5 individuals killed as Hamas assaults US-supported Gaza humanitarian organization – DW – 06/12/2025

Israeli lawmakers early on Thursday rejected a preliminary vote to dissolve the parliament, the Knesset said in a statement.

The bill submitted by the opposition was voted down 61-53. A 61-vote majority was needed in the 120-seat parliament.

The vote could have been a first step leading to a snap election. Polls have predicted that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ruling coalition would lose at the ballot box.

The US- and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) has accused the militant group Hamas of killing at least five people in an attack on a bus carrying its aid workers to one of its distribution sites.

The group said in a statement that at around 10 p.m. local time on Wednesday (1900 GMT) “a bus carrying more than two-dozen members of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation team… was brutally attacked by Hamas.

“We are still gathering facts, but what we know is devastating: there are at least five fatalities, multiple injuries, and fear that some of our team members may have been taken hostage,” the statement added.

Despite objections from the UN, the GHF has taken over aid distribution in the Gaza Strip.

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has announced that the bodies of two hostages have been recovered from Gaza by the army and the Shin Bet security agency.

“We will not rest and we will not be silent until all our hostages — the living and the fallen alike — are brought home,” he said in a statement.

Read more about the two hostages whose bodies were found.