(28 May 2025 16:21 BST)
Israel has pounded Khan Younis and other areas of Gaza throughout the day. The death toll has been steadily increasing.
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Israel killed at least 10 Palestinians seeking aid in Gaza in two days, Gaza media office says
The office said that the Israelis “opened direct fire on hungry Palestinian civilians who had gathered to receive aid“.
“This crime was part of a dubious engineering project run by the American organization called Gaza Humanitarian Relief (GHF),“ the centre said.
The centre said that the foundation contradicts „humanity, neutrality, integrity, and independence“.
Chaos breaks out at Gaza aid distribution center
The U.N. said at least one person was killed and 47 were injured by gunfire after thousands of Palestinians descended on a new aid site in Rafah on Tuesday.
Chaos at Gaza aid hub staffed by armed American contractors
For the first time in more than a year of war in Gaza, a group of armed Americans is in the middle of it. They are part of a new system designed to deliver desperately needed humanitarian aid. Imtiaz Tyab reports.
Gaza Death Toll Rises to 54,084 Amid Continued Israeli Assault
The Ministry of Health in Gaza announced that the number of Palestinians killed in the Israeli assault on the Gaza Strip, which began on October 7, 2023, has now reached 54,084 martyrs, with an additional 123,308 wounded.
In the past 24 hours alone, 28 people were killed and 179 injured, according to the ministry. However, these figures do not include casualties from the northern governorates of Gaza, where access remains impossible due to ongoing hostilities.
Dozens wounded at Gaza aid hub after Israel opens fire, UN says
Ajith Sunghay, head of the U.N. Human Rights Office for the Palestinian territories, told reporters in Geneva that it appeared Israeli army fire had caused most of the injuries.
On Tuesday, crowds of Palestinians broke through fences and an Associated Press journalist heard Israeli tank and gun fire, and saw a military helicopter firing flares.
UN blasts new US-backed aid distribution system in Gaza
This handout satellite picture obtained from Planet Labs PBC dated on May 23, 2025, shows an area around Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip where a new aid distribution centre run by a US-backed group has been set up
Around 2.4 percent of human beings in Gaza have been annihilated – will you do something about it or not?
Do you demand from any NGO, any government, from the UNRWA director Philippe Lazzarini, from the United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to stop their unbearable whining and finally kick this fascist gang of Benyamin Netanyahu out of the United Nations?
Do you?
If not – GET OUT OF THE WAY!
Best,
Daniel
Death toll across Gaza Strip surges to 54,056, over 123,129 injured
The death toll from the ongoing Israeli military campaign on the Gaza Strip has risen to 54,056, with 123,129 others wounded since October 7, 2023, according to medical sources.
They that 3,901 Palestinians have been killed and 11,088 wounded since March 18, when Israeli forces resumed their offensive following the collapse of a temporary ceasefire agreement.
Israel’s new Gaza aid system likened to ‚concentration camps’
(last Update 26 May, 2025 10:29 AM)
Internal documents seen by The Washington Post show that biometric technology will be deployed at the hubs, handing the Israeli military power to choose who is allowed to receive aid.
There are plans to construct guarded „humanitarian transition areas“, where tens of thousands of Palestinians will be held. Planners anticipate these zones to be described as „concentration camps“ by the public, the documents show.
Five people involved in the planning expressed concern about the militarisation of aid, and the use of mercenary forces and biometrics to police civilians.
The scheme has triggered outcry among some of Israel‘s closest Western allies and humanitarian organisations, who have refused to cooperate with a plan that they say violates basic humanitarian principles.
The UN has warned that the policy has been designed to facilitate the mass displacement of Palestinians, an accusation effectively confirmed by Israeli ministers who have publicly articulated plans to drive the entire population to the south and force them out of Gaza.
Israel’s latest vision for Gaza has a name: Concentration camp
(April 1, 2025)
Connecting all these dots leads to a fairly clear conclusion: Israel is preparing to forcibly displace the entire population of Gaza — through a combination of evacuation orders and intense bombardment — into an enclosed and possibly fenced-off area. Anyone caught outside its boundaries would be killed, and buildings throughout the rest of the enclave would likely be razed to the ground.
Without mincing words, this “humanitarian zone,” as Magal so kindly put it, in which the army intends to corral Gaza’s 2 million residents, can be summed up in just two words: concentration camp. This is not hyperbole; it is simply the most precise definition to help us better understand what we are facing.
At least 79 killed in Gaza in past 24 hours, health ministry says
The Gaza health ministry said on Tuesday that at least 79 people were killed and another 163 wounded over the past 24 hours.
The death toll in Gaza now stands at 54,056 people killed since the start of the war, with thousands remaining missing.
At least 81 Palestinians killed by Israeli strikes across Gaza since dawn
26 May 2025 21:26 BST
At least 81 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli strikes across the Gaza Strip since dawn on Monday, the Gaza health ministry reported.
Israel has pounded the enclave as famine sets in among Palestinians.
Israeli anti-war activists: ‚We refuse the genocide and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians‘
“We‘re here to say we refuse the bombing of civilians, we refuse starvation, we refuse war crimes, we refuse the genocide and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians.”
Israeli anti-war activists clashed with police during a demonstration against the war on Gaza in Tel Aviv on Sunday.
One demonstrator says they refuse to remain silent while Israelis continue to commit “such hideous crimes against humanity” in a “growing fascist regime”.
Gaza death toll nears 54,000
13:41, 26 May 2025
At least 53,939 Palestinians have been killed in Israel’s genocidal war since October 2023, Anadolu Ajansı reported quoting the Health Ministry on Sunday (May 25).
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.
Wieso stimmte Bundesregierung gegen Überprüfung von Menschenrechtsverstößen Israels durch die EU?
Deutschland findet sich immer mehr in einer Minderheitenposition in der EU wieder. Diese Woche am 20. Mai stimmte Berlin gegen die überwiegende Mehrheit der EU-Länder, die einem niederländischen Vorschlag gefolgt waren, eine Prüfung einzuleiten, ob Israel mit dem Vorgehen in Gaza gegen seine Menschenrechtsverpflichtungen gemäß Artikel 2 des Assoziierungsabkommens zwischen der EU und Israel verstoßen hat. Die NachDenkSeiten wollten wissen, mit welcher Begründung sich Deutschland gegen eine solche Überprüfung ausgesprochen hat.
LIVE: 5 killed in Israeli attack on Palestinians near aid truck in Gaza
At least five Palestinians killed, 50 wounded by an Israeli attack that targeted people gathering around a truck carrying flour in southern Gaza.
Witnesses to Israel’s bombing of a family home in Gaza’s Jabalia refugee camp that left some 50 people dead or missing told Al Jazeera that “the Israeli military is killing civilians for fun”.
Only 92 aid trucks entered Gaza, says Palestinian official
The director of medical relief in Gaza says only 92 aid trucks have entered the Strip in three days.
He added that the healthcare, water, and food situation in Gaza is very difficult, and no food or medical aid has reached northern Gaza.
Severe hunger grips northern Gaza amid aid blockade and bakery closures
(May 23, 2025)
In Gaza city’s Al Jalaa neighbourhood, Mohammed Al Mahlawi, a father of five, described the growing desperation.
“We keep hearing that bakeries are operating in the south and flour is being distributed. But here in the north, we see none of it. There is no bread, no aid and no indication that the crisis is nearing an end,” he told The National.
“The world is watching us starve – men, women, and children – and does nothing.
Gaza death toll rises to 53,901
The number of Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in Gaza since October 2023 has risen to 53,901, the Palestinian health ministry said on Saturday.
At least 122,593 have been wounded since the war began, it added.
Israeli strikes kill at least 21 Palestinians since dawn
Israeli attacks on various areas of the Gaza Strip have killed at least 21 Palestinians, according to local media reports.
Gaza death toll passes 53,800 as Israel kills 60 more Palestinians
A ministry statement said that 60 bodies were brought to hospitals in the last 24 hours, while 185 people were injured, taking the number of injuries to 122,382 in the Israeli onslaught.
“Many victims are still trapped under the rubble and on the roads as rescuers are unable to reach them,” it added.
Israeli attacks kill 66 people in Gaza since dawn
At least 66 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli air attacks across the Gaza Strip since dawn today, Gaza’s Health Ministry reports.
Palestinian Red Crescent says no Palestinians in Gaza have received aid yet
„I can prove that nobody has received (aid). No civilian has received anything yet. In fact, say most of these trucks are still in Karem Shalom at the border, inspected, but not into Gaza,“ Younis Al-Khatib, President of the Palestine Red Crescent Society, told reporters.
Palestinian minister reports 29 starvation-related deaths among Gazan children, elderly
„In the last couple of days we lost 29 children,“ Palestinian Health Minister Majed Abu Ramadan told reporters, describing them as „starvation-related deaths“. He later clarified that the total included elderly people as well as children.
Gaza death toll rises to 53,762
(today)
The death toll of Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks in Gaza since October 2023 has reached 53,762, the Palestinian Ministry of Health announced on Thursday.
Death Toll from the Gaza Massacre Rises to 53,655
(May 21, 2925)
The toll from the Israeli occupation’s aggression on the Gaza Strip has risen to 53,655 martyrs and 121,950 injured since October 7, 2023.
Medical sources reported today, Wednesday, that since March 18 — when the occupation resumed its aggression on the Gaza Strip following the ceasefire agreement — there have been 3,509 martyrs and 9,909 injured.
Israel’s war on Gaza by the numbers
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Former Israeli MK: ‘Every Child, Every Baby in Gaza Is an Enemy’
“The enemy is not Hamas, nor is it the military wing of Hamas, as our military commander tells us, that we are forbidden to harm a Hamasnik unless he is part of the military wing,” Feiglin said, according to the Israeli newspaper Maariv.
“Every child in Gaza is the enemy. We need to occupy Gaza and settle it, and not a single Gazan child will be left there. There is no other victory,” he added.
Gaza: Aid trucks still waiting for Israeli green light inside enclave
UN aid workers said on Wednesday that they are still waiting for permission from Israel to distribute five trucks’ worth of lifesaving relief that was allowed into Gaza at the start of the week, after an 11-week blockade.
Wednesday‘s Gaza death toll reaches 62
(21 May 2025 15:32 BST)
The latest casualty brings today‘s death toll of Palestinians killed in Gaza to 62.
Palestinians in Gaza are being deliberately asphyxiated by Israeli forces
The miniscule and inadequate amount of aid that Israeli authorities are now allowing into the Gaza Strip is a smokescreen to make it appear that the siege is over, said Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) today.
While the war and blockade continue to wreak havoc on Palestinians’ health and leave them in desperate need of medical care and food, water, and other necessities, at least 20 medical facilities in Gaza have been damaged or forced partially or completely out of service in the past week alone amid increasing Israeli military operations, intensified airstrikes, and widespread evacuation orders.
Israeli attacks kill 82 in 24 hours in Gaza as death toll surpasses 53,600
In the past 24 hours alone, Israeli air and ground assaults have killed at least 82 Palestinians and wounded another 262, according to Gaza’s health ministry.
Daily Press Briefing by the Office of the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General
(May 20, 2025)
To give you a sense of how this complicated operation has to work, the Israeli authorities are requiring us to offload supplies on the Palestinian side of Kerem Shalom crossing and reload them separately once they secure our teams’ access from inside the Gaza Strip. Only then are we able to bring any supplies closer to where people in need are sheltering. Today, one of our team waited several hours for Israeli green light to access Kerem Shalom area and collect the nutrition supplies. Unfortunately, they were not able to bring those supplies into our warehouse. So, just to make it clear, while more https://press.un.org/en/2025/db250510.doc.htmsupplies have come into the Gaza Strip, we have not been able to secure the arrival of those supplies into our warehouses and delivery points.
U.N. says no aid has reached Palestinians in Gaza yet
“A few dozen” trucks carrying flour, medicines and nutrition supplies were allowed to pass through the Israeli fence into the Palestinian side of the Kerem Shalom crossing, United Nations spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric said in a briefing Tuesday. But aid workers, he said, were unable to get the aid to warehouses as Israeli officials forced them to wait several hours for access, and then unload and then reload the supplies onto separate trucks. They ran out of time before dark.