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![Israeli soldiers argue with a Palestinian man after an attack by Jewish settlers in the village of Burin, south of Nablus, in which Palestinian vehicles were burned and destroyed, on June 18, 2024.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/06/2024_0625-gaza-ch-400x300.jpg)
Israel’s Killing of Aid Workers May Force UN to Suspend Gaza Operations
Multiple UN aid agencies do work in Gaza, providing food, shelter, health care and other crucial services.
![Baby triplets of Palestinian mother Nuzha Awad face the threat of dying from malnutrition and lack of medical care due to constant Israeli attacks and blockades as they take shelter in Nuseirat camp in Deir al Balah, Gaza, on March 25, 2024.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/06/2024_0625-gaza-400x300.jpg)
4 Children Have Died of Hunger This Week in Gaza as Half a Million Face Famine
A fifth of households in Gaza are reporting having to go days without food due to Israel’s starvation campaign.
![What’s the Future of Press Freedom Amid Assange’s Release and Gaza Genocide?](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/06/1920-1080-max3-400x300.jpg)
What’s the Future of Press Freedom Amid Assange’s Release and Gaza Genocide?
Australian journalist Antony Loewenstein discusses WikiLeaks’s legacy and the hypocrisy of Western mainstream media.
![Workers of UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees) inspect destruction after an attack carried out by Israeli army on a building belonging to the UNRWA located in the Nuseirat Refugee Camp in Deir al-Balah, Gaza, on May 26, 2024.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/06/2024_0625-unrwa-400x300.jpg)
UNRWA Only Has Funding Through August, With Emergency Appeals Underfunded
The US is one of only two countries still withholding funding to the UNRWA, the agency chief said.
![Israeli soldiers argue with a Palestinian man after an attack by settlers in the village of Burin, south of Nablus, in which Palestinian vehicles were burned and destroyed, on June 18, 2024.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/06/2024_0625-west-bank-400x300.jpg)
Settlers Are Already Executing Smotrich’s Plan to Annex West Bank, Residents Say
“They make it impossible for you to stay, they make your life miserable,” said Palestinian activist Issa Amro.
![Minister of Diaspora Affairs of Israel Amichai Chikli speaks during The Jerusalem Post New York conference on June 3, 2024, in New York City.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/06/2024_0624-israel-m-400x300.jpg)
Israeli Government Has Spent $8.6M on Campaign to Influence US, European Policy
A former Israeli minister imagined the campaign as a military unit that conducts PR missions abroad.
![Palestinian girls attend Eid al-Adha prayers in Bureij Refugee Camp in the central Gaza Strip, on June 16, 2024.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/06/2024_0624-gaza-c-400x300.jpg)
21,000 Children Are Missing in Gaza, on Top of Over 15,000 Killed by Israel
Humanitarian groups find unaccompanied children in Gaza every day, with no safe place for them to go.
![Black smoke billows following an Israeli air strike that targeted a house in the southern Lebanese village of Khiam near the Lebanese-Israeli border on June 21, 2024.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/06/GettyImages-2158018846-1-400x300.jpg)
Israel and Hezbollah Are on the Brink of Another War. How Did They Get Here?
Hezbollah spent the past decade accumulating military and political power to deter Israel — now it may face all-out war.
![Displaced Palestinians mourn during a funeral ceremony for their relatives after Israeli airstrikes killed 25 and injured 50 people at Al-Nasr Hospital in al-Mawasi neighborhood of Rafah, Gaza, on June 21, 2024.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/06/GettyImages-2158067284-400x300.jpg)
Israeli Attack on Rafah Tent Camp Kills Dozens, Wounds 50
The attack follows bombings that killed dozens of Palestinians and injured hundreds around Rafah late last month.
![A view of a damaged floating pier, set up by the U.S. to facilitate quicker delivery of humanitarian aid to Palestinians, after it has been suspended due to adverse weather conditions and rising sea levels in Gaza City, Gaza, on May 27, 2024.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/06/2024_0621-pier-400x300.jpg)
US’s Gaza Pier May Soon Be Dismantled Entirely After Series of Failures
The pier has delivered, in essence, no aid to Palestinians languishing under Israel’s extermination campaign in Gaza.