Israel says IDF forces have rescued four hostages from Gaza. They are in good medical condition, Israeli authorities said. The hostages, who were captured by Hamas from the Nova music festival in October, were named as Noa Argamani, 25, Almog Meir Jan, 21, Andrey Kozlov, 27, and Shlomi Ziv, 40.

Tamer Qarmout, associate professor of public policy at Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, says Israel is “making Hamas and Gaza pay the price by pushing further into Deir el-Balah and Rafah” with the latest attack in central Gaza.

He told Al Jazeera the Israelis are aiming for “another massive push” to pressure Hamas into accepting the deal without any guarantees for a permanent ceasefire.

“What we’ve been hearing from many military analysts is that Rafah and the middle governorate [Deir el-Balah] are the last areas where the Israeli forces did not fully occupy or enter and destroy,” Qarmout said.

“They claim that there is a small brigade, or two brigades, of Hamas’s forces so they want to also do a complete job or, as they advocate, for a full victory by entering every inch of the Gaza Strip and rooting out Hamas. The price is horrific.”

Israeli forces have launched air raids in the vicinity of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir el-Balah, leaving some killed and wounded.
Israeli air strikes and artillery shelling also targeted areas east of the Maghazi camp in central Gaza and homes west of the city of Rafah in southern Gaza.
The attacks have also affected communication networks in the area. We’ll bring you more on these attacks as soon as we can.
We can now bring you more on the intense Israeli attacks on central Gaza.
Journalist Hind Khoudary shares this update from Deir el-Balah in central Gaza:
“Explosions are happening every minute. Ambulances are transferring the wounded to the hospital where we are trapped. It’s a chaos inside the hospital. There are children among the wounded. “We can hear artillery shelling. No one knows what’s happening outside but we know that over a million people have evacuated Rafah for central Gaza and there are hundreds of thousands on the streets, terrified and horrified. They don’t know where to go.”

Increasingly, war is changing Ukraine’s labor force.
A suspension of a law that banned women from working in dangerous or harmful industries, and a deficit of men as they’ve been called up, has led to more women working in industries previously closed off to them.

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will add Israel to a global list of offenders for committing violations against children. Israel’s envoy to the UN, Gilad Erdan, said he was “utterly shocked and disgusted by this shameful decision”. He added that Israel’s military is the “most moral army in the world”. The global list is included in a report on children and armed conflict that is due to be submitted to the UN Security Council on June 14.

The prime minister has faced criticism for leaving the 80th anniversary D-Day commemorations early to record a TV interview that's due to go out next week.
Rishi Sunak has since apologized - saying that "on reflection" leaving early "was a mistake", but also that it shouldn't be politicized.
Niall Paterson looks at how damaging this misstep is for Mr Sunak with Claire Pearsall, former Conservative special adviser at the Home Office, and Joe Twyman, the co-founder of the polling company Deltapoll.
Plus, our chief political correspondent Jon Craig tells us just how big of a political blunder it was.

A warning that some will find this report distressing.
Myanmar’s military junta government is facing an armed challenge to its rule in several parts of the country. In the Chin state in the west of Myanmar, ethnic resistance groups have managed to push the military junta out of several areas near the country’s western border and battles are currently raging as they fight to gain control of more territory.
The BBC has had rare access to the state and has seen evidence of how the Burmese army has launched a campaign of torture, abduction, and murder to stop youngsters from joining rebel fighters. Myanmar’s military is yet to respond to the BBC’s questions about these allegations.
The BBC’s Yogita Limaye reports from western Myanmar.

US President Joe Biden makes a speech about freedom and democracy on a rugged stretch of coast which was the scene of the D-Day landings in France 80 years ago.

US President Joe Biden offered an apology and a promise of an additional $225 million in aid to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy during a meeting in Paris. The two leaders were in France for D-Day commemorations.

Last June, the leader of a Sikh temple outside Vancouver stood before his congregation and delivered a dark prediction: agents of the Indian government were plotting to kill him. The leader, Hardeep Singh Nijjar, believed Indian spies were targeting him because he advocated for a separate state for Sikhs in India. He urged his followers to continue his activism after he was gone.
When Hardeep left the temple that evening, a white sedan blocked his path. Two armed men jumped out of the car and shot him multiple times at close range. Still, some outside observers thought it was far-fetched that India would risk its diplomatic and economic relationships with the United States and Canada to silence an activist like Nijjar. But since his death, evidence supporting his darkest predictions has continued to emerge.
On this episode of Fault Lines: India’s alleged assassination plots in North America—and the global rise in transnational repression.

Within the past couple of hours, there was a clear intensification by Israeli bombardments across multiple areas, and in particular, again, evacuation centers are the target.
The Israeli army has targeted an evacuation center, a UN-run school in the Shati refugee camp in Gaza City. At least three Palestinians have been killed, while 15 others were wounded.
The reality sounds grim on the ground as these attacks continued to destroy residential buildings, specifically in the southern part of Gaza, where more than 10 Palestinians from the same family have been killed in Khan Younis city after the house was completely reduced to the rubble.
But we have also been hearing loud explosions in Deir el-Balah town, where at least two Palestinians were reported killed after being directly hit by a drone missile after they were just trying to get back to their houses.
The hospital right now is struggling to deal with the patients and even the wounded people who arrived at the hospital within the past couple of hours, as the medical situation is completely very dire and apocalyptic because there is a profound severe shortage of all kinds of basic supplies.
The number of casualties might accelerate and rise within the coming hours.

When you say Gaza, what do you see? What images come to mind? For many people, it will be the death and destruction of the last few months. But there is another side to Gaza that its inhabitants are keen to highlight - its beauty.
And remember that now is its form of resistance. Stunning sunsets. Families were picnicking on the beach. Teenagers riding horses through cobbled streets. The destruction of a people - genocide - comes through the destruction of its culture and living space. As the International Court of Justice examines the case against Israel, we remember Gaza in all its glory to remind us all of the true picture of Palestine’s coastal lands.

Each of the last 12 months has become the hottest ever on record and the UN Secretary-General has warned that countries must act on the climate crisis within the next year and a half. This week Audie talks to Bill Weir, CNN’s Chief Climate Correspondent, about how the climate crisis will affect water supply, and why we should all be thinking about what the future of sustainable water usage looks like. Then, Audie chats with two water experts: Fabiola Sosa Rodriguez, Head of Economic Growth and Environment at the Metropolitan Autonomous University in Mexico City, where they could run out of water this month. Christine Colvin, Water Policy Lead at the World Wildlife Fund, was in South Africa during a water crisis that almost turned off the taps.

US President Joe Biden has drawn parallels between Russia's invasion of Ukraine and World War Two, in a speech commemorating the 80th anniversary of D-Day.
He described the conflict as being part of an unending struggle between dictatorship and freedom.
On 6 June 1944, tens of thousands of soldiers landed on five beaches in Normandy, northern France. The largest amphibious invasion in the history of warfare played a crucial role in the defeat of Nazi Germany. Other leaders present at ceremonies on Thursday included French President Emmanuel Macron, King Charles III, and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

More are seeking treatment for "aerophobia" - or the fear of flying - since the SQ321 turbulence incident last month. While aviation experts reassure that flying remains among the safest forms of travel, some service providers say they have seen a spike in people seeking to address this fear. Aslam Shah reports.

An Israeli air strike on a UN school packed with hundreds of displaced people in central Gaza has killed at least 27 people, local officials say.
The Israeli military said it carried out a strike on a UN school that housed a "Hamas compound".
Local journalists told the BBC that an Israeli warplane fired two missiles at classrooms on the top floor of the school in the Nuseirat refugee camp.
The Hamas media office has accused Israel of committing a "horrific massacre".
In a statement, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said jets had conducted a "precise strike on a Hamas compound embedded inside an Unrwa school in the area of Nuseirat".

Today marks the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings which were a turning point in the Second World War and ultimately led to the Allied victory over Nazi Germany.
On this episode, Niall Paterson sits down with historian and security analyst Professor Michael Clarke to talk about why the beachheads in Normandy were so critical, his father's experience there, what happened next in the war, and why there are parallels between now and then as Vladimir Putin threatens Europe. Plus, Royal correspondent Rhiannon Mills on the events in Normandy today commemorating D-Day.

Five people aged between 39 and 93 have been taken to Raffles Hospital following an accident involving a Tower Transit bus and a trailer truck. The accident happened at the junction of Jalan Besar and Ophir Road. Bus service 857 was involved in the accident along with a flatbed trailer carrying rebars. Chloe Teo reports.

Israeli forces have bombed a residential building and a UN school that was sheltering forcibly displaced Palestinians in the Nuseirat Refugee Camp in central Gaza.
At least 40 people have been killed.

Elon Musk's Space X has launched its nearly 120m-tall Starship after three failed attempts which have seen it disintegrate or explode.
The test is key in helping NASA reach its goal of returning people to the moon this decade.

Two newly elected Indian MPs will be serving their constituents from jail.
A detained Sikh separatist and a former state legislator in Indian-administered Kashmir are among those to win seats in parliament after an election that now forces the governing BJP to seek coalition partners.
The Indian government has failed to give visas to Al Jazeera’s correspondents to cover this story. So, we're covering the election from outside the country.

Indonesia has imposed the highest alert level on its Halmahera island as the Mount Ibu volcano continues to erupt.
Several villages have been evacuated. Thousands of people are now living in temporary shelters.

Israeli forces have bombed a United Nations-linked school in central Gaza, killing at least 32 displaced Palestinians and injuring dozens more according to officials and local media.

17 countries including the United States have released a joint statement, calling on Israel and Hamas to do whatever is necessary to agree on a ceasefire deal.
They also want the captives being held in Gaza to be freed.
Al Jazeera's Alan Fisher has more details from Washington, DC.
The Israeli government has banned Al Jazeera from reporting in Israel, so that's why Imran Khan is following developments from the Jordanian capital, Amman.
He talks us through the joint statement.

About 90 percent of children in Gaza lack nutrition and face “severe” threats to their “survival, growth and development”, according to the United Nations children’s agency, UNICEF.
A report, published by UNICEF on Thursday, laid bare the “catastrophic impact” of Israel’s offensive on the enclave, which has caused the “collapse” of food and health systems, finding that one in 10 children survived on “two or fewer food groups per day” between December last year and April this year. Alexandra Rutishauser-Perera is Head of Nutrition for Action Against Hunger UK.
She says the war in Ukraine is putting further pressure on food prices.