Compilation of news reports – IAK staff
Bodies of 82 Gazans were brought to hospitals in the last 24 hours, while 262 people were injured.
UN: One woman killed every hour in Gaza by Israeli strikes
Israel’s military offensive on Gaza is resulting in the death of one woman every hour, UN Women has estimated.
The UN agency that advances women’s rights reported that more than 28,000 women and girls have been killed in Gaza since the beginning of the war. Among the victims are thousands of mothers, leaving behind children, families, and devastated communities.
The agency stated that conditions in Gaza have worsened significantly since the collapse of the ceasefire in March.
No humanitarian aid distributed in Gaza as it is stuck at Israeli-controlled Kareem Shalom crossing: UN
While the Israeli army claimed that it allowed 93 UN trucks loaded with flour, baby food, medical equipment, and medicine to enter Gaza through the Kerem Shalom crossing, the UN did not confirm delivery of humanitarian aid into the territory.
A spokesman from Gaza’s government media office said, “The trucks are still waiting at the border and have not been delivered to any humanitarian agency.”
Spokesperson Stephane Dujarric told reporters that as of noon Wednesday, local time, none of the humanitarian supplies that crossed into the enclave was able to leave the loading area because “Israeli authorities had only allowed our teams to go through one area that was highly congested, that we felt was insecure and where we felt looting was highly likely to take place, given the prolonged deprivation in Gaza since the blockade by the Israeli authorities for over 11 weeks.”
Israeli protesters block aid to Gaza, call trucks ‘humanitarian ammunition’
Israeli demonstrators on Wednesday escalated efforts to choke off the already restricted aid supply into Gaza, as the territory remains under total siege by Israel.
Protesters shut down the Karem Abu Salem crossing, the only functional entry point for humanitarian aid to demand a complete stop to relief shipments into the devastated enclave (continue reading here).
RELATED: Majority of Israeli public opposes aid to Gaza: Poll
Pope Leo XIV urges Israel to permit humanitarian aid into Gaza
Pope Leo XIV appealed on Wednesday for Israel to open Gaza’s borders to humanitarian aid, describing the situation in the Palestinian territory as “deeply worrying and heartbreaking.”
During his weekly general audience at St Peter’s Square, the pope emphasized the urgent need to stop hostilities, warning that the gravest suffering falls on children, the elderly and the sick.
“I renew my plea … to allow for the entry of fair humanitarian help and to bring to an end the hostilities,” he said, calling for an immediate halt to the violence that continues to devastate the enclave.
“We need this aid to enter now.
It has to go to people who are desperate.”In this video, our colleague @UNWateridge speaks from a @UNRWA warehouse in Amman, Jordan, where supplies have been held up due to the 11 week long siege.
This must stop. pic.twitter.com/8FHpjS0IAz
— Melissa Fleming 🇺🇳 (@MelissaFleming) May 21, 2025
Israel’s approval of minimal aid serving as ‘smokescreen’: MSF
The few aid trucks let into Gaza are nowhere near sufficient to meet Gaza’s vast needs and instead serve as a “a smokescreen” for Israel to “pretend the siege is over”, according to medical charity Doctors Without Borders, known by its French initials MSF.
“The Israeli authorities’ decision to allow a ridiculously inadequate amount of aid into Gaza after months of an air-tight siege signals their intention to avoid the accusation of starving people in Gaza, while in fact keeping them barely surviving,” said Pascale Coissard, MSF’s emergency coordinator in Khan Younis.
Netanyahu sets displacement of Palestinians from Gaza as ‘condition’ to end genocide
Israeli Prime Minister and internationally wanted war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu announced on 21 May that implementing a US plan to displace Palestinians from Gaza is a “clear condition” for lifting the siege of the strip.
“I am prepared to end the war in Gaza, under clear conditions that will ensure the safety of Israel – all the hostages come home, Hamas lays down its arms, steps down from power, its leadership is exiled from the Strip … Gaza is totally disarmed, and we carry out the Trump plan. A plan that is so correct and so revolutionary,” Netanyahu said during a televised speech on Wednesday night (continue reading here).
“If there is an opportunity for a temporary pause in fighting to return more hostages—I emphasize, a temporary pause—we are open to that,” he said.
RELATED: Netanyahu Says Trump’s Ethnic Cleansing Plan Is a Condition To End Gaza War
Israel targets power generators to paralyze Gaza hospitals: Health Ministry
Gaza’s Health Ministry accused Israel on Wednesday of deliberately targeting power generators to paralyze hospitals in the war-torn territory.
A ministry statement said that Israeli forces bombed three generators and fuel tanks at the Indonesian Hospital in northern Gaza.
RELATED: What happens when Israel attacks a hospital
For more details on Gaza, read Gaza on Wednesday: Israeli Bombardment Continues Before Dawn, 20+ Killed
Israeli troops fire ‘warning shots’ at 35 diplomats visiting occupied West Bank
Israeli forces opened fire to intimidate a foreign diplomatic delegation upon its arrival at an entrance to the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, a Palestinian official told Anadolu on Wednesday.
The Israeli military, in a breach of diplomatic norms, opened fire as the delegation of 35 ambassadors, consuls, and diplomats approached the camp, which has been under siege since Jan. 21.
The Israeli army confirmed that its forces fired warning shots at the delegation, claiming that it had deviated from a pre-approved route in an active combat zone (continue reading here).
MORE: Governments condemn Israel for firing towards diplomats in West Bank
Israel commits daily war crimes in Gaza, West Bank: Israeli ex-premier
Microsoft Bans the Word “Palestine” in Internal Emails
Microsoft has quietly implemented a policy blocking employee emails containing the words “Palestine,” “Gaza,” or “genocide” on its internal Exchange servers, according to No Azure for Apartheid, a group of pro-Palestine Microsoft employees.
The automated filter, which silently prevents such emails from reaching recipients was first detected on Wednesday—just after Microsoft’s Build developer conference faced repeated disruptions by the activist group.
Microsoft has been rocked by internal dissent over its collaboration with the Israeli military and government amid the ongoing assault on Gaza (continue reading here).
US NEWS ON PROTESTS, ETC:
Wife of Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil blasts US for not allowing him to meet newborn son
Students around the US on hunger strikes to protest Israel’s killing & starvation of Gazans
(For background on the student protest movement, read this)
UK David Lammy’s rebuke of Israel marks turning point after weeks of growing frustration
The anger inside the UK Foreign Office over Israel’s blockade of aid into Gaza had been slowly building until – like an exploding pressure cooker – the foreign secretary, David Lammy, let loose his most damning criticism of Israeli since the Gaza conflict started in 2023 (continue reading here).
‘Next Year in Vienna Without Israel’: Austrian Eurovision Winner Calls to Ban Israel From 2026 Contest
Austria’s newly crowned Eurovision winner, Johannes Pietsch – known by his stage name JJ – said he hopes Israel will not be allowed to participate in next year’s competition.
Speaking in an interview with several media outlets after his victory, as reported by El País, Pietsch said: “It’s very disappointing to see Israel still participating in the contest. I’d like Eurovision to be held next year in Vienna – and without Israel.”
He added that “the decision is in the hands of the European Broadcasting Union. We artists can only make our voices heard.”
STATISTICS OCTOBER 7, 2023 – MAY 21, 2025:
- At least 54,743 Palestinians killed, 130,590 injured – including:
- at least 53,762 killed in Gaza (~15,600 children)
- at least 981 killed in the West Bank (~196 children)
- at least 122,197 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 3,613 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.
- Human rights reports on Israel-Palestine (regularly updated)
- Israeli doctor compared killing Palestinians in Gaza to ‘eliminating cockroaches’
- 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
- Israel targets Palestinian boys
- Top genocide scholars unanimous that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza: Dutch investigation
- ‘Render it unusable’: Israel’s mission of total urban destruction
- 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?
- Why Israel’s demand for Hamas to disarm is a red herring
- Independence Day, Nakba Day, and the Starvation of Gaza
- The Media Calls Israeli Captives “Hostages” and Palestinians “Prisoners”
- Hannibal Directive: Israeli troops ‘killed civilian during Hamas attack and covered it up’
- ‘Terrorism’? Israel has weaponized the charge for decades
