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Crisis in the Middle East
Welcome! Here's the relevant humanitarian news headlines rundown 2025-JUN-09 - 03:00 CEST
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#Gaza #WestBank #Lebanon #Yemen #Syria 🔔 with updates
🛡 SECURITY LEB (local time): JUN-07 Tenenti explaining Srifa incident: Resolution 1701 gives 🔵 UNIFIL the authority to move freely with or without the army presence: REPORT NNA -- JUN-06 ⚠️VOT ISR army launches strikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs: REPORT Anadolu -- JUN-05 VOT Merkava tank shells south Lebanon's Yaroun forest: REPORT NNA -- JUN-03 🔵 UNIFIL SW and LAF together for recovery: Tangible support for families and small businesses north of the Blue Line -- ✅🛂 Syria to reopen Al-Arida border crossing with Lebanon on Tuesday despite ongoing renovations: REPORT NNA -- JUN-02 VOT ISR drones drop sound bombs on southern Lebanese towns: REPORT NNA -- JUN-01 🛑🕯One killed in ISR airstrike on the Debel road in Bint Jbeil: REPORT NNA -- Death toll in total: 🛑🕯4163* people killed, more than 16,800* wounded since the beginning of the Israeli aggression: MoH -- 🛑🕯 Israel kills more than 229* 👩🏽⚕️👨🏾🚒 medics, emergency workers: WHO *updated
✈️ AIR SPACE: ++ JUN-05 ❌🛬 Air traffic to Ben Gurion Airport (TLV) has been suspended following the launch of a missile from Yemen: REPORT YNA ++ ✅🛫 Emirates Airlines set to restart flights to Damascus in mid-July: REPORT Al Maydeen ++ ✅🛫 Flydubai set to resume direct flights to Damascus after 12-year hiatus: REPORT NNA ++ ❌🛬 Spanish Airline Iberia Express suspends flights to Israel: REPORT YNA ++ ❌🛬 Sanaa airport suspends flights after severe damage from Israel strikes: REPORT Ahram/AFP ++ ❌🛬 Yemen missile suspends European airlines’ flights to Tel Aviv: REPORT YNA/aero.de ++ ❌🛬 Global airlines extend flight suspensions to Israel after missile strike on Ben Gurion Airport (TLV): REPORT Anadolu ++
📰 HEADLINES: ++ 📢 Mass Maghreb convoy to head to Rafah Monday, demanding end to Israeli genocidal war and aid access to Gaza: REPORT WAFA ++ ⚠️📢 ISR forces kidnap volunteers on Gaza-bound ship Madleen: Freedom Flotilla Coalition - REPORT Anadolu ++ ⚖️ US sanctions four ICC judges: REPORT WAFA ++ VOT 📢 Lebanese officials, parties condemn Israeli assault on Beirut's suburb: REPORT Al Mayadeen ++ Dutch university freezes collaborations with three Israeli universities: REPORT MEMO ++ US restructures military presence in Syria, cuts bases from 8 to 3 - REPORT Anadolu ++ 📢 Massive rally in Lisbon denounces Israel’s ongoing aggression, affirms support for Palestine: REPORT WAFA ++ 📢 Palestine calls US-vetoed 🔵 UN resolution for Gaza ceasefire 'long overdue': REPORT Anadolu ++ 🔵 UN Security Council to vote on Algeria-backed Gaza ceasefire resolution amid humanitarian crisis: REPORT WAFA ++ Yemen: US Strikes on port an apparent war crime - PRIME SOURCE HRW ++ 📢 Egypt pushes to end Gaza war, hopes for agreement ‘as soon as possible’: REPORT MEMO ++ Tokyo: 📢 Japanese PM pledges support for humanitarian aid to Gaza - REPORT WAFA ++
⛔ WEST BANK INVASION: ++ ⚠️❌ ISR forces close off village near Nablus: REPORT WAFA ++ ⚠️❌ ISR forces block agricultural road south of Bethlehem: REPORT WAFA ++ ⚠️❌ ISR forces detain more than 20 in Ramallah village, impose total closure: REPORT WAFA ++ ❌ ISR colonists block main entrance to Nablus village: REPORT WAFA ++ 🛑 Commission: Detainees at Megiddo prison face starvation and beatings, especially minors: REPORT WAFA ++ 🛑 Illegal: ISR announces new West Bank settlements - REPORT MEMO ++ ⚠️ 🛑 Tulkarm: 126* days since Israel's aggression began on the city: REPORT WAFA ++ 🛑 ISR troops seize cement pump near Jenin: REPORT WAFA ++ 🛑 Jenin: Israeli aggression continues - REPORT WAFA ++ ❌🚰 ISR forces demolish, vandalize water pipeline in Nablus: REPORT WAFA ++ ⚠️🔥 Colonists torch home, attack residents in Bruqin under army protection: REPORT WAFA ++ 🛑 Over 5,422* violations committed by illegal ISR settlers in occupied West Bank in past decade: REPORT MEMO ++ *updated
⚖️ GENOCIDE IN GAZA: ++ 🛑🕯ISR airstrikes on Sunday kill and injure civilians across Gaza: REPORT WAFA ++ 🛑🕯 ISR drone strike on ❌👩🏽⚕️ Baptist Hospital kills five* journalists: REPORT WAFA ++ 🆘👨🏾⚕️🧕🏾Lives of 50,000 pregnant and nursing women at risk in Gaza - Spokesman for Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital: REPORT WAFA ++ 🛑 Israeli army destroyed over 240 Gaza residential units in recent days: Media office -- REPORT Anadolu ++ 🛑🕯30 killed, over 150 injured as Israeli forces open fire on aid seekers: REPORT Anadolu ++ 🆘 👩🏽⚕️🛑 ISR forces order forcible evacuation of Al-Awda Hospital in the North: REPORT WAFA ++ 🛑🕯 Several Palestinians on Thursday killed and injured in ISR strikes: REPORT WAFA ++ 🛑🕯ISR forces commit two massacres in Gaza, killing 17, including children and women: REPORT WAFA ++ 🛑🕯Dozens of civilians killed in ISR airstrikes on Tuesday: REPORT WAFA ++ 🛑🕯 Children burned alive in Gaza school strike as death toll hits 36: REPORT WAFA ++ 🛑🕯👨🏾🚒👩🏽⚕️ ISR airstrikes in central Gaza kill 6 aid workers: Media Office -- REPORT Anadolu ++ ❌👩🏽⚕️ Gaza European Hospital out of service due to ongoing shelling: medical sources - REPORT WAFA ++ 🆘 🚼 65,000 children facing death from Israeli starvation policy: Gaza authorities - REPORT Anadolu ++ *updated by MoH
MEDIA WORKERS: ++ JUN-05 ISR drone strike on Baptist Hospital kills four
journalists, critically wounds fifth: REPORT WAFA
++ MAY-27 🛑 ISR forces assault Palestine TV crew during raid in Bethlehem: REPORT WAFA ++ MAY-25 🛑🕯Journalist and family members killed in Israeli airstrike on Jabalia:
REPORT WAFA ++ MAY-18 🛑🕯
Five more Palestinian journalists killed in Israeli strikes in Gaza: REPORT MEMO ++ MAY-13 🛑🕯
Journalist Hassan Eslaih killed in Israeli strike on Nasser Hospital: REPORT Al Mayadeen ++ APR-07 🛑🕯 ISR strike on media tent kills journalists Helmi al-Faqawi and Ahmad Mansour ++ MAR-24 ++ 🛑🕯 ISR bombardment kills Al-Jazeera journalist in Gaza: REPORT WAFA -- 🛑🕯 Mohammad Mansour of Palestine Today TV killed in an airstrike: REPORT WAFA ++ 🛑🕯 225* journalists killed by Israel in Gaza: REPORT MEMO 🛑🕯 ++ Anadolu freelance cameraman Saed Abu Nabhan killed by Israeli army: PRIME SOURCE ++ Family of journalist 🕯Shatha Sabbagh holds PA responsible for her death in Jenin: REPORT YNA ++ 📢 CPJ calls for international probe after evidence indicates Israel
targeted journalists in deadly Lebanon strike: PRIME SOURCE CPJ ++ 🛑 Israeli military court sentences WAFA’s Rasha Harzallah to prison and fine: REPORT WAFA ++ *updated
🗄️ Recent breaking news: ++ Sarajevo Declaration of Gaza Tribunal condemns Israeli genocide of Palestinians: REPORT Anadolu ++ 📢 20 French journalists' associations call for immediate evacuation of journalists from Gaza: REPORT WAFA ++ 📢 Gaza needs 500-600 aid trucks daily to avert
further disaster: 🔵 UN's refugee agency - REPORT Ahram ++ 🔵 World Health Assembly adopts two key resolutions in support of Palestine: REPORT WAFA ++ 📢 ISA Solidarity Statement with the Palestinian People: PRIME SOURCE ++ 📢 Yemen Armed Forces start imposition of naval ban on Haifa port in occupied Palestinian territories: REPORT YNA ++ US: Two Israeli embassy staffers shot dead in central Washington --
REPORT MEMO ++ 🔵 UN conference on two-state solution set for JUN-17: REPORT Ahram ++ 📢 On 77th anniversary of Nakba, Arab League strongly
condemns Israel for refusing to comply with Security Council resolutions: REPORT WAFA ++ 📢 ‘A fatal message’: Rights group urges German president to cancel Netanyahu meeting: REPORT Anadolu ++
⚖️📢 UK government sued over jet parts linked to Gaza bombing: REPORT Al Mayadeen ++ 📢 Algeria’s president reaffirms commitment to memory file on French colonial rule on anniversary of massacres: REPORT Anadolu ++
⚖️ ICC Appeals Chamber rejects bid to cancel arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant: PRIME SOURCE ++
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🛑 #WarCrimes #CrimesAgainstHumanity #GenevaConvention
VOT #ViolationOfTruce
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Latest report
Amid global silence, Israel’s statements and aid blockade confirm intent to continue genocide
Report by Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor
Humanitarian aid is a fundamental right of civilians under international humanitarian law, with no exceptions, and there is no legal justification for Israel to deny Palestinians access to essential aid. Israel is not only using humanitarian aid as a bargaining chip for political and military gain, but is also deliberately enforcing a policy of systematic starvation, creating life-threatening conditions designed to make survival in the Gaza Strip impossible.
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Photo: Trucks of Egyptian Red Crecent carrying humanitarian aid for the Gaza Strip cross the border gate in Rafah, Egypt.
2024: A Year of Reckoning - World Report 2025
Report by Human Rights Watch
This has been a year of elections, resistance, and conflict, testing the integrity of democratic institutions and the principles of international human rights and
humanitarian law. Whether in response to heightened repression in Russia, India, and Venezuela, or catastrophic armed conflicts in Gaza, Sudan, and Ukraine, governments around the world are being
called upon to demonstrate their commitment to human rights, democracy, and humanitarian action.
Read the full report: DIRECT LINK
Photo: Palestinian civilians return to Khan Younis in Gaza, April 26, 2024
Killer Robots: UN Vote Should Spur Treaty Negotiations
Report by Human Rights Watch
Urgent action needed to address Autonomous Weapons Systems: The record number of countries voting in favor of the second-ever United Nations General Assembly resolution on lethal autonomous weapons systems, or “killer robots,” highlights the urgent need to open negotiations on a new treaty to ban them, Human Rights Watch said in a statement from DEC-05 in New York.
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Photo: The United Nations General Assembly hashtag #UNGA at UN Headquarters in New York City
‘Catastrophic’: Journalists say ethnic cleansing taking place in a news void in northern Gaza
Report by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ Staff)
On Wednesday, November 6, an Israeli strike killed at least 15 people in a house in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza. But communications difficulties meant that the Gaza health ministry struggled to determine the death toll. This is just one example of countless others where local reporters were able to help verify information about potential atrocities during Israel’s escalating offensive in the area, journalists tell CPJ.
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Photo: Journalists film destroyed buildings in the Jabalia camp for Palestinian refugees in northern Gaza on October 9, 2024
The international system has shamefully failed to halt Israel’s genocide in Gaza
Report by Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor
Palestinian Territory - The reluctance of the international system to implement decisive actions against Israel’s mass atrocities in the Gaza Strip, especially in the northern region, exposes a stark disregard for Palestinian lives and dignity, and fuels the continuation of its crime of genocide. Institutions like the European Union (EU), International Criminal Court (ICC), and International Court of Justice (ICJ), alongside various United Nations (UN) bodies, have deviated from their founding principles of protecting civilians and upholding justice. In over 13 months, these bodies have neglected their fundamental duty to safeguard civilian life and stop Israel’s genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza.
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Photo: An Israeli soldier poses as homes burn in the background in northern Gaza - Social Feed
Journalists face Israeli strikes, displacement, attacks as war escalates in Lebanon
Report by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ Staff)
The recent escalation of Israel’s war in Lebanon has imperiled the press as they face Israeli strikes that have destroyed news outlet offices and killed at least three journalists, in addition to being assaulted, obstructed, threatened, and detained while reporting. At about 03:00 am - on October 25, an Israeli airstrike hit a compound housing 18 journalists from multiple media outlets in Hasbaya, a town in southern Lebanon. The strike killed Al-Mayadeen TV’s camera operator Ghassan Najjar, broadcast engineer Mohammed Reda, and Al-Manar TV’s camera operator Wissam Kassem.
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Photo: Mourners and media personnel carry signs with pictures of the three Lebanese journalists killed in an Israeli strike on October 25, 2024
SPECIAL REPORT - COMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS
A year on, there is still no accountability following the October 13, 2023, targeted Israeli attack that killed Issam Abdallah and injured six journalists in southern Lebanon -
Read the full report: DIRECT LINK
Photo: AFP journalist Dylan Collins speaks on his mobile phone after being injured by Israeli shelling in southern Lebanon on Oct. 13, 2023. The Israeli strikes, later determined to be targeted
attacks, killed a Reuters videographer and wounded six other journalists
JUSTICE REPORT EUROPE
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has declared that trade agreements between the European Union (EU) and
Morocco cannot include goods or resources originating from Western Sahara.
The ECJ emphasized that Western Sahara is considered a “non-self-governing territory” under international law and, therefore, it is
distinct from the Kingdom of Morocco. As such, any trade agreements that include products from Western Sahara must explicitly recognise this status and cannot be automatically considered as part
of agreements involving Morocco. Read the report by Middle East Monitor:
DIRECT LINK
Indie Journalism
In the largest public analysis of ISR military strike footage, Airwars reviewed hundreds of clips of strikes in Gaza posted on official military media accounts in the first month of the war. Despite the grainy videos published with few details on targets or locations, Airwars matched 17 strikes to specific geo-coordinates where researchers had tracked Palestinians killed or injured. In these strikes alone, more than 400 civilians were reported killed. Source: Airwars Org
Lawyers for the Palestinian rights group Al-Haq went back to court to challenge Keir Starmer's failure to ban all arms sales to Israel. Declassified UK spoke to lawyers Dearbhla Minogue and Ahmed Abofoul.
For the 32nd year, the entire world voted at the UN General Assembly to demand an end to the illegal US embargo against Cuba. The USA and Israel opposed the
international community in a vote of 187 to 2. Ben Norton explains why the US empire has waged such a vicious economic war on Cuba for six decades.
Source: G/E
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