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Daily Archives: 25. Mai 2025
Swiss foreign office to investigate controversial Gaza NGO
Trial International has filed two complaints with the Swiss authorities about a controversial NGO, which was set up to distribute aid in the Gaza Strip. (…)
The international crime-fighting organisation wants to know whether GHF, which has had a subsidiary registered in Geneva since February, complies with Swiss law and international humanitarian law.
It is particularly concerned about the foundation’s links with the United States, where its headquarters are located, and with Israel.
Joint donor statement on humanitarian aid to Gaza
(May 19, 2025)
Israel’s security cabinet has reportedly approved a new model for delivering aid into Gaza, which the UN and our humanitarian partners cannot support. They are clear that they will not participate in any arrangement that does not fully respect the humanitarian principles. Humanitarian principles matter for every conflict around the world and should be applied consistently in every warzone. The UN has raised concerns that the proposed model cannot deliver aid effectively, at the speed and scale required. It places beneficiaries and aid workers at risk, undermines the role and independence of the UN and our trusted partners, and links humanitarian aid to political and military objectives. Humanitarian aid should never be politicised, and Palestinian territory must not be reduced nor subjected to any demographic change.
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The Foreign Ministers of Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and the UK.
The EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice-President of the European Commission, the EU Commissioner for Equality, Preparedness and Crisis Management and the EU Commissioner for the Mediterranean.
New Gaza Aid Plan, Bypassing U.N. and Billed as Neutral, Originated in Israel
The New York Times found that the broad contours of the plan were first discussed in late 2023, at private meetings of like-minded officials, military officers and business people with close ties to the Israeli government.
The group called itself the Mikveh Yisrael Forum, after a college where members convened in December 2023. Its leading figures gradually settled on the idea of hiring private contractors to distribute food in Gaza, circumventing the United Nations.
Sweeping overhaul of Gaza aid raises questions of morality and workability
The planning documents anticipated public skepticism and preemptively prepared talking points in case the GHF encountered allegations likening its food distribution hubs and residential compounds to “‘concentration camps’ with biometrics” or comparing the organization to Blackwater, a former U.S. mercenary firm implicated in violence against civilians in Iraq.
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In mid-2024, Israeli officials shared their plans with a group of private-sector American consultants led by Phil Reilly, a retired CIA paramilitary officer and former agency station chief in Afghanistan. Reilly’s group, said five of the Israeli and American individuals, took over the planning and determined that a new company led by Reilly, named Safe Reach Solutions, would be the future subcontractor that would provide security and logistics for the hubs.
9 of Gaza Doctor’s Children Killed in Israeli Strikes – Death Toll Mounts in Khan Younis | APT
Nearly 80 people have been killed in the latest round of Israeli airstrikes, including nine of a Gaza pediatrician’s ten children, according to local health officials. The strikes hit Khan Younis in southern Gaza, leaving the doctor’s husband wounded and only one child critically injured.
Nine of Gazan doctor‘s 10 children killed in Israeli strike
Nine of a doctor‘s 10 children have been killed in an Israeli missile strike on their home in Gaza, which also left her surviving son badly injured and her husband in a critical condition.
Alaa Al Najjar, a paediatrician at Al Tahrir Clinic in the Nasser Medical Complex, was at work during the attack on her home, south of the city of Khan Younis in southern Gaza, on Friday.
Gaza doctor loses 9 children as Israel bears down on war amid growing pressure
Yahya, 12, Eve, 9, Rival, 5, Sadeen, 3, Rakan, 10, Ruslan, 7, Jibran, 8, Luqman, 2, and Sedar, not yet 1 year old, died in the strike on Najjar’s home, according to hospital officials.
Video provided by Gaza‘s Civil Defense showed a tiny charred body zipped up inside a bag. Sedar’s remains were never found.
“We couldn’t find any trace of him,” a Civil Defense worker said.
One of Najjar’s children and her husband, also a physician, survived with injuries. Dr. Graeme Groom, a British surgeon working in the hospital, told the BBC on Saturday that he had operated on 11-year-old Adam.
Russia Unleashes Largest Aerial Assault of War: 367 Missiles and Drones Hit Ukraine | APT
In a dramatic escalation of the ongoing conflict, Russian forces unleashed a record-breaking 367 drones and missiles on Ukraine overnight, marking the largest aerial assault of the war so far. At least 12 civilians were killed and dozens more injured in strikes across the country, including the capital Kyiv and the village of Markhalivka, where entire residential areas were reduced to rubble.
Russian missiles and drones hit Kyiv in overnight assault
May 24, 2025
Russia launched a large-scale drone and missile attack on Kyiv overnight, injuring 15 people in one of the biggest assaults on the Ukrainian capital since the war began. The attack came in waves, with Russia launching 14 ballistic missiles and 250 drones in the early hours of Saturday, although Ukrainian forces said they shot down six missiles and stopped most of the drones before they reached Kyiv.
Missile debris and unintercepted bombs caused damage in six districts of the city.
WATCH: Drone Searchlights Scan Kyiv Skyline | Buzzing Drone Sound Leads to Explosive Blast | APT
Footage shows the Kyiv skyline at night illuminated by sweeping drone searchlights. The low hum and buzz of drones flying close overhead is heard, building tension. Suddenly, a loud explosion erupts nearby, shaking buildings and lighting up the sky. Flames and smoke rise as emergency sirens wail in the distance. The scene captures the intensity of the ongoing aerial assault on the Ukrainian capital.
Defense Forces shoot down six out of 14 missiles, neutralize 245 out of 250 enemy drones during the night – Air Force
„As of 8:30 a.m., the air defense shot down six Iskander-M/KN-23 ballistic missiles (Kyiv) and neutralized 245 enemy Shahed UAVs (drones of other types) in the east, north, south and center of the country. Some 128 were shot down by fire weapons, 117 were locally lost/suppressed by electronic warfare (without negative consequences),“ the report says.
In total, on the night of May 24 (from 20:30 on May 23), the enemy launched an attack on Ukraine using 14 Iskander-M/KN-23 ballistic missiles, attacking Kyiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Odesa and Zaporizhia regions, and also launched 250 Shahed-type attack UAVs and various types of drone imitators at Ukraine, primarily at Kyiv.
Russia hits Ukraine with massive drone, missile barrage amid prisoner exchange
Ukraine‘s Interior Ministry said in a statement that at least 18 people were killed — among them three children from the same family — and 85 people injured. More than 80 residential buildings were damaged and 27 fires recorded, it added.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy wrote on social media early Sunday, „Today, rescuers have been working in more than 30 Ukrainian cities and villages following Russia’s massive strike.“
„These were deliberate strikes on ordinary cities,“ Zelenskyy continued. „Ordinary residential buildings were destroyed and damaged. In Kyiv, dormitories of the university‘s history department were hit. There were also strikes on enterprises. Tragically, people were killed, including children.“