Compilation of news reports – IAK staff
Israeli attacks killed at least 104 Palestinians and wounded 247 over the previous 24-hour period, Gaza’s Health Ministry said on Thursday.
At least 29 Palestinians in Gaza reportedly died of starvation in recent days.
629 Palestinians have been killed in the last week in Gaza, according to the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR).
At least 358 of those were killed in attacks on houses and tents for displaced people, with children and women comprising at least 148 of the victims, it added.
Nine Palestinian journalists were also killed last week, making it one of the deadliest for the profession since the conflict began in October 2023.
Gaza’s health ministry has released a detailed breakdown of child fatalities in what it describes as an ongoing genocide in Gaza.
The latest figures confirm 16,503 children have been killed since the conflict began.
- Infants (under 1 year): 916 killed;
- Children (1–5 years): 4,365 killed;
- Children (6–12 years): 6,101 killed;
- Adolescents (13–17 years): 5,124 killed
“The pattern of [Israeli] strikes on Internally Displaced People’s (IDP) tents and residential buildings, as well as on crowded hospitals, indicates that little, if any, care is being taken to protect the lives of civilians in Gaza,” the UN Human Rights Office (OHCHR) reported, adding, “reports of the use of weapons with wide area effects suggest deliberate, indiscriminate attacks.”
81 per cent of Gaza is now within ‘militarized zones’ or under forced displacement orders, according to the UN.
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Israel denies doctors entry into Gaza
Israel has denied entry to a group of doctors and humanitarian workers hours before they were set to enter Gaza on Thursday as the Palestinian health minister announced that 29 children and elderly people in the enclave have died from starvation in recent days.
The group of six were prepared to leave Jordan on Thursday morning with a UN convoy, but received notice late on Wednesday that they would not be permitted to enter Gaza, according to two sources in contact with the group.
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About 90 aid trucks reach multiple areas in Gaza amid ‘huge challenges’: UN
The UN on Thursday confirmed that almost 90 trucks loaded with aid entered multiple locations in southern and central Gaza on Wednesday. (The Israeli army says 107 aid trucks entered Gaza on Thursday.)
UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said the trucks carried “nutrition supplies, flour, medicines and other critical stocks,” although aid groups “continue to face huge challenges in getting goods out of the crossings to where they are needed in Gaza.”
He further noted that “other supplies as basic as fresh food, hygiene items, water purification agents, and fuel to power hospitals have not been let in for over 80 days” by the Israeli authorities.
There is reportedly no coordination for aid trucks to enter northern Gaza, as the Israeli army is restricting truck movement.
FACT: Before October 7th, 2023, Gaza’s farms and food processing plants provided much of the food needed by the population; humanitarian organizations supplemented local products with an average of 500 truckloads of aid per day. Today, with farms and factories decimated, much more is needed – especially after 11 weeks of total blockade.
Limited number of bakeries resume operations in southern Gaza amid Israeli siege
A limited number of bakeries supported by the UN World Food Program (WFP) began to resume operations in southern Gaza on Thursday after the entry of small quantities of flour into the Israel-blockaded enclave.
“Flour was allowed into Gaza on Wednesday, and we began to work immediately amid the current starvation in the area,” Ahmed al-Benna, a bakery owner, told Anadolu.
Benna’s bakery had been closed for two months since Israel closed all Gaza’s crossings on March 2 and banned the entry of flour and humanitarian aid into the territory (continue reading here).
Gaza tribes warn of Israeli plan to ‘steal humanitarian aid’
The Higher Committee for Tribal Affairs in Gaza yesterday warned of an Israeli plan to use local gangs to steal humanitarian aid which is being allowed to enter the enclave for the first time in 11 weeks.
In an official statement, the committee said the Israeli occupation is preventing any “attempt to protect” aid that is supposed to enter Gaza, in order to carry out a “malicious plan” aimed at “fostering chaos and theft through criminal groups working directly under its control.”
The committee stressed that the Israeli occupation army plays a “real role in managing and fuellng chaos in Gaza,” by using “dirty networks of collaborators and thieves who have sold their loyalty and abandoned both their patriotism and tribal values” (continue reading here).
NOTE: Israeli officials have provided no evidence that Hamas is stealing aid. On the contrary, Israeli news outlets have reported that the Israeli military itself is behind the looting of aid trucks.
Gaza media office says six officers guarding aid killed in Israeli strikes
The Gaza Government Media Office said at least six security officers guarding humanitarian aid from looting in the Gaza Strip were killed in Israeli strikes on Thursday.
“It has become clear that the occupation army is operating in a systematic way to enable looting the aid and medicine trucks to ensure that they do not reach those who need them,” the office said in a statement.
US and Israel promised a new food aid delivery mechanism to replace UNRWA – but it won’t be happening anytime soon
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s announcement this week about allowing humanitarian aid back into Gaza has Israeli suppliers doubting the plan can be done.
“The entire industry has been talking about this and figuring out price quotes so they can compete in the bidding process, but nobody will be able to do it or provide the required quantities,” one importer says.
“I don’t see the Americans organizing to supply the food, not in a week and not in a month,” one importer says. Another businessman adds: “It’s a big project. They’re talking about supplying 110,000 tons of food – that’s a bidding process that could reach $500 million” (continue reading here).
FACT: UNRWA, the United Nations body with a mandate to help Palestinian refugees, has been feeding the people of Gaza for decades as they 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. Israel yet to provide any compelling evidence.
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Israeli tanks storm, attack Al-Awda Hospital in northern Gaza
Israeli tanks stormed the courtyards of Al-Awda Hospital in Jabalia, north of Gaza, early today, amid intensive gunfire, burning tents used as outpatient clinics and injuring several medical employees and volunteers, the Palestinian Information Centre reported.
“Israeli tanks targeted, for the second time, the hospital’s specialised surgery department at exactly 2:00am on Thursday,” Rafat Al-Majdalawi, director general of the Al-Awda Health and Community Society, said in a statement today.
Al-Majdalawi added that the tanks opened fire at the hospital’s buildings, damaging its infrastructure and its water and fuel tanks.
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Palestinian prisoner groups confirm death of 33-year-old Gazan detainee
Palestinian prisoner advocacy groups have confirmed the death of 33-year-old Palestinian detainee Amro Hatem Odeh in Israeli custody. He reportedly died on 13 December 2023 at the notorious Israeli Sde Teiman prison.
According to the statement, Odeh, who was married with three children, was detained along with his family from their home in Gaza at the beginning of the Israeli forces’ ground invasion of the territory on 7 December 2023.
The organizations said that Odeh’s death brought the total number of detainees killed in Israeli custody since Israel’s war on Gaza began in October 2023 to 70, including 40 from Gaza.
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(For background on the West Bank, read this and this)
Starmer, Macron and Carney ‘on the wrong side of humanity,’ says Netanyahu
Benjamin Netanyahu has launched a blistering attack on Keir Starmer, Emmanuel Macron and Mark Carney, saying the leaders of the UK, France and Canada are “on the wrong side of justice. You’re on the wrong side of humanity and you’re on the wrong side of history.”
It follows developments earlier this week when Britain, France and Canada attacked Israel’s expansion of its war as disproportionate, described conditions in Gaza as “intolerable” and threatened a “concrete” response if Israel’s campaign continues.
NOTE: The United Nations places Benjamin Netanyahu on the wrong side of humanity. Its experts have highlighted crimes against humanity including murder, torture, sexual violence, and repeated forced displacement amounting to forcible transfer, war crimes encompassing indiscriminate attacks on civilians and civilian objects, including objects indispensable to the survival of the civilian population and educational institutions and cultural heritage, the use of starvation as a weapon of war, the targeting of healthcare workers and health facilities, attacks on humanitarian workers, arbitrary restrictions on access to humanitarian aid, and attacks on journalists, collective punishment and perfidy.
Congressman calls for ‘nuking’ Gaza in response to embassy staff shooting
In response to the killing of two Israeli embassy staff members in Washington, DC, Republican Congressman Randy Fine suggested on Fox News that Gaza should be “nuked” like Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II.
Fine was asked whether the fatal shooting of two Israeli embassy staff members in Washington should impact Gaza ceasefire talks, and he implied the enclave should be totally eliminated in response to the shooting, like the Japanese cities during WWII.
Israeli embassy workers’ shooter makes no mention of “Jews” in manifesto
A manifesto allegedly written by Elias Rodriguez and obtained by journalist Ken Klippenstein praised US airman Aaron Bushnell – who self-immolated outside the US embassy last year in protest against the war in Gaza – as well as others who “sacrificed themselves in the hopes of stopping the massacre.”
The manifesto goes on to condemn Israel for its killing of tens of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza and its blockade preventing humanitarian aid from entering the strip.
“We who let this happen will never deserve the Palestinians’ forgiveness,” Rodriguez allegedly wrote.
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STATISTICS OCTOBER 7, 2023 – MAY 21, 2025:
- At least 54,803 Palestinians killed, 130,775 injured – including:
- at least 53,822 killed in Gaza (~16,500 children)
- at least 981 killed in the West Bank (~196 children)
- at least 122,382 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 3,673 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 21, 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 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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