Compilation of news reports – IAK staff
At least 70 Palestinians were killed in Israeli airstrikes across the Gaza Strip on Thursday.
Among the dead were 24 people who lost their lives in a single strike on a family home in the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza.
Ten per cent of Gaza’s Palestinian population has been killed, injured, disappeared, or detained as a result of the genocide committed in the Strip by Israel since 7 October 2023, Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor reported.
Nine police officers killed in Israeli strike in Gaza City
Gaza’s Interior Ministry revealed: “Israeli occupation aircraft targeted a number of police officers at the Saraya Junction in central Gaza City this afternoon, while they were carrying out their duty to confront a group of thieves.
“This resulted in the deaths of several police officers and passersby in a new massacre perpetrated by the occupation.”
The ministry added that the thieves and Israeli forces work hand in hand to “create chaos and spread fear among citizens”.
Blasts reported near GHF site as Gaza aid seekers targeted by Israeli army
The sounds of explosions were heard near the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) distribution site in central Gaza on 28 May, coinciding with continued chaos, violence against aid seekers, and the failure of the US-Israeli mechanism to meet the desperate needs of starving Palestinians.
Around the same time, local media outlets reported that US military contractors operating the distribution site fired stun grenades at Palestinians seeking aid.
Video footage showed Palestinians running as stun grenades and what looked like tear gas popped behind them.
RELATED: What’s inside the boxes of aid being distributed in Gaza?
Third US, Israeli aid center begins operating Thursday: Israeli Army Radio
The third US and Israel-backed aid center opened in central Gaza, south of the Netzarim Corridor, Israel’s Army Radio has reported.
The new distribution center, like the two that have already opened, will be able to provide food and humanitarian aid to 300,000 Palestinians every week, the army-operated station stated.
The location of the new center is intended to push people from Gaza City and the northern part of the Strip to evacuate south, it added.
ISIS, CIA and the GHF: Israel’s New Frontier of Control through Hunger
The Israeli-backed Gaza aid distribution plan, now being implemented in the besieged coastal territory, is a sinister plot. It not only privatizes humanitarian assistance during a genocide, but the more that emerges about the shady Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, the more horrifying its prospects appear.
What has been revealed as the brainchild of the Israeli military, which began developing following October 7, 2023, the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) is a recipe for utter disaster.
It was also reported that unnamed firms linked to the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation have direct ties to Israeli Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer. Even worse for the project’s PR is the fact that Israeli Knesset member, Avigdor Lieberman, claimed that the dark money funding the GHF was coming from the Israeli government (continue reading here).
RELATED: Israel and US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation is an illegitimate and inhumane aid scheme that risks violating international law
‘Critical lifeline’ al-Awda Hospital now out of service, WHO says
The director-general of the World Health Organization has announced that al-Awda Hospital in northern Gaza is now out of service after an Israeli order was issued to evacuate the building.
There are still 97 people, including 13 patients inside the building, and the UN is planning a mission tomorrow to transfer patients to another facility, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a statement on X, adding that the hospital’s medical equipment cannot be relocated due to impassable roads.
“With al-Awda’s closure, there is no remaining functional hospital in North Gaza – severing a critical lifeline for the people there,” he said.
Israel used internationally banned weapons in Bureij camp attack: Hospital spokesperson
Israeli forces used internationally prohibited weapons to bomb the Bureij refugee camp, says the spokesperson of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, the facility where victims and the wounded were taken to after the attack.
Bodies arrived to the hospital charred, the spokesperson told Al Jazeera.
Three houses were consecutively targeted without any prior warning; at least 19 Palestinians were killed in the attack.
Israel blocking UN from retrieving aid to deliver it to Gaza: Spokesperson
Stephane Dujarric, the UN chief’s spokesperson, says there are 600 aid trucks on the Gaza side of the Karem Abu Salem crossing (also known as Kerem Shalom), but Israel has blocked the world body from retrieving the supplies for the past three days.
“We need [Israeli] clearance to go get the material. We need their clearance to go back, and we also need to accept that the route that they’ve … given us a green light for is not one where we feel it is unsafe for the cargo and our colleagues to travel on,” Dujarric told reporters.
“The problems are that the insecurity continues, and frankly, they are not making it easy for us to deliver humanitarian goods,” Dujarric said.
No aid trucks have reached northern Gaza yet.
Israel Aid Blockage Making Gaza ‘Hungriest Region on Earth,’ UN Office Says
Israel is blocking all but a trickle of humanitarian aid from entering Gaza, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said, with almost no ready-to-eat food entering what its spokesperson described as “the hungriest place on earth.
Spokesperson Jens Laerke said only 600 of 900 aid trucks had been authorized to get to Israel’s border with Gaza, and from there a mixture of bureaucratic and security obstacles made it all but impossible to safely carry aid into the region.
“What we’ve been able to bring in is flour,” he told a regular news conference on Friday. “That’s not ready to eat, right? It needs to be cooked… 100 percent of the population of Gaza is at risk of famine.”
Contractor for Israeli military killed in northern Gaza
An employee of a contracting company carrying out “engineering work” for the Israeli military on behalf of the Ministry of Defense has been killed in the northern Gaza Strip, the army said in a statement.
It did not provide additional details on the identity of the person or company or details of the task.
Hamas debating U.S. proposal for Gaza ceasefire, officials say
The White House is awaiting Hamas’ response to the new Gaza hostage and ceasefire deal proposal President Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff presented on Wednesday night, but U.S. officials are sounding less optimistic about an imminent breakthrough than 24 hours earlier.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Israel signed off on the proposal before Witkoff submitted it to Hamas. But some in the militant group believe that rather than meeting in the middle, Witkoff’s offer included new concessions to Israel.
Hamas said in a statement that it was still studying the proposal. But members of the group have expressed serious concerns about the lack of clear guarantees that Israel won’t again unilaterally end the ceasefire, as it did in March, according to two sources with direct knowledge (continue reading here).
Israel confirms plans to create 22 new settlements in occupied West Bank
Israel has said it will establish 22 new settlements in the occupied West Bank, including the legalization of outposts already built without government authorization, after a security cabinet vote held in secret last week.
Far-right defense minister Israel Katz said the settlement decision “strengthens our hold on Judea and Samaria”, using the biblical term for the West Bank, “anchors our historical right in the Land of Israel, and constitutes a crushing response to Palestinian terrorism”.
He added it was also “a strategic move that prevents the establishment of a Palestinian state that would endanger Israel” (continue reading here).
The Israeli government’s approval of 22 new settlements in the occupied West Bank is a “deliberate obstacle” to Palestinian statehood, UK minister for the Middle East and North Africa, Hamish Falconer, said on Thursday.
Hamas has reacted to reports of Israel approving 22 new settlements in the occupied West Bank, saying the move is a “blatant challenge to international will and a grave violation of UN resolutions”.
NOTE: Israel has illegally built around 280 settlements on Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, which are home to more than 700,000 illegal settlers. Israeli settlements and settlers on Palestinian land are a violation of international law, and considered by many Palestinians to be the main barrier to any lasting peace agreement.
Some analysts have described this placement of Israeli civilians on what may be considered hostile territory (i.e. non-Israeli land) amounts to making settlers human shields.
Some settler groups have a history of violence against Palestinians, often with the assistance of Israeli military forces.
In a landmark advisory opinion on July 19, 2024, the International Court of Justice declared Israel’s decades-long occupation of Palestinian land “illegal” and demanded the evacuation of all settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
Amnesty Int’l says settlers displacing dozens of West Bank Palestinian herding communities
Dozens of Palestinian herding communities in the occupied West Bank are being displaced due to Israeli-supported settler violence, Amnesty International has said.
“This forcible transfer is a war crime,” Amnesty wrote on X. “States must act now and live up to their obligations to cooperate to bring Israel’s unlawful occupation to an end and to dismantle its system of apartheid against Palestinians.”
MORE WEST BANK HEADLINES:
(For background on the West Bank, read this and this)
Mahmoud Khalil demands answers on Trump admin’s ties to anti-Palestinian groups
Lawyers for Columbia University graduate Mahmoud Khalil filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request Thursday for communication between the Trump administration and several anti-Palestinian groups they allege played a role in their client’s arrest and detention.
“For years, these anti-Palestinian doxxing groups have served as agents of repression, weaponizing inflammatory rhetoric and conflating criticism of Israel with hate speech in order to chill activism for Palestinian rights,” Ayla Kadah, an attorney and Justice Fellow at the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) said in a statement.
“Now, evidence seems to point to the Trump administration colluding with them,” she said. “Mahmoud deserves answers, and so does the public (continue reading here).
RELATED: Mahmoud Khalil Alleges the Trump Admin and Pro-Israel Groups Coordinated to Target Him
MORE US NEWS ON PROTESTS, ETC:
(For background on the student protest movement, read this)
MIT class president calls out university’s ties with Israeli military
Docs expose Israeli influence on UK anti-genocide protest prosecutions
Students achieve Israeli divestment victories on US college campuses
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Have you looked at satellite images of Gaza? You should
STATISTICS OCTOBER 7, 2023 – MAY 29, 2025:
- At least 55,230 Palestinians killed, 132,277 injured – including:
- at least 54,249 killed in Gaza (~16,500 children)
- at least 981 killed in the West Bank (~199 children)
- at least 123,492 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 3,986 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 29, 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.
- Human rights reports on Israel-Palestine (regularly updated)
- New Israeli Law Allows Palestinians as Young as 12 to Be Imprisoned for Life
- It Took 24 Hours to Speak the Names of 12,000 Children Israel Killed in Gaza – A Fraction of the Total
- Israeli education minister announces plan to make Jewish, Zionist studies core curriculum
- Germany threatens steps against Israel as tone shifts over Gaza
- Jerusalem Day Flag March Reached a New Low: Mocking the Dead Children of Gaza
- ‘One of the most heartbreaking tragedies’: Gaza doctor’s last goodbye before nine children killed in airstrike
- As long as Gaza walks, it refuses to fall
- Israeli use of human shields in Gaza was systematic, soldiers and former detainees tell the AP
- ‘Another layer of cruelty’: Israeli forces bomb Prosthetic Limbs hospital in north Gaza
- Israel Partisan Makes Chilling Threat After Israeli Embassy Staff Killed
- Zionist-on-Zionist war crimes
- What did you do during the genocide in Gaza?
- Undaunted by Attacks, Online Educator Ms. Rachel Elevates Stories of Gaza’s Children
- Hunger Games: As Far as Netanyahu Is Concerned, Gaza’s Humanitarian Crisis Is a PR Problem
- Over 80 percent of Israelis endorse ‘forced expulsion’ of Gaza’s population: Poll
- Microsoft Bans the Word “Palestine” in Internal Emails
- Sign the “Free Palestine Anti-Genocide Pledge” – and Share!
- WATCH: Murder of 2 people compared to the murder of 50,000 people
- Lobby pushes for criminalization of Israel’s critics
