GAZA, 30 June 2025 – At least 33 civilians, including a journalist, were killed and around 50 others were wounded this evening in an Israeli airstrike targeting a beachfront rest area in Gaza.
Medical sources reported that Israeli warplanes struck al-Baqa rest area along the coast of Gaza, resulting in the killing of at least 33 people and the wounding of nearly 50 others, including some seriously.
Among the fatalities was journalist Ismail Abu Hatab. Journalist Bayan Abu Sultan was also injured in the attack, though the nature and severity of her injuries remain unclear.
With Abu Hatab’s killing, the number of journalists killed since the start of the ongoing genocide against Gaza 21 months ago has risen to 227.
GAZA, June 30, 2025 – The ongoing Israeli war on the Gaza Strip has resulted in 56,531 reported fatalities, with nearly 133,642 wounded since October, 2023, according to medical sources in Gaza.
According to medical sources, since March 18 — when Israel resumed its aggression on the Gaza Strip following a ceasefire agreement — the toll has included 6,203 Palestinians killed and 21,601 others wounded.
In the past 24 hours, Gaza hospitals have received 28 bodies — including 3 recovered from under the rubble — and 223 wounded individuals.
GAZA, June 30, 2025 – Several Palestinian civilians were killed and others wounded on Monday afternoon following Israeli airstrikes that targeted gatherings of persons in Gaza City and the central Gaza Strip, according to medical sources.
Local reporters confirmed that an Israeli warplane bombed an area near the makeshift market (Sooq al-Basatat) in the Shuja’iyya neighborhood, east of Gaza City, resulting in multiple fatalities and injuries.
An Israeli drone strike target a group of civilians in Block 2 of the Nuseirat refugee camp, leaving a number of people injured with varying degrees of wounds.
In a separate attack, At least 13 Palestinians were killed and dozens more injured—some critically—after Israeli forces targeted a group of civilians waiting for humanitarian aid south of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip.
RAMALLAH, June 30, 2025 – At least 10 Palestinians were killed on Monday morning after Israeli warplanes targeted an aid distribution warehouse in the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood, south of Gaza City.
According to medical sources, the attack raises the death toll in Gaza since dawn to 27 Palestinians.
According to UN reports, more than 550 Palestinians have been killed while attempting to access food at Israeli-American aid distribution points, which the UN has refused to endorse. Since their establishment late last month, these sites have become deadly zones, described by rights groups and observers as “mass killing traps” that also subject civilians to humiliation, forced displacement, and deepening humanitarian despair.
The Israeli occupation forces launched a brutal overnight assault on the Gaza Strip from late Sunday through dawn Monday, killing a family of 18 Palestinians in a strike, according to Al Mayadeen’s correspondent.
One of the deadliest strikes targeted a residential home in Jabalia al-Balad, in northern Gaza, where an entire family of 18 people was wiped out in a single Israeli air raid. Elsewhere in northern Gaza, Israeli warplanes carried out a wide-scale bombing campaign across multiple areas, including eastern Gaza City, Jabalia, and the al-Zaytoun neighborhood, south of the city.
In al-Shati refugee camp, located west of Gaza City, four Palestinians were martyred and others wounded after the occupation bombed an area near Martyrs’ Square, where residents had gathered to receive aid and shelter.
Meanwhile, in the southern Gaza Strip, Israeli aircraft bombed a displacement tent in the al-Mawasi area west of Khan Younis, resulting in several casualties. The attack targeted an area previously designated as a “safe zone,” further deepening the humanitarian crisis gripping the territory.
CARACAS, June 29 – Heavy rains continued to lash western Venezuela, with rivers overflowing in several states and hundreds of homes damaged, authorities said Sunday.
In the western state of Merida, Governor Arnaldo Sanchez said at least 370 homes have been affected by the rains and flooding, with 103 houses destroyed.
Sanchez said on social media that at least 2 tons of supplies have been distributed to affected communities in the Andean highlands, adding security forces and Civil Protection members rushed to provide assistance.
In the northwestern state of Zulia, Governor Luis Caldera told state-run Venezolana de Television that officials are helping 16 communities affected by flooding from the overflowing Chama River.
He said residents in the affected areas are receiving food, drinking water, tents and other essential supplies.
Meanwhile, in Apure state, Mayor Jackson Barbosa said access to communities in the town of Andres Eloy Blanco has been cut off after two rivers overflowed their banks.
SYDNEY, June 30 – A teenager has been hospitalized after being attacked by a shark at a beach on Australia’s east coast.
The 16-year-old boy was swimming at Cabarita Beach, over 650 km north of Sydney in the state of New South Wales (NSW), on Sunday afternoon when he was bitten on the right arm and right leg.
Emergency services were called to the beach around 4 p.m. local time and airlifted him to hospital in a serious but stable condition.
A spokesperson for NSW Ambulance said that fellow beach-goers helped the boy out of the water and tied a tourniquet to stop the bleeding before emergency services arrived at the scene.
The beach has been closed until at least Monday afternoon.
Smoke rises from a fire near Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, where responding firefighters were shot on Sunday, June 29, 2025. AP
BOISE, Idaho – Firefighters were ambushed by sniper fire while responding to a blaze in a northern Idaho mountain community Sunday, killing at least two people and unleashing barrages of gunfire over several hours in an attack the governor called a “heinous” assault.
The Kootenai County Sheriff’s Office said crews responded to a fire at Canfield Mountain just north of Coeur d’Alene around 1:30 p.m., and gunshots were reported about a half hour later.
Sheriff Bob Norris said officials believe the two people killed were fire personnel. He didn’t know if anyone else was shot.
“We don’t know how many suspects are up there, and we don’t know how many casualties there are,” Norris told reporters at a 4:30 p.m. news conference. “We are actively taking sniper fire as we speak.”
People are still coming off the mountain, the sheriff said, so it “would be safe to assume” that others were still up there.
Gov. Brad Little said “multiple” firefighters were attacked.
“This is a heinous direct assault on our brave firefighters,” Little said on the social platform X. “I ask all Idahoans to pray for them and their families as we wait to learn more.”
Norris said it appeared the sniper was hiding in the rugged terrain and using a high-powered rifle. He said he instructed deputies to fire back.
“I’m hoping that somebody has a clear shot and is able to neutralize, because they’re not at this point in time showing any evidence of wanting to surrender,” the sheriff said.
An alert by the Kootenai County Emergency Management Office asked people to avoid the area around Canfield Mountain Trailhead and Nettleton Gulch Road, about 4 miles (6.5 km) north of downtown Coeur d’Alene.
The fire was still active, Norris said.
“It’s going to keep burning,” he said. “Can’t put any resources on it right now.”
The FBI has responded to the scene with technical teams and tactical support, Deputy Director Dan Bongino said.
“It remains an active, and very dangerous scene,” he wrote in a post on X.
Coeur d’Alene is a city of 55,000 residents near the border with Washington. Canfield Mountain is a popular hiking and biking area on the outskirts, covered with trees and heavy brush and crisscrossed with trails.
JERUSALEM, June 29 – An Israeli soldier was killed in the northern Gaza Strip on Sunday, the Israeli military said.
In a statement, the military said Sergeant Yisrael Natan Rosenfeld, 20, of the 601st Combat Engineering Battalion of the 401st Brigade, “fell during combat.”
Israel’s state-owned Kan TV reported that Rosenfeld was killed by an explosive device in Jabalia, in an area where the military had begun demolishing buildings in preparation for constructing outposts as part of a planned buffer zone in northern Gaza.
Since the beginning of June, 21 Israeli soldiers have been killed in the Gaza Strip, bringing the military’s death toll to 880 since October 2023, according to official figures.
Earlier on Sunday, Palestinian sources reported heavy bombardments in northern Gaza, with at least 88 people killed and 365 wounded in Israeli attacks, according to Gaza health authorities.
The strikes came as the Israeli military issued new evacuation warnings, calling on residents of Gaza City and Jabalia to move immediately toward the al-Mawasi area.
Meanwhile, Gaza health authorities said on Sunday that the Palestinian death toll from Israeli military operations since October 2023 had risen to at least 56,500.
ISLAMABAD, June 29 – Seven more people have died in rain-triggered accidents across Pakistan over the past two days, raising the death toll to 45 since the onset of the monsoon season on June 26, the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) said Sunday.
The number of wounded rose to 68 after six more people sustained injuries in torrential rains that have lashed almost all provinces of the country, the NDMA said in a statement.
Most casualties occurred as a result of roof collapses and flash floods that swept away houses and bridges, the authority added.
The NDMA said that 89 houses have been either partially or fully destroyed, while 55 heads of livestock have also perished.
