Amnesty International has accused Israel of carrying out a “deliberate campaign of starvation” that is “systematically destroying the health, well-being and social fabric of Palestinian life.” At leas...

Doctors Without Borders, or MSF, has called for the closure of Israeli- and U.S.-backed aid centers in Gaza, saying they have become sites of “orchestrated killing and dehumanisation.” Some 1,400 Pale...

Israel has been explicit about what it’s carrying out in Gaza. Why isn’t the world listening?

<article data-history-node-id="422391" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/gazas-entire-population-faces-critical-risk-famine-global-hunger-monitor" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/gazas-entire-population-faces-critical-risk-famine-global-hunger-monitor" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Gaza's entire population faces critical risk of famine, global hunger monitor says</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>The entire population of&nbsp;Gaza&nbsp;faces&nbsp;a critical risk of famine,&nbsp;with&nbsp;half a million people facing&nbsp;starvation, a global hunger monitor said on Monday, calling this a major deterioration since its last report in October.</p> <p>The latest assessment by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) analysed a period from 1 April to 10 May this year&nbsp;and projected&nbsp;the situation until the end of September, according to a summary of its key findings.</p> <p>Israel has sealed off the Gaza Strip since early March when it resumed its devastating military campaign on the strip.</p> <p>The IPC analysis found that 1.95 million people, or 93% of the population in the Israeli-blockaded Palestinian enclave, are living through high levels of acute food insecurity, including 244,000 experiencing the most severe, or "catastrophic", levels.</p> <p>IPC's October analysis had said 133,000 people were in the "catastrophic" category.</p> <p>The IPC analysis projected that 470,000 people, or 22% of the population, would fall into the catastrophic category by the end of September, with over a million more at "emergency" levels.</p> <p>"Urgent action is needed to save lives and avert further starvation, further deaths and a descent into famine," it said.</p> <p>The IPC, in a brief accompanying its latest analysis, said a plan announced on 5 May&nbsp; by Israeli authorities for delivering aid was "estimated to be highly insufficient to meet the population’s essential needs".</p> <figure role="group" class="media-block"> <div class="group-inner"> <div alt="Palestinians queue for hot food portions distributed by a charity kitchen at the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on May 5, 2025. " data-embed-button="file_browser" data-entity-embed-display="image:image" data-entity-embed-display-settings="{" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="dbdbe134-cdf0-4057-a672-dc78363e0d4d" data-langcode="en" class="embedded-entity"> <img src="https://www.middleeasteye.net/sites/default/files/000_44HG4WH.jpg" width="1024" height="682" alt="Palestinians queue for hot food portions distributed by a charity kitchen at the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on May 5, 2025. " typeof="foaf:Image" fetchpriority="high"> </div> <figcaption>Palestinians queue for hot food portions distributed by a charity kitchen at the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on 5 May, 2025. (AFP)</figcaption> </div> </figure> <p><span style="background: url(&quot;https://www.middleeasteye.net/modules/contrib/ckeditor/vendor/plugins/widget/images/handle.png&quot;) rgba(220, 220, 220, 0.5); top: -15px; left: 0px;"><img height="15" role="presentation" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAPABAP///wAAACH5BAEKAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAICRAEAOw==" title="Click and drag to move" width="15" loading="lazy"></span></p> </div> </div> </article>

<article data-history-node-id="421543" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-far-right-minister-says-retrieving-israeli-captives-not-top" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-far-right-minister-says-retrieving-israeli-captives-not-top" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Israeli far-right minister says retrieving Israeli captives not top priority</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Israeli far-right finance minister Bezalel Smotrich on Monday told a local radio station that bringing home the Israeli captives in Gaza is not the top priority.&nbsp;</p> <p>“Bringing the hostages home is important, but it’s not the most important goal,” Smotrich said, according to a report in The Washington Post. “The alternative to surrender is seizing the territory in the Gaza Strip and destroying Hamas.”</p> <p>He added that Israel should use US President Donald Trump's time in office to retake Gaza and expel all of its residents.&nbsp;</p> </div> </div> </article>

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<article data-history-node-id="421457" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-air-raid-kills-one-and-injures-15-children-khan-younis-strike" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-air-raid-kills-one-and-injures-15-children-khan-younis-strike" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Israeli air raid kills one and injures 15 children in Khan Younis strike</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p data-end="88" data-start="0">An Israeli air strike on the Abu Shamala family home in Khan Younis has killed one person and left 20 others injured, including 15 children, according to local reports.</p> <p data-end="554" data-start="395">Medical sources have told Al Jazeera that the number of Palestinians killed by Israeli assaults across Gaza since sunrise on Friday has risen to at least 58.</p> <p data-end="699" data-start="556">Residential areas continue to bear the brunt of Israel’s bombardment, as the death toll climbs and hospitals struggle to cope with the wounded.</p> </div> </div> </article>

<article data-history-node-id="420324" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-attacks-kill-least-five-syrias-koya-near-daraa" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-attacks-kill-least-five-syrias-koya-near-daraa" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Israeli attacks kill at least five in Syria's Koya near Daraa</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>The governorate of Syria's Daraa said in&nbsp;a post on its official Facebook page&nbsp;that&nbsp;five people, including a woman, were killed by an Israeli assault on a town located nearby, Koya.</p> <p>He said&nbsp;the assault caused “a state of fear and panic” in the town.</p> <p>The statement came after Israel announced air strikes on the Syrian air bases near the city of Palmyra in Homs.</p> <p>Omar Alhariri, an independent journalist based in Daraa, said on X that the Israeli army’s ongoing troop mobilisation on the town’s outskirts and intense shelling of the area on the town has so far killed over seven people and injured dozens.</p> <p>"The claims circulated by Israeli military media about an attack on their forces in Koya town, western Daraa countryside, are false,"&nbsp;Alhariri <a href="https://x.com/omar_alharir/status/1904460679437848884">said</a>.</p> <p>"The truth is that they initiated the aggression by attempting to arrest youths from Koya, who resisted this patrol."</p> <p>The journalist added that the army has also ordered all residents to evacuate the town immediately.</p> </div> </div> </article>

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