Overview

• Israeli forces bombarded multiple neighbourhoods in northern Gaza City, striking at least four schools sheltering displaced civilians after ordering hundreds of families to evacuate south
• Gaza’s civil defence agency reports the civilian death toll has exceeded 56,500 with more than 133,000 wounded since October 7, 2023
• Sgt Yisrael Natan Rosenfeld was killed by an explosive device in Jabalia, marking the 20th Israeli soldier death in June and the deadliest month for troops in the Gaza war
• The IDF detained six Israeli civilians who hurled stones, vandalised vehicles and attempted to ram soldiers near Kafr Malik in the occupied West Bank
• Indirect ceasefire talks brokered by Qatar and Egypt have yielded no breakthrough, extending both the military campaign and the humanitarian crisis