for children with disabilities and children under five.
• Protection monitoring during the reporting period reveal key risks including heightened insecurity, displacement, acute food shortages, exorbitant prices, inadequate shelter, severe medication shortages, limited access to essential non-food items – all contributing to serious physical and mental health consequences. Specific protection concerns were reported for women and girls, including increased risks of GBV, harassment, and intimate partner violence. Older persons and persons with disabilities were particularly at risk due to mobility challenges.

Education

 

Response

 

• During the reporting period, 224 Temporary Learning Spaces (TLS) were operational, serving 78,920 learners supported by 2,801 teachers, although the number of functional TLS and learner enrollment continues to fluctuate due to the volatile security situation. This is compared with 570 TLS that were operational during the ceasefire in February, serving 249,000 learners.
• Education Cluster partners continue to implement innovative solutions to address the growing need for education supplies in Gaza. For example, during the reporting period, one Education Cluster partner, in collaboration with implementing partners, distributed 75 furniture sets to TLS. Each set - repurposed from donated wooden pallets - includes one table and four chairs, contributing to dignified and comfortable learning environments. While the number of learners benefiting from this initiative remains limited and significant gaps persist, the aim is to eventually have these temporary measures be replaced by more sustainable solutions once the entry of essential education supplies into Gaza is permitted, ultimately improving safe and dignified learning conditions for all children.
• Education partners are actively pursuing alternative modalities to keep children engaged in learning; for example, UNRWA's distance learning programme remains active, with 294,675 children currently enrolled (152,973 boys and 141,702 girls), including 19,515 children with disabilities. These students are receiving basic education in core subjects such as Arabic, English, mathematics, and science, delivered by 6,762 teachers through remote methods. Additionally, approximately 89,000 students are currently accessing the Ministry of Education’s e-school platform. Prior to the collapse of the ceasefire, enrollment on the platform had reached 270,000 students.

 

Challenges

 

• Between 25 May and 7 June, at least 109 TLSs and 117 public schools were placed under displacement orders, forcing partners to temporarily suspend operations. These included: 21 TLS in North Gaza; 16 TLS and 30 public schools in Gaza city; 15 TLS and four public schools in Deir al Balah; 54 TLS and 56 public schools in Khan Younis; and three TLS and 27 public schools in Rafah governorate. After closure of all 186 public schools on 18 March due to insecurity, 16 re-opened at the end of May but 14 closed again; at present, only two public schools remain open across the Gaza Strip, one in Khan Younis and one in Deir al Balah supporting 2,920 learners. The closure of TLS and public schools has disrupted learning, eliminated all in-person learning opportunities for children, and halted children's access to critical services, including MHPSS, social and emotional learning and structured recreational activities to help mitigate the effects of repeated trauma endured by children. In total, since 18 March, a total of 109 TLS and 184 PA schools had closed, either due to displacement orders or deteriorating security conditions, affecting about 130,000 learners and 4,492 teachers.
• Limited funding and limited prospects for mobilizing funds to support teacher incentives continue to constrain the education response. Between 1 and 31 May, 139 TLS closed due to the lack of funding. Education partners also report that there are limited prospects for mobilizing funds to support the provision of financial incentives for teachers, who are currently operating on a voluntary basis. The presence of motivated teachers is essential not only for ensuring meaningful teaching and learning but also for maintaining a safe and protective environment for children.
• Ongoing fuel shortages continue to severely disrupt education in emergency (EiE) response. Partners are unable to transport mobile infrastructure, such as tents, from areas under displacement orders. Staff mobility for monitoring and supervising TLS activities is also significantly constrained. Activities requiring powered equipment, such as group sessions for children using loudspeakers, have been suspended due to the lack of electricity. Access to clean water in TLS is also compromised as fuel shortages prevent water trucking and the operation of pumps for existing wells. Even basic tasks like printing educational materials are stalled due to the inability to run generators.
• During the reporting period, attacks on schools resulted in the loss of life and further deepened the fear and trauma experienced by children, parents, and educators. This has significantly diminished the willingness of communities to engage in EiE activities within school settings. As a result, the Education Cluster continues to face serious challenges in scaling up the response. This is further hampered by ongoing restrictions on the entry of humanitarian aid, including essential education supplies needed to establish alternative learning spaces.
• As of 10 June, according to the Ministry of Education (MoE), at least 15,189 students and 681 education personnel have been killed, while 22,851 students and 2,915 education staff have been injured, many with lifelong physical or psychological impacts. These figures underscore the devastating toll the crisis continues to exact on the education system, including students and staff, undermining all efforts to maintain and restore safe learning environments for children.

Shelter

 

Response

• Between 25 May and 7 June, several Shelter partners pooled available items to jointly distribute emergency shelter kits (ESKs) to approximately 115 families in Gaza city. One partner also distributed a limited number of tents still available in their stocks to families at two displacement sites in Khan Younis and Deir al Balah governorates and helped to establish a new displacement site for 100 families in Al Mawasi. In addition, several partners distributed vouchers to help about 2,100 families in Gaza city in purchasing clothing available in local shops.
• Shelter partners distributed 45 wood-burning mud stoves and firewood to four collective displacement shelters in Gaza city. The intervention aims to support cooking and baking needs of approximately 1,000 displaced families while reducing the hazards and risks associated with unsafe and improvised cooking methods (e.g. burning solid waste).

 

Challenges

 

• Most of the shelter items distributed in Gaza, such as tents, have a short lifespan of only three to six months, creating a repetitive cycle of demand for shelter assistance. This is further compounded by repeated waves of forced displacement, often resulting in the loss or abandonment of essential shelter items. As a result, and despite previous aid distributions, unmet shelter needs remain widespread across the Gaza Strip. An estimated 1.1 million people require emergency shelter items, while around 1.1 million people are estimated to require household items, according to the most recent assessment by the Shelter Cluster conducted in June.
• The inability to bring in shelter items through crossings since 2 March and prohibitively expensive shelter items that remain available in limited quantities on the market are further constraining response efforts.
• Ongoing airstrikes targeting displacement sites, repeated displacement orders, and social tensions and unrest have significantly hampered operations. Moreover, many staff members have themselves been displaced, further undermining partners’ response capacities.
• The immense needs far outweigh available resources, complicating prioritization efforts during aid distributions and contributing to tensions within communities.
• Access to people in need in some areas has become increasingly challenging due to the lack of safety and security. Many people have been forced to flee without belongings and have sought shelter in every possible space, including in already overcrowded displacement camps, damaged buildings, streets and open areas, leaving their shelter needs largely unmet.

Logistics

 

Response

• The Logistics Cluster continues to coordinate with partners to draft the daily truck manifest for submission and approval by the Israeli authorities.
• The Cluster continues to facilitate cargo transport from Jordan to Kerem Shalom/Karem Abu Salem, as well as cargo collection from the crossing inside Gaza on behalf of partners amidst a very high risk of looting. In Jordan, the Cluster consolidation warehouse remains at full capacity, with 7,867 cubic metres of aid in storage.
• Following the Israeli authorities’ approval of storage, Cluster common storage services have been available at two warehouses that remain accessible, one in Deir al Balah and one in Gaza governorate.

 

Challenges

 

• The volume of aid transported through the Jordan corridor since 27 May, is especially limited because: only very few organisations are authorised by Israeli authorities to seek approvals; approvals are restricted to specific medical, nutrition, WASH and food items; many organisations face challenges in customs clearances. The entry of cargo through the Egypt and West Bank routes continues to be denied by Israeli authorities.
• Inside Gaza, ongoing military operations, insecurity, and the high risk of looting are severely hampering operations to collect aid, frequently causing collections to be cancelled, re-routed, or significantly delayed. Although Israeli authorities have reauthorised the use of the “fence road”, transport capacity is severely limited by the insufficient number of vetted drivers by Israeli authorities. The “fence road” represents the only route currently available for aid destined to northern Gaza.
• Between 5 and 9 June, Israeli authorities did not authorize cargo manifest and offloads at Kerem Shalom, due to Jewish holidays and citing the congestion of platforms. Approval for manifesting and offloading trucks is contingent upon collections taking place.
• On 28 May, a looting incident at the WFP warehouse in Deir al Balah resulted in the loss of Logistics Cluster assets, including generators, mobile storage units, and prefabricated units.
• On 2 June, Israeli authorities reported a fire incident on the Israeli side of Kerem Shalom platform that possibly damaged approximately 400 pallets. No details have been made available about the cause or organisations affected.
• Following a violent looting incident on 4 June, the Special Transport Association announced the suspension of truck operations until further notice, due to concerns to the safety of drivers. On 9 June, collections recommenced, following direct negotiations between organizations and their own contracted transporters.

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• As of 9 June, telecommunications and internet service providers have reported critically low fuel reserves, with accessible supplies expected to be exhausted soon. Without the immediate delivery of fuel and engine oil to operate generators that power key infrastructure, telecommunications services are expected to shut down imminently. This could lead to a complete collapse of telecommunications and internet services, considerably impairing humanitarian coordination, operational continuity, staff safety and the ability of affected people to access lifesaving information and services.
• Telecommunications and internet services remain limited across Gaza due to extensive damage to infrastructure caused by hostilities, compounded by the lack of spare parts and engine oil needed for repair and maintenance.
• Continued restrictions on the entry of aid and other essentials have hindered the import of critically needed ICT equipment. Combined with insufficient funding, this is severely constraining ETC's ability to deliver services needed to support humanitarian operations and access to life-saving information in Gaza.

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11 juni 2025

As a Palestinian, I recognize the familiar patterns of state violence, surveillance, and systematic criminalization of those who dare to rise against injustice. What’s happening to my friend and comrade Nick Tilsen — an Oglala Lakota leader, father, mentor, and president of NDN Collective — is not an isolated event. It is a direct continuation of America’s legacy of targeting Indigenous leaders who challenge colonized, white supremacist systems.

This is bigger than just Nick.

Nick is being targeted with charges rooted in political suppression — including the dangerous application of SLAPP (Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation) lawsuits and the RICO Act, both of which are increasingly used to silence and dismantle grassroots movements. These are not just legal tools; they are weapons used to criminalize dissent and bankrupt those courageous enough to lead the charge for justice.

NDN Collective, a powerful Indigenous-led organization dedicated to building global Indigenous power, now finds itself under attack. Their work threatens the status quo — and so, the system responds in the only way it knows how: with repression, surveillance, and persecution.

Let’s be clear. This isn’t about one man or one organization. It’s about our collective right to resist.

In Rapid City, the numbers speak louder than any courtroom argument. Indigenous people make up just under 10% of the population. Yet, they accounted for 60% of fatal police encounters in 2024 alone. Every single person killed by Rapid City Police in the last three years was Indigenous.

Let that sink in!

Between 2022 and 2023, Rapid City Police made over 71,000 arrests, nearly 45,000 of them were Indigenous. These are not just statistics. They are stories of families broken, communities traumatized, and lives stolen. They are reflections of a system that treats Indigenous presence as a threat, and Indigenous power as a crime.

NDN Collective has been demanding a federal investigation into this for over three years. Instead of accountability, they’ve been met with retaliation.

Nick Tilsen is being framed as a criminal when what he truly is — and has always been — is a protector. A protector of land, people, culture, and future generations. He is a spiritual helper, a son of his Nation, a guide for so many young people stepping into their own power. To try and diminish him with indictments and courtrooms is not just an attack on him; it’s an attack on the future of Indigenous resistance and collective liberation.

As a Palestinian, I stand with Nick because I see my people in his people, over-policed, under-protected, and always portrayed as the aggressor when all we’ve ever done is survive and resist.

Let us remember: colonizers have always tried to define our leaders as dangerous, to turn those who protect the people into enemies of the state. But we will not be silenced. We will not be criminalized out of our truth.

This is a fight for our constitutional and human rights. It is a fight for movement leaders, organizations, and the sacred right to speak out against oppression. If they can do this to Nick, they can, and will, do it to anyone who dares to lead.

Nick’s legacy is not up for debate. They will not define it. We will.

We are all on trial as Indigenous people, as colonized people, as movement leaders — but we are not alone. Our solidarity is our strength. Email immediately the Pennington County State's Attorney’s office asking them to drop the charges: Phone: (605) 394-2191 Or Email: sao_all@pennco.org and larar@pennco.org

In Solidarity,

Sandra Tamari
Executive Director
Adalah Justice Project

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11 juni 2025

From Palestine to Los Angeles.

  

Email Congress: Support the Block the Bombs Act.

Join us in the streets.

  

What we're reading: “A striking collapse in perception for Israel around the world.”

Israel’s far-right government is spending more than ever before on public relations, showing just how isolated it has become.

“The growing marketing costs for Israeli brands, provided to Drop Site by internal whistleblowers at Meta, put specific numbers on the increasing toxicity of Israel’s international reputation.”

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11 juni 2025

Peru has taken a bold and unprecedented step by advancing a genocide case—filed by the Hind Rajab Foundation—into the hands of its Human Rights Prosecutor, moving from jurisdictional review to evidence examination. This marks the start of a criminal investigation into a soldier’s role in the systematic destruction of Palestinian life in Gaza. It’s a critical breakthrough, proving that states can act decisively against atrocity crimes—and that the genocide in Gaza is now being confronted through legal means.

Read the full press release below.

Lima, 11 June 2025 — The Republic of Peru has formally assigned the genocide case filed by the HRF against an Israeli soldier to its Human Rights Prosecutor’s Office, transitioning the case from jurisdictional review to the preliminary investigative phase.

This procedural step confirms that the Peruvian Public Ministry is now examining the evidence submitted, rather than assessing whether it has the authority to proceed. In practical terms, the case has entered the early stages of criminal investigation, under the framework of Peru’s obligations under the Rome Statute and international humanitarian law.

 

The complaint—submitted by human rights lawyer Julio César Arbizu González on behalf of the Hind Rajab Foundation—concerns the actions of a combat engineering soldier in the Israeli Defense Forces. The individual is alleged to have taken part in the destruction of civilian neighborhoods and infrastructure in Gaza, as part of broader military operations conducted by the Combat Engineering Corps, a unit repeatedly linked to mass demolitions and targeted attacks on protected civilian objects.

“This development signals a clear shift: Peru is now reviewing the substance of the case,” said Dyab Abou Jahjah, Chairman of the Hind Rajab Foundation.

“This is not about theoretical jurisdiction—it is about the facts, the evidence, and accountability for the crimes committed in Gaza.”

By assigning the case to its specialized human rights prosecution unit, Peru has taken an important step toward ensuring that allegations of genocide and crimes against humanity are given appropriate legal scrutiny. The move reflects growing recognition that the scale and nature of the destruction in Gaza requires legal response—not only political commentary.

 

The Hind Rajab Foundation has compiled hundreds of case files targeting members of the Israeli Combat Engineering Corps, and is currently submitting these in multiple jurisdictions. The Peruvian case is among the first to reach this stage of official prosecutorial examination.

 

This step does not resolve the case, but it demonstrates that legal systems can be engaged, and that claims concerning grave violations of international law in Gaza are beginning to receive the attention they warrant.

 

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1461.

11 juni 2025

Laten we eisen dat Nederland actie onderneemt voor het internationaal recht.
We kunnen niet verzaken en niet verslappen. Juist nu, nu de verwoesting en verhongering voortduurt en de wereld moe wordt van het kijken, moeten wij standvastig blijven. Het recht mag nooit buigen voor macht, en ons mededogen mag nooit wijken voor gemak.

Elke stem, elke stap, elke aanwezigheid telt.Ik hoop van harte u te zien op het Malieveld in Den Haag, zondag 15 juni!

Met strijdbare groet,

Jan Pronk
Raad van Advies The Rights Forum

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11 juni 2025

Today's headlines

Why the Freedom Flotilla matters to us in Gaza

We called it the Gaza Sea even though it is part of the Mediterranean, because Israel isolated us from the world and made us believe that it was unreachable. The Freedom Flotilla tryed to break that spell.

Dartmouth students launch hunger strike in support of Gaza

Students at Dartmouth College have launched a hunger strike to demand that the school divest from Israel and lift the suspension of a student activist.

1459.

This week, we look at the continuing immigration protests in Los Angeles, and why the local police are pushing back against United States President Donald Trump’s deployment of federal forces in the California city.

 

The past week saw activists from around the world on board the Madleen ship attempt to break Israel’s illegal blockade of Gaza to deliver critical aid to the besieged Palestinian enclave. They were stopped, but who is Madleen — Gaza’s first and only fisherwoman who inspired the name of the vessel? Read on to find out.

 

We also followed the school shooting in the southern Austrian city of Graz, in which 11 people - including the shooter - have died.

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10 juni 2025

As the Freedom Flotilla defies Israel’s blockade and a historic March to Gaza begins this week, people across the world are mobilizing to break the siege and end the genocide. These courageous efforts make one thing clear: we need to escalate the global arms embargo movement now.

 

That’s why a new report released this week is so urgent. It reveals that Maersk, one of the world’s largest shipping companies, is a key facilitator of the F-35 fighter jets that Israel has been using throughout the genocide.

 

Between 2019 and 2025, Maersk transported half of all known F-35 wing shipments—including every F-35 delivered to Israel since at least March 2022.

The company has also shipped weapons components to Israeli military contractors like Elbit Systems, making it complicit in war crimes.

 

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10 juni 2025

Het kan je haast niet zijn ontgaan dat ook nu de Gaza Freedom Flotilla de eindhaven niet heeft mogen halen. Door de aanwezigheid van een lid van het Europese Parlement en een wereldberoemde activiste durfde Israël dit keer het schip niet te beschieten zoals vorige maand met de Conscience, of de bemanning te vermoorden zoals met de Mavi Marmara 10 jaar geleden. De media zien alleen de helden, steeds meer mensen zien de zaak.

In de context van het toenemende verzet en de blijvende onwil van regeringen om de genocide te stoppen roept de BNC tot sancties en embargo's tegen Israël. En roepen wij samen met OxfamNovib en anderen op aanstaande zondag nog luider en in nog groteren getale te eisen dat de regering een streep zet onder haar medeplichtigheid aan apartheid en genocide.

 

Een strijdbare groet van het docP team; blijf BDS-en!

Kom voor de Rode Lijn!

Op as. zondag 15 juni organiseren we met OxfamNovib en andere partners – een maand na de eerste demonstratie met meer dan 100.000 deelnemers – een nieuwe mars. Het kabinet kan demissionair zijn, het moet handelen. Elke dag van niet handelen is meer kwaadaardige steun en kost meer dode kinderen en volwassenen

Als BDS beweging stellen wij onze eisen op één lijn met de eisen van met het Internationaal Gerechtshof ...Zie verder hiervoor onze site

 

Stop Israël voor het te laat is voor de Palestijnen en de mensheid

 

Israël schendt het internationaal recht en kaapt wederrechtelijk de Madleen, een boot die symbolische humanitaire hulp vervoert naar de 2,3 miljoen Palestijnen in Gaza die gedwongen honger lijden en zich verzetten tegen de voortdurende Amerikaans-Israëlische genocide. De BDS-beweging veroordeelt de criminele aanval van Israël en de ontvoering van de 12 activisten aan boord. Als het niet gestopt wordt, zal Israël zijn “definitieve oplossing” van het uithongeren van Palestijnen in Gaza doorvoeren...Zie verder onze site.

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10 juni 2025

Readers’ Recommendations

• EU stands up against Netanyahu: From a change in tone to possible sanctions ! (Le Monde, English) 

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10 juni 2025

Today's headlines

Fighting state violence from Gaza to Los Angeles

Ahmad Ibsais

Israel's attacks on the Madleen aid mission to Gaza and the repression of the anti-deportation protests in Los Angeles represent the same imperial logic: any challenge to injustice will be met with state violence.

Israel’s gangsters in Gaza

Abdaljawad Omar

Israel has long used undercover forces posing as Palestinians to sow strife. Today, it is using this strategy again in Gaza in the form of the gangs taking control over humanitarian aid. The goal is to fragment and dismember Palestinian society.

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9 juni 2025

Readers’ Recommendations

= Israel intercepts Gaza-bound aid ship, detaining Greta Thunberg and other prominent activists (CNN)

= Aid will be too late when famine hits Gaza, warns UNICEF (RTE)

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9 juni 2025

Feeding Palestinians Facing Man-Made Famine Is Not a Crime—Abducting Those Who Try Is

Last night, Israeli forces abducted 12 unarmed civilians, including a member of the European Union’s Parliament, who were on the Madleen to deliver desperately needed food, baby formula, and medical aid to Gaza. The ship was sailing in international waters, fully compliant with maritime and humanitarian law, when it was violently seized in a blatant act of piracy and state aggression.

This was not just an attack on international law or human rights activists; this was an escalation in Israel’s campaign of deliberate, systematic starvation. It has been well over 4 months of Gaza being strangled, with over two million people being held under a complete siege and denied food, clean water, medical supplies, and fuel since March. Children are dying not only from airstrikes but from malnutrition, dehydration, and preventable illnesses caused by the engineered collapse of Gaza’s healthcare and food systems.

The Madleen was a slight flicker of humanity in a landscape of relentless devastation caused by Israel in partnership with the U.S. Its mission was both urgent and profoundly simple: to deliver life-saving aid and send a message where governments have failed, where international institutions have fallen silent, and where Israel’s blockade has made even the right to survive a battleground. For daring to bring food to a population deliberately starved by a man-made famine; for daring to affirm the value of Palestinian life where the world has looked away—they were abducted. Criminalized not for causing any harm, but for having the courage to attempt to save lives.

This is not an isolated incident but a clear tactic of war. The Israeli government is weaponizing hunger, and the United States is enabling it. By continuing to fund and arm this regime, and by using its veto power to shield it from accountability at the UN, the U.S. has been an active participant in one of the most egregious humanitarian crises of our time.

We demand the immediate release of all those abducted and an end to the blockade that is starving Palestinians in Gaza. We urge global leaders, institutions, and people of conscience to speak out and take immediate action. Starvation is a calculated tool of genocide—and Israel is wielding it with impunity. As the occupying power, Israel is legally obligated under international law to facilitate and permit the entry of humanitarian aid to the civilian population it controls. Instead, it has done the opposite: blocking aid, bombing distribution centers, and now abducting those attempting to deliver life-saving supplies.

Israel has caused unimaginable harm, broken virtually every human rights law, and committed some of the most egregious war crimes in modern history, all while facing no real consequences. The question must be asked: When will it be enough? How many people need to starve, how much more of Gaza needs to be reduced to rubble, how many medics and journalists need to be targeted and murdered, and how many aid workers must disappear before the world’s governments act?

The world must end its tolerance for Israel’s crimes and enforce the very laws it claims to uphold.

The blood of Palestinians is on the hands of every world leader, every government, and every individual who refuses to see the gravity of what is unfolding. Genocide does not happen in a vacuum. It is enabled by those who look away, by those who issue empty statements while continuing to fund, arm, and shield the perpetrators. To remain neutral is to choose the side of those who would rather see children starve than allow Palestinians the right to live.

 

In solidarity,
Americans for Justice in Palestine Action

Americans for Justice in Palestine Action (AJP Action) is a 501(c)(4) nonprofit organization advocating for legislation supporting the human rights of the Palestinian people and endorsing candidates for office who support those rights.

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8 juni 2025

Today's headlines

After slow divestment, Canada’s Scotiabank quietly reinvests in Israel’s genocide

For almost two years, activists across Canada have been demanding that Scotiabank divest from Israeli weapons manufacturer Elbit Systems. Despite a commitment to 'incremental divestment', the bank has slowly been reinvesting in Elbit.

Will Trump’s waffling lead to an escalation with Iran?

A continued a stream of contradictory news stories on the U.S.-Iran nuclear deal negotiations have been flying back and forth for days. Iran hasn't yet abandoned the deal, despite what headlines say, but Trump's waffling could prove disastrous.

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8 juni 2025

We, refusers, do not talk as much about our emotional struggles following our decisions to refuse to join the army. I wanted the focus on my message: a stop to the endless occupation. I also felt guilty admitting I was struggling because I felt that I could not complain or pity myself while there are Palestinians who suffer in Israeli military prisons and under the occupation.

In solidarity,
Mattan Helman,
Director Refuser Solidarity Network 

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7 juni 2025

Israel threatens to attack aid ship headed for Gaza

This week, a dozen activists, including Greta Thunberg, set sail in the Madleen, a small ship loaded with food and medical aid, destined for Gaza. The Israeli government has already threatened to attack the vessel if it attempts to reach Gaza, making clear its willingness to target even nonviolent humanitarian missions. The Madleen carries crutches, which the Israeli government has refused to allow into Gaza, along with baby formula, and a 3D-printed prosthetic limb for a child, among other aid. The Freedom Flotilla Coalition has a live tracker on their website where you can follow the ship’s location.

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We also learned that Israel has been arming and protecting a criminal gang led by Yasser Abu Shabab, which has been looting aid shipments and reportedly assisting Israeli military operations. The group’s violence has deepened the crisis for civilians, sowing fear and instability in areas where people are already fighting to survive. Members of Abu Shabab’s own family issued a public statement denouncing him and calling for his execution. We ran an important exposé yesterday that examines the Hamas unit created during the war to fight this group, and we show how Abu Shabab is implicated in Israel's plan to use aid as bait to lure Palestinians into concentration camps in Rafah ahead of their forcible displacement. These revelations make it impossible to pretend that the humanitarian disaster in Gaza is a byproduct of war. It is part of the Israeli government’s strategy to forcibly displace the population, and it's using aid and local collaborators to implement it.

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Our reporting documented the total erasure of a Palestinian Bedouin community in the West Bank following violent settler attacks; another massacre at a U.S.-run aid distribution center in Gaza; and the Israeli government’s announcement of 22 new illegal settlements as it moves to formalize annexation of the West Bank. We also published a personal profile of Leqaa Kordia, a Columbia University student imprisoned for her pro-Palestine activism, and a particularly odious former U.S. State Department spokesperson acknowledged that Israel committed war crimes in Gaza while he lied about it in briefings.

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David Reed, Publisher

 

Must Read: Inside the Hamas unit fighting Israeli-armed gangs that loot aid and facilitate displacement in Gaza

Faris Giacaman & Tareq Hajjaj: Netanyahu admits Israel is arming gangs and clan members in Gaza to counter Hamas's influence, and new evidence shows Israel is using them to loot aid and implement its displacement plan. In response, the Hamas government set up the “Arrow Unit.”

Palestinian Hamas police officers begin working to maintain security and order during the ceasefire with Israel, Gaza City, January 20, 2025. (Photo: Hadi Daoud/APA Images)

Catch-up

=Qassam Muaddi: After being forced out of their homes by violent Israeli settlers, the Bedouin community of Maghayer al-Deir joins a growing list of Palestinian Bedouins whose villages have been taken over by settlers since October 7, 2023.

=In the face of genocide and global inaction, the Gaza Tribunal recognizes that the challenge of justice falls to people, to legitimate resistance, to acts of solidarity, to civil society, to social movements, and to people of conscience everywhere.

=Tareq Hajjaj: The Israeli army has killed over 100 Palestinians at the U.S.-run aid distribution centers in Gaza in under two weeks. By now, it follows a predictable script, either denying the massacre or claiming soldiers fired on “suspicious” individuals.

=Qassam Muaddi: Israel’s decision last week to create 22 new settlements in the West Bank was reported as somewhat uneventful news in the media. The reality is, however, that it’s the latest in a series of moves to cement Israeli control of the occupied territory.

=The Trump administration has imprisoned several students over their activism for Palestine. Their names are known to us.

=Former State Department spokesman Matthew Miller says Israel has ‘without doubt’ committed war crimes in Gaza. During his tenure under Biden, Miller had become representative of the administration’s defense of Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

 Tareq Hajjaj: Another U.S.-run aid center was the site of a massacre in southern Gaza after Israeli forces opened fire on civilians. “The Americans and Israelis set a huge trap for us to lure us here and kill us,” an eyewitness told Mondoweiss.

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7 juni 2025

Today's headlines

Inside the Hamas unit fighting Israeli-armed gangs that loot aid and facilitate displacement in Gaza

Tareq S. Hajjaj

Netanyahu admits Israel is arming gangs and clan members in Gaza to counter Hamas's influence, and new evidence shows Israel is using them to loot aid and implement its displacement plan. In response, the Hamas government set up the “Arrow Unit.”

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6 juni 2025

Als beweging hebben we net een bemoedigende overwinning gehaald die we met jullie willen delen.

Een strijdbare groet van het docP team; blijf BDS-en! 

Eye filmmuseum zegt conferentie Israëlische cybersecurity firma af

Filmmuseum Eye in Amsterdam heeft een cybersecurity evenement van een Israelische firma, dat bij hen zou plaatsvinden, afgeblazen.

 

We hebben waardering voor Eye Filmmuseum dat donderdagochtend een principiële beslissing heeft genomen. As. woensdag 11 juni zou in hun gebouwen conferentie van de Israelische cybersecurity firma CyberArk plaatsvinden. Dat bedrijf heeft stevige banden met de Israëlische krijgsmacht en profileert zich in Israël ook als uitgesproken zionistisch.

Zodra we het hoorden hebben we contact gezocht met mensen binnen Eye, die intern zijn gaan mobiliseren en vragen stellen. Met het onderzoeksmateriaal dat hen is aangereikt en de dreiging van publieke actie, heeft Eye na een paar dagen besloten niet door te gaan met het evenement en de organisator daarvan op de hoogte te brengen.

Eye schrijft zelf: "Door de aard van een bedrijf als CyberArk, dat links heeft met  het Israëlische leger (IDF), blijkt de verhuur van het gebouw aan een organisatie als deze onaanvaardbare gevolgen te hebben voor Eye. Dit raakt aan de identiteit van Eye als culturele organisatie."

Dit is een overwinning voor de werkers en voor BDS.

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6 juni 2025

Today's headlines

The People vs. The Abyss: The Sarajevo Declaration of the Gaza Tribunal

In the face of genocide and global inaction, the Tribunal recognizes that the challenge of justice falls to people, to legitimate resistance, to acts of solidarity, to civil society, to social movements, and to people of conscience everywhere.

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6 juni 2025

De oproep van de Nederlandse bevolking aan de politiek is duidelijk: stop alle vormen van steun aan Israël zolang het doorgaat met zijn genocidale beleid.

Deze maand spreken wereldleiders in Parijs over de erkenning van de staat Palestina. Nu Wilders weg is, zijn er voor Nederland geen obstakels meer om eindelijk deze stap te zetten.

Nederland heeft nog de kans om zich aan de juiste kant van de geschiedenis te scharen. Het is nú tijd voor een ander Israël-Palestinabeleid.

Uiteraard zal The Rights Forum in aanloop naar de nieuwe Tweede Kamerverkiezingen diverse activiteiten organiseren en artikelen wijden aan de standpunten van de verschillende partijen met betrekking tot Israël en Palestina. Houd daarvoor deze nieuwsbrief, onze website en socials in de gaten. 

 

Wij strijden tegen oorlogsmisdaden, annexatie, bezetting en onderdrukking. Helpt u mee?

Nee, ik steun The Rights Forum niet. TRF is een anti-sanctie verradersclub, die in elk geval met Israël bevriend wil blijven, hoe dan ook!

Rode Lijn | Op 15 juni gaat Nederland opnieuw de straat op

Deze week kondigden wij aan dat Nederland op zondag 15 juni opnieuw een Rode Lijn trekt in Den Haag. Tégen de Israëlische genocide in Gaza en tégen de medeplichtigheid van de Nederlandse regering.

Dat doen wij in navolging van de massale demonstratie op 18 mei, toen we met meer dan 100 duizend Nederlanders en 97 maatschappelijke organisaties een Rode Lijn dwars door Den Haag trokken.

De boodschap aan de regering was niet te missen: grijp in! En schiet op, want er voltrekt zich onder onze ogen een genocide.

Maar het kabinet heeft niet geluisterd en niet geleverd. Volgens de coalitiepartijen lag dat aan de PVV. Die partij is nu weg en dus niet langer een excuus.

Daarom komen we zondag 15 juni terug om een rode lijn te trekken die zó massaal is en zó veel (inter)nationale aandacht trekt dat hij niet meer te negeren valt.

Sluit je aan en schrijf je in.
En roep iedereen op hetzelfde te doen.Vrijwilligers gezocht!
Om deze dag opnieuw veilig, krachtig en georganiseerd te laten verlopen, hebben we jouw hulp hard nodig. We zoeken vrijwilligers voor:

• Sfeerbeheer op het Malieveld en langs de route (crowd control, rust bewaren, mensen welkom heten)
• Opbouw en afbouw van het podium

Is dit iets voor jou? Meld je dan aan via deze link.

Israël breidt bezet gebied uit met 22 nieuwe nederzettingen

Israël gaat in bezet Palestijns gebied nog eens 22 nederzettingen bouwen. Het besluit brengt de Israëlische annexatie van de Palestijnse Westelijke Jordaanoever een stap dichterbij terwijl het de internationaal bepleite tweestatenoplossing verder uit zicht brengt. Bij de aankondiging van de plannen verklaarden de Israëlische ministers Yisrael Katz (Defensie) en Bezalel Smotrich (Financiën) expliciet dat een van de doelen van deze uitbreiding is om de oprichting van een Palestijnse staat te voorkomen.

Veel Israëlische nederzettingen beginnen als ‘outpost’: een verzameling caravans of noodwoningen die door de Israëlische autoriteiten van voorzieningen en infrastructuur worden voorzien en zo kunnen uitgroeien tot complete dorpen die later ‘gelegaliseerd’ worden. © Israel by Blake-Ezra Cole / Alamy

 

Wassen neus

Ondanks deze nieuwe stap in de annexatie van Palestijns gebied blijven Israëls internationale bondgenoten zoals Nederland, Duitsland en de VS vasthouden aan de tweestatenoplossing. Maar zonder een vinger uit te steken als Israël stappen neemt om die onmogelijk te maken, zoals nu opnieuw het geval is, is dat weinig waard.

Sinds het begin van de bezetting in 1967 heeft Israël in Oost-Jeruzalem en op de Westoever al 160 nederzettingen gebouwd, waar inmiddels ten minste 870 duizend kolonisten wonen. Het grondgebied van de Palestijnen is hierdoor teruggebracht tot dichtbevolkte, stedelijke enclaves.

Ook de nieuwe aankondiging van de bouw van 22 nederzettingen, met als expliciet doel het bestendigen van de bezetting en onmogelijk maken van de tweestatenoplossing, leverde geen veroordeling of maatregelen op van Nederland en de EU. Het tekent het schizofrene beleid van veel westerse landen, dat in de praktijk neerkomt op steun voor verdere Israëlische kolonisatie.

Deze week op onze website

Nederland heeft de plicht om in te grijpen in Gaza !!!

Volkenrechtdeskundigen vertellen de Tweede Kamer dat Nederland bij een ‘ernstig risico op genocide’ moet handelen om die te voorkomen. Wat betreft Gaza kwam dat risico in januari 2024 vast te staan, maar Nederland deed niets en laat de genocide zich voltrekken.

Documentaire | The Settlers op NPO 3

Verder uit onze agenda
zaterdag 7 juni t/m zaterdag 14 juni

Demonstraties en wakes
• Wake op zaterdag 7 juni in Groningen, Waagplein (13.00 uur)
• Wake op zaterdag 7 juni in Maastricht, Markt, bij het standbeeld van J.P. Minckelers (16.00 uur)
• Stil protest van gate48 - de organisatie van kritische Israëli's in Nederland op zondag 8 juni in Amsterdam, 't Spui (17.00 uur)
• Demonstratie 'End the starvation: Let aid into Gaza' op zondag 8 juni in Rotterdam, Schouwburgplein (15.00 uur)
• Sit-in rijksambtenaren op donderdag 12 juni in Den Haag, Ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken, Rijnstraat 8 (12.00 uur)
• Wekelijks protest tegen de genocide op de Palestijnen op donderdag 12 juni in Zaandam, bij de ingang van het station (17.30 uur)
• Demonstratie 'Stop met het exporteren van honden naar het bezettingsleger' op zaterdag 14 juni in Oss, Sterrebos 2 (14.30 uur)

Culturele evenementen
• Benefietavond voor Palestijnen in Nijmegen en hun families in Gaza op zaterdag 7 juni in Nijmegen, De Klinker (18.00 uur)
• Documentaire ‘Israël en de Palestijnen: de weg naar 7 oktober’ deel 1 op woensdag 11 juni op NPO 2 (22.20 uur)
• Filmvertoning 'As The Poet Said' op donderdag 12 juni in Utrecht, Universiteit Utrecht, Kromme Nieuwegracht 80 (17.15 uur)
• Literaire avond over Susan Abulhawa en de roman Ochtend in Jenin op donderdag 12 juni in Rotterdam, Leeszaal West, Rijnhoutplein 3 (Maaltijd om 18.00 uur, lezing vanaf 19.00 uur)
• Symposium 'Justitia and Leviathans: The Struggle for the International Rule of Law' op vrijdag 13 juni in Heerlen, Open Universiteit Heerlen, Pretoriagebouw (12.30 uur)
• Literaire avond 'Writing as Resistance' op vrijdag 13 juni in Amsterdam, De Nieuwe Liefde, Da Costakade 102 (20.00 uur)
• Fundraiser en cultureel evenement voor Palestina op zaterdag 14 juni in Utrecht, Kabul à GoGo (15.00 uur)

Bekijk hier de hele agenda

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5 juni 2025

Rep. Delia Ramirez Just Introduced the Block the Bombs Act. It’s Past Time for Every Elected Official to Cut Off U.S. Military Aid to Israel

On June 1st, the Madleen (a ship organized by the Freedom Flotilla Coalition) departed from Catania, Italy, carrying unarmed civilians and life-saving humanitarian aid to Palestinians trapped in Gaza. On board are parliamentarians, journalists, lawyers, and human rights defenders, risking their lives to deliver food, medicine, and baby formula to a population deliberately starved by an occupying power.

They are taking this risk because Israel’s man-made famine, mass displacement, and ongoing genocide are not up for debate. But they are sailing into danger because Israel has made clear that even humanitarian aid is a target.

WE NEED YOU TO TAKE TWO URGENT ACTIONS TODAY:

1. Tell your Members of Congress to support the Block the Bombs Act. No more U.S. weapons for war crimes. No more enabling genocide.

2. Demand they speak out now to protect the Freedom Flotilla and humanitarian aid to Gaza. Nobody should be targeted for delivering OR seeking food.

Last month, Israeli forces attacked another Freedom Flotilla vessel and, in the past week alone, they’ve bombed food distribution points in Gaza twice, turning aid lines into sites of mass death. Israel has blocked nearly all aid since March, and continues to decimate whatever remains of Gaza’s civilian infrastructure with full U.S. support.

Since October 2023, Israel has used U.S.-supplied bombs, artillery, and tank rounds to kill well over 62,614 Palestinians (a very conservative estimate), destroy hospitals, schools, and places of worship, and forcibly displace over 90% of Gaza’s population. Now, with Trump’s backing, Netanyahu’s government is doubling down on its genocide, intensifying the famine that’s starving Palestinians and continuing the relentless slaughter of civilians.

That’s why the Block the Bombs Act, introduced today by Rep. Delia Ramirez, is urgent and necessary. It would finally cut off the most lethal offensive weapons, many of which have been used to massacre civilians in Gaza. This is a crucial step toward ending U.S. complicity in genocide—cutting off the greenlighting and bankrolling of mass atrocities—and reclaiming Congress’s power to stop them.

We are far beyond the time for symbolic gestures. This is a human catastrophe made possible by U.S. backing. The people of Gaza are not collateral damage. Humanitarian aid is not a threat. And silence and neutrality in this moment are nothing but betrayal of the highest form.

Every single American needs to be flooding the offices of our elected officials right now. We will be remembered for what we chose to ignore or for what we chose to fight for.

 

In solidarity,
Americans for Justice in Palestine Action

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5 juni 2025

Right now we have a historic opportunity to proactively block the U.S. government from sending some of the worst-offender weapons to Israel used to carry out atrocities against Palestinians in Gaza.

This morning, progressives in Congress held a press conference to announce the new Block the Bombs Act. Introduced by Congresswoman Delia Ramirez, along with Representatives Sara Jacobs, Pramila Jayapal, and Mark Pocan, the bill would stop the Trump administration from sending major U.S. weapons to Israel, including bombs, tank rounds, and artillery shells. This is the first time that Congress has ever tried to proactively halt weapons to Israel.

Since October 2023, the U.S. government under Presidents Biden and Trump has sent more than $30 billion in weapons to Israel to fuel its war crimes and genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. Now twenty months later, at least 54,000 Palestinians have been brutally murdered, including over 18,000 children, with thousands more maimed and still missing under the rubble.

Israel is now entering the final phase of its ethnic cleansing project in Gaza as it threatens to re-launch its ground invasion and flatten all remaining structures. Since March alone, the Israeli military has killed more than 4,200 Palestinians. Two million Palestinians are currently being intentionally starved as Israel prevents the entry of live-saving aid. On May 20, the UN warned that over 14,000 babies could die within 48 hours because of Israel’s blockade on aid.

None of this is possible without the backing of the United States. Our government has the power to stop the genocide now by stopping the flow of weapons to Israel.

The majority of Americans across party lines want a ceasefire and for our government to stop sending weapons to Israel. This legislation is a critical step in the right direction, and we must demand that our elected officials take urgent action to save as many lives as possible. Every single member of Congress should join the Block the Bombs Act - no excuses.

With determination,

Alia El-Assar
Director of Media Organizing
Adalah Justice Project

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5 juni 2025

The U.S. Has Once Again Vetoed a Ceasefire – Cementing Its Role as Israel’s Primary Enabler

Yesterday, the United States stood alone, again, as the sole veto on a United Nations Security Council resolution demanding an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. With this vote, the U.S. has once more chosen to shield an apartheid regime rather than uphold international law, human rights, or even the bare minimum of humanitarian decency.

This pattern is nothing new. President Biden’s administration cast at least four vetoes between 2023 and 2024 to block global calls for a ceasefire, isolating the U.S. on the world stage. Now, under the Trump administration, the same policy continues—proving this is not about party lines, but strictly about the U.S.’s commitment to politically and financially backing Israel’s genocide.

Every time the United States vetoes a resolution like this, what it’s doing is voting to continue genocide against the Palestinian people. To prolong and exacerbate Israel’s man-made famine. To enable the torture, starvation, and mass murder of Palestinians using our tax dollars.

But here’s the thing: not only is the U.S. bankrolling genocide and shielding it at the UN—it is an active participant in it. U.S. mercenaries are operating on the ground, running death marches masked as aid distribution sites. The so-called “safe zones” and “humanitarian corridors” have become killing fields—coordinated with U.S. oversight, stamped with U.S. weapons, and soaked in Palestinian blood.

Ambassador Dorothy Shea’s so-called “explanation” for the veto is both dishonest and indefensible. She claimed the resolution would “jeopardize ongoing negotiations” and lacked “necessary condemnation” of Hamas. But let’s be clear: There is no legitimate negotiation that justifies blocking food, medicine, and fuel from 2.3 million Palestinians who are being deliberately starved and bombed. There is no valid reason to veto a call to stop the killing when well over 62,614 Palestinians have already been slaughtered, and famine is being used as a weapon of war.

While most of the world moves toward accountability and justice, even if only symbolically, the U.S. continues to deepen its moral and legal isolation. This veto, and every veto that came before it and will come after it, is a statement that the U.S. government values its strategic alliance with a violent apartheid regime more than it values international law, civilian lives, or its own integrity. That is a stain history will not forget.

We demand an end to U.S. military aid to Israel, an end to U.S. vetoes protecting war criminals, and an immediate, permanent ceasefire.

 

In solidarity,
American Muslims for Palestine 

American Muslims for Palestine
6404 Seven Corners Place Ste N | Falls Church, Virginia 22044
703.534.3032 | info@ampalestine.org

1443.

5 juni 2025

Op 18 mei trokken we met 100.000 mensen een massale Rode Lijn door Den Haag. We eisten actie tegen de genocide in Gaza. Maar premier Schoof reageerde nietszeggend. Dat accepteren we niet.

Nederland moet nú alles doen om het geweld te stoppen. Demissionair of niet – wij eisen concrete stappen. Daarom gaan we opnieuw de straat op. Want als de politiek wegkijkt, zorgen wij ervoor dat ze niet meer om ons heen kunnen.

IK KOM OOK

Nederland is medeplichtig aan Israëls genocide. Onze regering levert wapens, houdt de grenzen open voor militaire onderdelen en kijkt weg bij schokkende schendingen van het internationaal recht. Terwijl kinderen sterven in Gaza, houdt onze politiek vol dat ze "bezorgd" zijn – maar echte actie blijft uit.

Samen kunnen we de politiek onder druk zetten. Als we massaal samenkomen, laten we zien dat Nederland een land is dat staat voor het internationaal recht en voor medemenselijkheid. We gaan door tot onze klere leiders eindelijk de Rode Lijn trekken en de Nederlandse medeplichtigheid stopt.

IK TREK EEN RODE LIJN 

Deze demonstratie is onderdeel van een wereldwijde beweging die opkomt voor gerechtigheid en mensenrechten. In steden over de hele wereld staan mensen op tegen genocide en voor een vrij Palestina. Door je aan te melden voor 15 juni, word je onderdeel van die krachtige beweging.

 

P.S. Meld je aan, dan houden wij je via de mail op de hoogte van verdere praktische informatie en ontwikkelingen rondom de demonstratie.

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5 juni 2025

Humanitarian Situation Update #295
West Bank

A Palestinian boy in Masafer Yatta, Hebron governorate, where residents are at risk of forcible transfer. Photo by OCHA, 28 May 2025

Key Highlights

 

• Palestinian Bedouin and herding communities report increased intimidation and violence by Israeli settlers, particularly in areas where new settlement outposts have been established, deepening an already coercive environment and increasing the risk of forcible transfer that many communities are facing.
• Israeli forces conducted multiple operations across villages and towns in the northern West Bank over the past week, arresting residents, destroying roads and disrupting Palestinian access to essential services.
• In the first quarter of 2025, water, sanitation and hygiene partners implemented 91 water-related interventions serving an estimated 91,000 people across 62 communities in the West Bank. A substantial portion of these interventions came in response to Israeli operations in the northern West Bank.
• Israeli forces’ restrictions have disrupted the movement of about 2,800 residents of Turmus’ayya town, in Ramallah governorate, and obstructed access to health care for nine days.

Humanitarian Developments

 

• Between 27 May and 2 June, Israeli forces killed four Palestinians, including one child, and injured 73 others, including 15 children. The following are details of the incidents that resulted in fatalities:
  • On 27 May, Israeli forces shot and killed a Palestinian man and physically assaulted and injured another man during an operation in Jericho city, where Israeli forces raided several homes and subsequently shot live ammunition at Palestinians who threw stones at the forces.
  • On 27 May, Israeli forces shot and killed one Palestinian man and injured 24 others during a raid in Nablus city, where Palestinians threw stones and burnt tires and Israeli forces shot live ammunition. According to local sources, the man was shot outside of his shop and was not involved in the confrontations. This incident took place within the context of concurrent raids by Israeli forces into money exchange shops and gold businesses in various parts of the West Bank, including Nablus, Jenin, Tubas and Qalqiliya governorates.
  • On 28 May, Israeli forces shot and killed a Palestinian man during a raid in Jit village, in Qalqiliya governorate. According to local sources, Israeli forces raided the centre of the village, searched several houses belonging to the same family, and vandalized furniture and personal belongings. In one of the houses, where a father and his son were present, the father reported that Israeli forces entered the son’s room, shot him while he was in bed, and prevented anyone from assisting him for one hour before withdrawing.
  • On 2 June, Israeli forces shot, killed and withheld the body of a 14-year-old Palestinian boy in Sinjil town, in Ramallah governorate. According to the Israeli military, they shot a person who was throwing stones at passing Israeli-plated vehicles and had thrown bottles at the forces. According to the boy’s family, following the incident, Israeli forces raided a nearby home and confiscated video recordings that documented the incident.
• Between 27 May and 2 June, OCHA documented the demolition of 23 Palestinian-owned structures – 18 in Area C and five in East Jerusalem – for lacking Israeli-issued building permits, which are almost impossible to obtain. As a result, 21 people, including ten children, were displaced and about 100 others were otherwise affected. Of those displaced, 15 people, including seven children, were displaced in East Jerusalem by the demolition of two houses in Beit Hanina on 28 May and 2 June. In Area C, six people, including three children, were displaced in Ar Rifa'iyya village, in Hebron governorate, where a residential building, a water cistern and a retaining wall were demolished. Since the beginning of 2025, 65 per cent (494 out of 757) of structures demolished for lacking Israeli-issued building permits were agricultural, livelihood or water and sanitation structures, about a quarter were inhabited homes, and the remaining 11 per cent were uninhabited residences, infrastructure, and other structures.
• On 29 May, Israeli forces demolished with explosives a residential building in Area A of Nablus city on punitive grounds. The building belonged to a Palestinian man who was killed while attempting to set off an explosive in Tel Aviv on 18 August 2024. The demolition also damaged a nearby house, which was rendered uninhabitable. In addition, at least five houses sustained damage as a result of the explosion. The demolition displaced two households comprising 11 people, including three women and three children. Since the beginning of the year, 19 structures, including 16 homes, have been destroyed on punitive grounds, displacing 90 people, including 30 children.
• OCHA’s recent West Bank Movement and Access Update – May 2025 highlights how long-standing restrictions on movement – through road closures, checkpoints, and the Barrier – continue to undermine Palestinians’ access to essential services, such as health care and education. Recent incidents further illustrate the humanitarian impact of these restrictions on already vulnerable communities. On two occasions between 27 May and 2 June, Israeli forces closed the main entrance to Turmus’ayya town in the Ramallah governorate, disrupting the movement of over 2,800 residents. The first closure, from 19 to 25 May, was imposed under the pretext that Palestinians had pointed laser lights and threw stones at Israeli settlers travelling on Road 60 and remained in place six days. The second closure occurred from 30 May to 1 June, lasting for three days. During both periods, residents were forced to take detours of approximately 20 kilometres to access surrounding areas and essential services. The impact was particularly severe for Palestinian patients traveling from the northern areas of the West Bank via Road 60, who were unable to reach the eye hospital inside the town by vehicle and were forced to proceed on foot.

Developments in the northern West Bank

 

• Israeli forces continue to raid towns and villages in the northern West Bank. On 27 May, Israeli forces raided Madama village, in Nablus governorate, and imposed a 24-hour curfew where residents were prohibited from leaving their homes. Israeli forces closed all entrances to the village, shut down shops, and turned a residential building into a military post, forcing six families to seek shelter with neighbours or relatives. Simultaneously, Israeli settlers believed to be from Yitzhar settlement began bulldozing and uprooting trees in the southern part of the village while it was under curfew. On the same day, Israeli forces conducted a raid for about 18 hours and physically assaulted and injured a Palestinian man in Zeita town, in Tulkarm governorate. According to the municipal council, Israeli forces forced shops to close, set up checkpoints inside the town, and turned two houses into military posts, forcing two families to seek shelter with neighbours or relatives. They detained eight men for several hours and physically assaulted one, who was transferred to a hospital. Schools were forced to shut down and basic services were disrupted, as Israeli forces denied their access with a flying checkpoint in front of the municipality building.
• On 4 June, Israeli forces launched an operation in Tammun town, in Tubas governorate. The operation lasted nearly 11 hours and involved the bulldozing of roads, causing damage that disrupted access to water, electricity, and internet services. At least 20 homes were raided, with residents forcibly evacuated and forced to seek shelter with relatives and friends in the town. According to Tammun Municipality, at least four of the raided homes were converted into interrogation centres, and 20 people, including two women, were detained. The Municipality also reported that about one kilometre of water networks was destroyed. These networks, located in Area A, supply water to agricultural lands, greenhouses, and livestock farms across Areas A, B, and C in Tammun and neighbouring communities, including Khirbet A’tuf, Al Bqai’a valley, and Khirbet ar Ras Ahmar. The affected area covers nearly 20,000 dunums (4,942 acres), where over 4,000 farmers cultivate a variety of crops. Additionally, Israeli forces bulldozed four road sections within the town. Additionally, Israeli forces bulldozed four road sections within the town. Municipal crews, in cooperation with the private sector, have begun efforts to rehabilitate the roads and restore essential services after the raid. During the operation, seven Palestinians were injured by Israeli forces, including five due to physical assault and two from tear gas inhalation. The raid also forced the closure of all schools in the town, disrupting access to education for about 4,200 students. In addition, workers were unable to reach their places of work for the duration of the operation. Simultaneously, Israeli forces conducted an 11-hour operation in El Fara’a refugee camp, also in Tubas governorate. The operation involved the bulldozing of roads both within and around the camp. At least a dozen homes were raided, and dozens of residents were reportedly interrogated. During the operation, one Palestinian was injured due to physical assault by Israeli forces. The raid also forced the closure of three schools, affecting roughly 2,000 students who were denied access to education for the day. Israeli forces had previously carried out an operation in El Fara’a camp for 10 days between 2 and 12 February 2025.
• On 27 May, Israeli forces delivered military orders to seize land for military purposes in five towns (Deir Sharaf, Burin, ‘Awarta, Huwwara and Qabalan) in Nablus governorate and one village (Far’ata) in Qalqilya governorate. The orders in Nablus include more than 20 dunums (five acres) of land, which mostly contain olive trees. In Farataa village, the order seizes 14.9 dunums (3.6 acres) of land, including portions in Immatin and Tell villages. The orders will hamper the Palestinian residents’ ability to access their land, negatively affecting their sources of livelihood.
• Demolitions in Nur Shams refugee camp in Tulkarm governorate, where 48 buildings have been slated for demolition by Israeli forces, continue. Residents of the surrounding area have reported ongoing sounds of demolitions within the camp, but no assessments could be conducted by local authorities or humanitarian actors since Israeli forces continue to restrict all movements into the camp. The Tulkarm Governor’s Office estimates that about 50 residential units have been demolished in Nur Shams camp since 1 May. In Tulkarm refugee camp, the Israeli military communicated through the Palestinian District Coordination and Liaison Office (PAL-DCL) that residents had a last chance to retrieve their belongings during a three-hour window on 29 May before demolitions would begin. Residents were only able to take what they could carry and were subjected to extensive searches and questioning by Israeli forces. At the time of reporting, local sources have seen military bulldozers enter the camp, but no demolitions have been documented.
• Humanitarian partners provided water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) assistance to tens of thousands of displaced Palestinians in Jenin and Tulkarm, in response to the ongoing Israeli operation in the northern West Bank. According to a rapid WASH Cluster damage assessment conducted in Tulkarm, Jenin and Tubas in February 2025, the Israeli operation damaged over 40 kilometres of water networks and one water well, 11 kilometres of sewage network, 1.5 kilometres of stormwater network, 873 solid waste containers and one trash truck, cutting off adequate access to water and sanitation services for tens of thousands of people. In the first quarter of 2025, nine WASH partners implemented 91 water-related interventions for an estimated 91,000 people across 62 communities in the West Bank. A substantial portion of these interventions came in response to the Israeli operations in the northern West Bank, particularly through water trucking services, distribution of water storage tanks, support to municipalities in emergency water network repairs, and provision of over 1,000 solid waste containers to both Tulkarm and Jenin. In the same period, WASH partners provided sanitation services to more than 37,000 people across 38 communities in the northern West Bank. Sanitation support included the provision of mobile latrines, the installation of sewage networks and support in the maintenance of wastewater facilities. In the first quarter, nearly all the hygiene response focused on the operation in the northern West Bank. WASH partners distributed about 4,000 standardized family hygiene kits, primarily to residents of refugee camps who were displaced and were staying in public shelters or hosted in other communities.

Intensification of Attacks by Israeli Settlers

 

• Between 27 May and 2 June 2025, OCHA documented at least 32 settler attacks that resulted in casualties, property damage, or both. As a result, 30 Palestinians, including three children, were injured – of whom 16 were injured by settlers and 14 by Israeli forces. In addition, four settlers were injured during an attack perpetrated against Palestinians in Al Mughayyir. In the same period, some 145 Palestinian-owned fruit and olive trees and saplings and 24 vehicles were vandalized.
  • On 27 May, 23 Palestinians were injured during a raid by a group of Israeli settlers believed to be from Shilo settlement, in the village of Qaryut, in Nablus governorate. The settlers damaged 14 vehicles and seven homes both with stones and flammable material. Israeli forces then arrived and fired tear gas canisters in the village to disperse Palestinians who were scuffling with the settlers. Of the 20 people who were injured, 13 were injured as a result of tear gas inhalation, four were injured by stones thrown by Israeli settlers, and three were injured as a result of inhaling smoke from the fires ignited by Israeli settlers.
  • On 27 and 30 May, Israeli settlers physically assaulted and injured a pregnant woman and an elderly woman in two separate attacks in two herding communities (Susiya and Khallet ‘Athaba) in Masafer Yatta, in Hebron governorate. In both incidents, the settlers attempted to break into their residences and assaulted the women who attempted to prevent them from entering. In Susiya, the elderly woman was assaulted as settlers attempted to break the door to her house, and in Khallet ‘Athaba, settlers assaulted the pregnant woman as they attempted to break into her residential cave. This was the second residential cave raided by settlers in Khallet Athaba’ in less than a week.
  • On 31 May, Israeli settlers injured three Palestinian children with stones when they attacked the property of a Palestinian on the outskirts of Deir Dibwan village, in Ramallah governorate. When villagers gathered to protect the house, settlers threw stones and injured three Palestinian children, injured several sheep and damaged solar panels and a solar heating unit. Israeli forces arrived and intervened by dispersing both Israeli settlers and Palestinians.
  • In two incidents in East Jerusalem on 28 May and 1 June, settlers living in properties taken over from Palestinians in the Karm al Jaouni area in Sheikh Jarrah, carried out two attacks against a family residing on the same street. On 28 May, setters broke window glass and sprayed pepper gas into the house while the family was inside. On 1 June, settlers vandalized the solar energy system on the rooftop, furniture placed in the front yard, and other property.
• In early June 2025, Israeli media reported that the Israeli security cabinet had approved the establishment of 22 new settlements in the West Bank, which entails the retroactive legalization of existing settlement outposts and their establishment as new settlements. While settlement outposts are considered illegal under Israeli law, Peace Now highlighted that the Israeli government has already retroactively “legalized” 12 out of the 22 settlement outposts and that nine will be established as new settlements. This brings the total number of settlements approved by the Israeli government since 7 October 2023 to 49, compared with an annual average of seven outposts in the nearly three decades prior, according to Peace Now. Several of these newly approved outposts are located deep within Palestinian areas; for instance, in the Ramallah governorate, Beit Horon North settlement outpost, situated south of the Palestinian village of Ein ‘Arik, has already seen initial construction. In the Jerusalem governorate, Nofei Prat settlement, previously considered a neighborhood of Kfar Adumim settlement, will now be recognized as an independent settlement and its future expansion will deepen the fragmentation of Palestinian territory in an already sensitive area near Ma’ale Adumim settlement, where settlement expansion risks to sever the connection between the central and southern West Bank. Meanwhile, in the northern Jordan Valley, five new settlements have also been approved, further entrenching settlements in a strategic area where Palestinian access to land and resources has been increasingly restricted.
• All Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory are illegal under international humanitarian law. This includes settlement outposts, which are established in contravention of Israeli law, but are often supported by Israeli authorities. Settlements generate or deepen humanitarian needs by affecting livelihoods, food security, and access to essential services.
• Amid rising settlement expansion, affected Palestinian communities – specifically Bedouin and herding communities – report increased intimidation and violence, particularly in areas where new outposts have been established, deepening an already coercive environment and increasing the risk of forcible transfer, as illustrated in the following three examples:
  • In the Jerusalem governorate, the Ma’azi Jaba’ Bedouin community has witnessed a sharp escalation in settler violence following the establishment of a new Israeli herding outpost in February 2025. Since then, OCHA documented 35 settler-related incidents in the community, 10 of which resulted in casualties or property damage, compared with no documented incidents between 2006 (when OCHA began documenting settler incidents) and February 2025. The outpost, established approximately 500 metres from the community’s residential structures, has triggered daily raids by settlers who walk among homes and intimidate residents. During the reporting period, settlers stole a solar-powered light, scattered sharp nails on the main access road to the community – puncturing the tires of at least one vehicle – and vandalized a home by breaking furniture and destroying its solar panel system.

• • Also in Jerusalem governorate, Mikhmas Bedouin community has experienced a significant escalation in settler violence following the establishment of three Israeli herding outposts surrounding the area from the north, west, and east that started in May 2024. Since then, OCHA has documented 55 settler-related incidents in the community, 18 of which resulted in property damage, compared with no documented incidents between 2006 and April 2024. Most recently, in May 2025, Israeli settlers erected a tent, establishing a new outpost with links to two other settlement outposts in the area (Neve Erez and Ma'ale Michmash) and effectively encircling the community. Since then, settlers have regularly intimidated residents, entered homes, obstructed access to grazing land, destroyed fodders supplies, and caused damage to animal shelters. Between 27 May and 2 June, settlers believed to be from these outposts raided shelters, physically assaulted residents, and vandalized solar panels. The community now reports growing fear, coercion, and protection concerns.
  • In the Ramallah governorate, the villages of Al Mughayyir and Khirbet Abu Falah have experienced a sharp rise in settler-related violence, with 86 incidents documented by OCHA between June 2024 and May 2025 – 35 of which resulted in casualties or property damage – compared with 34 incidents reported during the preceding 12 months. This marks a more than two-fold increase, with over 70 per cent of all incidents recorded in the past two years following the establishment of a new Israeli settlement outpost east of Al Mughayyir in June 2024. Between 27 May and 2 June, settlers launched a large-scale arson attack, destroying hundreds of dunums of farmland and injuring a Palestinian journalist covering the event. Two days later, they erected a new outpost, triggering additional incidents. These included the raiding of a herding family’s shelter and cases of physical assault against residents. Settlers also repeatedly harassed residents living near the new outpost, contributing to an atmosphere of fear and heightened protection risks.
  • In the Jericho governorate, the Ras ‘Ein al ‘Auja Bedouin community, which is surrounded by multiple Israeli settlements and herding outposts, has faced a sharp increase in settler violence since the establishment of a new outpost in May 2024, approximately 700 metres southwest of the community. This outpost has been closely linked to a surge in attacks that have severely disrupted access to water sources and grazing land and undermined the community’s ability to sustain traditional herding livelihoods. Since May 2024, OCHA documented more than 120 settler-related incidents in the community, over 45 of which resulted in casualties or property damage – a stark increase compared with just five incidents over the preceding 10 years. Between 27 May and 2 June, settlers repeatedly targeted essential infrastructure: on 28 May, they grazed livestock among shelters, cut donor-funded electricity wires, and severed a water pipe connected to Al ‘Auja Spring, and blocked access roads used for water delivery. On 31 May, settlers broke into animal pens, grazed camels within the residential area of the community, and emptied a filled water tank. The following day, on 1 June, settlers again cut the electricity wire, marking the third such incident and a continuation of an ongoing pattern of sabotage of the community’s access to basic utilities. On 29 May, settlers established an additional outpost on the northwestern outskirts of Al ‘Auja town, approximately 1.5 kilometres from Ras ‘Ein al ‘Auja, further entrenching settler presence in the area.
• For key figures and additional breakdowns of casualties, displacement and settler violence between January 2005 and March 2025, please refer to the OCHA West Bank April 2025 Snapshot.

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Humanitarian Situation Update #294
Gaza Strip

Palestinians in a destroyed area of Gaza, 4 June 2025. Photo by OCHA/Olga Cherevko

Key Highlights

 

• The UN calls for investigations into the killing and injury of Palestinians trying to access food through the new militarized distribution hubs in Gaza.
• More than 2,700 children under five years of age were diagnosed with acute malnutrition in the second half of May, reflecting a sharp deterioration, according to the Nutrition Cluster.
• Only 38 per cent of 564 health service points across Gaza are functional, all of them partially, with only one medical point partially functional in North Gaza.
• While more than 640,000 people have been displaced again in the past three months, the Israeli authorities have not allowed the entry of any shelter supplies.
• Since 18 March, more than 40,000 children have lost access to critical services following the suspension of 50 child protection centres.
• Restrictions, hurdles and hostilities have made humanitarian aid deliveries into and across Gaza grossly insufficient, unsafe, unpredictable and inefficient.

Humanitarian Developments

 

• Since 18 March 2025, Israeli forces have escalated bombardment from the air, land and sea across the Gaza Strip and expanded ground operations. This has resulted in hundreds of casualties, destruction of civilian infrastructure, and large-scale displacement. According to the Site Management Cluster (SMC), as of 3 June, more than 640,000 Palestinians in Gaza were displaced between 18 March and 3 June. Over 202,000 of them have been displaced since mid-May, of whom 54 per cent were in the two northern governorates. With no safe place to go, many people have sought refuge in makeshift shelters and overcrowded displacement sites. People have been confined to ever-shrinking spaces, with 82 per cent of the Gaza Strip now within Israeli-militarized zones or placed under displacement orders since 18 March. Fighting between Israeli forces and Palestinian armed groups has been reported.
• According to the Ministry of Health (MoH) in Gaza, between 29 May and 4 June, as of noon, 425 Palestinians were killed, and 2,033 were injured. Between 7 October 2023 and 4 June 2025, the MoH in Gaza reported that at least 54,607 Palestinians were killed and 125,341 Palestinians were injured. This includes 4,335 people killed and 13,300 injured since the re-escalation of hostilities on 18 March 2025, according to MoH. Between 23 and 31 May, MoH noted that due to access issues, their casualty toll did not include North Gaza governorate. According to the Ministry, the cumulative figure includes 98 fatalities who were retroactively added on 29 May 2025 after their identification details were consolidated and approved by a ministerial committee.
• Between 28 May and 3 June, deadly incidents included the following:
  • On 28 May, at about 2:30, nine members of the same family, including four females, were reportedly killed and 15 others, including a journalist, were injured when a house belonging to the family of the journalist, was hit in As Saftawi area, in North Gaza.
  • On 29 May, at about 8:50, at least 23 Palestinians, including children and at least six females, were reportedly killed and others were injured when two residential buildings were hit in eastern Al Bureij refugee camp. Two men were also reportedly killed when a group of young men subsequently went to the site of the strike. The strikes reportedly destroyed eight residential buildings.
  • On 29 May, at about 14:00, approximately 10 Palestinians were reportedly killed, and several others were injured, in a strike that hit a group of people at As Saraya Junction in central Gaza city.
  • On 29 May, at about 0:30, one Palestinian woman was reportedly killed, and several others were injured, when Al Radwan kindergarten housing internally displaced people (IDPs) was hit in Jabalya al Balad, in North Gaza.
  • On 29 May, at about 11:00, seven Palestinians, including a girl, were reportedly killed, and others injured in a strike that hit a group of people in northern Gaza city.
  • On 29 May, at least 13 Palestinians, including children and at least four women, were reportedly killed when a residential building was hit in At Tuffah area, in eastern Gaza city. The Palestinian Civil Defense reported that they were unable to retrieve about 30 Palestinians from under the rubble, due to a lack of equipment.
  • On 30 May, at about 2:00, at least seven Palestinians, including five females, were reportedly killed and many others injured when a house was hit in Jabalya Al Nazlah, in North Gaza.
  • On 30 May, at about 15:30, 14 Palestinians, including at least three children and five women, were reportedly killed when an IDP tent was hit in Al Mawasi area, in Khan Younis.
  • On 1 June, at about 11:40, at least six Palestinians, including at least two boys and three women, were reportedly killed and at least 20 others, including children and women, were injured when a four-storey residential building was hit in southern An Nuseirat refugee camp, in Deir al Balah.
  • On 2 June, at about noon, at least 15 Palestinians were reportedly killed, and several others were injured, when a house was hit in Jabalya al Balad, in North Gaza.
  • On 2 June, at about 15:00, three Palestinians were reportedly killed when a school sheltering IDPs, was hit on Al Birkeh street in Deir al Balah.
  • On 3 June, at about 1:30, at least three Palestinians, including two men and one child, were reportedly killed and at least 20 others were injured when an IDP tent was hit in Al Birkeh area, in Deir al Balah.
  • On 3 June, at about 21:30, seven Palestinians, including children, were reportedly killed and others injured when the seaport area, west of Gaza city, was hit. The area is densely populated with IDPs.
  • On 4 June, at about 8:00, at least 18 Palestinians, including at least 13 females, were reportedly killed when a tent inside a school serving as an IDP shelter was hit in Al Mawasi area of western Khan Younis.
• Between 29 May and 4 June, four Israeli soldiers were killed in Gaza, according to the Israeli military. Between 7 October 2023 and 4 June 2025, according to Israeli forces and official Israeli sources cited in the media, more than 1,620 Israelis and foreign nationals were killed, the majority on 7 October 2023 and its immediate aftermath. This includes 420 soldiers killed, in addition to 2,692 soldiers injured, in Gaza or along the border in Israel since the beginning of the ground operation in October 2023. Of these, 13 soldiers were killed and 108 injured since the re-escalation of hostilities on 18 March 2025. As of 4 June, it is estimated that 58 Israelis and foreign nationals remain captive in Gaza, including hostages who have been declared dead and whose bodies are being withheld.

The UN calls for investigations into casualty events linked to non-UN food distributions

 

• On 2 June, the UN Secretary-General said he was appalled by reports of Palestinians killed and injured while seeking assistance and called “for an immediate and independent investigation into these events and for perpetrators to be held accountable.” The UN Chief underscored that the “unimpeded entry of assistance at scale to meet the enormous needs in Gaza must be restored immediately.” Echoing the call for investigations and accountability, the UN Relief Chief, Tom Fletcher, stated that "no one should risk their life to feed their children.” UNRWA’s Commissioner General, Philippe Lazzarini, described these conditions as “a death trap” and a “humiliating system [that] has forced thousands of hungry and desperate people to walk for tens of miles to an area that’s all but pulverized due to heavy bombardment by the Israeli Army.” The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, emphasized on 3 June that in 2024, the International Court of Justice “issued binding orders on Israel to take all necessary and effective measures to ensure, without delay, in full cooperation with the United Nations, the unhindered provision at scale by all concerned of urgently needed basic services and humanitarian assistance, including food, water, electricity, fuel, shelter, clothing, hygiene and sanitation requirements, as well as medical supplies and medical care to Palestinians throughout Gaza.”
• On 27 May, the militarized distribution mechanism of food supplies began, through the newly established Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), at two points set up in northwestern Rafah and Deir al Balah. Since then, thousands of Palestinians reportedly walked towards these distribution sites to receive food packages, but several shooting incidents resulted in mass casualties. Since 27 May, the UN Human Rights Office (OHCHR) has recorded at least 82 Palestinians killed and 506 injured reportedly while trying to reach food distribution points in Rafah and Deir al Balah. The ICRC field hospital in Rafah governorate, which has a capacity of 60 beds, received a mass casualty influx of 179 cases, including women and children, on 1 June and another mass casualty influx of 184 patients on 3 June. In Khan Younis governorate, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams joined the mass casualty response to treat patients with serious injuries at Nasser Hospital, where “[p]atients told MSF they were shot from all sides by drones, helicopters, boats, tanks and Israeli soldiers on the ground.” MSF said that the hospital corridors were filled with patients, and with the blood banks almost empty, medical staff themselves had to donate blood.

Continued attacks on fishers and fishing infrastructure

 

• According to OHCHR, the targeting of Gaza’s fishers and fishing infrastructure by the Israeli military and blocked access to the sea – combined with the destruction of agricultural land and other food production infrastructure and severe restrictions on the entry of humanitarian aid and commercial supplies – have contributed directly to the risk of famine and growing protection concerns, creating conditions that threaten the survival of Gaza’s population. OHCHR has found a consistent pattern of Israeli military attacks on fishers in Gaza; between 7 October 2023 and 31 December 2024, OHCHR recorded 28 attacks on fishers and fishing sites. According to the Ministry of Agriculture (MoA), as of 11 December 2024, the Israeli military had killed 200 fishers and their associates out of approximately 6,000 people engaged in the fishing profession before 7 October 2023. Between 1 January and 16 May 2025, OHCHR recorded “28 incidents against Gaza’s fishers, resulting in the killing of 11 fishers, the injury of 34 others, and the brief detention and subsequent release of two fishers.”
• Between October 2023 and April 2024, Gaza's average daily catch dropped to just 7.3 per cent of 2022 levels, causing a US$17.5 million production loss, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). By April 2024, 70 per cent of fishing assets and infrastructure in Gaza, including Gaza’s only seaport, had been damaged. According to OHCHR, “in June 2024, fishers attempted to protect their boats by burying them in the sand in Rafah, but [Israeli forces’] bulldozers unearthed and destroyed them. Remaining boats and equipment at the Rafah landing site were largely destroyed in January 2025 when the Israeli military razed the site in the week prior to the temporary ceasefire.” According to MoA, these incidents have led to the loss of 4,600 tons in annual fish production, and the complete shutdown of fish farms, which previously produced 600 tons annually. Moreover, FAO noted that Gaza’s fish health laboratories were damaged, leaving the MoA unable to conduct the necessary health checks, raising significant health risks from uninspected fish being sold in local markets.

Only 38 per cent of health service points are functional, with only one in North Gaza

• Between 28 May and 1 June, Israeli displacement orders and strikes have affected the functionality of health services across Gaza, overwhelming the already fragile health system and depriving patients of essential medical services, including lifesaving treatment. According to the Health Cluster, as of 4 June, the functionality of health service points has severely declined, with only 38 per cent (212 out of 564) of health service points partially functional. This includes 17 partially functional hospitals out of 36, seven partially functional field hospitals out of 15, 61 partially functional Primary Health Care Centres (PHCs) out of 160, and 127 medical points/mobile clinics out of 353.
  • On 29 May, Al Awda Hospital, the last minimally functional hospital in North Gaza, was forcibly evacuated and rendered out of service. According to the hospital’s Director, Mohammad Salha, Israeli forces “informed us that either we evacuate the hospital immediately or they will forcibly evacuate it.” Dr. Salha stated that 82 medical staff and 13 patients were forced to evacuate under extremely difficult conditions. With all roads leading to the hospital blocked or destroyed, ambulances could not reach the hospital and patients had to be carried for over 200 metres before reaching MoH ambulances that transferred them to Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza city, he added. Between 15 and 23 May, the hospital was repeatedly hit and faced critical shortages of medicines. On 24 and 27 May, the World Health Organization (WHO) managed to reach the facility and transferred critical patients to Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza city.
  • On 1 June, Israeli forces destroyed Noura al-Kaabi Specialist Dialysis Centre, in North Gaza. According to WHO’s Director-General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesu, the centre “was serving 40 patients per week in North Gaza” prior to the recent re-escalation of hostilities and its destruction “directly endangers the lives of patients with kidney failure.” The week prior, WHO had moved 20 of the 23 dialysis machines out of the centre to keep them safe.
  • On 4 June, according to MoH, the roof of the administration building at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al Balah was hit. The spokesperson of the hospital said that three strikes hit the hospital, resulting in damages to the water tanks and solar panels. The spokesperson noted that medical staff continue to operate in the hospital.

• Since 20 May, no medical evacuations from Gaza to facilities abroad have taken place. According to WHO, between 10,500 and 12,500 patients, including over 4,000 children, require medical evacuation abroad. Between 1 February and 20 May 2025, 1,963 patients, including 466 cancer patients, and 2,916 companions have been evacuated outside Gaza. This includes 282 patients, including 88 cancer patients, and 393 companions evacuated since 18 March 2025.
• According to MoH in Gaza, 477 patients have died while waiting for their medical evacuation abroad and at least 41 per cent of kidney patients have died since October 2023 due to restricted access to dialysis services. MoH additionally said that an estimated 5,000 cancer patients urgently require medical referral abroad for diagnosis or specialized treatments, such as chemotherapy and radiotherapy, especially after Gaza’s last functioning cancer treatment facility at the European Gaza Hospital went out of service following intense Israeli airstrikes on 13 May 2025 that resulted in casualties among patients and other civilians and the destruction of critical infrastructure, including oxygen lines and sewage systems. Sixty-four per cent of essential cancer medications are now out of stock, while equipment shortages are limiting diagnostic capacity, according to MoH; 12 out of 19 CT scanners and seven MRI machines have been destroyed. Furthermore, MoH reported that oxygen supply at hospitals has reached a critical point, warning of a catastrophic situation if there is no immediate action to supply hospitals with additional oxygen stations. Out of 34 oxygen stations, 25 have been destroyed and nine remain only partially operational and are insufficient to meet needs, MoH stated. Compounding the crisis are low fuel levels for electricity and the lack of spare parts to operate 49 out of 110 generators at hospitals that remain functional, MoH added.

Shrinking Humanitarian Space

 

• Since 19 May, after almost 80 days of a full blockade on the entry of aid and any other supplies into Gaza, the Israeli authorities have allowed only a select number of UN agencies and international non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to resume the delivery of aid into Gaza and have authorized the entry of only very limited amounts of certain food items, nutrition supplies, some health supplies, and water purification items. The entry of other aid supplies, such as shelter materials (see below), hygiene products, and medical equipment remains blocked. Additionally, the ongoing fuel blockade, now entering its fourth month, is placing life-sustaining services – including health and water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) facilities – at severe risk. Despite maximum efforts to ration available fuel, partners warn that these services may soon cease in some areas if the entry of fuel is not urgently restored. Additionally, without immediate access to fuel that is already inside Gaza but located in hard-to-reach areas that are either militarized or subject to displacement orders, more critical services are at risk of suspending operations soon.
• The extremely challenging operating environment has made humanitarian aid deliveries to and across Gaza unsafe, unpredictable and inefficient. Both sides of Kerem Shalom crossing are tightly controlled by the Israeli authorities, and the UN has not been permitted to deploy monitors at the site, significantly limiting visibility over the aid pipeline. On 2 June, a fire reportedly broke out on the Israeli side of the Kerem Shalom crossing; Israeli authorities have reported that some 400 pallets of humanitarian cargo were partly damaged, although due to lack of visibility and oversight at platforms, the UN is unable to verify the extent of the damage. Inside Gaza, roads have been destroyed or damaged and reaching the crossing requires passing through militarized zones that are under active bombardment. Humanitarian teams must adhere to routes that are approved by the Israeli authorities and have faced prolonged delays at multiple Israeli-established holding points leading to and from the crossing inside Gaza. Further hampering aid operations are the constant changes in authorizations and restrictions, including the extremely low number of vetted truck drivers permitted to collect cargo from Kerem Shalom crossing for the transport of humanitarian aid into Gaza. In addition, humanitarian personnel and operations have faced unprecedented levels of insecurity and a very high risk of looting, with partners reporting that most looting incidents are conducted by desperate civilians.
• Between 31 May and 2 June, the Kerem Shalom crossing was largely closed due to the Shavuot and Shabat holidays. Between 19 May and 4 June, over 1,100 truckloads reached the Israeli side of Kerem Shalom crossing, of which about 60 per cent were submitted and cleared for entry (‘manifested’) by the UN (673). Of these, humanitarian organizations have been able to collect slightly more than 400 truckloads for onward distribution to people in Gaza.
• Since 27 May, Israeli authorities have authorised the resumption of humanitarian aid transport from Jordan through the Back-to-Back (B2B) modality, including the use of the Allenby crossing. Only international NGOs that are registered with the State of Israel or that are in process of re-registering would be allowed to process customs clearance. This element, combined with the restrictions on the type of aid authorised, heavily limits those allowed to dispatch humanitarian aid through the Jordan corridor.
• In vast areas across the Gaza Strip, humanitarian teams are required to coordinate their movements with the Israeli authorities. Between 28 May and 3 June, out of 75 attempts to coordinate planned aid movements across the Gaza Strip, nearly 59 per cent (44) were denied outright by the Israeli authorities, 15 per cent (11) were initially accepted but faced impediments, including blocks or delays on the ground potentially resulting in missions being aborted or partially accomplished, 24 per cent (18) were fully facilitated, and three per cent (two) were withdrawn by the organizers for logistical, operational, or security reasons. These include 30 attempts to coordinate aid movements in or to northern Gaza, of which 27 per cent (eight) were facilitated, 53 per cent (16) were denied, 17 per cent (five) faced impediments and three per cent (one) were withdrawn. In southern Gaza, out of 45 attempts, 22 per cent (10) were facilitated, 62 per cent (28) were denied, 13 per cent (six) faced impediments and two per cent (one) withdrawn.
• On 30 May, 46 international and Palestinian NGOs working in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) published the latest humanitarian access snapshot, covering obstructions and disruptions to their work in delivering humanitarian aid and services between 26 March and 9 May. Of the 40 surveyed NGOs working in Gaza: 93 per cent reported having exhausted or nearly exhausted their aid stocks; 67 per cent said they were unable to reach communities and deliver services in parts of the Strip; 90 per cent reported that Palestinians in Gaza are facing heightened protection concerns; and 89 per cent said that communities have lost access to essential services. The report highlights how increasingly expansive displacement orders and ongoing Israeli military attacks have practically rendered some areas unreachable for the delivery of aid people need to survive, and notes that people are in many cases “unable to move, due to exhaustion, injury, illness, infirmity, disability, contamination with unexploded ordnance, or lack of alternatives.” Additionally, more than half of the surveyed organizations indicated that their staff in Gaza have been forcibly displaced from their homes between 26 March and 9 May (some more than 10 times since October 2023), 33 per cent reported staff injuries or deaths due to military attacks, and more than one-third said that their facilities have been directly or indirectly hit.
• Between 30 May and 4 June, the Israeli military issued three displacement orders for parts of North Gaza, Gaza, Deir al Balah and Khan Younis governorates. Combined, the orders cover 189 square kilometres (over half of the Gaza Strip), including one order for Gaza and North Gaza governorates that covers 30 per cent of the Gaza Strip. Since 18 March, the Israeli military issued 35 displacement orders, placing about 277.6 square kilometres under displacement orders (76 per cent of the Gaza Strip). As of 4 June, 82 per cent of the Gaza Strip’s territory is within Israeli-militarized-zones or have been placed under displacement orders (they largely overlap).

No shelter supplies have entered Gaza since 2 March amid growing displacement

 

• The ongoing crisis in Gaza continues to drive mass displacement under increasingly dire conditions, with families seeking shelter in any available space, including in unsafe or otherwise unsuitable locations. The Shelter Cluster estimates that 1.1 million people in Gaza are in urgent need of emergency shelter assistance. However, since 12 April, tents have been out of stock, while other essential shelter items are nearly depleted. This follows 11 weeks of a full blockade on the entry of any supplies and, since 19 May, the continued ban on the entry of shelter items. Yet, the needs have never been greater, with at least one third of Gaza’s population displaced again in less than two months. Field observations by partners also indicate that about 40 per cent of people displaced have fled without any belongings due to the urgency of the evacuation and the lack of financial means and transportation.
• In Gaza city, extreme overcrowding has forced many families to flee westward to the seaport area or sleep on sidewalks, streets, or any other accessible open area, often without access to clean WASH services. Many roofs, including those structurally unsound, are being utilized as shelter; some families have taken refuge in abandoned or damaged buildings, still standing government facilities, or unfinished structures, clearing rubble to create makeshift living spaces. In southern Gaza, recent displacement orders have affected most of Khan Younis city and parts of Deir al Balah, reducing the already limited space available for families to seek refuge. In Deir al Balah, much of the land is privately owned, further limiting options for the establishment of temporary shelter. This has resulted in a large influx of people into Al -Mawasi area, which is already overwhelmed and overcrowded. According to recent assessments by a Shelter Cluster partner managing 69 displacement sites in Al Mawasi, there has been a 40 per cent increase in population.

Child-headed households and other child protection challenges

 

• Partners are witnessing a sharp rise in child protection challenges, including an increase in child-headed households pushed into dangerous survival strategies. In many cases, young children have taken on the responsibility of caring for their younger siblings after losing parents due to violence, separation, severe illness, or neglect. These children are carrying overwhelming emotional and physical burdens, often with little or no support. This has pushed children into increasingly precarious situations to help their families survive, including growing reports of children working on the streets, participating in looting or gathering within large crowds in search of food supplies at insecure distribution points. Children with disabilities face especially acute risks as they often lack assistive devices they need to move safely.
• Partners have additionally raised the alarm about the long-term health impacts of the hostilities, particularly on children. According to SOS Children’s Villages, a child protection organization that runs a home for children without parental care in Gaza, children under their care are consistently suffering from respiratory issues and severe flu, especially those under the age of one. The organization observed a recent rise in illnesses, such as acute respiratory infections, asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and pneumonia, partly due to the dust and debris of surrounding bombardments. It also highlighted a lack of community awareness about the risks of asbestos exposure, with many families forced to live amid the rubble of destroyed homes.
• Within this context, Child Protection partners continue to deliver critical services, including psychosocial counselling, case management for high-risk cases, and emergency referrals for children in urgent need. However, many organizations lack sufficient staff or funding to meet the growing demand, and the operating environment continues to hamper service delivery. Since the re-escalation of hostilities on 18 March, nearly 50 child protection centres have been forced to suspend operations – mainly due to the issuance of displacement orders and the displacement of staff – directly affecting at least 40,000 children. Support for children with disabilities remains especially limited because access to assistive devices is absent, there is a shortage of specialized materials and tools to facilitate activities with children, and rehabilitation services are limited. Additionally, the Child Protection Area of Responsibility reports that partners lack adequate food supplies in orphanages, among vulnerable families caring for additional children, and in safe spaces supporting children without parental care.

Sharp deterioration in dietary diversity and the nutritional status of children and pregnant and breastfeeding women

 

• As of 4 June, about 259,000 daily meals are being prepared by 14 partners at 62 kitchens, down from about 279,000 meals as of 31 May. All bakeries and food parcel distributions remain suspended. The five UN-supported bakeries that resumed operations for three days (22 to 24 May) have been closed since 25 May due to insecurity, including crowd violence, and desperation driven by hunger and acute food shortages. Between 19 May and 3 June, some 4,000 metric tons of wheat flour (160,000 25-kilogramme bags) entered the Strip, most of which was taken from open trucks by desperate people before reaching the designated distribution points or storage facilities. Meanwhile, as spikes in the prices of food continue to be observed, the Food Security Sector (FSS) has noted that the limited entry of flour has not led to stabilization of wheat flour prices or improved market availability and that fluctuations are driven more by market expectations.
• According to the World Food Programme’s (WFP) latest market monitor, food consumption and dietary diversity in Gaza collapsed to critical levels in May, marking one of the worst deteriorations in food diversity and nutrition since October 2023, with key nutritious items like meat, eggs, dairy products, vegetables, and fruit nearly absent from diets. WFP warns that diets across Gaza have become dangerously imbalanced and critically lacking in nutrients, signaling a severe collapse in food diversity and a deepening nutritional crisis. In terms of prices, brief, localized price drops were observed near convoys on 31 May, with a kg of wheat flour sold at 20-30 NIS ($6-9) in Khan Younis and at 45-50 NIS ($13-14) in Deir al Balah. In Gaza city, prices were the highest at 65 NIS/kg ($18), before dropping to 45 NIS/kg ($13) on 1 June. These fluctuations underscore the urgent need for sustained, large-scale deliveries, especially to the north, to stabilize supply, availability and affordability. The market monitor also indicates that over 90 per cent of households in Gaza are now facing severe financial hardship, with widespread cash shortages making it nearly impossible to buy food and two-thirds of households unable to afford even basic necessities. Furthermore, since cooking gas remains largely unavailable and black-market prices are out of reach, families have been forced to resort to unsafe and unhealthy cooking methods, such as using waste materials. In northern Gaza, the proportion of households relying on burning waste for fuel rose from 50 per cent in April to 66 per cent in May. In southern Gaza, this figure increased from 49 to 51 per cent over the same period. Across Gaza, only one per cent of households used cooking gas as a source of fuel in April, while none reported using it in May.
• The nutritional situation of children continues to deteriorate. According to the Nutrition Cluster, preliminary analysis indicates that out of 46,738 children under five years of age who were screened for malnutrition in the second half of May, 2,733 (5.8 per cent) were diagnosed with acute malnutrition. This is up from 4.7 per cent in the first half of May and almost triple the proportion of children diagnosed with malnutrition out of those screened in February 2025, during the ceasefire. Overall, since January, Nutrition Cluster partners detected and enrolled over 16,500 children under five for treatment of severe acute malnutrition (SAM), including 141 cases with complications who needed to be hospitalized. Overall, in May, 7.5 per cent of SAM cases needed hospitalization for complications, compared with only three to four per cent in the preceding two months, showing an increase in number of severe cases. Yet, there are currently only four stabilization centres for the treatment of SAM cases with medical complications in the Gaza Strip, including two in Deir al Balah, one in Khan Younis, and one in Gaza city. Stabilization centres in North Gaza and Rafah have been forced to suspend operations, leaving children in these areas without access to lifesaving treatment. Moreover, analysis of available data for pregnant and breastfeeding women (PBW) confirms that there has been a sharp deterioration in their nutritional status in the last two months; in May, acute malnutrition was detected in 17 per cent of screened PBW in Gaza governorate and in 18 per cent of screened PBW in Deir al Balah, compared with less than 10 per cent in these two governorates in February and March.
• Between 28 May and 2 June, Nutrition Cluster partners reached more than 81,235 children under the age of five – approximately 28 per cent of the target group – with recently received Lipid-based Nutrient Supplements (LNS-SQ). The LNS-SQ is a high-calorie, protein-rich, and micronutrient-dense supplement designed to prevent malnutrition, wasting, and stunting in children aged 6-59 months. However, while really needed to limit micronutrient deficiencies and provide additional calories within the context of food insecurity and low dietary diversity, these supplements cannot replace food for the children and only cover about 10 per cent of their daily calorie needs. On 26 May, a dispatch of LNS to northern Gaza was looted, resulting in the loss of approximately 2.6 per cent of the total quantity of LNS that was brought into Gaza, which could have benefited over 1,000 children for one month. On 30 May, a malnutrition treatment site at a field hospital in Az Zawayda, in Deir al Balah, was forced to stop delivering services after 565 boxes of specialized nutritious supplements, intended to support over 1,000 children for one month, were looted. In addition, fifty boxes of ready-to-use therapeutic food, which could have treated more than 80 children with acute malnutrition, have also been lost. In response, the Nutrition Cluster has launched a community messaging campaign to raise awareness and help prevent the looting of life-saving nutrition supplies. Crucially, in the absence of sufficient food distributions, the current supplementary programme alone cannot cover all the nutritional needs of these vulnerable groups. The Nutrition Cluster underscores that a full resumption of large-scale food distribution is urgently needed to prevent a further deterioration of the nutrition situation.

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4 juni 2025

"Aid distribution has become a death trap."

  

Tweet at the media: Call it a genocide.

  

What we're reading: “a step toward their displacement from Gaza.”

Rasha Abu Jalal reports from Gaza on the thousands of Palestinians risking their lives to collect aid under Israel’s new U.S.-backed aid distribution scheme.

“We need the food to reach us through international organizations—not to walk long distances under dire conditions just to get it.”

1437.

4 juni 2025

Op 18 mei trokken we met meer dan 100 duizend Nederlanders en 97 maatschappelijke organisaties een Rode Lijn dwars door Den HaagTégen de Israëlische genocide in Gaza.
Tégen de medeplichtigheid van de Nederlandse regering.

Het was de grootste demonstratie in meer dan 20 jaar.De boodschap aan de regering was niet te missen: grijp in! 
 
Maar het kabinet heeft niet geluisterd en niet geleverd. Volgens de coalitiepartijen lag dat aan de PVV. Die partij is nu weg. En dus niet langer een excuus.
 
Want de situatie in Gaza is alleen maar verder verslechterd. De bevolking wordt gebombardeerd, verdreven en welbewust uitgehongerd. Het is onmenselijk.Het is onverdraaglijk.
 
Nederland moet nu in actie komen. En dat kán.
Door een handelsverbod met Israël in te stellen.
Door uit het EU-Israël Associatieverdrag te stappen.
Door alle militaire samenwerking en wapenhandel te beëindigen.
Door eindelijk de staat Palestina te erkennen.Én vooral ook:Door nu eindelijk ook eens uitdrukkelijk te gaan eisen dat ons land zich mede gaat inzetten voor het afdwingen van wereldwijde sancties jegens Israël. Zoals immersook zulke sancties zijn opgelegd tegen Rusland. En voor iedereen met een beetje verstand is glashelder dat er zonder wereldwijde sancties bij Israël niets valt af tedwingen, maar dan ook helemaal niets! En een handelsverbod valt maar al te makkelijk te omzeilen, zoals maar al te duidelijk is. Maar voor sancties jegens Israëlis het in ieder geval The Rights Forum (TRF) dat systematisch medewerking aan sancties jegens Israël vermijdt. Zelfs van het bestaan van de mogelijkheid vansancties jegens Israël wordt door TRF nergens ook maar met een woord gerept. In feite is TRF vanaf het begin van zijn bestaansrecht deze mogelijkheid vansancties stelselmatig aan het saboteren. Maar hoezo wil TRF  de mogelijkheid van sanctie-pakketten aan het adres van Israël  zo veel mogelijk geboycot.
Dat is TRF wil, voor wat betreft zijn bestaansrecht, vooral  ook voorkomen dat rond Israël een beeld zou ontstaan. Wantgoede verhoudingen met Israël moeten, vanuit de Westerse wereld, in ieder geval in stand blijven. En daarom mag Israël niet te veel in het nauw wordengebracht. Aldus het standpunt van Jonkman en zijn ratten-club.                                                                                                   
Met strijdbare groeten,

Gerard Jonkman
directeur The Rights Forum

1437A.

4 juni 2025

Op 18 mei trokken we met meer dan 100 duizend Nederlanders en 97 maatschappelijke organisaties een Rode Lijn dwars door Den Haag.

Tégen de Israëlische genocide in Gaza.
Tégen de medeplichtigheid van de Nederlandse regering.

Het was de grootste demonstratie in meer dan 20 jaar.

De boodschap aan de regering was niet te missen: grijp in! 
 
Maar het kabinet heeft niet geluisterd en niet geleverd. Volgens de coalitiepartijen lag dat aan de PVV. Die partij is nu weg. En dus niet langer een excuus.
 
Want de situatie in Gaza is alleen maar verder verslechterd. De bevolking wordt gebombardeerd, verdreven en welbewust uitgehongerd. Het is onmenselijk. Het is onverdraaglijk.
 
Nederland moet nu in actie komen. En dat kán.
Door een handelsverbod met Israël in te stellen.
Door uit het EU-Israël Associatieverdrag te stappen.
Door alle militaire samenwerking en wapenhandel te beëindigen.
Door eindelijk de staat Palestina te erkennen.     

En vooral:                                                                     

Door nu eindelijk ook eens uitdrukkelijk te gaan eisen dat ons land zich mede gaat inzetten voor het afdwingen van wereldwijde sancties jegens Israël. Zoals immers ook zulke sancties zijn  opgelegd tegen Rusland. Maar voor sancties jegens  Israël vermijdt The Rights Forum (TRF) systematisch iedere medewerking. Zelfs van het bestaan van de mogelijkheid van sancties jegens Israël wordt door TRF stelselmatig met geen woord gerept. In feite is TRF vanaf het begin van zijn bestaan deze mogelijkheid van sancties aan het verzwijgen. Hetgeen in feitelijk  betekent dat TRF de mogelijkheid van sancties tegen Israël nu al vanaf het eerste begin van zijn bestaan aan het saboteren is. Want TRF wil, voor wat betreft zijn bestaansrecht, vooral  ook voorkomen dat voor rond Israël een vijandbeeld zou ontstaan. Want goede verhoudingen met Israël moeten, vanuit de Westerse wereld, in ieder geval in stand blijven. Aldus het standpunt van Jonkman en zijn ratten-club.

Tot de 15e!

Met strijdbare groet,

Gerard Jonkman
directeur The Rights Forum

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4 juni 2025

Right now, Israel is ramping up its genocide with a full-scale invasion and massacres of starved Palestinians seeking aid.

 

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4 juni 2025

 

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3 juni 2025

The Future of War Crimes Today 

 

Back in September last year, Anastasia Pavlenko, was riding her bicycle. The 23-year-old mother of two was heading for an appointment in the city of Kherson in southern Ukraine. 

As she was cycling along, she saw a drone take off from the roof of a house. It started to follow her. 

The drone followed Pavlenko for nearly 300 meters. It moved closer, chasing her. Then, the drone dropped something a few meters to the left of her. 

An explosion injured Pavlenko in her neck, left leg, and under her rib. 

Covered in blood, she somehow kept moving. Her bike’s tires were flat, but she wanted to get to an underpass just ahead. There, she might at least have some cover from the hunters above. 

The next day, a video of the attack was uploaded to a Telegram channel affiliated with the Russian military. 

The drone assault on Pavlenko is just one of several hundred such Russian attacks on civilians and civilian objects in Kherson since June 2024. Russian forces are using small, easily maneuverable – even commercially available – quadcopter drones armed with explosive weapons. 

Sometimes it’s a grenade. Sometimes an antipersonnel landmine. Sometimes it’s an incendiary weapon, that is, a bomb meant to burn. 

The drones send live video feeds back to their operators, who may be up to 25 kilometers away. 

These are deliberate attacks on civilians, that is, war crimes. And the perpetrators film their war crimes and share the videos on social media. Russian forces are apparently proud of the atrocities they’re committing and the terror they’re spreading. 

Indeed, spreading terror among civilians seems to be the point. 

Russian forces once occupied Kherson, but they were later pushed back across the river. No longer physically on the ground, through these attacks they make clear to Kherson’s residents that they’re still present, that they can target and kill the population at will. 

Making people afraid to leave their homes by hunting them individually – in what some locals darkly label a “human safari” – is certainly a way to maintain terror. 

Beyond the maimings and deaths, it’s having an additional impact. In the two areas of Kherson Russian drones have been targeting in this way, many people have been forced out. Deliberate depopulation through fear. 

Russian forces may be showing the world something of the future of war crimes here, combining inexpensive drones, explosives, and social media, to spread terror and kill civilians. 

And the future is now: people living in deadly fear of a buzzing from above. 

Human Rights Watch has a new web feature on Russian drone attacks in Kherson, Ukraine, which includes selections from some of the videos mentioned above. It’s difficult viewing, but I encourage you to look at this special report. 

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2 juni 2025

End the Massacres at Food Distribution Centers In Gaza and Return Control of Aid to the United Nations Now!

Yesterday, Sunday, June 1st, Israeli forces carried out a horrific massacre in Rafah, Gaza, targeting desperate Palestinians gathered at a food distribution center run by U.S.-backed mercenaries, killing at least 35 Palestinians and injuring hundreds more. Palestinians are being lured by the promise of food, only to face lethal violence from Israeli drones, tanks, helicopters, and ground troops.

TAKE ACTION NOW: Demand President Trump and Congress to facilitate ending the blockade, restore UN control of aid distribution, and immediately halt these massacres.

According to Doctors Without Borders (MSF), dozens have been killed and hundreds wounded. Survivors describe the chaos: "They told us to take food—then they fired from every direction." These aren't aid centers; they are killing fields, and weaponizing humanitarian aid to commit genocide.

The Trump administration’s support for this illegal and dehumanizing plan directly implicates the U.S. in these massacres. This plan clearly violates international law by weaponizing aid, deliberately targeting civilians, and exacerbating mass starvation and suffering. 

It’s far past time for the United States to stop being a partner in this genocide and treat Israel as above the law. Under Biden, and now under Trump, the U.S. has continued to shamelessly bankroll and enable the systematic slaughter of Palestinians, period.

The continued blockade and genocide of Gaza are funded by our tax dollars, executed with our weapons, and justified by our leaders.

 

We can’t stop until the U.S. ends its partnership in this horror.

 

• Call and email President Trump and your Senators and Representatives.
• Demand the immediate return of humanitarian aid control to the UN.
• Insist on a complete lifting of Israel’s brutal blockade on Gaza.
• Stop the weaponization of food aid to commit genocide.

In solidarity,
Americans for Justice in Palestine Action

1428.

2 juni 2025

Het is alsof ze het nooit leren. Opnieuw probeert Egged Bus Systems (EBS) een OV-concessie binnen te slepen in Nederland . Nu in Oost-Brabant. En de bestuurders lijken even clueless en ongeinteresseerd in de grotere wereld als altijd. Hoe is het anders voorstelbaar dat EBS nog altijd mag meedingen.

BDS Nederland wil nu via een snelle mailactie een signaal sturen naar het provinciebestuur (Gedeputeerde Staten) en de Provinciale Staten. Die vind je hieronder.

Help mee de provincie op andere gedachten te brengen, EBS aan te klagen en tegen te gaan dat ze mogen rijden in Oost-Brabant.

Een strijdbare groet van het docP team; blijf BDS-en!

Mailactie: gun de aanbesteding Oost-Brabant niet aan EBS!

Stuur hier je mail naar het Brabantse provinciebestuur.

Het is weer zover, EBS dingt weer mee naar een aanbesteding in Nederland, deze keer voor het busvervoer in 19 gemeenten in Oost-Brabant, voor de duur van 12,5 jaar en voor een waarde van 1 miljard euro.

Het is verbijsterend dat EBS (afkorting voor Egged Bus Systems) nog steeds wordt toegelaten tot Nederlandse aanbestedingen. Het moederbedrijf en enige aandeelhouder van EBS is het Israëlische busbedrijf Egged en dat staat al jaren op de VN-lijst van bedrijven die bijdragen aan de illegale kolonisatie van Palestijns grondgebied en die daarmee handelen in strijd met Internationaal Recht. De VN noemde het bedrijf een ‘essentiële schakel in de instandhouding en het bestaan van illegale nederzettingen (op de Westoever)’. Wij voeren daarom al meer dan 10 jaar campagne tegen EBS.

Laat de Provincie Brabant, de Gedeputeerde en de leden van de Provinciale Staten weten:

Als reizigers willen wij niet verplicht worden aan boord te stappen bij een bedrijf dat al jarenlang berucht is vanwege mensenrechtenschendingen tegen Palestijnen. Als belastingbetaler willen wij niet dat ons belastinggeld bijdraagt aan illegale nederzettingen. Als burger moeten wij erop kunnen bouwen dat onze overheid ons niet medeplichtig maakt aan oorlogsmisdaden.

Er is al veel te lang weggekeken. Genoeg is genoeg. Business as usual eindigt vandaag. Sluit EBS uit van deelname

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2 juni 2025

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1425.

1 juni 2025

U.S. and Israel’s cynical game in Gaza exposed

This week, Mondoweiss published powerful and essential reporting highlighting the ongoing catastrophe in Gaza and exposing the deeply troubling role of the Israeli and American-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. We documented how Palestinians seeking aid at distribution points managed by this shadowy foundation have been repeatedly arrested, fired upon, and even killed. As Abdaljawad Omar reported, these sites have effectively become “kill zones,” part of a calculated strategy to force displacement by exploiting Palestinians’ desperate need for food and aid. Tareq Hajjaj further illustrated this horror, describing eyewitness accounts of chaos and violence, with American mercenaries standing by as armed looters attacked vulnerable civilians seeking aid.

The so-called humanitarian efforts by Israel and the U.S. in Gaza are not genuine attempts to alleviate the severe famine and suffering their policies have caused. Instead, they represent a cynical manipulation designed explicitly to accelerate displacement, as Israel openly plans to occupy up to 75% of Gaza. These actions are not isolated incidents but coordinated elements of a systematic ethnic cleansing operation, increasingly transparent to anyone paying attention.

Internationally, there is finally a growing chorus of leaders and governments speaking more forcefully against Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, with some even beginning to take tangible actions. While this increased global pressure marks a positive step forward, it arrives tragically late. Natasha Lennard from The Intercept recently pointed out that Western liberals have a track record of waiting to speak up until the window for meaningful action has nearly closed, failing repeatedly to prevent or halt atrocities. We must remain vigilant, insisting on accountability and urgent action, not tomorrow, but today.

 

Must Read: The ‘chaos’ of aid distribution in Gaza is not a system failure. The system is designed to fail.

Abdaljawad Omar: Israel is using the so-called Gaza Humanitarian Foundation to condense Palestinians into increasingly narrow enclaves, forcing displacement through need. We are witnessing the rise of a new humanitarianism where aid sites double as kill zones.

A widely circulated image of starving Palestinians in Rafah at an aid distribution site run by the U.S.-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, May 27, 2025. (Photo: Social Media)

Catch-up

=Among the demands made in the Sarajevo declaration of the Gaza Tribunal are an “immediate withdrawal” of Israeli forces from Gaza, an end to forced displacement of its people, and resumption of humanitarian aid.

=Medical societies in the U.S. have failed to meet their ethical responsibilities by refusing to take a stand against war crimes and genocide in Gaza.

=On the heels of Trump’s Gulf tour, where he secured trillion-dollar deals with Arab states, Israeli tech leaders are now trying to get in on the action.

= students, staff, and faculty on hunger strike for Gaza: We are the eight students, staff, and faculty from across the City University of New York system who started an indefinite hunger strike.

= Netanyahu is facing increasing pressure from European states, including the threat of sanctions. The unanswered question is whether Trump will actually let Europe take action, or will he once again shield Israel from any accountability.

= The town of Umm al-Fahm is on the front lines of the struggle against the genocide among the communities of Palestinians that hold Israeli citizenship, or ’48 Palestinians.

= Ghassan Kanafani’s ‘The Revolution of 1936-1939 in Palestine’ examines the mass uprisings against Zionism and for independence from British colonialism. A new English translation of the book offers new insights into the pivotal text.

=Tareq Hajjaj: For the third time this week, chaos broke out at the aid distribution point run by the U.S. and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. Eyewitnesses said American mercenaries did not intervene once they witnessed armed looting at the site.

=Jonathan Ofir: A recent poll shows that the majority of Jewish Israelis agree that there is a current incarnation of the “Amalek”, the biblical enemy nation, where the divine command was to eradicate them, and that it applies to Palestinians in the modern day.

=Gaza is not an anomaly. It is a mirror. A reflection of our world as it really is today. And for many, a preview of what is to come.

=Qassam Muaddi: Israel plans on concentrating Palestinians into isolated camps within Gaza after it takes over 75% of the territory, luring Palestinians into those zones by using aid as bait.

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