In western Rafah, in southern Gaza, six Palestinians were shot dead and at least 10 others injured while waiting at an aid distribution point.
In central Gaza, five Palestinians were killed and 15 others wounded near the al-Shohada Junction in Nuseirat, after Israeli forces opened fire on crowds seeking food aid, according to al-Awda Hospital.
Meanwhile, three people were killed in an Israeli airstrike on the Zaytoun neighbourhood in southern Gaza City. Their bodies were transported to the Al-Ahli Arab Hospital.
Another three brothers were killed in an Israeli airstrike on al-Mansoura Street in Shuja’iyya, east of Gaza City.One Palestinian was also shot dead by Israeli forces northwest of Khan Younis.
Israel’s military has claimed its navy hit a Hezbollah “infrastructure site” near the southern Lebanese city of Naqoura, a day after Israel’s foreign minister warned the Lebanese armed group against entering the Iran-Israel war, AFP reports.
“Overnight, an Israeli Navy vessel struck a Hezbollah ‘Radwan Force’ terrorist infrastructure site in the area of Naqoura in southern Lebanon”, the military said in a statement.
The military alleged the site was used by Hezbollah “to advance terror attacks against Israeli civilians”.
In a separate statement, the military said it had “struck and eliminated” a Hezbollah fighter in south Lebanon the previous day, despite an ongoing ceasefire between both sides.
In a statement carried by the official National News Agency, Lebanon’s health ministry said last night that one person was killed in a “strike carried out by an Israeli enemy drone on a motorcycle” in the same south Lebanon village.
Nearly 46,000 Palestinian students in the West Bank and around 2,000 students from Gaza living abroad began their Tawjihi (General Secondary Education Certificate) exams, while students inside Gaza remain deprived of their right to sit for the exams for the second consecutive year due to Israel’s ongoing war on the Strip, Wafa reports.
This year’s exams are being held under extraordinary conditions, with 512 exam centers across the West Bank and supervised by 16,000 educators and administrators—marking one of the most difficult years due to the Israeli military’s continuous aggression, particularly in northern West Bank areas like Jenin and Tulkarm.
In Gaza, only around 2,000 students who managed to leave the besieged Strip will sit for the exams in 37 countries. Official exam halls have been coordinated in seven countries, while others will hold the exams at Palestinian embassies and missions.
Meanwhile, the Ministry announced a postponement of exams in occupied East Jerusalem (inside the Wall) for about 3,600 students until Monday, due to recent instability. Exams in areas outside the Wall will proceed as scheduled.
Students in Jenin and Tulkarm face severe challenges due to ongoing Israeli military operations since January. The ministry has carefully selected safer locations for exam centres to ensure the safety of students and staff.
In Tulkarm, around 3,500 students are spread across 34 halls, placed close to their homes for ease of access. Displaced students from Tulkarm and Nur Shams refugee camps have been integrated into nearby schools, with the Ministry providing psychosocial and academic support to help them continue their education under difficult circumstances.
In Jenin, 3,034 students are sitting for the exams across 30 centers, including 43 students who were forcibly displaced from Jenin Refugee Camp due to Israeli attacks.Israel’s Defence Minister Israel Katz has claimed that the military had killed a veteran commander in an alleged overseas arm of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) in a strike in an apartment in Iran’s Qom, Reuters reports.
The veteran commander was named as Saeed Izadi, with Katz saying he led the Palestine Corps of the Quds Force.
Katz alleged Izadi financed and armed Hamas during the initial attacks, describing the commander’s killing as a “major achievement for Israeli intelligence and the Air Force”.
The US supreme court has upheld a statute passed by Congress to facilitate lawsuits against Palestinian authorities by Americans killed or injured in attacks abroad as plaintiffs pursue monetary damages for violence years ago in Israel and the occupied West Bank.
The 9-0 ruling overturned a lower court’s decision that the 2019 law, the Promoting Security and Justice for Victims of Terrorism Act, violated the rights of the Palestinian Authority and Palestine Liberation Organisation to due process under the US constitution.
The US government and a group of American victims and their families had appealed the lower court’s decision that struck down a provision of the law
A 19-year-old Palestinian youth has been seriously injured after being shot by Israeli forces in the town of Kafr ’Ain, northwest of Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank, Wafa reports.
According to Wafa’s local sources, Israeli troops stormed the town and opened fire with live ammunition at residents, hitting the young man in the back.
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society confirmed that its medics transported the wounded youth to Salfit Hospital, where his condition was described as serious.
Mahmoud Khalil, a former Columbia University student who was one of the most visible leaders of nationwide pro-Palestinian campus protests, was released Friday from a federal detention centre, AFP reports.
Khalil, a legal permanent resident in the United States who is married to a US citizen and has a US-born son, has been in custody since March, facing potential deportation.
“This shouldn’t have taken three months,” Khalil, wearing a Palestinian keffiyeh scarf, told US media outside an immigration detention center in Jena, Louisiana, hours after a federal judge ordered his release.
“(President Donald) Trump and his administration they chose the wrong person for this,” he said. “There’s no right person who should be detained for actually protesting a genocide.”
The Department of Homeland Security criticised District Judge Michael Farbiarz’s ruling as an example of how “out of control members of the judicial branch are undermining our national security.”
Under the terms of his release, Khalil will not be allowed to leave the United States except for “self-deportation,” and faces restrictions on where he can travel within the country.
Khalil’s wife, Michigan-born dentist Noor Abdalla, said her family could now “finally breathe a sigh of relief and know that Maumoud is on his way home.”
“We know this ruling does not begin to address the injustices the Trump administration has brought upon our family and so many others the government is trying to silence for speaking out against Israel’s ongoing genocide against Palestinians,” added Abdalla, who gave birth to the couple’s first child while her husband was in detention.
