Main events on May 29th
- At least 70 Palestinians have been killed since dawn in Israeli attacks across Gaza, including strikes on the central Bureij refugee camp that killed nearly two dozen people.
- Palestinians express growing frustration with a US- and Israeli-backed aid distribution scheme that has caused scenes of chaos and deadly violence over the past few days.
- The UN says Israel is blocking it from accessing and distributing much-needed humanitarian supplies to Gaza, with about 600 truckloads of goods stuck at a crossing point.
- Israel has ordered the closure of al-Awda Hospital – the last functioning hospital in northern Gaza – as the World Health Organization says dozens of people remain at the facility.
- The White House says Israel has “signed off” on a new Gaza ceasefire proposal that was delivered to Hamas; the Palestinian group says it is reviewing the plan.
Israel killing Palestinians with weapons paid for by US taxpayers: CAIR
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) condemned Israel’s bombardment of the Bureij refugee camp earlier today, which killed at least 23 people and injured many others.
“After expelling these Palestinian refugees from their land, the Israeli government slaughtered them in their refugee camp,” CAIR National Executive Director Nihad Awad said in a statement.
“Blowing up families sleeping in tents is a cowardly, sociopathic war crime that the Israeli occupation has committed again and again with American weapons paid for by American taxpayer dollars. The barbarity and sadism of the Israeli occupation’s war crimes knows no bounds,” he said.
“How much longer will President Trump, his administration and the world see images of dismembered children and burning tents before stopping this genocide?”
The US provides Israel with at least $3.8bn in military aid annually, and it has provided billions in additional funds since the Israeli military began its deadly bombardment of Gaza in October 2023.
I’ve seen the reality of the new Israel-backed ‘aid’ for Gaza. It’s nothing more than a deadly PR stunt
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/29/gaza-aid-israel-food-distribution-centre
What the GHF is doing is nothing more than a public relations campaign: it is promoting the illusion that aid has begun entering the Strip in a meaningful way. What we have learned is that GHF only distributed eight trucks’ worth of food on Wednesday. Moreover, a US charity, Rahma Worldwide, which had food parcels that it couldn’t get into Gaza and so allowed them to be “taken custody” by GHF, has accused the organisation of using its logo without permission in the aid distribution. (Rahma said it’s opposed to working alongside GHF because of its use of armed security contractors.)Ultimately, there are tens of thousands of people across the Gaza Strip who will not be able to reach the newly created centres. Even if they function, they will not meet the ever-growing daily needs of the population here.
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Gaza needs at least 500 to 600 trucks every day to meet its humanitarian needs. A handful of centres operating in the south of the Strip is no replacement for the hundreds of distribution centres linked to UN programmes and institutions that have been forced to stop operations by the blockade. What must be said clearly is that there is an urgent need to stop the genocide and allow the unconditional entry of aid. It is only through distribution by UN agencies and the international community – not Israel – that we will begin to alleviate this crisis.
