GAZA CITY, Palestine / ISTANBUL – At least 63 Palestinians were killed, including many people trying to reach food, and hundreds more were wounded in fresh Israeli attacks across Gaza on Tuesday, medics said.

The Health Ministry said 51 people lost their lives and over 200 others were injured when Israeli forces opened fire on civilians who gathered to get humanitarian aid at the Al-Tahlia Roundabout in Khan Younis in southern Gaza.

Medical teams at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis confirmed that dozens of the wounded were in critical condition.

A medical source said one Palestinian was killed and several people were injured when Israeli military vehicles opened fire on another group of aid seekers near the Netzarim Corridor in central Gaza.

In western Khan Younis, four Palestinians were killed when Israeli aircraft struck a displacement tent near the Dream wedding hall in the Al-Mawasi area.

Two others were killed in a strike on another tent at Al-Salah School in Deir al-Balah in central Gaza.

A woman also died in a strike on a shelter near Faisal Tower in northern Deir al-Balah, the sources added.

In central Gaza’s Nuseirat refugee camp, an Israeli airstrike killed a Palestinian man in his home.

At Al-Shifa Medical Complex, two more bodies were brought in following reported sniper fire near Street 10 in southern Gaza City.

In the northern part of the Strip, a young girl was killed in Israeli air raids.

Multiple injuries were also reported in southern Gaza City after an Israeli strike targeted a residential apartment in the Al-Sabra neighborhood.

Rejecting international calls for a ceasefire, the Israeli army has pursued a brutal offensive against Gaza since October 2023, killing over 55,400 Palestinians, most of them women and children.

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WASHINGTON, June 17 – The U.S. military is deploying more fighter aircraft to the Middle East and extending the deployment of other warplanes, bolstering U.S. military forces in the region as the war between Israel and Iran rages, three U.S. officials said.

One of the officials said the deployments include F-16, F-22 and F-35 fighter aircraft.

Two of the officials stressed the defensive nature of the deployment of fighter aircraft, which have been used to shoot down drones and projectiles.

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LONDON – Israeli authorities in occupied East Jerusalem have imposed a closure for the fifth consecutive day on the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre while barring non-resident visitors from entering the Old City.

Israel announced a state of emergency after beginning airstrikes against Iran on Friday. Tehran retaliated by launching ballistic missiles at Israeli coastal towns and cities. Israel’s emergency measures prevented Palestinians and worshipers from entering the Al-Aqsa Mosque and its courtyards, as well as the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.

The Palestinian Authority’s Jerusalem Governorate added on Tuesday that most shops in the Old City had been closed, with only essential stores remaining open since Friday, Wafa news agency reported.

Israeli authorities have permitted settlers to visit the area surrounding the Al-Aqsa compound and perform Jewish prayers and rituals, while forces have intensified daily raids on Palestinian towns and suburbs in Jerusalem, including the Mount of Olives, Silwan, Issawiya, Shufaat, Hizma, Eizariya, Bir Nabala and Al-Ram, Wafa added. East Jerusalem is surrounded by 84 checkpoints and barriers, including recently installed earth mounds and gates.

Although Jerusalem has been spared so far from the Israel-Iran conflict, Palestinians in the city fear for their safety due to a lack of proper shelters within their towns and neighborhoods, Wafa reported.

Israeli authorities in Jerusalem have announced the opening of schools to be used as shelters from Iranian missile attacks. However, some Palestinian experts warned that the facilities may not be large enough to accommodate a significant number of residents, and some are even unsuitable for receiving civilians.

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KYIV – An overnight Russian missile and drone bombardment of Ukraine killed 15 people and injured 156, local officials said Tuesday, with the main barrage demolishing a nine-story Kyiv apartment building in the deadliest attack on the capital this year.

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CHONGQING, June 17 – Seven people were trapped following a carbon monoxide leak in a high-speed railway tunnel under construction in southwest China’s Chongqing Municipality Tuesday afternoon, local authorities said.

Four people have been rescued and three remain trapped. The incident occurred in the Zhongliangshan tunnel, part of the Chongqing section of the Xi’an-Chongqing high-speed railway.

Rescue efforts are underway.

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AMMAN – Israel’s expanded offensive on Iran is a threat to everyone, said Jordan’s King Abduallah II to the European Parliament in Strasbourg on Tuesday.

“There is no telling where the boundaries of this battleground will end… the attacks on Iran threaten a dangerous escalation in our region and beyond,” he said.

“If our global community fails to act decisively we become complicit in rewriting what it means to be human. If Israeli bulldozers continue to illegally demolish Palestinian homes, olive trees and infrastructure, so too will they flatten the rails that defy moral grounds,” he added.

He reiterated the need for the establishment of a sovereign Palestinian state and the importance of granting Palestinians the right to freedom and statehood.

“Global security won’t be assured until the global community acts to end the three-year war in Ukraine and the world’s longest and most destructive flashpoint, the eight-decade-long Palestinian Israeli conflict,” said AlHussein.

The King cited the failure of international law and intervention in Gaza and said what was considered an atrocity 20 months ago has now become routine.

“Weaponizing famine against children, targeting of health workers, journalists and children have all become normalized after the failure of the international community,” he said.

Europe’s leadership will be vital in choosing the right course of history, said the King and assured Jordans position in its support to the EU.

“This conflict must end and the solution is rooted in international law. The path to peace has been walked before, and it can be walked again if we have the courage to choose it and the will to walk it together,” he concluded.

On Tuesday morning, Israel warned hundreds of thousands of people to evacuate the middle of Iran’s capital as Israel’s air campaign on Tehran appeared to broaden on the fifth day of an intensifying conflict.

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TEHRAN – The Iranian Armed Forces employed a new missile in the latest round of retaliatory strikes against the Zionist regime on Tuesday, the spokesperson for the Defense Ministry of Iran said.

In comments at a televised interview on Tuesday, Brigadier General Alireza Talaee Nik said Iran will fully exploit its offensive capacities against the Zionist enemy after it imposed a war against the country.

Lauding the successful retaliatory strikes by the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) and highlighting the advanced homegrown weapons at Iran’s disposal, the general said the Armed Force fired a new missile at the Israeli targets in a fresh wave of attacks on Tuesday.

The Israeli enemy failed to intercept the advanced Iranian missile that was employed for the first time, he stated, saying the Zionists have admitted that they could not even detect the missile before it rained down.

The fact that one of the Zionist regime’s security and intelligence centers was hit by Iran’s guided missile despite being guarded by heavy layers of air defenses assisted by the US reveals the Israeli regime’s misery, the spokesman added.

General Talaee Nik explained that the Israeli regime’s endurance will diminish gradually as Iran utilizes advanced weapons, saying, “The Zionist enemy is strategically unable to continue a strategic war and its back will break as time goes by.”

He also assured the Iranian people that more surprising achievements of the Armed Forces will appear in the future.

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TEHRAN – The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps announced that it has launched a successful missile attack on a major center of the Zionist regime’s Mossad spy agency in Tel Aviv.

The IRGC said in a statement that its Aerospace Force units carried out an effectual operation against Mossad in the early hours of Tuesday.

Despite being protected by highly advanced air defense systems, the military intelligence directorate of the Zionist regime’s army, known as AMAN, and the Mossad center in Tel Aviv, used for planning assassination attacks and evil acts, were hit by the IRGC, it noted.

The IRGC added that fire is now blazing in the doomed center.

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TABRIZ – Director General of East Azerbaijan Crisis Management says the Iranian Armed Forces’ air defense in Tabriz successfully shot down an Israeli F-35 fighter jet in Tabriz, northwestern Iran.

Speaking to IRNA on Tuesday, Majid Farshi said two combat drones had earlier been shot down in Tabriz.

He added that three locations around Tabriz were targeted on Tuesday, and air defense systems engaged the Israeli invading micro air vehicles (MAVs).

This marks the fourth F-35 fighter jet to be intercepted and destroyed by Iran’s air defenses.

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CAIRO/GAZA, June 17 – Israeli tanks fired into a crowd trying to get aid from trucks in Gaza on Tuesday, killing at least 59 people, according to medics, in one of the bloodiest incidents yet in mounting violence as desperate residents struggle for food.

Video shared on social media showed around a dozen mangled bodies lying in a street in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip.

The Israeli military, at war with Hamas-led Palestinian militants in Gaza since October 2023, acknowledged firing in the area and said it was looking into the incident.

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