Trump reiterates requires Gaza ceasefire after saying a truce could possibly be secured inside per week
We’re persevering with our stay protection of the newest developments within the Center East, with a selected concentrate on Israel’s warfare on Gaza.
US president, Donald Trump, has reiterated requires a ceasefire deal between Hamas and Israel.
Posting to Fact Social on Sunday morning, he wrote: “MAKE THE DEAL IN GAZA. GET THE HOSTAGES BACK!!!”
Trump stated on Friday that he believed it’s attainable {that a} ceasefire could possibly be reached inside per week, regardless of intense bombardment of the strip by the Israeli navy and continued lethal Israeli assaults on Palestinian civilians.
A Palestinian woman stands on rubble as she seems on the destruction within the al-Bureij camp within the central Gaza Strip. {Photograph}: AFP/Getty Pictures
Some 50 hostages stay in Gaza, with lower than half believed to nonetheless be alive.
They had been amongst 251 hostages taken within the Hamas-led 7 October assault on southern Israel in 2023, during which about 1,200 folks had been killed.
Oblique talks between the 2 sides have faltered since Israel shattered a earlier ceasefire in March that had come into impact in January.
A Hamas official informed Reuters the group had knowledgeable the mediators it was able to resume ceasefire talks, however reaffirmed the group’s excellent calls for that any deal should finish the warfare and safe an Israeli withdrawal from the coastal territory.
As efforts to deliver a couple of truce proceed, Israel’s navy has issued an evacuation order for the northern Gaza Strip, warning Palestinian folks in components of Gaza Metropolis and close by areas of imminent strikes there.
“The protection military is working with excessive drive in these areas, and these navy operations will escalate, intensify, and prolong westward to town heart to destroy the capabilities of terrorist organizations,” navy spokesperson Avichay Adraee wrote on X.
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Germany’s inside minister Alexander Dobrindt expressed assist for Israel this morning throughout a go to to the positioning of an Iranian missile strike close to Tel Aviv.
It was the primary go to by a senior international official since Israel’s warfare with Iaran ended on Tuesday after a ceasefire was introduced.
“We should deepen our assist for Israel,” Dobrindt stated, talking amid the rubble in Bat Yam, south of Tel Aviv, the place an Iranian strike killed 9 folks, together with three kids.
The feedback got here after Germany’s chancellor, Friedrich Merz, reportedly informed lawmakers within the Bundestag final week that his nation’s “motive of state is to defend the state of Israel in its existence” as he backed Israel’s “proper to defend” itself towards Iran.
On the sidelines of a G7 summit in Canada on 17 June, he had stated Israel was doing the “soiled work… for all of us” by focusing on Iran’s nuclear infrastructure.
Germany licensed €326.5m in arms exports to Israel in 2023 — a pointy enhance from earlier years, in line with Reuters.
However approvals fell final 12 months amid mounting authorized and political strain over Israel’s assault on Gaza, which has been more and more described as a genocide towards the Palestinian civilian inhabitants.
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In the course of the 12-day warfare, Israeli airstrikes killed no less than 627 civilians and injured practically 4,900 others in Iran, in line with official figures.
The warfare on Iran – solid as a preemptive assault for self-defence – was launched by Israel and later joined in by the US.
Each international locations struck Iranian nuclear services however didn’t destroy the Iranian nuclear programme, doubtless setting it again by a few months, in line with an early Pentagon intelligence evaluation of the assault.
Satellite tv for pc picture reveals an in depth up view of destroyed buildings at Isfahan nuclear expertise centre, after it was hit by US airstrikes, in Isfahan, Iran, on 22 June 2025. {Photograph}: Maxar Applied sciences/Reuters
Israel claimed the assaults had been vital earlier than its adversary acquired any nearer to constructing an atomic weapon, though consultants and the US authorities had assessed that Iran was not actively engaged on such a weapon earlier than the strikes.
Israel has acknowledged being hit by greater than 50 missiles throughout its warfare with Iran, leading to 28 deaths, however the true extent of the harm could by no means be recognized as a consequence of stringent media restrictions.
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Israeli airstrike on Tehran’s Evin jail killed no less than 71 folks, Iran’s judiciary says
Iran’s judiciary has stated that the Israeli airstrike on the infamous Tehran’s Evin jail killed no less than 71 folks.
Judiciary spokesperson Asghar Jahangir posted on the workplace’s official Mizan information company web site that these killed on Monday included employees, troopers, prisoners and members of visiting households.
We’ve got not been in a position to independently confirm these claims.
The 23 June assault, the day earlier than the ceasefire between Israel and Iran took maintain, hit a number of jail buildings and prompted considerations in regards to the security of the inmates, lots of whom had been detained for political causes by the Iranian authorities
France’s international minister, for instance, stated the assault was “unacceptable” as a result of it endangered the lives of two of its residents held there.
Jahangir didn’t break down the casualty figures however stated the assault had hit the jail’s infirmary, engineering constructing, judicial affairs and visitation corridor, the place visiting members of the family had been killed and injured.
Recuers search via the rubble of a broken part of Evin Jail following the Israeli airstrike. {Photograph}: Mostafa Roudaki/APShare
Donald Trump stated on Saturday that the US was “not going to face” for what he framed because the continued prosecution of Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu on corruption fees.
“The USA of America spends Billions of Greenback a 12 months, way over on another Nation, defending and supporting Israel. We’re not going to face for this,” Trump posted on his Fact Social platform.
An Israeli court docket on Friday rejected Netanyahu’s request to postpone giving testimony in his corruption trial, ruling that he had not supplied ample justification for his request.
Netanyahu is standing trial for 3 fees of bribery, fraud and breach of belief. He denies the accusations levelled towards him and say they’re politically motivated.
Israel depends closely on the US, a vitally essential strategic ally that gives diplomatic cowl and weapons that enable it to proceed its assault on Gaza.
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Trump reiterates requires Gaza ceasefire after saying a truce could possibly be secured inside per week
We’re persevering with our stay protection of the newest developments within the Center East, with a selected concentrate on Israel’s warfare on Gaza.
US president, Donald Trump, has reiterated requires a ceasefire deal between Hamas and Israel.
Posting to Fact Social on Sunday morning, he wrote: “MAKE THE DEAL IN GAZA. GET THE HOSTAGES BACK!!!”
Trump stated on Friday that he believed it’s attainable {that a} ceasefire could possibly be reached inside per week, regardless of intense bombardment of the strip by the Israeli navy and continued lethal Israeli assaults on Palestinian civilians.
A Palestinian woman stands on rubble as she seems on the destruction within the al-Bureij camp within the central Gaza Strip. {Photograph}: AFP/Getty Pictures
Some 50 hostages stay in Gaza, with lower than half believed to nonetheless be alive.
They had been amongst 251 hostages taken within the Hamas-led 7 October assault on southern Israel in 2023, during which about 1,200 folks had been killed.
Oblique talks between the 2 sides have faltered since Israel shattered a earlier ceasefire in March that had come into impact in January.
A Hamas official informed Reuters the group had knowledgeable the mediators it was able to resume ceasefire talks, however reaffirmed the group’s excellent calls for that any deal should finish the warfare and safe an Israeli withdrawal from the coastal territory.
As efforts to deliver a couple of truce proceed, Israel’s navy has issued an evacuation order for the northern Gaza Strip, warning Palestinian folks in components of Gaza Metropolis and close by areas of imminent strikes there.
“The protection military is working with excessive drive in these areas, and these navy operations will escalate, intensify, and prolong westward to town heart to destroy the capabilities of terrorist organizations,” navy spokesperson Avichay Adraee wrote on X.
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