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Danish shipping giant Maersk is still shipping smaller weapons components to Israel that include rifle and pistol parts, as well as bomb bodies, despite its assertion to the contrary last year, according to a report published on Monday by the Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM) and Oxfam Denmark. 

The bullet parts Maersk has reportedly helped to deliver are the same kind that killed Hind Rajab in 2024 and also countless other children in Gaza, as shown in a New York Times essay published later that year, the authors of the report said.

The bomb bodies provide the casing for the 900-kilogram "bunker buster" MK-84 bombs that Israel has used in Gaza and Lebanon.

The investigation is part of the #MaskOffMaersk campaign. 

"Our question to Maersk is: What's a weapon? You don't ship weapons, so what is a weapon?" Nadya Tannous, the international coordinator for the initiative, told Middle East Eye.

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When Lebanon and Israel announced a ceasefire agreement on April 16, Nasreen Abd Elaal and her husband and four children packed their few belongings and departed the public school in Marj al-Zuhoor where they had taken shelter—for the last time, they hoped.

They returned the next day to their home in Ain Arab, a small village nestled in the plains near the southern border, where they run a small butcher shop and corner store. That same day, Israeli forces entered the village and established a curfew, warning local residents not to leave their homes after dark, before setting up a checkpoint on the exit road leading south.

Twelve days later, Abd Elaal was working behind the counter at the store when she saw a large armored bulldozer lumbering down the road, followed by a swarm of army vehicles carrying, by her estimation, more than one hundred Israeli soldiers. The troops spread through the village, pointed their guns at residents and told them that the area was located within Israel’s new “yellow line”—a line demarcating an Israeli zone of control along the southern border inside Lebanese territory that was unilaterally declared by Israel using the same terminology as in Gaza. The soldiers told Abd Elaal and the other village residents that they had two hours to evacuate north.

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One person has been killed and five others wounded in a series of shooting attacks in central Israel, Israeli police and emergency services reported.

The shootings reportedly occurred on Sunday at three locations near the ⁠occupied West Bank city ⁠of Qalqilya, killing a 35-year-old man.

Magen David Adom, Israel's medical emergency service, said another man in his 40s had been taken to the hospital in a critical condition.

Medical officials said they had also treated two men injured at a petrol station near the town of Kochav Yair, one of them seriously. A man and a woman were also injured near Tzur Yitzhak, another settlement in central Israel.

"Large police forces remain at the scene, and searches are continuing," police said in an earlier statement on Sunday, urging the public to remain vigilant.

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Russian forces executed a series of targeted irst-person view (FPV) drone strikes and heavy artillery bombardments on Saturday, June 6, killing two civillians and wounding at least four others across eastern and southern Ukraine.

The first fatal morning strike occurred in the Kharkiv region within the Derhachi suburban community. Vyacheslav Zadorenko, head of the Derhachi Municipal Military Administration, confirmed that a Russian FPV drone intercepted a 51-year-old resident of Lobanivka at approximately 6:00 a.m. local time.

The victim was operating a scooter along the highway between the settlements of Prudyanka and Slatyne on his way to purchase groceries when the munition struck him, killing him instantly.

A second fatal FPV drone strike was documented shortly after in the industrial hub of Kramatorsk, located in the Donetsk region. Oleksandr Honcharenko, head of the Kramatorsk City Military Administration, characterized the morning attack as a cynical war crime against the municipality’s civilian populace.

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THE OCCUPIED TERRITORIES Bill will be brought before cabinet for government approval later, with the aim of enacting it before the Dáil summer recess.

The long-awaited bill was first proposed by senator Frances Black in 2018 and would ban trade from illegal Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.

Foreign affairs minister Helen McEntee will later seek government approval and aims to meet this summer deadline.

A department spokesperson remarked that Ireland has “continually advocated for a peaceful resolution to the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians”.

However, the spokesperson added that it is “clear from the actions of the Israeli government, both in Gaza and in the West Bank, that they have no intention of reaching a peaceful resolution”.

The spokesperson added that it “remains the government’s preference that collective action would be taken at EU level” and that McEntee is “continuing to actively pursuing this”.

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In a historic first for Germany, nearly 700 students at the University of Leipzig voted almost unanimously on 19 May to demand that their university sever all ties with Israeli academic institutions over the genocide in Gaza.

The location is significant.

For decades, Leipzig has been regarded as one of Germany’s strongest centers of the "Antideutsche" current, a tendency within the radical left defined by militant anti-nationalism and vocal support for Israel under the banner of combating antisemitism. Antideutsche activists also frequently clash with pro-Palestinian activists at demonstrations and events.

The adopted list of demands calls on the university to recognise and condemn the genocidal nature of Israel’s war on Gaza, including the scholasticide taking place there, a term used to describe the systematic destruction of educational institutions, students and staff.

Students demand an end to all cooperation with Israeli universities and institutions, and insist that the University of Leipzig neither participate in, promote, nor publicise collaborations or activities organised or hosted by Israeli universities.

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