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- Israeli forces bombard Gaza, killing 50 people since midnight, after the military orders Palestinians in the southern city of Khan Younis to flee ahead of an “unprecedented attack”.
- The leaders of Canada, France and the UK threaten to take “concrete action” against Israel if it does not end its renewed offensive in Gaza, while 22 countries urge Israel to let aid into the besieged enclave.
- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dismisses the calls and pledges to press on with the offensive, which includes plans for Israel to take control of the whole of Gaza.
- Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 53,475 Palestinians and wounded 121,398, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry. The Government Media Office updated the death toll to more than 61,700, saying thousands of people missing under the rubble are presumed dead.
- An estimated 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the Hamas-led attacks on October 7, 2023, and more than 200 were taken captive.
World Central Kitchen slams US-Israeli plan for Gaza aid
Chef Jose Andres, the founder of the World Central Kitchen (WCK), says Israel’s plans to set up aid distribution hubs in Israeli-controlled areas in southern Gaza will take weeks to get off the ground and “will leave Palestinians hungry”.
Andres’s comment came in response to a report that the Israeli government plans to let aid into Gaza through the existing UN system for about a week, and then let the US-Israeli backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation take over the distribution of supplies.
“The new Humanitarian foundation members should be ashamed of themselves,” Andres said in a post on X.
“We already have a system in place to feed all Palestinians with the help of Palestinians….creating jobs and systems in the process…!”
As we’ve been reporting, the UN says it won’t work with the GHF because their distribution plan is not impartial, neutral or independent.
Photos: Children wounded in Israeli attacks brought to Al-Aqsa Hospital
Palestinian killed in Israeli attack on northern Gaza
Al Jazeera’s correspondent is reporting that at least one person has been killed in Israeli bombardment on as-Sikka Street in the Zeitoun neighbourhood of Gaza City.
What is the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation?
As we’ve been reporting, some 22 Western countries have demanded Israel let aid into Gaza and rejected the US-Israeli-backed plan for a charity called the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation to take over the distribution of aid in the enclave.
Here’s what we know about the GHF:
- The charity, registered in Switzerland, is led by former US Marine Jake Woods.
- It aims to set up four distribution sites in southern Gaza, run by private security companies and overseen by the Israeli military, to ensure aid is not “diverted” by Hamas.
- The UN says it won’t work with the foundation because the distribution plan is not impartial, neutral or independent. Officials there also dismiss Israeli claims of large-scale diversion of aid by Palestinian fighters.
- Aid groups note that the GHF seeks to supplant the existing system run by the UN, which already has 400 distribution points across Gaza, and will reach only a limited number of people.
- Aid officials say it would also advance Israel’s military plans to coerce Palestinians to move from north to south Gaza, and eventually out of the enclave altogether.
- UN aid chief Tom Fletcher said in a statement on Friday: “To those proposing an alternative modality for aid distribution, let’s not waste time. We already have a plan. We have the people. We have the distribution networks. We have the trust of the communities on the ground. And we have the aid itself – 160,000 pallets of it – ready to move. Now.”
Two killed in Israeli attack on south Gaza
Our colleagues are reporting that the two Palestinians were killed in an Israeli drone attack on the al-Manara area, near Khan Younis.
We’ll bring you more when we have it.
US Muslim group says Israeli ‘PR stunt’ won’t relieve threat of famine
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has condemned the Israeli government for letting just nine aid trucks into Gaza.
The “trickle of aid” will “do nothing to relieve the threat of famine” for “two million Palestinian men, women and children besieged in Gaza”, CAIR said in a statement.
“This is a completely insufficient, psychotic PR stunt by Netanyahu’s genocidal government, which is determined to occupy and flatten Gaza, and then expel any Palestinians who survive,” CAIR added.
“The genocide – and our nation’s support for that genocide – must end.”
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- Israel’s relentless bombardment of Gaza continues, with attacks on homes, a petrol station and a school-turned-shelter killing at least 50 Palestinians since midnight.
- The killings come after a day of fierce Israeli attacks that left at least 126 Palestinians dead, according to medics.
- Israel’s military says it shot down a drone carrying weapons from Egypt into Israeli territory.
- More than 760 NGOs around the world have signed a petition urging the world to break the Israeli siege and send in a diplomatic convoy through the Rafah crossing.
- Amnesty International decries Israel’s decision to only let a handful of trucks into Gaza, saying only an end to the Israeli siege and war will alleviate the suffering of Palestinians in the enclave.
More than 760 NGOs urge world to break Israel’s siege on Gaza
Some 761 aid groups and nongovernmental organisations across the globe have signed onto an appeal urging the world to halt the “manufactured famine” in Gaza by breaking the Israeli siege on the enclave and sending in a diplomatic humanitarian convoy through the Rafah crossing.
The call was launched by Palestinian civil society groups on May 12.
It gained more than 300 signatures within a day, including from prominent groups such as Human Rights Watch.
“We urge states to join the humanitarian convoy by dispatching official diplomatic missions – at the highest possible level – to accompany the aid trucks already waiting at the Rafah crossing, and to enter Gaza alongside them,” the petition states. “This act is grounded in states’ legal obligations, moral courage, and human solidarity.”
Israel’s deadliest attacks on Gaza’s schools-turned-shelters
We’ve been following an Israeli attack that killed at least 12 people at the Musa bin Nusair School in Gaza City.
This is just the latest in Israel’s assaults on schools-turned-shelters in the Gaza Strip. Aid agencies say Israeli forces have destroyed or damaged some 95 percent of the territory’s schools since October 2023.
Here’s a look at some of the deadliest attacks:
- In November 2023, shortly after the start of the war, Israeli bombs and artillery strikes killed at least 50 people, including children, inside the al-Buraq School in Gaza City.
- In two attacks in November 2023 that were two weeks apart, the Israeli military struck the Al Fakhoura school in the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza, killing at least 65 people.
- In July 2024, the Israeli military killed at least 30 people in an attack on al-Awda School located in the southern town of Abasan, near Khan Younis.
- In August 2024, more than 100 people were killed when Israeli forces bombed the al-Tabin School in Gaza City as Palestinians gathered for their morning prayers.
- In April 2025, at least 33 Palestinians were killed and more than 100 wounded in Israeli air attacks on three schools in the Tuffah neighbourhood of Gaza City.
UN experts have said Israel’s attacks on civilian institutions such as schools and hospitals could amount to war crimes.
Palestinian journalist says she’s been eating one meal a day for two weeks now
Bisan Owda says the situation in Gaza has become increasingly intolerable as Israeli forces have cut off access to food and water and are continuing to issue more evacuation orders.
“For two weeks I’ve been having one meal a day, because of Israel’s prevention of any food from entering Gaza for 77 days now,” Owda told Al Jazeera.
“Just imagine – the doctors, the nurses, the civil defence, all of the emergency response workers, are all living with this. We’re overwhelmed, we’re so tired, we don’t have enough nutrition, our families are displaced, we’re facing all of this with our empty hands,” she added.
One woman, one girl killed in Israeli attacks every hour, UN says
The UN agency for women says more than 28,000 women and girls have been killed in Gaza since Israel’s war began in October of 2023.
“That is one woman and one girl on average killed every hour in attacks by Israeli forces,” UN Women said in a statement. “Among those killed, thousands were mothers, leaving behind devastated children, families, and communities.”
The group reiterated its call for an immediate ceasefire, the release of all Israeli captives and the “immediate restoration of unhindered humanitarian access”.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza says Israel’s war has killed at least 53,475 people and wounded 121,398 others. Thousands more are believed to be dead under the rubble across the enclave.
Death toll from Israeli attack on Jabalia rises
The death toll from Israeli forces bombing a house in Jabalia, in northern Gaza, has risen to nine people.
This brings the total number of people killed in Israeli attacks since the early hours of this morning to at least 50.
Israeli military says it shot down drone carrying weapons
In a post on X, the military says it “foiled an attempt to smuggle weapons from Egypt to Israel”.
Israeli forces shot down a drone, which was reportedly carrying “19 pistols, three machine guns, and ammunition” from Egyptian territory into Israeli territory, the post added.
US offers up to $10m for tips on Hezbollah in Latin America
The US State Department is offering up to $10m for tips on the Lebanese group’s activities in Latin America.
“If you have information on [Hezbollah] smuggling, money laundering, or other financial mechanisms in the Tri-Border Area, contact us. You could be eligible for a reward and relocation,” the State Department said in a post on X.
The Tri-Border area refers to the border of Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil where the State Department says Hezbollah generates revenue through “money laundering, narcotics trafficking, counterfeiting of US dollars, illicit diamond trade, and smuggling of bulk cash, charcoal and cigarettes and oil”.
Hezbollah also earns funds from legitimate businesses in Latin America, such as real estate, construction, and the import/export business, it said.
There was no immediate comment from the Lebanese group.
Hezbollah has been significantly weakened militarily by Israel since the war on Gaza. The two sides agreed to a truce last November, but Israel has continued to launch frequent and deadly attacks on southern Lebanon.
Death toll in Gaza rises to 48
Medics say that’s the number of Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza since the early hours of this morning.
The killings come after a day of relentless bombardment in which at least 126 people were killed.
Seven killed in Israeli attack on Jabalia
Our colleagues are reporting that Israeli forces have bombed a house in Jabalia in northern Gaza, killing at least seven people.
We’ll bring you more when we have it.
A recap of recent developments
- The death toll from Israeli attacks on Gaza on Monday rises to 84 as the Israeli military warns residents of the southern city of Khan Younis to evacuate immediately ahead of an “unprecedented attack”.
- The leaders of Canada, France and the United Kingdom threaten sanctions against Israel if it does not end its renewed military offensive in Gaza and lift restrictions on aid.
- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has announced plans to take control of the whole of Gaza, slams the threat and promises to continue the war until “total victory” is achieved.
- Israel allows five aid trucks into Gaza, a move the United Nations says constitutes a “drop in the ocean”, as 22 countries demand the unfettered entry of aid into the enclave.
- Yemen’s Houthis announce a “maritime blockade” on Israel’s Haifa port, warning all companies with ships in the port that they have been “included in the list of targets”.
- The UN says nearly 100,000 Palestinians have been displaced in Gaza in the last four days as Israel expands its ground invasion of the Strip.
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