Monday, June 9, 2025

2025 Gaza Strip aid distribution incidents

According to the Gaza Health Ministry, fourteen Palestinians are killed and 150 others are injured by Israeli gunfire at an aid distribution site near Rafah, Gaza. The total death toll from shootings at aid distribution sites increases to 136 with hundreds others wounded.

Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip

A convoy of 300 buses and cars departs from Tunis, Tunisia to Gaza to spotlight Israel's blockade on humanitarian aid. The group, organized independently, includes 7,000 lawyers, medical professionals and activists from North Africa.

Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip

The Israeli Navy seizes the June 2025 Gaza Freedom Flotilla's flagship vessel, the United Kingdom-flagged Madleen, and takes its occupants (including Swedish activist Greta Thunberg and MEP Rima Hassan) to Israel. The humanitarian aid the ship was carrying en route to Gaza will still be sent into Gaza.

June 2025 Los Angeles protests

U.S. president Donald Trump orders the deployment of roughly 500 Marines to Los Angeles to protect federal buildings amid the ongoing riots in Los Angeles, California.

June 2025 Los Angeles protests

The U.S. state of California sues the Donald Trump administration for deploying the National Guard to Los Angeles.

June 2025 Los Angeles protests

The city of Glendale ends a contract with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to house federal immigration detainees.

2025 Ballymena riots

Two police cars and multiple properties are damaged in Ballymena, Northern Ireland, with 15 police officers being injured and one rioter arrested amid riots which broke out after two Romanian teenagers were charged for the attempted rape of a teenage girl.

Justice

A court in Prague, Czech Republic, sentences a Colombian national to eight years in prison over a 2024 arson attack on public buses and for planning another similar attack. Czech prime minister Petr Fiala says the arson attack is part of Russia's hybrid war against his country.

Justice

The U.S. Treasury Department imposes sanctions on Iván Archivaldo Guzmán Salazar and his brother Jesús Alfredo Guzmán Salazar, El Chapo's sons who are believed to be in Mexico and leading factions of the Sinaloa Cartel.

2025 Gerik bus crash

Fifteen people are killed and 33 others are injured in a traffic collision when a bus carrying students loses control and crashes into the back of a minivan on the East–West Highway near Gerik, Perak, Malaysia.

Disasters

Five people are killed, including an on duty railway police constable, and seven others are injured when passengers get thrown off two overcrowded local trains at the Mumbra railway station near Mumbra in Thane, Maharashtra, India.

Disasters

The Indian Coast Guard rescues 18 crew members from a Singaporean-flagged container ship after it catches fire following an explosion 144 km (89 mi) off the coast of Kerala, India. Search operations are underway for the missing four crew members.