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28-06-2025
GAZA STRIP: Hospital sources in Gaza tell media that at least 71 people have been killed in Israeli attacks across the territory over the past 24 hours.
Gaza’s Government Media Office says at least 549 Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces while trying to access humanitarian supplies in the past four weeks, and a further 4,066 were injured at or near US and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) aid distribution sites.
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said his country delivered a “slap to America’s face” by targeting a US airbase in the recent conflict with Israel and added that Iran would never “surrender”.
Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 56,259 people and wounded 132,458, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry. An estimated 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the October 7 attacks, and more than 200 were taken captive.
The US State Department has approved $30m in funding for the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), a group back by the US and Israel that has set up food distribution sites in Gaza.
That funding has been approved despite concerns about continuing violence near those sites where Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces as they try to collect food.
Israel’s embassy in Madrid has accused Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez of “demonizing” Israel, and saying his country was “on the wrong side of history”.
The statement, which was also posted on the embassy’s social media account, did not directly reference Sanchez’s statement earlier at an EU meeting where he called Israel’s war on Gaza a “genocide” and urged the bloc to suspend cooperation with Israel.
“This is not only deeply regrettable: it is morally indefensible,” the embassy said.
“Let us be clear: Israel, a democratic country facing existential threats on multiple fronts, has the right and the duty to defend its citizens,” it added.
In response, the Spanish government called the Israeli statement “unacceptable” and summoned the embassy’s charge d’affaires.
The interim head of the controversial Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) has welcomed a $30m funding contribution from the US government as the group’s work comes under intense criticism for chaos at its aid distribution sites that has contributed to the deaths of hundreds of people.
GHF’s Interim Executive Director John Acree also called for “unity and collaboration” in Gaza.
“We look forward to other aid and humanitarian organizations joining us so we can feed even more Gazans, together,” he said in a statement.
Well-known aid groups and the United Nations have refused to work with the GHF, saying it violates basic humanitarian principles by coordinating delivery with Israeli troops backed by privately hired and armed US security personnel.
Video clips have emerged showing Palestinians, many of them children, being shot at while trying to collect food aid.
As of Thursday, at least 549 Palestinians have been reported killed while waiting for food aid distributed at GHF sites, according to the Gaza Government Media Office.
Israel’s far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has said the Abraham Accords, establishing diplomatic normalization between Israel and some Arab states, should not be expanded to countries that support a Palestinian state.
Smotrich was responding to Prime Minister Netanyahu’s comments on Thursday that Israel’s “victory” over Iran opens the door for more peace agreements with Arab countries. (Int’l Monitoring Desk)
