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SvennoJ on 20 May 2025
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Main events on May 20th

  • Israel’s military continues to pound Gaza, killing at least 87 Palestinians on Tuesday, as officials say at least 326 people have died of malnutrition and a lack of medicine since March 2.
  • The United Nations says no aid has been distributed in Gaza, a day after Israel allowed limited humanitarian deliveries to resume, and warns that an estimated 14,000 babies are at risk of dying from starvation in the next 48 hours.
  • The United Kingdom suspends free trade talks with Israel over the “monstrous” offensive in Gaza, and announces targeted sanctions against Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank.
  • The European Union says it will review a pact governing its political and economic ties with Israel due to the “catastrophic” situation in Gaza.
  • Israel’s army chief, Eyal Zamir, dismisses the mounting criticism and pledges to press on with the expanded offensive in Gaza.
  • US Secretary of State Marco Rubio says Washington is not prepared to pressure Israel in the same way as the UK, France and Canada, which have threatened to take “concrete actions” if the human suffering in Gaza is not alleviated.

 

Death toll from Israel’s attacks on Tuesday rises

Medical sources say Israeli forces killed at least 98 Palestinians in Gaza on Tuesday.


Israel pledges to continue war on Gaza until ‘total victory'

Israel’s Foreign Ministry released a statement on Tuesday in response to the measures taken by the UK to cancel trade talks with Israel and also impose sanctions on violent Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank.

Since Israel’s war on Gaza began on October 7, 2023, settler violence has largely increased against Palestinians, with little to no consequence, and these attacks were often carried out under the protection of Israeli forces.

But the Israeli Foreign Ministry is saying that they are going to continue fighting this war until there’s an “absolute victory”, a term that has been touted by the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, for more than a year and a half.

What was noticeably absent from this statement was the fact that all of this pushback the Israelis were getting was in response to the dire and catastrophic humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip, which has been caused by Israel’s war.

Netanyahu has said that he’s going to be allowing the basic and minimal amount of food into Gaza so that the army can continue on with their military operations, something Israeli allies say is wholly inadequate in their statements.

But despite all of the international pressure that the Israelis have been facing, they say that they are going to continue fighting this war.


Palestinians flee to the Shati refugee camp in Gaza City with their belongings during intense Israeli bombardment in northern Gaza on Tuesday