Palestine weekly wrap: Israel presses deeper into Gaza as Cairo talks begin
Key takeaways
- Israel pushes deeper into Gaza, killing Palestinians across the enclave.
- Immediately following the latest exchange of fire with Iran on Sunday, Israel sealed Gaza’s last open crossings entirely, before announcing they would reopen on Tuesday.
- And in the occupied West Bank, Israeli settler violence, land seizures and military raids continued to intensify – much of it, according to residents and rights monitors, with soldiers standing by or actively assisting.
Why this matters: an international story with cross-border implications worth tracking.
Israel pushes deeper into Gaza, killing Palestinians across the enclave.
xwhatsapp-strokecopylinkgoogle Add Al Jazeera on Googleinfo Palestinian react following an Israeli strike on a tent encampment, according to medics, in Gaza City, June 6, 2026 [Dawoud Abu Alkas/Reuters]By Al Jazeera Staff Published On 9 Jun 20269 Jun 2026Eight months into the Gaza ceasefire agreement that exists more on paper than on the ground, the past week saw the agreement’s terms continue to erode.
While Palestinian factions convened in Cairo, ostensibly to help move the agreement past its first phase, Israel pressed its hold on Gaza further – extending barriers of earth along an ever-widening “Yellow Line,” demolishing homes nightly, and killing displaced families in strikes that, according to Gaza’s Ministry of Health, pushed the post-ceasefire death toll past 970. Immediately following the latest exchange of fire with Iran on Sunday, Israel sealed Gaza’s last open crossings entirely, before announcing they would reopen on Tuesday.