Closing Summary
We are now closing the live blog. Here is a summary of events today:
Israeli strikes killed at least 62 people across Gaza overnight and into Saturday, health workers said, including three children and their parents, who were killed in an Israeli strike on a tent camp in Muwasi near the southern city of Khan Younis. They were struck while sleeping, relatives said, AP reports.
Israeli forces killed at least 23 people in Gaza on Saturday, including at least three children who died when a house was struck, Gaza’s civil defence agency said.
Qatar’s foreign ministry spokesman says mediators are engaging with Israel and Hamas to build on momentum from this week’s ceasefire with Iran and see a “window of opportunity” for a truce in the Gaza Strip.
Donald Trump has said he would “absolutely” consider bombing Iran again. At a White House briefing, he said he would “without question” attack the country if Tehran is enriching uranium to concerning levels.
A state funeral has been held in Iran for around 60 people, including its military commanders and nuclear scientists, killed in its war with Israel.
An Israeli strike on southern Lebanon killed one person on Saturday, the Lebanese health ministry said, the latest attack despite a ceasefire between Israel and Iran-backed Hezbollah. The health ministry said that an “Israeli enemy” drone strike on a car in Kunin, south Lebanon, killed one man in a preliminary toll.
The Israeli army said on Saturday that a missile launched from Yemen toward Israeli territory had been “most likely successfully intercepted”.
The EU must come up with a more assertive response to the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza and the violations of international law, the bloc’s former chief diplomat Josep Borrell has said. In a strongly worded article, he stated that the EU had a “duty” to intervene and must come up with its own concerted plan to end the war, rather than relying on the US.
Johnnie Moore, head of the controversial US- and Israeli-backed aid group, Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) has defended its work after repeated killings of Palestinians at aid hubs.
Six Israelis were detained for assaulting soldiers near a town in the occupied West Bank where clashes with Palestinians erupted earlier this week, the military said on Saturday.
Iran has reopened its central and western airspace to international transit flights, state-run Reuters reports, citing Nour News.
Emirates extended its cancellation of flights to and from Iran’s capital Tehran until July 5 due to the “regional situation“, it said in a statement on Saturday, Reuters reports. The Dubai-based airline said it will recommence operations to Baghdad on 1 July and Basra on 2 July.
Israeli strikes kill at least 62 people in Gaza - health workers
Here is a further update on the Israeli strikes on Friday and Saturday:
Israeli strikes killed at least 62 people across Gaza overnight and into Saturday, health workers said.
Three children and their parents were killed in an Israeli strike on a tent camp in Muwasi near the southern city of Khan Younis. They were struck while sleeping, relatives said, AP reports.
“What did these children do to them? What is their fault?” said the children’s grandmother, Suad Abu Teima, as others knelt to kiss their bloodied faces and wept. Some placed red flowers into the body bags.
Also among the dead were 12 people near the Palestine Stadium in Gaza City, which was sheltering displaced people, and eight more in apartments, according to staff at Shifa Hospital. More than 20 bodies were taken to Nasser Hospital, according to health officials.
A midday strike killed 11 people on a street in eastern Gaza City, and their bodies were taken to Al-Ahli Hospital.
A strike on a gathering at the entrance to the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza killed two, according to Al-Awda hospital.
