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SvennoJ on 22 May 2025
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Main events on May 22nd

  • The Israeli military relentlessly bombarded Gaza, killing at least 80 and wounding dozens of people across the territory.
  • The Palestinian Civil Defence said about 50 people remain trapped under the rubble after an Israeli strike that killed at least four others in Jabalia in northern Gaza.
  • UN agencies and rights groups warned that the limited aid that entered Gaza over the past days is not sufficient, calling for the lifting of the blockade on the enclave.
  • The Israeli military launched a wave of strikes across Lebanon, including an attack in the centre of the southern town of Toul.
  • According to several Palestinian sources, Amr Hatem Odeh, who was abducted from Gaza in December 2023, died in Israel’s Sde Teiman military base, where rights groups have documented rampant torture and sexual violence against detainees.
  • Dozens of Israeli settlers stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, Islam’s third-holiest site, in occupied East Jerusalem under the protection of Israeli police.

Words won’t save Gaza – The West must stop enabling Israel’s war

The recent statements from the UK government regarding Israel’s horrific crimes in Gaza are a welcome realisation that Israel, their trusted ally, is engaged in heinous brutality against the people of Gaza.

Foreign Secretary David Lammy stood in the House of Commons yesterday (May 20) and denounced Israel’s blockade of Gaza as “morally wrong” and “an affront to the values of the British people”, and in doing so, also paused the free-trade agreement negotiations with Israel and imposed a handful of select, and relatively minor sanctions in protest. A day earlier, Prime Minister Keir Starmer, President Emmanuel Macron, and Prime Minister Mark Carney jointly warned of “concrete actions” if Israel did not halt its renewed military offensive and allow aid to flow into Gaza.

These statements mark the most explicit criticism of Israel by Western allies in recent memory, yet they came only after more than a year and a half of relentless civilian casualties – more than 50,000 Gazans killed since 2023, including tens of thousands of women and children. How many innocent lives, including those of children, could have been spared if such criticism of atrocities committed by Israel had been made more than a year ago by Western allies?

The question now is whether this belated moral clarity will be backed by the meaningful measures required to effect change, with meaningful being the operative word.


Israel’s Gaza Trap: Starve, Lure, Kill—Jeremy Scahill Exposes “Final Phase” of Genocide

Abby Martin speaks with investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill about Israel's new offensive into Gaza that Netanyahu is calling the "final phase" of the genocide.

 

Petition: Urgent International Military Protection for Palestinians


https://secure.avaaz.org/community_petitions/en/leaders_of_governments_worldwide_petition_for_urgent_international_military_protection_for_palestinians/

Last edited by SvennoJ - on 22 May 2025