Footage shows aftermath of Israeli strike on tent camp in Gaza City
Palestinians in Gaza City searched for bodies and belongings after an Israeli strike on tents in the al-Rimal neighbourhood that killed at least 12 people and injured dozens, the Palestinian official news agency Wafa reported. At least 60 people have been killed by Israeli strikes across Gaza over the past 24 hours. Qatar's foreign ministry spokesperson said mediators were engaging with Israel and Hamas to build on momentum from Israel's ceasefire with Iran and work towards a truce in the Gaza Strip
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Reuters
33 minutes ago
- Reuters
Israel orders evacuations in northern Gaza as Trump calls for war to end
CAIRO, June 29 (Reuters) - The Israeli military ordered Palestinians to evacuate areas in northern Gaza on Sunday before intensified fighting against Hamas, as U.S. President Donald Trump called for an end to the war amid renewed efforts to broker a ceasefire. "Make the deal in Gaza, get the hostages back," Trump posted on his Truth Social platform early on Sunday. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was due to hold talks later in the day on the progress of Israel's offensive. A senior security official said the military will tell him the campaign is close to reaching its objectives, and warn that expanding fighting to new areas in Gaza may endanger the remaining Israeli hostages. But in a statement posted on X and text messages sent to many residents, the military urged people in northern parts of the enclave to head south towards the Al-Mawasi area in Khan Younis, which Israel designated as a humanitarian area. Palestinian and U.N. officials say nowhere in Gaza is safe. "The (Israeli) Defense Forces is operating with extreme force in these areas, and these military operations will escalate, intensify, and extend westward to the city center to destroy the capabilities of terrorist organizations," the military said. The evacuation order covered the Jabalia area and most Gaza City districts. Medics and residents said the Israeli army's bombardments escalated in the early hours in Jabalia, destroying several houses and killing at least six people. In Khan Younis in the south, five people were killed in an airstrike on a tent encampment near Mawasi, medics said. The escalation comes as Arab mediators, Egypt and Qatar, backed by the United States, begin a new ceasefire effort to halt the 20-month-old conflict and secure the release of Israeli and foreign hostages still being held by Hamas. Interest in resolving the Gaza conflict has heightened in the wake of U.S. and Israeli bombings of Iran's nuclear facilities. A Hamas official told Reuters the group had informed the mediators it was ready to resume ceasefire talks, but reaffirmed the group's outstanding demands that any deal must end the war and secure an Israeli withdrawal from the coastal territory. Hamas has said it is willing to free remaining hostages in Gaza, 20 of whom are believed to still be alive, only in a deal that will end the war. Israel says it can only end it if Hamas is disarmed and dismantled. Hamas refuses to lay down its arms. The latest bloodshed in the decades-old Israeli-Palestinian conflict was triggered in October 2023 when Hamas attacked Israel, killing 1,200 people and taking 251 hostages, Israeli tallies show. Israel's subsequent military assault has killed more than 56,000 Palestinians, according to the Gaza health ministry, displaced almost the entire 2.3 million population, plunged the enclave into a humanitarian crisis and left much of it in ruins.
Daily Mail
an hour ago
- Daily Mail
Satellite pictures show secret activity at Iranian nuclear site that the U.S. bombed
New satellite photos have revealed that Iran is trying to piece back together its nuclear site after the U.S. bombed it. Heavy machinery was seen at the Fordow site as Iran appears to be intensifying its construction and excavation of the nuclear facility after U.S. B-2 bombers struck it last Saturday in Operation Midnight Hammer. Activity was seen near the tunnel entrances and near the points where the American buster bombs struck in Donald Trump's early-morning attack. Construction equipment was also seen digging new access roads to the facility and repairing damage to the main one in order to restore access to the country's main nuclear facility. Trump said the strikes 'completely obliterated' Iran's nuclear program and set it back years, but the new aerial images suggest the country has taken preliminary efforts to protect its facility. Iranian media said the sites had been evacuated prior to the strikes and the enriched uranium was transported to a 'safe location'. It is unclear how much uranium was left at the site during the bomb, but officials said there is no contamination after the strikes. Earthwork also showed signs tunnel entrances might have been sealed off before the attacks, Newsweek reported. Similar construction activity was seen at the Fordow site prior to the strikes, where Iranians were seen shipping contents from the nuclear site to another location a half a mile away. Despite the extent of the damage being up to question, International Atomic Energy Agency - the UN's nuclear watchdog - said Fordow's centrifuges were 'no longer operational' and suffered 'enormous damage'. A leaked preliminary report from the Defense Intelligence Agency, a U.S. government intelligence group, suggested there was 'low confidence' that the Middle Eastern country's program had been set back. Even Iran's leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has said the U.S. hit Tehran's nuclear sites but achieved 'nothing significant'. He said: 'Anyone who heard [Trump's] remarks could tell there was a different reality behind his words - they could do nothing.' The Trump Administration - including Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Director Of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard - pushed back on the report. Hegseth slammed the media for diminishing the strikes, which Trump compared to Hiroshima. 'Your people are trying to leak and spin that it wasn't successful, it's irresponsible,' he said at a press conference. 'There's nothing that I've seen that suggests that what we didn't hit exactly what we wanted to hit in those locations,' he explained without offering further evidence that the uranium was destroyed. Trump has threatened to sue The New York Times and CNN for reporting on the preliminary report. The Times reported on Thursday that Trump's personal lawyer Alejandro Brito had reached out to the newspaper and said the article had damaged the President's reputation. The letter demanded The Times 'retract and apologize for' the story, calling it 'false,' 'defamatory' and 'unpatriotic'. The newspaper's lawyer responded by noting that Trump administration officials had confirmed the existence of the report after The Times published its findings. 'No retraction is needed,' The Times' lawyer David McCraw said in a letter. 'No apology will be forthcoming. We told the truth to the best of our ability. We will continue to do so.' A spokesperson for CNN told The Times that the cable news network had responded to Trump's lawyer in a similar fashion. Operation Midnight Hammer marked the end of a 45-year stand-off between the U.S. and Iran. Trump warned Iran not to try and rebuild its nuclear program. 'I don't think they'll ever do it again,' he said while attending a NATO summit. 'They just went through hell. I think they've had it. The last thing they want to do is enrich.' But the President also didn't rule out another airstrike if necessary. When asked whether the U.S. would strike again if Iran built its nuclear enrichment program, he replied: 'Sure.' In total, the U.S. launched 75 precision-guided munitions, including more than two dozen Tomahawk missiles, and more than 125 military aircraft in the operation against three nuclear sites.
The Guardian
an hour ago
- The Guardian
Kneecap at Glastonbury review – sunkissed good vibes are banished by rap trio's feral, furious flows
It is perhaps worth recalling Kneecap's appearance at last year's Glastonbury, a lunchtime set in the Woodsies tent that saw the band widely acclaimed as bringers of boozy, edgy hilarity, complete with songs called Get Your Brits Out and Rhino Ket. Twelve months and some provocative onstage comments about Palestine and Conservative MPs later, they're both folk devil and cause celebre, whose appearance at the festival is the most hotly debated of 2025 – both the prime minister and the leader of the opposition have had strong opinions about it. It's a perfect example of how quickly stories can become overheated in the 21st century: vastly more people now have a opinion about Kneecap than have ever heard their music, which is, traditionally, a tricky and destructive position for a band to find themselves in. Invoking a name one probably shouldn't invoke under the circumstances, you might want to ask the surviving members of the Sex Pistols how that worked out for them. Still, the West Holts area is so packed, it has to be closed down to prevent a crush. The stage is barely visible for flags, most, but not all of them, Palestinian (there's still room for WE LIKE TO MOVE IT MOVE IT, SMITHY'S ON A BENDER and indeed I EAT ASS – THAT'S AMORE). Kneecap themselves seem happy to lean into the controversy: their appearance is preceded by a montage of voices condemning the band – Sharon Osbourne figures heavily – and much booing from the audience. Their ongoing travails are regularly referenced – 'everyone in that fucking tent agreed with me', protests Mo Chara (real name Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh) about the Coachella appearance that intensified the whole business. Bandmate Móglaí Bap (Naoise Ó Cairealláin) suggests that the audience should attend Ó hAnnaidh's forthcoming court hearing – he's been charged with what Bap calls a 'trumped up' terrorism-related offence for allegedly displaying a Hezbollah flag at a London gig, for which Mo Chara has been unconditionally bailed – and 'start a riot outside the courts … the Daily Mail will love that! Fuck the Daily Mail! Fuck Keir Starmer!' The latter is among a longer list of enemies that also includes Rod Stewart, who's made the impressively ballsy choice to preface his Glastonbury appearance with an expression of support for Nigel Farage. It's probably too late to say that it would be a shame if said controversy completely drowned out Kneecap's actual music, but the point stands. Behind the furore, the trio are really good at what they do. Mo Chara and Móglaí Bap are impressive rappers – raw-throated but dextrous, far funnier than you might expect if the only stuff you heard about Kneecap revolved around recent events. And live, their sound comes into its own, a fizzing stew with a bassy intensity that has a hint of the Prodigy about it: Fine Art's sudden lurches from dubstep to four-to-the-floor pounding; Get Your Brits Out's warped take on classic Chicago house. As the crowd break into circle pits and moshing, with a degree of encouragement from the band, it feels genuinely exciting, a feral moment in a festival that's thus far tended towards sunkissed good vibes. What happens next – whether Kneecap's ongoing notoriety turns out to be a brief flashpoint, something more lasting, or indeed ultimately the undoing of them – remains to be seen. For now, for this audience, they are triumphant.
