Israel again hits Sanaa airport
The Israeli Air Force has hit Houthi targets at Sanaa International Airport in Yemen, the army has said in a post on X. Houthi affiliate media is also reporting strikes on the capital’s airport.
The Houthis launched missiles towards Israel yesterday.
Israel has been attacking targets in Yemen intensely this month, hitting the Sanaa airport on May 6 and the ports of Hodeidah and as-Salif last week.
Houthi media details Israeli strikes on Yemen
As we reported earlier, the Israeli military bombed Sanaa International Airport in Yemen’s capital. Houthi-affiliated media network Al Masirah is now saying that four Israeli air strikes targeted the runway at Sanaa Airport and a Yemenia Airways plane.
‘Whoever harms us will be harmed sevenfold’: Israeli defence minister
Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz has confirmed that the air force hit the Yemeni airport in the capital, Sanaa, to strike Houthi positions.
“This is a clear message and a direct continuation of the policy we have established: whoever fires at the State of Israel will pay heavy prices,” Katz said, adding that the retaliation was part of a military operation dubbed “Golden Jewel”.
“The ports in Yemen will continue to be severely damaged, and the airport in Sanaa will be destroyed again and again, as will other strategic infrastructure in the region used by the Houthi terrorist organisation and its supporters.”
Katz said the Houthis would also face a naval and air blockade. “Whoever harms us will be harmed sevenfold,” he added.
Plane targeted at Sanaa airport scheduled for Hajj pilgrimage
Israeli aircraft have carried out four air strikes on Sanaa International Airport this morning, targeting the runway and a Yemeni Airlines plane, the head of the airport says.
Khaled al-Shaif, the airport’s director, said on X that Israel targeted “the last functional aircraft belonging to Yemeni Airlines at Sana’a International Airport, completely destroying it”.
Flight data indicated that the targeted aircraft was an Airbus A320-233 that had arrived from the Jordanian capital, Amman. It landed in Sanaa at about 9:10am (6:10 GMT).
According to information from Flightradar24 obtained by Al Jazeera, the plane was scheduled to fly to the Saudi city of Jeddah for the Hajj pilgrimage. On Friday, the airport had announced it would operate two flights a day to Jeddah for nine days to transport pilgrims.
— Khaled alshaief خالد الشايف (@KAlshaief) May 28, 2025
Hezbollah condemns Israeli strike on Yemen, urges global action
The Lebanese armed group has issued a statement condemning what it called Israel’s “barbaric aggression”, following an air strike on Sanaa International Airport in Yemen, which targeted the last remaining civilian aircraft.
The group accused Israel of expanding its attacks across the region – from Gaza and Lebanon and now, to Yemen – and described the strike as a flagrant violation of international and humanitarian law.
Hezbollah blamed the US for enabling Israel’s actions and criticised the international community’s “shameful silence”. It voiced strong solidarity with the Yemeni people and praised their leadership for standing firmly with the Palestinians in Gaza.
The group called on Arab, Islamic, and free nations to take urgent action to lift the siege on Gaza and back Yemen’s stance in standing up for Palestine.
Israeli forces kill Palestinian man during occupied West Bank raid
The Wafa news agency says Jassem Ibrahim al-Sada, 20, was killed during a raid on the town of Jit, near Qalqilya in the West Bank. Members of his family told Wafa that Israeli soldiers broke down the door of their home and opened fire, killing the young man on the spot.
Israeli forces are very active in the occupied West Bank this morning, with large raids taking place in the towns of Zeita, Madama and el-Bireh, among others.
Mapping Israel’s military campaign in the occupied West Bank
Israel is applying many of the tactics used in its war on Gaza to seize and control territory across the occupied West Bank during its Iron Wall campaign, a new report says.
Israel launched the operation in January. Defending what the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) termed “by far the longest and most destructive operation in the occupied West Bank since the second intifada in the 2000s”, the Israeli military claimed its intention was to preserve its “freedom of action” within the Palestinian territory as it continued to rip up roads and destroy buildings, infrastructure, and water and electricity lines.
The report by the British research group Forensic Architecture suggested Israel has imposed what researchers call a system of “spatial control”, essentially a series of mechanisms that allow it to deploy military units across Palestinian territory at will.
Jenin Refugee camp
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/27/mapping-israels-military-campaign-in-the-occupied-west-bank
Israeli army says it confiscated $2m in West Bank money exchange raids
The Israeli army has said it confiscated more than 7 million shekels ($2m) during raids on money exchanges in the West Bank yesterday, which killed at least one Palestinian and wounded more than 30.
It added that 30 wanted individuals had been arrested during the military operation. On Tuesday, the army claimed it targeted foreign exchanges on suspicions that the shops supported “terrorism”.
Israel’s Ben-Gvir promises to expand settlements despite possible ICC arrest warrant
Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir says reports that the International Criminal Court (ICC) is preparing to issue an arrest warrant against him would not deter him from carrying out his political plans, which centre around the expansion of settlements in the occupied West Bank, which are illegal under international law.
“I have one clear message to the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in The Hague: No arrest warrant of any kind will stop me from continuing to work for the people of Israel and the land of Israel,” he said on X.
“The prosecutor in The Hague doesn’t scare me,” he continued. “I’ll do everything I can to protect my people, even if it costs me an arrest warrant.”
“When The Hague is against me, I know I’m on the right path,” he concluded.
The comments follow a report by the The Wall Street Journal that ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan is working to issue arrest warrants for Ben-Gvir and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich due to their role in the expansion of Israeli settlements.
Last year, the ICC issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, then-Defence Minister Yoav Gallant and a Hamas military commander for alleged war crimes in Gaza. Mohammed Deif, commander of Hamas’s armed wing, had been killed in an Israeli air strike four months earlier in Gaza.
Palestine Red Crescent receives body of man killed in West Bank
As we reported earlier, a Palestinian man was killed during an Israeli raid on the town of Jit, near Qalqilya in the occupied West Bank. Now, the Palestine Red Crescent says that the body of the man, Jassem Ibrahim al-Sada, has been transferred to the medical organisation by Israeli forces.
It said it had been provided “no information” on the man’s death by Israeli forces.
The man’s cousin, Ahmed, told the AFP news agency that Israeli soldiers had come at dawn and shot him in his home. He said his cousin “was not wanted and had no involvement in any activity”.
The Israeli army did not immediately respond to AFP’s request for comment.
The West Bank has seen a surge of deadly violence since the outbreak of the war in Gaza, with at least 937 Palestinians killed by Israeli troops or settlers in the territory, according to Health Ministry figures, and at least 34 Israelis killed in the same period.
Mother of 20-year-old killed in Jit says son left to bleed to death
The mother of Jassem Ibrahim al-Sada has given an account of her 20-year-old son’s last moments before he was killed during an Israeli military raid on the town of Jit in the occupied West Bank.
“They opened the door on him, shot him and left him bleeding. They did not allow the ambulance to transport him, and they vandalised the house and abused him,” she said in a video clip posted by a Palestinian journalist and verified by Al Jazeera’s Sanad unit.
The Palestinian news agency Wafa quoted family sources as saying that al-Sada was the youngest member of his family and worked as a vendor at a small stall in the village.
Pro-Palestinian protests force Israeli ambassador to leave Senegal university
Yuval Waks was forced to leave a university campus in Dakar yesterday after students protested against his presence and chanted pro-Palestinian slogans, according to footage circulating on social media.
Waks had been invited to speak at a conference on international relations practices at Cheikh Anta Diop University (UCAD), the country’s largest and most prominent higher education institution.
But as he arrived, dozens of students gathered outside the hall, chanting “Free Palestine,” “Free Gaza”, and “Israel is a war criminal”.
Videos shared online show students waving Palestinian flags and booing the newly appointed envoy, preventing him from delivering his speech.
Ties with Israel hinge on recognition of Palestinian state
Indonesia, the world’s largest Muslim-majority country, is willing to recognise and open diplomatic relations with Israel if an independent Palestinian state is recognised by Tel Aviv, Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto has said.
Standing alongside visiting French President Emmanuel Macron, Prabowo said Israel’s security needs needed to be guaranteed, and that France would also continue to support steps towards independence for a Palestinian state.
Indonesia does not recognise or share any diplomatic relations with Israel.
France wants Palestinian two-state solution, Macron says
The French president has reiterated his wish to see a two-state solution to the Israel-Palestinian conflict, claiming there are no double standards in French policy towards the Middle East.
Macron is leaning towards recognising a Palestinian state, diplomats and experts say, according to the Reuters news agency, a move that could infuriate Israel and deepen Western splits.
“Only a political solution will make it possible to restore peace and build for the long term,” Macron said, speaking from Indonesia.
“Together with Saudi Arabia, we will soon be organising a conference on Gaza in New York to give fresh impetus to the recognition of a Palestinian state and the recognition of the State of Israel and its right to live in peace and security in this region.”
Pope Leo laments deaths of children in Gaza, appeals for ceasefire
The pope has called for an end to the onslaught in Gaza during a weekly general audience in Saint Peter’s Square.
“In the Gaza Strip, the intense cries are reaching Heaven more and more from mothers and fathers who hold tightly to the bodies of their dead children,” the pontiff, who was elected on May 8 to replace the late Pope Francis, said.
“To those responsible, I renew my appeal: stop the fighting,” he added. “Liberate all the hostages. Completely respect humanitarian law.”
UK and Irish writers pen open letter calling for Gaza ceasefire
Nearly 380 writers from the UK and Ireland have signed an open letter demanding an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, labelling Israel’s actions in the enclave a “genocide”.
The letter, signed by high-profile writers including Zadie Smith, Ian McEwan and Jeanette Winterson, called on the world “to join us in ending our collective silence and inaction in the face of horror”.
The letter also called for the immediate distribution of food and medical aid in Gaza, as well as sanctions on Israel.
“This genocide implicates us all,” it concluded. “We bear witness to the crimes of genocide, and we refuse to approve them by our silence.”
The letter comes a day after 300 French-language writers, including Nobel Literature prize winners Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio and Annie Ernaux, put their names to a similar letter decrying Israel’s actions.
On Monday, more than 800 UK-based legal experts, including former senior judges, wrote to UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer calling for sanctions on Israel, and warning that “urgent and decisive action is required to avert the destruction of the Palestinian people of Gaza.”
Families in Tel Aviv mark 600 days for Gaza captives
Families of captives held in Gaza lashed out at Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a protest to mark 600 days of war.
UAE summons Israeli ambassador over Jerusalem rally ‘violations’
The United Arab Emirates has summoned Israel’s ambassador to the country to express its condemnation of “provocative practices by Israeli extremists” during a rally in Jerusalem earlier this week, according to the WAM state news agency WAM.
Thousands of right-wing Israelis marched through occupied East Jerusalem on Monday to celebrate Israel’s occupation of the city in 1967 following the Six-Day War.
They made their way through Palestinian neighbourhoods, chanting “death to Arabs” and anti-Islamic slogans.
WAM said the UAE condemned “the deplorable and offensive violations against the Palestinian people that took place in the courtyard of Al-Aqsa Mosque”.
It said the Gulf state had urged the Israeli government “to assume full responsibility, condemn these hostile acts, hold perpetrators accountable without exception to ministers and officials”.
UN reports 47 Palestinians wounded in aid distribution violence in Rafah, many by Israeli gunfire
A UN official says 47 Palestinians were wounded, mainly by gunfire, during the deadly aid distribution incident in Rafah on Tuesday.
Ajith Sunghay, head of the UN Human Rights Office for the Palestinian territory, told reporters in Geneva that it appeared Israeli army fire had caused most of the injuries.
Earlier, authorities in Gaza said three people were killed, 46 were injured, and seven were missing.
Lack of water, electricity makes dry food aid unusable
Even if people here in Gaza managed to get their hands on humanitarian supplies, the lack of water and electricity turns these supplies into limited-use items – if not completely unusable.
It’s impossible to cook dry food like lentils, rice or pasta without water. If you had water, you would also need electricity or a fuel source, which have been completely cut off.
People resort to burning scrap wood or plastic to make a fire, but this is dangerous and unsustainable.
Also, the amount of aid that has been entering Gaza remains nowhere near the amount needed.
Crisis in Gaza cannot be addressed by weaponising humanitarian assistance: Lazzarini
UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini has criticised the US-backed aid distribution mechanism led by the controversial Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) during a news conference at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo.
“The crisis in Gaza cannot be addressed by weaponising humanitarian assistance, to apply political and military pressure,” he told reporters. “Aid must be brought in Gaza without obstruction.”
Commenting on the scenes of chaos on Tuesday, when the Israeli military fired shots at famished Palestinians who stormed a distribution site in southern Gaza, Lazzarini said the incident was “chaotic, undignified and unsafe”.
“I believe it is a waste of resources and a distraction from atrocities,” he said of the mechanism put in place by the US and Israel. “We already have an aid distribution system that is fit for purpose. The humanitarian community in Gaza, including UNRWA, is ready.”
Israel bombs Gaza journalists’s home, killing at least 8
Our colleagues on the ground report that at least eight people were killed and others wounded when the Israeli army bombed the home of journalist Osama al-Arbid in the as-Saftawi area of northern Gaza this morning.
Al-Arbid reportedly survived the strike, with dramatic video showing him being pulled from the rubble of the house.
Medical sources have told our team that at least 15 people in total have been killed by Israeli attacks since the early hours of this morning across the Strip.
UNRWA calls for urgent access to Gaza as Palestinian children continue to suffer
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) has drawn attention to the struggles of Gaza’s most vulnerable children, urging unrestricted access to the coastal enclave.
“The people of Gaza cannot wait any longer. Full humanitarian access must be allowed, including for UNRWA, to deliver life-saving aid,” it said in a post on X.
Thousands of children in Gaza were at risk of imminent death after a nearly three-month total Israeli blockade on the besieged enclave, which has caused famine, the UN warned earlier this month.
Ghassan, 5, a boy that UNRWA met, was born with quadriplegia after oxygen deprivation at birth. His real suffering began when the war started in #Gaza.
Medicine and specialised care kept him stable at 13kg.
Now he weighs just 5kg. He is in pain and starving.
The people of Gaza… pic.twitter.com/kDaeENy0W6
— UNRWA (@UNRWA) May 28, 2025
‘Nothing has changed’ as hunger grips Gaza
Heba Jabr, 29, who sleeps in a tent in southern Gaza with her husband and their two children, has been struggling to find food.
“Dying by bombing is much better than dying from the humiliation of hunger and being unable to provide bread and water for your children,” she told the AFP news agency.
Israel imposed a full blockade on Gaza for more than two months before allowing supplies in at a trickle last week.
Forty-year-old Bassam Daloul said that after 600 days of war, “nothing has changed.”
“Death continues, and Israeli bombing does not stop,” he told AFP, adding that “even hoping for a ceasefire feels like a dream and a nightmare”.
Gaza death toll rises
Israeli military attacks since the start of the war have killed at least 54,084 Palestinians and wounded 123,308 others, according to the latest update by Gaza’s Health Ministry. The Israeli army has killed 3,924 Palestinians and wounded 11,267 others since violating the ceasefire agreement on March 18.
The ministry added that 28 bodies and 179 injured people arrived at Gaza hospitals in the past 24-hour reporting period.
Gaza hospitals inundated with patients suffering from injuries to multiple parts of the body
Waseem Saeed, a UK-based plastic and reconstructive surgeon who recently returned from his third humanitarian mission to Gaza, says there are “multiple mass casualty” events occurring in the war-ravaged coastal enclave.
“Previously, we would see them on a steady basis, but this time, particularly towards the end of my mission, every day there would be people coming in with horrific injuries, sometimes twice a day,” he told Al Jazeera.
He said treating the wounded was far more complex than most imagine, noting they had “multiple sites of injuries”.
“They have blast injuries to their lungs. They may have a head injury at the same time, they have abdominal or chest injuries. They almost always have limb injuries, amputations, partial amputations, and are often covered in shrapnel and frequently burned as well,” he said.
“Now each of those patients is going to require multiple specialities operating on them at different times, often several hours of surgery.”
Malnutrition hindering recovery for Palestinians
UK-based surgeon Waseem Saeed expressed deep concern over the dire medical and nutritional shortages faced by Palestinians and medics alike. According to him, food plays a critical role in recovery, stating “the most important medical supply is nutrition”.
“It’s pointless operating on people if they’re not going to heal. And what you now have is a year and a half plus of people on very poor diets, very little nutritional food,” he told Al Jazeera.
“I consider myself a reasonable plastic surgeon, but I’d be lucky if I got 50 percent take on some of the skin grafts.
“You take stitches out at the normal time, and the wounds start to open up, so you have to put them back in. We are seeing the effects of this very poor state of nutrition,” he added.
Only 17 hospitals in Gaza partially operational: Health ministry
The director-general of the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza, Munir al-Bursh, has spoken to Al Jazeera about the healthcare situation in the war-ravaged coastal enclave.
Gaza Health Ministry says medical supplies level ‘catastrophic’
US doctor urges action to prevent ‘erasure’ of Palestinian people
Dr Feroze Sidhwa, a US-based physician who has volunteered at Gaza hospitals over the course of the war, says Israel is carrying out “the deliberate destruction” of the healthcare system in the enclave.
Speaking at the UN Security Council meeting in New York, Sidhwa said his patients in Gaza “were six-year-olds with shrapnel in their heart and bullets in their brains, and pregnant women whose pelvises had been obliterated”.
“Mothers sheltering in the hospital cooked bread on hotplates in the emergency department during mass casualty events as we dealt with the rain of fire and death falling around us everywhere,” said Sidhwa, who most recently volunteered at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis in March and April.
He stressed that the healthcare crisis in Gaza is “man-made” and “entirely preventable”.
“Participating in it or not, allowing it to happen is a choice. This is a deliberate denial of conditions necessary for life: food, shelter, water and medicine. Preventing genocide means refusing to normalise these atrocities,” he told the council.
Gaza aid temporarily halted over ‘disorder’
The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation has said it has temporarily halted aid distribution in Gaza due to disorder, according to Reuters.
The controversial Israeli-US-backed foundation said it was working to resolve the issues to guarantee safety. At least three Palestinians were killed and 46 wounded after the Israeli military opened fire on crowds who rushed to an aid point run by the organisation on Tuesday.
US-backed Gaza aid group opens second site amid widespread criticism
The controversial US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation said aid distribution continued in the coastal enclave without incident and it had opened a second distribution site.
“Across the two sites, approximately 14,550 food boxes have been distributed so far. Each box feeds 5.5 people for 3.5 days, totaling 840,262 meals,” the foundation said in a statement.
As we reported earlier, Gaza Humanitarian Foundation has said it had temporarily halted aid distribution in Gaza due to disorder, in a statement carried by Reuters.
The GHF is working to open four sites and said it has “plans to build additional sites across Gaza in the weeks ahead”.
The GHF operation has come under severe criticism from aid groups and international organisations such as the United Nations.
Earlier today, the head of the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), Philippe Lazzarini, condemned the aid model, saying it is a “distraction from atrocities” taking place there.
Gaza’s Ministry of Health reported at least one person was killed and dozens of others were wounded on Tuesday at a GHF aid distribution point in Rafah after Israeli forces opened fire.
Israel targets Gaza community kitchens, food distribution points
Al Jazeera’s Sanad fact-checking unit says the Israeli military “deliberately targeted” more than 20 community kitchens and food distribution and storage sites across Gaza between Monday and Tuesday.
Sanad’s analysis showed that most of the Israeli air strikes took place in Gaza City and other parts of northern Gaza – an area that has not received any aid since Israel began enforcing its total blockade on the enclave in early March.
Eight incidents were reported there since March 18, Sanad said. Seven other attacks took place in Deir el-Balah and refugee camps in central Gaza while five more were reported in Khan Younis in the south.
Citing data from the Government Media Office in Gaza and Palestinian media sources, at least 60 people were killed in the Israeli attacks. Hundreds of others were also injured.
Palestinians struggle to get food at charity kitchen in Deir el-Balah
All to go ahead with the US backed ethnic cleansing plan by starvation.
‘We can’t survive without it’: Palestinians rely on community kitchens
Lina Abu Shaaban, a Gaza City resident, says her family depends on a community kitchen because food has become so expensive amid shortages caused by the Israeli blockade.
“We can’t survive without it. I wait five to seven hours in the heat just to get food, and I’m always scared of being bombed,” she told Al Jazeera while waiting in line for a bowl of lentils at the kitchen, which was set up at a school housing displaced people.
Another resident in line, Um Ahmad al-Sayfi, also said she has no choice but to get food from the community kitchen because her family is suffering from a lack of supplies. She condemned Israel’s targeting of the food distribution points.
“They bomb them so that we die of hunger. I saw a kitchen get hit just days ago – children were burning. Why don’t they want us to live?” she told Al Jazeera.
Pure white supremacist hatred.
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