Palestine

Lorenzo Tondo in Jerusalem
Wed 28 May 2025 06.37 EDT

"Witnesses said Israeli forces started shooting after crowds of Palestinians broke through the fences on Tuesday around the distribution site, as an Israeli military helicopter fired flares and bursts of gunfire were heard in the distance. In one video, a large crowd of panicked civilians, including women and children, can be seen running away from the distribution site, trampling the fencing."

By Maha Hussaini and Mohammed al-Hajjar in Gaza City, occupied Palestine Published date: 27 May 2025 15:58 BST

"Palestinians clamoured for aid and gunfire rang out in chaotic scenes, as a controversial US-Israeli aid distribution scheme turned to shambles.

Journalists in the besiged Gaza Strip said hungry and beleagured residents forced to stand outside a facility holding aid rushed inside because of delays conducting detailed security checks on recepients.

According to Israeli army sources cited by Israeli media, Americans affiliated with the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation had to be rescued once they lost control of the facility."

By Alexander Cornwell May 26, 20253:26 PM EDT

"The Jerusalem municipality advertises the event, known as the flag march, as a “festive procession”, part of a broader programme of events celebrating the “liberation” of the city.

The march has been marred by racism and attacks on Palestinians for years, and is preceded by a campaign of violence in the Old City that in effect shuts down Palestinian majority areas, particularly in the Muslim Quarter."

By Alexander Cornwell
May 26, 20253:26 PM EDT

Summary

• Annual 'Flag March' draws tens of thousands of far-right #Israelis, mainly settlers, to #Jerusalem
• Youthful marchers seen harassing, assaulting some #Palestinian residents, other Israelis and journalists, witnesses say
• Violence follows Israeli far-right security minister's visit to Al-Aqsa mosque compound in East Jerusalem
• Rally marks #Israel's capture of East Jerusalem in 1967 #MiddleEast war

https://archive.ph/LOmFl

By #Reuters
May 26, 2025 1:04 PM EDT

"CAIRO, May 26 (Reuters) - A #Palestinian official said on Monday that #Hamas has agreed to a proposal by U.S. special envoy #SteveWitkoff for a #Gaza ceasefire, only for an Israeli official to deny that the proposal was Washington's and add that no #Israeli government could accept it.

Witkoff also rejected the notion that Hamas had accepted his offer for a hostage deal and a ceasefire in Gaza, telling Reuters that what he had seen was "completely unacceptable" and the proposal being discussed was not the same as his."

Israeli attacks have killed more than 50 people in the Gaza Strip since dawn on Monday, including 36 in a school-turned-shelter that was struck as people slept, setting their belongings ablaze, according to local health officials.

The attack on the Fahmi al-Jarjawi School in the Daraj neighbourhood of Gaza City also wounded dozens of people, said Fahmy Awad, head of the Gaza Ministry of Health’s emergency service. He said a father and his five children were among the dead.

The al-Shifa and al-Ahli hospitals in Gaza City confirmed the overall toll.

Awad said the school was hit three times while people slept. Footage circulating online showed rescue workers struggling to extinguish fires and recovering charred remains.

Palestinian Civil Defence spokesman Mahmoud Basal told the AFP news agency that the school had been sheltering “hundreds” of people, adding that those killed were mostly children and women.

Israeli nationalists chanted "death to Arabs" and scuffled with Palestinian shopkeepers and left-wing activists ahead of Tuesday's so-called flag march in Jerusalem.

Held every year to mark the occupation and conquest of Palestinian East Jerusalem, the event sees hundreds of Israeli nationalists march through the Old City of Jerusalem waving Israeli flags and intimidating Palestinian merchants and residents of the city.

This year scuffles broke out between the marchers and Palestinians and left-wing Israeli activists, who had gathered along the route.

Other chants included "let your village burn", a reference to the 1948 Nakba, in which Zionist militias ethnically cleansed 750,000 Palestinians from their homes and villages to make way for the establishment of Israel.

It is the stated aim of many on Israel's far right to expel those Palestinians who remain within the borders of modern Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories of East Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza.

Footage shared online by journalists, showed the right-wing activists circling Palestinian women in the Muslim Quarter of the Old City.

According to the Times of Israel, Israeli police arrested a Palestinian youth who was involved in scuffles with the marchers.

In the march last year, the Israeli activists attacked Palestinian residents, as well as journalists covering the event...

Israeli forces have killed nearly a dozen Palestinian children in the Gaza Strip in the last 48 hours, while thousands more face the threat of imminent starvation amid an intensifying humanitarian crisis.

On Sunday, four-year-old Mohammed Yassine joined dozens of other children who have starved to death in recent days as the World Food Programme (WFP) warned that more than 70,000 children in Gaza face acute levels of malnutrition.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/30545869

Occupied Palestine (Quds News Network)- A new poll has revealed alarming support among Israeli Jews for the ethnic cleansing in Gaza. The survey, published Thursday in Haaretz, shows that 82% of Jewish Israelis back the idea of expelling native Palestinians from the strip.

The poll was conducted in March by one of the researchers on behalf of Penn State University. It surveyed 1,005 Jewish respondents across Israel.

Support for forced expulsions has spiked. 82% support expelling all Palestinians from Gaza. Over half—56%—also back expelling Native Palestinians who are citizens of Israel. In 2003, support for these views was lower at 45% and 31%, respectively.

The trend is strongest among younger generations. Among Jewish Israelis under 40, 66% support expelling native Palestinian citizens, and 58% support repeating the Jericho conquest. Only 9% of men under 40—those most likely to serve in the army—rejected all notions of expulsion or genocide.