Elon Musk stepped down as head of the Department of Government Efficiency. What remains after him?
What did Elon Musk get from DOGE – and what’s next?
UN demands probe as Israeli forces kill more people near aid site in Gaza
As the UN demands an independent investigation into the repeated mass shootings of aid seekers in the strip, Israeli forces have opened fire on Palestinians who were trying to get humanitarian aid from a distribution center in Gaza, killing at least three people and injuring more than 30.
According to health officials and witnesses, the shooting broke out at sunrise on Monday at the same Israeli-backed aid facility in southern Gaza where soldiers had opened fire the day before.
From Deir el-Balah in central Gaza, according to Al Jazeera’s Tareq Abu Azzoum, “The Israeli military opened fire on civilians without any kind of warning,” the report read.
International aid organizations have widely condemned this pattern because it makes it harder for the government to act on its own without making it possible for those in desperate need to receive humanitarian aid.
Witnesses claimed that Israeli drones and quadcopter drones regularly monitor aid facilities run by Israel’s and the US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF).
According to Hisham Mhanna, a spokesperson for the International Committee of the Red Cross, about 50 people were shot in the most recent shooting, of which two were killed upon arrival. The majority of the time had been struck by shrapnel or bullets. A third body was transported to Khan Younis’ Nasser Hospital.
Moataz al-Feirani, 21, claimed he was shot in the leg as he and thousands of others approached the food truck.
He told The Associated Press that “we had nothing,” adding that surveillance drones circled overhead and that “the Israeli military” were keeping an eye on us. He claimed that the shooting broke out around 5:30 am (02:30 GMT) close to the Flag Roundabout.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres demanded an independent investigation into the widespread massacre of Palestinians on Monday in response to the pattern of deadly violence that has erupted around the GHF aid distribution site.
Palestinians risking their lives for food, he said, is unacceptable. “I demand that these events be investigated immediately and independently, and that those responsible be held accountable.”
Israeli soldiers fired “warning shots” at people who “posed a threat,” according to the Israeli military, who has denied targeting civilians.
The GHF has also denied that the shootings took place, despite the fact that Jake Wood, its founding executive director, left before operations even started after he questioned the organization’s “impartiality” and “independence.”
Critics claimed that the group uses its aid concentration in the south to avoid well-established international organizations as a cover for Israel’s wider campaign to depopulate northern Gaza.
After Israel partially lifted a total siege that for more than two months shut down more than two million people from receiving food, water, fuel, and medicine, aid is still only trickling in from Gaza.
The UN has previously warned that a large number of children are at risk of perishing from hunger-related causes.
At least 51 people were killed in 24 hours.
Israeli airstrikes remained retaliatory over residential areas throughout the area.
According to the Palestinian Civil Defense Agency, Israeli forces attacked a home in Jabalia in northern Gaza, killing 14 people, including seven children. At least 20 people were still encased beneath the rubble.
Another attack in Deir el-Balah claimed the lives of two more Palestinians and injured several others, according to the Palestinian news agency Wafa, and a drone strike in Khan Younis claimed the lives of two more.
In the most recent 24-hour reporting period, the Gaza-based Ministry of Health reported that at least 51 Palestinians had died and 503 had been hurt in Israeli-related attacks alone.
Israel’s military ordered the displacement of even more civilians from Khan Younis on Monday despite receiving more international condemnation and admonition to use “great force.”
As Gaza’s 2.3 million residents are crammed into an ever-diminishing patch of land near the Egyptian border, roughly 80% of the strip is currently either under Israeli military control or designated for forced evacuation, according to new data from the Financial Times.
As officials who publicly support “voluntary migration” plans, Israel has kept its intentions a secret about its intention to permanently relocate the population of Gaza.
According to The Financial Times, the areas Palestinians are being shoved into resemble a “desert wasteland without running water, electricity, or even hospitals.”
In evacuated areas, Israeli forces positioned military installations and cleared land.
According to analysts who examined dozens of recent forced evacuation orders, the trend has gotten worse since the end of a truce in March.
Political analyst Xavier Abu Eid told Al Jazeera, “The Israeli government has been very clear about what their plan is about in Gaza.”
Colorado rally attack suspect charged with federal hate crime in US
According to an affidavit from the US Department of Justice, a Colorado man has been charged with a federal hate crime for his alleged involvement in an attack on a pro-Israeli rally in Boulder that left eight people injured.
After the Boulder attack on Sunday that targeted a group that wanted to raise awareness of hostages held in Hamas’ 2023 attack on Israel, Mohamed Sabry Soliman was already facing a number of state charges, including attempted murder.
The suspect, according to US Attorney General Pam Bondi, will be held legally accountable for what is referred to as an “antisemitic terror attack.”
Soliman, 45, claimed in the affidavit that he had been planning the attack for more than a year. Near the suspect’s detention location, investigators discovered 14 Molotov cocktails fueled by gasoline or gasoline.
A weed sprayer filled with gasoline was also discovered at the scene along with a petrol canister in his nearby car. According to Oliman, he claimed to have learned how to create firebombs from YouTube.
The affidavit makes reference to a video that Soliman was seen holding what appeared to be Molotov cocktails while he was a victim of the attack on social media during which he was “shirtless, pacing back and forth.”
According to official records, the suspect told police he “wanted to kill all Zionist people and wished they were all dead” while being held in lieu of $10 million bail.
The violent outburst at the popular Pearl Street pedestrian mall, a four-block stretch of Boulder, came as a result of Israel’s ongoing conflict with Gaza, which has heightened anti-Semitic violence in the country.
Just one week after a man who also yelled “Free Palestine” was accused of fatally shooting two Israeli embassy employees outside a Jewish museum in Washington, the attack took place at the beginning of the Jewish holiday of Shavuot, which is observed with the reading of the Torah.
“Millions of people like this,” said one.
In Colorado Springs, a city that is 100 miles south of Boulder, Soliman and his wife and their five children reside, according to the complaint. According to the affidavit, he said he planned to start the attack after his daughter graduated.
Few more details about him were made available.
Soliman had an expired work permit and a long-overstayed tourist visa, according to US Immigration and Customs Enforcement acting director Todd Lyons.
Federal documents, which mention the Department of Homeland Security, did not mention his nationality, but the New York Times reported that he was Egyptian.
The Departments of Homeland Security and Justice did not respond to requests for comment. The FBI’s Denver office, which is in charge of the case, did not respond to emails or phone calls seeking more information right away.
The County Sheriff’s Office, Boulder County Jail,  , Boulder County Jail,  , Boulder County, Police andnbsp, Boulder County, and other agencies did not immediately respond to inquiries.
At a press conference in Boston, Lyons stated that there are millions of people like this who were allowed into the previous administration because they weren’t properly screened. That’s a significant effort, in my opinion, right now.
Under former US President Joe Biden, ICE placed a high priority on arrests of serious criminals and demanded that officers take humanitarian considerations into account when making arrests.
A Department of Homeland Security spokesperson previously stated Soliman had entered the country in August 2022 and had applied for asylum the following month. Lyons declined to provide additional information. The spokesperson claimed that the suspect, Mohamed Soliman, is not authorized to reside in our nation.
Biden received criticism for the incident from President Donald Trump.
Trump referred to the horrific attack in Boulder, Colorado as a “terrible tragedy” and declared that it “Won’t be tolerated in the United States of America.”
Soliman entered the country on the grounds of “Biden’s ridiculous Open Border Policy.”
He wrote, “This is yet another illustration of why we must deport illegal, anti-American radicals from our country” and keep our borders safe.
According to Boulder police, four women and four men aged between 52 and 88 were taken to hospitals following the attack.
In conjunction with an event organized by Run for Their Lives, a group devoted to raising awareness of the hostages taken in the wake of Hamas’ 2023 attack on Israel, the attack took place on the Pearl Street Mall, a well-known pedestrian shopping district close to the University of Colorado.
The 88-year-old victim was a Holocaust refugee who had fled Europe, according to Rabbi Yisroel Wilhelm, the Chabad director at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
No ceasefire breakthrough after Russia-Ukraine peace talks in Istanbul
No ceasefire agreement has been reached between Russia and Ukraine, but prisoners and fallen soldiers have been exchanged in Istanbul. The discussions took place in recent days as both sides launched more aggressive attacks.
German court rules asylum seekers unlawfully expelled at Polish border
In a decision challenging Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s aggressive new migration policy, a Berliner court has determined that Germany violated the country’s asylum system by deporting three Somali nationals at its border with Poland.
At a train station in Frankfurt an der Oder, a city on the eastern border of Germany, border police turned the three asylum seekers back.
In a statement released on Monday, the court stated that the applicants could not ask for more than border crossings to enter Germany. The rejection was unlawful because Germany was required to process their claims, they continued.
Officials resisted the asylum seekers’ refusal because of their “safe third country” status.
However, the court determined that the expulsion was unlawful in accordance with Dublin regulations, which require that Germany determine whether or not it is a responsible state under the agreement.
It is Merz’s first legal ruling since his conservative-led coalition’s inauguration in February, helping to boost the far-right Alternative for Germany, the nation’s second-largest political force in parliament.
Alexander Dobrindt, the interior minister, defended the deportations, claiming that pressure was putting pressure on the asylum system. The figures are excessive. He continued, “We are sticking to our practice,” he told reporters, adding that the court would be given legal justifications for the government’s position.
In doubt about immigration policies
However, the ruling was quickly seized upon by opposition lawmakers. Merz’s government suffered “a severe defeat,” according to Irene Mihalic of the Greens, who claimed that it used its powers “for populist purposes.”
She claimed that the border blockades offended our European neighbors by rejecting the European Dublin system.
According to Karl Kopp, managing director of Pro Asyl, an advocacy group for immigrants, the Somalis’ expulsion reflects an “unlawful practice of national unilateral action” in terms of asylum policy, and they must be sent back to Germany, according to Reuters.
Additionally, the decision doubts Merz’s wider migration strategy. His government issued a directive in May to retaliate against undocumented migrants seeking asylum at Germany’s borders, a marked change from former German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s more diplomatic approach to the 2015 migrant crisis.
A bloc-wide mechanism, which would allow member states to reject asylum seekers who pass through a “safe” third country, was suggested by the European Commission last month. The measure is still awaiting approval from the European legislature and the national parliaments, which have been criticized by rights groups.
PSG victory sparks deadly Paris riots
Following Paris Saint-Germain’s first-ever Champions League victory, riots erupted in Paris, killing two people, injuring nearly 200, and injuring more than 500. The Champs-Élysées were engulfed by police who shot tear gas at crowds as looting, fires, and clashes broke out.