Compilation of news reports – IAK staff
Israeli attacks have killed at least 76 people across Gaza since early on Friday, according to medical sources.
Only 119 aid trucks have arrived in Gaza since Israel lifted the blockade on Monday to allow limited aid into Gaza according to an umbrella network of Palestinian aid groups, reported Reuters on Friday.
At least 75 percent of households in Gaza report that they do not have enough water to drink, UNICEF’s deputy executive director said on Friday.
People in northern Gaza are still waiting for aid to reach them, Al Jazeera reported on Friday.
At least 94 percent of Gaza’s hospitals have been damaged or destroyed in Israel’s war on the enclave, according to the World Health Organization.
RELATED: Gaza Pediatrician’s Nine Children Killed, Bodies Brought to Her Hospital
Local and international media including Al Jazeera reported 50 or more people were massacred when the IDF bombed the home of the Dardouna family in the northern city of Jabalia al-Balad late on Thursday. Most of the casualties were women and children.
A one-month-old baby was exhumed from under the rubble following the Israeli bombing of the Dardouna family home in Jabalia al-Balad, North Gaza. His parents, who had named him just two days before the attack, remain buried beneath the debris (a disturbing video of the baby can be seen here).
Israel bombs Gaza aid guards as they are attacked by looters
Israeli strikes killed six Palestinian guards protecting aid trucks on Friday, as they were being attacked by looters, in what appears to be the latest coordination between the army and local gangs.
According to Anadolu Agency, the six were killed and others wounded in Deir al-Balah while attempting to “secure the arrival of aid trucks to international organisation warehouses in the city”.
Armed individuals began attacking the aid trucks to loot the supplies, local media reported. As security forces tried to repel the assailants and safeguard the aid, Israeli warplanes launched strikes in the area.
Civilians were also targeted during the intense bombardment. Ambulance crews responding to rescue the wounded and retrieve the bodies of the dead reportedly came under fire as well.
The Government Media Office in Gaza strongly condemned the Israeli attack, describing it as “part of a plan to engineer starvation and disrupt humanitarian relief” (continue reading here).
FACT: Israeli news outlets have been reporting for months that the Israeli military itself is behind the looting of aid trucks.
The target of the Israeli military attacks were “Hamas operatives, who were spotted next to humanitarian aid trucks,” The Times of Israel reports, citing an unnamed Israeli military source.
NOTE: Israel has consistently bombed civilian locations, claiming that Hamas fighters were present, then failed to produce evidence, or used unnecessarily destructive bombs. Previously, Israel has been caught in many lies – for example, this and this and this.
The World Food Programme has said 15 aid trucks were looted on Friday night in southern Gaza as “hunger, desperation and anxiety” fuel rising insecurity.
Extermination as negotiation: Understanding Israel’s strategy in Gaza
In the weeks since the unveiling of “Operation Gideon’s Chariots,” the renewed Israeli offensive to permanently “conquer” all of Gaza, it has become increasingly clear that Israel’s internal decision-making is not oriented toward a singular strategic endgame, but toward a recursive logic of exhaustion.
Israel isn’t choosing between total conquest and technocratic containment via an Arab-brokered ceasefire plan. Instead, it is deploying these options as devices to stretch the war and weaponize its duration rather than end it. Neither is an actual alternative to the other.
This is not a paradox, but a method. “Gideon’s Chariots,” with its objective to concentrate over two million Palestinians in Rafah and “cleanse” the remainder of Gaza, is not merely a plan of conquest. It is a fantasy of sterilization dressed in logistical rationality (continue reading here).
RELATED: Israel prepares for ‘intensified phase’ of Operation ‘Gideon’s Chariots’ in Gaza
As the exodus from northern Gaza continues, Palestinians fear a ‘final displacement’
Residents of northern Gaza began fleeing en masse on the morning of Saturday, May 17, as the Israeli military launched a wave of indiscriminate shelling and airstrikes on Beit Lahia and its surrounding areas. The bombardment marked the onset of Israel’s expanded ground invasion to “conquer” the Gaza Strip.
That same night, as residents sensed the imminent threat posed by the indiscriminate shelling and anticipated an Israeli ground incursion into their neighborhoods, many prepared to flee at first light.
In a statement on Saturday, the Gaza Government Media Office said that “the Israeli occupation has displaced more than 300,000 Palestinians from northern Gaza” within the space of 48 hours.
Residents fear that once operations in the north are complete, the full evacuation of Gaza City may follow. These concerns have been further amplified by reports suggesting that countries such as Libya and Syria may be preparing to receive Palestinian refugees (continue reading here).
120 days of Israeli West Bank assaults kill over 91 Palestinians, including 13 children
Israeli military operations in the occupied West Bank over the past 120 days have killed at least 91 Palestinians, including 13 children, a rights group has said.
The Ramallah-based Al-Haq rights organization said the military raids and operations have included the use of snipers, airstrikes, reconnaissance drones, and Apache helicopters; armed military vehicles and bulldozers have also been used to block off refugee camps in the West Bank.
The death toll includes at least 13 children and three women, Al-Haq reported, adding that there has been significant destruction to infrastructure in Jenin, Tulkarem, Nablus, and Tubas.
Since the start of Israeli assaults on Jenin, at least 16,600 Palestinians have been forcibly displaced from their homes in Jenin.
MORE WEST BANK HEADLINES:
(For background on the West Bank, read this and this)
Illegal Israeli settlers set fire to Palestinian homes in newest West Bank attack
Israeli settlers force about 150 Palestinians to leave their West Bank village
Israeli settler turns 800-year-old Islamic shrine into house
Israeli military raid home of man killed in air strike, evict mourners
Israeli Soldiers Raid West Bank Cities & Towns
PCHR: Israeli Occupation Forces Bomb Last Functioning Hospital in Northern Gaza
Palestinian envoy to the UN speaks to Security Council
The Palestinian ambassador to the UN delivered a powerful call to action to end Israel’s war on the enclave.
“The whole world chants for Gaza, weeps for Gaza, aches for Gaza, is outraged by what is happening in Gaza,” Majed Bamya said.
“But the people in Gaza, the children of Gaza, have no use for our chants, for our tears and for our outrage – if they are not accompanied by actions that could actually stop the killing, feed the hungry, heal the wounded, save those who can still be saved.”
Bamya has also urged the international community to ask questions of itself as Israel’s war on Gaza continues unabated.
“What are we going to say?” Bamya asked the Security Council.
“That the whole world was opposed to mass indiscriminate killing, but it continued anyways? The whole world was opposed to wanton destruction, but stayed until all of Gaza was flattened? The whole world was outraged by the use of starvation as a method of war and the declared blockade, but could not lift it?
“That it’s ultimately for Israel to decide who lives and who dies? If that’s our plan, God have mercy over the 2 million people in Gaza.”
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US NEWS ON PROTESTS, ETC:
Harvard sues White House over foreign student ban
(For background on the student protest movement, read this)
NEWS ON MEDIA BIAS & CENSORSHIP:
(Find more on media bias and censorship here and here)
CNN distorts student’s comments on Gaza genocide
France rejects Israeli accusations of anti-semitism as ‘absurd’
French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot dismissed as “absurd and slanderous” Israel’s claim that European countries are fueling antisemitism by criticizing its actions in Gaza.
“Accusing of encouraging anti-Semitism or [supporting] Hamas whoever defends the two-state solution is absurd and slanderous”, Barrot wrote on X, reaffirming that France remains “indefectibly attached to the security of Israel”.
RELATED: French teacher suspended over minute’s silence tribute to Palestinians in Gaza
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STATISTICS OCTOBER 7, 2023 – MAY 23, 2025:
- At least 54,882 Palestinians killed, 130,986 injured – including:
- at least 53,901 killed in Gaza (~16,500 children)
- at least 981 killed in the West Bank (~196 children)
- at least 122,593 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 3,747 people. 11 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 23, 2025: ~1,601 – including ~1,139 on October 7, 2023 (~36 children), 416 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 211 Palestinian journalists and media workers; Palestinians have killed 4 Israeli journalists (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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- Students around the US on hunger strikes to protest Israel’s killing & starvation of Gazans
- The Group Behind Project 2025 Has a Plan to Crush the Pro-Palestinian Movement
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- Top genocide scholars unanimous that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza: Dutch investigation
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- Trump’s Extremely Dangerous and Dystopian Gaza Aid Plan
- Gaza: Latest Israeli Plan Inches Closer to Extermination
- The desperation of Gaza famine denialism
- Israeli Forces Bombed Two Gaza Hospitals in One Day
- Israel’s ethnic cleansing of the West Bank is growing more frantic
- Nakba of the Children: How Israel is Targeting the Palestinian Future
- 77 Years of Dispossession — Everything You Need to Know about the Nakba
- Did PBS’s Censorship Lead to the October 7th attack on Israel?
