Israel bombs heavily populated Gaza City area, at least 20 killed
*Forces blow up Palestinian home in Jenin refugee camp *"Is Germany missing in action on holding Israel accountable?" *EU leaders want action against Israel's genocide in Gaza
A Palestinian woman mourns near the bodies of loved ones killed during overnight Israeli strikes, on the grounds of Al-Shifa hospital in the central Gaza Strip on June 28, 2025
Israeli air attacks on al-Tuffah neighbourhood in Gaza City have killed at least 20 people, including nine children, according to medical sources.
In its latest daily update, the Health Ministry in Gaza says Israeli attacks over the latest 24-hour reporting period have killed at least 81 people and wounded 422 others.
The killings come a day after US President Donald Trump said a ceasefire in Gaza could be reached “within the next week”.
Gaza’s Government Media Office says revelations in the Israeli media that soldiers were ordered to “deliberately shoot” starving Palestinians seeking aid supplies are further evidence of “war crimes” in Gaza.
Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 56,412 people and wounded 133,054, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry. An estimated 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the October 7 attacks, and more than 200 were taken captive.
Forces blow up Palestinian home in Jenin refugee camp
Israeli forces blew up a Palestinian home in the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian news agency Wafa reported.
Local sources told the agency that the explosion was part of a continuing Israeli campaign of home demolitions inside the camp, with multiple houses destroyed over the past two weeks.
The demolitions are part of a plan announced by the Israeli military on June 9, which aims to tear down approximately 95 homes in the camp, Wafa said.
The Israeli offensive in Jenin has entered its 159th consecutive day, and has so far killed 40 people, and wounded a further 200.
Germany missing in action holding Israel accountable
EU leaders have called for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and the release of captives, but they have stopped short of sanctioning Israel. Germany is the largest and most influential of a five-country bloc that is leading EU policy on this, according to Claudio Francavilla, the Brussels-based associate EU director at Human Rights Watch.
He told Al Jazeera Germany has been clear that the protection of Israel and its existence — its raison d’etat — is one of the principles at the foundation of the German state. German politicians are willing to accept blame for not moving against Israel over Gaza, seeing it as a “tiny fraction of the suffering that they inflicted on the Jewish people during the Holocaust”.
But Germany is also committed to international law, Francavilla said, and is “missing in action when it comes to their obligations”. He pointed to the UN Genocide Convention, which requires all parties to “employ all reasonable means to stop or prevent a genocide when it’s unfolding,” not only after a final legal determination.
“By protecting Israel from any form of accountability, they are condemning the Palestinians to suffer everything that they’ve been going through,” he said.
Source: Al Jazeera
