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Volkswagen is considering plans to convert one of its German car factories into a production hub for Israel’s missile defence systems, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday.

The carmaker has held talks with Israel's Rafael Advanced Defense Systems about repurposing its Osnabruck plant, shifting from vehicle production to manufacturing components for Israel’s Iron Dome system.

The move underscores growing pressure on Germany’s automotive sector, which is struggling to compete with Chinese electric vehicle makers.

It also carries historical resonance: during the Second World War, Volkswagen halted car production and switched to arms manufacturing for Nazi Germany.

The proposal points to a wider shift, as parts of German industry move closer to defence production with support from Berlin.

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Danish shipping giant Maersk is still shipping smaller weapons components to Israel that include rifle and pistol parts, as well as bomb bodies, despite its assertion to the contrary last year, according to a report published on Monday by the Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM) and Oxfam Denmark. 

The bullet parts Maersk has reportedly helped to deliver are the same kind that killed Hind Rajab in 2024 and also countless other children in Gaza, as shown in a New York Times essay published later that year, the authors of the report said.

The bomb bodies provide the casing for the 900-kilogram "bunker buster" MK-84 bombs that Israel has used in Gaza and Lebanon.

The investigation is part of the #MaskOffMaersk campaign. 

"Our question to Maersk is: What's a weapon? You don't ship weapons, so what is a weapon?" Nadya Tannous, the international coordinator for the initiative, told Middle East Eye.

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When Lebanon and Israel announced a ceasefire agreement on April 16, Nasreen Abd Elaal and her husband and four children packed their few belongings and departed the public school in Marj al-Zuhoor where they had taken shelter—for the last time, they hoped.

They returned the next day to their home in Ain Arab, a small village nestled in the plains near the southern border, where they run a small butcher shop and corner store. That same day, Israeli forces entered the village and established a curfew, warning local residents not to leave their homes after dark, before setting up a checkpoint on the exit road leading south.

Twelve days later, Abd Elaal was working behind the counter at the store when she saw a large armored bulldozer lumbering down the road, followed by a swarm of army vehicles carrying, by her estimation, more than one hundred Israeli soldiers. The troops spread through the village, pointed their guns at residents and told them that the area was located within Israel’s new “yellow line”—a line demarcating an Israeli zone of control along the southern border inside Lebanese territory that was unilaterally declared by Israel using the same terminology as in Gaza. The soldiers told Abd Elaal and the other village residents that they had two hours to evacuate north.

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One person has been killed and five others wounded in a series of shooting attacks in central Israel, Israeli police and emergency services reported.

The shootings reportedly occurred on Sunday at three locations near the ⁠occupied West Bank city ⁠of Qalqilya, killing a 35-year-old man.

Magen David Adom, Israel's medical emergency service, said another man in his 40s had been taken to the hospital in a critical condition.

Medical officials said they had also treated two men injured at a petrol station near the town of Kochav Yair, one of them seriously. A man and a woman were also injured near Tzur Yitzhak, another settlement in central Israel.

"Large police forces remain at the scene, and searches are continuing," police said in an earlier statement on Sunday, urging the public to remain vigilant.

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Russian forces executed a series of targeted irst-person view (FPV) drone strikes and heavy artillery bombardments on Saturday, June 6, killing two civillians and wounding at least four others across eastern and southern Ukraine.

The first fatal morning strike occurred in the Kharkiv region within the Derhachi suburban community. Vyacheslav Zadorenko, head of the Derhachi Municipal Military Administration, confirmed that a Russian FPV drone intercepted a 51-year-old resident of Lobanivka at approximately 6:00 a.m. local time.

The victim was operating a scooter along the highway between the settlements of Prudyanka and Slatyne on his way to purchase groceries when the munition struck him, killing him instantly.

A second fatal FPV drone strike was documented shortly after in the industrial hub of Kramatorsk, located in the Donetsk region. Oleksandr Honcharenko, head of the Kramatorsk City Military Administration, characterized the morning attack as a cynical war crime against the municipality’s civilian populace.

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The British government has said Jordan's custodianship of Jerusalem's holy sites "must be respected" in a statement to Middle East Eye.

Last week MEE reported that the US and Israel are conspiring to strip the Jordanian royal family of its historic custodianship of Al-Aqsa Mosque, which is enshrined in a long-standing status quo agreement. 

MEE put a recent letter independent MP Shockat Adam wrote to the British foreign secretary about the reported US-Israeli plans to the Foreign Office.

In response, a Foreign Office spokesperson said: "We value Jordan's important role as custodian of the Holy Sites in Jerusalem. The historic status quo arrangements at Jerusalem’s Holy Sites must be respected."

This is the first time the British government has reaffirmed its support for Jordanian custodianship since the MEE report.

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A Russian drone struck a private residential home in Konotop late Thursday evening, injuring five civilians, including three children, local authorities said.

Konotop is a city in Ukraine’s northeastern Sumy region, near the Russian border, an area frequently exposed to Russian drone, missile and cross-border attacks.

According to Konotop Mayor Artem Semenikhin, the attack hit a house in the city’s Zahrebellia district, a residential area of private homes, sparking a major fire while people were inside.

Emergency crews, first responders and investigators were deployed to the scene to extinguish the blaze, clear debris and document the aftermath of the strike.

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The United States has announced fresh economic sanctions on Cuba’s president and some of his immediate family, alongside members of the Castro family, in Washington’s latest ramping up of pressure on its communist-led neighbour.

Among those targeted were the son and a grandson of former president Raúl Castro, who no longer holds an official position but remains a key figure on decisions about the future of the island.

President Miguel Diaz-Canel, his wife and stepson were also hit by the latest Treasury department sanctions issued on Thursday, as was the ministry of the revolutionary armed forces and several other entities.

The US has had an embargo on Cuba for decades, but US President Donald Trump has drastically ramped up pressure on the island in recent months and openly muses about taking it over.

A de facto fuel blockade has deepened the island’s energy crisis and hit its already fragile economy.

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