Compilation of news reports – IAK staff
Israeli forces killed at least 98 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip on Monday.
NOTE: These daily fatality figures are based on the number of dead and wounded Palestinians brought to hospitals, and does not include victims that are under the rubble or elsewhere, where ambulance and civil defense crews can not reach them.
Israel allows five aid trucks into Gaza after 73-day blockade,
The UN estimates 500 aid trucks a day are needed in Gaza as half a million Palestinians face starvation
After blocking all humanitarian aid into war-ravaged Gaza for nearly three months, Israel allowed five trucks of aid, including baby food, to enter the Gaza Strip on 19 May.
The Defense Ministry’s Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) said on Monday, “All aid was transferred following a thorough security inspection by personnel from the Ministry of Defense’s Crossing Points Authority.”
Farhan Haq, UN deputy spokesperson, said at a press briefing in March, “Basically, our estimate is we need about 500 trucks, which is what was happening pre-October 7, going in to the area and if we can get it up to that level, we could still avert a famine.”
The Israeli government approved the entry of “basic” amounts of aid into Gaza Sunday following three months of total blockade. Israel’s public broadcaster KAN, citing an unnamed Israeli official, said the measure is temporary and expected to last roughly one week.*
Bezalel Smotrich—an extremist government minister and longtime advocate of starving, mass killing, and depopulating Gaza, said of the move,
Truth be told, until the last of the hostages returns, we should also not let water into the Gaza Strip.
But the reality is that if we do that, the world will force us to halt the war immediately, and to lose. It would be winning the battle, and losing the war. I’m committed to winning the war.
We are disassembling Gaza, and leaving it as piles of rubble, with total destruction [which has] no precedent globally. And the world isn’t stopping us…[W]e are navigating [the campaign] responsibly and wisely, and that’s how we’ll continue to do [it].
*NOTE: Multiple humanitarian organizations and agencies have expressed grave concerns about the food security situation in Gaza, with many asserting that Israel’s actions are contributing to a dire humanitarian crisis and putting the population at risk of starvation – including Human Rights Watch, the World Food Program, Israeli human rights group B’Tselem, UNRWA, Oxfam, UNICEF, the World Health Organization, and the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification. Netanyahu’s statement that a week’s worth of aid will “prevent” a hunger crisis flies in the face all these groups and mountains of evidence.
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A recent interview with a reporter on the ground in Gaza indicates there are 3,000 trucks filled with aid just minutes away:
US-backed group set to distribute Gaza aid is a ‘dangerous sham’, warn NGOs
Nearly a dozen British aid and human rights groups have warned that a US-backed organization set to take over humanitarian aid distribution in Gaza is “a dangerous, politicized sham”.
In in an open letter on Monday, the organizations criticized the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) which they said has been launched without Palestinian involvement while the population in Gaza remains under a total siege.
The groups have called on governments to demand access for all aid providers “not just those who cooperate with an occupying power”.
They also raise concerns that the GHF plan, as laid out, will deliver a limited amount of supplies to only 1.2 million people in Gaza, even though there are more than 2.2 million people in the enclave.
“This is not a logistics problem,” they write. “It is an admission that the plan includes the displacement of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, or worse, the abandonment of more than 1 million people to famine.”
The organization’s executive director, Jake Wood, told CNN that the new plan was “not perfect, but this plan will be feeding people by the end of the month, in a scenario where no one has allowed aid in over the course of the last 10 weeks.”*
*NOTE: Wood’s statement completely ignores the fact that a highly experienced organization is ready and eager to feed the people of Gaza. UNRWA, the United Nations body with a mandate to help Palestinian refugees, has been doing just that for decades as Gazans wait for their internationally recognized right of return to be activated.
Israel has forbidden UNRWA from continuing its work based on an unsubstantiated accusation that 12 employees (out of a staff of 13,000) participated in the October 2023 attack. The 6-page dossier Israel issued, allegedly proving the guilt of twelve UNRWA employees out of a staff of 13,000, offers no compelling evidence.
UNRWA serves around 5.6 million Palestinian refugees.
Israel has long tried to dismantle UNWRA’s humanitarian support of Palestinian refugees.
Israeli unit detained mother and child, used them as human shields
A specialist Israeli military unit entered the city of Khan Younis, disguised as women, and attempted to “kidnap” Ahmed Kamel Sarhan, the commander of the Nasser Salah al-Din Brigades, according to a press release by Hamas on Monday.
Hamas went on to say that Sarhan was able to thwart the operation but was killed in the process, and the operation was a failure for the Israeli military.
They also said the Israeli army detained Sarhan’s wife and child and used them as “human shields” to withdraw from Khan Younis.
A relative said, “As you can see, they made a hole in the [wall], entered the house, executed the father and took a child and his mother, then left. As they withdrew, they hit anything that moved.”
At least five other people were killed, according to Nasser Hospital. The Israeli military gave no immediate comment on the apparent raid.
This Israeli military unit broke at least three laws:
- Perfidy: It is unlawful during war for members of the military to dress as civilians with the intent to betray, kill, injure, or capture an adversary.
- Human shield*: International humanitarian law (IHL) strictly prohibit the use of civilians and other protected persons as human shields.
- Detention of children**: Convention on the Rights of the Child, article 37(b) declares, “No child shall be deprived of his or her liberty unlawfully or arbitrarily.”
*NOTE: The Israeli army’s use of Palestinian civilians as human shields has been documented on a large scale.
**NOTE: Israel has a long history of detaining, imprisoning, and even torturing Palestinian children.
92% of Gaza homes destroyed by Israeli war
Israel’s ongoing war has destroyed 92% of Palestinian homes in the Gaza Strip, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) said on Monday.
“Families in Gaza face unimaginable devastation. According to the Protection Cluster, 92% of homes have been damaged or destroyed,” UNRWA said in a statement.
“Countless people have been displaced multiple times, and shelter is scarce,” it said, renewing its call for lifting the Israeli siege on the Palestinian enclave.
Israel orders expulsion of Palestinians from Khan Younis ahead of ‘unprecedented attack’
Families in #Gaza face unimaginable devastation. According to the Protection Cluster, 92% of homes have been damaged or destroyed, countless people have been displaced multiple times, and shelter is scarce.
UNRWA remains on the ground, providing critical aid.
The siege must be… pic.twitter.com/eSiNAOESyY
— UNRWA (@UNRWA) May 19, 2025
US may ‘abandon’ Israel if war continues, Trump team warns
People close to the US President Donald Trump have warned Israeli officials they risk losing American support if the war in Gaza is not ended, the Washington Post reported on Monday.
“Trump’s people are letting Israel know, ‘We will abandon you if you do not end this war,’” a person familiar with the discussions told to newspaper.
The source added that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has the political means to end the war but lacks the will.
Netanyahu is also said to be under pressure from Trump, who excluded Israel from its itinerary during his Middle East tour, to letting humanitarian aid in to the Gaza Strip.
Netanyahu previously acknowledged that Israel’s closest allies “cannot handle pictures of mass starvation.”
France, UK, Canada threaten ‘concrete actions’ if Israel continues Gaza invasion
On 19 May, the governments of the UK, France, and Canada issued a joint statement calling on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to halt the ongoing military invasion of Gaza and end the blockade on humanitarian aid shipments.
“We will not stand by while the Netanyahu government pursues these egregious actions. If Israel does not cease the renewed military offensive and lift its restrictions on humanitarian aid, we will take further concrete actions in response,” the statement reads.
After more than a year and a half of consistently backing Israel’s campaign to kill, maim, and starve tens of thousands of Palestinians, London, Paris, and Ottawa on Monday asserted that the latest aid blockade “risks breaching International Humanitarian Law.”
Latest draft of the “One, Big, Beautiful Bill Act,” which passed the House Budget Committee on Sunday, no longer includes a provision that critics have dubbed the “nonprofit killer.”
The measure, which has surfaced in several different forms over the past two years, would grant the secretary of the Treasury Department broad powers to strip nonprofits’ tax-exempt status by labeling them as a “terrorist supporting organization” — with little in the way of due process or evidentiary standards.
Proponents of the provision have been trying for well over a year to make it law, an effort that critics have described as an assault on free speech aimed in particular at pro-Palestine groups (continue reading here).
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STATISTICS OCTOBER 7, 2023 – MAY 19, 2025:
- At least 54,554 Palestinians killed, 130,081 injured – including:
- at least 53,573 killed in Gaza (~15,600 children)
- at least 981 killed in the West Bank (~196 children)
- at least 121,688 injured in Gaza
- at least 8,393 injured in the West Bank
According to Palestinian authorities, during the ceasefire Jan. 19 – March 18 2025, Israeli attacks killed at least 170 Gazans, and Israel committed at least 962 ceasefire violations.
Since the Israeli army resumed its assaults on Gaza on March 18, it has killed at least 3,427 people. 10 Israeli soldiers have been killed during the same time period.
Thousands of those killed in Gaza have yet to be identified, and an estimated 14,000 more are still buried under rubble.
Reported Israeli death toll from October 7, 2023 – May 19, 2025: ~1,599 – including ~1,139 on October 7, 2023 (~36 children), 415 military forces since the ground invasion began in Gaza, 46 military and civilians in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Israel.
By one count, Israeli attacks have killed approximately 210 Palestinian journalists and media workers; Palestinians have killed 4 Israelis (other groups have tallied between 179 and 269 Palestinian journalists killed – depending on the criteria used).
NOTE: It is unknown at this time how many of the deaths and injuries of Israelis on October 7 were caused by Israeli soldiers.
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