At least 25 reported killed and dozens wounded as they approached food distribution centre run by GHF, near Netzarim Israeli forces killed at least 60 Palestinians in Gaza on Wednesday, most of them as they were seeking food from a US-Israeli distribution scheme, according to local health authorities. Medical officials said at least 25 people were killed and dozens wounded as they approached a food distribution centre run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), near Netzarim in central Gaza. Continue reading...

New Zealand and Norway also impose measures on Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich

<article data-history-node-id="423609" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-settlers-cut-down-100-olive-trees-occupied-west-bank" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-settlers-cut-down-100-olive-trees-occupied-west-bank" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Israeli settlers cut down 100 olive trees in the occupied West Bank</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p data-end="87" data-start="0">Israeli settlers have destroyed more than 100 olive trees in the eastern part of Qarawat Bani Hassan, a town west of Salfit in the occupied West Bank, according to the town’s mayor.</p> <p data-end="529" data-start="294">Ibrahim Asi told Wafa news agency&nbsp;that the trees, owned by local resident Muhannad Sufyan Rayyan, were cut down and vandalised in what he described as yet another attack in a long pattern of settler violence targeting Palestinian land and farmers.</p> <p data-end="747" data-start="531">Elsewhere, in Kafr ad-Dik, also west of Salfit, settlers assaulted Nasser Faraj Naji while he was working on his land in the town’s northern area. He was injured and taken to Salfit Government Hospital for treatment.</p> <p data-end="880" data-is-last-node data-is-only-node data-start="749">The settlers reportedly also tried to set fire to a small agricultural structure belonging to another resident, Ahmed Mohammed Ali.</p> </div> </div> </article>

<article data-history-node-id="423578" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/gaza-health-system-collapsing-world-health-organisation-says" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/gaza-health-system-collapsing-world-health-organisation-says" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Gaza health system collapsing, World Health Organisation says</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>The head of the World Health Organisation (WHO), Tedros Ghebreyesus, warned on Friday that Gaza's residents will lose all access to health services unless the last two hospitals that are still operational are saved.&nbsp;</p> <p>"Gaza's&nbsp;health system is collapsing, with Nasser Medical Complex -- the most important referral hospital left -- and Al-Amal Hospital at risk of becoming non-functional. Without them, people will lose access to health services," Ghebreyesus wrote on <a href="https://x.com/drtedros/status/1931073965058851013?s=61">X</a>.&nbsp;</p> <p>"These hospitals lie within or just outside the evacuation zone announced on 2 June. Israeli authorities have informed the Ministry of Health that access routes leading to both hospitals will be obstructed. As a result, safe access for new patients and staff will be difficult, if not impossible," he added.</p> <p>"The hospitals going out of service would have dire consequences for patients in need of surgical care, intensive care, blood bank and transfusion services, cancer care, and dialysis. The relentless and systematic decimation of hospitals in Gaza has been going on for too long. It must end immediately."</p> </div> </div> </article>

Lincolnshire leaders have weighed in on the debate about whether the two-child benefit cap should be scrapped.

Minister hails ‘cultural reset’ before the 6:14 South Western Railway service from London Waterloo to Shepperton Ministers have hailed a “new dawn” for Britain’s railways as the first train services renationalised under the Labour government started operating on Sunday. The 6.14 from London Waterloo to Shepperton was due to be the first rebranded train out on Sunday, its carriages adorned with a union jack and the logo “Great British Railways: coming soon” as part of a publicly owned South Western Railway (SWR). Continue reading...

The work will be incorporated into another committee despite all other parties opposing the change.