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07-05-2025
JERUSALEM/ SANA’A/ BEIRUT/ GAZA: Israel attacked Yemen, Lebanon and Syria, as well as Gaza, where air strikes killed at least 54 people on Monday.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Gaza’s more than 2 million people “will be moved” in a new ground offensive as Israel’s total blockade on the enclave reaches 65 days.
Hospitals in Gaza are 48 hours away from collapse and the lives of thousands of sick and wounded are at risk, the Gaza Media Office said.
Israel’s war has killed at least 52,567 Palestinians and wounded 118,610, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry. The Government Media Office updated the death toll to more than 61,700, saying thousands of people missing under the rubble are presumed dead.
An estimated 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the Hamas-led attacks on October 7, 2023, and more than 200 were taken captive.
The attack came a day after a Houthi missile hit Israel’s main international airport in Tel Aviv.
Journalist Ali Hashem says that this is not the first time that Israel and the Houthis have exchanged fire since October 2023.
Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha received the prestigious award on Monday for his essays that focused on the “physical and emotional carnage in Gaza”, published in The New Yorker magazine.
In a brief post on social media, Abu Toha wrote; “I have just won a Pulitzer Prize for Commentary. Let it bring hope. Let it be a tale.”
His words were an apparent reference to fellow Palestinian poet Refaat Alareer, who was killed in an Israeli attack on Gaza in December 2023.
The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) says the nutritional situation in Gaza is now “even more dire than in the past 19 months”, with essential food supplies having “run out in both markets and distribution centres”.
“The nutritional front, the population is facing once again at extreme risk of famine”, the PRCS said in its latest situation update.
“There is an inability to meet even the minimum daily needs of over a million displaced people,” it said.
The Red Crescent’s food stocks allocated for displaced people are now “completely depleted”, with “limited quantities of legumes” being “distributed to community kitchens to cover some of the basic needs of displaced individuals”.
Commenting on Trump’s planned three-day visit to Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates next week, an Arab official told the Axios news site that the trip “looks very bad” with no ceasefire in Gaza.
While Trump is expected to focus on bilateral issues and investment during this visit from May 13 to 15, the unnamed Arab official said the US president had a “big splash” about reaching a ceasefire in Gaza before his inauguration but “three months later, the situation in Gaza is worse,” the official told Axios.
A US official in the same report explained why Trump Israel’s staunchest ally in its war on Gaza was avoiding a stop in Israel during his regional visit: “Nothing good can come out of a visit to Israel at the moment.”
Israel has announced the mobilization of 70,000 reservists as part of a new military offensive against Gaza, codenamed “Gideon’s Chariots” which will forcibly displace more than 2 million people to the southern part of the enclave.
Israeli ground forces will enter the Strip in large numbers and occupy parts of the territory where they will “flatten all buildings”, Axios reports.
“The tactic will be massive destruction,” the news site said. (Int’l Monitoring Desk)
