Closing summary
Trust in the UN nuclear inspectorate is broken inside Iran, the country’s president, Masoud Pezeshkian, has told Emmanuel Macron, as European nations issued a statement in defence of its head. The two men spoke as Iranian officials said the total number of Iranian deaths during the 12-day air war with Israel and the US had risen to 935 people, including 38 children and 132 women.
The Israeli military acknowledged on Monday that Palestinian civilians were harmed at aid distribution centres in Gaza, saying that instructions had been issued to forces following “lessons learned”. Since Israel lifted an 11-week aid blockade on Gaza on 19 May, allowing limited UN deliveries to resume, the United Nations says more than 400 Palestinians have been killed while seeking aid.
Palestinian witnesses and health officials say Israeli forces have repeatedly opened fire on crowds heading toward desperately needed food, killing hundreds of Palestinian people in recent weeks. Israel wants the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) – an Israeli-backed logistics group – to replace a system coordinated by the UN and international aid groups. Along with the US, it accuses Hamas of stealing aid, without offering evidence.
Qatar Airways said on Monday it will resume flight operations to Iraq, Lebanon, Jordan and Syria after the lifting of airspace restrictions in the region imposed due to the Israeli-Iran crisis. The state-owned airline said flights to Iraq would resume later on Monday, while flights to Lebanon and Jordan will restart on July 1. Flights to Syria would resume on July 6, it added.
At least 38 people were killed in Israeli strikes on Monday, according to updated figures from health authorities. Included in the casualties were 10 people killed in Zeitoun and at least 13 killed southwest of Gaza City. Medics said most of the 13 were hit by gunfire, but residents also reported an airstrike.
Palestinians in northern Gaza reported one of the worst nights of Israeli bombardment in weeks after the military issued mass evacuation orders on Monday, while Israeli officials were due in Washington for a new ceasefire push by the Trump administration.
Ron Dermer, a senior adviser to Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, is set to travel to Washington this week for talks on a ceasefire, and plans are being made for Netanyahu to travel there in the coming weeks, a sign there may be movement on a deal.
Egypt, the US and Qatar are continuing efforts to try to negotiate a ceasefire between Hamas and Israel, with mediators hoping that pressure from the Trump administration could help to achieve a deal.
Britain’s decision to allow the export of F-35 fighter jet components to Israel, despite accepting they could be used in breach of international humanitarian law in Gaza, was lawful, London’s high court ruled on Monday. Al-Haq, a human rights group based in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, took legal action against Britain’s Department for Business and Trade over its decision to exempt F-35 parts when it suspended some arms export licences last year.
At least 935 people were killed in Iran during its 12-day war with Israel, Iranian state media reported on Monday, nearly a week since a ceasefire took hold. The death toll included 132 women and 38 children. Israeli authorities have reported 28 deaths in Israel as a result of retaliatory strikes from Iran over the war.
The Iranian judiciary has revised the number of people killed in an Israeli strike on Tehran’s Evin prison, increasing the figure to 79 people. The 23 June attack, the day before the ceasefire between Israel and Iran took hold, hit several prison buildings and prompted concerns about the safety of the inmates, many of whom were detained for political reasons by the Iranian government.
US president Donald Trump has said he is not speaking to Iran and was not offering the country “anything”, as he claimed that America “totally obliterated” Tehran’s nuclear facilities when it struck them earlier this month. Trump’s comments, posted to Truth Social this morning, followed reports that his administration had discussed possibly helping Iran access as much as $30bn to build a civilian-energy-producing nuclear program.
The US must rule out any further airstrikes on Iran if it wants to resume negotiations, Tehran’s deputy foreign minister, Majid Takht-Ravanchi, has told BBC News. Takht-Ravanchi said Iranian officials are hearing from Washington that the US wants to talk. He said no date has been agreed yet.
Trust in the UN nuclear inspectorate is broken inside Iran, the country’s president, Masoud Pezeshkian, has told Emmanuel Macron, as European nations issued a statement in defence of its head.
The two men spoke as Iranian officials said the total number of Iranian deaths during the 12-day air war with Israel and the US had risen to 935 people, including 38 children and 132 women.
Pezeshkian criticised Rafael Grossi, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) director general, in the call, according to an Iranian account, saying he had not condemned the Israeli and US attacks even though they had been in flagrant breach of the UN charter and the nuclear non-proliferation treaty (NPT).
His language was more constrained than others in Iran, where the conservative newspaper Kayhan said if Grossi came to the country he should be put on trial and sentenced to death for links to the Israeli spy agency the Mossad.
A joint statement on Monday from the UK, France and Germany said they condemned threats against Grossi “and reiterate our full support to the agency and [Grossi] in carrying out their mandate”, calling on Iran to cooperate with it.
“We call on Iranian authorities to refrain from any steps to cease cooperation with the IAEA. We urge Iran to immediately resume full cooperation in line with its legally binding obligations, and to take all necessary steps to ensure the safety and security of IAEA personnel,” it said.
