Iran’s FM slams the US for approving a $735m arms sale to Israel amid Israeli bombardment of Gaza, while blocking a joint UN security council statement.
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UPDATE: Israel says its forces downed an unmanned aerial vehicle that approached the border with Jordan without specifying where the aircraft might have originated.
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Gaza’s first 3D printer, which manufactured medical devices for years, has been destroyed by an Israeli air raid.
Shops were shuttered as Palestinians across Gaza, the occupied West Bank and Arab Israeli cities observe a general strike in protest of Israel’s bombardment of the besieged enclave.
@AJStream A senior Israeli official cast doubt on the possibility of a ceasefire between Israel and Palestinian armed groups.
At least 212 Palestinians have been in killed in Gaza, including 61 children, since Israeli air raids began. LIVE updates: aje.io/74anj
@AJStream “My older girl, she is seven years old. She asked, ‘Does God really feel what we are feeling now?’”
Khaled Abu-Shaaban, a humanitarian worker in Gaza says Palestinian children are traumatised as a result of Israeli air raids. LIVE updates: aje.io/74anj
@AJStream “It is their hate towards Muslims that is making them cheer Israel’s actions.” - Srinivas Kodali, writer
Why India’s Hindu nationalists are backing Israel on its bombing of Gaza aje.io/wzwhy
@AJStream Gaza is struggling with an acute shortage of medical supplies as the Palestinian health ministry calls for "volunteers to donate blood,” journalist @YoumnaElSayed17 reports.
@AJStream@YoumnaElSayed17 More than 52,000 Palestinians have been displaced by Israeli air strikes that have destroyed or badly damaged nearly 450 buildings in the Gaza Strip: UN
@AJStream@YoumnaElSayed17 Israel says it closed a crossing into Gaza shortly after opening it to allow in humanitarian goods, after mortars were fired at the area.
@AJStream@YoumnaElSayed17 In a show of unity, Palestinians protest across cities during a general strike against Israeli occupation and bombardment of Gaza — in pictures aje.io/azvum
@AJStream@YoumnaElSayed17 UPDATE: Israeli police say two Thai workers inside Israel have been killed in a strike launched from Gaza. Follow our LIVE blog for the latest aje.io/74anj
@AJStream@YoumnaElSayed17 The number of Palestinians killed in Gaza by Israeli bombardment has risen to 213, including 61 children.
@AJStream@YoumnaElSayed17 97 Palestinians injured by Israeli police and at least three arrested amid protests against Israeli occupation and bombardment of Gaza.
Three Palestinians have been arrested at the Damascus Gate in Jerusalem’s Old City where Israeli police used rubber bullets, stun grenades and skunk water to disperse protesters.
Germany calls for a ceasefire and offers more aid.
“Today, I will lobby for a better humanitarian supply in Gaza,” said German FM Heiko Maas, pledging 40 million euros ($48.86m) to ramp up humanitarian aid for civilians in Gaza.
Some 58,000 Palestinians have been internally displaced in Gaza as Israel continues its intense bombardment of the territory, says UN ⤵️ aje.io/8nhqn
Egypt pledges $500m to rebuild Gaza and sends medical aid.
“Egypt will provide $500m… for the reconstruction process in the Gaza Strip as a result of recent events", said the office of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.
“It is another expression of protest, of trying to confront and make known [Palestinian] people’s feelings ... coming out of Gaza and Jerusalem and also their experiences on a daily basis” - Al Jazeera’s Harry Fawcett, Occupied West Bank.
@nida_journo “[Palestinians] need to eat, they need medicine, they need inoculation against a pandemic ... they need doctors” - Riyad Mansour, Palestinian ambassador to UN.
UN chief António Guterres urged to issue emergency Gaza humanitarian appeal.
@nida_journo Washington’s unwavering support for Israel is rooted in the aftermath of World War II, the Cold War, pro-Israeli political influence and public relations aje.io/j8p93
@nida_journo UPDATE: The death toll from Israel's ongoing attacks on Gaza has risen to 217 Palestinians, including 63 children and 36 women.
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@nida_journo Israeli forces kill four Palestinians in occupied West Bank, including at least one protester, reports health ministry.
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"From my heart, I pray that your grandma and family are well. I promise you I'll do everything to see that they are, on the West Bank. You're a fighter and God thank you for being a fighter."
@nida_journo@RashidaTlaib Israeli carried out a wave of 60 air strikes on Khan Younis and Rafah in southern Gaza, reports Al Jazeera's Safwat al-Kahlout.
At least one Palestinian woman was killed and 8 other people were injured in this latest wave of bombings.
@nida_journo@RashidaTlaib Gaza's growing humanitarian crisis continues to grow as Biden and administration officials encourage Netanyahu and other top Israeli officials to wind down their bombardment of the Gaza Strip.
@nida_journo@RashidaTlaib Hundreds of protesters gather for pro-Palestine rallies to denounce Israel’s continuing bombardment of Gaza in New York, Los Angeles and Boston.
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.”