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Here is where things stand on Tuesday 27 May 2025:
- Medical sources tell Al Jazeera that at least 81 people have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza since early Monday, including 53 in Gaza City.
- Al Jazeera’s correspondent in Washington says that “very different messages” are emerging from Hamas and United States officials amid reports that the Palestinian group has agreed to a US ceasefire proposal for Gaza.
- A World Health Organization spokesperson says that “everyone is suffering” in Gaza as hospitals run out of key medical supplies to treat the sick and those with ‘horrific’ injuries as Israel blocks aid supplies and intensifies attacks.
- Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 53,977 Palestinians and wounded 122,966, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry. The Government Media Office updated its death toll to more than 61,700, saying that thousands of people missing under the rubble are presumed dead.
- An estimated 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the Hamas-led attacks of October 7, 2023, and more than 200 taken captive.
UK trade envoy visits Israel, despite suspended free trade talks
Ian Austin, the UK trade envoy to Israel, has said in a post on X that he is currently in Israel to “meet businesses and officials to promote trade with the UK”.
His visit to Israel comes a week after the British government said it was suspending free trade negotiations with Israel due to its military conduct in the war on Gaza.
An earlier post from the UK embassy in Israel said Austin’s itinerary on Monday included visits to Israel’s Institute of Technology – Technion – and a “cutting-edge Customs Scanning Centre”.
Critics say Israel’s economy profits from selling surveillance technology and weapons it tests on Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Gaza, to countries around the world.
More than 800 lawyers say UK legally obliged to sanction Israel
An open letter detailing “concrete actions” the UK government should take over Israel’s war on Gaza has been signed by 823 legal professionals, including 11 former judges as well as dozens of lawyers and legal academics.
This includes imposing “financial and immigration sanctions” on “Israeli Ministers and other civil and military personnel reasonably suspected of involvement in unlawful conduct”, the document said.
The letter also urged the British government to “review existing trade ties with Israel” and confirm it will meet its obligations to execute International Criminal Court (ICC) arrest warrants, related to the occupied Palestinian territory.
Why the US and Israel are pushing to privatise aid to Gaza
The United States and Israel are backing a new aid initiative in Gaza that critics say sidelines the United Nations and violates humanitarian principles.
With biometrics and military ties, is it really about help or control?
Israel claims to have intercepted second missile fired from Yemen
We have reported earlier that the Israeli army has intercepted a missile launched from Yemen after sirens were heard in several areas of Israel.
Hours later, the military claimed to have intercepted another projectile launched from the same country, triggering no sirens.
There were no reports of damage or casualties.
Australian government ‘complicit in genocide until they sanction Israel’: Senator
Australian Senator Lidia Thorpe says recent statements from Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Israel’s war on Gaza are “too little, too late”.
“Weak words of condemnation are meaningless without action,” she said in a post on X.
Albanese’s “comments on Israel’s latest campaign of forced starvation come 597 days into the genocide in Gaza, while this government continues to supply weapon parts to the [Israeli military]”, Thorpe said.
“As Palestinians continue to starve between bombings, [the ruling Labor party] will remain complicit in genocide until they sanction Israel, end the arms trade, and join global action,” she added.
‘Jewish supremacy’ on display in occupied East Jerusalem march: Rights group
Prominent Israeli human rights group B’Tselem has described Israel’s Jerusalem Day march as an “example of Jewish supremacy” over Palestinians living in occupied East Jerusalem.
In post on social media accompanied by video clips of Israeli marchers attempting to kick in the door of a Palestinian home, and another showing a group engaged in anti-Islamic chants and dancing, B’Tselem said those involved “often” provoke and attack Palestinian residents of the city.
“The ‘Flag March’ is an example of Jewish supremacy: thousands of Jewish-Israelis celebrate defiantly while Palestinians are forced to shut their shops and stay home in fear,” the rights group said.
Photos: The child victims of Israel brutal war on Gaza
Where do Israel’s allies stand, as it starves and bombs Gaza?
Sweden’s Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said on Monday that the EU should impose sanctions on Israel to pressure it to allow humanitarian aid into Gaza.
Kristersson’s statement comes after France, the United Kingdom and Canada said they would take “concrete actions” if Israel did not “cease the renewed military offensive and lift its restrictions on humanitarian aid”.
French President Macron has also suggested his country may recognise the Palestinian state when it co-hosts a conference on Palestine with Saudi Arabia in New York City next month.
France would be following in the steps of 10 countries, including Mexico, Armenia, Slovenia, Ireland, Norway, Spain, the Bahamas, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica and Barbados, that have newly recognised Palestine since Israel’s war on Gaza began.
Far-right Israelis storm Al-Aqsa, UNRWA compounds amid Jerusalem Day march
Chanting, “Death to Arabs”, and under the protection of Israeli forces, thousands of Israelis gathered at the Damascus Gate of the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound for the so-called “Flag Day March” in occupied East Jerusalem.
They also call it “Jerusalem Day”, as it celebrates the annexation of East Jerusalem in 1967.
Among the marchers were members of the Israeli government, including ultra-nationalist Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir.
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Here’s what you need to know:
- At least three Palestinians were killed in overnight Israeli attacks on Gaza City and Az-Zawayda, our colleagues reported.
- Israeli forces shot dead a young Palestinian man in Jericho, in the occupied West Bank.
- Israeli soldiers with bulldozers entered Meiss el-Jabal in the Marjayoun district of southern Lebanon, according to NNA.
- Images of Palestinians burning alive in an attack on a school in Gaza City have drawn widespread condemnation.
- UNRWA said Israel’s forced displacement is treating Gaza’s population “like pinballs”.
- Israel said it intercepted another missile launched by Yemen’s Houthi fighters.
‘We must not give them humanitarian aid,’ Israel’s Ben-Gvir tells marchers
Israel’s far-right national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, addressed a large crowd participating in the controversial Jerusalem Day march on occupied East Jerusalem.
Speaking about Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip, Ben-Gvir said: “This victory must be taken further and further… we will enter Gaza and triumph,” The Times of Israel reported.
Ben-Gvir also said he had voiced his objections to Israel lifting its total blockade on food entering the Gaza Strip.
“I say to the prime minister, ‘Dear prime minister, we must not give them humanitarian aid. We must not give them fuel…’ Our enemies deserve only a bullet to the head!”
The Israeli finance minister also addressed the crowd of thousands, saying: “Are we settling the land of Israel? Are we liberating Gaza?” to cheers of approval.
Israeli military say air attack alert near Gaza Strip was false alarm
The military said air attack sirens that were activated in the Nir Am area, near the Gaza Strip, a short while ago at 07:15 local time (04:15 GMT) were a “false identification”.
The false alarm followed after the Israeli military said earlier this morning that it intercepted another missile launched from Yemen.
No damage or casualties were reported from the missile attack.
Israeli soldiers raid West Bank refugee camp as settler attacks continue
Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic are reporting that Israeli soldiers have raided Palestinian communities across the occupied West Bank as intensified Israeli settler attacks continue.
Here’s the latest:
- Israeli soldiers arrested two young Palestinian men after raiding the Askar al-Jadid refugee camp in Nablus.
- Israeli settlers set up new mobile homes near the illegal “Mitzpe Ziv” outpost, on the lands of the Palestinian village of Berin, in Hebron.
- Settlers set fire to Palestinian agricultural land in the town of Haris, in Salfit.
As we reported earlier, Israeli soldiers shot and killed a young Palestinian man in Jericho.
Pregnant Palestinian women endangered by Israeli military restrictions in West Bank: UN
The UN’s Population Fund (UNFPA) said international law must be upheld to protect people who need medical treatment, as the Israeli military’s restrictions on travel in the occupied West Bank are endangering pregnant women.
“These restrictions could threaten the lives of more than 50 women who give birth every day” in the West Bank, the UN agency said.
In a post on social media, the agency quoted a Palestinian mother who was forced to wait three weeks to have stitches removed after a caesarean-section birth.
“Snipers were targeting anything that moved on the road,” the mother from West Bank’s Tulkarem City was quoted as saying.
US-Israel aid plan ‘washes’ Gaza genocide
Former UNRWA spokesperson Chris Gunness has told Al Jazeera that a new scheme to deliver aid in Gaza is “aid washing”.
“It’s quite simply the use of humanitarian aid to justify the weaponisation of humanitarian assistance, but also to justify ethnic cleansing and genocide,” Gunness said.
Gunness added that the plan, led by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, could have other serious consequences.
“The subcontracting of aid to mercenaries is the sort of disaster we saw with the ‘flour massacre’ in February last year, when over 100 people were killed when inexperienced people brought in trucks,” he said.
UN rapporteur bewails ‘so many children – burning alive’ in Gaza attacks
Francesca Albanese, the UN’s rapporteur on human rights in the occupied Palestinian territory, said she is unable to look at fire any longer after seeing “so many people – so many children” burned alive in Israeli attacks on Gaza.
“I can’t look at fire anymore without feeling sick to my stomach,” the UN official said in a post on social media, which has been viewed more than 470,000 times.
“May the Palestinians forgive us,” she added.
Far-right Israeli ministers Ben-Gvir, Smotrich join Jerusalem march
Israel’s forced displacement treats Gaza’s population like human ‘pinballs’: UN
The UN’s agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) said that Gaza’s more than 2 million people are being “treated like pinballs” who have been continuously forced to “flee in search of safety that doesn’t exist”.
In a post on social media, UNRWA said it was “at a loss of words to do any justice to the suffering” the population of Gaza is being forced to endure.
“With nearly 20 months of war, people are exhausted, disoriented, grieving, and constantly in fear,” the agency said.
“This hardship and uncertainty must end,” it said.
Ms Rachel meets girl from Gaza
Children’s YouTube personality Rachel Accurso has recorded a video with Rahaf, a three-year-old Palestinian girl from the Gaza Strip.
Rahaf was in the United States to receive prosthetics after losing both her legs in an Israeli attack on her hIsraeli military says it shot down missile fired from YemenAccording to the Israeli military, “one missile launched from Yemen was intercepted” after rocket sirens were heard in several areas of Israel.
Israeli ground forces, military bulldozers enter southern Lebanon
Earlier, we reported that Israeli ground forces had entered an area near Meiss el-Jabal in the Marjayoun district of southern Lebanon.
Lebanon’s NNA news agency is reporting that the Israeli forces were accompanied by two bulldozers, which carried out bulldozing operations on the eastern outskirts of Meiss el-Jabal.
The United Nations says Israeli attacks have killed more than 70 civilians in Lebanon since Israel agreed on a ceasefire with Hezbollah on November 27.
Israeli forces kill young Palestinian man in occupied West Bank’s Jericho
Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic are reporting that Ahmed Jalayta, 20, died earlier this morning from wounds after being shot by Israeli forces during a raid on the Al-Arab neighbourhood in the occupied West Bank city of Jericho.
We will bring you more on this killing and other Israeli military raids in the occupied West Bank as information emerges.
US says Israel examining temporary ceasefire proposal
A US source familiar with the Steve Witkoff negotiations tells Al Jazeera that the Hamas claims are “inaccurate”, and that Hamas has not agreed to a ceasefire proposal.
In fact, what the US does see from Hamas is “disappointing and completely unacceptable”.
Instead of an agreement with Hamas, what the United States says is that there is a temporary ceasefire agreement proposal with the Israelis, and what this would do is allow for half of the living captives, as well as half of the deceased, to be returned.
In turn, the White House believes this would lead towards a diplomatic path of discussions that could result in a permanent ceasefire.
And this is the deal that the source tells Al Jazeera is what Hamas should take.
Israeli PM’s ‘new red lines’ for ending war
On Monday evening, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that he hopes to have some news about the captives today or tomorrow.
But, hours later, he clarified those remarks, saying that Israel is doing what it can to bring about the release of Israeli captives, and he meant that if Israel doesn’t get it accomplished today, they will try again tomorrow and the day after, and all the day moving forward.
Several Israeli officials who have spoken anonymously to Israeli media have denied the fact that Hamas has accepted any sort of deal, noting that the Witkoff proposal that is on the table, Israel has accepted and that they have been waiting for Hamas to do so.
However, Hamas says that one of their conditions for a deal is an end of the war. But the Israelis have long not wanted this condition at all, and the Israeli premier even added new red lines for what to him would bring an end of the war.
That includes the return of the Israeli captives, the demilitarisation of Hamas [and] the exile of military and political leaders. But, also, the implementation of Trump’s plan for Gaza.
This is a plan that has been widely condemned as ethnic cleansing, and the White House even walked it back several months ago.
But Netanyahu says that’s what he wants if there is to be an end of the war.
Deadly Israeli attacks continue in north, central Gaza
Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic are reporting several new deadly Israeli attacks.
An Israeli air attack targeting the Al-Karama area of Gaza City has killed a child, and injured others.
Another Israeli attack on a house in the Zeitoun neighbourhood of Gaza City killed at least one person, and injured others.
Al Jazeera Arabic also reported that the body of a Palestinian killed in an Israeli attack on the town of Az-Zawayda in the central Gaza Strip was taken to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital.
We’ll bring you more soon.
A recap of recent developments
Here’s what you need to know:
- Medical sources tell Al Jazeera that at least 81 Palestinians were killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza on Monday.
- An Al Jazeera source says Hamas has agreed to a 60-day Gaza truce proposal by United States special envoy Steve Witkoff, which includes the exchange of 10 living Israeli captives for Palestinian prisoners. However, a US official denied the claim, saying what Witkoff saw from the Palestinian group is “disappointing and completely unacceptable”.
- A widely condemned Israeli-backed aid distribution network has started operations in Gaza, a day after its chief resigned, citing concerns it violates “humanitarian principles”.
- A WHO spokeswoman says medicines are essentially gone from Gaza’s hospitals as the numbers of badly wounded from Israeli attacks surge.
- Sweden’s Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson says the EU should impose sanctions on Israel if the humanitarian situation in Gaza does not improve.
- Israeli Army Radio reported that Israeli ground forces have entered the Marjayoun district of southern Lebanon.
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