Israel’s bombardment in #Gaza has entered its seventh consecutive day with air raids in the early hours of Sunday as Israeli PM Netanyahu vows to continue offensive for ‘as long as necessary’.
At least 149 Palestinians, including 41 children, have been killed in the Gaza Strip in the past week and in the occupied West Bank, Israeli forces have killed at least 13 Palestinians.
Israel’s bombardment of the Gaza Strip has entered its seventh consecutive day, with the death toll expected to rise further. Rescue workers are digging through rubble to find survivors.
“The rescue teams have found five children alive.”
Al Jazeera’s Safwat al-Kahlout, reporting from Gaza, said rescue teams are racing to dig out survivors from beneath the rubble of residential buildings flattened in Israeli raids.
Owner of Gaza’s Jala tower pleaded with an Israeli intelligence officer for more time to collect press equipment moments before an Israeli air raid flattened the building. Jala Tower housed residential apartments and media offices including Al Jazeera & AP.
The owner of Jala Tower denied Israeli claims of his building containing assets of Hamas intelligence agency after an air attack launched by Israel obliterated the 12-story building.
From New York and Madrid to Cape Town and Baghdad, thousands protested against Israeli attacks on Gaza — in pictures aje.io/azx2e
Police in Paris used tear gas and water cannon against demonstrators who defied a protest ban to rally in support of Palestinians. France’s interior minister had wanted to ban the protest, citing fears of violence.
US Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez slammed President Joe Biden administration for not standing up to Israel, which she called an apartheid state.
Police in Indian-administered Kashmir arrested at least 20 people, including an outspoken religious leader who prayed for Palestine and an artist who drew graffiti in solidarity with the Palestinian people.
"I don’t care how any spokesperson tries to spin this.
The US vetoed the UN call for ceasefire.
If the Biden admin can’t stand up to an ally, who can it stand up to?"
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, US congresswoman ⬇️ aje.io/xcly5
Gaza resident and teacher Rajaa Abu Jasser says her five children are unable to cope with the Israeli bombardment of Gaza, and are “terrified all the time.”
“They are just listening carefully if there will be a bombing anytime soon."
“Hamas misjudged the strength of our response,” says Aviv Kochavi, the Israeli army’s chief of general staff, who went on to say Gaza had since been enduring an aerial bombardment of unprecedented “intensity.”
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"It is a perfectly legitimate target."
Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu defended the air strike on Gaza's al-Jalaa tower that housed Al Jazeera and other media bureaus, alleging it also hosted a “terrorist” intelligence office.
“We note that Israel has not presented any evidence to support its claim the [al-Jalaa tower] building was used by Hamas”, said The Foreign Press Association.
The association has asked for a meeting with Israeli officials over the incident aje.io/j8dc4
Al Jazeera’s @safwatkahlout reports that Israeli attacks are continuing in Gaza.
“We could hear explosions a few minutes ago, the sky of Gaza is dominated by the Israeli bombs.”
@safwatkahlout Israeli normalisation without achieving Palestinian statehood represents support for ‘apartheid’, says Riyad al-Maliki, Palestine's foreign minister aje.io/27y3z
@safwatkahlout Over 40 schools open as shelters for thousands of Palestinians in Gaza displaced by Israeli airstrike, says UN organisation.
@safwatkahlout US ready to help Israel and Palestinians if they seek a ceasefire.
“The United States has been working tirelessly through diplomatic channels to try to bring an end to this conflict,” said Linda Thomas-Greenfield, US Ambassador to UN.
@safwatkahlout “Some may not want to use these words – war crimes and crimes against humanity – but they know they are true.” - Riyad al-Maliki, Palestinian foreign minister. aje.io/jbjvt
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Save the Children reports that thousands of missing Palestinian children are trapped under rubble, buried in unmarked graves, harmed by explosives, detained by Israeli forces, or lost in the chaos of the war on Gaza.
Israel’s top court has ordered the government to provide information about conditions inside the military facility Sde Teiman, where Palestinians from Gaza are detained.
Malnourished Palestinian children are being treated at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, as Israel continues to restrict aid to the besieged enclave.
The UN is adding Israel to its 'blacklist' of countries that have committed abuses against children in armed conflict, as more than 15,500 Palestinian children have been killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza since October 7.
An Israeli air attack on a home in the Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood in northern Gaza has killed at least four Palestinians and injured 14 more, the Wafa news agency reports.
Two Palestinian men have been shot during an Israeli raid in the Aqabat Jabr camp in the occupied West Bank city of Jericho, the Wafa news agency reports.
Qatar, Egypt and the US urge Israel and Hamas to conclude a ceasefire agreement that embodies the principles outlined by US President Biden, amid Israel's continuing bombardment of besieged Gaza.
Alexandra Saieh, head of humanitarian policy and advocacy at Save the Children, has told Al Jazeera that “Gaza is witnessing the worst levels of malnutrition, of child malnutrition especially, worldwide right now.”
Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid has denounced far-right ministers Itamar Ben Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich for threatening to dissolve Benjamin Netanyahu’s government if he were to accept President Biden’s new ceasefire deal.
On May 29, South Africans will head to the polls to vote in national and provincial elections to elect a new National Assembly, which will choose the president for the next 5 years.
Here’s a guide to the elections and major political parties ⤵️
South Africa follows a proportional voting system where parties and candidates compete for 400 seats in the National Assembly.
For the first time, independent candidates will compete in the elections with voters given three ballots instead of two.
Who is in South Africa’s current National Assembly?
South Africa’s lower house of parliament currently includes 14 political parties represented by 400 members, allocated proportionally based on the votes each party received in the 2019 elections.
Israel calls the ICJ binding order to immediately stop its attack on Rafah “outrageous, morally repugnant and disgusting” as it continues its war and bombardment of Gaza.
The Elders group of world leaders has said “no country is above the law” and Israel’s “unlawful approach” to its war on Gaza cannot continue following the ICJ’s order to halt attacks on Rafah.
US Senator Bernie Sanders warned the US that if it ignores “crimes against humanity” being committed in Gaza, it will not have the credibility to criticise “the actions of any country, no matter how terrible.”