Urgent health update: Consequences of war on Gaza, West Bank/East Jerusalem (and Iran) - June 21, 2025
ACTION ITEM
Israel’s war on Iran has buried our genocide in the headlines, but what Israel is doing in Gaza is a stain upon humanity. Don’t stop talking about it. here
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JOURNALS & REPORTS
British Medical Journal: Bob Kitchen, Vice President of the International Rescue Committee (IRC), discusses the need for immediate action on the part of the international community to prevent famine in Gaza. IRC’s mobile health teams have seen a doubling of childhood malnutrition in just one month; nearly half a million people are at risk of dying from malnutrition-related causes. Kitchen calls for the immediate and sustained restoration of “unimpeded humanitarian aid across all of Gaza,” the removal of “arbitrary restrictions on essential items,” and a return to a “UN coordinated, principled aid delivery system that puts the needs of civilians first.” here
British Medical Journal:Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director General of the WHO, calls for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza to prevent even more children from dying of malnutrition. Roughly 71,000 Gazan children under the age of 5 could be acutely malnourished during the next 11 months, with 1 in 5 facing severe acute malnutrition; the food, medicine, and water so desperately needed are simply waiting at the border. Ghebreyesus calls for aid to be let into Gaza without restriction at all crossings and warns that once famine is declared, for many, it will be too late. here
A preprint in medRxiv used expert elicitation to project excess mortality due to infectious diseases in the Gaza Strip under three scenarios: ceasefire, status quo, and escalation: over a 10-month period (10/7/23 – 8/6/24) approximately 4,000 endemic infection deaths (e.g., COVID-19, influenza, pneumococcal disease) would occur under the status quo, 3,400 under a ceasefire, and 4,600 under an escalation scenario. For epidemic-prone infectious diseases (e.g.,), authors estimated approximately 8,500 deaths under the status quo, 5,000 under a ceasefire, and 11,500 under an escalation. The study is part of the “Crisis in Gaza: Scenario-Based Health Impact Projections” project, an academic collaboration between London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and the Johns Hopkins Center for Humanitarian Health. here
The Lancet : Moral and ethical failings of medical institutions to speak out against Israel’s violations of international law and human rights and genocidal actions in Gaza. In particular, the authors highlight how, despite pressure from their members, most Australasian medical colleges have failed to issue clear and unequivocal statements condemning Israel’s actions. The authors call on medical institutions to “show principled moral leadership, not only by vocally condemning this genocide, but also providing material resources and support to the remaining health-care professionals in Gaza, and pressuring our governments to uphold international law, including through measures such as arms embargoes and sanctions.” here
Health and Human Rights: Joseph J. Amon discusses critical role that free speech plays in protecting the right to health. In times of conflict, the right to health often hinges on the public's ability to speak freely and demand accountability from their governments. Amon documents the myriad ways in which the US government, and the Trump administration in particular, has sought to silence and punish health care workers, students, and academics who speak out against the genocide in Gaza often through disingenuous allegations of antisemitism. “There is a simple reason for the Trump administration to restrict speech and assembly and to crack down on universities and faculty. Silencing debate about Gaza—a conflict where violations of the right to health are occurring, where war crimes have been committed, and where crimes against humanity and acts of genocide are ongoing—is prelude and practice for silencing debate at home.” here
PLOS Global Public Health: discusses the destruction of Gaza’s Health Information System (HIS) and the consequences for decision-making, health services delivery, humanitarian response, and data-driven advocacy. The authors describe strategies for rebuilding a more resilient and cohesive HIS. here
The taming of The Lancet shows that doctors and academics can still ignore evidence by reputable organizations and go on to attack those who publish it. Political affinity or social identity trumps medical ethics, posing basic questions about the medical journals to publish on Israel-Palestine. here
Journal of Palestine Studies: Rethinking Trauma Against a Genocidal World: Palestinian Healing Is a Sound of Our Victory. Two Palestinian healers, mental health workers, and fathers offer reflections on trauma, healing, and love in the face of Israeli genocide and settler-colonial violence across Palestine. Recognizing that the trauma and healing processes will extend much further than any moment of ceasefire, the authors, one of whom survived the genocide in Gaza, offer insights into trauma and healing as integral parts of their own personal and professional experiences. In doing so, they reimagine the trauma that Indigenous communities face as a result of settler colonialism not as a “mental illness,” but as being connected to the silence and inability of the world to stop genocide in ways that protect collective Palestinian liberation. They conclude that Palestinian trauma is an intergenerational message to a genocidal world, requiring courageous listening in the face of the ongoing Nakba. here
VIDEO
A segment from The Electronic Intifada's livestream on day 608 of the Gaza genocide. Nora Barrows-Friedman, Jon Elmer and Asa Winstanley were joined by human rights lawyer Craig Mokhiber. Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons face appalling medical neglect and torture. here You can watch the full show here:
UNITED NATIONS
UN has again blacklisted Israel for committing grave violence against Palestinian children. UN report also says that violence against children in war zones reached unprecedented levels in 2024, committed by the Israeli army in Gaza and the West Bank. (Democracy Now 6/20)
Send in armed UN troops to protect aid convoys or risk ‘dystopia’, says expert. UN rapporteur calls for move as food deliveries are attacked and starvation becomes a weapon of war in Gaza and Sudan. here
GAZA
Summary: Amid starvation and a growing likelihood of famine, attacks on civilians attempting to access food supplies continue, resulting in mass casualties. Hospitals in Gaza are overstretched, facing critical shortages of essential medicines and supplies, mass casualty events and fuel shortages while medical teams are experiencing fainting episodes due to exhaustion and lack of food. ~55,000 pregnant women in Gaza are facing growing health risks, such as miscarriage, stillbirth, and undernourished newborns. Three months since hostilities re-escalated, over 680,000 people have been newly displaced and less than 18% of Gaza remains outside of Israeli-militarized zones or displacement orders. Humanitarian organizations warn that without the immediate entry of fuel into Gaza or access to fuel reserves within Gaza, access to lifesaving and life-sustaining services are at risk of shutting down imminently, including 80% of critical care units essential for births and medical emergencies.
The Israeli attack on Iran has made a volatile situation even more dangerous and has distracted the international focus away from Gaza and the West Bank.
This week:
531 Palestinians killed
2,486 were injured.
6/11-6/17, more than 36 Palestinians were hit and killed in At Tuffah neighborhood, eastern Gaza city, eastern & western Deir al Baleh, An Nuseirat refuge camp in Deir al Balah, on fishing boats off the coast of Gaza City, & in Al Mawasi
Since 10/7/23 at least 55,637 Palestinians killed, 129,880 Palestinians injured. (This includes 5,334 people killed and 17,839 injured since the re-escalation of hostilities on 3/18/25)
Israeli soldiers: 3 killed this week, 427 killed & 2,735 total soldiers in Gaza or along the Israeli border since 10/23
~ 53 Israelis and foreign nationals remain captive in Gaza, including hostages who have been declared dead and whose bodies are being withheld.
For more detail: here
United Nations
6/12, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Tom Fletcher, warned: “Without immediate and massively scaled-up access to the basic means of survival, we risk a descent into famine, further chaos, and the loss of more lives.” “UN convoys carrying humanitarian aid have been intercepted by armed Palestinian gangs, who endangered our staff and drivers. Civilians in desperate need of the food we're able to bring in have not been spared; some have been shot by Israeli forces, and others crushed by trucks or stabbed while trying to retrieve food.” “Hunger must never be met with bullets. Humanitarians must be allowed to do their work. Lifesaving aid must reach people in need, in line with humanitarian principles.”
Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aka “massacre sites” or “death traps’
· Since the Israeli- and US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation began distributing food three weeks ago, roughly 400 people have been killed while seeking food, thousands have been wounded, and Gazans continue to face extreme hunger and starvation. here, here, here
· Mass casualties among people attempting to access food supplies continue to be reported, including as they approached or gathered at militarized distribution points in Rafah and Deir al Balah or waited for trucks carrying UN aid supplies.
· 6/11-12, most of the 285 casualties received at the MSF-supported primary health clinic in Al Mawasi, in Khan Younis, and the International Committee of the Red Cross field hospital, in Rafah, were seeking urgent assistance at non-UN distribution sites.
· MSF: “delivery of supplies by private logistics and security firms, as well as local armed actors under the guise of aid,” combined with access restrictions, constant displacement and ongoing bombardment, “is pushing Gaza’s fragile social order to the brink of collapse.”
· 6/15-16, ICRC field hospital treated a total of 370 patients, many with gunshot wounds, who were accessing food aid
· 6/17, MSF reported a mass casualty influx into Nasser Medical Complex (Khan Younis), medical teams turned delivery rooms into emergency ORs, many of the injured required amputations, casualties were attempting to collect flour rations.
· 6/17 MOH: 59 killed, over 200 injured attempting to access food, within this context, total 397 fatalities, 3,031 injured. here
· 6/19 16 killed while awaiting aid in central Gaza
· Gaza Humanitarian Foundation has requested $30 million from the now beleaguered USAID – a request sources say the agency is being “forced” by higher-ups to quickly approve. The same day the request came in, Israeli tanks and drones fired at thousands of people near a distribution site, reportedly killing at least 23 people. here
· Famine and genocide are changing society in Gaza. Ahmad Mosabih, carried what he deemed suitable for a journey for a journey that was not meant for someone his age. He took an iron hammer fifty centimeters long, placed a utility knife in his pocket and left his home at 3 am with one goal: to obtain a sack of flour. (Mondoweiss 6/20)
Healthcare & Hospitals
· 6/12, displacement order for area surrounding Nasser Medial Complex, last major functioning hospital in Southern Gaza- 540 beds, 51 in ICU, 150% bed capacity, most patients injured by direct sniper fire to the head or chest, 95% malnourished.
· 6/17, challenging access to Nasser Medical Complex, field hospitals in Khan Younis experiencing 3x increase in admissions, especially maternity, medical teams experiencing fainting episodes due to food shortages and high workloads.
· 6/16 PRCS opened Al Mawasi Field Hospital, 60 beds, 2 ORs, a lab, x-ray unit
· 6/17, Nasser Hospital has run out of emergency supplies and blood products, people cannot donate due to nutritional anemia (The Palestine Chronicle 6/17)
· Rehabilitation service capacity is extremely limited across the Strip, with an estimated 30,000 trauma cases already in need of long-term rehabilitation support and only 85 rehabilitation beds remaining functional. Pediatric caseload is overwhelming. Children account for 23% of amputations, 26% of spinal cord injuries, 33% of traumatic brain injuries, and 7% of surgical burn cases. There are no specialized pediatric rehabilitation services available in all of Gaza. This is causing severe psychological distress.
· Number of amputees in need of prosthetic services has surged to 6,000 people – comprising 4,000 new and 2,000 pre-existing cases. At least 292 patients, including 57 children, are awaiting stump revision surgery. Essential rehabilitation materials have reached critically low levels, and some health facilities have already run out.
· Thousands of assistive devices remain stuck at crossings, including over 3,330 wheelchairs. Overwhelmed services and insufficient materials are leading to severe secondary complications. It is estimated that 30% of inpatient beds in Gaza’s one remaining specialist rehabilitation hospital (Al Wafaa Rehabilitation Hospital) are occupied by people suffering from advanced pressure sores.
· UN Population Fund (UNFPA) warns of a maternal health crisis in Gaza, where “women are starving, giving birth without clean water, hygiene, or medical care.” Half of essential maternal health medicines have been exhausted, and no UNFPA’s supplies, including life-saving maternal health medicines, have entered Gaza for more than 3 months, while 190 truckloads of UNFPA supplies were denied entry at the border during the blockade. This crisis is being compounded by the drastic depletion of fuel. Without fuel, 80% of critical care units essential for births and medical emergencies will shut down, and newborns in incubators and intensive care units risk suffocating as life-saving machines fail.
· 1 in 3 pregnancies is high-risk, and 1 in 5 newborns is born preterm or underweight, requiring specialist care that is increasingly unavailable. 5 hospitals are still providing maternity care across the entire Gaza Strip.
· Due to critical fuel shortages, 67 health facilities providing lifesaving services, including 17 hospitals, 7 field hospitals and 43 PHCs, are at imminent risk of shutting down. This will lead to an immediate loss of life, particularly among patients in intensive care, neonatal units, and other electricity-dependent wards. UNFPA warned that without fuel, 80% of critical care units essential for births and medical emergencies will shut down and newborns dependent on ICU machines will suffocate. Additionally, hemodialysis treatments will stop, ambulance services and patient referrals will cease, and vaccination programs will be disrupted due to cold chain failures, further worsening public health conditions.
· Malnutrition is no longer a looming threat; it is a full-blown humanitarian emergency exacerbated by relentless genocide, siege, and the systematic breakdown of Gaza’s health care infrastructure. As the genocide on Gaza grinds on after Israel’s breaking of the ceasefire, doctors and mothers across the Strip describe an unfolding catastrophe: a severe and accelerating child malnutrition crisis that, left unchecked, could claim thousands of lives. here
Women & Girls
· Israel’s War on Reproduction in Gaza. The bombing of the IVF clinic was one spectacular example, but as a Palestinian women’s rights activist from Gaza, I have lived and witnessed how Israel uses reprocide within a settler colonial framework that seeks not only territorial domination but demographic erasure—a process that began long before October 7, 2023. When I was 15 years old, following the Israeli assault on Gaza in 2008–2009, Israeli soldiers began wearing and distributing t-shirts that depicted a pregnant woman in crosshairs above the slogan “1 Shot 2 Kills. here
· As nine in 10 households [in Gaza] face extreme water shortages, the lack of clean water and soap, and privacy has turned menstruation into a source of anxiety, isolation, and shame,” UN agencies have said. (The Guardian 6/14)
Aid
· 10/9/23, Israel announced its starvation campaign against Gaza. By December, Palestinians in Gaza made up 80% of the people in the world experiencing famine or catastrophic hunger. Never in post-war history had a population been made to go hungry so quickly, so completely. In the present report, there is an emphasis on the Palestinian people’s food sovereignty, since the Palestinian liberation struggle exemplifies how starvation is a human rights issue. Food sovereignty is an expression of communities’ and Indigenous Peoples’ power to determine how they grow, prepare, share and eat food and a reflection of their relationship to land and water. The UN aid system for Gaza was safe and dignified. Today we’re humiliated or hurt by those tasked with helping us. here
· 6/16 28 WFP trucks from Ashdod Port sent directly to Zikim crossing in northern Gaza, first time since 5/19. Collections from Zikim have faced serious security incidents and all the transported cargo was taken by desperate crowds. here
· Since 6/8, humanitarian aid trucks allowed transport from Jordan through back-to-back modality, ~24 trucks arrived at Kerem Shalom
· Since 5/19, entry of aid remains limited and challenging. Israeli authorities allowed a select number of UN agencies and international non-governmental organizations to resume the delivery of aid into Gaza and have authorized the entry of only very limited types of supplies, including certain food items, nutrition supplies, some health supplies, and water purification items. 6/15, personal hygiene items were also approved for entry into Gaza from Israel and Jordan.
· Israeli authorities indicated that aid located in the West Bank would be authorized for entry into Gaza, only if it was internationally procured, and would be limited to medical items stored in UN warehouses. No such cargo transfers have so far taken place. Both sides of Kerem Shalom crossing are tightly controlled by the Israeli authorities, UN has not been permitted to deploy monitors at the site. Collections are frequently cancelled, re-routed, or significantly delayed, aid deliveries have become largely unsafe, unpredictable and inefficient, and the limited assistance that comes through is often being offloaded directly from trucks by hungry civilians and, in some cases, intercepted by armed gangs.
· 6/11-17, out of 100 attempts to coordinate planned aid movements across Gaza, nearly 51% were denied by Israeli authorities, 12% initially accepted but faced impediments, including blocks or delays on the ground potentially resulting in missions being aborted or partially accomplished, 23% were fully facilitated, and 14% withdrawn by the organizers for logistical, operational, or security reasons.
· 52 attempts to coordinate aid movements in or to northern Gaza, of which 31% were facilitated, 48% were denied, 10% faced impediments, and 11% were withdrawn. In southern Gaza, out of 48 attempts, 15% were facilitated, 54% were denied, 15% faced impediments and 16% were withdrawn.
Displacement & Evacuation
· Escalated bombardment from the air, land, & sea, has caused hundreds of casualties, continued destruction of civilian infrastructure, and large-scale displacement. More than 680,000 Palestinians were displaced between 3/18 & 6/17. With no safe place to go, many people sought refuge in every available space, including overcrowded displacement sites, makeshift shelters, damaged buildings, streets and open areas.
· 6/12-18, Israeli military issued three announcements indicating that specific areas that had been placed under displacement orders are still a combat zone where people should not return to, including one announcement that covers large segments of all five governorates in the Gaza Strip.
Internet
· 6/16 & 17, fiber optic cable cut along the Khan Younis route caused a complete internet connectivity outage and the disruption of mobile services in southern & central Gaza. Although repairs on 6/16 enabled the temporary restoration of connectivity services, data speed remained limited. Another subsequent fiber optic cable cut on 6/17, which is yet to be repaired, has left Khan Younis and Deir al Balah without access to mobile, landline and internet services.
· Telecommunications service providers warn that without the immediate supply of fuel and engine oil to operate generators of key infrastructure, communications services are expected to shut down imminently. This could lead to a complete collapse of telecommunications and internet services across Gaza. Such a collapse would severely impact humanitarian coordination, operational continuity, staff safety, and the ability of affected populations to access life-saving information and services.
Food & Nutrition
· Since 5/19, partners have managed to bring in around 9,000 metric tons (MT) of wheat flour into Gaza as of 6/16, equivalent to 360,000 25-kg bags. Most of this aid has been offloaded by civilians in desperate need of humanitarian assistance, and, in some cases, seized by armed actors. Partners have brought in around 50 trucks of mixed food items, including food supplies for community kitchens, but all these supplies were offloaded from the open trucks by crowds before reaching warehouses. Current delivery volume and pace remain critically insufficient & dietary diversity is poor. The population’s food intake is considered dangerously imbalanced and severely deficient in essential nutrients, reaching the worst levels since 10/23.
· 185,000 meals continued to be prepared and distributed daily through 42 kitchens across the Strip, which represents an 83% reduction from the end of April. Israeli authorities continue to prohibit humanitarian partners from carrying out food parcel distributions within Gaza.
· Availability and affordability of essential food items on the local market has not improved and “basic survival [has become] increasingly out of reach for much of the population.” There is no dairy, meat, poultry, eggs, or fruit, vegetable intake is ½ a day per week, pulses and bread are somewhat available 4 days per week.
· Food prices have soared by 350% to 4,567% compared to pre-closure levels. 95% of households have several financial hardship and 68-82% report severe obstacles reaching markets. With widespread cash shortage, it is nearly impossible to buy food. Fee for receiving remittances is up to 40%.
· Latest FAO ( UN Food & Agriculture Organization)-WFP Hunger Hotspots Report warns that the likelihood of famine in Gaza is growing. Screenings of children aged 6 to 59 months, rates of acute malnutrition have sharply increased across all governorates. Between March & May, rates increased by 1.9 to 2.8 depending on location. There is no data on Rafah. Rates of newly identified cases of acute malnutrition and severity of detected cases have increased. 15-20% of pregnant women are acutely malnourished. The 80-100 outpatient nutrition sites have been repeatedly closed, relocated, with lack security and fuel. Similar issues with 4 remaining inpatient stabilization centers. 125 to 145 preventive nutrition services are critically short of supplies.
Water & Sanitation
· Ongoing fuel blockade and multiple denials by Israeli authorities of humanitarian missions seeking to access fuel reserves within Gaza have resulted in a drastic depletion of fuel supplies, placing life-sustaining services at severe risk. While humanitarian partners have implemented strict rationing measures, critical health and water and sanitation services are at risk of imminently closing if the entry of fuel is not urgently restored or if access to existing reserves within Gaza is not facilitated. No fuel has entered Gaza for more than 100 days and attempts to retrieve fuel stocks from evacuation zones have been denied.
· Hundreds of water and sanitation facilities are at risk of shutting down due to lack of fuel, severely restricting people’s access to clean water and sanitation and increasing the risk of disease outbreaks.
· Two main seawater desalination plants in Deir al Balah, serving Al Mawasi and surrounding communities, are also operating on reduced schedules.
· Solid waste management services have likewise been severely impacted, with operations significantly scaled back and at risk of complete suspension. This halt could lead to further waste accumulation and an increase in pests and rodents, posing serious public health risks.
· Fuel crisis has severely disrupted the operations of municipal services in Gaza. 6/15, An Nuseirat Municipality in Deir al Balah announced that it would soon completely suspend basic services due to depletion of fuel needed to operate water wells and sewage stations and for waste collection. 6/17, Khan Younis municipality announced suspension of its services in the water, wastewater, and desalination plants due to the lack of fuel needed to operate water and sanitation facilities. 6/17, Gaza municipality announced a forced reduction of essential services due to the ongoing fuel shortage, caused by the inability to bring in new fuel supplies. As a result, water wells are now operating at minimal capacity, sanitation services have been reduced, and waste collection and street cleaning operations have been suspended.
· Collapse of water systems in Gaza is threatening the territory with devastating drought as well as hunger UNICEF has warned. (The Guardian 6/20)
WEST BANK & EAST JERUSALEM
6/3-16 Israeli forces killed 5 Palestinians & injured 140, at least 25 children
Prisoners: 6/13 Palestinian man from ‘Allar town, Tulkarm, died in Israeli custody. He was arrested on 5/17/25 and transferred to a hospital in Israel on 6/9. 70 Palestinians, including 45 from Gaza and 25 from the West Bank, have died in Israeli custody since 10/7, in addition to two Palestinian citizens of Israel. As of 6/2025, according to data provided by the Israel Prison Service (IPS) to Hamoked, an Israeli human rights NGO, there are 10,397 Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza in Israeli custody, including 1,447 sentenced prisoners, 3,174 remand detainees, 3,562 administrative detainees held without charge or trial, and 2,214 people held as “unlawful combatants.” These figures do not include Palestinians from Gaza who have been detained by the Israeli military since 10/7/23 and information about whom the Israeli authorities have not released. For more info: here
Update on Iran attack:
· Since the 6/13 military escalation between Israel and Iran, Israeli forces intensified movement restrictions into and within the West Bank, particularly in the first few days. Main checkpoints on major road arteries were completely shut. Israeli forces closed all the road gates at the entrances to Hebron city for four days. Access of most Palestinian towns to Road 60, the main north-south artery in the West Bank, was cut off. Meanwhile, the movement of Israeli settlers on the main roads remained uninterrupted. While most of the closures have been gradually lifted, previously closed checkpoints are now open for limited hours during the day.
· IOF claimed lockdown was needed due to a shortage of soldiers who were relocated to Israel’s northern and eastern borders. Health care professionals in the West Bank report being unable to move patients between cities or across checkpoints and needing to use dangerous, unpaved roads to reach hospitals. Although the lockdown has been lifted, health care professionals and residents report that significant restrictions and delays remain at checkpoints. here
· Israel is using war on Iran to further its colonization and annexation of the West Bank, turning Palestinian communities into caged enclaves. Israeli army announced the West Bank had been declared a closed military area, and hundreds of the 900 checkpoints, iron gates, and roadblocks, including those separating the West Bank from Jerusalem were closed, even for those Palestinians who have crossing permits. The Allenby border crossing with Jordan — the only way out of the country for West Bank Palestinians — was also shut in both directions. Suddenly, the lockdown on the West Bank made it clear what we knew Israel has been silently doing over the past several years: turned Palestinian population centers into a network of connected “cages,” which Israel is able to open and shut whenever it wants. here
· Rockets that have been fired from Iran have been intercepted over the West Bank, causing shrapnel to fall on Palestinian communities, which resulted in at least 40 injuries, including 7 Palestinian children. (NYT 6/13)
Israeli military attacks
Israeli forces intensified operations across Nablus and Jenin governorates, tightening movement restrictions and causing widespread damage.
· 6/7, Israeli forces shot and killed a Palestinian man and injured two others while they were trying to enter Israel through an opening in the Barrier south of Hebron city.
· 6/10, Israeli forces shot, killed, and withheld the body of a Palestinian man and injured another in Tammun town, in Tubas governorate. Undercover Israeli forces besieged a house and opened fire at three Palestinians as they exited, killing one man and injuring another. They also raided several homes and bulldozed a main road. Two Palestinians were arrested, including the injured man.
· 6/10, Israeli forces shot, killed and withheld the body of two Palestinian brothers, and injured 73 others, during a 30-hour operation in Nablus city, mainly in the Old City and its surrounding neighborhoods. Of the injured, seven were shot with live ammunition, seven were physical assaulted by Israeli forces and military dogs, one was hit by a military jeep, and the rest suffered from tear gas. A man was trying to gain access to the Old City, which was under curfew, when an Israeli soldier assaulted him. He began to scuffle with the soldier, after which he was shot and killed. When his brother approached the area, he was also shot and killed. According to the Israeli military, the two brothers attempted to seize the soldiers’ weapons and an accidental discharge from the weapon injured four Israeli soldiers.
· 6/12, Israeli forces shot, killed, and withheld the body of a Palestinian man after he opened fire at them at Harmesh checkpoint, southwest of Jenin. According to the Israeli military, no Israeli injuries were reported.
Israeli settler attacks
· Israeli settlers injured 58 Palestinians and launched attacks that displaced 67 Palestinians in the past two weeks. At least 46 settler attacks resulted in casualties, property damage, or both. 64 Palestinians, including two children, were injured – of whom 58 were injured by settlers, 6 by Israeli forces – while some 539 Palestinian-owned trees and 33 vehicles were vandalized.
Key incidents include:
· 6/4, Israeli settlers injured 30 Palestinians, including two children, during a raid in which they threw stones at Palestinian homes on the outskirts of Deir Dibwan town, in Ramallah governorate. Settlers also set fire to five vehicles and damaged two others with stones. A family of eight, including four children, was displaced as they fled with their livestock immediately after the settlers attacked the community. Subsequently, the settlers set fire to the displaced family's house, destroying all their belongings, including a solar panel system, fodder, water tanks, wooden pallets, and personal items. During the incident, Israeli settlers and Palestinians threw stones at each other until the settlers withdrew and Israeli forces arrived. The forces closed the main entrance to the town, fired tear gas canisters, and obstructed the access of medical teams. No injuries among the Israeli settlers were reported.
· 6/6, Israeli settlers physically assaulted and pepper sprayed three Palestinian shepherds in Humsa al Bqai'a herding community in the northern Jordan Valley, in Tubas governorate. The Palestinians had been grazing their livestock near the community when settlers approached them and confrontations erupted between them. Shepherds fled with their livestock toward their shelters, a group of armed Israeli settlers followed them, broke into their homes, and assaulted the three men. Israeli forces then arrived, detained two Palestinians, and obstructed the access of an ambulance as it attempted to enter the community and obstructed it again while it was transporting two of the injured to the hospital. No injuries among Israeli settlers were reported.
· 6/11, four Palestinian families, comprising 29 people including 19 children, were forcibly displaced from their herding community near Kobar village, in Ramallah governorate, citing repeated settler violence and access restrictions. Israeli settlers attacked the families while they were leaving the area and stole some of their property. The situation escalated after Israeli settlers established a new outpost just 10 meters away from their homes in 3/2025. Since then, Palestinian residents and farmers in the area have been subjected to frequent settler attacks, resulting in injuries and property damage. 4/2025, one Palestinian family was displaced, and two farmers had to relocate their livestock out of fear of further settler violence. Reported acts of intimidation included breaking into or throwing stones at homes and demanding at gunpoint that families leave the area. 5/2025, the settlers installed a road gate that blocked the families’ access from and to their homes, forcing them to carry water on foot or use a donkey and forcing children to walk long distances to reach nearby schools.
· 6/14, Israeli settlers from a newly established outpost, set up just two days earlier, injured 10 Palestinians with stones and set fire to two vehicles, a forklift and a caravan in Al Mazra'a ash Sharqiya town, in Ramallah governorate. Palestinians gathered in an attempt to push the settlers out and Israeli forces later intervened, fired live ammunition and sound canisters to disperse the Palestinians, pushing them back as Israeli settlers retreated to the outpost.
· 6/14, Israeli settlers, accompanied by Israeli forces, raided and attacked the Palestinian Bedouin community of Ma’azi Jaba’, in Area C of the Jerusalem governorate. Nine Palestinians were injured and six households comprising 30 people, including 12 children and seven women, were displaced. Settlers attacked the community with stones and flammable materials, while Israeli forces accompanying them fired rubber bullets at Palestinians. Israeli settlers injured four Palestinians with stones and Israeli forces injured five Palestinians with rubber-coated metal bullets. At least ten Palestinian families fled their homes in fear for their safety. Settlers destroyed three homes, rendering them uninhabitable, and set fire to several structures. They destroyed at least four solar panel systems, tore plastic sheeting off two residential tents, damaged personal belongings and stole money
· Since 1/1, 303 Palestinians were injured by settlers, over double the corresponding period, 2024. Palestinians experience ~4 settler incidents per day
Demolitions & Displacement
· More than 680 Palestinians have been displaced in 2025 by the demolition of their homes for lacking Israeli-issued building permits in Area C, more than double the corresponding period in 2024 when about 300 people were displaced.
· Israeli forces continue to carry out mass demolitions as part of the ongoing operation in Tulkarm, Nur Shams and Jenin camps.
· 6/3-6/16, OCHA documented 10 demolition incidents, including in Area C and East Jerusalem. 28 Palestinian-owned structures, over half of which were homes (13), were demolished for lacking Israeli-issued building permits. These included 20 structures in Area C and eight in East Jerusalem, resulting in the displacement of 72 people, including 42 children, and otherwise affecting about 80 others. More than 60% of those displaced were in Area C, the majority in Khallet Athaba’ community, in Hebron governorate and the remaining people were displaced in Kafr ad Dik town, in Salfit governorate.
· In East Jerusalem, 27 people, including 16 children, were displaced due to the demolition of six homes, of which four were demolished by their owners in Jabal al Mukabbir, Sur Bahir and At Tur and two were demolished by Israeli authorities in Al Bustan area of Silwan. In Silwan, the community was forced to demolish a hall that had been built in 2024 on the second floor of a community mosque and was used for cultural and educational activities.
· Since the beginning of 2025, displacement in Area C due to the demolition of homes for lacking Israeli-issued building permits has more than doubled compared with the corresponding period in 2024 (686 vs 305 people displaced); 1/1/25 to 6/16/25, 696 structures were demolished, seized or sealed for lacking building permits in Area C, of which 20% were inhabited residential structures.
· 6/11, Israeli authorities carried out a mass demolition in the Palestinian herding community of Khallet Athaba’ in Masafer Yatta, in Area C of Hebron governorate, the fourth such incident affecting the community since the beginning of 2025. Over the four incidents, 78 structures were demolished. Only 5% of the community’s structures are still standing, leaving the community with little access to adequate shelter. Israeli forces destroyed solar batteries, and internet connection devices, leaving the community without electricity or internet. For more info here
Developments in northern West Bank
· Israeli forces continue to carry out mass demolitions in Tulkarm, Nur Shams and Jenin camps. Since 6/ 1, Israeli forces demolished at least 37 buildings out of the 58 slated for demolition in Tulkarm and Nur Shams camps. Both camps remain inaccessible to residents and humanitarian actors, making assessments of the precise damage impossible. 6/9, Israeli authorities issued an order to demolish nearly 96 structures – mostly residential – in Jenin camp. Over 280 families who would be affected were given 72 hours to coordinate the retrieval of their personal belongings from their homes ahead of their demolition. At least 400 requests were submitted to Israeli authorities for families to retrieve their belongings from the camp, but since then, none of the families have been able to access their homes. Since 6/15, Israeli forces and bulldozers began demolishing buildings in the camp, particularly near Jenin Governmental Hospital, Duwar al Hussein, and Abdullah Azzam neighbourhoods.
· Since 6/10, Israeli forces have intensified their operations across the northern West Bank, particularly in Nablus and Jenin cities and Askar and Balata refugee camps in Nablus, imposing movement restrictions and causing widespread damage. Two people were killed, and dozens were injured or arrested.
Key incidents include:
· 6/10 - 6/11, Israeli forces carried out a 30-hour operation in Nablus city, imposed curfew, mainly on the Old City and its surroundings, and conducted house-to-house searches of at least 250 homes, causing damage to homes and other structures. Israeli forces used a boys’ school in the Old City as an interrogation center and detained 32 Palestinians. The operation resulted in killing of two Palestinians and the injury of at least 73 others.
· 6/15, Israeli forces conducted an operation in Azzun town, in Qalqilya governorate, imposed curfew for 36 hours, and closed off the town's entrances. Israeli forces searched several homes, interrogated residents, and caused damage to furniture
· 6/15, Israeli forces raided at least 10 homes in the Al Hadaf neighborhood of Jenin city, causing damage to property.
· 6/16, Israeli forces shot and injured two 15-year-old Palestinian boys during a raid in Al Yamun town, west of Jenin. Palestinians threw stones at the forces, who fired live ammunition at them.
· 6/16 – 6/17, Israeli forces launched an operation in Askar refugee camp, east of Nablus city. The operation involved widespread house-to-house searches and arrests. At least 15 residential buildings were ordered to evacuate by Israeli forces, temporarily displacing at least 75 people. Two Palestinians were physically assaulted by Israeli forces during the operation and transferred to hospital for treatment.
· 6/18, Israeli forces raided Balata refugee camp, east of Nablus city. Israeli military vehicles encircled Balata, sealing all entrances and exits. Snipers were reportedly deployed on rooftops, and troops carried out extensive house-to-house searches, causing property damage and converting several homes into military posts and interrogation centers.
ISRAEL
· “[Israelis] feel very intimately that they have been living with an Iranian threat for decades. Now that Iran has lost some of its proxies, there is much more incentive for Iran to escalate its nuclear program. So, there is a lot of fear — and, in my opinion, very legitimate fear.” here
· There is broad support among Jewish Israelis for the strikes in Iran. Some 83% back Israel's military operations and express their confidence in Israel's security institutions and preparedness for a prolonged conflict. here
· An Iranian strike damaged the nearby Soroka Medical Center, which Israel claimed was deliberately targeted at the civilian and military hospital. However, Iran asserted that its real target was the nearby cyberwarfare base that was directly hit later. Israeli media censored the Iranian strike on the cyberwarfare base. here
US
· Against a backdrop of exploding violence, New York Magazine’s latest cover story makes the case that Benjamin Netanyahu’s Israel, abetted by two American administrations, has likely committed hundreds, if not thousands, of war crimes in Gaza. here
· Two dozen Democratic House members are pushing legislation that would block the United States from sending more offensive weapons to Israel. H.R. 3565, or the Block the Bombs Act, is being led by Representatives Delia Ramirez (D-IL), Pramila Jayapal (D-WA.), Mark Pocan (D-WI), and Sara Jacobs (D-CA). If passed, the bill would prohibit the U.S. from sending Israel BLU-109 bunker busting bombs, MK80 series bombs, GBU-39 small diameter bomb variants, Joint Direct Attack Munitions (JDAMs), SPICE gliding bomb assemblies, 120mm tank ammunition, and 155mm artillery ammunition. here
US Universities
· 6/20, judge in New Jersey ordered Palestinian Columbia University student protest leader Mahmoud Khalil to be released from ICE detention on bail. here
· · Harvard Must Not Be Pressured To Violate Civil Rights of Palestinian Students to Get Back Billions from Trump. Palestine Legal's argument in the Harvard lawsuit against Trump revoking over $3 billion in federal funding. here
· University of Michigan Staff United rallies against worker termination over support for Palestine. here
· UC San Francisco fired Dr. Rupa Marya for speaking out against genocide, but as a physician she could not remain silent. here
SOURCES
OCHAOPT, Zeteo, New York Times, Palestine Chronicle, Haaretz, Electronic Intifada, The Lancet, Mondoweiss, Drop Site News, Democracy Now, The Guardian, MERIP, Palestine Legal, Michigan Daily News, Journal of Palestine Studies, MedRxIV, British Medical Journal, Health and Human Rights Journal, PLOS Global Public Health, Northeastern News, DW