Israel kills 143 in a day as Gaza death toll passes 53,000

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/16/breaking-down-a-deadly-week-in-gaza-as-israel-kills-hundreds

More than 19 months into its war on Gaza, Israel shows few signs that it is relenting. The last week has shown the opposite, an intensification of violence across the besieged Palestinian territory, leaving hundreds dead, and hundreds of thousands terrified of what comes next.

According to figures compiled by Al Jazeera, at least 370 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks since Sunday. The violence has been particularly deadly in the second half of the week, with medical sources reporting the killing of at least 100 Palestinians on Friday, and 143 on Thursday. Many of those killed have been women and children.

These are some of the worst single-day death tolls since the beginning of the war in October 2023.

Israel’s military intensifies its carnage in Gaza


<sub>Smoke rises after an Israeli attack on the Tal az-Zaatar neighbourhood in Gaza City on May 15


An Israeli convoy manoeuvres inside destroyed Gaza on May 15


Palestinians mourn their relatives killed in an Israeli air strike in Jabalia, northern Gaza, on May 14</sub>

Displaced Palestinians bombed

The Israeli military has killed 16 Palestinians in strikes on northern Gaza over the past few hours, following a series of deadly attacks across the Strip on Thursday that killed at least 136 people. Some of the deadliest attacks targeted the southern city of Khan Younis.

The Israeli military has also issued forced evacuation orders to displaced Palestinians in the north of the territory as it continues to block aid from entering Gaza for more than two months.

Killing of 45 children in Gaza air strikes met with ‘indifference’, not ‘shock’: UNICEF

The head of the UN Children’s Fund, Catherine Russell, said the world should be shocked by the killing of 45 children in Israeli air strikes in just two days. Instead, the slaughter of children in Gaza is “largely met with indifference”.

_{Palestinians carry the bodies of the two children, Moath and Moataz al-Bayouk, who were killed in Israeli strikes, at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, on May 15}

This is how Ben Gvir likes to spend his time:



Not just picking fights with Palestine supporters anymore, hatred turning within.

Israeli ATTACKED By Zionist Mob SPEAKS OUT



Ryan and Emily are joined by another victim of the Zionist mob attack in NYC.

“Surveillance Humanitarianism”: As Gaza Starves, U.S.-Israeli Plan Would Further Weaponize Food

Israel has imposed a complete block on humanitarian aid into Gaza since March 2, with hundreds of trucks with lifesaving aid waiting at the border. Now many of Gaza’s kitchens have closed, and Palestinians face mass starvation as rations run low. We speak with Alex de Waal, executive director of the World Peace Foundation at Tufts University, author of Mass Starvation: The History and Future of Famine. “The majority of people in Gaza are facing emergency or catastrophic levels of food insecurity,” says de Waal. “Rations are getting low, and the poorest and most vulnerable are beginning to starve and die.”

Media Finally Turns On Israel's LIES

Still complicit and CNN is simply ignoring Gaza again, last they said was defending the attack in the video here, no updates.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/13/middleeast/israel-targets-hamas-leader-mohammed-sinwar-hospital-strike-gaza-intl

This sounds like answers a mafia boss would give

Head of controversial new Gaza aid group says he won’t be part of displacing Palestinians, urges UN to participate in plan

https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/16/middleeast/israel-gaza-humanitarian-foundation-interview-latam-intl

“Ultimately, the community is going to face a choice. This is going to be the mechanism by which aid can be distributed in Gaza. Are you willing to participate? The answer is going to be, you know, pretty critical to whether or not this ramps up to sufficiently feed 2.2 million people in a very desperate situation.”

Gaza extortion foundation

Without the support of the major UN agencies, Wood said it is “hard to say” whether his foundation will be able to distribute enough aid to feed Gaza’s population of 2.1 million. He said the foundation currently plans to provide 300 million meals in its first 90 days, which he acknowledged is “not sufficient.”

Already placing the blame for inssuficient aid on the UN, good start

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Pressed on Israel’s claims that Hamas is stealing humanitarian aid – which Hamas and aid organizations deny – Wood said “it doesn’t really matter.”

“Israel controls access to Gaza, and if, if it is their belief that there is a large percentage of aid that is being interdicted by Hamas and other non-state actors … then we have no choice but to create a mechanism which operates in that construct and in that framing,” Wood said.

Of course you have no choice, Israel's rule is law in the US.

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The foundation’s operations will be secured by a private American security contractor, UG Solutions, which also manned a vehicle checkpoint in Gaza during the ceasefire earlier this year. Wood, a US Marine Corps veteran, said the contractors will be responsible for guarding aid trucks from the Gaza border to the distribution sites and will not be involved in distributing the aid to civilians.

Wood said they would be operating “under strict rules of engagement,” which he declined to share for operational security, but said they would abide by international laws and norms.

Just like the IDF claims? International law doesn't allow weaponizing aid, so you're already not abiding by IHL. You're doing the bidding of the genocidal occupation, fully complicit with ethnic cleansing plans.



https://www.newarab.com/news/here-are-us-firms-could-run-gaza-aid-under-trumps-plan

Two companies have been identified as potential partners in a controversial US plan to distribute food supplies in the Gaza Strip, bypassing UNRWA and other UN agencies, The New Arab's sister site Al-Araby Al-Jadeed has reported.

Just after US President Donald Trump won US elections in November last year amid ceasefire negotiations between Israel and Hamas, the former head of the CIA’s Centre for Special Activities (CSA) Philip Raleigh, founded Safe Reach Solutions in Wyoming.

Tracking of the companies’ activities carried out by Al-Araby Al-Jadeed revealed in January 2025 that armed personnel from an American security contractor took over the management of checkpoints where Israel withdrew from Gaza, searching vehicles heading north of the Strip.

The security contractor was later identified as UG solutions, which worked with Safe Reach Solutions on planning and logistics.

Based in North Carolina, UG Solutions was founded by Jameson Govoni, a retired US Special Forces soldier who told ABC News he helped create a Special Forces surveillance programme, aimed at training special operations soldiers to carry out surveillance and find hard-to-find terrorist cells around the world.

The website lists states they "provide global solutions and operate in high-risk and commercial environments" and states one of their current programmes are "providing humanitarian assistance in high-risk environments [and] protecting entrepreneurs and their assets worldwide."

Together, the two companies contracted over 100 former US military personnel, and the weapons they were potentially expected to carry have been listed as assault rifles, Glock pistols and knives.


Two recent startups from military veterans vs 400 distribution points staffed by experienced UN personnel and other long time Aid agencies.

Oh and Israel will still control every calorie going into Gaza

Supplies distributed from these zones will be vetted by Israeli forces and the contractors, while Israeli media previously reported that the aid will only be given once a week, fuelling serious concerns that Palestinians will only be given enough food so they don't starve to death.

The Israeli army recently told Hebrew media that "each representative of a Gaza family will receive exactly the amount that is sufficient for his family to prevent a situation of starvation."


CNN does their best to make it sound reasonable, yet it's nothing but a criminal excuse to keep the total blockade going while speeding up ethnic cleansing and continuing the genocide.

Trump just can't let it go, must commit war crimes

Trump administration working on plan to move 1 million Palestinians to Libya

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/trump-administration-working-plan-move-1-million-palestinians-libya-rcna207224


_{Palestinians carry their belongings as they flee Gaza City on Friday}

The Trump administration is working on a plan to permanently relocate up to 1 million Palestinians from the Gaza Strip to Libya, five people with knowledge of the effort told NBC News.

The plan is under serious enough consideration that the administration has discussed it with Libya’s leadership, two people with direct knowledge of the plans and a former U.S. official said. 

In exchange for the resettling of Palestinians, the administration would potentially release to Libya billions of dollars of funds that the U.S. froze more than a decade ago, those three people said.

No final agreement has been reached, and Israel has been kept informed of the administration’s discussions, the same three sources said.

The State Department and the National Security Council did not respond to multiple requests for comment before this article was published. After publication, a spokesperson told NBC News, “these reports are untrue.”

“The situation on the ground is untenable for such a plan. Such a plan was not discussed and makes no sense,” the spokesperson said.

True or not, it's making the rounds over (some) mainstream media.

https://news.sky.com/story/up-to-a-million-palestinians-could-be-permanently-relocated-to-war-torn-libya-under-us-plans-13369235
https://www.reuters.com/world/us-developing-plan-move-1-million-palestinians-libya-nbc-news-reports-2025-05-16/

US Muslim group condemns Trump’s reported Libya displacement plan

The Council on American-Islamic Relations has described the reported plan as “morally reprehensible and a historic crime against humanity”.

“If this news report that the Trump administration truly is plotting the forced transfer of one million Palestinians from their homeland in Gaza to Libya is true, this plan would represent an unprecedented act of ethnic cleansing unseen in modern history,” CAIR National Executive Director Nihad Awad said in a statement.

“Any country or entity that takes part in this war crime would rightly face universal condemnation,” he said.

UN relief chief: ‘Let’s not waste time’ with US-backed Gaza aid plan

Tom Fletcher, the UN’s top humanitarian official, has issued a statement again rejecting a US-Israeli-backed plan to seize control of food distribution in Gaza as an alternative to Israel’s 76-day blockade.

“To those proposing an alternative modality for aid distribution, let’s not waste time: We already have a plan,” Fletcher said, adding that 160,000 pallets of aid are “ready to move” into Gaza, “now”.

Fletcher said the UN’s plan is “rooted in the non-negotiable principles of humanity, impartiality, neutrality and independence” and is backed by the “vast majority of the international community”.

“It is ready to be activated – today – if we are simply allowed to do our jobs,” he said.

“We demand rapid, safe, and unimpeded aid delivery for civilians in need,” he added. “Let us work.”

Israel’s UN envoy slams UN aid chief for ‘desecration’ of genocide term

As we previously reported, UN aid chief Tom Fletcher told the UN Security Council that Israel is “unashamedly imposing inhumane conditions on civilians” and called on the body to “prevent genocide” in Gaza.

In a letter to Fletcher, Israel’s UN Ambassador Danny Danon said he is “deeply shocked and disturbed” by the speech, which he called a “deeply irresponsible statement that shattered any notion of neutrality”.

“You had the audacity, in your capacity as a senior UN official, to stand before the Security Council and invoke the charge of genocide without evidence, mandate, or restraint,” Danon wrote.

“To weaponise the word ‘genocide’ against Israel is not just distortion – it is the desecration and subversion of a term with unique force and weight,” he added.

Danny Danon needs to be brought before the ICC as well.

Israeli military says it has launched first stages of major offensive in Gaza, same day Trump leaves region with no deal

https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/16/middleeast/gideons-chariots-israel-new-gaza-offensive-latam-intl

The Israeli military says it has launched the first stages of a new major offensive in Gaza, in a development that comes on the same day that US President Donald Trump concluded his visit to the region without securing a ceasefire deal.

In a statement late Friday, the Israel Defense Forces said it launched “extensive attacks and mobilized forces to seize strategic areas in the Gaza Strip, as part of the opening moves of Operation ‘Gideon’s Chariots’ and the expansion of the campaign in Gaza, to achieve all the goals of the war in Gaza, including the release of the hostages and the defeat of Hamas.”

The development comes after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said earlier this month that the population of Gaza would be displaced to the south following his security cabinet’s approval of an expanded military operation that one minister described as a plan to “conquer” the territory.

Israeli forces kill grandfather and two grandchildren as they tried to flee Khan Younis

In two separate attacks, the Israeli military killed eight Palestinians. One attack on a group where five people were killed by drone strikes and, in an earlier attack, a grandfather along with two of his grandchildren were killed inside a vehicle that was driving as they were evacuating the eastern part of Khan Younis.

According to the Israeli narrative, this is Hamas infrastructure but a close look at these targets one would easily find out that these are residential homes, temporary shelters, tents and public facilities that have been turned into shelters for hundreds of thousands of Palestinians right after the Israeli military destroyed many of the residential homes in the northern part of the Strip in the past 19 months.

_{Injured Palestinian children receive medical treatment at Nasser Hospital after Israeli air strike in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, on May 16}

Israeli military drone bombs tent near Khan Younis

An Al Jazeera Arabic correspondent in Gaza now reports that an Israeli military drone has bombed another tent housing displaced people west of Khan Younis in southern Gaza, causing injuries.

Gaza hospital runs out of shrouds for ‘proper burial’ of the dead

Hospitals are overwhelmed with the large influx of injured Palestinians arriving to the hospital in the early hours of this morning and throughout the day.

There are no shrouds available inside hospitals and that makes it very difficult for surviving family members to offer a proper burial for their family members and loved ones who were killed in these attacks.

We could clearly hear the loud sound of explosions coming from the eastern part of Gaza City, particularly from Shujayea and Zeitoun neighbourhoods, where the Israeli military, for the past weeks, have been conducting these systematic home demolitions.

In the eastern part of the city … the entire area has been turned into vast fields of rubble and destruction.

‘No soap, no morphine’ as violence increases in northern Gaza

Afeef Nessouli, a medical volunteer with Glia International, says that the situation in Gaza is “only getting worse with time”.

In northern Gaza, he says that there has been a “shocking uptick in violence” in the past couple of days, but that hospitals are treating “explosive injuries”, including amputations, without resources.

“They don’t have soap, they don’t have morphine,” he said.

Nessouli also said that the ongoing blockade means that people have been suffering from hunger for 70 days.

“Hungry children are eating molded bread. They’re eating rice off of the ground,” he said.

Injuries reported as Israeli forces attack another tent near Khan Younis

Our Al Jazeera Arabic colleagues report that at least three Palestinians have been injured by another Israeli air strike on a tent near the Taiba Towers, west of Khan Younis.

Researchers say Israel is constructing new militarised ‘corridor’ in Gaza

Forensic Architecture, a research group based at Goldsmiths, University of London, says that Israel announced plans for the ‘Morag Corridor’ on April 2nd.

“Since that time, we’ve identified widespread destruction throughout the remains of Rafah city, and several new Israeli military outposts,” Forensic Architecture said.

As we’ve been reporting, the Israeli military says its new Gaza offensive will see Israeli forces “seize controlled areas in the Gaza Strip”.

Earlier this month, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said that Israel had already expelled Palestinians from 70 percent of the Gaza Strip.

Israel is constructing a second militarised ‘corridor’ in Gaza, to expand their control of the Strip. Plans for the Morag Corridor were announced on 2 April; since that time, we’ve identified widespread destruction throughout the remains of Rafah city, and several new Israeli… pic.twitter.com/ZYg0gSYAH1

— Forensic Architecture (@ForensicArchi) May 16, 2025

”IT’S A GENOCIDAL STATE AND WE HAVE NO BUSINESS WITH IT!”

The tide is slowly starting to turn, it's Spain btw.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/spanish-pm-calls-israel-genocidal-state-sparking-anger-from-foreign-ministry/
Ofcourse not reported by Western Media



Abby Martin on Trump CONTINUING Gaza Genocide, HELLISH Union Between AI & Military

Zeynab Day sat down with Abby Martin to discuss the continued genocide and attacks in Gaza against the Palestinian people. From mass murder of innocents that the media covers up daily, to the Dems with Republicans joining forces with Netanyahu.

We'll also discuss the unholy marriage AI and the military industrial complex, using Gaza as a testing grounds for their mass slaughter.



The only thing anyone should be talking about today

Israeli forces storm al-Ein camp, arrest family of stabbing suspect in Jerusalem

The Israeli military has stormed al-Ein refugee camp, west of the city of Nablus in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Information Center reports.

Israeli forces have also stormed the village of Qabalan, south of Nablus.

Our Al Jazeera Arabic colleagues also report that Israeli forces have arrested the family members of a Palestinian man accused of carrying out a stabbing attack on Thursday at the entrance to the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem.

#شاهد| جانب آخر من اقتحام قوات الاحتلال الصهيوني مخيم العين بالضفة الغربية pic.twitter.com/WWl5NCJaQj

— المركز الفلسطيني للإعلام (@PalinfoAr) May 16, 2025

Jerusalem Governorate says Palestinian killed in Old City: Wafa

The governorate says Mohammad Nidal Abu Libdeh, a young Palestinian man, was shot and left bleeding by the Israeli forces at the entrance to the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, according to the Wafa news agency.

Israeli forces have since raided the victim’s home in the Beit Hanina neighbourhood of occupied East Jerusalem, and attacked and arrested some local Palestinian people in the area, according to Wafa.

The Israeli forces also closed the gates of Al-Aqsa Mosque, and detained the worshippers inside for some time, before reopening the Lions’ Gate and attacking people as they exited, Wafa reports.

Israeli military arrests four Palestinians in West Bank raid

Israeli forces have stormed the occupied West Bank town of Bruqin, west of Salfit, for a second day running and arrested four Palestinian men after raiding their homes, the Quds News Network reports.

Israeli forces have also stormed a boys’ school in the town of Kafr ad-Dik, west of Salfit, with witnessing reporting hearing loud banging coming from the building.

Vehicles in occupied West Bank set on fire by Israeli settlers

_{A view of burned vehicles in Bruqin near Salfit, in the occupied West Bank. Local sources told Anadolu on Friday settlers set fire to at least 15 Palestinian-owned vehicles in Nablus and Salfit}

Youth detained in occupied West Bank, footage shows

Videos published by local sources on Telegram show Israeli forces detaining young Palestinians following a raid on Dura in the Hebron governorate in the occupied West Bank this morning.

The footage, verified by Al Jazeera, also shows one youth being taken away in Israeli military vehicles.

Elderly Palestinian man shot by Israeli army near Jenin camp: Report

Palestinian news agency Wafa reports the man was shot in the leg near the entrance to Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank. He received medical treatment from the Palestine Red Crescent Society, Wafa said.

In a separate incident, three Palestinians were injured during confrontations with Israeli troops in Sebastia, a village near Nablus in the north of the West Bank. The three injured people – aged 60, 52 and 35 – were taken to hospital, Wafa reported.

Earlier in the day, Israeli settlers set fire to agricultural land near Sebastia, causing “significant damage”.