US Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield (C) votes during a UN Security Council meeting on the situation in the Middle East at UN headquarters on June 10, 2024 in New York. (Photo by Angela Weiss / AFP)
Doha, Qatar: At least eight were killed, most of them children, and several injured following an Israeli attack on a residential apartment in Gaza City's Daraj neighbourhood.
In another incident, it bombed a home in the az-Zawayda area of Deir el-Balah in central Gaza, killing three people, which includes two children, the Wafa news agency reports.
Meanwhile the approval of US-sponsored immediate ceasefire resolution by the United Nations Security Council has offered a ray of hope of permanently ending Israel’s war on Gaza for the first time in eight months.
A day in Gaza
A donkey cart carrying passengers rolls past buildings destroyed during the Israeli bombardment of Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip on June 11, 2024. (Photo by Eyad Baba / AFP)
[11:30pm Doha Time] Qatar welcomes UN Security Council resolution calling for Gaza ceasefire
The State of Qatar welcomed the adoption of a UN Security Council resolution calling for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, the withdrawal of Israeli forces from the area, the exchange of prisoners and detainees, the entry of humanitarian aid, the return of displaced persons, reconstruction, and the rejection of any demographic changes in Gaza.
Qatar considered this a significant step in the right direction towards ending the brutal war on the Strip. Read more.
[9:45pm Doha Time] Qatar, Egypt announce receiving response from Hamas and Palestinian factions on the proposed Gaza truce
The State of Qatar and the Arab Republic of Egypt announced that they have received today, June 11, a response from the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement "Hamas" and the Palestinian factions regarding the most recent proposal for a ceasefire deal and the exchange of prisoners and detainees. Read more.
[8:15pm Doha Time] PM participates in "Call for Action: Urgent Humanitarian Response for Gaza" conference
Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs HE Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani participated today in a high-level conference, held in the Dead Sea region in Jordan, which aims to strengthen the collective response to address the difficult humanitarian situation in Gaza.
Prime Minister participates in "Call for Action: Urgent Humanitarian Response for Gaza" conference
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[7:44pm Doha Time] Situation for women and girls in Gaza ‘an absolute nightmare’: UNFPA
“More than anything, the damage to the healthcare system means that women have nowhere to turn,” Natalia Kanem, the executive director of the UN Population Fund (UNFPA), tells Al Jazeera.
“Where do you turn trying to keep a newborn safe and fed in that environment? We are facing a situation where women are delivering babies by caesarean section without anesthesia because there’s no energy, there’s no generator, the medicines are running out.”
The UNFPA is demanding that humanitarian corridors be opened up and for international humanitarian law to be respected, Kanem added.
[5:38pm Doha Time] Gaza death toll
[3:51pm Doha Time] Fewer than 100,000 people left in Rafah: UNRWA
More than a month after Israeli forces began operating in Rafah, which was previously Gaza’s main declared safe zone, almost all displaced people have fled the area, leaving fewer than 100,000 still left, according to the UNRWA.
As a result, there are now 1.7 million displaced people in Gaza – more than 70 percent of the population – with many of the displaced having been forced to move multiple times, the UNRWA said in its latest situation update.
[2:09pm Doha Time] Gaza’s death toll rises
At least 37,164 people have been killed and 84,832 wounded in Israeli military attacks on Gaza since October 7, the enclave’s Health Ministry says.
Of them, 40 Palestinians were killed and 120 wounded in the past 24 hours, the ministry added.
[12:15pm Doha Time] US aid pier off Gaza is ‘useless’, Gaza official says
A US floating pier off Gaza’s coast has failed to ease the humanitarian crisis, with Salama Marouf, head of Gaza’s Government Media Office, saying that “this pier is useless”.
He added that “humanitarian aid worth 120 trucks have been channelled through the pier since it was built”, in mid-May.
On Friday, the US military announced it reinstalled the aid pier that had been damaged in bad weather.
[11am Doha Time] Palestinian football chief slams Australia for visa rejection
The head of the Palestinian Football Association has said political bias is behind the rejection of his Australia visa application that left him unable to travel with the national team for a FIFA qualification match tonight in Perth.
Jibril Rajoub, who has pushed for Israel to be expelled from FIFA, told ABC News the decision was “shameful”.
“I should attend the game, I should be with our team,” Rajoub said.
Australia’s PM said the decision to deny the visa to Rajab was made “at arm’s length” by the Immigration Department.
Carcass of one of two cars targeted by Israeli forces during a raid in which four Palestinians were killed a day earlier on Kfar Naima, north-west of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank on June 11, 2024. (Photo by Zain Jaafar / AFP)
[10am Doha Time] Hamas says commander among those killed in Ramallah
The Hamas group says one of its commanders stationed in the occupied West Bank was among four people killed by the Israeli military near the city of Ramallah.
In a statement, they named Mohammed Jaber Abdo as among the four Palestinian fighters killed in Monday night’s incident.
Israeli troops raided the village of Kafr Nima searching for a Palestinian man they accused of carrying out an arson attack in an illegal Israeli outpost.
Israeli forces opened fire on the vehicle the four were in. All four men were killed while eight other people were wounded in the raid.
[8:45am Doha Time] Israeli army says four soldiers killed in Gaza
The Israeli military said four of its soldiers were killed in fighting in southern Gaza.
The soldiers were “killed in fighting in south Gaza” on Monday, the military said in a statement, without elaborating on the circumstances of their deaths.
The Army Radio said they were killed in an explosion set off in a building in the Shabura neighbourhood of Rafah.
[8:30am Doha Time] In Photos: Scenes from Gaza City
Palestinian boys transport water containers past buildings destroyed in Gaza City on June 10, 2024 (Photo by Omar Al-Qattaa / AFP)
Palestinian youths play volleyball in a street near a building destroyed in Gaza City on June 10, 2024. (Photo by Omar Al-Qattaa / AFP)
A Palestinian man sells sweets near tools and pots taken from the rubble of buildings for sale, in Gaza City on June 10, 2024. (Photo by Omar Al-Qattaa / AFP)
[8:15am Doha Time] Security Council's resolution a step to cease genocide war in Gaza: Palestinian Presidency
The Palestinian presidency welcomed the UN Security Council's adoption of a draft resolution submitted by the United States supporting a proposal by US President Joe Biden for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.
The Palestinian Presidency considered, in a statement, the adoption of this resolution as a step in the right direction to stop the ongoing war of genocide in Gaza, calling on everyone to assume their responsibilities for its implementation.
The decision is consistent with the Presidency's demands for an immediate halt to the Israeli aggression, the withdrawal of the occupation forces from the entire Gaza Strip, the entry of aid, the prevention of displacement, and that the Gaza Strip is an integral part of the territory of the State of Palestine, the statement noted.
The statement stressed that the Security Councils affirmation in its resolution of its firm commitment to the vision of a two-state solution, in accordance with international law and relevant United Nations resolutions, requires working seriously towards implementing the political solution that leads to ending the occupation and establishing an independent Palestinian state, in accordance with international law and international legitimacy resolutions.
The Security Council adopted the draft resolution after the approval of 14 countries, while Russia abstained from voting.
[7:45am Doha Time] Pro-Palestine protesters clash with police outside Nova exhibit
Pro-Palestinian protesters clashed with New York City police outside an exhibit in Manhattan commemorating the Nova music festival massacre.
Some 364 civilians were killed in an attack on the festival on October 7, as part of a wider Hamas-led assault on southern Israel that day.
In footage of the protest, demonstrators can be seen waving flairs and Palestinian flags, and can be heard chanting slogans including, “Long live the intifada” and “Resistance is justified where people are occupied”.
#NOW Cops STOP PROTESTERS after they lit up flares outside of Nova Exhibition, the October 7th Hamas attack exhibit that's taking place on Wall Street in Lower Manhattan. pic.twitter.com/wzN4vamaVb
— Oliya Scootercaster ???? (@ScooterCasterNY) June 11, 2024
[7:15am Doha Time] Israeli military kills three Hezbollah members in strike on convoy
The Israeli military has killed three Hezbollah members in a strike on a convoy of tankers in northern Lebanon, a military source from the Lebanese group has told the AFP news agency.
The Israeli attack targeted a village in Lebanon’s northern Hermel district on the border with Syria, according to the source.
“Three Hezbollah members were killed by nine Israeli missile strikes that targeted a convoy of tankers and a building,” the source said, adding that three people were also wounded.
[7am Doha Time] Israeli forces shoot Palestinian man during storming of Balata camp
The Israeli military has shot a Palestinian man during their storming of the Balata refugee camp near Nablus in the occupied West Bank, the Wafa news agency reports. The man’s condition is unknown.
Israeli forces have also stormed the town of Azzun, east of Qalqilya, and detained several Palestinians, according to Wafa.
