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Gaza/MidEast June 2025
Guardian: "Israel-Hamas war" — (LINK)
Al Jazeera: "Israel-Hamas war live": now "Israel War on Gaza" — (LINK)
Iran revises Evin prison strike toll on 23 June to 71 as judiciary reports 935 war dead (LINK) — ground.news: 264 media reports (LINK) 30 June 2025
— Iran also confirmed that top prosecutor Ali Ghanaatkar had been killed in the attack. Ghanaatkar's prosecution of dissidents, including Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi, had led to widespread criticism by human rights groups.
Iran can regain capability to enrich uranium for a bomb within months, IAEA chief says (LINK) — ground.news: 58 media reports (LINK) 28 June 2025
Israel says it killed Hamas co-founder in Gaza City strike (LINK) — ground.news: 62 media reports (LINK) 27 June 2025
'Slaughter masquerading as aid': MSF slams US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (LINK) — ground.news: 26 media reports (LINK) 27 June 2025
— The foundation "is degrading Palestinians by design, forcing them to choose between starvation or risking their lives for minimal supplies," MSF said in a statement, demanding that the scheme be "immediately dismantled".
UN watchdog: Iran nuclear programme 'suffered enormous damage' (LINK) — ground.news: 13 media reports (LINK) 26 June 2025
— IAEA director Rafael Grossi says Iran's uranium enrichment plant at Fordow is "no longer operational" after a massive U.S. airstrike. "The attacks that began on June 13 caused very significant physical damage at three sites: Natanz, Isfahan, and Fordow, where Iran had concentrated most of its uranium enrichment and conversion abilities," he said. "There are other nuclear sites in Iran that have not been hit," he added. "I know there is much debate about the degree of annihilation, total destruction, etc. What I can tell you, and I think everyone agrees on this, is that very considerable damage has been caused." Grossi said his inspectors have not yet gained access to the damaged Iranian sites, but "we know these facilities inside out," so "we can draw fairly accurate conclusions by looking at satellite images and so on about the type of damage and the consequences of what happened." "Iran is a member of the Non-Proliferation Treaty and, therefore, must have an inspection system, and this can't be unilaterally suspended," he said.
The US military did not use bunker-buster bombs on Isfahan nuclear bunker, one of Iran's largest nuclear sites, last weekend because the site is so deep that the bombs likely would not have been effective, the US' top general told senators during a briefing (LINK) 26 June 2025
Trump rejects leaked intelligence that says strikes did not destroy Iran nuclear programme (LINK) 25 June 2025
Ceasefire, strikes and fury from Trump: chaotic 24 hours in Israel-Iran war (LINK) 24 June 2025
— There were reports of Israeli strikes killing nine people in the northern Iranian province of Gilan early on Tuesday morning local time, and five people killed in an Iranian strike on Beersheba in Israel. Trump: "Israel, as soon as we made the deal, they came out and they dropped a load of bombs, the likes of which I've never seen before, the biggest load that we've seen. I'm not happy with Israel … I'm not happy with Iran either."
Oil prices shed 2% as Iran-Israel ceasefire eases concerns over supply, Strait of Hormuz closure (LINK) 23 June 2025
Israel and Iran accept a ceasefire plan proposed by U.S. President Donald Trump to end their 12-day war (LINK) 24 June 2025
— The acceptance of the deal by both sides came after Tehran launched a final onslaught of missiles targeting Israel that killed at least four people early Tuesday morning, while Israel launched a blitz of airstrikes targeting sites across Iran before dawn.
Donald Trump confirms Iran warned ahead of Qatar military base attack (LINK) — ground.news: 111 media reports (LINK) 23 June 2025
Oil gains and US stock futures, Asian shares slip after US strikes Iran nuclear sites (LINK) 23 June 2025
Price of oil could spike after Iran's parliament votes to close key shipping route: move could cause a global recession (LINK) 22 June 2025
BBC: Decoy flights and seven B-2 stealth bombers: how US says it hit Iran's nuclear sites (LINK) 22 June 2025
CNN: The US struck several key Iranian nuclear facilities early Sunday (?), including Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan. During an address at the White House, US President Donald Trump claimed the sites were "totally obliterated" and warned the US could go after additional targets if Iran does not make peace (LINK) 22 June 2025
— American B-2 bombers were used in the strikes, and sources said the US also utilized a 30,000-pound "bunker buster" bomb. It's the first known instance of the bomb being used operationally. Iranian officials are downplaying the impact of the strikes, with one lawmaker saying they were "superficial" and did not seriously damage Fordow. Iranian leaders have warned the attack will have "everlasting consequences", and requested an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council. There has not yet been an official response from Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
86 admitted to hospital after fresh Iranian strikes, Israel's health ministry says
Pakistan condemns US strike on Iran day after nominating Trump for Nobel Peace Prize — (LINK)
World Central Kitchen says it has begun operating Gaza community kitchens for first time in 12 weeks (LINK) 22 June 2025
BBC: The US has changed the course of the Iran-Israel conflict. How will Iran respond? Netanyahu: Trump's bold decision "will change history" (LINK)
— "If the nuclear sites bombed last night are now indeed out of use then Israel's prime minister will be able to declare his main war aim complete, perhaps bringing this conflict closer to an end. For its part, Iran says it had already moved its nuclear material out."
Al Jazeera: Israel attacks southwest Iran; drones target Israel: Israel hit nuclear site in Isfahan, IAEA confirms (LINK) 21 June 2025
— Gulf Cooperation Council ambassadors have expressed concerns to UN nuclear watchdog chief Rafael Grossi about the safety of Iran's nuclear facilities close to their countries. Iran says more than 400 people have been killed and at least 3,056 others wounded since Israel launched its attack on June 13.
Columbia graduate and legal US resident Mahmoud Khalil, targeted by White House for speaking out against the Israeli war in Gaza, reunites with family after more than 100 days in ICE detention (LINK) 21 June 2025
Erdogan announces opening of UNRWA office in Turkiye: "We must not allow UNRWA, which plays an irreplaceable role in terms of taking care of Palestinian refugees, to be paralysed by Israel" — (LINK)
Israel says it killed Iran's military coordinator with Hamas (LINK) 21 June 2025
Common Dreams: Inventing the Iranian Threat: Where does the Western obsession with Iran come from? The "Ayatollah regime" is said to threaten world peace. U.S. intelligence agencies and the military see things differently. (LINK) 20 June 2025
Israel says Khamenei 'can no longer be allowed to exist' after Iran strikes hospital (LINK) 19 June 2025
Iranian missiles damage Israeli hospital and buildings while Israel strikes Iran's nuclear sites amid escalating conflict (LINK) 19 June 2025
Hackers say they wiped out $90 million from Iran cryptocurrency exchange (LINK) 19 June 2025
Trump weighs U.S. strike as Iran's supreme leader says the 'battle begins'. "This is the dirty work Israel is doing for all of us," German Chancellor Friedrich Merz says, weighing in on the conflict. Russia, an Iranian ally, has urged the U.S. not to intervene. (LINK) 18 June 2025
US moving fighter jets and troops to Middle East as Israel-Iran war rages (LINK) — ground.news: 108 media reports (LINK) 18 June 2025
Israel-Iran conflict at critical juncture as Trump demands Tehran's 'unconditional surrender' (LINK) 17 June 2025
Israel issues Tehran evacuation order as Iran threatens to leave nuclear weapons treaty: order similar to those issued in Gaza a further sign Israeli campaign is evolving towards war of attrition (LINK) 16 June 2025
Israel says it has full control over Tehran's skies as both sides continue strikes 16 June 2025 (LINK)
Israel strikes Iranian state TV live in new attack on Tehran (LINK) 16 June 2025
Iran renews missile attacks on Israel, killing 5 and wounding dozens (LINK) 16 June 2025
Netanyahu says Israel killed IRGC intelligence chief and his deputy — Times of Israel (LINK) 15 June 2025
DW: How close is Iran to getting a nuclear bomb? According to Tehran, its nuclear program is purely civilian, though Israel thinks it's aimed at making a nuclear bomb. Iran's high levels of uranium enrichment mean that the step to weapon-grade uranium is very short. (LINK) 15 June 2025
DW: How close is Iran to getting a nuclear bomb? According to Tehran, its nuclear program is purely civilian, though Israel thinks it's aimed at making a nuclear bomb. Iran's high levels of uranium enrichment mean that the step to weapon-grade uranium is very short. (LINK) 15 June 2025
Israel targets Iran's Defense Ministry headquarters as Tehran unleashes deadly missile strike (LINK) — ground.news: 81 media reports (LINK) 14 June 2025
— The strikes follow Israel's operation 'Rising Lion' launched early Friday, after which Iran responded with waves of ballistic missiles and drone attacks in retaliation. Iran fired about 150 missiles in three salvos, hitting Israeli cities including Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, causing 3 deaths, 76 injuries, and damage amid missile interceptions. Iranian officials reported nearly 80 killed and over 320 wounded in Israeli strikes that killed senior generals and damaged nuclear and military facilities.
Israel says it killed 9 Iranian nuclear scientists, and braces for attacks from Iran (LINK) 14 June 2025
Tel Aviv hit by retaliatory Iranian missile strikes: injured 34 people, while two people were killed and 19 injured (LINK) 13 June 2025
— Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said Iran had *crossed a red line" by firing missiles at populated civilian areas. Most of the surface-to-surface missiles were intercepted, Israel's military said. The U.S. assisted Israel in defending against Iran's attack, a U.S. official said.
Israeli strikes kill 3 of Iran's top military leaders and prompt retaliation (LINK) 13 June 2025
— Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the strikes hit Iran's main enrichment site, the Natanz atomic facility, and targeted Iran's leading nuclear scientists. He said that Israel had also targeted Iran's ballistic missile arsenal.
— Among those killed were three of Iran's top military leaders, one who oversaw the entire armed forces, Gen. Mohammad Bagheri, one who led the paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, Gen. Hossein Salami, and another who ran the Guard's ballistic missile program, Gen. Amir Ali Hajizadeh.
— Iran launched over 100 drones toward Israel, but Israel's military said its air defenses had shot down most of the them. But the military said the threat was not yet over. It closed Israeli airspace and said it was calling up tens of thousands of soldiers to protect the country's borders.
Israeli spies and pilots crippled an Iranian counterstrike to attack. Iranian generals gathered in a bunker. Israel knew they were there (LINK) 13 June 2025
— Israel knew the emergency protocol, and the location of the bunker. They destroyed it, killing the overall commander and the heads of the drone and air defense forces. "The fact that there was nobody to give the order neutralized an immediate Iranian response," an Israeli official said.
Trump scrambles to claim credit for Israel's Iran attack he publicly opposed (LINK) 13 June 2025
— The White House's messaging has shifted quickly from Marco Rubio's arms-length description of the Israeli attack as a "unilateral action", to Trump claiming on Friday morning that he was fully in the loop on the operation and that it came at the end of a 60-day ultimatum he had given Iran to "make a deal" on its nuclear programme. "Today is day 61," he wrote on Truth Social. "I told [Iran] what to do, but they just couldn't get there."
US reduces the presence of staffers not deemed essential in the Middle East as tensions rise (LINK) 11 June 2025
Iran says it will target US bases if conflict breaks out over nuclear enrichment (LINK) 11 June 2025
Greta Thunberg on Gaza protest flotilla: 4 activists including Greta volunteer to leave, eight remain in detention awaiting deportation: According to Defense Minister Israel Katz, the activists refused to continue watching the film "after seeing the brutality of the attacks" (LINK) 10 June 2025
— During the journey to Gaza from Sicily, the activists diverted their route to rescue four migrants stranded in the Mediterranean Sea.
More than 300 U.K. Foreign Office staff who raised concerns about potential UK "complicity" in Israel's conduct in Gaza in May were told if they profoundly disagreed with government policy they could consider resigning (LINK) 10 June 2025
— The Foreign Office said it had systems for staff to raise concerns and added the government had "rigorously applied international law" in relation to the war in Gaza.
GHF says it handed out over 23,000 boxes of food at two sites (LINK) 9 June 2025
Israeli forces intercept Gaza-bound aid ship carrying Greta Thunberg (LINK) 9 June 2025
GHF says it delivered food to Gazan community leaders for distribution as part of pilot program (LINK) 8 June 2025
Gaza aid group says Hamas threats to staff kept distribution hubs closed on Saturday: Times of Israel: "GHF accuses terror group of trying to restore previously used UN-backed mechanisms that enabled it to divert goods for its own purposes from those in need" (LINK) 7 June 2025
Four Israeli soldiers killed in booby-trapped building collapse in Gaza's Khan Yunis: The IDF has so far released the names of 866 soldiers killed since October 7, 2023 (LINK) 6 June 2025
US vetoes UN Security Council resolution calling for Gaza ceasefire (LINK) 4 June 2025
— 14 other members back motion demanding release of hostages and unhindered aid; US envoy says will "not support any measure that fails to condemn Hamas, call for it to disarm".
Switzerland says Geneva branch of US-backed Gaza aid group GHF "inactive, noncompliant" (LINK) 3 June 2025
— Swiss Foreign Ministry has responded to key issues raised in an open letter signed by 55 former Swiss diplomats, reiterating its stance on the Gaza crisis and confirming that it is reviewing the legal status of the controversial Geneva branch of the US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. The GHF mechanism was opposed by the international community and the UN, which comes as an alternative attempt by Israel to bypass the aid distribution through UN channels.
IDF says roads to Gaza aid centres are 'combat zones' as sites close for day: Aid distribution will be halted on Wednesday — (LINK) 4 June 2025
Key US consulting firm Boston Consulting Group withdraws from American- and Israeli-backed Gaza aid agency — (LINK) 3 June 2025
— The report came as GHF announced it would appoint US evangelical interfaith leader Rev. Johnnie Moore as its new executive chairman, following the departure of CEO Jack Wood last month. BCG had offered its services to the humanitarian effort on a pro bono basis and did not receive any compensation for its work, said the BCG spokesperson. However, another person familiar with the project disputed the spokesperson’s account and said BCG had submitted invoices for more than $1 million each month, according to the Post. According to the report, BCG had been responsible for setting the payment and procurement rates for a network of contractors tasked with constructing four GHF aid centers in southern Gaza, one of which is not yet active.
In addition, senior officials have resigned, and the UN and aid groups refuse to cooperate — (LINK)
Rescuers say Israeli fire kills at least 27 near Gaza aid point, with the army reporting it had fired on "suspects who advanced toward the troops" (LINK) 2 June 2025
— The UN human rights chief condemned such attacks as a "breach of international law and a war crime", after a similar shooting in the same area of southern Gaza on Sunday killed and wounded scores of Palestinians seeking aid, according to the civil defence agency.
Red Cross says at least 21 killed and dozens shot in Gaza aid incident: the ICRC said the "Red Cross Field Hospital in Rafah received a mass casualty influx of 179 cases, including women and children" early in the morning on Sunday. It said "the majority suffered gunshot or shrapnel wounds", and "twenty-one patients were declared dead upon arrival". (LINK) 1 June 2025
— The Hamas-run civil defence agency in Gaza had said at least 31 people were killed and many more wounded in the incident, which it blamed on "Israeli gunfire" targeting civilians. But the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said findings from an initial inquiry showed its forces had not fired at people while they were near or within the aid centre. The group that runs the aid distribution centre, the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), also denied the claims of injuries and casualties at its site and said they had been spread by Hamas. It is unclear if the number of people killed reported by the ICRC is separate to the Hamas health ministry's reports.
Al Jazeera: Why Hamas is seeking to change the US-proposed Gaza ceasefire deal (LINK) 1 June 2025
— Hamas claims its response was positive, even though it offered "no guarantees to end the war". But it has added several key provisions: including full withdrawal of Israeli forces from the Gaza Strip and the resumption of aid and assistance to the besieged area.
U.S. envoy rejects Hamas ceasefire proposal as 'unacceptable': Hamas had reaffirmed its position that negotiations should aim for a permanent ceasefire, an Israeli withdrawal from Gaza and a sustained flow of humanitarian aid. (LINK) 31 May 2025
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