The Israeli occupation kills a number of Palestinians in attacks on central and northern Gaza. | On the 240th day of the genocidal war against Gaza, the Israeli occupation continued to carry out strikes and artillery shelling across the Strip with a focus on Rafah, where the intensity of the bombing increased amid the ongoing invasion of the region. ● In Rafah, Israeli airstrikes targeted the Brazil neighborhood in the southern part of the city, injuring several Palestinians and destroying a number of homes. ● The occupation heavily shelled the al-Halal Market area and the Qishta neighborhood in southern Rafah, while a house belonging to the Abu Sha'ar family was also shelled in Tel Al-Sultan in the western part of the city.

■ Live blog: Over 120 Palestinian bodies recovered after Israel left Jabalia (TRT World)
■ 'Israel' commits gruesome massacre in Rafah alleged safe zone (Al Mayadeen)
■ Gaza death toll from Israeli operations exceeds 36,400 - Health Ministry (TASS)
■ Netanyahu ‘dragging our region, entire world into disaster,’ must be stopped: Turkish President Erdogan (Anadolu)

The Israeli occupation starves a 13-year-old child to death in Gaza as human rights violations continue to escalate against the people of Palestine. | Once again, the Israeli occupation shows its true colors as it starved a 13-year-old Palestinian boy in Gaza to death due to its closure of the Rafah humanitarian corridor, underlining the ever-worsening humanitarian crisis in the blockaded, war-torn strip. ● The child, Abdul Qader al-Sarhi, succumbed to malnutrition at al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir al-Balah, according to a report by Palestine’s official news agency WAFA. ● Local medical sources reported that the death toll from malnutrition and dehydration in the Gaza Strip has now risen to 37 as the Israeli occupation's aggression continues unabated in the southern city of Rafah. The dire health situation in Gaza has deteriorated further, with hospitals all over the strip being out of service and unable to provide necessary medical care.

Robert Inlakesh | Israel’s claim to have lost control over military units in Gaza is an attempt to gain legal cover for its troops’ war crimes and masks a far deeper issue of systemic impunity inside the occupation army. | Several months after media commentators began predicting a “strategic defeat” for Israeli forces in Gaza, Israel’s military high command is claiming it has lost control over various units in their armed forces. ■ The argument appears to scapegoat occupation soldiers to provide plausible deniability for their superiors and dissociate them from war crimes charges. The vast body of evidence emerging on these alleged ‘rogue Israeli units’ could potentially lead to a damning indictment of Tel Aviv’s military leadership. ■ Despite the International Court of Justice’s (ICJ) recent call on Israel to halt its military operation in Gaza’s southernmost city of Rafah, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu remains resolute in his vow to invade, even while personally facing an International Criminal Court (ICC) arrest warrant. Marred by internal division and pressure to comply with the ICJ order, Tel Aviv finds itself in a precarious position.

👉 Israeli Defense Minister: "We have abolished all the rules of war. Our soldiers will not be held responsible for anything. There will be no military courts” (10/12/23)

■ Gaza civilians voice out their chilling encounters with Israeli torture (TRT World)
■ Tied, diapered, beaten: Israeli insiders reveal severe Palestinian torture (TRT World)
■ Gaza Al-Shifa doctor tortured to death by Israeli forces (Al Mayadeen)
■ 3,000+ Palestinians from Gaza detained, tortured in Israeli prisons (04/16/24)
■ Horrifying cases of torture and degrading treatment of Palestinian detainees, spike in arbitrary arrests (04/13/24)
■ Released Detainees From Israeli Prisons Showed Signs of Torture (03/18/24)
■ Torture, Executions, Babies Left to Die, Sexual Abuse… These Are Israel’s Crimes (03/18/24)
■ Iron bars, electric shocks, dogs and cigarette burns: How Palestinians are tortured in Israeli detention (03/12/24)
■ Horrifying cases of torture and degrading treatment of Palestinian detainees amid spike in arbitrary arrests

Farah Hajj Hassan | Al Mayadeen English spoke to women in Iran to investigate where they stand on women's issues in the country as well as whether they are truly "celebrating" their president's demise. What they told us may shock you if you only follow Western media outlets. | As Iranians flooded the streets to mourn the loss of their late President Ebrahim Raisi, mainstream Western governments, and media sources attempted to massively downplay the great sadness that gripped Iran following the unfortunate event. ■ Raisi, alongside Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian and others, tragically died in a helicopter crash on May 19 while en route to Tabriz. Following the accident, millions gathered for funeral processions all over Iran from Tabriz to Qom and Tehran. ■ The leader of the Islamic Revolution and the Islamic Republic of Iran, Sayyed Ali Khamenei, announced that the large turnout of Iranian people at funeral processions for the late President Ebrahim Raisi demonstrates the nation's unwavering loyalty to the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

■ Iran Mourns, Western Media Distorts: The Martyrdom of President Raisi (Marwa Osman)

Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel told former NAID Director Anthony Fauci to “fake a pandemic” just one month before the COVID-19 pandemic was unleashed. | Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel told former NAID Director Anthony Fauci to “fake a pandemic” just one month before the COVID-19 pandemic was unleashed.

💬 “At the end of the day we talked to Tony [Fauci] about something I’ve always been passionate about, which is outbreak and pandemic readiness because I knew the mRNA technology could go so fast,” Bancel can be heard admitting in the video. ● Infowars.com reports: “And so I say one day we should mock up an outbreak where you guys send us by email a sequence of a virus you pick and we start the clock watch and we see how quickly we can give you GNP dose to get into the clinic.” ● “You guys take into the clinic, and I told them we should be able to do that in less than 60 days, and they were all laughing, saying you cannot do a GNP product in less than 60 days.”

Bancel also explained how his visit to the World Economic Forum’s annual Davos Summit in 2020 left him believing a pandemic of some kind was imminent. [He] also revealed Moderna’s “woke” company culture after admitting the company put the brakes on vaccine trials because there were “too many white people in the study.”

Mike Whitney | Let’s summarize:

The point that Putin is trying to make is that the long-range missiles are made by NATO, furnished by NATO, operated and launched by NATO contractors, whose targets are selected by NATO experts using space reconnaissance data provided by NATO. In every respect, the prospective firing of long-range precision weapons at targets in Russia, is a NATO-US operation. Thus, there should be no confusion about who is responsible. NATO is responsible which means that NATO is effectively declaring war on Russia [emphasis by this editor]. Putin’s lengthy comments merely underscore this critical point.

■ No One Can Rule Out A Transition of the Conflict to Its Final Stage (05/31/24)
■ Vladimir Putin Calls For Full Mobilization (05/31/24)
■ Biden secretly allows Ukraine strikes on Russia: Officials (05/31/24)

On Friday, day 239 of Israel’s onslaught on the tiny coastal territory known as the Gaza Strip, a place that is home to 2.4 million Palestinians, Israeli forces continued their assault on the civilian population of Gaza by land, sea and air, killing and maiming a number of Palestinians. [...] A correspondent with the Palestinian Wafa news agency said that the occupation aircraft bombed a house near Al-Ghafri Junction on Al-Jalaa Street in Gaza City, which led to the death of a number of citizens, including journalist Ola Al-Dahdouh, and the wounding of other citizens. ● The occupation aircraft also carried out a raid on the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood, southeast of Gaza City, with an unknown number of casualties. ● Earlier on Friday, after Israeli forces withdrew from Jabalia camp, ambulance and civil defense teams recovered the bodies of more than 70 Palestinians, including 20 children. Dozens of people are missing, who were known to be in the camp, and relatives and rescue crews are frantically searching for survivors among the rubble of homes, shelters, schools, and hospitals, none of which were spared from the Israeli military’s assault. Even the centers of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Refugees (UNRWA) were not spared the atrocities and crimes committed by the Israeli occupation. (Image: © Middle East Eye)

■ Israeli Forces Abduct 17, Injure Three, in the West Bank (IMEMC News)
■ War on Gaza: Jabalia left an 'unrecognisable' wasteland after Israeli assault (MEE)
■ UK denies medical treatment to critically injured children from Gaza (MEE)

Journalists may be detained by Europol | Anna Neistat, the legal director of the Clooney Foundation's Docket Project, says that the criminal code of some European countries has an article on "spreading war propaganda." The foundation is preparing requests to initiate proceedings in countries where such norms exist. ● If an arrest warrant is issued, journalists will be detained throughout Europe by the European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation (Europol). Read that again: Journalists will be detained by Europol. ● In addition: the names of journalists to be prosecuted are not disclosed, so a person may travel to said European country, unaware that there is an arrest warrant out for them. The foundation says they are "the most obvious Russian propagandists, the most prominent among them" but will not name who.

According to data released by the Russian Defense Ministry in March, more than 13,000 foreign mercenaries have arrived in Ukraine since February 2024.

Senior security official Dmitry Medvedev says Russia is not bluffing when it speaks of the possibility of using tactical nuclear weapons against Ukraine. | His warning came after the US and Germany became the latest allies to let Ukraine's military use Western-supplied weapons to strike targets inside Russia. 💬 "Russia regards all long-range weapons used by Ukraine as already being directly controlled by servicemen from NATO countries. This is no military assistance, this is participation in a war against us," Medvedev said. ● "And such actions could well become a casus belli (an act that provokes a war)." He said giving Kiev permission by the Western countries to use provided long-range weapons and ammunition to strike targets inside Russia will escalate the Ukraine war to its final stage.

■ No One Can Rule Out A Transition of the Conflict to Its Final Stage (05/31/24)
■ Vladimir Putin Calls For Full Mobilization (05/31/24)

Kiev has already prepared the necessary paperwork for foreign instructors on its military sites | The first group of French military instructors are on their way to Ukraine, senior Ukrainian MP Aleksey Goncharenko said on Friday. This comes just days after Ukraine’s top commander, Aleksandr Syrsky, announced that he had authorized the presence of French personnel in the country. [...] The idea of deploying NATO boots on the ground remains a contentious issue within the US-led alliance, whose members maintain that they are not parties to the conflict between Russia and Ukraine. Moscow has said that it views Ukraine’s Western backers as direct participants, stressing that Western-supplied weapons are being used to strike targets on Russian soil. ● In February, French President Emmanuel Macron said he could not rule out the possibility of NATO member states sending troops to Ukraine in the future, although French officials soon clarified that he meant non-combat personnel. Macron later argued that NATO should adopt a policy of “strategic ambiguity” towards Russia. The French leader has been working behind the scenes to forge a coalition of countries willing to dispatch trainers to Kiev, Bloomberg reported on Friday.

■ Macron wants France to ‘go to war with Russia’ – Le Pen (RT.com)

Attack drones are striking targets in Tatarstan, Russia! The distance from Ukraine is 1200 км! The strikes have hit the area of "Kazanorgsintez." Air raid sirens sounding in Kazan! | Just one day after illegitimate President Joe Biden "secretly gave permission" for Ukraine to use U.S.-supplied weapons to attack interior Russia ONLY NEAR KHARKIV, Drones have struck more than 1200 kilometers in the other direction, deep inside interior Russia as shown on the map ABOVE. In addition, drones also struck - and reportedly destroyed - an oil depot in Krasnodar, Russia. Damage to the oil refinery in Krasnodar is very significant.

■ Biden Allows Ukraine to Strike Russia "Near Kharkov" With US-Supplied Weapons (Sputnik News)
■ Europe prepares for war with Russia, Hungarian PM says (TASS)