Member of parliament says UK newspapers ‘complicit’ in Gaza genocide

Independent UK member of parliament Zarah Sultana has criticised British newspaper coverage of Gaza, including the lack of media attention on a fire after an Israeli attack that killed 36 people in a school-turned-shelter for forcibly displaced Palestinian families.

“This photo should be on the front page of every major British newspaper,” Sultana said in a post on X.

“It won’t be,” she added, “because, like the political class, they’re complicit. It’s their genocide too.”

This photo should be on the front page of every major British newspaper.

But it won’t be — because, like the political class, they’re complicit.

It’s their genocide too. pic.twitter.com/7FhJgDnVQs

— Zarah Sultana MP (@zarahsultana) May 26, 2025

Seven-year old girl survives fiery Israeli attack on Gaza shelter

Seven-year-old Ward Sheikh Khalil was one of the only survivors of Israel’s bombing of the Fahmi al-Jarjawi school in Gaza City last night. Her mother and six of her siblings were among those killed.

“The missile hit us, and the school caught fire. My family was killed,” Ward said after the attack.

_{Ward sits with her uncle, Iyad Al Shiek Khalil, after the attack}

Push to continue shadowy Gaza aid effort continues, despite displacement fears

The Washington Post is now reporting that goods to a particular distribution site near the Philadelphi corridor – on the border between Egypt and Gaza – were transported to one of their distribution hubs guarded by private US armed mercenaries, and a small amount of aid was dispersed.

That’s actually quite significant.

From what we can tell, this is a very shadowy group, and we know it’s bankrolled by business people. It claims to have $100bn of funding from somewhere in the European Union – no one’s owning up.

But they have their distribution points; from what we can tell, they have four distribution points. Three of them are in the South. One of them is in central Gaza, near the Netzarim Corridor.

The majority of the population of Gaza is in the north and central Gaza. So, therefore, in order to reach these points in the south, people from Gaza have to walk through Israeli controlled territory and then end up displaced in the south.

These distribution points happen to be exactly the same areas where Benjamin Netanyahu has been very clear he wants to ethnically cleanse the people of north and central Gaza to. Which is perhaps one of the reasons why, it’s thought, Jake Wood, the head of the organisation, a former American Marine, experienced in development work, resigned on Sunday, after lasting about two months. We’re also hearing the chief operating officer resigned as well on Sunday

So this aid effort has been completely discredited by the people who are overseeing it. But, clearly, whoever’s behind it is still pushing ahead.

Far-right Israeli ministers Ben-Gvir, Smotrich join Jerusalem march


<sub>Israel’s far-right national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, joined a provocative march on occupied East Jerusalem on Monday


Israel’s far-right finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, also joined the march


Thousands of people joined the march through Palestinian neighbourhoods, where the chant, ‘Death to Arabs’ was heard</sub>

‘We must not give them humanitarian aid,’ Israel’s Ben-Gvir tells marchers

Israel’s far-right national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, addressed a large crowd participating in the controversial Jerusalem Day march on occupied East Jerusalem.

Speaking about Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip, Ben-Gvir said: “This victory must be taken further and further… we will enter Gaza and triumph,” The Times of Israel reported.

Ben-Gvir also said he had voiced his objections to Israel lifting its total blockade on food entering the Gaza Strip. “I say to the prime minister, ‘Dear prime minister, we must not give them humanitarian aid. We must not give them fuel…’ Our enemies deserve only a bullet to the head!”

The Israeli finance minister also addressed the crowd of thousands, saying: “Are we settling the land of Israel? Are we liberating Gaza?” to cheers of approval.

‘Jewish supremacy’ on display in occupied East Jerusalem march: Rights group

Prominent Israeli human rights group B’Tselem has described Israel’s Jerusalem Day march as an “example of Jewish supremacy” over Palestinians living in occupied East Jerusalem.

In post on social media accompanied by video clips of Israeli marchers attempting to kick in the door of a Palestinian home, and another showing a group engaged in anti-Islamic chants and dancing, B’Tselem said those involved “often” provoke and attack Palestinian residents of the city.

“The ‘Flag March’ is an example of Jewish supremacy: thousands of Jewish-Israelis celebrate defiantly while Palestinians are forced to shut their shops and stay home in fear,” the rights group said.

Jerusalem Day is an Israeli national holiday marked on the day East Jerusalem was occupied to celebrate the ‘unification’ of the city in 1967.
In 1968, a festive march to the Western Wall was added to the tradition. Participants march through the Muslim Quarter of the Old City… pic.twitter.com/5QlZkQ8OBC

— B'Tselem בצלם بتسيلم (@btselem) May 26, 2025

Jerusalem Day parade ‘violent and degrading’: Israeli opposition leader

Israeli opposition politician Yair Lapid has denounced celebrations of Jerusalem Day, which took place a day earlier.

“Jerusalem Day was celebrated yesterday with a violent and degrading parade, with the singing of ‘may your village burn’ and mocking songs about the children who are dying in Gaza,” Lapid said in a post on X.

He questioned what a prominent rabbi from Israel’s founding days, the late Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook, would have thought about the celebrations.

“Actually, we know what. He is, after all, the man who wrote: ‘Love for people should be alive in the heart of man … even towards peoples who are not from our world,'” Lapid added.

Israeli activists block aid en route to Gaza

Far-right activists have gathered at Israel’s port of Ashdod, about 30km (18 miles) from the Gaza Strip, to block aid destined for the besieged enclave.

According to footage published by Israeli media and social media, protesters stood in front of trucks as they exited the port gates, while Israeli police forces attempted to remove the protesters from the trucks’ path.

פעילי ימין הגיעו לנמל אשדוד כדי לחסום משאיות סיוע המיועדות לעזה.
צילום: צו 9 pic.twitter.com/uKxPokPKCz

— ישראל היום (@IsraelHayomHeb) May 27, 2025

Pregnant Palestinian women endangered by Israeli military restrictions in West Bank: UN

The UN’s Population Fund (UNFPA) said international law must be upheld to protect people who need medical treatment, as the Israeli military’s restrictions on travel in the occupied West Bank are endangering pregnant women.

“These restrictions could threaten the lives of more than 50 women who give birth every day” in the West Bank, the UN agency said.

In a post on social media, the agency quoted a Palestinian mother who was forced to wait three weeks to have stitches removed after a caesarean-section birth.

“Snipers were targeting anything that moved on the road,” the mother from West Bank’s Tulkarem City was quoted as saying.

_{Palestinian women are blocked by Israeli soldiers from entering Tulkarem refugee camp to remove their belongings, in the occupied West Bank, on May 26}

Israeli soldiers raid West Bank refugee camp as settler attacks continue

Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic are reporting that Israeli soldiers have raided Palestinian communities across the occupied West Bank as intensified Israeli settler attacks continue.

Israeli forces carry out arrests amid raids on occupied West Bank

The Israeli military has conducted arrests in Nablus and Hebron, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Media Office has said, as military operations continue across the occupied West Bank.

Two men were arrested during a raid on the Askar al-Jadeed refugee camp, east of Nablus, and two others in Beit Ummar, north of Hebron.

Israeli forces have detained at least 10,068 Palestinians since launching a war on Gaza on October 7, 2023. Israeli authorities have confirmed the death of 70 Palestinian prisoners in jail.

Israeli forces injure at least 19 Palestinians in West Bank’s Nablus: PRCS

The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) says 19 people have been wounded by live bullets in Nablus, as the Israeli army launched a series of simultaneous raids on money exchange shops in cities across the occupied West Bank.

Two people were shot, including a 15-year-old, while 15 people suffered tear gas inhalation.

As we reported earlier, Israeli forces have carried out raids in cities including Nablus, Jenin, Tubas, Qalqilya, Bethlehem and Hebron.

Israeli forces raid exchange shops in West Bank

The Israeli army has raided several exchange shops in the occupied West Bank, according to videos verified by Al Jazeera’s Sanad fact-checking agency. Footage showed simultaneous raids on exchanges in cities, including Nablus, Hebron, Ramallah, Tubas, Jenin, and Bethlehem.

Smoke bombs were fired in the centre of Jenin, and streets were closed in Tubas and Bethlehem.

The Israeli Army Radio reported that the raids were conducted due to suspicions that these shops supported “terrorism”. It added that the operation would result in the confiscation of large amounts of money that were designated for “terrorism infrastructure” in the West Bank.


_{Israeli army soldiers take positions outside a currency exchange shop in Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank, during a raid on May 27}

More like IDF stealing money... Just like Israel withholds taxes from the PA.

Israeli raids on West Bank’s exchanges remind Palestinians who has ‘upper hand’

Israeli violence in occupied West Bank ‘is not less serious’

Israeli forces have been raiding different cities like Hebron, Nablus, and Bethlehem.

These areas are part of Area A, according to the Oslo Accords that were signed between Israel and the Palestinian Authority back in the ’90s. But as Palestinians would tell you, Israel disregards the fact that the PA should be controlling Area A – the Israeli military raids the cities day in, day out.

Israeli forces have been raiding Tulkarem, Nur Shams, and Jenin refugee camps since mid-January. Today, we’re seeing a large-scale raid all across the occupied West Bank, injuring people.

People can be going to their schools, can be going to their work when they are suddenly surprised by Israeli military jeeps raiding them.

We’ve seen Israeli forces raiding Nablus, but before that, they sent undercover units to the city. So basically, they are disguised in Palestinian clothing, Palestinian cars, and then they catch people off guard before the raid starts, which leads to violent confrontations. Yesterday night, a young Palestinian boy was killed in Jericho.

Because of the scale of the relentless bombardment in Gaza, eyes turn there, but what’s happening in the West Bank is no less serious.

_{Israeli soldiers patrol in the Tulkarem camp for Palestinian refugees after an evacuation order was issued to the residents whose houses were scheduled to be demolished on May 26}

Australian government ‘complicit in genocide until they sanction Israel’: Senator

Australian Senator Lidia Thorpe says recent statements from Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Israel’s war on Gaza are “too little, too late”.

“Weak words of condemnation are meaningless without action,” she said in a post on X.

Albanese’s “comments on Israel’s latest campaign of forced starvation come 597 days into the genocide in Gaza, while this government continues to supply weapon parts to the [Israeli military]”, Thorpe said.

“As Palestinians continue to starve between bombings, [the ruling Labor party] will remain complicit in genocide until they sanction Israel, end the arms trade, and join global action,” she added.

Albanese’s words are too little, too late. Weak words of condemnation are meaningless without action.

His comments on Israel’s latest campaign of forced starvation come 597 days into the genocide in Gaza, while this government continues to supply weapon parts to the IOF.

— Senator Lidia Thorpe (@SenatorThorpe) May 27, 2025

Israel takes German criticism of military actions in Gaza ‘seriously’: Envoy

Ron Prosor, the Israeli ambassador to Germany, has told the country’s ZDF broadcaster that his government is taking German criticism of its campaign in Gaza seriously.

It comes a day after Chancellor Friedrich Merz said Israel’s military actions “can no longer be justified by the fight against Hamas terrorism”.

“When Friedrich Merz voices this criticism of Israel, we listen very carefully because he is a friend,” Prosor was quoted as saying.

Oh did the IDF stop bombing Gaza? Doesn't seem they take it seriously at all.

French socialist leader accuses Israel of ‘genocide’

French Socialist Party leader Olivier Faure has accused Israel of committing “genocide” in Gaza, aligning his group for the first time with the Greens and Communists on the issue.

“Genocide is characterised when there is intentionality, and members of the Israeli government are making numerous declarations to this effect,” Faure told a rally.

“It must be said loud and clear that the government of Benjamin Netanyahu is committing genocide in Gaza.”

Germany, Finland urge aid pressure on Israel; Sweden summons ambassador

The leaders of Germany and Finland have urged the international community to ramp up pressure on Israel to allow immediate humanitarian aid into Gaza, as civilians in the besieged territory continue to face severe shortages of food and medicine.

“We must put pressure on Israel to ensure the aid truly reaches its target,” German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said during a visit to Helsinki, describing the suffering in Gaza as “excessive” and calling for urgent action.

“But it is also crucial that Hamas must not prevent humanitarian aid from arriving,” added Merz, a day after expressing unusually strong criticism of Israel.

“I no longer understand what the Israeli army is now doing in the Gaza Strip, with what goal,” he had told a forum organised by WDR television on Monday, adding that the effect on civilians in Gaza “can no longer be justified”.

For his part, Finnish Prime Minister Petteri Orpo echoed Merz’s appeal, also telling reporters in Helsinki that the situation in Gaza is a “terrible human catastrophe” that demands swift international response.

Sweden, meanwhile, summoned Israel’s ambassador to the country, urging Israel to allow aid into Gaza.

“The current way the war is waged is unacceptable,” the Swedish Foreign Ministry said in a statement, which also noted Israel’s right to defend itself.

More than 800 lawyers say UK legally obliged to sanction Israel

An open letter detailing “concrete actions” the UK government should take over Israel’s war on Gaza has been signed by 823 legal professionals, including 11 former judges as well as dozens of lawyers and legal academics.

This includes imposing “financial and immigration sanctions” on “Israeli Ministers and other civil and military personnel reasonably suspected of involvement in unlawful conduct”, the document said.

The letter also urged the British government to “review existing trade ties with Israel” and confirm it will meet its obligations to execute International Criminal Court (ICC) arrest warrants, related to the occupied Palestinian territory.

_{A family waits next to the Fahmi al-Jarjawi school after it was destroyed in an Israeli attack on Monday}

UK trade envoy visits Israel, despite suspended free trade talks

Ian Austin, the UK trade envoy to Israel, has said in a post on X that he is currently in Israel to “meet businesses and officials to promote trade with the UK”.

His visit to Israel comes a week after the British government said it was suspending free trade negotiations with Israel due to its military conduct in the war on Gaza. An earlier post from the UK embassy in Israel said Austin’s itinerary on Monday included visits to Israel’s Institute of Technology – Technion – and a “cutting-edge Customs Scanning Centre”.

Critics say Israel’s economy profits from selling surveillance technology and weapons it tests on Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Gaza, to countries around the world.

Greetings from Israel!

I’m here to meet businesses & officials to promote trade with the UK.

Trade with Israel provides many thousands of good jobs in the UK and brings people together in the great multi-cultural democracy that is Israel.

Read this:https://t.co/adJDRtUFgb https://t.co/Rh7DMKFU1j

— Ian Austin (@LordIanAustin) May 27, 2025

Israel’s forced displacement treats Gaza’s population like human ‘pinballs’: UN

The UN’s agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) said that Gaza’s more than 2 million people are being “treated like pinballs” who have been continuously forced to “flee in search of safety that doesn’t exist”.

In a post on social media, UNRWA said it was “at a loss of words to do any justice to the suffering” the population of Gaza is being forced to endure.

“With nearly 20 months of war, people are exhausted, disoriented, grieving, and constantly in fear,” the agency said.

“This hardship and uncertainty must end,” it said.


_{Families grieve over the bodies of their loved ones who were killed in Israeli attacks on northern Gaza, at al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City on Monday}

Renewed Israeli offensive displaced 180,000 in Gaza: IOM

In just 10 days through to May 25, Israeli attacks on displacement camps in Gaza have forced more than 180,000 people to relocate, according to the Global Camp Coordination and Camp Management (CCCM) Cluster of the UN’s International Organization for Migration.

“The latest wave of displacement comes as direct attacks on sites have become common, including deadly airstrike on tents in the al-Mawasi area and a school-turned-shelter in Gaza City,” CCCM Cluster said in a statement.

“The Global CCCM Cluster unequivocally condemns attacks on displacement sites in the strongest terms. These sites serve to protect displaced civilians, in line with the enduring obligation under international humanitarian law to ensure the safety and dignity of civilian populations in all circumstances.”

Since March 18, when Israel renewed its war, more than 260 sites hosting some 125,000 individuals have been affected by forced evacuation orders, it said.

“The Global CCCM Cluster calls for an immediate end to attacks on displacement sites, unimpeded and sustained humanitarian access, and the protection of civilians irrespective of their location,” the organisation stated.

_{Tents are set up as temporary shelters for displaced Palestinians in Gaza City}

Israel yet to back up its accusations against UNRWA: Lazzarini

UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini says Israel has “continuously made unsubstantiated claims” against the UN agency, while refusing to provide evidence to back up its accusations.

“To date, UNRWA has not received any response, nor has the Government of Israel shared any sufficient evidence to back up these very serious claims,” he said on X.

The Israeli government had accused UNRWA staff of involvement in Hamas’s attack on October 7, 2023, and banned the agency from operating in the occupied Palestinian territory and Israel.

Lazzarini said on X that the claims had put the lives of its staff at risk and harmed the agency’s reputation. “The minimum requirements are sufficient evidence and due process,” he said. “The absence of both more than one year later raises the possibility that the accusations were unfounded.”

Over the past 20 months, the Government of Israel has continuously made unsubstantiated claims against @UNRWA and its neutrality.

These claims have put the lives of UNRWA staff at serious risk and harmed the reputation of the Agency.

Here are extracts from a letter I recently… pic.twitter.com/zUy71JTDAi

— Philippe Lazzarini (@UNLazzarini) May 27, 2025

Gaza death toll tops 54,000

The Health Ministry in Gaza has just released its latest daily update on the number of casualties due to Israeli attacks on the besieged and bombarded territory.

UN rapporteur bewails ‘so many children – burning alive’ in Gaza attacks

Francesca Albanese, the UN’s rapporteur on human rights in the occupied Palestinian territory, said she is unable to look at fire any longer after seeing “so many people – so many children” burned alive in Israeli attacks on Gaza.

“I can’t look at fire anymore without feeling sick to my stomach,” the UN official said in a post on social media, which has been viewed more than 470,000 times.

“May the Palestinians forgive us,” she added.

I’ve seen the silhouettes of so many people—so many children—burning alive, that I can’t look at fire anymore without feeling sick to my stomach.

WE
MUST
STOP
THIS
MASSACRE.

May the Palestinians forgive us. pic.twitter.com/LRBvWyDaru

— Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt (@FranceskAlbs) May 26, 2025

The child victims of Israel brutal war on Gaza

_{A child with a head bandage at al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, Gaza, on May 26}

<sub>Sila Madi, 8, lies in a hospital in Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, Gaza on Monday. Doctors have amputated Sila’s right leg and are trying to save her left leg, following injuries from an Israeli attack


Two-year-old Palestinian girl Maryam Abu Daqqa, who is suffering from malnutrition, at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, southern Gaza on Monday</sub>

As well as thousands of dead children, shot in the head by snipers, burned, buried alive or blown to pieces. And many thousands more mourning the loss of their parents and siblings. Over 39,000 children have lost one or both parents in Gaza. _{April 3rd 2025}

UNRWA says only 6 of its health centres operational in Gaza

The UN agency for Palestinian refugees has said only six out of 22 UNRWA health centres remain operational in the Gaza Strip due to “constant bombardment”.

In a post on X, UNRWA said 37 medical points were also in place, but essential medical supplies remained “critically low”.

“Unhindered access to deliver lifesaving aid including medicine and basic medical supplies is urgently needed,” it said.

UNRWA has delivered over 8.5 million medical consultations in #Gaza since the war began in October 2023. These include maternal health, mental health, and rehabilitation services.

Due to the ongoing war and constant bombardment, only 6 out of 22 UNRWA health centres remain… pic.twitter.com/HeTSGrJr46

— UNRWA (@UNRWA) May 27, 2025

US-Israel aid plan ‘washes’ Gaza genocide

Former UNRWA spokesperson Chris Gunness has told Al Jazeera that a new scheme to deliver aid in Gaza is “aid washing”.

“It’s quite simply the use of humanitarian aid to justify the weaponisation of humanitarian assistance, but also to justify ethnic cleansing and genocide,” Gunness said.

Gunness added that the plan, led by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, could have other serious consequences.

“The subcontracting of aid to mercenaries is the sort of disaster we saw with the ‘flour massacre’ in February last year, when over 100 people were killed when inexperienced people brought in trucks,” he said.

First aid deliveries by GHF raise concerns among Palestinians

The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation has released photos of a group of locals who received aid parcels from a distribution centre in one of the areas under Israeli control.

But it’s very difficult for people to get aid from the recently formed aid distribution hubs in southern Gaza.

Many Palestinians are questioning the neutrality of the foundation and the use of aid as a political tool to control the movement of the population. In fact, only those who move southwards will get aid, while those who are in central and northern Gaza will not.

People who move southwards would have to make a very long journey under very dangerous circumstances. They are also very concerned that they would be relocated and would not be able to return home.

_{People carry boxes of aid as GHF said it has commenced aid distribution in Rafah, May 26}

Imagine carrying a 40 pound box 25 km, while suffering from malnutrition, past crowds of starving people to get back to your family...

UN calls for Gaza crossings opening, calls GHF ‘a distraction’

The UN says it has no information on whether the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) had actually distributed any aid in Gaza, as the US-backed group announced yesterday.

Speaking to reporters in Geneva, the spokesperson of the UN humanitarian office labelled the reported operations of the GHF “a distraction”.

“What is actually needed,” OCHA’s Jens Laerke said, “is a reopening of all the crossings into Gaza, a secure environment within Gaza, and faster facilitation of missions and final approvals of all the emergency supplies that we have just outside the border and needs to get in.”

The spokesperson also called for an end to Israeli curbs on the kind of aid being allowed to enter Gaza, which he said was being “cherry-picked” and did not always match needs.

Separately, UNRWA spokeswoman Juliette Touma told the same briefing via videolink that UN agencies do not “have any information” about the delivery of any supplies by the GHF into the besieged territory.

“We know what’s needed, we know what’s missing, and we are very, very far from that daily target,” Touma said.

“The needs are 500-600 trucks at a minimum that should go into Gaza, loaded with supplies. Not only food but also medicine, medical supplies, vaccines for children, fuel, water and other basics for people’s survival.”


_{A woman carrying jerrycans walks along with other Palestinians transporting their belongings as they flee the northern Gaza Strip towards the south}