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Netanyahu causes uproar by linking Palestinians to Holocaust
https://apnews.com/general-news-61ead35a427a408e9d93d43f41cfa064

What Hitler and the Grand Mufti Really Said
https://time.com/4084301/hitler-grand-mufi-1941/


And ofcourse CNN tries to link 'Free Palestine' to anti semitism

CNN Attempts To Make 'Free Palestine' Offensive



CNN attempts to gaslight their audience into believing a slogan for human rights is incredibly offensive.

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‘Engineered starvation’: Gaza gov’t denounces Israel’s misleading aid narrative

The Government Media Office says hundreds of thousands of tonnes of humanitarian aid have accumulated outside Gaza and “decayed or spoiled” because of months of Israeli obstruction, while the population “faces an escalating famine”.

It noted that during the 84 days of Israel’s total blockade, a minimum of 46,200 aid and fuel trucks should have entered Gaza to meet the basic needs of the population.

However, in recent days, “the occupation has promoted a misleading narrative claiming to allow the entry of ‘aid’ while in reality only about 100 trucks have been permitted”.

That figure represents less than 1 percent of the population’s basic needs, it added.

“This situation clearly reflects the occupation’s policy of ‘engineered starvation’ by which it deliberately controls the flow and distribution of food, further deepening the humanitarian catastrophe affecting more than two million civilians in Gaza,” a statement said.


Deadly Israeli attack latest to target displaced Palestinians in al-Mawasi

Seven Palestinians have been killed in al-Mawasi, and dozens of others have been injured in that attack. This is not the first time Israeli forces have targeted al-Mawasi.

Al-Mawasi has been designated as a safe, humanitarian zone, and the Israeli army has been asking Palestinians to evacuate to that area. But there have been continuous attacks on the tents, on the Palestinians who are displaced in that area, and people believe it is not safe, as claimed by Israel’s military.



‘We are being exterminated’: Trickle of food aid fails to reach northern Gaza

None of the limited food aid that Israel has allowed into Gaza in recent days has reached the north of the Strip.

A local community kitchen in Gaza City is one of the few places where people can find food. However, the kitchen’s supplies are running dangerously low and it will have to shut down in the coming days if it does not receive aid.

Abu Ali, the manager of the community kitchen, told Al Jazeera that about 1,200 people come to the facility looking for food every day, but they are only able to feed about 300.

“What is available in northern Gaza is just lentil soup – no bread or anything else,” he said.

“For us in northern Gaza, we are being exterminated with no food and no flour. Young children show up just to get a bowl of food and we have 15 large pots that barely feed 300 people.”


Israel withholding aid to north Gaza to forcibly displace people, Norwegian Refugee Council says

Israel’s control of aid is “dangerous” and it is denying aid to northern Gaza in an attempt to displace people there, the Norwegian Refugee Council’s spokesperson has said.

“We think that providing aid to one area above another, as opposed to all areas, is a coercive measure to forcibly displace people, which Israel has been doing all [during the war] of course,” Ahmed Bayram told Al Jazeera.

“Israel’s control of aid, whether in part of the whole system, is dangerous and should not be accepted, let alone allowed, by its allies for 81 days,” he added.

“Israel is an occupier in this scenario and it should not control aid provision to people, let alone life-saving aid like food and water.”



Germany’s anti-Semitism commissioner urges debate on Israel stance

The German government’s anti-Semitism commissioner has called for a more honest debate on the country’s stance towards Israel in light of its actions in the Gaza Strip.

Germany sees Israel’s security as a “reason of state” – a phrase alluding to Berlin’s historical responsibility to the state of Israel following the Holocaust.

The concept, like Israel’s right to exist, is essential to Germany’s self-understanding and its relationship with Israel, Felix Klein told the Sunday edition of the national daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in comments released on Saturday. But, he noted, the term is also vague.

“We must do everything in our power to preserve the security of Israel and Jews worldwide,” he said. “But we must also make it clear that this does not justify everything.”

Starving Palestinians and deliberately worsening the humanitarian situation has nothing to do with securing Israel’s right to exist, he added.

And actively makes Israel's security worse as well as endangers the lives of Jews worldwide. As I have been noticing last week, the actual Nazis are coming out, blaming all Jews for what's happening in Gaza. At least these new hateful comments are denounced as much as the open Muslim hatred. You tube just censors Israel criticism.


Australia must take a stronger stance on Israel’s aid blockade on Gaza, Labor MP says

Ed Husic, a lawmaker and former minister with Australia’s governing Labor Party, has criticised the government’s stance on Israel’s blockade on Gaza, and said Australia should have joined the joint statement by the United Kingdom, France and Canada threatening to take “concrete actions” against Israel if it does not lift restrictions on aid.

“Right now, Australia can and should be doing more: for starters, we should be calling in the Israeli ambassador to Australia to express the unequivocal demand we share with other nations that the Israeli government must provide for the immediate freer, rapid flow of humanitarian aid, not the ‘basic’ level currently permitted to trickle in,” Husic wrote for The Guardian.

“[The statement by the UK, France and Canada] is a further sign that many of our good friends in the international community remain aghast at the treatment of innocent civilians in Gaza. It was an important stand by them. Australia could have proudly joined them. We didn’t.”

Husic, who was the minister for industry and science between 2022 and 2025, is the first Muslim to be elected to federal parliament, as well as to become a minister.





Trump must ‘press Netanyahu gov’t to stop starving Palestinians’: US senator

Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren has urged the Trump administration to pressure Israel to open up aid routes and stop its starvation policy “instead of trying to do a Gaza real estate deal”.

Trump previously said he wants the US to “own” Gaza and to force out Palestinians in order to turn the enclave into “the Riviera of the Middle East”. Palestinians have firmly rejected the US president’s plan, saying it amounts to ethnic cleansing.



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Israel reconsiders taking full control over Gaza aid delivery: Report

As pressure mounts to get more aid into Gaza, Israel appears to be changing tack and may let aid groups operating in the battered enclave remain in charge of non-food assistance while leaving food distribution to a newly established US-backed group, according to a letter obtained by The Associated Press.

The development indicates Israel may be walking back from its plans to tightly control all aid to Gaza and prevent aid agencies long established in the territory from delivering it in the same way they have done in the past.

Israel has blocked food, fuel, medicine and all other supplies from entering Gaza for nearly three months, worsening a humanitarian crisis for 2.3 million Palestinians there. Experts have warned of a high risk of famine and international criticism and outrage over Israel’s offensive has escalated.

That's not any improvement, still doubling down on using food for ethnic cleansing. Plus so far Israel has only let a trickle of food in, nothing else. What non-food assistance is he talking about?


Israel’s limited aid policy fuelling more ‘chaos and desperation’ in Gaza, NRC says

Israel’s policy to allow only an extremely limited amount of aid into Gaza is actually causing “chaos and a lot of desperation” that is exacerbating the hardship faced by people over a nearly three-month total blockade,  Ahmed Bayram, Middle East spokesperson for the Norwegian Refugee Council, has told Al Jazeera.

“Israel’s drip-drip supply of aid is actually confusing people,” he said, speaking from Amman in Jordan.

“People are waiting for that loaf of bread which Israel has been keeping from them, only for Israel to open the gates and then close them again, allowing in a fraction of what is actually needed.

What we need now is not just that switch to keep flicking on and off, we need Israel to keep the gates open for hundreds, and thousands of trucks to arrive. The siege has been lifted in name only, the blockade has been lifted in name only – particularly in the north [of Gaza], which has received zero aid.”

Bayram said that one kilo of onions now reportedly costs about $50 in Gaza, and that many people are having to improvise by making bread out of lentils or dried ground beans or pasta, or using bug-infested flour, while others are eating leaves and grass to try to stave off starvation.

“I’ve heard from a colleague [in Gaza] saying that if you consume one meal a day now, you’re among the luckiest,” he said, adding that children are particularly vulnerable to dying from starvation or suffering severe physical and psychological damage from acute hunger and malnutrition.

“It’s a childhood taken away from them, and in a lot of cases, they’re dying a slow death, literally, while so much food waits across the border,” Bayram said.


Israel’s aid plan for Gaza ‘will not succeed’, UNRWA chief says

Israel’s aid delivery plan for Gaza is not only incompatible with basic humanitarian principles, it is unworkable, says the head of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA).

“It is not possible for a humanitarian organisation, which truly respects the basic humanitarian principles, to adhere to such a scheme,” Philippe Lazzarini said in a statement published on UNRWA’s official Facebook page.

“I do not think that such a model will succeed. This model seems also to be put in place in order to support more a military objective than a real humanitarian concern.”



Outrage, horror after Israeli attack kills 9 children of Gaza doctor

An Israeli attack has killed nearly the entire family of a Khan Younis doctor while she was at work, Gaza health officials said.

The attack hit the home of Alaa al-Najjar, a paediatrician at the southern city’s Nasser Hospital, on Friday, setting it ablaze and killing nine of her 10 children.

The UN’s special rapporteur for the Palestinian territory, Francesca Albanese, slammed the attack as part of a “sadistic pattern” of a “new phase of genocide” facing Palestinians in the besieged enclave.


Rescue workers collect human remains after an Israeli attack on a home in Khan Younis killed nine of a doctor’s 10 children while she was at work

The dead children, two of whom remain under the rubble, range in age from seven months to 12 years old, said Gaza’s Government Media Office.

  • Yahya Hamdi al-Najjar, 12
  • Rakan Hamdi al-Najjar, 10
  • Eve Hamdi al-Najjar, 9
  • Jubran Hamdi al-Najjar, 8
  • Ruslan Hamdi al-Najjar, 7
  • Reval Hamdi al-Najjar, 5
  • Sadin Hamdi al-Najjar, 3
  • Luqman Hamdi al-Najjar, 2
  • Sidar Hamdi al-Najjar, under 1 year old

Al-Najjar’s husband was critically injured in the attack. He has severe chest and head wounds, including a skull fracture, and is now receiving treatment in Nasser Hospital’s intensive care unit, al-Farra told Al Jazeera.

The couple’s only surviving child, 11-year-old Adam, is also severely injured. He is currently “in the moderate ICU department with his mother”, said al-Farra.


Four-year-old boy dies of starvation in Gaza City: Civil defence

A spokesperson for the civil defence agency in Gaza City told Al Jazeera the boy, named Mohammed Yassin, died from starvation as a result of Israel’s blockade on food, water and other aid to Gaza.

“This is not the first child to die in Gaza as a result of starvation,” Mahmoud Basal said. “If food and drink are not allowed to reach the people of the Gaza Strip, we will witness many more deaths of these children. We will witness more deaths.”

Basal called on the international community to “act to end this suffering”.



‘Sickened, appalled, repulsed’ by situation in Gaza: Irish foreign minister

Irish Foreign Minister Simon Harris says “it’s clear war crimes are taking place” in the Gaza Strip.

“It’s clear genocidal activity is taking place. Children are being starved. Food is being used as a weapon of war,” he said in a video shared on social media.

Harris said while Ireland welcomes the European Union’s decision to review a major trade pact with Israel, the bloc must go further and suspend the EU-Israel Association Agreement.

“It needs to be suspended because it cannot be business as usual whilst this is being carried out in Gaza,” the minister said, adding Ireland will move forward with a bill that would ban trade with Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank.

“On Tuesday, I will seek a government decision in relation to that,” Harris said.

Why wait until Tuesday. Where is the sense of urgency. And as 3rd largest importer of Israeli goods, where are the sanctions. A bill to ban trade with Israeli settlements, that's it??? Why are you even trading with illegal Israeli settlements, or you're probably not and it's just another feel good bill...

The time for words has long past, it's time for concrete actions.


‘Words fall short in describing the pain’

Funerals have been held for the nine children of a Gaza doctor who were killed in Israeli bombing. Dr Munir al-Bursh, director general of Gaza’s Health Ministry, said on X the attack happened shortly after Hamdi al-Najjar drove his wife to work.

“Just minutes after returning home, a missile struck their house,” he said, adding the father was “in intensive care”.

“This is the reality our medical staff in Gaza endure. Words fall short in describing the pain. In Gaza, it is not only healthcare workers who are targeted – Israel’s aggression goes further, wiping out entire families.”


Rescue workers collect remains after the Israeli strike on a home in Khan Younis killed nine of a doctor’s 10 children while she was at work

https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/24/middleeast/gaza-doctor-children-bodies-hospital-intl

In response to a CNN request for comment, the Israeli military said aircraft had “struck a number of suspects who were identified operating from a structure adjacent to IDF troops in the area of Khan Yunis.” It said it was reviewing the claim civilians had been killed.

Gaza Civil Defense published graphic video from the scene of the strike. It showed medics lifting an injured man onto a stretcher as other first responders try to extinguish a fire engulfing the house. They recover the charred remains of several children from the debris and wrap them in white sheets.





Thousands of people in Sweden, France protest Israel’s war

Thousands of people gathered in Stockholm and Paris to protest their governments’ silence on Israel’s deadly attacks and starvation campaign, calling for immediate international intervention and sanctions.

In Stockholm, hundreds of people gathered at Odenplan Square urging the Swedish government to take a stand against Israel’s ongoing war crimes in Gaza.

Protesters marched to Sweden’s Foreign Ministry chanting “Freedom for Palestine” and “No to Netanyahu’s Plan.” Swedish activist Lars Ohly said it is unacceptable that Sweden remained silent when more than 50,000 people have been killed, including more than 15,000 children.

In Paris, Palestinian supporters gathered at Bourse Square to demand sanctions against Israel and unhindered passage of aid convoys into Gaza.

Demonstrators highlighted the dire food shortage by banging empty pots and pans and chanting slogans such as “Israel is a murderer, Macron is an accomplice”.

“There is genocide in Gaza, we will not remain silent,” said Myriem, a 44-year-old protester. She described the restrictions on humanitarian relief to Gaza as “inhumane”.

Palestinian mothers describe pain of watching children suffer

Parents across the Gaza Strip are in a desperate fight to find food to feed their children.

Nady Nasrallah, a displaced mother in Gaza City, urged the world to help. “We need drinking water and food. My daughters have been asking for bread since this morning and we have nothing to give her,” Nasrallah told the AFP news agency.

Mervat Hijazi, a mother of nine who has also been displaced in Gaza City, said she feels ashamed for not being able to feed her family. “I cry at night when my baby cries and her stomach aches from hunger,” she told Reuters.

One of her children, six-year-old Zaha, can’t sleep because of Israel’s bombardment, Hijazi said.

“She wakes up terrified, shaking, and then remembers she didn’t eat and is hungry. I put her back to sleep, promising her food in the morning. Of course, I lie.”


Israel’s blockade means that charity kitchens in northern Gaza have only limited remaining supplies

Gaza City’s people face ‘severe water shortages’

In the besieged Palestinian enclave’s north, the Gaza City municipality warned of “a potential large-scale water crisis” because of a lack of supplies needed for urgent repairs to damaged infrastructure.

Destruction from the war has “affected the majority of Gaza’s water infrastructure, leaving large portions of the population vulnerable to severe water shortages”, it said.

Temperatures are rising and demand for drinking water is expected to increase, it added.

Last year, Human Rights Watch accused Israel of committing “acts of genocide” by denying clean water to Palestinians in Gaza, and called on the international community to impose targeted sanctions.


Children wait to receive desalinated water