‘People punished for not leaving their homes’

Attacks have been intense in both the southern and northern parts of the Gaza Strip, where the Israeli military is operating aggressively after forcing thousands of families to evacuate.

Those who chose not to leave their homes [in areas where the military issued displacement orders] did not do so out of defiance but because the military has not been honest about safe areas.

People believe the moment they leave their homes for a new area, that area could be attacked as well. There is a mountain of evidence of that happening, including in al-Mawasi.

Now the military is carrying out a strategy of cleansing the entire northern part of the Strip by means of enforced displacement, using heavy artillery and fighter jets, which keep dropping bombs. People are being punished for not leaving their homes.

But even the central part of the Strip, where the majority of people are now concentrated because of the flow of aid, is being attacked relentlessly.

_{Bodies of Palestinians are received by their relatives for burial after their funerals at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis on May 25}

Israel’s ‘indiscriminate attacks’ on Gaza must stop: UNRWA

The UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, has called for an end to “indiscriminate attacks” against Gaza’s children, 950 of whom have reportedly been killed in the past two months.

“Children in Gaza are enduring unimaginable suffering,” UNRWA said in a post on X. “They are starving, displaced and exposed to indiscriminate attacks.”

“This must stop. Children must be protected,” the agency added.

Thousands of Gaza families wiped out by Israel: Monitor

Ramy Abdu, chairman of the Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor, says in a post on X that the Geneva-based organisation has verified the killing of thousands of Palestinian families in Gaza by the Israeli military:

_{Palestinians carry the bodies of their relatives, including children, killed in an Israeli attack in Deir el-Balah, May 21}

In Gaza, selling or serving food can get you killed

On April 27, my brother-in-law, Samer, was killed in Deir el-Balah in central Gaza when his vegetable stall was bombed. He wasn’t armed. He wasn’t a political figure. He was a peaceful man trying to earn a living to feed his children in a place where food has become more expensive than gold.

Samer wasn’t a vendor by profession. He was a lawyer who defended the rights of the oppressed. But the war forced him to change his path.

During the ceasefire, he was able to buy vegetables from local wholesalers. After the war resumed and the crossings into Gaza were closed in March, supplies dwindled dramatically, but he maintained a small stock of vegetables. He continued selling day and night, even as buyers became scarce due to the high prices. He often tried to give us vegetables for free out of generosity, but I always refused.

When I heard about Samer’s killing, I froze. I tried to hide the news from my husband, but my tears spoke the truth. He looked like he wanted to scream, but the scream remained trapped inside his throat. Something held him back – perhaps his burdened soul could no longer bear even the expression of grief.


_{Blood is splattered across the floor following an Israeli bombing of a restaurant that killed at least 33 Palestinians in Gaza City on May 7}

Doctor slams BBC for echoing Israel

"You don't ask the perpetrator of genocide."

In a searing interview with the BBC, paediatrician Dr Tanya Haj Hassan condemned the broadcaster for echoing Israeli government talking points as she recounted her harrowing experiences in Gaza. Dr Haj Hassan, who recently returned from volunteering with Medical Aid for Palestinians, shared the devastating story of her colleague, Dr Alaa, a paediatric emergency doctor at Nasser Hospital.

While Dr Alaa was on call at the hospital, her home was bombed and nine of her children were killed, their bodies charred and dismembered beyond recognition. Her husband remains in critical condition. Dr Haj Hassan described a healthcare system in collapse: intensive care units overflowing with maimed, orphaned children – many the sole survivors of their families.

She also questioned why the BBC has delayed the release of 'Medics Under Fire', a documentary it commissioned about systematic attacks on Gaza’s healthcare workers, calling for its immediate release.

How BIASED is Corporate Media Really? Joy Reid and Mehdi Discuss after Leaving MSNBC

“Where the American media and the American political culture wins over the UK and every Western country, every time is the First Amendment — is free speech, is the inability of bad faith actors, billionaires, foreign governments to weaponize libel laws, to shut down new stories they don't like… But Donald Trump has shown and Elon Musk has shown, that you can weaponize libel laws even even if you aren't going to win.”

Former MSNBC hosts Mehdi Hasan and Joy Reid dive into a conversation on media bias, the Trump administration, and how journalists in the US are staying out of trouble by avoiding covering Palestine. The duo also takes questions from the audience, including one on the future of democracy in the US.

Israel threatens retaliatory strikes in Yemen after latest Houthi attack

These missile launches from Yemen targeting Israel are becoming more frequent. The Houthis say they’re going to continue these types of attacks as long as Israel’s war on Gaza resumes.

Since March, there have been nearly 40 projectiles launched by the Houthis. Israelis say they are going to take matters into their own hands and conduct their own air strikes in Yemen. This is something the Israelis have carried out before.

After a missile targeted Israel’s Ben Gurion airport a few weeks ago, making impact and causing damage near and around the airport, the Israelis have continued their attacks on Yemen.

Despite all the attacks by the Americans and Israelis, the Houthis still have these military capabilities.

Hamas praises Houthi strikes on Israel

The Palestinian group says it “highly values ​​and commends” the Yemeni rebels’ “ongoing support and solidarity operations” targeting Israel.

The Houthis’ latest missile strike, which targeted Ben Gurion International Airport in Tel Aviv, “confirms the noble stance of the brotherly Yemeni people” in solidarity with the Palestinians in Gaza, a Hamas statement on Telegram said.

It also called on Muslim nations as well as the rest of the international community to intensify their efforts to stop “the ongoing war of extermination in Gaza”.

The Israeli military said earlier that it had intercepted the missile launched from Yemen in an attack claimed by the Houthis. There were no reports of casualties or damage. Sirens sounded in several areas of Israel.

Houthi airport attacks affecting Israel’s economy: Report

The economic damage from the Houthis’ ongoing attacks on Israel’s Ben Gurion International Airport remains significant, the country’s Channel 12 broadcaster reports.

About 20 international airlines have suspended flights because of repeated targeting of the airport by Yemen’s Houthi militia and some are reportedly seeking compensation.

“I think we’re running out of patience too with Israel,” Ryanair CEO Michael O’Leary said last week. “Flights to and from Tel Aviv, if they’re going to keep being disrupted by these security disruptions, frankly, we’d be better off sending those aircraft somewhere else in Europe.”

Israeli reservist handed 20-day jail sentence for refusing service: Reports

Ron Finer, a platoon commander in the Israeli military’s Alon Brigade, has been sentenced to 20 days in prison for ignoring orders to report for duty, The Times of Israel reports.

Finer, 26, who said he has already served 270 days since October 7, 2023, stated he’s “morally unable to continue”. He is a member of the Soldiers for Hostages group.

“I am shocked by the never-ending war in Gaza, the abandonment of the hostages and the relentless death of innocents,” Finer said in comments carried by Israel’s Walla news site. “Prison will not silence me nor will it intimidate me – neither me nor my comrades.”

The Times of Israel said Finer’s sentence is the longest given “for a conscientious objector in the war so far”.

Israeli army chief says battle against Hamas ‘not an endless war’

Israel’s army chief of staff, Lieutenant General Eyal Zamir, says the attack on Gaza is “not an endless war” and the military will “work to shorten it in accordance with the fulfilment of its goals”.

“We are intensifying our activity in accordance with the orderly plan,” Zamir said in a statement made during a trip to the besieged Palestinian enclave.

“Hamas is under tremendous pressure. It has lost most of its assets and its command and control,” he said. “We will deploy every tool at our disposal to bring the hostages home, dismantle Hamas and dismantle its rule,” Zamir added.

Sure it's not endless, at some point there will be no one left alive...

_{Eyal Zamir, Israel’s new army chief}

A true war criminal with a long history, he should have been before the ICC already.

"The casualties caused by troops under Zamir’s command included 1,849 children, 424 women, 115 paramedics and 115 journalists. When asked why his troops had killed 16 Palestinian protestors in a single day, General Zamir stated that his soldiers were simply “identifying attempts to carry out terror attacks under the camouflage of riots.”"

Israel troop seriously hurt after fight with comrade

An Israeli soldier was severely injured in northern Gaza after a physical confrontation broke out with a fellow soldier. The wounded troop was reportedly hit with a kettle in Beit Lahiya, according to the Walla news outlet. He was evacuated to Israeli for medical treatment.

An unnamed Israeli army officer told the Jerusalem Post the situation on the ground in Gaza is “very tense” because of “soldier fatigue”.

“Things can escalate very quickly and that’s why we need leadership at the front. A lot of conversations. Platoon commanders must be alert to what their soldiers are going through in the field,” the officer was quoted as saying.

Israel’s US envoy called home over interview remarks

Israel’s ambassador to Washington is being summoned home to discuss comments he made in a podcast.

Ambassador Yechiel Leiter appeared on a podcast run by the right-wing US online platform PragerU, in which he accused opponents of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of levelling “blood libels” at the Israeli leader.

Leiter accused “extremists on the left” and the Israeli media of trying to topple Netanyahu’s government.

“The Director General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Eden Bar Tal, will summon the ambassador in Washington, Dr Yechiel Leiter, for a hearing regarding statements he made during a media interview,” a Foreign Ministry spokesman said in a statement.

Leiter also dismissed as “insanity” claims that Netanyahu is prolonging the war on Gaza to remain in power. “How dare they say something as malicious as that?” he asked.

US Secretary Noem visits Israel after deadly DC shooting

US Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem arrived in Israel late on Sunday. She met Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar after her arrival and is also expected to hold talks with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

The visit follows last week’s deadly shooting attack on two Israeli embassy staffers in Washington, DC, and Noem is expected to attend a memorial service.

US President Donald Trump expressed condolences to the families of the victims and said the killings were “based obviously on anti-Semitism”.

An absolute pleasure to welcome @sec_noem to Israel particularly on the eve of Jerusalem Day. The U.S.-Israel alliance is strong and steadfast. The United States stands with the people of Israel! pic.twitter.com/MrkT2uUJag

— Ambassador Mike Huckabee (@USAmbIsrael) May 25, 2025

Man charged with trying to attack US embassy in Tel Aviv

A dual US and German citizen has been arrested on charges that he traveled to Israel and attempted to firebomb the branch office of the US embassy in Tel Aviv.

Federal prosecutors in New York said the man, Joseph Neumeyer, walked up to the embassy building on May 19 with a backpack containing Molotov cocktails but got into a confrontation with a guard and eventually ran away, dropping his backpack as the guard tried to grab him.

Law enforcement then tracked Neumeyer down to a hotel a few blocks away from the embassy and arrested him, according to a criminal complaint filed in the Eastern District of New York.

The attack took place against the backdrop of Israel’s war in Gaza, now in its 19th month. Neumeyer, 28, made a series of threatening social media posts before attempting the attack, prosecutors said.

During his first term, President Donald Trump recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital despite Palestinian objections and moved the US embassy from Tel Aviv.

Malta to recognise a Palestinian state: PM

Prime Minister Robert Abela has announced his country will recognise the state of Palestine next month, according to local media.

During a political event in Mosta, Abela said Malta would make its position formal after a June 20 United Nations conference, calling the move a “moral responsibility”.

The prime minister said Malta cannot turn a blind eye to the human tragedies unfolding in Gaza, according to the English daily Times of Malta.

While Malta hosts a Palestinian ambassador, it has never formally recognised a state.

Spain hosts European, Arab nations to pressure Israel to halt Gaza assault

The international community should impose sanctions on Israel to stop its war on Gaza, Spain’s foreign minister said at a Madrid meeting of European and Arab nations.

Spain is hosting 20 countries as well as international organisations on Sunday with the aim of “stopping this war, which no longer has any goal”, Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares said.

“In this terrible moment, in this humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza, we aim to … stop this war … [and to] break the blockade of humanitarian assistance that must go in unimpeded,” Albares told Al Jazeera.

Most Gaza residents still waiting for a single bag of flour

Gaza’s Civil Defence spokesman Mahmoud Basal tells Al Jazeera the ongoing aid shortage is causing “gradual” death across the enclave.

Despite Israel easing its total blockade last week, most residents have yet to receive even a single bag of flour, Basal said. The lack of nutrition is putting children – especially premature infants – at increasing risk, he said.

He estimated 1,000 aid trucks per day are needed to meet basic needs of the Palestinians in Gaza, far more than the roughly 300 trucks Israel claims have entered since the blockade was eased last week.

Basal called for a safe and reliable mechanism for aid deliveries, which he said should be managed by international humanitarian organisations.


_{Palestinians struggle to get food at a community kitchen in Jabalia in northern Gaza}

‘Endless artillery shelling’ hounds Gaza

The situation continues to escalate throughout the Gaza Strip, where at least 30 Palestinians have been killed today. This includes 10 Palestinians killed in the southern part of the Strip and Khan Younis, with multiple homes targeted.

At least eight more people were killed in the middle area where Israeli forces targeted a tent housing a family with kids in Deir el-Balah. The operations director of Gaza’s Civil Defence was also killed in an attack in the central area.

Others were killed in Jabalia, Beit Lahiya, and other parts of northern Gaza.

Israeli forces have used quadcopters for some of these attacks. There has also been endless artillery shelling, especially in the eastern parts of the Strip.

No evidence Hamas is behind looted aid: WFP

The World Food Programme (WFP) has seen no evidence that Hamas is stealing humanitarian aid, the UN organisation’s executive director told US broadcaster CBS.

“No, not at all,” Cindy McCain responded when asked by an interviewer. “Listen, these people are desperate, and they see a World Food Programme truck coming in and they run for it,” she said.

“This doesn’t have anything to do with Hamas or any kind of organised crime, or anything. It has simply to do with the fact that these people are starving to death, and so we will continue to go in.”

Two Red Cross workers killed in Gaza strike on their home

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) says two of its workers were killed in an Israeli air strike in Khan Younis in southern Gaza. “We are heartbroken by the death of two of our dear colleagues, Ibrahim Eid and Ahmad Abu Hilal,” the ICRC in Israel and the occupied territory said.

“They were directly targeted in their little leisure time. They worked 16 hours a day and didn’t hesitate to serve people, and everybody knew they worked for the Red Cross,” said Ali Abu Hashem, a friend of one of the victims.

“What is the reason for assassinating them? Israel doesn’t have any red lines. The Israeli occupation is exterminating all of the Palestinian people. Their task is extermination.”

We are heartbroken by the death of two of our dear colleagues, Ibrahim Eid and Ahmad Abu Hilal.

The ICRC reiterates its urgent call for the respect and protection of civilians in Gaza. pic.twitter.com/XlK1IhLLpX

— ICRC in Israel & OT (@ICRC_ilot) May 25, 2025

Palestinians continue to flee northern Gaza


_{People use the coastal al-Rashid road to head to the southern areas of the enclave}

Gaza’s seaport becomes living hell for displaced Palestinians

Many families in Gaza are sheltering in makeshift tent camps at its overcrowded seaport.

With no sanitation or safe drinking water, families describe living in “landfill-like” conditions, dumping waste into the contaminated sea and contracting skin diseases.

Israel's BOMBSHELL Connection to the Gaza Aid Thefts!

As every Israeli spox going blames Gaza aid restrictions on Hamas, guess who is behind the actual looting gangs?

Right, so as if it comes as any surprise whatsoever, the looting of what little aid Israel is allowing into Gaza, instead of being committed by Hamas as Israel are widely claiming is instead happening at Israel’s instigation.

As if their war of starvation and the scenes of cruelty we’re witnessing on social media aren’t enough, Israel are it seems backing the very groups looting so much of it, whilst allegedly also offering them military protection and directing aid convoys along dangerous routes making it more likely that they will be targeted and robbed.

Not only are Israel backing these thugs to deny food and aid to the people of Gaza, but coming off the back of a gut-wrenching report from the Gaza Media Office is the news about the sort of people involved in the looting, masquerading as security, with all the uniforms and apparent authority, Israel backing individuals linked various terror groups including one particularly unpleasant individual linked to ISIS.

And if you were thinking at this point the new US backed Swiss NGO that’s taking over from UNRWA to deliver aid will deal with this, the Global Humanitarian Foundation, its now also being reported, as per usual by Israel themselves that actually, they’re involved in that too – so how can we possibly believe any aid is going to get in that way either?

Every politician bleating about getting aid in and the UN in particular here – if you’re not delivering aid yourself, then it probably isn’t going to get where it is needed, already way below the levels required as that is. Israel’s starvation of Gaza is so much worse than we already thought.

Right, so Israel’s deliberate campaign of starvation is turning out to be so much worse than already thought, because even what aid they are letting in it seems is still too much for it to be allowed to reach hungry Palestinian mouths. Far from being a tragic consequence of war, the starvation gripping Gaza is a deliberately engineered tool of warfare—a war crime - a policy rooted in control, punishment, and the deliberate destruction of a civilian population’s means of survival.

Journalism, humanity biggest casualty on BBC as repulsive comments go unchallenged

BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg Show on Sunday saw guests making nauseating comments to justify Benjamin Netanyahu’s action in Gaza and yet there was no pushback from the show’s host. Rifat Jawaid returns with his sharp commentary highlighting the rapidly falling standard in BBC’s journalism.

The Pro-Palestinian Resistance WILL NOT Be Televised

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