Urgent health update: Consequences of war on Gaza, the West Bank/East Jerusalem, and Lebanon - June 27, 2026

‍ ‍Action alerts‍‍ ‍ ‍‍ ‍

1. Call your Congresspeople to demand they reject expansion of US-Israeli military cooperation! The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) is authorizing a melding of the US-Israeli military-industrial complex, including co-production of weapons, AI coordination, and more, which will make US military support for Israel almost impossible to end. here ‍ ‍

2. Demand the suspension of the Israeli Medical Association from the World Medical Association. The Israeli Medical Association (IMA) has remained silent as Palestinian health workers were targeted amid the genocide in Gaza and ethnic cleansing in the West Bank, endorsing Israel's policies. here ‍

‍ Dr.  Mads Gilbert on boycotting the IMA youtube‍ ‍

3. Join Interfaith Action for Palestine to counter Christians United for Israel’s (CUFI) Annual Lobby Summit, July 5-7, 2025 in Washington, DC. CUFI is the largest “pro-Israel” organization in the US promoting hawkish, Christian supremacist, genocidal policies. They have mobilized hundreds in DC to disrupt CUFI’s supremacist agenda in powerful and creative ways before. Challenging white Christian Nationalism is even more urgent this year. Register here.

4. “There are Tens of Thousands of Hind Rajabs” This essay discusses the UN findings of Israeli deliberate targeting of children and offers actions to be taken. Palestine-Global and Shatāt-USA Palestine Mental Health Networks started a campaign called If This Were Your Child. It sets the questions of Gaza’s children beside the record of who pays for their killing, and it asks one thing of the people paying the bill. STOP.‍ ‍

If you are a US citizen, do not only write to Congress. Call. The Capitol switchboard is (202) 224-3121. Call today, and call again tomorrow, and keep calling.  ‍ ‍

Write to Congress here: Your Taxes, Their Children: Tell Congress to Enforce the Law. Follow this link.
Follow @if_this_were_your_child for more ways to act. Counterpunch ‍ ‍

Webinars‍‍ ‍ ‍ ‍‍ ‍

JVP Health Advisory Council webinar: Palantir in our hospitals: How the company powering the Gaza genocide and ICE Surveilance is expanding into healthcare: 7/12/26, 10 am Pacific/ 1 pm Eastern. Co-sponsors: AFSC, National Nurses United, No Palantir in the NHS (England). Register here: ‍ ‍

Watch this informative video about how Palantir functions and its fascist origins: here ‍ ‍‍ ‍

United Nations‍ ‍

6/18, Tom Fletcher, UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, briefed the UN Security Council regarding progress in the 7 months since passage of UN Security Council resolution 2803 and the October 2025 peace agreement. He recognized the reduction in damage and deaths, the exchange of hostages, and removal of some barriers to aid, and paid tribute to the tireless humanitarian effort to relieve the crisis in Gaza. He then described the current situation where “Palestinians in Gaza remain deprived of the basics that you would all demand for your own families: safety, shelter, clean water, healthcare, education…civilians continue to be killed and maimed in daily airstrikes, shelling and gunfire. Since the ceasefire, nearly 1,000 Palestinians have been killed…, more than 250 children. This is what happens when children are described as collateral damage and potential terrorists, rather than humans and potential neighbors.”‍ ‍

He acknowledged that “Gaza remains the most dangerous place on earth to deliver aid. Almost 600 aid workers killed there in nearly three years – over half of over 1,000 humanitarians killed globally. For their families and colleagues, we call again for accountability.”‍ ‍

After recognizing the further deterioration of conditions in Gaza as well as in the West Bank, he made 3 demands of the Security Council:‍ ‍

1) ensure the protection of civilians, including humanitarian workers; 2) ensure safe, sustained, unhindered humanitarian in Gaza; and 3) funding commensurate with the scale of the crisis.‍ ‍Noting that “the attention of the world has been elsewhere,” he pleaded: “Civilians cannot wait for a more convenient diplomatic moment to receive the basics for survival.”‍ ‍

Read the entire statement: OCHA

Reports‍ ‍

·A UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry charged Israel with deliberately targeting Palestinian children in Gaza, citing the “unprecedented” scale of child deaths, injuries, and trauma caused by their military operations, describing it as a key factor in an ongoing genocide. Israel rejected the findings, calling the report “defamatory” and a “libelous sham.” OHCHR report, Haaretz, Drop Site 6/23, OCHA‍ ‍

·       Israel’s repeated use of mass “evacuation” orders in Lebanon violated international humanitarian law, with its no-return orders in parts of southern Lebanon amounting to the war crime of unlawful transfer, according to a report published on 6/17 by Amnesty International. The organization called on Israeli forces to stop “forcibly uprooting communities and designating entire swathes of Lebanese land as no-go zones for civilians,” urging Israel to “immediately withdraw from Lebanese territory” and “provide reparation for victims of its international humanitarian law violations.” Drop Site 6/17, Amnesty

·       Israel’s assault on Palestine and Lebanon has reconfigured how children understand the world. NYBooks

‍‍·       The recent UN Final Gaza Rapid Damage and Needs Assessment, published in collaboration with the EU and the World Bank, concludes that Gaza’s human development has been set back by an estimated 77 years since October, 2023. Nowhere is this regression more catastrophic than in health. (Lancet)‍ ‍

·       Student Protests from Vietnam to Palestine, by Alice Rothchild, published almost a year after agreed upon pub date. Brill ‍ ‍

·       The NDAA is a must-pass defense bill considered each year by Congress. The proposed bill for fiscal year 2027 includes an enormous $1.5 trillion defense budget that would dramatically expand state militarization, surveillance, and corporate war profiteering. Earlier this month, both the House and Senate Armed Services Committees voted to approve a new dangerous measure within their respective versions of the NDAA. The measure lays out a policy aiming to deepen integration between U.S. and Israeli military technology, artificial intelligence systems, cybersecurity programs, surveillance infrastructure, intelligence operations, and weapons development. Supporters frame the provision as cooperation and innovation. In reality, it represents a toxic merging of America’s technology industry and Israel’s security state—with devastating consequences. substack, OHCHR

‍GAZA‍ ‍ ‍‍ ‍

Israel continues to violate all “ceasefire” provisions (not to mention international and humanitarian law) by attacking tent camps (fire-bombed in Beit Lahia the night of 6/24), homes, agricultural lands, infrastructure and public gathering places, and expanding the amount of the Strip under military rule and inaccessible to Palestinians to 65%. The UN Human Rights Office (OHCHR) verified the killing of 196 Palestinians (43 children) and many more injured in Israeli attacks near the “Yellow Line.” Israeli restricts entry of supplies, as food, shelter, medicine, fuel, and repair items are urgently needed, and the water and sanitation crises are at the breaking point. Fishing and ocean access remains prohibited, exacerbating conditions as electricity cuts recur and summer temperatures rise.‍ ‍

·       More than 1,000 Palestinians, including 253 children under the age of 18, have been killed in Gaza during the so-called “ceasefire.” Data from the Gaza Health Ministry show that 69% of all deaths were caused by remote-controlled missile strikes. Hala Abu Assi, a general coordinator in Gaza for Clean Shelter stated: “There's no safe place in Gaza. We're far from the Yellow Line, but attacks happen everywhere. It's scary to move around, I feel the attacks have intensified in our area. For me, this is the most frightening period since the cease-fire began.” Haaretz ‍

·       6/10-6/24: Israel killed 41 Palestinians and injured 190. ‍ ‍

·       Since the 10/10 “ceasefire,” 1,029 Palestinians killed and 3,294 injured.‍ ‍

·       Since 10/07/2023: 73,041+ killed ‍Palestinians and 173,402+ injured.‍ ‍

·       For more information on Gaza: OCHA‍ ‍‍ ‍

‍Israeli attacks‍ ‍ ‍

·       6/14, Israeli attacks killed 9 Palestinians: a 15-year-old shot east of Khan Younis, 6 killed in an airstrike on a warehouse near Al-Yemen Al-Saeed Hospital in the Jabalia refugee camp; and a drone strike targeted a group near the Al-Nuseirat refugee camp, wounding at least 3.

·       6/15, 5 Palestinians (2 children) were killed in Israeli attacks: A nurse at Al-Shifa Hospital and his child were killed, others wounded, when a drone hit their Gaza City home; a boy was killed and his father injured when Israeli forces shot them in central Gaza; a drone strike on Nuseirat camp killed 1 person, while a woman was killed earlier in the day in al-Zawaida. OCHA, Palestine Chronicle 6/15

·       6/16, Israeli strikes killed 5 and injured 8: an airstrike near Nuseirat refugee camp killed 2.

·       6/17, Israeli drone killed 2 and injured others on the beach, Al-Mawasi area, Khan Younis.

·       6/18, drone killed 2 and wounded others in a civilian vehicle in Gaza City. A Palestinian fisherman was fired on and seriously wounded by Israeli naval forces off the coast of Deir Al-Balah. In Khan Younis, an Israeli sniper shot a woman.

·       6/20, Israeli airstrikes and gunfire killed 10: in a pre-dawn strike in Gaza City. A cousin of the children killed stated that the apartment was hit without warning while the family was at home. “I was sitting at home. The rocket fell on us without a warning. This cease-fire… is this really a cease-fire? We are civilians. I never held a weapon.” 2 young girls and a woman were killed while a 9-year-old boy had to have his leg amputated; 3 killed in Al-Bureij camp, including Al Jazeera journalist and cameraman Ahmad Samir Washah; 1 killed and 8 wounded near Khan Younis; and 2 killed in Beit Lahiya. OCHA, Haaretz‍ ‍

·       6/21, Israeli drone strikes on Khan Younis and Al-Shati refugee camp killed 4, including a child, and wounded others.

·       6/22, an Israeli strike killed paramedic Maysara Salah Nassar, 33, in a civilian vehicle near the UK-Med Field Hospital in the Al-Mawasi area. They also killed a student on her way to sit for her secondary school examinations in Gaza City. A witness described the street filled with students when “3 or 4 missiles” hit. “Nine children were walking here a minute before the strike. Their mothers told them, ‘Good morning, may God be pleased with you, go to school.’ They returned to them dead.” His full interview is here.

·       6/23, Israeli forces carried out 4 attacks in and around Khan Younis, killing 2 and wounding 3 others, including a teenage boy who was shot and a child wounded by shrapnel when a missile struck an electric bicycle, injuring 3.

·       6/23, Palestinian paramedic Maysara Salah Nassar, 33, was killed after an Israeli drone strike targeted a civilian vehicle near the UK-Med Field Hospital in the Al-Mawasi area, west of Khan Younis, according to WAFA. (Drop Site 6/23)

·       6/23, Israeli strikes killed Ahmed Wishah, a cameraman with Al Jazeera, and at least six people, including two children, on Saturday. Wishah’s brother Mohammed, who also worked for Al Jazeera, was killed in an Israeli strike this April. Israel has now killed over 260 journalists in Gaza, including at least 12 working for Al Jazeera, since October 2023. Democracy Now

·       6/24, Israeli drone strike on Al-Taybah camp, near Khan Younis, killed 1 child and injured others.

Aid‍ ‍

·       According to the online UN 2720 Mechanism Dashboard between 6/15-21, UN and humanitarian partners offloaded nearly 10,000 pallets of aid at Kerem Shalom, the only operational crossing for the entry of cargo. Partners inside Gaza collected over 8,700 pallets.

·       Fewer supplies came from Ashdod Port (Israel) and more supplies came through the Egyptian corridor, compared with the previous week. The decrease in Ashdod is linked to technical issues affecting scanning, while the increase through the Egyptian corridor is related to a rise in offloading rates at Kerem Shalom.

·       6/8-21, Chamber of Commerce data shows the private sector collected 1,293 truckloads of products into Gaza4: 8% food items, 9% hygiene products and 7% shelter materials, limited quantities of insecticides, baby care items, and animal feed. Notably, 29% included non-essential goods such as hazelnut cocoa spread, instant coffee, and candy bars. Overall prices are gradually declining but are still about triple what they were before 10/2023. Fresh foods, however, have become more expensive in June.

·       Especially in the areas of limited access, relief efforts are constrained and delayed by Israeli coordination requirements and frequent shooting. Following the killing of service providers, some partners scaled down or suspended activities, affecting thousands of families. Because both of Gaza’s sanitary landfills are within the access-restricted eastern perimeter area, their inaccessibility for waste disposal means solid waste accumulates in populated areas across the remaining 35% of Gaza, heightening public health risks, including pests and rodents.

·       Palestinians living within or near access-restricted areas do not necessarily know where the boundaries are. Some say they deduce what areas are off limits from where shooting takes place and from where fewer services are available.

·       Mohammed, a 13-year-old boy, said: "First, we have no schools here. And second, if we try to play, shrapnel falls on us... Quadcopters come, film us, and drop bombs... Our future is destroyed… We spend the day fetching water. If water comes [by truck], we fill containers. We go and throw the rubbish... We get food aid from the community kitchen if there's any. Sometimes we manage, sometimes we don't… They'd bring around 500 bread bundles for 20,000 people. We all queue, but it's for nothing.”

Food Security

·       6/1-13, partners distributed food assistance to 420,000 people. Each family received 2 parcels, one 25-kilo flour bag and 2.5 kilos of high energy biscuits, covering 75% caloric needs. As of 6/3, partners prepared 713,000 meals daily in 93 kitchens. Funding constraints suspended the production of 400,000 daily meals since May. This is undermining nutrition efforts in an increasingly volatile environment. 

·       Partners provided 6 bakeries with free fuel to sustain operations. As of mid-June, production reached 18 metric tons of bread daily.

·       98% of Gaza’s farmland has been destroyed, alongside 90 percent of greenhouses and 82.8 percent of agricultural wells. Before the war, the agricultural sector employed about 560,000 people. Saed Ziada, who coordinates the agricultural sector at the Palestinian Non-Governmental Organizations Network, points to the recent initiative to support the sector through land reclamation, seed distribution, irrigation networks, and other forms of in-kind and financial support. But he said the scale of this assistance remains far below what is needed. Mondoweiss

Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)‍ ‍

·       6/7, the Palestinian Water Authority repaired the Bani Suhaila Mekorot water pipeline from Israel to Khan Younis, restoring water to 200,000 people.

·       6/10, Israel allowed UNICEF to import sodium hypochlorite and electrical spare parts to support drinking water production from desalination plants.

·       6/18, Union of Municipalities in the Gaza Strip warned of an impending humanitarian, health and environmental disaster resulting from the continued Israeli restrictions on the entry of essential operating and maintenance supplies. According to the union, the shortage of industrial oils has become the most immediate threat to municipal operations. The oils are required to run electricity generators, water wells, sewage pumping stations, and municipal vehicles. Officials warned that the depletion of these supplies could force vital facilities to shut down even if limited quantities of fuel remain available. (Palestine Chronicle 6/18)

·       Israeli restrictions on fuel entering the Gaza Strip caused some desalination plants to cease operations on Friday and Saturday, according to Gaza’s Association of Desalination Plant Owners. The sector, which provides much of the Strip’s drinking water, is “significantly suffering” from a “severe shortage of operational and maintenance supplies,” they wrote. (Drop Site 6/22)

Health ‍ ‍

·       New data from Gaza has revealed that Israel’s war on the enclave has caused a sharp decline in birth rates and a rise in abortions, with experts decrying this as "reproductive genocide". Gaza’s Ministry of Health revealed that only 2,004 births were registered in April 2026, compared to 6,076 births in November 2025, a decrease of around 67%. New Arab

·       6/14-20, partners provided 239,355 consults across 14 services points. Nearly 23% were linked to reportable diseases and within that, acute respiratory illnesses and skin diseases remained the most frequent, followed by acute watery diarrhea. Despite all efforts, diseases related to water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) caused by ectoparasites and rodents have been on the rise over the past 4 weeks.

·       6/16, Ninety-seven Palestinians, including 35 patients and 62 companions, were evacuated through Rafah crossing. Gaza’s Government Media Office said that Israel continues to restrict travel through Rafah, allowing only 6,845 travelers to leave out of 19,600 who were expected to cross according to the ceasefire agreement, with an implementation rate of only 35%. (Drop Site 6/16)

·       Over 520 endoscopic and surgical procedures are at risk of being suspended unless new supplies of high-level disinfectant agents enter Gaza. 

·       Non-communicable disease treatment is undermined by shortages of insulin, insulin syringes, and hemodialysis supplies, affecting all of Gaza’s approximately 700 patients requiring dialysis 3 times/week. While dialysis services are currently provided at the Al-Shifa, Al-Aqsa and Nasser hospitals and at the Az Zawaida field unit, due to the absence of therapeutic erythropoietin – critical for red blood cell production in patients whose kidneys no longer produce enough of the hormone -- many dialysis patients now require blood transfusions, placing significant strain on already limited blood supplies and hospital capacity. This medicine has been out of stock since September 2025.

·       Rehabilitation needs far exceed available capacity: although 56 health facilities are currently providing rehabilitation services across the Strip, supported by 44 community-based teams delivering outreach rehabilitation services. 6/6, 2 requests to bring into Gaza 160 rehabilitation items were rejected by the Israeli authorities, who said: “fitness equipment does not comply with the humanitarian policy.” Artificial limbs such as prosthetic hand, knee and ankle joints, prosthetic silicone locking liner and medical shoes, have also been denied by the Israeli authorities, despite recurrent submissions.

·       WHO has recently brought 120 wheelchairs into Gaza, but the number of dialysis, cancer and complex trauma cases urgently needing wheelchairs exceeds 3,000. More than 20,000 mobility aid products are needed to address the massive demand. While partners have already procured these supplies, obtaining approval for their entry by the Israeli authorities has been challenging. Due to the harsh living environment and extensive infrastructural destruction, the average lifespan of a wheelchair for an active user is estimated to be less than 3 months.

·       As of 6/14, 31 emergency medical teams (EMTs), including two national ones, remained deployed across Gaza. Personnel rotations were affected by new Jordanian border restrictions linked to the Ebola outbreak, denying entry to 2 specialists.

·       6/16, the Israeli High Court rejected an appeal to release Gaza pediatrician Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, allowing his detention to continue without charge under the “Unlawful Combatants Law.” His sister says his body shows clear signs of torture, he has lost half of his body weight, is losing his eyesight, has scabies, and remains in solitary confinement. Read her interview here: DropSite, DropSite, 6/15, Palestinian Center for the Defense of Prisoners called for his immediate release and demanded that Israeli authorities guarantee his basic rights while in detention. It also urged the International Committee of the Red Cross, the World Health Organization, and relevant United Nations officials to intervene and pressure Israel to end his detention.  Palestine Chronicle 6/16, Mondoweiss‍ ‍

·       6/25, massive fire broke out inside Al-Shifa medical complex in Gaza City, burning the only functional surgical operations building in northern Gaza. No injuries were reported. Civil defense crews battled the fire with worn-out equipment; conditions inside the hospital were characterized as “catastrophic.” (DropSite, 6/25)

·       For more information, see the Heath Cluster Dashboard.

·       One of the two Palestinian Red Crescent Society medics forcibly disappeared on 6/10 was released, according to a statement from the group, though the other remains unaccounted for—presumably still held by armed militias operating under Israeli protection. The Society urged the international community to secure his release and to protect medical personnel, and held Israel responsible for his kidnapping. (Drop Site 6/12)

Shelter‍ ‍

·       6/7-13, partners provided 1,370 households with 180 tents, 65 sealing-off kits, and 14 bedding kits. Partners also made emergency repairs and upgrades to 850 makeshift shelters and urgent repairs to 258 partially damaged housing units.

·       Since January 2026, partners brought into Gaza 3,030 Refugee Housing Units (RHUs), of which 1,850 were installed across 10 displacement sites. Work is ongoing at an additional 4 locations.

·       For more information, see the Shelter Cluster website.

Economy‍ ‍

·       Since 10/2023, Gaza's formal economy has effectively collapsed. According to UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Gaza's economy contracted 83% in 2024, pushing nearly the entire population into poverty. Another 9/2024 World Bank report described the Palestinian economy as nearing "freefall." A year and a half later, banks operate sporadically, salaries have disappeared and access to basic services is inconsistent at best. In their place, a patchwork of informal, improvised practices has emerged — what residents increasingly describe as a "survival economy." (DAWN 6/14)

·       The loss of personal documents has had serious consequences for people in Gaza, especially when it comes to ID documents. Robbed of their IDs, many Gazans are now unable to open bank accounts or prove that existing accounts are theirs. This leaves them in an impossible financial situation, cut off from any savings and unable to earn or spend what they have. (Electronic Intifada 6/23)

WEST BANK, INCLUDING EAST JERUSALEM‍ ‍‍ ‍‍ ‍‍

·       6/9-22, Israeli forces or settlers killed 2 Palestinians (1 child) and injured 43 (2 children). ‍ ‍

·       For more information: OCHA‍ ‍

Health care‍ ‍

·       33 partners now operate a network of 870 service delivery points: 59 hospitals, 477 PHCs, 230 mobile clinics and 16 emergency service centers. They suffer shortages of essential medicines, medical consumables, and pharmaceutical supplies, alongside challenges from checkpoints and other movement obstacles in reaching vulnerable communities. Many have been forced to reduce hours, raising concerns for patients requiring regular treatment and follow-up.

·       10/7/23-5/31/26, WHO documented 987 attacks on West Bank health care, resulting in 39 deaths and 201 injuries, and affecting 673 ambulances. So far in 2026, there have been 49 attacks, including 3 in May, resulting in 1 dead and 23 injured, and damaging 33 ambulances and 4 health facilities. Access restrictions hinder ambulance access and patient transport, especially in Nablus, Hebron, Jericho, Qalqilya and Ramallah governorates. Ambulance teams are sometimes forced to use longer routes or transport patients on foot.

·       Dr. Mazen Rantisi, a 71-year-old family doctor in Ramallah, was arrested in his home by Israeli Border Police. His arrest appears to be related to his position as chairperson of the Union of Health Committees, a nonprofit organization that treats thousands of people each year. Known as the “Doctor of the Poor,” Rantisi has seen an increasing number of patients in his clinic as Israel's seizure of Palestinian Authority revenues has forced the Palestinian Health Ministry to cut the working hours of medical teams and clinics. Dr. Rantisi is expected to appear before a military judge to determine whether his detention will be extended or he will be released on bail. Haaretz, Palestine Chronicle 6/21

Access Barriers‍ ‍

·       Access constraints increasingly impede aid delivery in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem. So far this year, partners report 230 access incidents. As in 2025, Israeli checkpoints, road closures and other physical and administrative obstacles are the most frequently cited problems, along with unsafe operational environments (Israeli military operations and the presence of settlers) that prevent NGO workers from safely reaching communities to carry out activities. Violence against personnel, assets and facilities, including detention, physical and verbal assaults, threats, intimidation, harassment, and damage to sites, equipment or supplies are also problems. Restrictions on movement into the West Bank cause delays or denials of entry, prolonged security checks and interrogations. These conditions impede the delivery of assistance and increase operational costs.

·       Access restrictions particularly affect services for women, children and people with disabilities in Bedouin and herding communities. The fiscal crisis facing the Palestinian Authority and subsequent strike action have further reduced operational capacity across the West Bank.

·       6/9, 3 AMRF workers were carrying out a field assessment in Wadi ar Rakheem, near Susiya (Hebron), when a group of settlers threw stones at them and forced them to flee, injuring 1.

Demolitions and displacement‍ ‍

·       6/18-22, Israeli authorities demolished 51 structures (38 structures in Area C and 13 in East Jerusalem) for lacking impossible to obtain Israeli-issued building permits. They included 18 homes (12 inhabited) and 33 livelihood, water and sanitation, and other structures, displacing 17 households (67 people, 28 children). 3 refugee families (10 people, 3 children, and 1 man with a disability) were displaced after authorities demolished their home (while legal procedures were ongoing and without prior notice) in South Bir Nabala Bedouin community (Jerusalem). 6/22, authorities demolished a 2-family multi-story residence in Kafr ‘Aqab, within the East Jerusalem municipal boundary on the West Bank side of the Barrier. During the same operation, they also demolished a main access road in the area, damaging water, electricity and sewage networks, affecting more than 2,600 people (1,300 children) and forcing residents to abandon their vehicles to reach their homes.

Settler attacks 

·       UN Commission of Inquiryreport found a sharp increase in violence by Israeli settlers against Palestinian children in the West Bank and East Jerusalem and documented evidence of torture, including sexual and gender-based violence, during mass arrests and detention. here‍ ‍

·       6/8-22, 70 settler attacks caused casualties, property damage, or both. So far this year, there have been more than 1,060 settler attacks.‍ ‍

·       6/12, violence by settlers from a new outpost between Birzeit and ‘Atara (Ramallah) forced 2 Palestinian herding families (10 people, 8 children) to relocate (for the 2nd time this year). The families reported repeated break-ins of their home and property, damage to crops, threats and demands that they leave the area. There have been more than 70 settler attacks since 8/2025, compared with only 4 incidents between 1/2020-7/2025. 

·       6/12, OHCHR reported that most children killed in the West Bank since October 2023 were teenage boys, accounting for 213 of 241 child fatalities documented during the period. 

·       6/17, settlers set fire to one mosque in Jiljilya and another in nearby Mazari’ an Nubani, and spray-painted slogans on the walls of both. Settlers also set fire to 2 Palestinian-owned vehicles in Majdal Bani Fadel (Nablus) and to 100+ scrap vehicles in Shuqba (Ramallah).

·       So far in June, there have been 10 arson attacks by settlers in Ramallah, Nablus and Qalqiliya governorates. They burned olive trees and land planted with wheat, damaged 9 vehicles, and damaged 4 mosques and other property.

·       UN Deputy Special Coordinator for the Peace Process, Dr. Ramiz Alakbarov, stated that attacks by Israeli settlers on mosques in Jiljilya and Mazari’ an Nubani were an unacceptable escalation of violence and called for accountability.

·       Following the 5/2026 establishment of a new settlement outpost near Dar Faza’a and the adjacent East Tayba Bedouin community (Ramallah), residents have reported near-daily incursions into residential areas, harassment and intimidation, physical assaults, damage to property and infrastructure, restrictions on movement and access to grazing areas, destruction and confiscation of livelihood assets, including livestock fodder, as well as night-time harassment and attempts by settlers to enter homes. This year, 11 settler attacks resulted in casualties or property damage, compared to a total of 18 incidents between 1/2020-12/2025. Settlers have obstructed ambulance access, attacked mobile health teams, and restricted access to grazing land and livelihoods, and in May, took control of the only water points serving the Dar Faza'a and East Tayba Bedouin communities, cutting off 200 residents from drinking water. WASH cluster partners are now trucking emergency water.

·       According to the WASH Cluster, 100 demolition- and settler violence-related incidents this year have damaged or destroyed 190 WASH structures across the West Bank, disrupting access to water and increasing dependence on water trucking and other emergency measures.

·       About 980 Palestinians from 10 Bedouin and herding communities near Road 458 (the Allon Road) have been displaced over the past 3 years by sustained settler attacks and access restrictions. Nine of these communities have been completely emptied of their residents, while East Tayba Bedouins has experienced partial displacement. Dar Faza’a and East Tayba Bedouins are now the only remaining Bedouin communities in the area that have not been fully displaced. 

·       Human rights organizations, including Al-Haq, Yesh Din, B’Tselem, and the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, have documented livestock theft and attacks on shepherds as part of a broader strategy to pressure Palestinian communities off their land. Amir Daoud, documentation director at the Anti-Wall and Settlement Commission, said that “pastoral Palestinian communities have become a primary target because they represent guardians of Palestinian land. Targeting their animals and their shepherds is part of an effort to erode the capacity to remain.” (Zeteo 6/15)

Israeli military operations‍ ‍

·       6/2, Sama Safi, a psychology student at Birzeit University in the occupied West Bank, was detained during a pre-dawn Israeli military raid on her family’s home. Israeli soldiers entered the house at approximately 3 a.m. and arrested Safi alongside three other Birzeit University students in a wider operation targeting university activists. Israeli occupation authorities later claimed the women had been arrested for allegedly promoting what they described as “hostile terrorist activity and additional terrorist-related activities.” No formal charges have been filed against Safi. (Palestine Chronicle 6/13)

·       6/8-14, Israel carried out 38 raids in Jenin, Tubas and Tulkarm governorates, including mass detentions, the requisition of residential property for military purposes, land-levelling activities, temporary home evacuations, and movement restrictions, disrupting daily life and undermining access to housing, livelihoods, and essential services.

·       6/10 & 11, Israeli forces temporarily evacuated approximately 35 households near Nur Shams refugee camp (Tulkarm) and damaged the water network serving the area. 6/11, 3 refugee families (17 people, 6 children) were displaced from the Jabriyat neighborhood near Jenin refugee camp. They were instructed to stay away until 8/23 and are currently staying with relatives in Jenin and Nablus governorates.

·       6/10, Israeli forces launched a large-scale operation across villages south of Jenin, including Arraba, Fahma, Mirka and Bir al Basha, as well as areas in Tubas governorate. The operation involved extensive house-to-house searches, affecting more than 170 homes, a military presence lasting 5-15 hours, and the conversion of 3 residential and community buildings into military posts. No injuries or arrests were reported. 

·       6/16 in Jenin, Israeli forces evacuated a family from their home in Zububa village and used it as a military post for 3 days. 6/17, levelled areas in the Jabriyat neighborhood of Jenin city, forcing 3 families from their homes.

·       6/16-17, approximately 65 displaced families from Nur Shams and Tulkarm refugee camps were allowed to enter the camps to retrieve personal belongings from their homes. Access was subject to strict inspection procedures. More than 33,000 Palestinians were driven from Tulkarm, Nur Shams and Jenin refugee camps and surrounding areas by Israeli military operations in 2025.

·       6/20, Israeli forces killed Palestinian journalist and cameraman Ahmad Samir Washah during an attack on the Al-Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza. Washah worked for Al Jazeera Mubasher. His brother, journalist Mohammed Samir Washah, was assassinated in an Israeli drone strike on his car on April 8. (Drop Site 6/22)

LEBANON‍ ‍‍ ‍ ‍ ‍

·       As of 6/25, Israeli attacks on Lebanon since March 2 have killed at least 4,230 people and wounded 12,179.‍ ‍

·       UNDP and Lebanon’s National Council for Scientific Research (CNRS) estimated that more than 11,000 buildings were destroyed during the war, with thousands more sustaining partial or minor damage, representing a cost of at least $1.38 billion.‍ ‍

·       6/15, Despite the deal supposedly including an end to hostilities in Lebanon,  IOF struck several targets in the country’s south using drones, artillery fire and booby-trapped vehicles, killing one person. The Lebanese Army also warned residents not to return to their homes in southern Lebanon. Israeli Defense Minister Katz repeated his assertion that the IOF “will remain in the security zones in Lebanon, Syria, and Gaza – indefinitely – to defend the border and Israeli communities against jihadist elements.” (Haaretz 6/15)

·       6/16, in the first 24 hours after the U.S.-Iran peace deal was announced—which explicitly called for halting fighting “on all fronts, including Lebanon”—Israeli forces carried out drone strikes, artillery fire, ground incursions, and road demolitions across south Lebanon, killing 3 civilians and wounding others. Among the dead was a person killed when an Israeli drone dropped a stun grenade on civilians walking toward Mansouri in the Sour district. Drop Site 6/16

·       6/17, UNICEF reports that 247 children have been killed and 992 injured in Israeli attacks on Lebanon since March. UNICEF’s Lebanon representative, Marcoluigi Corsi, said, “We hope that this ceasefire will be indeed a real ceasefire because since the declaration of the previous one, violence against children and the conflict hasn’t really stopped.”

·       6/18, Israeli drone strikes killed 3 and wounded 2 in southern Lebanon.

·       6/18, Israel military issued a statement on 6/18 saying it would continue operations in southern Lebanon, publishing a map showing what it claimed were its current positions in a so-called “security zone” extending about 10 kilometers into Lebanese territory. At least 247 children have been killed and 992 injured in Israeli attacks on Lebanon since March, averaging 12 children killed or maimed each day, according to UNICEF. (Drop Site 6/18)

·       6/19, Israeli celebrated the “peace deal” by killing 83 and wounding 141 others in southern Lebanon. Israel continued its overnight air and drone strikes across the Nabatieh and Jezzine overnight, with 70 airstrikes between midnight and 3 pm killing 38 people in 22 villages. The attack on the village of Qanaarit, sheltering people displaced from villages farther south, killed 10 people, mostly women and children. Israeli attacks killed 4 members of 2 different families in Sohmor and Arabsalim. In Barish, an Israeli strike killed an entire family, including 2 children. OCHAOPT, Drop Site 6/22

·       6/19, Lebanese environmental activist and world-famous turtle conservationist Mona Khalil succumbed to her injuries on 6/19 after an Israeli strike hit her home two weeks previously. The strike also wounded her Ethiopian housekeeper. Khalil trained a generation of volunteers in turtle conservation, working on the Mediterranean coastline where endangered sea turtles travel to lay their eggs. (Drop Site 6/22)

·       6/23, Israeli gunfire killed 2 people and injured 1 in Nabatieh Al-Fawqa, as they were accompanying a civil defense team working to retrieve bodies and open roads.

·       Israel’s campaign to raze huge swaths of southern Lebanon may destroy not only people’s homes, but also their ability to even show they owned the properties – potentially leaving as many as a quarter of a million Lebanese people unable to prove they have properties or homes at all. With the notary gone, civil administration buildings bulldozed, and widespread destruction of homes that contained important personal documents, residents of the 36 villages of the Bint Jbeil district fear Israel’s total war has meant that the destruction of all their records could permanently untether them from the homes they left behind when they fled under Israel’s evacuation orders. (The Intercept 6/14)

·       At the height of the war, more than 1.2 million people were displaced across Lebanon. Even after the cease-fire, an estimated 963,000, roughly 16 percent of the country's population, remain displaced. According to Lebanon's Ministry of Social Affairs, only around 140,000 people have returned home so far, highlighting the vast gap between the declaration of a cease-fire and residents' ability to rebuild their lives. (Haaretz 6/25)

ISRAEL‍ ‍

·       Israel Medical Association (IMA) sent a letter to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urging him to transfer funds to the Palestinian health system, warning that shortages of medicines, postponed surgeries, and declining medical staffing are creating a severe humanitarian and public health crisis in the West Bank. Israel’s policy of withholding customs revenues from the Palestinian Authority has left the Palestinian Health Ministry unable to pay full salaries, forcing public clinics and hospitals to reduce operating hours and scale back services. The Lancet recently reported on a campaign calling for the IMA to be suspended from the World Medical Association for “its failure to speak out against the genocide of Palestinians.” The campaign is supported by numerous health organizations including the People’s Health Movement (PHM), Artsen voor Gaza (Doctors for Gaza), and the Jewish Voice for Peace Health Advisory Council (JVP HAC). here  

·       According to a joint investigation published by Libération and Haaretz, a donation website known as “Sadaqah Palestine” described itself as a non-governmental and non-political organization providing humanitarian assistance to Palestinians affected by war, displacement, and poverty. The investigation found that technical records associated with the platform shared connections with servers, domains, and other digital infrastructure linked to BlackCore, an Israeli-linked entity that has become the focus of a growing investigation by French authorities. (Palestine Chronicle 6/12)

·       In an interview with CNN, Lebanese President Joseph Aoun made a rare appeal to the Israeli public asking if they wanted to live in a state of endless war. Over 1,250 Israeli women have signed a letter responding to his question: "Our answer is no," they wrote, urging peace between Israel and Lebanon.
The letter, published on 6/14, was organized by several civil society organizations including Women Wage Peace, the Israeli-Palestinian Bereaved Families Forum, the Women's Cabinet – Security, Policy and Society and Mother's Cry. (Haaretz 6/14)

·       6/13, renowned medical journal The Lancet published a petition calling for the suspension of the IMA from the World Medical Association (WMA). The petition was coordinated by health organizations such as the People’s Health Movement (PHM), Artsen voor Gaza (Doctors for Gaza), and the Health Advisory Council of Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) which called for the IMA to be suspended over “its failure to speak out against the genocide of Palestinians, the destruction of healthcare infrastructure, and the torture and killing of healthcare workers in Gaza.” (Jerusalem Post 6/16)

Prisoners‍ ‍

·       Israel’s Supreme Court rejected an appeal filed by Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, director of Gaza’s Kamal Adwan Hospital, who has been held without charge in an Israeli prison since he was abducted in 2024. Abu Safiya’s lawyer emphasized that he is being held in solitary confinement and is not receiving needed medical treatment. A statement by Physicians for Human Rights – Israel called the ruling “a profound moral and legal failure” and noted that it demonstrates “how judicial review proceedings for Palestinian detainees from Gaza have, in practice, become little more than a procedural formality.” here ‍ ‍

·       Imad Sarhan, a Palestinian prisoner from Haifa serving a life sentence, died in Israel’s Gilboa Prison after spending more than 24 years in Israeli custody. Palestinian prisoner organizations said Sarhan suffered from chronic illnesses and had long complained of deteriorating health conditions and medical neglect. His death raises the number of Palestinian prisoners whose identities have been announced since October 2023 to 90, according to prisoner advocacy groups. (Palestine Chronicle 6/14)

·       Palestinian Prisoner Society on 6/22 called for urgent international intervention to secure the release of three pregnant Palestinian women detained in Israeli prisons. In a statement, the organization held Israeli authorities fully responsible for the well-being of Amina al-Taweel, Dana Jouda, and Manar Ibrahim, who are currently being held in Damon Prison in northern Israel. It said the women are being held under “harsh” conditions and remain isolated from their families and the outside world. (Palestine Chronicle 6/22)

·       Photos of Palestinian journalist Mujahid Bani Mufleh circulated on 6/25 showed the severe impact of his detention by Israel without charge in June 2025. Two days after his release in January 2026, Bani Mufleh suffered a severe brain hemorrhage linked to an illness he contracted in Israeli prison, rights groups say. He was hospitalized in critical condition and underwent multiple surgeries that left part of his skull removed and, according to the Palestinian Prisoner Society, still faces a long and complex recovery. The group characterized the fate of those like Mufleh as a “slow execution.” (Drop Site 6/26)

UNITED STATES

·       6/18, U.S. District Court Judge in Indiana today ordered the immediate release of Salah Sarsour, a Palestinian and Muslim community leader from Milwaukee and board member of American Muslims for Palestine (AMP), held for more than 80 days in immigration custody as part of the Administration’s attack on free speech. A legal resident of the United States for more than three decades, Sarsour has been an outspoken advocate for Palestinian human rights. While in custody, Sarsour lost over 30 pounds and was not provided necessary health care for his Type-2 diabetes– including daily monitoring of his blood glucose levels. (AMP 6/18)

·       Hillel International’s antisemitism trainings and Campus Climate Initiative are wolves in sheep’s clothing, designed to ensure that Palestine-related speech, protest, and even thought are rendered forbidden in US college and university campuses. here ‍ ‍

·       U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is opening an antisemitism investigation into the American Psychological Association, the largest professional organization for mental health professionals. The investigation stems from several complaints by Jewish and Israeli psychologists alleging that the association has promoted or failed to discipline anti-Israel activism among some of its affinity groups. The complaints also allege that the APA has encouraged “decolonizing therapy” methods that attack Zionism. here

‍ ‍INTERNATIONAL‍ ‍

·       Ten participants in the Global Sumud Flotilla who were detained in eastern Libya by an armed group claiming affiliation with Khalifa Haftar’s ruling militia in late May will remain in detention in Benghazi for at least 30 more days. The detainees, who were part of a land mission en route to Gaza, include doctors, humanitarian workers, a filmmaker, and a journalist. (Drop Site 6/12)

·       A UK judge sentenced four Palestine Action activists to jail terms of roughly five  to eight years, saying their criminal damage conviction over a raid on the Bristol site of the Israeli arms company Elbit Systems in August 2024 had a “terrorist connection.” Middle East Eye wrote, “This marks the first time in British legal history that the [terrorist] designation has been applied to direct action protesters who were not convicted of terrorist offences or of causing intentional violence.” Amnesty International warned the decision “risks marking a new low in the ongoing crackdown against protest across the UK.” Zeteo 6/13, Mondoweiss ‍ ‍

·       UK The UK Court of Appeals ruled that the government’s decision to ban Palestine Action under the Terrorism Act was lawful, overturning a High Court ruling that found the proscription of the direct action group to be unlawful. (Palestine Chronicle 6/20)

SOURCES‍ ‍

OCHAOPT, Drop Site News, Haaretz, Palestine Chronicle, Zeteo, Mondoweiss, DAWN, Intercept, American Muslims for Palestine, Electronic Intifada, Jewish Telegraph Agency

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