- At 36 people have been killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza today, including eight killed in an attack on the home of Gaza journalist Osama al-Arbid in the northern Strip.
- Israeli warplanes have bombed Yemen’s Sanaa airport for the second time this month, as country’s defence minister vows more strikes.
- At least three Palestinians were killed and 46 wounded after the Israeli military opened fire on crowds who rushed to an aid point run by the controversial Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.
- Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 54,056 Palestinians and wounded 123,129, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry. The Government Media Office updated its 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 of October 7, 2023, and more than 200 were taken captive.
Hamas claims to have reached agreement with US envoy over Gaza ceasefire
Hamas says it has reached an agreement with the US Middle East envoy, Steve Witkoff, on a general framework for a ceasefire in Gaza.
In a statement published on Telegram, the group said the deal would involve the “complete withdrawal of occupation forces” from Gaza, secure the flow of aid into the territory, and establish a “professional committee” to assume control of Gaza’s affairs once the agreement was announced.
The accord would involve Hamas releasing 10 Israeli captives, and an unspecified number of bodies, in exchange for the release of Palestinian prisoners, according to the group. The statement did not specify how many Palestinian prisoners would be released.
Hamas added that it was waiting on a final response to the proposed framework.
The announcement comes a day after our report on Tuesday that Hamas and Witkoff had agreed to the draft deal at a meeting in the Qatari capital, Doha. Al Jazeera sources said the deal involved a 60-day ceasefire, and the release of 10 living Israeli captives held in Gaza over two stages.
But an unnamed US official rejected the claim, saying the deal being discussed was “unacceptable”, while Israeli officials said that no Israeli government could accept the terms, according to the Reuters news agency.
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Here are the latest developments:
- Nearly 380 writers from the UK and Ireland have signed an open letter demanding an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, labelling Israel’s actions in the enclave a “genocide”.
- The head of the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), Philippe Lazzarini, has condemned the new US-backed aid model, calling it a “distraction from atrocities” taking place in Gaza.
- Twenty-two out of Gaza’s 38 hospitals are out of service, the Health Ministry has said, with those still operating facing a “catastrophic” shortage of supplies.
- The Israeli army has said it confiscated more than 7 million shekels ($2m) during raids on money exchanges in the West Bank yesterday, which killed at least one Palestinian and wounded more than 30.
- Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has said he plans to continue expanding settlements in the occupied West Bank, which are illegal under international law, despite reports that the International Criminal Court is preparing to issue an arrest warrant against him.
Netanyahu says Hamas leader Mohammad Sinwar killed
There has been no immediate comment from Hamas on the Israeli prime minister’s claim.
Mohammad Sinwar became the group’s Gaza chief after his brother Yahya was killed by the Israeli military last year.
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US-backed Gaza aid group opens second site amid widespread criticism
The controversial US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation said aid distribution continued in the coastal enclave without incident and it had opened a second distribution site.
“Across the two sites, approximately 14,550 food boxes have been distributed so far. Each box feeds 5.5 people for 3.5 days, totaling 840,262 meals,” the foundation said in a statement.
As we reported earlier, Gaza Humanitarian Foundation has said it had temporarily halted aid distribution in Gaza due to disorder, in a statement carried by Reuters.
The GHF is working to open four sites and said it has “plans to build additional sites across Gaza in the weeks ahead”.
The GHF operation has come under severe criticism from aid groups and international organisations such as the United Nations.
Earlier today, the head of the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), Philippe Lazzarini, condemned the aid model, saying it is a “distraction from atrocities” taking place there.
Gaza’s Ministry of Health reported at least one person was killed and dozens of others were wounded on Tuesday at a GHF aid distribution point in Rafah after Israeli forces opened fire.
Video shows Yemeni Airlines plane destroyed in Israeli strike
Khaled al-Shaif, the director of Sanaa International Airport, has posted footage on X of the aircraft hit by an Israeli air strike.
The footage, verified by Al Jazeera’s Sanad news agency, shows black plumes of smoke rising from the gutted Yemeni Airlines on the runway.
Earlier, al-Shaif said Israel destroyed “the last functional aircraft belonging to Yemeni Airlines at Sanaa International Airport”.
Mother of 20-year-old killed in Jit says son left to bleed to death
The mother of Jassem Ibrahim al-Sada has given an account of her 20-year-old son’s last moments before he was killed during an Israeli military raid on the town of Jit in the occupied West Bank.
“They opened the door on him, shot him and left him bleeding. They did not allow the ambulance to transport him, and they vandalised the house and abused him,” she said in a video clip posted by a Palestinian journalist and verified by Al Jazeera’s Sanad unit.
The Palestinian news agency Wafa quoted family sources as saying that al-Sada was the youngest member of his family and worked as a vendor at a small stall in the village.
Dozens of people killed in Gaza today
Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic are reporting that at least 36 Palestinians have been killed in the Gaza Strip in Israeli attacks today, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry.
US-backed Gaza aid model ‘distraction from atrocities’, UNRWA chief says
The head of the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) has condemned the new United States-backed aid model in Gaza, saying it is a “distraction from atrocities” taking place there, a day after chaotic scenes at an aid distribution centre in the coastal enclave.
On Tuesday, thousands of Palestinians clambered over fences to reach the humanitarian supplies at a distribution site run by the previously unknown, US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), in Rafah, southern Gaza.
“We have seen yesterday the shocking images of hungry people pushing against fences, desperate for food. It was chaotic, undignified and unsafe,” UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini told reporters at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo.
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Palestine Red Crescent receives body of man killed in West Bank
As we reported earlier, a Palestinian man was killed during an Israeli raid on the town of Jit, near Qalqilya in the occupied West Bank.
Now, the Palestine Red Crescent says that the body of the man, Jassem Ibrahim al-Sada, has been transferred to the medical organisation by Israeli forces.
It said it had been provided “no information” on the man’s death by Israeli forces.
The man’s cousin, Ahmed, told the AFP news agency that Israeli soldiers had come at dawn and shot him in his home.
He said his cousin “was not wanted and had no involvement in any activity”.
The Israeli army did not immediately respond to AFP’s request for comment.
The West Bank has seen a surge of deadly violence since the outbreak of the war in Gaza, with at least 937 Palestinians killed by Israeli troops or settlers in the territory, according to Health Ministry figures, and at least 34 Israelis killed in the same period.
Gaza aid temporarily halted over ‘disorder’
The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation has said it has temporarily halted aid distribution in Gaza due to disorder, according to Reuters.
The controversial Israeli-US-backed foundation said it was working to resolve the issues to guarantee safety.
At least three Palestinians were killed and 46 wounded after the Israeli military opened fire on crowds who rushed to an aid point run by the organisation on Tuesday.
Three dead in Israeli attack on southern Gaza
Our colleagues are reporting that three Palestinians were killed in an Israeli bombing of a tent housing displaced people in the al-Mawasi area west of Khan Younis, once deemed a “safe zone” for Palestinians in Gaza by the Israeli military.
Earlier, we reported that two people were wounded by Israeli drone fire in the al-Mawasi area.
Families in Tel Aviv mark 600 days for Gaza captives
Families of captives held in Gaza lashed out at Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a protest to mark 600 days of war.
Plane targeted at Sanaa airport scheduled for Hajj pilgrimage
Israeli aircraft have carried out four air strikes on Sanaa International Airport this morning, targeting the runway and a Yemeni Airlines plane, the head of the airport says.
Khaled al-Shaif, the airport’s director, said on X that Israel targeted “the last functional aircraft belonging to Yemeni Airlines at Sana’a International Airport, completely destroying it”.
Flight data indicated that the targeted aircraft was an Airbus A320-233 that had arrived from the Jordanian capital, Amman. It landed in Sanaa at about 9:10am (6:10 GMT).
According to information from Flightradar24 obtained by Al Jazeera, the plane was scheduled to fly to the Saudi city of Jeddah for the Hajj pilgrimage. On Friday, the airport had announced it would operate two flights a day to Jeddah for nine days to transport pilgrims.
Gaza Health Ministry says medical supplies level ‘catastrophic’
Twenty-two hospitals out of 38 are out of service in Gaza, the Health Ministry has said, while those that continue to operate are facing a “catastrophic” shortage of medical supplies.
Here are some figures the ministry provided in a statement:
- Forty-seven percent of the essential medicine list has been depleted, as well as 65 percent of the medical consumables list.
- Only 30 primary care centres are currently operating out of 105.
- Fifty operating rooms are currently working, albeit in dire conditions, out of 104.
- Twenty-five oxygen stations out of a total of 34 have been destroyed, leaving only 9 partly operational.
- Seven MRI machines were destroyed, leaving the Gaza Strip without diagnostic MRI equipment.
- Forty-nine of 110 generators are operating in the Gaza Strip’s hospitals, and they urgently need maintenance and fuel supplies.
Israel’s Ben-Gvir promises to expand settlements despite possible ICC arrest warrant
Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir says reports that the International Criminal Court (ICC) is preparing to issue an arrest warrant against him would not deter him from carrying out his political plans, which centre around the expansion of settlements in the occupied West Bank, which are illegal under international law.
“I have one clear message to the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in The Hague: No arrest warrant of any kind will stop me from continuing to work for the people of Israel and the land of Israel,” he said on X.
“The prosecutor in The Hague doesn’t scare me,” he continued. “I’ll do everything I can to protect my people, even if it costs me an arrest warrant.”
“When The Hague is against me, I know I’m on the right path,” he concluded.
The comments follow a report by the The Wall Street Journal that ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan is working to issue arrest warrants for Ben-Gvir and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich due to their role in the expansion of Israeli settlements.
Last year, the ICC issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, then-Defence Minister Yoav Gallant and a Hamas military commander for alleged war crimes in Gaza. Mohammed Deif, commander of Hamas’s armed wing, had been killed in an Israeli air strike four months earlier in Gaza.
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?
Iran hangs man accused of spying for Israel
Iran has executed a man convicted of spying for Israel, according to a state media report.
The man, Pedram Madani, had been accused of visiting Israel and meeting with intelligence officers to pass on classified information about buildings where “infrastructure” equipment was installed, Iran’s official IRNA news agency reported.
The report said that Madani had received foreign currency and crypto in exchange for passing on the information, and had also met with Mossad officers at Israel’s embassy in Belgium.
Madani was executed after Iran’s supreme court upheld a death sentence issued by a lower court.
Israel’s security agency had no immediate comment.
Madani had been named as a prisoner “at imminent risk of execution” in a report published by Human Rights Watch on Tuesday, which accused Iranian authorities of conducting a “horrific execution spree”.
The Oslo-based group said at least 478 people have been executed by Iran so far in 2025, a 75 percent jump from the same period the previous year.
In April, Iran executed another man, Mohsen Langarneshin, who was convicted of working with Mossad and of playing a role in the 2022 killing of a Revolutionary Guard colonel in Tehran.
Only 17 hospitals in Gaza partially operational: Health ministry
The director-general of the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza, Munir al-Bursh, has spoken to Al Jazeera about the healthcare situation in the war-ravaged coastal enclave.
Here is a summary of his translated comments:
- There are only 17 hospitals in Gaza that are partially functioning today.
- Twenty percent of hospitals in Gaza are unable to provide ambulance services.
- The occupation arrested more than 360 of our medical personnel in Gaza.
‘Nothing has changed’ as hunger grips Gaza
Heba Jabr, 29, who sleeps in a tent in southern Gaza with her husband and their two children, has been struggling to find food.
“Dying by bombing is much better than dying from the humiliation of hunger and being unable to provide bread and water for your children,” she told the AFP news agency.
Israel imposed a full blockade on Gaza for more than two months before allowing supplies in at a trickle last week.
Forty-year-old Bassam Daloul said that after 600 days of war, “nothing has changed.”
“Death continues, and Israeli bombing does not stop,” he told AFP, adding that “even hoping for a ceasefire feels like a dream and a nightmare”.
UK and Irish writers pen open letter calling for Gaza ceasefire
Nearly 380 writers from the UK and Ireland have signed an open letter demanding an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, labelling Israel’s actions in the enclave a “genocide”.
The letter, signed by high-profile writers including Zadie Smith, Ian McEwan and Jeanette Winterson, called on the world “to join us in ending our collective silence and inaction in the face of horror”.
The letter also called for the immediate distribution of food and medical aid in Gaza, as well as sanctions on Israel.
“This genocide implicates us all,” it concluded. “We bear witness to the crimes of genocide, and we refuse to approve them by our silence.”
The letter comes a day after 300 French-language writers, including Nobel Literature prize winners Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio and Annie Ernaux, put their names to a similar letter decrying Israel’s actions.
On Monday, more than 800 UK-based legal experts, including former senior judges, wrote to UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer calling for sanctions on Israel, and warning that “urgent and decisive action is required to avert the destruction of the Palestinian people of Gaza.”
PFLP urges global action to stop Israel’s war on Gaza
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine has put out a statement regarding the situation in the Gaza Strip.
Here are its translated comments:
- As the 600th day of the war of extermination passes, we call for an escalation of global and Arab popular anger to stop the aggression.
- The priority is to stop the aggression and break the siege on Gaza.
- This is the responsibility of the international community and humanity as a whole.
Gaza death toll rises
Israeli military attacks since the start of the war have killed at least 54,084 Palestinians and wounded 123,308 others, according to the latest update by Gaza’s Health Ministry.
The Israeli army has killed 3,924 Palestinians and wounded 11,267 others since violating the ceasefire agreement on March 18.
The ministry added that 28 bodies and 179 injured people arrived at Gaza hospitals in the past 24-hour reporting period.
Pope Leo laments deaths of children in Gaza, appeals for ceasefire
The pope has called for an end to the onslaught in Gaza during a weekly general audience in Saint Peter’s Square.
“In the Gaza Strip, the intense cries are reaching Heaven more and more from mothers and fathers who hold tightly to the bodies of their dead children,” the pontiff, who was elected on May 8 to replace the late Pope Francis, said.
“To those responsible, I renew my appeal: stop the fighting,” he added. “Liberate all the hostages. Completely respect humanitarian law.”
Israeli air strike in central Gaza leads to casualties
Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic are reporting that an unspecified number of people have been wounded in an Israeli air strike on Nuseirat refugee camp.
At least 15 people have been killed in the Gaza Strip since dawn, medical sources have told Al Jazeera.