Palestinians perform Friday prayer next to the ruins of Imam Shafi’i Mosque in Gaza City

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Hundreds of thousands of people gather at Istanbul's Ayasofya Square to mourn the assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh and support Palestinians in Gaza.

Palestinians in the Bureij refugee camp congregated on the streets of Deir al Balah in central Gaza and performed the Eid al Adha prayer in a sombre mood amid Israel’s indiscriminate bombardment of the besieged enclave on June 16.

Palestinians perform Eid Al-Adha prayer on the ruins of the Great Omari Mosque, Gaza's oldest mosque.

Palestinians perform Eid Al-Adha prayer on the ruins of the Great Omari Mosque, Gaza's oldest mosque.

At least 210 Palestinians were killed and over 400 others injured by Israeli forces after they targeted the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza on June 8, according to the Government Media Office in the besieged Palestinian enclave.

The injured were transported to Al Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, which the media office said was “unable to accommodate the number of martyrs and injured due to the Israeli bombardment”.

Eyewitnesses told Anadolu Agency that Israeli artillery and warplanes have been conducting violent and intense raids for hours on areas east of Deir al Balah, al Bureij and al Maghazi camps, as well as various locations in the centre, west, and east of the Nuseirat camp.

Palestinians are marking the 57th anniversary of the Naksa, or the day of the setback — an annual observance of the 1967 Six-Day War between Israel and Arab armies.

Also known as the June War, it ended with Israel defeating the Arab armies and occupying the Palestine’s West Bank and Gaza, plus Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula and Syria’s Golan Heights.

The war ended with another massive displacement of Palestinians from their homeland following the Nakba, meaning “the Catastrophe,” in 1948, with an estimated 250,000 to 400,000 forcibly displaced.

Many UN resolutions demanding Israel’s withdrawal from the territories have failed as Israel maintains the occupation of all territories, except the Sinai Peninsula which it withdrew from in 1982 following a peace treaty with Egypt.

Israel’s current war on Gaza extends its decades-long objective of uprooting and exterminating Palestinians from their land. At least 36,550 Palestinians have been killed in the besieged enclave over nearly eight months and nearly all of the 2.2 million population has been displaced.

The government of The Maldives will ban Israelis from the Indian Ocean archipelago, known for its luxury resorts, as public anger in the predominantly Muslim nation rises over Tel Aviv’s war on Gaza.

The president’s office said on June 2 that the Cabinet decided to change laws to prevent Israeli passport holders from entering the country and to establish a subcommittee to oversee the process.

It said President Mohamed Muizzu will appoint a special envoy to assess the needs of the Palestinians, and to launch a fundraising campaign called “Maldivians in Solidarity with Palestine.”

Israel’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Oren Marmorstein said in response that the Foreign Ministry recommends Israelis avoid any travel to The Maldives, including those with foreign passports, and for those currently there to consider leaving.

Nearly 11,000 Israelis visited The Maldives last year, which was 0.6% of the total tourist arrivals.

On May 29, the UN reported that aid deliveries to Gaza had decreased by 67 percent since the closure of the Rafah border crossing on May 7.

"Our colleagues in the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) tell us that widespread Israeli bombardments continue to be reported. Ground incursions and heavy fighting are also affecting northern, central and southern Gaza," UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric told reporters at a news conference.

"The flow of humanitarian aid into Gaza has dropped by 67 percent since the 7th of May," Dujarric said, attributing this primarily to the closure of the Rafah border crossing.

Dujarric also stated that health and service facilities are shutting down one by one, with displacement from the attacks further impacting resource distribution.

The World Central Kitchen, a non-profit organisation that has been providing meals to Palestinians in besieged Gaza, is one of the organisations in Rafah, in the southernmost part of the Palestinian enclave, that has ceased operations.

"In the face of Israeli operations in Rafah, countless families are being forced to flee once again. Ongoing attacks have forced us to pause work at our main kitchen in Rafah…," the charity said on social media platform X on May 28.

The charity recently resumed its work in Gaza after suspending operations in April following the killing of seven of its workers in three Israeli air strikes.

As the Israeli army’s atrocities in Gaza unfold before the world, Israeli authorities continue displacing Palestinians in the occupied West Bank by demolishing their homes for not having Israeli-issued building permits or as a form of punishment.