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31-05-2025
GAZA STRIP: There were multiple explosions near a newly opened aid distribution point opened by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation in the centre of the Strip, as desperate Palestinians struggle to find food and the United Nations warns the “window to prevent famine is closing fast”.
Israeli attacks on Gaza have killed at least 70 people so far today, including nine killed in an Israeli bombing near as-Saraya junction in Gaza City.
The Israeli government has approved 22 illegal settlements on Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank, the largest one-time approval in history.
Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 54,249 Palestinians and wounded 123,492, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry. The Government Media Office updated its 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 of October 7, 2023, and more than 200 were taken captive.
At least 70 Palestinians have been killed since dawn in Israeli attacks across Gaza, including strikes on the central Bureij refugee camp that killed nearly two dozen people.
Palestinians express growing frustration with a US and Israeli-backed aid distribution scheme that has caused scenes of chaos and deadly violence over the past few days.
The UN says Israel is blocking it from accessing and distributing much-needed humanitarian supplies to Gaza, with about 600 truckloads of goods stuck at a crossing point.
Israel has ordered the closure of al-Awda Hospital, the last functioning hospital in northern Gaza, as the World Health Organization says dozens of people remain at the facility.
The White House says Israel has “signed off” on a new Gaza ceasefire proposal that was delivered to Hamas; the Palestinian group says it is reviewing the plan.
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The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) condemned Israel’s bombardment of the Bureij refugee camp earlier today, which killed at least 23 people and injured many others.
“After expelling these Palestinian refugees from their land, the Israeli government slaughtered them in their refugee camp,” CAIR National Executive Director Nihad Awad said in a statement.
“Blowing up families sleeping in tents is a cowardly, sociopathic war crime that the Israeli occupation has committed again and again with American weapons paid for by American taxpayer dollars. The barbarity and sadism of the Israeli occupation’s war crimes knows no bounds,” he said.
“How much longer will President Trump, his administration and the world see images of dismembered children and burning tents before stopping this genocide?”
The US provides Israel with at least $3.8bn in military aid annually, and it has provided billions in additional funds since the Israeli military began its deadly bombardment of Gaza in October 2023.
Dr Alaa al-Najjar, a 36-year-old pediatrician and mother of 10, spent the morning of Friday, May 23, doing what she had devoted her life to; saving children at Gaza’s Nasser Hospital.
By nightfall, she was no longer a healer, but a mourner, cradling the charred, dismembered remains of her own children, Yahya, Rakan, Ruslan, Jubran, Eve, Revan, Sayden, Luqman, and Sidra. (Int’l News Desk)
