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[1 image] Video released by Israeli police shows moment hostages are rescued
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The UN Security Council [3 link] adopted a resolution proposed by the United Statesfor a permanent ceasefire and release of the hostages in Gaza. The motion was adopted with 14 votes in favor and one abstention by Russia. Hamas said [4 link] it welcomed the resolutionand is ready to engage with mediators in negotiations to implement the measures.In Jerusalem, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken [5 link] met Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahuand told the Israeli leader that the US and other world leaders would stand behind the ceasefire proposal, according to the US State Department.Blinken is [6 link] expected to meet Tuesday with Benny Gantz, who resigned Sunday from the Israeli war cabinet after criticizing Netanyahu’s strategy in Gaza.More [7 link] details emergedof the Israeli operation Saturday that rescued four hostages held by Hamas but left many Palestinians dead. Gaza’s health ministry said [8 link] at least 274 peoplewere killed in the operation, a number CNN cannot verify.Our live coverage for the day has ended. Follow [9 link] the latest Israel-Hamas war newsor read through the updates below.
[10 image] Israel’s representative to the United Nations said Monday that her country will continue its operation in Gaza and won’t engage in “meaningless and endless negotiations” that she said would be exploited by Hamas.
Reut Shapir Ben-Naftaly’s comments at a UN Security Council meeting focused on ending the conflict in Gaza followed a vote to [11 link] adopt a resolution proposed by the United Statesfor a permanent ceasefire and release of the hostages.
It was adopted with 14 votes in favor and one abstention, by Russia. Israel is not currently a member of the UNSC, and so did not vote.
Ben-Naftaly emphasized that Israel wants to “ensure that Gaza doesn’t pose a threat to Israel in the future” and the importance for Israel to meet its goals in Gaza, such as “bringing hostages back home” and “dismantling Hamas’ capabilities.” Once these goals are met, “the war will end,” she said.
[12 image] Two days after an Israeli military operation [13 link] rescued four hostagesbeing held by Hamas in Nuseirat refugee camp, central Gaza, killing more than 270 Palestinians, according to Gaza health officials, new details are emerging about what was one of the most dramatic and deadly events since the war started.
The daytime rescue operation, which took weeks of planning, caught militants holding hostages in two different buildings in a densely packed civilian area off guard. It appeared to have been carried out by Israeli forces using non-military vehicles, including a white Mercedes van, according to eyewitnesses, whose accounts tallied with videos analyzed by CNN. Eyewitnesses also said that they saw Israeli forces in disguise – dressed as Hamas fighters or civilians.
“They were dressed in military uniforms like resistance fighters, carrying helmets and wearing signs of the [Hamas] resistance, giving the impression to people that they were resistance fighters, but in reality, they were an Israeli special forces unit,” Khalil Al Tirawi, a local resident, told CNN.
The Israeli military denied using civilian vehicles, but declined to say whether the officers conducting the rescue were disguised as militants or dressed as Palestinian civilians. The Israeli military had previously used civilian clothing as a tactic in its operations.
[14 link] Read more on Israel’s operation.
The Palestinian Authority welcomes [15 link] the resolution approved by the United Nations Security Councilon Monday, but it is in Israel’s hands to implement it, Palestinian UN envoy Riyad Mansour said.
The resolution is a “step in the right direction” and welcomed by “all Palestinians,” Mansour said.
The UN resolution says Israel has accepted the proposal.
Regarding the possibility of Hamas accepting or rejecting the deal, the Palestinian official said he “did not hear any Palestinian[say]anything but [16 link] to welcome this resolution.”
[17 image] Top US diplomat Antony Blinken arrived in Israel Monday — his eighth trip to the region since October 7 — to [18 link] speak to key playersand call on partners in the Middle East to “press Hamas to say yes” to a [19 link] proposaloutlining a permanent ceasefire in Gaza and release of hostages taken by Hamas. He [20 link] met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and is expected to meet Benny Gantz, a former war cabinet minister [21 link] who resigned over the weekend.
Meanwhile, the United Nations [22 link] Security Council passed a resolution voteon the US proposal for a permanent ceasefire and release of the hostages in Gaza on Monday. Hamas said later Monday that [23 link] it welcomed the resolution.
Here’s more of the latest headlines:
Update on freed hostages:Two of the four hostages [24 link] freed on Saturdayhave now [25 link] left the hospital, the Hostages Families Forum in Israel said, adding that Shlomi Ziv and Andrey Kozlov would be staying in a hotel for the next few nights. The Israeli police and the Israeli Security Agency have [26 link] released video recordedon a helmet camera of the moment the three male hostages were rescued in Gaza on Saturday.Update on Palestinian casualties:Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), also known as Doctors Without Borders [27 link] said in statement Mondayit “treated hundreds of severely injured patients, many of whom were children” after the Israeli operation at the Nuseirat camp killed at least 270 Palestinians and left about 700 wounded, according to Gaza health authorities.Aid operation were paused on US floating pier:The World Food Programme [28 link] paused its operationsat the US military’s floating temporary pier in Gaza pending the outcome of a comprehensive United Nations security assessment of aid worker safety, a spokesperson told CNN Monday. The pause went into effect after the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) [29 link] rescued four hostagesand left hundreds of Palestinians dead. The Pentagon acknowledged there was some Israeli military activity near the staging area for the pier, but denied the pier was used in the operation.Middle East tensions:An [30 link] Israeli drone operating over southern Lebanonwas shot down by a surface-to-air missile on Monday, according to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). Lebanon’s Iran-backed Islamist group Hezbollah said it carried out the attack against the Israeli drone “in support of our steadfast Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip.” [31 image] The United States ambassador to the United Nations is urging Hamas to accept the latest ceasefire proposal and hostage deal after the [32 link] UN Security Council voted overwhelmingly on Monday to support it.
The American representative, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, said Israel has agreed to the deal and “the fighting could stop today if Hamas would do the same. I repeat: the fighting could stop today.”
The Security Council adopted the US-drafted resolution with 14 votes in favor, zero against and one abstention by Russia.
The US ambassador outlined the framework of the deal that is divided into three phases and initially includes a ceasefire, the release of Israeli hostages and the exchange of Palestinian prisoners. Ultimately the deal would also implement a permanent end to hostilities and full withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gaza, the effective distribution of aid as well as a major multiyear reconstruction in the strip.
Thomas-Greenfield said the US will guarantee Israel follows through with its obligations while Egypt and Qatar will do the same with Hamas. The ambassador also said the deal “rejects any geographical changes” in Gaza and reiterates the commitment to a two-state solution.
[33 image] Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), also known as Doctors Without Borders, “treated hundreds of severely injured patients, many of whom were children,” it said in a statement on Monday after an Israeli operation at the Nuseirat camp killed at least 270 Palestinians and left about 700 wounded, according to Gaza health authorities.
The doctor spoke of several friends and acquaintances who had been killed. “The list is too long … and I will never see any of them again.”
The international non-governmental organization said it worked along with medical staff at Al-Aqsa and Nasser hospitals in Gaza.
The MSF doctor, who has lived in the Nuseirat camp since 2013, described living through “three hours of real terror and fear.” He said had gone to Al-Awda clinic in Deir al-Balah where he saw “dozens and dozens of people lying on the ground. Some of them were dead, others injured.”
“There were sounds of missiles and explosions everywhere. We didn’t know what was happening. Everyone was screaming and running away in every direction. We could hear the sirens from the ambulances. It felt as if it was the end of the world,” the doctor added.
[34 image] The Israeli agency responsible for approving humanitarian aid destined for Gaza says that, as of Monday, the equivalent of 1,000 truckloads of aid remain on the Gaza side of the Kerem Shalom crossing.
The Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) [35 link] said in a post on Xthat 197 aid trucks were transferred to Gaza on Monday.
That is 100 trucks more than on Sunday, according to COGAT.
United Nations agencies have frequently said that Israeli military operations in Gaza as well as the need to get approval for convoys inside the Strip have complicated their ability to distribute aid in much of Gaza.
COGAT says that since the beginning of the year, 88% of all coordination requests have been approved.
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said in its latest report that while the delivery of some fuel supplies had helped reduce the level of accumulated wastewater in the Sheikh Radwan area, “the lack of a steady flow of fuel creates a continued risk of sewage overflow into neighbouring areas.”
As of June 2, daily water production in the Gaza Strip stood at around 95,000 cubic meters per day, representing only 26% of water produced before October 2023.
Hamas said Monday that it welcomed the [36 link] United Nations Security Council resolutioncalling for a permanent cessation of hostilities in Gaza.
Hamas said in a statement soon after the vote that it was ready to engage with mediators in indirect negotiations to implement the measures approved by the UN Security Council such as the “complete withdrawal [of Israeli forces] from the Gaza Strip, prisoner exchange, reconstruction, the return of the displaced to their areas of residence, rejection of any demographic change or reduction in the area of the Gaza Strip, and the introduction of the necessary aid to our people in the Strip.”
The Security Council resolution, put forward by the United States, was approved by 14 votes to none.
Detailed negotiations to implement its provisions are yet to yield agreement on the part of both Israel and Hamas.
[37 image] The World Food Programme paused its operations at the United States military’s floating temporary pier in Gaza pending the outcome of a comprehensive United Nations security assessment of aid worker safety, a spokesperson told CNN Monday.
The pause went into effect after the Israel Defense Forces carried out [38 link] an operation in Gaza that rescued four hostagesheld by Hamas and left hundreds of Palestinians dead.
The Pentagon acknowledged there was some Israeli military activity near the staging area for the pier, but denied the pier was used in the operation.
A United States Agency for International Development spokesperson confirmed that “WFP has temporarily paused humanitarian maritime corridor operations as the UN conducts a security assessment following security incidents in recent days that have constrained the ability of humanitarian actors to safely operate.”
[39 image] The United Nations Security Council passed a resolution vote on the US proposal for a permanent ceasefire and release of the hostages in Gaza on Monday.
The resolution was adopted with 14 votes in favor, zero against, and one abstention by Russia.
Some background:The draft resolution, obtained by CNN on Monday, stated the Security Council: “Welcomes the new ceasefire proposal announced on May 31, which Israel accepted, calls upon Hamas to also accept it, and urges both parties to fully implement its terms without delay and without condition”
The Israeli police and the Israeli Security Agency have released video recorded on a helmet camera of the moment the three male hostages were rescued in Gaza on Saturday.
They described the video as being of the operation carried out by Yamam (Police National Counterterrorism Unit) and Shin Bet operatives “rescuing the hostages under heavy fire and eliminating Gaza terrorists.”
In a statement accompanying the video, which lasts some 45 seconds, they said that “Yamam and Shin Bet operatives worked simultaneously at two locations to rescue the four hostages, engaging in fierce combat with the terrorists.”
Part of the video is blurred. It shows Israeli security forces approaching a property through a garden and then entering amid heavy gunfire. CNN has geolocated the garden as at the same property where a Mercedes van purported to have been involved in the operation was located.
The video is edited and some audio is muted. It’s unclear whether it was all shot at one location. It shows the three male hostages rescued cowering in a room.
In the video, a voice says in Hebrew, “Here, they are here.”
“Name, name…,” says someone.
Two of the hostages identify themselves as Almog Meir Jan and Andrey Kozlov.
Based on the clothes they were wearing when rescued, the three hostages then appear to run through the garden of the property as gunfire continues.
Some background:On Saturday, the Israeli military [40 link] rescued four hostages, three men and a woman, in a special operation in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza – Noa Argamani, Almog Meir Jan, Andrey Kozlov, and Shlomi Ziv. All four were kidnapped from the Nova music festival on October 7.
[41 image] US Secretary of State Antony Blinken stressed to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that “the United States and other world leaders will stand behind” the proposal for a release of the hostages and an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.
Blinken has repeatedly emphasized that Israel has agreed to the proposal on the table, despite comments from Netanyahu suggesting otherwise.
In their meeting, Blinken “underscored the United States’ ironclad commitment to Israel’s security, including through ensuring October 7 can never be repeated,” according to a State Department readout of the meeting in Jerusalem.
The doctor in charge of medical treatment for the four Israeli hostages rescued Saturday said they were beaten while in Hamas captivity in Gaza.
“It was a harsh, harsh, experience, with a lot of abuse, almost every day,” Dr. Itai Pessach told CNN’s Paula Hancocks at the Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan outside Tel Aviv. “Every hour, both physical, mental, and other types, and that is something that is beyond comprehension.”
Pessach says the eight months spent in captivity “left a significant mark on their health” and despite appearing in good condition initially, they are all malnourished. “They had no protein, so their muscles are extremely wasted, there is damage to some other systems because of that.”
He says the hostages tell him they were moved several times, dealing with a number of different guards. The supply of food and water was unstable.
Dr. Pessach also treated some of the hostages released in a ceasefire deal back in November. He says the psychological damage of these four is more intense due to the length of time they were held.
[42 image] Former Israeli ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon is returning to his previous post at the UN to represent Israel, the Israeli Prime Minister’s office said in a statement Sunday.
Danon served as Israel’s envoy to the UN from 2015 to 2020.
When asked on Monday if Danon’s arrival means relations between the UN and Israel will change, UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said, “Hope springs eternal.” He added that Danon and UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres have a businesslike relationship.
Danon will replace Israeli Ambassador to the UN Gilad Erdan, who last week leaked on social media a video of him speaking to an apparent UN official.
Dujarric condemned the leaked message, saying the UN had never seen such an act in 25 years of service. Secretary-General Antònio Guterres has not spoken with Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu since the start of the war, he said.
Israeli UN mission spokesperson John Lavine said Erdan was finishing up his duties as announced in early June and was not leaving because of the recorded phone call.
“These are all completely independent events,” he told CNN.
The post was updated with a response from Israel’s UN Mission.
The Hostages Families Forum in Israel says that two of the four hostages [43 link] freed on Saturdayhave now left hospital.
The Forum said Monday that Shlomi Ziv and Andrey Kozlov had been discharged and would be staying in a hotel for the next few nights.
[44 image] An Israeli drone operating over southern Lebanon was shot down by a surface-to-air missile on Monday, according to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). The IDF confirmed that the aircraft was operating in Lebanese airspace at the time.
Lebanon’s Iran-backed Islamist group Hezbollah put out a statement about the incident, saying they carried out the attack against the Israeli drone “in support of our steadfast Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip.”
The IDF later stated that two other drones had also crossed into northern Israel from Lebanon on Monday. They fell in the north of the Golan Heights region and caused fire in the area of Moshav Sha’al, which has now been extinguished, the IDF said.
Israel and Hezbollah have recently ramped up cross-border attacks after months of low-intensity fighting, prompting the Israeli military to warn last week that it is prepared to launch a large-scale attack along its northern border.
In an earlier statement on Monday, the IDF also outlined that “numerous anti-tank missile launches were identified” toward several areas in northern Israel. They also said IDF artillery was fired to “remove threats” in the areas of Salhani, Ayta ash Shab and Hanine in southern Lebanon.
This post has been updated.
[45 image] The United Nations Security Council is expected to hold a vote for the US proposal for a permanent ceasefire and release of the hostages in Gaza at 3pm ET on Monday, according to a US official.
The vote is expected to pass, the same official said.
CNN obtained the latest draft of the US proposal, which states that the Security Council: “Welcomes the new ceasefire proposal announced on May 31, which Israel accepted, calls upon Hamas to also accept it, and urges both parties to fully implement its terms without delay and without condition.”
The United States called for a UNSC resolution backing the proposal on Sunday, with the spokesperson for the US Mission to the United Nations, Nate Evans saying it is in “opportunity to speak with one voice and call on Hamas to do the same.”
US President Biden took the unusual step at the end of last month of publicly outlining what he said were the details of Israel’s latest ceasefire offer to Hamas.
[46 image] US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has arrived in Israel as part of a diplomatic push to get Hamas to accept a ceasefire and hostage proposal that could lead to the end of the war.
The top US diplomat touched down in Tel Aviv on Monday following meetings earlier in the day in Cairo. He is slated to meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant on Monday.
Blinken arrives in Israel at a tenuous time, following the resignation of Benny Gantz from the Israeli war cabinet on Sunday. Blinken is expected to meet with Gantz on Tuesday.
He also arrives two days after an Israeli raid that rescued four hostages and left hundreds of Palestinians dead.
This is Blinken’s eighth trip to the region since the October 7 Hamas attack.
[47 image] US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has stressed that the best way to bring home American hostages held by Hamas is the ceasefire proposal currently on the table.
Speaking to reporters shortly before leaving Cairo, Blinken said the United States was focused on pressing Hamas for a hostage deal, when he was asked about an NBC report that the administration was considering negotiating for American hostages unilaterally.
Blinken noted that despite public rhetoric suggesting otherwise, the Israeli government had not only agreed to the proposal but they “were critical in putting it forward.”
“Let’s see if we get an answer from Hamas,” Blinken added. He said the proposal on the table is similar to what Hamas has agreed to in the past.
US officials have downplayed the idea that they would pursue a hostage release separate from Israel, telling CNN this is not something they plan to pursue at this time.
“We just don’t have any cards to play on this right now,” one of the officials said. As [48 link] CNN has reported, the families of the hostages have pushed the idea for months with the administration and have brought it up as recently as in the past few weeks.
CNN’s MJ Lee and Kylie Atwood contributed to this report.
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