Gaza, IDF: Hamas is preparing for a new war. Five Palestinians were killed today

“Hamas is strong on the ground. No one is threatening it, and the organisation is not prepared to relinquish control of Gaza,” the warning reads, according to the military.

Israel “has no territorial ambitions in Lebanon”, but the IDF will not withdraw “by a single millimetre” until the terrorist group Hezbollah has been disarmed. Defence Minister Israel Katz made this statement during a briefing with journalists, explaining that this position is accepted by the United States and is enshrined in the military annex to the framework agreement signed last week between Israel and Lebanon.

Katz also notes that, during his meeting with Admiral Brad Cooper, head of US Central Command, it was agreed that “ the IDF will not withdraw from the three security zones: in Lebanon, Syria and Gaza”.

Katz also stated that he did not believe the Lebanese army “would suddenly turn into lions charging at Hezbollah” and that, consequently, the presence of the Israeli Defence Forces in Lebanon would be “long-term”.

The Defence Minister has confirmed that Israel attempted to persuade the Lebanese army to enter the Ali Taher ridge area – beneath which Hezbollah has an extensive network of tunnels – and to clear it of terrorists. However, “the Lebanese army refused to do so”, said Katz, noting that around 30 Hezbollah militants are believed to be hiding in the underground passages.

Almost half of the dialysis machines at Gaza’s largest hospital have stopped working due to a severe shortage of sodium bicarbonate , an essential substance that neutralises the potentially lethal acidity in the blood of patients with kidney failure.

Al Jazeera reports this, quoting Ghazi al-Yaziji, head of the dialysis unit at the al-Shifa Medical Complex, who said that 25 machines had been taken out of service, leaving only 26 partially operational.

Medical staff were forced to reduce dialysis sessions from four to three hours and to cut the number of weekly treatments from three to two, the doctor said. According to al-Yaziji, the measures taken have had a significant impact on around 240 patients with stage 5 chronic kidney disease, increasing the risk of cardiac and respiratory complications which, in some cases, could lead to death.

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Segnato come ucciso uno degli autori della strage del 7 ottobre

Akram Muhammad Mahmoud Abu Mazi, membro dell'ala militare di Hamas, che secondo l'Idf si era infiltrato nel territorio israeliano durante il massacro del 7 ottobre, ucciso domenica 21 giugno 2026 dall'esercito israeliano, a Gaza. X/IDF

The Israeli army reported that on Sunday evening it had killed Zaher Abu Salem, a member of Islamic Jihad who, according to the IDF, was involved in the attack on Israel on 7 October 2023. On Sunday, several attacks were carried out around Gaza, resulting in the deaths of four people, including a 13-year-old girl, Eileen al-Farra, who was struck by shrapnel from an Israeli tank bombardment and was buried today.

Today in Deir al-Balah, the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Hospital reported that the victims were two men and an 8-year-old boy, whilst a third man was injured.

Subsequently, the Civil Defence reported two deaths and more than 27 injured in another attack on a tent housing displaced people on the beach at Khan Younis, in the south of the territory.

Last week, the IDF and the Shin Bet carried out an attack in which Ismail Masri, a senior figure and head of military security for Hamas’s Rafah Brigade, was killed.

As part of his role, he was responsible for planning and coordinating operations aimed at targeting Israeli soldiers in the Gaza Strip, according to the Israeli army.

“Between 7 October 2023 and 7 June 2026, Israeli forces killed 235 Palestinian children and teenagers in the West Bank. A further five were killed by settlers”: this was announced today by the Israeli human rights organisation B’Tselem, which presented a report detailing “the full stories of the 54 children and teenagers killed in 2025”.

“According to figures from the human rights organisation Yesh Din – as stated in the press release issued today by B’Tselem – no charges appear to have been brought in connection with killings in the West Bank since the start of the war in October 2023.”

According to the organisation, “the sharp rise in the killing of children in the West Bank by Israeli forces cannot be separated from the more than 21,000 Palestinian children that Israel has killed as part of its genocidal offensive against the Gaza Strip since October 2023”.

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has announced in a press release a comprehensive review of the database of journalists killed in the Gaza Strip, as published on its website.

According to the Times of Israel, the announcement of the review came following an investigation published last week in which the newspaper examined a selection of the hundreds of obituaries, complete with photos and names, published in recent months by the official Telegram channels of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, in which they claimed responsibility for the deaths of their own militants. The Times of Israel has identified several names that also appear on the list compiled by the CPJ (an independent non-profit organisation based in New York).

The Committee had previously removed eight names from its database after establishing that they were fighters belonging to Hamas or Islamic Jihad, and a further 12 names ‘for other reasons’, as stated on the CPJ website.

‘The CPJ has always been clear that we do not include anyone in our databases if there is evidence that they were taking part in combat or inciting imminent violence’, said Jodie Ginsberg, director of the CPJ, in the statement, adding that the organisation “unequivocally condemns the misrepresentation of combatants as journalists or media workers”. The review is expected to be completed in July, the CPJ reports.