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News Wrap: Activists from aid boat headed for Gaza detained in Israel

PBS News Hour - Segments

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41K Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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In our news wrap Monday, an aid boat headed for Gaza arrived in Israel after forces boarded the vessel and detained the activists onboard, delegations from the U.S. and China are meeting in London to resolve the trade dispute, Ukraine says Russia launched nearly 500 drones and missiles overnight and President Trump’s new travel ban is in effect. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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0:00.0

We start today's other headlines in the Middle East. An aid boat headed for Gaza has arrived in Israel after Israeli forces boarded that vessel and detained the activists on board, including climate advocate Greta Toonberg.

0:12.5

Added to the long list of war crimes that Israel has been committing.

0:16.8

We are being intercepted right now. Israel's action was part of its long-standing blockade of the Palestinian territory.

0:24.3

A legal rights group says the activists are expected to be held at a detention facility

0:28.7

until they are deported.

0:30.6

Israel's foreign ministry dismissed the voyage on social media, calling it the selfie yacht of celebrities

0:36.0

and said it would distribute the boat's aid through

0:38.3

established channels.

0:40.0

Meantime, in Gaza, Palestinian health officials say gunfire killed 14 people as they were

0:45.1

heading to an aid center.

0:46.8

Witnesses say the gunmen appeared to be allied with the Israeli military.

0:51.0

It's the latest in a series of shootings that have killed more than 100 people

0:55.0

since the rollout of new food distribution locations last month.

0:59.0

They open aid sites for people and then they kill them there.

1:05.0

We don't want aid. We don't want anything. We'd rather be killed and be done with this whole thing.

1:10.0

We are fed up with this life. He was not there to resist or to launch missiles. He went to get flour.

1:17.6

Israel's military has not commented on the latest shooting. The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, which

1:22.7

runs the sites, says there has been no violence in or near the aid distribution centers themselves.

1:29.2

Ukraine says that Russia launched nearly 500 drones and missiles overnight, the biggest such

1:34.0

attack in their three-year war. The Ukrainian Air Force claims to have shot down more than half

1:39.3

of the drones and says only a handful reached their targets. Russia has intensified its strikes

1:44.3

since Ukraine's surprise drone attack

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