Pro-Palestinian protesters have blocked roads in Canada’s capital, Ottawa, over the city’s hosting of the CANSEC exhibition, where representatives from the Israeli army are reported to be in attendance.

Footage shared on social media and verified by Al Jazeera shows large numbers of participants blocking roads leading to the exhibition. Some protesters lay on the ground in clothes stained with symbolic blood, others held banners denouncing Canada’s support of Israel.

CANSEC’s website says the event “showcases leading-edge technology, products and services for land-based, naval, aerospace and joint forces military units”.

Gaza sea aid route from Cyprus will be kept offshore until pier fixed: Cypriot official

Israel seems to have crossed all Western “red lines” with no apparent consequences or remorse for Palestinian casualties, experts have told Al Jazeera.

In February, all European Union members – except Hungary – warned Israel against a full-scale military operation on Rafah and the staggering human cost it would cause.

In March, United States President Joe Biden said a major Israeli invasion of Rafah would violate his self-declared “red line”, unless arrangements were made to protect and evacuate civilians.

As it scaled up air strikes and a ground assault on Rafah, Israel’s lawyers were telling the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on May 17, that it would be a “localised” operation.

Israeli tanks have rolled into Rafah’s city centre and its army announced that it now controls the entire Philadelphi Corridor, the strip of land that runs along Egypt’s border with Gaza’s Rafah Governorate.

This violates the conditions of its treaty with Egypt that stipulate the strip, also known as the Salah al-Din Axis, is a buffer zone that Egypt oversees from its side of the border.

_{Displaced Palestinians inspect their tents destroyed by Israel’s bombardment, adjunct to a UNRWA facility west of Rafah city, Gaza Strip, on Tuesday, May 28}

Jabalia refugee camp in ruins after Israeli withdrawal

Within Netanyahu’s war cabinet, there are divisions. Benny Gantz, who is a war minister, and the defence minister, Yoav Gallant, have publicly accused the prime minister of not having a plan for the day after.

Netanyahu has even got senior opposition members convening to try to build another coalition against him and call for early elections. According to a lot of Israeli media reports we’re hearing, Gantz is interested in at least hearing them out. If Gantz leaves [Netanyahu’s coalition], that could well mean the end of the coalition and early elections.

However, the prime minister does have a secret weapon – that is the openly racist far-right ministers Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben-Gvir, who continue to support him. As long as that happens, he [Netanyahu] does remain in power.

Israeli minister Smotrich to West Bank cities: ‘We will turn you into ruins’

The Yemeni group will continue their military operations and escalate them “in quality and quantity” in support of Palestinians in Israel’s war in Gaza, the Iran-aligned group’s leader Abdulmalik al-Houthi says in a televised speech.

The Houthis have been attacking vessels in the Red Sea region since November, forcing shippers to reroute cargo on longer and more expensive journeys around Southern Africa. The group later expanded the scope of its attacks to the Indian Ocean and said it would also target any ships heading towards Israeli ports in the Mediterranean Sea.

Iran-aligned Iraq group claims drone attack on Israel

The Likud party, headed by the Israeli prime minister, has denounced a bill tabled by Israeli minister Benny Gantz’s National Unity Party earlier, which called for the dissolution of parliament and early elections.

“In the midst of a war, Israel needs unity and not division,” Likud said. “The dissolution of the unity government is a reward for [Hamas leader Yahya] Sinwar, a capitulation to international pressure and a fatal blow to efforts to free our hostages.”

Unity government? He says that with a straight face? (like a good habitual liar)

‘Benny Gantz can declare whatever he wants – it’s quite meaningless’

Poll: 68 percent of Israelis ‘extremely or very concerned’ about long war on Gaza

Keep turning everything upside down Netanyahu

Gaza war can bring ‘victory against barbarism’: Netanyahu

Palestinian woman Asma al-Masri spoke to Al Jazeera about the state of destruction of Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip, as Israeli forces end their 20-day military operation there.

“I returned to Jabalia camp to get food and the special needs of four disabled people I have at home … we now live in a shelter school in Beit Lahiya,” al-Masri said. “There is no longer Jabalia camp, there are no schools and hospitals, the scale of destruction is so great that no one imagines, and the destruction cannot be counted,” she said.

“We, the people of Gaza, have a strong determination, Gaza will return better than before.”

The scene in northern Gaza’s Jabalia refugee camp is one of total destruction after Israeli troops withdrew to the east after 20 days of military operations.

Residents in Jabalia spoke of their shock and loss after seeing the extensive damage of their homes and public infrastructure. Video shows decomposing bodies on the streets after the Israeli army bulldozed a makeshift graveyard in the al-Faluja area and scattered the corpses.

“The devastation is colossal. The destruction is massive, beyond description. No words can describe the scale of the damage. The entire area is unlivable – a ghost city. In addition, there is no food or water,” one man from Jabalia told Al Jazeera.

“I don’t know where the displaced will go. There are no places now for people in northern Gaza.”

Palestinians here have little hope left. Imagine being displaced seven or eight times since the war began and trying to save your children from air strikes each day and to find them food and water.

We’re at the al-Aqsa Hospital and we’ve seen three cases of malnourished children today. No medical supplies have entered the Gaza Strip for three weeks now. The healthcare system is collapsing.

People don’t know where to go. They’re even putting their tents up on sidewalks – any open space. All they want to do is prevent being targeted by Israeli fire. Every day, we talk to people to hear their stories, and every day, they are sadder and harder to listen to.

The armed wing of Hamas reported a string of attacks on invading Israeli ground forces across Gaza in the past few hours.

In Rafah, in the south, Qassam Brigades said its fighters hit three Merkava tanks of the Israeli army with Yassin-105 rockets in Yibna, and used mortar rounds to target advancing troops in Tal Zorob.

In Beit Lahiya, in the north, the group claimed two attacks on Israeli tanks using anti-armour shells, and said its fighters “confronted” a helicopter and also fired mortars at soldiers.

Earlier, Hamas said it launched a rocket volley at Kibbutz Nirim in the northwestern Negev desert in Israel.

The Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) has released a roughly three-minute video that shows Israeli-Russian captive Alexander Trufanov criticising Israeli officials for failing to bring back those still held in Gaza.

Sitting on a chair in front of a green screen, he can be seen saying Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and others prefer to bring back the captives as “corpses” as this option would be easier than striking an exchange agreement.

Trufanov also briefly refers to the closure of Al Jazeera offices inside Israel, indicating that the footage was filmed within the last month.

The PIJ had earlier this week released a shorter version of the clip. Palestinian groups have released many such videos since the start of the war to pressure Israel into agreeing to a ceasefire and prisoner exchange agreement.

Prime Minister Robert Golob says his government has approved a decision to recognise an independent Palestinian state, following in the steps of Spain, Ireland and Norway.

“Today the government has decided to recognise Palestine as an independent and sovereign state,” he said at a news conference in Ljubljana.

The parliament of the European Union member country must also approve the government’s decision in coming days.

Golob also called for the immediate cessation of hostilities between Israel and Hamas in Gaza and the release of all hostages. “This is the message of peace,” he said.


Must be exhausting as Israel's FM, keeping track of what all other countries in the world dare to say. Your threats no longer work.

Israel’s FM slams Slovenia for steps to recognise Palestinian state