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24-05-2025
GAZA STRIP: Israeli strikes have killed at least 85 people in Gaza since the early hours of Thursday, medical sources tell media, and casualties are continuing to mount amid unrelenting bombardments.
Gaza’s Health Ministry says 29 children and elderly people who died in recent days in Gaza have been registered as “starvation-related deaths”, and thousands more are at risk of starving.
Israel has bombed towns in southern and eastern Lebanon, killing at least one person, in what has been described as some of the heaviest attacks since a ceasefire with Hezbollah was reached in November.
Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 53,762 Palestinians and wounded 122,197, 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.
Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has again criticized Israel’s war on Gaza, which he said was without “purpose”, and that only US President Donald Trump could make Netanyahu stop attacking the Palestinian territory.
Only Trump can stop Netanyahu; Ehud Olmert
A day after Olmert said that Netanyahu was waging a “political war” and that Israeli forces had committed “war crimes” in Gaza and the occupied West Bank, the former premier said there was no outcome from the war “that is worth the cost”.
Olmert told media that he understood why the EU and countries such as Britain, Canada and France had sent strong warnings to Israel this week, including threatening sanctions, after Israeli forces fired in the direction of foreign diplomats in the occupied West Bank but Trump is key, he said.
“If at some point the president of the United States, President Trump, will take part and perhaps will summon the Israeli prime minister and say to him in no unclear terms that ‘enough is enough’ that may be very useful,” Olmert said.
“I am against the expansion of the military operations in Gaza. I think that they bring us close to crimes because if there is no purpose and there is not a possible outcome that is worth the cost, then why should we continue?” he said.
Jean-Noel Barrot has responded to Israel’s accusation that European countries are inciting hatred by saying France is “indefectibly attached to the security of Israel”.
“Accusing of encouraging anti-Semitism or [supporting] Hamas whoever defends the two-state solution is absurd and slanderous,” Barrot said in a statement posted on social media.
Barrot also said France supports Hamas being “disarmed and permanently excluded from the political future of Gaza”.
Following the murder of two Israeli embassy staffers on Wednesday, Israel’s Foreign Minister Gideon Saar accused European governments of inciting anti-Semitic violence through their criticism of Israel’s war on Gaza.
Israeli military intercepts missile fired from Yemen
Israel’s Home Front Command has sounded air raid sirens in several areas of the country after a missile was fired towards Israel from Yemen.
The Israeli military said it successfully intercepted the missile. No casualties or damage have been reported.
Tommaso Della Longa, spokesperson for the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), spoke earlier about the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. The news of aid re-entering the Gaza Strip is positive news but it is really less than a drop in the ocean. Earlier today, here in Geneva, we had the president of the Palestine Red Crescent, and he was telling us that even if some trucks have entered, this doesn’t mean that aid was delivered to the people. So, until now, people did not get, basically, anything. (Int’l Monitoring Desk)
