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By Tom Cheshire, data and forensics correspondent, in Jerusalem

President Donald Trump has suggested a ceasefire in Gaza may be imminent, saying that "great progress" is being made, as a result of the end of the recent 12-day Israel-Iran war. 

"Because of this attack that we made, I think we're going to have some good news鈥� Gaza's very close," Trump told the NATO summit this afternoon.

Even as the conflict between Israel and Iran has dominated headlines, the war in Gaza has been grinding on. 

Israel said that seven soldiers had been killed by an explosive device in Khan Younis, in the south of the enclave - the highest death toll in a single incident since the breakdown of a truce in March. 

And the Gaza Health Ministry, run by Hamas, said that another 33 people had been killed, and 267 people injured, seeking aid at food distribution points. 

Sky News's Gaza team observed bodies being laid out at Nasser Hospital, and people being treated, after reports of gunfire at one aid point near the Netzarim corridor, in the middle of Gaza.

Aid points criticised as 'death traps'

Rabih Abed-Rabo, a Palestinian man, told Sky News that tens of thousands of people had gone to the site to seek food. 

"I'm really thanking God I managed to get this bag. I have to feed 15 people. We've been trying for three months," he said. 

"I went back and forth to that area 10 times. Near the tanks, near the Israelis, through intense gunfire. Thank God."

The Gaza Health Ministry says that in total, 549 people have been killed at the food distribution centres since March.  

The aid stations are operated by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), a private organisation backed by Israel and now funded directly by the US too. 

A UN official has described them as "death traps".

The IDF did not comment on the latest incident but told Sky News: "The Ministry of Health in Gaza is controlled and directed by Hamas, and is therefore subject to its agenda. In consequence, as has been proved and demonstrated repeatedly, the data of the Ministry is replete with inconsistencies and false determinations."

In a rare public statement, Mossad, Israel's top-secret intelligence agency, praised the "historic" operation against Iran, declaring that the threat from Iran has now been "significantly neutralised".

It says its agents have been working "shoulder to shoulder" with the Israeli military "in order to realise the goals of the campaign and to bring it to its conclusion".

In accompanying comments made yesterday by Mossad's chief, David Barnea says the agency will continue to keep a "watchful eye on all known Iranian projects".

"We are intimately familiar with them鈥攁nd we will be there, just as we have been until now," he says.

Barnea also expresses "gratitude and esteem for our central partner, the CIA," whose cooperation helped "make the operation possible".

The eastern half of Iran has reopened its airspace, aircraft tracker Flightradar24 says.

It says the western half of the country remains closed except for international flights in and out of Tehran and "special domestic flights" - both with prior permission required. 

A senator has cast further doubt on Donald Trump's repeated claims that Iran's nuclear sites were "obliterated".

Mark Kelly, a veteran and former astronaut who's now a part of the Senate Armed Services Committee, told us the chances of Trump being correct are "incredibly low".

Speaking to our US correspondent David Blevins, he said "when stuff is underground, it's a really challenging thing to do", referring to Iran's Fordow site deep in the mountains.

He said he flew 39 combat missions in the first Gulf War, and believes Trump is talking about "obliteration" to set the "narrative".

"He said it the night of the strike, without any information. Without even satellite imagery, and certainly without any information about what happened underneath 200ft of rock and granite and dirt."

The likelihood, he added, of "something like that being obliterated is incredibly low".

Watch the exchange in the 60-second video below...

Donald Trump's NATO summit news conference today was a fascinating watch for Sky's US correspondent Mark Stone.

Trump spoke for over half an hour in The Hague, covering several issues including the Israel-Iran conflict and America's intervention in it.

He hit out at reports that US strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities weren't as impactful as Trump had previously suggested, doubling down that they had been "obliterated." 

There was then a surprise announcement that America and Iran would sit down for talks next week.

"The fact that he said that Iran and America are going to talk directly next week is extraordinary," says Stone.

"It's new. We don't know any detail about it. Is it true? Is he jumping Iran into talks? We just don't know."

Stone adds that there was one "moment of humanity" from Trump when he spoke to a woman who revealed her husband was a soldier fighting in Ukraine (see 15.43 post).

"He's not good at emotion, he's not good at empathy. But I sense that, probably for the first time I've ever seen, he actually connected with that woman," Stone says.

"You could see that he was thinking, 'My goodness, I kind of begin to get what you're going through'. I thought that was a really interesting moment in a fascinating news conference."

At least 627 people were killed in Iran during its recent conflict with Israel, Iranian state media outlet IRIB says, citing the country鈥檚 health ministry.

The report added that at least 4,870 other people were injured by Israeli attacks between.

The map below shows the location of Israeli strikes on Iran between June 13 and June 24.

Senior military intelligence officials in Israel have claimed the damage done to Iran's nuclear programme by Israeli and US strikes is "systemic".

The chief of staff of the Israel Defence Forces, citing the intelligence officials, says the damage is "severe, broad and deep" and has set back Iran's nuclear project by "years".

France's Emmanuel Macron says he has emphasised to Benjamin Netanyahu the need for both Israel and Iran to respect the current ceasefire.

In a post on X, Macron says he stressed the importance of resuming negotiations with Tehran "whether regarding nuclear or ballistic issues" during a call with Netanyahu.

The French leader said he also reiterated the need for a ceasefire in Gaza to Israel's prime minister, as well as the release of hostages and the pursuit of a two-state political solution.

JD Vance has hit out at the journalists reporting on the leaked US intelligence report about America's strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities.

The report, which Trump and his cabinet have tried to play down, said the strikes had only set Iran's plans back "a few months" rather than the sites being "obliterated" as Trump had suggested.

In a lengthy post on X, Vance said the media in the US "is full of the least curious, least insightful people in our country".

"The way the media has presented the report is contradicted by the IAEA, the Iranians themselves, and the administration's political and defence leadership," he said.

"More importantly, the media's reports are contradicted by common sense."

"President Trump has obliterated the Iranian nuclear program," he adds. "The American media seems destined to obliterate their own credibility on this fake story."

Donald Trump is on his way back to the US after attending the NATO summit in The Hague.

The US president answered quickfire questions from the world's media during a news conference before he left. 

Here's what he said:

• Trump hailed US strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities, which he said had "reasserted the credibility of American deterrence", adding that "no other military on Earth could have done it";
• He insisted that Iran's nuclear sites were "obliterated" and hit out at a leaked US intelligence report which suggested the damage done isn't as bad as Trump has made out to be;
• He revealed the US will hold talks with Iran next week, saying the two countries "may sign an agreement";
• On Ukraine, Trump said he thinks Vladimir Putin has "been misguided" and said both the Russian leader and Volodymyr ZelenAG百家乐在线官网y wanted to end the war;
• He then hit out at Spain for not matching the defence spending target of other NATO countries, saying he will "make them pay twice as much" in trade deals as a result.