News and Analysis 6/15/25

One volunteer “posted a video to social media while on a bus heading there, saying: ‘This is an emergency. We have just been violently dragged into the buses here at the first checkpoint on the way to Ismailia”:

• Shocking Moment Gaza Aid Activists Are Dragged Away by Masked Men as Egypt Deports Volunteers Attempting to Cross Border (Daily Mail)

“Without a nikah nama [formal marriage contract], there is no official proof of the marriage. How can I take action against him”:

• Sacrificed at the Altar of ‘Illegal Marriages,’ Poor Muslim Women Face Abandonment (Times of India)

Israeli war crimes continue:

• Israel Kills 59 Palestinians in Gaza, Many While Trying to Get Aid (Aljazeera)
• Why Has Israel Put West Bank Under Lockdown as It Bombs Iran? (Aljazeera)

October 7 shattered “if only for a moment — the illusion of immunity. But rather than reckon with the significance of that moment, the public surrendered to a campaign of revenge” …

• Israel’s Greatest Threat Isn’t Iran or Hamas, but Its Own Hubris (971 Magazine)

… because for Israel, “‘Security’ means that Israel can kill whoever it wants for as long as it wants and wherever and whenever it wants without paying any sort of price for its actions,” says analyst Ori Goldberg:

• The Real Reason Israel Attacked Iran (Aljazeera)

They are “asking Trump to justify his confidence that Israel and Iran will make a deal that will mean ‘peace soon’”:

• European Leaders to Press Trump on Israel-Iran Strategy at G7 Meeting (The Guardian)