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The Guardian
3 hours ago
- Politics
- The Guardian
Qatar sees ‘window of opportunity' for Gaza truce as dozens reported killed by Israel – Middle East crisis live
Update: Date: 2025-06-28T10:04:50.000Z Title: 34 people were killed Content: At least across Gaza by Israeli strikes, health staff say Jane Clinton Sat 28 Jun 2025 12.04 CEST First published on Sat 28 Jun 2025 09.59 CEST From 10.52am CEST 10:52 At least across Gaza by Israeli strikes, health staff say. The strikes began late Friday and continued into Saturday morning, among others killing 12 people at the Palestine Stadium in Gaza City, which was sheltering displaced people, and eight more living in apartments, according to staff at Shifa hospital where the bodies were brought. Six others were killed in southern Gaza when a strike hit their tent in Muwasi, according to the hospital. Updated at 11.21am CEST 11.56am CEST 11:56 Emirates extended its cancellation of flights to and from Iran's capital Tehran until July 5 due to the 'regional situation', it said in a statement on Saturday, Reuters reports. The Dubai-based airline said it will recommence operations to Baghdad on 1 July and Basra on 2 July. 11.44am CEST 11:44 Jason Burke When Benjamin Netanyahu described the opportunities for peace that Israel's successes in its brief war with Iran might bring, supporters took him at his word. 'This victory presents an opportunity for a dramatic widening of peace agreements. We are working on this with enthusiasm,' Israel's longest-serving prime minister said on Thursday in a pre-recorded statement. Critics of the 75-year-old leader saw something else. 'Whatever he does, he tries to turn everything to his advantage … This is a guy who never takes responsibility but only credit … Everything is opportunistic and everything is transactional,' said Prof Yossi Mekelberg at Chatham House in London. Quite how long Netanyahu will stay in power is now a burning question in Israel, as the country recovers from the rollercoaster of fear and elation of the last weeks. You can read the full report here: 11.31am CEST 11:31 Here are some images coming to us over the wires. 11.15am CEST 11:15 Iran's foreign minister Abbas Araghchi said on Saturday that Iranians had given their 'blood' during a 12-day war with Israel but 'not honour', AFP reports. 'Iranians gave blood, not land; gave their loved ones, not honour; they withstood a thousand-ton rain of bombs, but did not surrender,' Abbas Araghchi said on his Instagram account, adding that Iran does not recognise the word 'surrender'. 11.05am CEST 11:05 Yemen's Iran-backed Huthi rebels said they fired a ballistic missile towards Israel on Saturday, in response to Israel's conduct towards Palestinians during the Gaza war. The Israeli army confirmed the launch and said the 'missile was most likely successfully intercepted', AFP reports. In a statement, rebel military spokesman Yahya Saree said the Huthis had fired at a 'sensitive Israeli enemy target in the occupied area of Beersheba using a Dhu al-Fiqar ballistic missile.' 10.55am CEST 10:55 Qatar's foreign ministry spokesman says mediators are engaging with Israel and Hamas to build on momentum from this week's ceasefire with Iran and work towards a truce in the Gaza Strip. Majed al-Ansari said in an interview with AFP on Friday: If we don't utilise this window of opportunity and this momentum, it's an opportunity lost amongst many in the near past. We don't want to see that again. 10.52am CEST 10:52 At least across Gaza by Israeli strikes, health staff say. The strikes began late Friday and continued into Saturday morning, among others killing 12 people at the Palestine Stadium in Gaza City, which was sheltering displaced people, and eight more living in apartments, according to staff at Shifa hospital where the bodies were brought. Six others were killed in southern Gaza when a strike hit their tent in Muwasi, according to the hospital. Updated at 11.21am CEST 10.37am CEST 10:37 Here is more detail on comments made by the head of the controversial US- and Israeli-backed aid group Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), who has defended its work after repeated killings of Palestinians at aid hubs. Johnnie Moore told the BBC World Service's Newshour that he did not deny there were deaths near the aid sites, but he added that '100% of those casualties are being attributed to close proximity to GHF' and that was 'not true'. 'Moore also accused the UN and other international organisations of spreading information they could not verify,' the BBC added. Moore also told Sky News there is a 'disinformation campaign' fuelled by 'some figures' coming out every day. The UN said at least 410 Palestinians have been killed seeking food since Israel lifted an 11-week aid blockade on 19 May. The Hamas-run Gaza health ministry said at least 549 people have been killed. On Friday, the UN secretary general, Antonio Guterres, called the GHF aid system 'inherently unsafe'. He said: 'Any operation that channels desperate civilians into militarised zones is inherently unsafe. The search for food must never be a death sentence.' 10.11am CEST 10:11 We have more on the state funeral being held in Tehran for around 60 people, including its military commanders and nuclear scientists. The proceedings started at 8.00am local time (04.30 GMT) in the capital as government offices and many businesses were closed on Saturday for the occasion, AFP reports. State TV showed footage of thousands of people wearing black clothes, waving Iranian flags and holding pictures of the slain military commanders. Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, along with other senior government officials and military commanders - including Esmail Qaani, head of the Quds Force, the foreign operations arm of the Revolutionary Guards - also attended the event. The march began near Enghelab (Revolution) Square in central Tehran. A patriotic eulogy blared from loudspeakers as the procession set out across the sprawling metropolis toward Azadi (Freedom) Square, 11 kilometres (seven miles) away. Among the dead is Mohammad Bagheri, a major general in Iran's Revolutionary Guards and the second-in-command of the armed forces after the Iranian leader. He will be buried alongside his wife and daughter, a journalist for a local media outlet, all killed in an Israeli attack. Nuclear scientist Mohammad Mehdi Tehranchi, also killed in the attacks, will be buried with his wife. Revolutionary Guards commander Hossein Salami, who was killed on the first day of the war, will also be laid to rest after Saturday's ceremony - which will also honour at least 30 other top commanders. Of the 60 people who are to be laid to rest after the ceremony, four are children and four are women. 9.59am CEST 09:59 Hello and welcome to our live coverage of the latest developments in the Middle East. Donald Trump has said he would 'absolutely' consider bombing Iran again. At a White House briefing, he said he would 'without question' attack the country if Tehran is enriching uranium to concerning levels. Trump also reacted sternly to Iran's Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei's remarks that Iran 'slapped America in the face' by launching an attack against a major US base in Qatar following the US bombing raids. Khamenei also said Iran would never surrender. In a social media post Trump wrote: 'His Country was decimated, his three evil Nuclear Sites were OBLITERATED, and I knew EXACTLY where he was sheltered, and would not let Israel, or the US Armed Forces, by far the Greatest and Most Powerful in the World, terminate his life. I SAVED HIM FROM A VERY UGLY AND IGNOMINIOUS DEATH.' Iran, meanwhile, said a potential nuclear deal was conditional on the US ending its 'disrespectful tone' toward the Supreme Leader. 'If President Trump is genuine about wanting a deal, he should put aside the disrespectful and unacceptable tone towards Iran's Supreme Leader, Grand Ayatollah Khamenei, and stop hurting his millions of heartfelt followers,' Iran's foreign minister Abbas Araghchi said in a post on X in the early hours of Saturday. In other news: Iran began a state funeral service on Saturday for around 60 people, including its military commanders, killed in its war with Israel. Johnnie Moore, head of the controversial US and Israeli-backed aid group, Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) has defended its work. The Israeli army said on Saturday that a missile launched from Yemen toward Israeli territory had been 'most likely successfully intercepted'. Updated at 12.04pm CEST
Washington Post
5 hours ago
- Health
- Washington Post
At least 34 people killed in Israeli strikes in Gaza as ceasefire prospects inch closer
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — At least 34 people were killed across Gaza by Israeli strikes, health staff say, as Palestinians face a growing humanitarian crisis in Gaza and ceasefire prospects inch closer. The strikes began late Friday and continued into Saturday morning, among others killing 12 people at the Palestine Stadium in Gaza City, which was sheltering displaced people, and eight more living in apartments, according to staff at Shifa hospital where the bodies were brought. Six others were killed in southern Gaza when a strike hit their tent in Muwasi, according to the hospital.
LBCI
19 hours ago
- Politics
- LBCI
Gaza rescuers say 62 killed by Israeli forces
Gaza's civil defense agency said that Israeli forces killed at least 62 people on Friday, including 10 who were waiting for aid in the war-ravaged Palestinian territory. Civil defense spokesman Mahmud Bassal told AFP that 62 Palestinians had been killed Friday by Israeli strikes or gunfire in the Gaza Strip. When asked by AFP for comment, the Israeli military said it was looking into the incidents and denied its troops fired in one of the locations in central Gaza where rescuers said one person was killed. AFP
LBCI
a day ago
- Politics
- LBCI
PM Salam condemns Israeli strikes near Nabatieh as violation of sovereignty
Lebanon's Prime Minister Nawaf Salam on Friday strongly condemned recent Israeli strikes in the vicinity of Nabatieh, calling them a 'blatant violation of national sovereignty.' In a post on X, Salam said the attacks also breached the ceasefire arrangements brokered last November and posed a threat to the stability Lebanon is working to preserve. 'I strongly condemn the Israeli attacks around Nabatieh, which represent a blatant violation of national sovereignty and the ceasefire arrangements reached last November,' Salam wrote. 'They also pose a threat to the stability we are committed to preserving.'
Arab News
a day ago
- Politics
- Arab News
Lebanon says 1 dead, 20 wounded in Israeli strikes in south
BEIRUT: Lebanon's health ministry said a woman was killed and 20 other people were wounded in Israeli strikes Friday in the country's south, as Israel's military said some raids targeted Hezbollah sites. Israel has kept up regular strikes on Lebanon, particularly in the south, since a November 27 ceasefire meant to end over a year of hostilities, including two months of all-out war that left Hezbollah severely weakened. 'The Israel enemy strike on an apartment in Nabatiyeh led to a preliminary toll of one woman killed' and 13 other people wounded, the ministry said in an updated statement carried by the official National News Agency. The NNA said an Israeli drone targeted the apartment. The agency earlier reported 'a wave of successive heavy strikes' in several other areas in the Nabatiyeh region that the health ministry said wounded seven people. An Israeli army statement said fighter jets struck a site that Hezbollah used 'to manage its fire and defense array in the area of the Beaufort Ridge,' near Nabatiyeh and the Israel border. It said the site was 'part of a significant underground project that was completely taken out of use' by the raids. The military said it 'identified rehabilitation attempts made by Hezbollah beforehand and struck terror infrastructure sites in the area,' calling the actions 'a blatant violation of the understandings between Israel and Lebanon.' Lebanese President Joseph Aoun in a statement condemned the strikes and said Israel continued 'to disregard regional and international resolutions and calls to stop the violence and escalation in the region,' urging 'effective action from the international community.' Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam in a statement called the strikes 'a blatant violation of national sovereignty and the cessation of hostilities arrangements' and a threat to stability. Under the ceasefire deal, Hezbollah was to pull its fighters back north of the Litani river, some 30 kilometers (20 miles) from the Israeli border, leaving the Lebanese army and United Nations peacekeepers as the only armed parties in the area. Israel was required to fully withdraw its troops from the country but has kept them in five locations in south Lebanon that it deems strategic. In a letter to the United Nations requesting a one-year renewal of the mandate of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon which expires in August, the foreign ministry demanded 'Israel's withdrawal from all Lebanese territory it occupies and a stop to its ongoing violations.' On Thursday, Israeli strikes on south Lebanon killed two people, with the Israeli military saying it targeted Hezbollah operatives.
