Compilation of news reports – IAK staff
In Gaza, 79 bodies were brought to hospitals in the last 24 hours, while 163 people were injured, according to the health ministry.
Among the dead were three Palestinians killed by Israeli forces at an aid distribution center.
Also killed in the West Bank Tuesday were Mohammad Yahya Mousa Jalayta, 20 in Jericho, and Mahmoud Faisal Kharraz, 32, in Nablus. Both men were shot to death by Israeli forces.
Chaos in south Gaza as US-Israeli aid mechanism falls apart hours after launch
Hundreds of thousands walked through Israeli military lines to reach the new distribution center in Rafah on Tuesday.
The new logistics group, Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), was chosen by Israel to ship food into Gaza and distribute – but was not prepared for the crowds. Staff at one point were forced to abandon their posts.
Israeli tank fire and gunfire were heard, and a military helicopter fired flares, the Associated Press reported.
The Israeli military said it fired “warning shots” near the compound to restore control.
It became clear later that Israeli forces killed three Palestinians and wounded 46, according to the Gaza Government Media Office.
The office accused the Israeli army of committing a massacre against civilians suffering from hunger, saying the victims had gathered in areas known as “buffer zones” where Israel had set up aid centers. Seven people remain missing, the office said in a statement.
Some Palestinians reportedly managed to obtain aid boxes with basic items including sugar, flour, pasta and tahini but most left empty-handed.
“This is not how aid is done,” Ahmed Bayram, spokesperson for the Norwegian Refugee Council, told Al Jazeera, describing the scene in Rafah as the “inevitable consequence of a reckless and inhumane plan”.
“These are the scenes we have literally been warning about all month now. It spread chaos. It spread confusion. And this is the result,” he said.
“I think the best thing that can be done now is for this plan to be cancelled, to be reversed, and for us professional humanitarians in the UN and NGOs to do our job. There are tonnes and tonnes of aid waiting across the border. [It’s a] very simple decision: open the gates and keep them open.”
According to a report in The New York Times, the GHF emerged from “private meetings of like-minded officials, military officers and businesspeople with close ties to the Israeli government”.
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GHF parcels contain non-nutritious, meagre amount of food: AJ correspondent
While the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) says it has handed out some 8,000 food boxes today, supposedly amounting to 462,000 meals, Al Jazeera’s Hind Khoudary says that the parcels she’s seen contain only a meagre amount of food that will not feed a family for long and is not nutritious enough.
She said she had seen a food box that contained 4kg (8.8lbs) of flour, a couple of bags of pasta, two cans of fava beans, a pack of tea bags and some [cookies], while other food parcels contained lentils and soup in very small quantities.
“This is definitely not enough, and it is not enough for all the humiliation that Palestinians are going through to receive these food parcels,” she said, reporting from Deir el-Balah in central Gaza.
Khoudary said that while these GHF food parcels might last a family a day or two, Palestinians used to receive packages from United Nations agencies that would last one to two weeks – until Israel imposed its total blockade on aid almost three months ago, and people increasingly became so hungry they could often not even cobble together one meal a day.
U.S. praises Gaza aid, tries to distance itself from foundation responsible for distribution
U.S. State Department spokeswoman Tammy Bruce repeatedly emphasized at a press briefing in Washington that the department does not speak for the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF).
At the same time, she highlighted the importance of the aid deliveries received so far.
Bruce called criticism from the United Nations and international aid organizations that the GHF is not independent and operates in Israel’s interest as “unfortunate.”
It is the “the height of hypocrisy” to complain about who delivers the aid or how it is organized, she said. Bruce did not address questions about possible political motives or a connection to Israeli resettlement goals.
“No entity can manage the humanitarian scene in Gaza except for U.N. agencies, foremost among them the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East,” said Ramy Abdul, chairman of the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor. “Any other parties are engaging in political blackmail and criminal acts, led by the U.S. and Israel.”
READ MORE OF TAMMY BRUCE’S COMMENTS HERE.
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Israel marks 800th planeload of US guns, bombs and ammo as war nears day 600
Eight hundred transport planes and 140 ships have delivered more than 90,000 tons of armaments and military equipment from the United States to Israel since the start of the war, the Defense Ministry says.
Tuesday morning, the 800th plane landed, according to the ministry.
The military equipment delivered to Israel since the beginning of the war includes “armored vehicles, munitions, ammunition, personal protection gear, and medical equipment,” the ministry says.
According to a report published last year by Brown University’s Costs of War project, Washington spent at least $22.76 billion between 7 October 2023 and 30 September 2024 to support Israel’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza and fuel a brutal regional war.
Israel has dropped more than 100,000 tons of bombs on Gaza. That’s 100+ kilotons. The Hiroshima bomb was roughly 15 kilotons. That means the small area of Gaza has been punished by bombing that is the equivalent in explosive force to seven Hiroshimas.
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Israeli Cabinet ‘secretly’ approves 22 new illegal settlements in occupied West Bank: Report
The Israeli Security Cabinet has “secretly” approved the construction of 22 new illegal settlements on Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank, the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth reported Tuesday.
According to the newspaper, the Cabinet “secretly approved two weeks ago the establishment of 22 settlements in Judea and Samaria,” using the Israeli term for the West Bank.
Nabil Abu Rudeineh, the Palestinian presidential spokesperson, stated: “The Israeli government’s secret approval to establish 22 new settlements in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, represents a serious escalation and a challenge to international legitimacy and international law.”
Soldiers Fire At Journalists In Jenin
Israeli occupation forces targeted a group of journalists in the center of Jenin city, in the occupied West Bank’s northern part, on Tuesday morning, firing tear gas bombs to obstruct their coverage of the ongoing 127-day military offensive.
Media sources said the soldiers stormed a commercial complex, positioning snipers on rooftops, while deploying tear gas and smoke bombs near Cinema Square and the public transportation hub.
The soldiers then deliberately targeted a group Palestinian journalists with gas bombs, and tried to force media outlets away from the invaded areas.
The invasions are part of broader attack, initiated earlier Tuesday, across various parts of the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, storming and ransacking homes, in addition to many currency exchange shops and commercial areas.
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STATISTICS OCTOBER 7, 2023 – MAY 27, 2025:
- At least 55,065 Palestinians killed, 132,093 injured – including:
- at least 54,084 killed in Gaza (~16,500 children)
- at least 981 killed in the West Bank (~199 children)
- at least 123,308 injured in Gaza
- at least 8,785 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 3,924 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 27, 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 215 Palestinian journalists and media workers; Palestinians have killed 4 Israeli journalists (other groups have tallied between 180 and 274 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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