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Israeli Fire Kills 60 in Gaza, Many Near Aid Site, Medics Say

A military vehicle maneuvers in Gaza, as seen from the Israeli side of the border, June 10, 2025. (Reuters)
A military vehicle maneuvers in Gaza, as seen from the Israeli side of the border, June 10, 2025. (Reuters)
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Israeli Fire Kills 60 in Gaza, Many Near Aid Site, Medics Say

A military vehicle maneuvers in Gaza, as seen from the Israeli side of the border, June 10, 2025. (Reuters)
A military vehicle maneuvers in Gaza, as seen from the Israeli side of the border, June 10, 2025. (Reuters)

Israeli gunfire and airstrikes killed at least 60 Palestinians in Gaza on Wednesday, most of them near an aid site operated by the US and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation in the center of the enclave, local health officials said. 

Medical officials at Shifa and Al-Quds hospitals said at least 25 people were killed and dozens wounded as they approached a food distribution center near the former Jewish settlement of Netzarim before dawn. 

Israel's military, which has been at war with Hamas since October 2023, said its forces fired warning shots overnight towards a group of suspects as they posed a threat to troops in the area of the Netzarim Corridor. 

"This is despite warnings that the area is an active combat zone. The army is aware of reports regarding individuals injured; the details are under review," it said. 

Later on Wednesday, health officials at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip said at least 14 people had been killed by Israeli gunfire as they approached another GHF site in Rafah. 

The foundation said it was unaware of Wednesday's incidents but added that it was working closely with Israeli authorities to ensure safe passage routes are maintained, and that it was essential for Palestinians to closely follow instructions. 

"Ultimately, the solution is more aid, which will create more certainty and less urgency among the population," it said by email in response to Reuters questions. 

"There is not yet enough food to feed everyone in need in Gaza. Our current focus is to feed as many people as is safely possible within the constraints of a highly volatile environment." 

In a statement, GHF said it distributed 2.5 million meals on Wednesday, the largest single-day delivery since it began operations, bringing to more than 16 million the number of meals provided since its operations started in late May. 

Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry says that since then, 163 Palestinians had been killed and over 1,000 wounded trying to obtain the food boxes. 

The United Nations has condemned the killings and has refused to supply aid via the foundation, which uses private contractors with Israeli military backup in what they say is a breach of humanitarian standards. 

Elsewhere in Gaza on Wednesday, its health ministry said at least 11 other people were killed by separate Israeli gunfire and strikes across the coastal enclave. 

The war erupted 20 months ago after Hamas-led fighters took 251 hostages and killed 1,200 people, most of them civilians, on October 7, 2023, Israel's single deadliest day. 

Israel's military campaign has since killed nearly 55,000 Palestinians, most of them civilians, according to health authorities in Gaza, and flattened much of the densely populated strip, which is home to more than two million people. Most of the population is displaced and malnutrition is widespread. 

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday there had been "significant progress" in efforts to secure the release of the remaining hostages in Gaza, but that it was "too soon" to raise hopes that a deal would be reached. 

Two Hamas sources told Reuters they did not know about any breakthrough in negotiations. 

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Israeli Military Kills Two in Raid, Says Palestinian Ministry

A man sits near a street in Jerusalem's Old City, following restrictions on large gatherings amid the US-Israel conflict with Iran, March 27, 2026. (Reuters)
A man sits near a street in Jerusalem's Old City, following restrictions on large gatherings amid the US-Israel conflict with Iran, March 27, 2026. (Reuters)
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Israeli Military Kills Two in Raid, Says Palestinian Ministry

A man sits near a street in Jerusalem's Old City, following restrictions on large gatherings amid the US-Israel conflict with Iran, March 27, 2026. (Reuters)
A man sits near a street in Jerusalem's Old City, following restrictions on large gatherings amid the US-Israel conflict with Iran, March 27, 2026. (Reuters)

Israeli forces killed two Palestinian men on Friday during a raid north of Jerusalem, the Ramallah-based health ministry and relatives said, while the army said troops had shot at instigators of stone throwing.

"The young man Mustafa Asaad Hamad (22 years old) was killed by Israeli gunfire in Kufr Aqab," the ministry said in a statement.

In a separate statement, it announced the death of 46-year-old Sufyan Abu Leil, who died "of critical wounds he sustained after being shot by Israeli forces in Qalandia camp this Friday afternoon".

The Palestinian entity in charge of the area, the Jerusalem governorate, reported that Israeli forces had raided the Qalandia refugee camp, adjacent to Kufr Aqab, and wounded several Palestinians with live fire early Friday.

The Israeli military said its forces had twice in 24 hours carried out "operational activities in the Qalandia area... during which violent disturbances developed, including the throwing of stones at the forces."

"The soldiers responded by firing at key instigators and hits were identified," it said in a statement.

Hamad's father Asaad Hamad told AFP at the funeral that the army entered the area at around midnight, causing clashes with local residents, during which his son was shot.

"My son was shot twice in the leg. The bullet hit an artery and he died a martyr," Asaad Hamad told AFP.

Hundreds of young men attended Hamad's funeral as his body was carried through the streets of Qalandia camp on a stretcher, wrapped in a Palestinian flag, an AFP journalist reported.

Qalandia refugee camp, Kufr Aqab and other areas around Jerusalem have seen increased Israeli raids since the beginning of 2026 after Israel launched operation "Capital Shield", which it says aims to make Jerusalem safer.

Since the operation began, the military has arrested dozens of Palestinians and destroyed several buildings it said had been illegally built in Kufr Aqab and Qalandia camp.

Palestinians fear the demolitions will pave the way for Israeli settlers to move into the area, as has happened in parts of east Jerusalem in recent months.

Violence in the West Bank, which Israel has occupied since 1967, has soared since the Hamas attack on Israel triggered the Gaza war in October 2023. It has continued despite an October 2025 ceasefire.

Israeli troops or settlers have killed at least 1,053 Palestinians, many of them gunmen, but also scores of civilians, in the West Bank since the Gaza war began, according to an AFP tally based on Palestinian health ministry figures.

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G7 Ministers Urge End to Attacks Against Civilians in Middle East War

First aid responders inspect the site of an Israeli airstrike that targeted a building in the southern Lebanese town of Saksakiyeh on March 27, 2026. (AFP)
First aid responders inspect the site of an Israeli airstrike that targeted a building in the southern Lebanese town of Saksakiyeh on March 27, 2026. (AFP)
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G7 Ministers Urge End to Attacks Against Civilians in Middle East War

First aid responders inspect the site of an Israeli airstrike that targeted a building in the southern Lebanese town of Saksakiyeh on March 27, 2026. (AFP)
First aid responders inspect the site of an Israeli airstrike that targeted a building in the southern Lebanese town of Saksakiyeh on March 27, 2026. (AFP)

G7 allies on Friday urged a stop to attacks against civilians in the Middle East war, after a foreign ministers' meeting in France attended by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio almost one month into the US-Israeli assault against Iran. 

Having skipped the first day of the meeting at the historic monastery turned luxury hotel complex outside Paris, Rubio had a full day of talks with counterparts from leading industrialized democracies at the Vaux-de-Cernay Abbey outside Paris. 

A final communique on the war in the Middle East called for "an immediate cessation of attacks against civilians and civilian infrastructure. 

"There can be no justification for the deliberate targeting of civilians in situations of armed conflict as well as attacks on diplomatic facilities," it added. 

US President Donald Trump had threatened to strike Iranian energy facilities, but subsequently rowed back that warning to give Tehran more time for talks he said were taking place. 

This was Rubio's first trip abroad since the United States and Israel launched the war with air strikes on February 28 that killed supreme leader Ali Khamenei. 

Before leaving France, he told reporters the US expected to finish Iran operations in the "next couple of weeks". 

He said Iran had not yet responded to a plan to end the war. 

But "we've had an exchange of messages and indications from the Iranian system -- whatever's left of it -- about a willingness to talk about certain things". 

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The G7 meeting was dominated by uncertainty over the current US strategy in the Middle East conflict. 

"The Iranian regime would be well advised to enter into serious negotiations with the United States now," German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul said after the meeting. 

"There are initial indications that such talks should be taking place," he added, without elaborating. 

Wadephul said the international community needed to collaborate even more closely now it was dealing with two wars in which Russia and Iran were cooperating -- including the conflict sparked by Moscow's 2022 invasion of Ukraine. 

"We need to strengthen our unity," he told reporters. 

The UK's foreign minister Yvette Cooper urged a "swift resolution to this conflict that restores regional stability". 

She echoed concerns over the de facto blockade by Iran of the key Strait of Hormuz, which has driven up global oil prices and left vessels queueing up to enter the energy bottleneck. 

"Iran cannot be able to just hold the global economy hostage," she said. 

The final statement said ministers had "reiterated the absolute necessity to permanently restore safe and toll-free freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz". 

Rubio said he had made progress with allies in opposing Iranian threats to start "tolling" vessels. 

"It's dangerous to the world, and it's important that the world have a plan to confront it," he said. 

The elite G7 club -- whose origins go back to the first G6 summit held in the nearby Chateau de Rambouillet in 1975 -- and now comprises Canada, Germany, France, Italy, Japan, UK and United States. 

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Hezbollah Says Clashed with Israeli Forces in Two South Lebanon Villages

A man checks a destroyed house that was hit in an Israeli airstrike in Saksakiyeh village, south Lebanon, Friday, March 27, 2026. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
A man checks a destroyed house that was hit in an Israeli airstrike in Saksakiyeh village, south Lebanon, Friday, March 27, 2026. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
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Hezbollah Says Clashed with Israeli Forces in Two South Lebanon Villages

A man checks a destroyed house that was hit in an Israeli airstrike in Saksakiyeh village, south Lebanon, Friday, March 27, 2026. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
A man checks a destroyed house that was hit in an Israeli airstrike in Saksakiyeh village, south Lebanon, Friday, March 27, 2026. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Hezbollah said Friday its members had clashed directly with Israeli forces in two south Lebanon villages, as Israeli airstrikes on several areas killed at least six people, according to the health ministry.

In a statement, Hezbollah said its fighters had clashed with "Israeli enemy army forces in the villages of Bayada and Shamaa at point-blank range with light and medium weapons," while also claiming responsibility for attacks on Israeli border towns and positions.

The coastal village of Bayada, adjacent to Shamaa, lies eight kilometres from the border with Israel, according to AFP.

Israeli forces are pushing into numerous towns in southern Lebanon, with officials saying they aim to create a security zone reaching the Litani River, some 30 kilometres from the border, to push Hezbollah back and protect northern Israeli communities.

On Friday, Israel launched a series of airstrikes on several areas, particularly in southern Lebanon, according to Lebanese state media.

One of the strikes, on the town of Saksakiyeh in the Sidon district, killed "four civilians and wounded eight others," in an initial toll reported by the health ministry.

At dawn, Israel had targeted the Tahouitet al-Ghadir area in Beirut's southern suburbs without prior warning, killing two people, according to the health ministry.

Israeli army spokesperson Effie Defrin said Friday that "Contrary to the declaration by the Lebanese government earlier this year - Hezbollah is still operating and conducting attacks from southern Lebanon."

"If the Lebanese government will not disarm Hezbollah, the (army) will," he said.

After nearly four weeks of war between Hezbollah and Israel, Nicolas Von Arx, regional director of the International Committee of the Red Cross, warned Friday that "the humanitarian situation is worsening and civilians, as usual, are paying the highest price" in Lebanon.

After meeting Lebanese President Joseph Aoun, he said, "Civilians must be protected wherever they are, whether they remain in their homes or are forced to flee".

According to the authorities, the war has forced more than one million people to flee their homes, and more than a thousand people have been killed since the conflict began.