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Israel pounds Gaza; four-year-old Palestinian boy starves to death

By Maziar Motamedi

Published On 25 May 202525 May 2025

• Four-year-old Mohammed Yassine dies from a lack of food as the World Food Programme warns that more than 70,000 children in Gaza face acute levels of malnutrition.
• Israel’s military says it is “reviewing” an attack that killed nine of Dr Alaa al-Najjar’s 10 children in Khan Younis as Gaza officials say killing innocent children has “become a pastime” for Israeli soldiers.
• Israel has only allowed 100 trucks carrying aid into Gaza since Wednesday, officials say, an amount that is nowhere near what’s needed to help the enclave’s two million people.
• Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 53,901 Palestinians and wounded 122,593, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry. The Government Media Office updated the death toll to more than 61,700, saying thousands of people missing under the rubble are presumed dead.

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Journalist among Jabalia casualties

The Wafa news agency reports that a journalist and several of his relatives were among seven people killed in Israel’s attack on a home in Jabalia an-Nazla.

It identified the journalist as Hassan Majdi Abu Warda.

Meanwhile, a separate Israeli attack in the nearby Jabalia refugee camp killed at least one person, according to our colleagues on the ground. Rescuers also recovered three bodies near Khan Younis.

These casualties bring today’s total death toll to 14, report our colleagues, citing a Health Ministry update

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  Israel’s entire standing army, armoured brigades now in Gaza: Report

  The Israeli military has deployed tens of thousands of troops to the Gaza Strip, representing its entire standing army, as it continues its intensified ground invasion, according to The Times of Israel newspaper.

  The military has also deployed all of its armoured brigades of tanks and other military vehicles to Gaza, the publication reported, citing the Israeli military.

  This includes Israel’s Golani, Paratroopers, Givati, Commando, Kfir, Nahal, 7th, 188th, and 401st brigades, as well as reserve units, The Times of Israel added.

  

  Israeli tanks and bulldozers deploy as smoke billows over destroyed buildings in Gaza on May 17 [Jack Guez/AFP]
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  One killed in Israeli attack on southern Gaza

  Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic are reporting that at least one Palestinian was killed in Israeli bombardment of the town of Abasan al-Kabira, near Khan Younis in southern Gaza.

  We’ll bring you more soon.
• 42m ago

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  Two teenagers arrested in Bethlehem, Israeli raids hit Ramallah towns

  At least two Palestinians have been arrested by Israeli soldiers in the town of al-Khader, located south of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank.

  An unnamed security source cited by the Wafa news agency said two 16-year-old boys were arrested by soldiers who raided their family homes.

  Israeli forces also raided several towns and villages, as well as the Jalazone refugee camp, located in Ramallah and the el-Bireh governorate, this morning. No arrests have been reported so far.
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  Peru opens criminal investigation into Israeli soldier over direct role in Gaza genocide

  Peru has formally opened a criminal investigation into an Israeli national accused of participating in the genocide in Gaza, according to the Hind Rajab Foundation and human rights lawyer Julio Cesar Arbizu Gonzalez, who filed the complaint.

  According to the foundation, the individual being investigated in Peru was a combat engineering soldier who played a direct role in the destruction of civilian neighbourhoods in the Gaza Strip.

  Gonzalez said in a post on X that “Peru has an international obligation to prosecute these crimes under universal jurisdiction”, after the soldier flew into an airport in the Peruvian capital Lima.