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Thousands of members of the ultra-Orthodox community (the Haredim) are protesting in Shabbat Square in Jerusalem against the recruitment of their students into the ranks of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).

As The Times of Israel reports, protesters carry signs that read: “We will not enlist in the enemy army.” Many ultra-Orthodox Jews believe that military service is incompatible with their way of life and fear that those who enlist will be secularized.

After decades of political and social controversy, Israel’s Supreme Court last week ordered the military to begin recruiting ultra-Orthodox men and suspend funding to yeshivas (religious teaching institutions) that did not comply with the ruling.

During the protests, United Torah Judaism party leader Yitzhak Goldknopf’s car was attacked as he headed home to Jerusalem. The protesters throw stones at the car of the minister, who in recent weeks has asked that members of this community not continue to be recruited.

The head of UK-Med, a British-based medical organisation operating in the Gaza Strip, said on Sunday that the situation in the region has reached a “catastrophic phase” due to the inability to acquire equipment to treat the hundreds of patients flocking to clinics.

Speaking to Aljazeera, David Wightwick said around 1,400 victims of war violence in the region seek medical help at UK-Med every day, Wightwick told Al Jazeera. The majority of emergencies resulting from conflict are injuries caused by explosions and gunfire.

A drone launched from Lebanon exploded in the north of the Golan Heights, territory between Syria and Israel, the newspaper writes Haaretzciting information from the Israeli army. There is currently no information on injuries following this attack.

oh Israel Times Separately, a missile was launched from Lebanon towards the Beit Hillel area, also in northern Israel. The IDF says the missile landed in an open field, causing no injuries or damage.

Israeli army soldiers found weapons and documents at a school and health clinic in Shujaiya, Gaza City.

oh Israel Times writes that these two facilities were used as “active war rooms.”

The military says it estimates Hamas will have “recruited hundreds of new operatives, some of them minors” through these facilities.

At least seven people were killed this morning in Israeli attacks on the city of Rafah, at the southern end of the Gaza Strip, as troops continue the offensive in the Shujaiya neighborhood.

“The Israel Defense Forces continue their intelligence-based operational activities in the Rafah area. On the last day, the troops eliminated several terrorists in different confrontations and dismantled tunnels in the area,” says a military statement cited by the EFE agency.

On Saturday, Israeli forces dismantled a mortar firing point inside a tunnel in Rafah.

Israel’s Foreign Minister, Israel Katz, has already reacted to the threat made by Iran.

“Iran today threatened to destroy Israel if Israel fully responds to Hezbollah’s attacks from Lebanon. My response to Iran is clear: if Hezbollah does not cease its fire and withdraw from southern Lebanon, we will act against it with full force until it regains security and residents can return to their homes,” he wrote in a statement. social network x.

Iran today threatens to destroy Israel if it responds fully to Hezbollah attacks from Lebanon.
My answer to Iran is clear:
1. If Hezbollah does not cease fire and withdraw from southern Lebanon, we will act against it with all our might until security is restored and…

— ישראל כ”ץ Israel Katz (@Israel_katz) June 29, 2024

The Israeli minister also left the message that “a regime that threatens to destroy deserves to be destroyed.”

In the early hours of Saturday, Iran’s mission to the United Nations warned that in the scenario of Israel embarking on “full military aggression” against Lebanon, a “destructive war” would begin.

Hamas reveals no progress towards ceasefire in Gaza

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced that it attacked several locations in Shejaiya on Saturday with drones it claims are used by Hamas.

oh Times of Israel writes that the army found weapons when it entered Hamas facilities. The IDF reveals that it killed several snipers.

The Israeli army announced on Saturday the death of two soldiers during an operation in the Shejaiya neighborhood of Gaza City.

In a statement, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said the two soldiers, aged 20 and 21 respectively, were killed on Friday in separate incidents in Shejaiya.

The military said the operation led to the location of a weapons warehouse at a school and ended with the deaths of “numerous terrorists.”

The announcement came a day after the Al Quds Brigades announced an attack on Israeli soldiers with a bomb planted in Shejaiya.

The armed wing of the Palestinian group Islamic Jihad claimed to have launched a mortar shell at a concentration of Israeli military vehicles that entered the neighborhood.

According to the Israeli army, the ground offensive against the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas in the Gaza Strip has so far caused the death of at least 318 soldiers.

The Saudi embassy in Lebanon has urged its citizens to leave the country immediately due to the risk of an “all-out war” between the Shiite movement Hezbollah and the Israeli army.

According to the Saudi state news agency SPA, on Saturday the embassy also appealed to all Saudi citizens to refrain from traveling to Lebanon due to clashes on the southern border with Israel.

Riyadh said it was closely following developments in Lebanon and urged the country’s citizens to remain in contact with the Saudi embassy in Beirut in case of any emergency situation.

The announcement comes after, in recent days, several countries – including the United States – advised their citizens not to travel to Lebanon for fear of a military escalation.

Hours earlier, Iran vowed to retaliate against Israel if the country moves forward with a “large-scale” offensive against Hezbollah in Lebanon.

in a publication on the social network (formerly Twitter), the Iranian mission to the United Nations (UN) in New York said that if Israel “embarks on large-scale military aggression” in Lebanon, “a destructive war” will follow.

Although Iran considers the Zionist regime’s propaganda about its intention to attack Lebanon a psychological war, if it embarks on large-scale military aggression, it will lead to an annihilating war. All options, incl. The full participation of all Resistance Fronts is on the table.

— IRIRAN Mission to the UN, New York (@Iran_UN) June 28, 2024

He warned that all options are now on the table, including the involvement of all members of the axis of resistance, which includes Iran and its allies.

Following the attack launched by Hamas on October 7 against Israel, Hezbollah opened a front in northern Israel, in support of the Palestinian movement.

Since then, fighting has taken place almost daily in the border areas.

On Wednesday, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said Israel does not want a war with Hezbollah in Lebanon, but stressed that the country has “the ability to return Lebanon to the Stone Age” in the event of a conflict.