Israel-Hamas War Day 250: What's happening in Gaza, Middle East?

Details of an investigation into the daily lives of the freed hostages in the Gaza Strip, Almog Meir Jan, Andrey Kozlov, and Shlomi Ziv, were published in The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) on Wednesday morning.

According to the report, the three rescued hostages lived in a dark room for six months, sleeping on small mattresses on the floor. Their only connection to the outside world was through guards who brought them food and would occasionally abuse them.

The former hostages shared that they could hear the Gazan family living downstairs, including their children, but they never met them. However, one day, when the family went out, they were allowed to go downstairs and use the kitchen.

Rocket sirens sounded across northern Israel for a second time on Wednesday.

A barrage of roughly 90 rockets was fired at various locations across northern Israel on Wednesday morning, Israel's military reported.

"Following the sirens that sounded in northern Israel a short while ago, approximately 90 projectiles were identified crossing from Lebanon," the IDF stated. "A number of the projectiles were intercepted and others fell in several locations in northern Israel. As a result, fires broke out in a number of areas. The details are under review."

The cities of Safed and Tiberias were among those where rocket sirens blared.

Rocket sirens sounded across northern Israel on Wednesday morning.

IDF artillery on Wednesday night fired on targets near Nuseirat in central Gaza.

The US military said on Tuesday that its forces had destroyed two anti-ship cruise missile launchers in a Houthi-controlled area of Yemen.

US Central Command said on the social media site X that the missile launchers "presented an imminent threat to US and coalition forces and to merchant vessels transiting the region."

Russia's Human Rights Commissioner said on Tuesday she had issued a fresh appeal to senior UN and other officials to take action to secure the release of Russian nationals still held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip.

Tatyana Moskalkova, writing on the Telegram messaging app, said she had launched the appeal after meeting in Moscow with relatives of those still being held.

"In one conversation, one of the mothers told me details of the situation of those being held," she wrote.

News reports have put at eight the number of hostages holding Russian passports, including three who were released.

In Hamas's response to the Israeli outline for the hostage deal, they demanded, among other things, a full Israeli withdrawal from the Rafah crossing and the Philadelphi Corridor, according to Al Jazeera.

Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad told Al Jazeera that they were ready to "deal positively to arrive at an agreement," and their main goal was to stop Israeli operations in Gaza.

Qatar and Egypt Announce that they have Received a response from Hamas and the Palestinian Factions regarding the Truce Proposal #MOFAQatar pic.twitter.com/8hpBTERyJK

— Ministry of Foreign Affairs - Qatar (@MofaQatar_EN) June 11, 2024

The IDF announced on Tuesday night that it had eliminated a suspect approaching the Gaza border fence using an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV).

The suspect was approximately 100 meters from a section of the border fence close to a nearby town.

The IDF told KAN, that it had decided to act in order to minimize the risk to border communities.

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday named and shamed Israel's armed and security forces, Palestinian terrorists Hamas and Islamic Jihad, and Sudan's warring parties for killing and maiming children in 2023, adding them to an annual global list of offenders for violations against children.

In a report to the UN Security Council - seen by Reuters - Guterres also called out the armed forces of Israel and Sudan for attacking schools and hospitals and Hamas and Islamic Jihad for abducting children.

The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, who have been fighting the Sudanese armed forces since April last year, was also named for recruiting and using children, committing rape and other sexual violence and attacking schools and hospitals.