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BREAKING | Intense gunfire and shelling by Israeli forces targeted citizens heading to the GHF's aid distirbution center in the Netzarim Corridor.
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EU imposes sanctions on Syrian army brigades over ‘torture, arbitrary killings’
Damascus's forces continue to carry out sectarian killings and persecute minorities in Syria
❗️While meeting with Jordanian FM Ayman Safadi, US special envoy to Syria, Tom Barrack, described Jordan as a "critical tessera of the Syrian mosaic."
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⭕️ Russian Security Council Secretary Sergei Shoigu praised Turkiye for making Istanbul the main platform for Russia-Ukraine negotiations, citing its key role in both the Black Sea grain deal and recent prisoner exchange talks.
Moscow has proposed holding a second round of talks in Istanbul on 2 June, following successful negotiations earlier in May.
❗️Gaza Ministry of Health:
– “67 martyrs including 5 recovered martyrs and 179 injuries arrived at Gaza Strip hospitals during the past 24 hours. (The statistics do not include hospitals in the North Gaza Strip Governorate due to the difficulty of accessing them)."
– “The death toll and injuries since 18 March 2025 has reached 3,986 martyrs and 11,451 injuries.
⭕️ UN World Food Programme (WFP) says that 'hordes of hungry people' stormed one of its warehouses in central Gaza yesterday
According to initial reports, two people were killed and several others injured. In a statement, the WFP emphasized, "Gaza needs an immediate scale-up of food assistance. This is the only way to reassure people that they will not starve."
❗️Qassam Brigades reports that on Tuesday, one of its fighters managed to snipe an Israeli soldier and directly wound him on Baghdad Street, east of the Shujaiya neighborhood, east of Gaza City.
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❗️Israel has killed at least 60 Palestinians in attacks on the Gaza Strip since dawn today.
(Medical sources to Al Jazeera)
GHF says operating 'without incident' in south Gaza as Israeli army guns down aid seekers
UN officials lambasted the 'symbolic and superficial' US-Israeli aid mechanism for failing to deliver sufficient aid to starving Palestinians
‼️"I did not see or treat a single combatant during my five weeks in Gaza. My patients were six-year-olds with shrapnel through their hearts and bullets in their brains, pregnant women with their pelvises obliterated and their fetuses cut in two while still in the womb."
– Dr. Feroze Sidhwa, a surgeon who volunteered in Gaza, at the UN Security Council
⭕️ US envoy Morgan Ortagus praises Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam’s recent comments regarding Hezbollah's weapons
During a visit to Dubai on Monday, Salam stated that “the era of exporting the Iranian revolution has ended” and added, “we will not remain silent over any arms outside the state’s control.”
Diplomatic sources told Nidaa al-Watan newspaper that Ortagus, who is expected to visit Lebanon soon, will bring with her “specific deadlines for the handover of Hezbollah’s arms both north and south of the Litani,” and that “there will be no grace period after the deadlines she will specify.”
Ortagus will also inform Lebanese officials that “Israel refuses to withdraw from the five points it still controls before agreeing on the remaining 13 disputed border points,” the sources said.
They also noted that “Lebanon will be told that Israel would refuse an extension of UNIFIL’s mandate, which would leave south Lebanon exposed to all scenarios should the extension fail to take place.”
❗️Israel has killed at least 36 Palestinians in attacks on the Gaza Strip since dawn today.
(Medical sources to Al Jazeera)
BREAKING | For the first time, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirms, while addressing the Knesset, the assassination of Hamas leader in Gaza, Mohammad Sinwar, brother of the late Yahya Sinwar.
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❗️Gaza humanitarian coordinator disputes US claims about aid delivery to the Gaza Strip
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While the US State Department announced that 8,000 food boxes, equal to 462,000 meals, were distributed on Tuesday through the US-Israeli Gaza 'Humanitarian' Foundation, Gaza humanitarian coordinator Eyad Amawi told Drop Site News that only 7 trucks arrived—barely enough for a single camp.
“Eight thousand food boxes would require more than 7 trucks to deliver,” he said.
Amawi called the effort “symbolic and superficial,” adding that Gaza needs at least 600 aid trucks daily to meet the needs of over 2 million people.
❗️President Boric ordered the withdrawal of Chilean military attachés from Israel
In a new milestone that marks the complex relationship of the government of President Gabriel Boric with Israel, the President ordered the Heads of the Armed Forces to withdraw the three military attachés of Chile in that country. The order was given last Friday and, as El Libero was able to corroborate, the military representatives already have tickets purchased to return to Chile this Friday with their families.
⭕️ "Yemen will not back down from supporting Palestine."
Yesterday, from Sanaa International Airport, Yemeni President Mahdi al-Mashat vowed continued support for Gaza following an Israeli airstrike on the facility, warning of escalating retaliation.
Israel intensifies efforts to stop Germany from 'even hinting' at arms embargo: Report
Since the start of the genocide in Gaza, Berlin has doubled down on its support of Israel by persecuting activists and journalists who speak out in support of Palestinians
❗️❗️ According to RT correspondent Saed Swerki and other journalists in Gaza, Israeli occupation forces opened fire on civilians heading to the US-Israeli distribution point south of the Netzarim Corridor.
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⭕️ Iraq has signed a tripartite memorandum of understanding with Egypt’s Talaat Moustafa Group and Saudi Arabia’s Al Muhaidib Group to jointly develop part of the Al-Rufail Economic City west of Baghdad.
The deal, overseen by Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani and involving Iraq's National Investment Commission, aims to boost development in sectors such as housing, education, and hospitality.
⭕️ WSJ: Lebanon disarms most of Hezbollah in south with Israeli intelligence aid
Senior Arab officials said Israeli intelligence relayed through the US has assisted the Lebanese army in locating and dismantling Hezbollah’s remaining arms depots and military positions in the south. The army reports that while some seized weapons are destroyed, others are retained to reinforce its own limited supplies.
According to Salam, the government has met approximately 80% of its goals in disarming militias in Lebanon’s southernmost regions.
“All over the Lebanese territory, the state should have a monopoly on arms,” Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam said, striking his fists on a dining table.
❗️Qassam Brigades publishes: as part of the 'David's Stones' series of operations: Footage showing the targeting of an Israeli force that had fortified itself inside a house, and a Merkava tank, with an anti-personnel shell and a Yassin 105 shell in Beit Lahia, in northern Gaza.
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❗️Gaza Ministry of Health:
– “The intravenous chemotherapy service and medical follow-up for cancer patients in the Gaza Strip have been halted.”
– “The evacuation of the European Hospital and the Gaza Cancer Center has worsened the catastrophic situation for patients.”
– “11,000 cancer patients in Gaza are without treatment or adequate healthcare.”
– “5,000 cancer patients have urgent referrals for treatment abroad, either for diagnosis or for chemotherapy and radiation therapy.”
– “The lack of early diagnostic and follow-up equipment is aggravating the patients’ health conditions.”
– “64% of cancer medications are completely out of stock.”
– “Cancer patients are trapped in catastrophic health, social, psychological, and economic conditions.”
❗️Government Media Office in Gaza says Israel killed 10 Palestinian civilians seeking aid and injured 62 others at distribution centers in Rafah in the last two days.
The statement comes on the second day since the controversial Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) was launched. The UN has refused to take part in the US-Israeli plan, saying it aims to further the displacement of Palestinians in Gaza and will deepen the crisis.
China, Russia, Iran cement Kabul ties as US reenters Afghan game
With Washington seeking to reassert its Afghan presence, a new Eurasian alliance is investing heavily in Kabul and rearming the regional balance against US and Indian ambitions.
By F.M. Shakil
❗️An Israeli official tells Channel 13 that Hamas's proposal is unacceptable to both Israel as well as the US administration.
Israel's public broadcaster KAN reports that according to Israel, there is no new US proposal, and this appears to be just another Hamas response to Bishara al-Bahbah's proposal.
White House 'concerned' Israel preparing attack on Iran to upend nuclear talks: Report
Reports say US President Donald Trump recently held a ‘tense’ phone call with Netanyahu over disagreements regarding the nuclear talks
❗️Statement by Hamas:
"Hamas affirms that it is making significant efforts to end the brutal war on the Gaza Strip, the latest of which was reaching a general framework agreement with US envoy Steve Witkoff. The agreement would establish a permanent ceasefire, a full withdrawal of occupation forces from the Gaza Strip, the flow of humanitarian aid, and the formation of a professional committee to manage the affairs of the Strip upon the announcement of the agreement.
The agreement also includes the release of ten Israeli prisoners and a number of bodies in exchange for a mutually agreed-upon number of Palestinian prisoners, under the guarantee of mediators. The movement is now awaiting a final response to this framework."
❗️Palestine Red Crescent says Israel handed over body of man killed in West Bank raid
The Palestine Red Crescent has confirmed receiving the body of Jassem Ibrahim al-Sada, a Palestinian man shot dead during an Israeli raid in the occupied West Bank. The organization said Israeli occupation forces provided no explanation regarding the circumstances of his death.
Speaking to AFP, Sada’s cousin, Ahmad, said soldiers stormed the house at dawn and opened fire, despite the fact that Sada “wasn’t wanted and had no known affiliations.”
British NGO behind 'makeover' of Al-Qaeda leader turned Syrian president
Former US ambassador to Syria Robert Ford publicly stated earlier this month that he was invited by a British NGO to help bring Ahmad al-Sharaa ‘out of terrorism and into politics’
❗️Yemeni plane bombed by Israel was headed for Hajj pilgrimage
Newly confirmed flight data reveals that the Yemeni Airlines aircraft destroyed in this morning’s Israeli airstrike on Sanaa International Airport was a civilian aircraft scheduled to fly pilgrims to Jeddah for Hajj. The Airbus A320-233 had arrived from Amman and was preparing to operate part of a planned series of twice-daily flights for Yemeni pilgrims over the next nine days.
The strike, which hit both the runway and the last operational aircraft in Yemen’s capital, now appears to have directly disrupted Hajj travel for dozens of civilians. Airport director Khaled al-Shaif called it a deliberate targeting of a humanitarian corridor.