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Gaza/MidEast June 2025
Guardian: "Israel-Hamas war" — (LINK)
Al Jazeera: "Israel-Hamas war live": now "Israel War on Gaza" — (LINK)
Israel says Khamenei 'can no longer be allowed to exist' after Iran strikes hospital (LINK) 19 June 2025
Iranian missiles damage Israeli hospital and buildings while Israel strikes Iran's nuclear sites amid escalating conflict (LINK) 19 June 2025
Hackers say they wiped out $90 million from Iran cryptocurrency exchange (LINK) 19 June 2025
Trump weighs U.S. strike as Iran's supreme leader says the 'battle begins'. "This is the dirty work Israel is doing for all of us," German Chancellor Friedrich Merz says, weighing in on the conflict. Russia, an Iranian ally, has urged the U.S. not to intervene. (LINK) 18 June 2025
US moving fighter jets and troops to Middle East as Israel-Iran war rages (LINK) — ground.news: 108 media reports (LINK) 18 June 2025
Israel-Iran conflict at critical juncture as Trump demands Tehran's 'unconditional surrender' (LINK) 17 June 2025
Israel issues Tehran evacuation order as Iran threatens to leave nuclear weapons treaty: order similar to those issued in Gaza a further sign Israeli campaign is evolving towards war of attrition (LINK) 16 June 2025
Israel says it has full control over Tehran's skies as both sides continue strikes 16 June 2025 (LINK)
Israel strikes Iranian state TV live in new attack on Tehran (LINK) 16 June 2025
Iran renews missile attacks on Israel, killing 5 and wounding dozens (LINK) 16 June 2025
Netanyahu says Israel killed IRGC intelligence chief and his deputy — Times of Israel (LINK) 15 June 2025
DW: How close is Iran to getting a nuclear bomb? According to Tehran, its nuclear program is purely civilian, though Israel thinks it's aimed at making a nuclear bomb. Iran's high levels of uranium enrichment mean that the step to weapon-grade uranium is very short. (LINK) 15 June 2025
DW: How close is Iran to getting a nuclear bomb? According to Tehran, its nuclear program is purely civilian, though Israel thinks it's aimed at making a nuclear bomb. Iran's high levels of uranium enrichment mean that the step to weapon-grade uranium is very short. (LINK) 15 June 2025
Israel targets Iran's Defense Ministry headquarters as Tehran unleashes deadly missile strike (LINK) — ground.news: 81 media reports (LINK) 14 June 2025
— The strikes follow Israel's operation 'Rising Lion' launched early Friday, after which Iran responded with waves of ballistic missiles and drone attacks in retaliation. Iran fired about 150 missiles in three salvos, hitting Israeli cities including Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, causing 3 deaths, 76 injuries, and damage amid missile interceptions. Iranian officials reported nearly 80 killed and over 320 wounded in Israeli strikes that killed senior generals and damaged nuclear and military facilities.
Israel says it killed 9 Iranian nuclear scientists, and braces for attacks from Iran (LINK) 14 June 2025
Tel Aviv hit by retaliatory Iranian missile strikes: injured 34 people, while two people were killed and 19 injured (LINK) 13 June 2025
— Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said Iran had *crossed a red line" by firing missiles at populated civilian areas. Most of the surface-to-surface missiles were intercepted, Israel's military said. The U.S. assisted Israel in defending against Iran's attack, a U.S. official said.
Israeli strikes kill 3 of Iran's top military leaders and prompt retaliation (LINK) 13 June 2025
— Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the strikes hit Iran's main enrichment site, the Natanz atomic facility, and targeted Iran's leading nuclear scientists. He said that Israel had also targeted Iran's ballistic missile arsenal.
— Among those killed were three of Iran's top military leaders, one who oversaw the entire armed forces, Gen. Mohammad Bagheri, one who led the paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, Gen. Hossein Salami, and another who ran the Guard's ballistic missile program, Gen. Amir Ali Hajizadeh.
— Iran launched over 100 drones toward Israel, but Israel's military said its air defenses had shot down most of the them. But the military said the threat was not yet over. It closed Israeli airspace and said it was calling up tens of thousands of soldiers to protect the country's borders.
Israeli spies and pilots crippled an Iranian counterstrike to attack. Iranian generals gathered in a bunker. Israel knew they were there (LINK) 13 June 2025
— Israel knew the emergency protocol, and the location of the bunker. They destroyed it, killing the overall commander and the heads of the drone and air defense forces. "The fact that there was nobody to give the order neutralized an immediate Iranian response," an Israeli official said.
Trump scrambles to claim credit for Israel's Iran attack he publicly opposed (LINK) 13 June 2025
— The White House's messaging has shifted quickly from Marco Rubio's arms-length description of the Israeli attack as a "unilateral action", to Trump claiming on Friday morning that he was fully in the loop on the operation and that it came at the end of a 60-day ultimatum he had given Iran to "make a deal" on its nuclear programme. "Today is day 61," he wrote on Truth Social. "I told [Iran] what to do, but they just couldn't get there."
US reduces the presence of staffers not deemed essential in the Middle East as tensions rise (LINK) 11 June 2025
Iran says it will target US bases if conflict breaks out over nuclear enrichment (LINK) 11 June 2025
Greta Thunberg on Gaza protest flotilla: 4 activists including Greta volunteer to leave, eight remain in detention awaiting deportation: According to Defense Minister Israel Katz, the activists refused to continue watching the film "after seeing the brutality of the attacks" (LINK) 10 June 2025
— During the journey to Gaza from Sicily, the activists diverted their route to rescue four migrants stranded in the Mediterranean Sea.
More than 300 U.K. Foreign Office staff who raised concerns about potential UK "complicity" in Israel's conduct in Gaza in May were told if they profoundly disagreed with government policy they could consider resigning (LINK) 10 June 2025
— The Foreign Office said it had systems for staff to raise concerns and added the government had "rigorously applied international law" in relation to the war in Gaza.
GHF says it handed out over 23,000 boxes of food at two sites (LINK) 9 June 2025
Israeli forces intercept Gaza-bound aid ship carrying Greta Thunberg (LINK) 9 June 2025
GHF says it delivered food to Gazan community leaders for distribution as part of pilot program (LINK) 8 June 2025
Gaza aid group says Hamas threats to staff kept distribution hubs closed on Saturday: Times of Israel: "GHF accuses terror group of trying to restore previously used UN-backed mechanisms that enabled it to divert goods for its own purposes from those in need" (LINK) 7 June 2025
Four Israeli soldiers killed in booby-trapped building collapse in Gaza's Khan Yunis: The IDF has so far released the names of 866 soldiers killed since October 7, 2023 (LINK) 6 June 2025
US vetoes UN Security Council resolution calling for Gaza ceasefire (LINK) 4 June 2025
— 14 other members back motion demanding release of hostages and unhindered aid; US envoy says will "not support any measure that fails to condemn Hamas, call for it to disarm".
Switzerland says Geneva branch of US-backed Gaza aid group GHF "inactive, noncompliant" (LINK) 3 June 2025
— Swiss Foreign Ministry has responded to key issues raised in an open letter signed by 55 former Swiss diplomats, reiterating its stance on the Gaza crisis and confirming that it is reviewing the legal status of the controversial Geneva branch of the US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. The GHF mechanism was opposed by the international community and the UN, which comes as an alternative attempt by Israel to bypass the aid distribution through UN channels.
IDF says roads to Gaza aid centres are 'combat zones' as sites close for day: Aid distribution will be halted on Wednesday — (LINK) 4 June 2025
Key US consulting firm Boston Consulting Group withdraws from American- and Israeli-backed Gaza aid agency — (LINK) 3 June 2025
— The report came as GHF announced it would appoint US evangelical interfaith leader Rev. Johnnie Moore as its new executive chairman, following the departure of CEO Jack Wood last month. BCG had offered its services to the humanitarian effort on a pro bono basis and did not receive any compensation for its work, said the BCG spokesperson. However, another person familiar with the project disputed the spokesperson’s account and said BCG had submitted invoices for more than $1 million each month, according to the Post. According to the report, BCG had been responsible for setting the payment and procurement rates for a network of contractors tasked with constructing four GHF aid centers in southern Gaza, one of which is not yet active.
In addition, senior officials have resigned, and the UN and aid groups refuse to cooperate — (LINK)
Rescuers say Israeli fire kills at least 27 near Gaza aid point, with the army reporting it had fired on "suspects who advanced toward the troops" (LINK) 2 June 2025
— The UN human rights chief condemned such attacks as a "breach of international law and a war crime", after a similar shooting in the same area of southern Gaza on Sunday killed and wounded scores of Palestinians seeking aid, according to the civil defence agency.
Red Cross says at least 21 killed and dozens shot in Gaza aid incident: the ICRC said the "Red Cross Field Hospital in Rafah received a mass casualty influx of 179 cases, including women and children" early in the morning on Sunday. It said "the majority suffered gunshot or shrapnel wounds", and "twenty-one patients were declared dead upon arrival". (LINK) 1 June 2025
— The Hamas-run civil defence agency in Gaza had said at least 31 people were killed and many more wounded in the incident, which it blamed on "Israeli gunfire" targeting civilians. But the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said findings from an initial inquiry showed its forces had not fired at people while they were near or within the aid centre. The group that runs the aid distribution centre, the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), also denied the claims of injuries and casualties at its site and said they had been spread by Hamas. It is unclear if the number of people killed reported by the ICRC is separate to the Hamas health ministry's reports.
Al Jazeera: Why Hamas is seeking to change the US-proposed Gaza ceasefire deal (LINK) 1 June 2025
— Hamas claims its response was positive, even though it offered "no guarantees to end the war". But it has added several key provisions: including full withdrawal of Israeli forces from the Gaza Strip and the resumption of aid and assistance to the besieged area.
U.S. envoy rejects Hamas ceasefire proposal as 'unacceptable': Hamas had reaffirmed its position that negotiations should aim for a permanent ceasefire, an Israeli withdrawal from Gaza and a sustained flow of humanitarian aid. (LINK) 31 May 2025
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