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US-Israeli genocide in Gaza

More Palestinians are killed as Israeli occupation forces launch fresh airstrikes targeting several areas across the besieged Gaza Strip. In the latest attacks, two Palestinians were killed and several others injured in a bombing targeting a school sheltering displaced people in the Zeitoun neighborhood, southeast of Gaza City. Gaza’s Health Ministry says 95 people have been killed since Friday, bringing the total death toll to nearly 36,400. Meanwhile, the al-Qassam brigades have published footage of its operations against Israeli forces in the Jabalia refugee camp. The footage shows resistance fighters hitting Israeli forces using anti-fortification TBG rockets. Israel says five of its soldiers have been killed in the latest clashes in northern Gaza. The regime has admitted that nearly 600 of its soldiers have been killed in Gaza since the beginning of ground invasion last year. But the resistance forces say the actual figure is much higher than that.

Crackdown on pro-Palestine protests

US police have arrested at least 80 students at the University of California, Santa Cruz as part of their ongoing crackdown against pro-Palestine protesters on university and college campuses. Riot-geared police on Friday entered the university, encircled the protesters and cleared their encampment. Authorities claim, the police were called in after the students refused to heed repeated warnings to clear the encampment and barricades at the main entrance to the campus. Meanwhile, graduate student workers at the university have continued their industrial action that began last week over the mistreatment of pro-Palestinian demonstrators. Academic institutions in the US have witnessed sit-ins and encampments since mid-April against the Israeli genocide in Gaza. The protests that began in the University of Columbia spread to campuses not only in the US but elsewhere in the world.

Iran presidential vote

Iran is gearing up for a presidential election, with more candidates registering for the race to attain the country’s highest executive post. On the third day of the registration process, several political figures filed their nominations. They include Tehran Mayor Alireza Zakani and Iranian lawmaker Masoud Pezeshkian. In the first two days, a number of other applicants from across the political spectrum wrote down their names. Among them were former parliament speaker Ali Larijani, ex-legislator Mostafa Kavakebian, and former chief nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili. The registration of candidates will continue until Monday. After that, Iran’s Guardian Council, which is in charge of overseeing elections, will vet the hopefuls. Iranians will go to the polls on June 28 to choose a successor to late President Ebrahim Raeisi. He and his entourage lost their lives in a copter crash in northwest Iran on May 19.

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