Israel continues lethal assaults on Gaza forward of potential White Home talks on ceasefire
As we talked about in a earlier put up, Israel is continuous its relentless bombardment of Gaza after tens of hundreds of Palestinians fled jap components of Gaza Metropolis within the north of the territory on Sunday after Israel warned of a serious new offensive.
At the least 25 individuals had been killed in Israeli airstrikes on Monday, well being authorities mentioned in an up to date toll, together with 10 individuals killed in Zeitoun in southern Gaza Metropolis.
Two individuals searching for assist had been additionally killed by Israeli hearth close to an assist distribution centre in southern Rafah, sources on the Nasser medical complicated advised Al Jazeera.
The assaults come as Israeli officers are due in Washington for a brand new ceasefire push by the US, which is fuelling the struggle by offering weapons to the Israeli army.
Israel’s strategic affairs minister Ron Dermer is predicted on the White Home later as we speak for talks on Iran and Gaza, an Israeli official mentioned.
In Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu’s safety cupboard is predicted to convene to debate the subsequent steps in its widening assault on Gaza.
The Israeli prime minister has been accused of intentionally prolonging ceasefire negotiations – and blocking their progress – to make sure his personal political survival by having the struggle proceed.
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UK’s sale of F-35 fighter jet components to Israel is lawful, excessive court docket guidelines
Britain’s resolution to permit the export of F-35 fighter jet parts to Israel, regardless of accepting they could possibly be utilized in breach of worldwide humanitarian regulation in Gaza, was lawful, London’s excessive court docket dominated on Monday.
Al-Haq, a human rights group based mostly within the Israeli-occupied West Financial institution, took authorized motion towards Britain’s Division for Enterprise and Commerce over its resolution to exempt F-35 components when it suspended some arms export licences final 12 months.
The UK had assessed that Israel was not dedicated to complying with worldwide humanitarian regulation, in relation to humanitarian entry and the therapy of detainees, as the idea for its resolution.
A US air power fighter plane F-35 performs aerobatic manoeuvres at Yelahanka airbase in Bengaluru, India, in February 2025. {Photograph}: Aijaz Rahi/AP
However Britain determined to “carve out” F-35 licences, with the federal government saying suspending these licences would disrupt a world programme that provides components for the plane, with a knock-on impression on worldwide safety.
Any such disruption would “undermine US confidence within the UK and Nato”, the Ministry of Defence mentioned.
Al-Haq argued at a listening to final month that the choice was illegal because it was in breach of Britain’s obligations beneath worldwide regulation, together with the Geneva conventions.
However the excessive court docket dismissed the group’s problem in a written ruling.
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Listed here are a few of the newest photographs being despatched to us over the newswires from Gaza:
A Palestinian girl sits amid the injury at an Unrwa college sheltering displaced people who was hit in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza Metropolis. {Photograph}: Mahmoud Issa/ReutersMourners in the course of the funeral of Palestinian individuals killed in an Israeli airstrike on a faculty at Al-Ahli Arab hospital in Gaza Metropolis. {Photograph}: Mahmoud Issa/ReutersA Palestinian boy appears on from a broken constructing at an Unrwa college sheltering displaced people who was hit in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza Metropolis. {Photograph}: Mahmoud Issa/ReutersShare
Israel continues lethal assaults on Gaza forward of potential White Home talks on ceasefire
As we talked about in a earlier put up, Israel is continuous its relentless bombardment of Gaza after tens of hundreds of Palestinians fled jap components of Gaza Metropolis within the north of the territory on Sunday after Israel warned of a serious new offensive.
At the least 25 individuals had been killed in Israeli airstrikes on Monday, well being authorities mentioned in an up to date toll, together with 10 individuals killed in Zeitoun in southern Gaza Metropolis.
Two individuals searching for assist had been additionally killed by Israeli hearth close to an assist distribution centre in southern Rafah, sources on the Nasser medical complicated advised Al Jazeera.
The assaults come as Israeli officers are due in Washington for a brand new ceasefire push by the US, which is fuelling the struggle by offering weapons to the Israeli army.
Israel’s strategic affairs minister Ron Dermer is predicted on the White Home later as we speak for talks on Iran and Gaza, an Israeli official mentioned.
In Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu’s safety cupboard is predicted to convene to debate the subsequent steps in its widening assault on Gaza.
The Israeli prime minister has been accused of intentionally prolonging ceasefire negotiations – and blocking their progress – to make sure his personal political survival by having the struggle proceed.
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France, Germany and the UK have condemned “threats” towards the top of the UN nuclear watchdog, Rafael Grossi, after Iran rejected its request to go to nuclear services bombed by Israel and the US.
Tehran has accused Grossi, head of the Worldwide Atomic Vitality Company (IAEA), of “betrayal of his duties” for not condemning the assaults on Iran’s nuclear websites, and Iranian lawmakers this week voted to droop cooperation with the company.
In a joint assertion, overseas ministers Jean-Noel Barrot, Johann Wadephul and David Lammy mentioned:
France, Germany and the UK condemn threats towards the director common of the IAEA Rafael Grossi and reiterate our full assist to the company.
We name on Iranian authorities to chorus from any steps to stop cooperation with the IAEA.
We urge Iran to instantly resume full cooperation in keeping with its legally binding obligations, and to take all mandatory steps to make sure the protection and safety of IAEA personnel.
Rafael Grossi has mentioned Iran had the capability to start out enriching uranium once more in “a matter of months”. {Photograph}: Lisa Leutner/ReutersShare
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Amir-Saeid Iravani, Iran’s ambassador to the United Nations, mentioned on Sunday that the Islamic republic’s nuclear enrichment “won’t ever cease” as a result of it’s permitted for “peaceable power” functions beneath the treaty on the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons.
“The enrichment is our proper, an inalienable proper, and we need to implement this proper,” Iravani advised CBS Information, including that Iran was prepared for negotiations however “unconditional give up shouldn’t be negotiation. It’s dictating the coverage towards us.”
Amir-Saeid Iravani, Iran’s ambassador to the United Nations, speaks throughout a gathering at UN headquarters in New York Metropolis, on 24 June 2025. {Photograph}: Brendan McDermid/Reuters
However Iravani mentioned Tehran is “prepared for the negotiation, however after this aggression, it isn’t correct situation for a brand new spherical of the negotiation, and there’s no request for negotiation and assembly with the president”.
The Iranian UN envoy additionally denied that there are any threats from his authorities to the protection of Rafael Grossi, the director common of the Worldwide Atomic Vitality Company, or towards the company’s inspectors, who’re accused by some Iranian officers of serving to Israel justify its assaults.
IAEA inspectors are in Iran however should not have entry to Iran’s nuclear services.
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US should rule out extra airstrikes earlier than talks resume, Iranian deputy overseas minister says
The US should rule out any additional airstrikes on Iran if it needs to renew negotiations, Tehran’s deputy overseas minister, Majid Takht-Ravanchi, has advised BBC Information.
Takht-Ravanchi mentioned Iranian officers are listening to from Washington that the US needs to speak. He mentioned no date has been agreed but.
The deputy overseas minister advised the BBC’s chief worldwide correspondent, Lyse Doucet:
Proper now we’re searching for a solution to this query: are we going to see a repetition of an act of aggression whereas we’re partaking in dialogue. They haven’t made their place clear but.
The US and Iran had been in negotiations over Iran’s nuclear programme when Israel hit Iranian nuclear websites earlier this month, upending any diplomatic progress that had been made by talks.
The US took the dangerous transfer of straight becoming a member of Israel’s bombing marketing campaign on 21 June, with Donald Trump subsequently asserting it had “completely oblitareated” three Iranian uranium enrichment websites – Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan.
Iran’s overseas minister, Abbas Araghchi, mentioned diplomacy was not an choice after the US assault.
Takht-Ravanchi advised BBC Information that Iran’s programme, together with enriching uranium to 60%, was being carried out “for peaceable functions”. As soon as purity ranges attain 60%, it isn’t a prolonged course of to proceed to the 90% required for a nuclear weapon.
“To say that you shouldn’t have enrichment, it is best to have zero enrichment and if you don’t agree we are going to bomb you – that’s the regulation of the jungle,” Takht-Ravanchi added.
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Al Jazeera has been advised by sources in Gaza hospitals that no less than 16 Palestinian individuals have been killed in Israeli assaults since daybreak after being focused in areas together with the southern metropolis of Khan Younis and Gaza Metropolis and Jabalia within the north.
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What’s the newest on the efforts to carry a couple of ceasefire in Gaza?
Ron Dermer, a senior adviser to Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, is ready to journey to Washington this week for talks on a ceasefire, and plans are being made for Netanyahu to journey there within the coming weeks, an indication there could also be motion on a deal, an Israeli official has advised the Related Press.
Egypt, the US and Qatar are persevering with efforts to attempt to negotiate a ceasefire between Hamas and Israel, with mediators hoping that stress from the Trump administration might assist to realize a deal.
Egypt’s overseas minister has reportedly mentioned Cairo is engaged on a brand new proposal that features a 60-day ceasefire in trade for the discharge of some Israeli hostages.
Hamas official Mahmoud Merdawi has accused Netanyahu of stalling progress on a deal, saying the Israeli chief insists on a short lived settlement that might free simply 10 of the hostages. About 50 hostages stay, with lower than half believed to be alive.
Netanyahu spokesperson Omer Dostri mentioned that “Hamas was the one impediment to ending the struggle,” with out addressing Merdawi’s declare.
Hamas says it’s keen to free all of the hostages in trade for a full withdrawal of Israeli troops and an finish to the struggle. Israel rejects that provide, saying it is going to agree to finish its assault if Hamas surrenders, disarms and goes into exile, one thing the Palestinian militant group refuses to do.
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The 12 day struggle on Iran – framed by Israel as a preemptive assault for self-defence – was launched by Benjamin Netanyahu and later joined in by the US.
Each international locations struck Iranian nuclear services however didn’t destroy the Iranian nuclear programme, possible setting it again by a few months, in line with an early Pentagon intelligence evaluation of the assaults.
In an interview Sunday with Fox Information host Maria Bartiromo, Donald Trump repeated his disputed declare that the 21 June airstrikes geared toward sure Iranian services efficiently crippled Iran’s nuclear program.
As my colleague Marina Dunbar notes on this story, he insisted the assaults destroyed key enriched uranium stockpiles, regardless of Iranian assertions that the fabric had been relocated earlier than the strikes.
“They had been making an attempt to develop a bomb, and the rationale you attempt to develop a bomb like that’s to make use of it.”@realDonaldTrump doubles down on the U.S. effort to get rid of the specter of Iran acquiring a nuclear weapon — making it crystal clear why America wanted to behave when it did. pic.twitter.com/6oBg5ckv1u
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Trump says he’s not ‘providing Iran something’ or talking to the nation for the reason that US ‘obliterated their nuclear services’
US president Donald Trump has mentioned he’s not talking to Iran and was not providing the nation “something”, as he claimed that America “completely obliterated” Tehran’s nuclear services when it struck them earlier this month.
Trump’s feedback, posted to Fact Social this morning, adopted stories that his administration had mentioned presumably serving to Iran entry as a lot as $30bn to construct a civilian-energy-producing nuclear program.
The reported proposal would mark a serious reversal in coverage for Trump, who exited Barack Obama’s nuclear cope with Iran in 2018, claiming the sanction reduction and unfreezing of property offered Tehran with “a lifeline of money”.
Trump wrote:
Inform phony Democrat Senator Chris Coons that I’m not providing Iran ANYTHING, not like Obama, who paid them $Billions beneath the silly “street to a Nuclear Weapon JCPOA (which might now be expired!), nor am I even speaking to them since we completely OBLITERATED their Nuclear Amenities.
For context: Chris Coons, a senior Democratic member of the Senate overseas relations committee, mentioned final week that it was too early to succeed in a “conclusive estimate” of how a lot injury was carried out by American airstrikes to Iran’s nuclear enrichment programme.
Coons advised MSNBC:
It is necessary that we don’t politicise the profession professionals in our intelligence group. So whether or not it’s President Trump instantly declaring that the whole programme was obliterated, which to me appears totally untimely.
Or whether or not it’s a characterisation of particular websites and capabilities and the way a lot they had been harmed – that could be a matter of being extra exact.
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Israeli airstrikes and gunfire killed 23 individuals in Gaza on Sunday, the territory’s civil defence company mentioned, as tens of hundreds of Palestinian individuals had been fleeing jap components of Gaza Metropolis after Israel warned of a serious assault on the north.
Company spokesperson Mahmud Bassal mentioned no less than three kids had been amongst these killed in airstrikes at 5 areas round Gaza and one other individual died from Israeli hearth close to an assist distribution centre.
On Gaza Metropolis within the north, messages on social media from the Israel Protection Forces warned of “army operations [that] will escalate, intensify and prolong westward to the town centre” and directed these dwelling in a number of crowded neighbourhoods to al-Mawasi, a coastal space a lot farther south that’s already overcrowded and has very restricted services.
Witnesses described scenes of chaos as whole households tried to pack their remaining belongings, tents and meagre shares of meals on to donkey carts, bicycles, improvised pickup vans and vehicles, my colleague Jason Burke stories.
Displaced Palestinian individuals flee Jabalia – within the northern a part of the Strip – after the Israeli military issued evacuation orders in Gaza Metropolis. {Photograph}: Jehad Alshrafi/AP
In different developments:
Mahmud Bassal mentioned two kids had been killed in an airstrike on their house in Gaza Metropolis’s Zeitun neighbourhood early on Sunday and “the home was fully destroyed”. A member of the household, Abdel Rahman Azzam, 45, advised AFP he was at house and “heard an enormous explosion at my relative’s home”. “I rushed out in panic and noticed the home destroyed and on hearth.”
Bassal mentioned a drone strike on a tent housing displaced individuals close to the southern metropolis of Khan Younis killed 5 individuals together with a toddler. Different casualties included a younger man killed “by Israeli hearth this morning whereas ready for assist” close to a humanitarian distribution centre within the southern metropolis of Rafah, the Gaza civil defence spokesperson mentioned.
Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, mentioned on Sunday his nation’s “victory” over Iran of their 12-day struggle had created “alternatives”, together with for liberating hostages held in Gaza. The primary group representing hostages’ households welcomed “the truth that after 20 months, the return of the hostages has lastly been designated as the highest precedence by the prime minister”.
Donald Trump reiterated requires a swift finish to Israel’s struggle on Gaza. “Make the deal in Gaza, get the hostages again,” the US president posted on his Fact Social platform.
Oblique talks between Israel and Hamas, brokered by Qatar and Egypt, are persevering with however with out clear signal of a breakthrough.
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