Israel kills police officers, children in Gaza

Jump to navigation Israel kills police officers, children in Gaza !A woman in a black headscarf bends down to place her cheek on the hand of her loved one who was killed Mourners grieve over the bodies of three young Palestinian men at Al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City, after an Israeli strike targeted a group of civilians near their tents in the Zaytoun neighborhood, 6 May. Omar Ashtawy APA images _The following is from the news roundup during the 7 May livestream. Watch the entire episode_ In Gaza, Israel The Wafa news agency reported that Israeli aircraft targeted al-Daraj, a neighborhood of Gaza City, a group of people in Jabaliya, and a The Khan Younis attack Reporter Nahed Hajjaj > 💢 May 6 | Israeli Forces Kill 10 Palestinians in Gaza Including Senior Police Officer, Day 209 of Ceasefire Violations > > Gaza NGO coordinator Eyad Amawi told Drop Site that Israel has attacked Gaza in three separate attacks since this afternoon: > > 🔹 In the Al-Daraj neighborhood… > — Drop Site (@DropSiteNews) Eyad Amawi, an NGO coordinator in Gaza, told _Drop Site_ news that at least three Palestinians also died of wounds sustained in previous airstrikes in Gaza City and northern Gaza. Israeli drones dropped bombs on partially-destroyed residential buildings in Gaza City, and Israeli artillery was reported around al-Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza, _Drop Site_ added. On Tuesday, a 15-year-old child, Muhammad Sahwil, was killed in an Israeli strike on a police station in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood in Gaza City. > 💢 Gaza | May 5 > > Journalist Mohamed Ahmed documented scenes outside a Gaza City hospital as 15-year-old Muhammad Sahwil was brought in after being killed in an Israeli strike on a residential building. His parents, cousin Mahmoud Sahwil, and grandmother Umm Saeed Sahwil broke… > — Drop Site (@DropSiteNews) Reporter Nahed Hajjaj Palestinian police said the strike targeted the Sheikh Radwan police station northwest of Gaza City, killing the child and injuring several officers and personnel, _Drop Site_ news stated. A separate Israeli attack on a police security point earlier in the day killed one person and injured another, according to medical sources. On Monday, 4 May, journalist Saed Hasballah As of Wednesday, Israel has Meanwhile, despite the thousands of ceasefire violations Israel has committed, without consequence by the so-called international community, and despite adherence to the terms by the Palestinian resistance factions, the Israeli army radio This comes as the Israeli military announced it had expanded its theft of Palestinian land inside Gaza to nearly 60 percent of the total enclave. One of many violations of the so-called ceasefire agreement is Israel’s ongoing restrictions on humanitarian aid, including nutritious food, as well as medical supplies and medications. > 📍 > > 🟡Families face numerous challenges as hunger continues to cast its shadow over many lives. > > 🟡WFP is on the ground, supporting those most in need, but true recovery requires more than just aid. > — World Food Programme (@WFP) The agency says that cooking gas shortages force nearly seven in every 10 families to burn waste, alongside other unsafe means of cooking. This is an increase of 13 percent compared with last month. The United Nations humanitarian office The UN’s partners say that one in five amputees is a child, but with severe shortages of specialists and restricted entry of prosthetic materials, it could take five years or more to meet today’s needs, assuming no further amputations occur. Gaza currently has the International prosthetic technicians are urgently needed, as is the expansion of workshop capacity and the unimpeded entry of prosthetic materials, which remain restricted by the Israeli authorities. The Electronic Intifada’s contributor Malak Hijazi reported this week that more than half of medications in Gaza are out of stock, according to data from the General Directorate of Pharmacy at the Ministry of Health in Gaza. Of 622 essential items, 312 were unavailable as of March 2026. Flotilla activists in Israeli detention Approximately 180 international activists who set sail for Gaza as part of the Global Sumud Flotilla, intending to break the Israeli siege and deliver humanitarian aid, were Most of the activists were detained and taken to Crete, but two of them, Saif Abukeshek, a Palestinian citizen of Spain, and Thiago Avila, a Brazilian citizen, have been in > A humanitarian mission turns into a security charge! > > The Israeli navy’s abduction of international activists and interception of the Sumud Flotilla during a humanitarian mission to > — Euro-Med Monitor (@EuroMedHR) Adalah, a Palestinian legal and civil rights organization that is representing the activists, Abukeshek and Avila’s lawyers argued before the Israeli district court that the court failed to address “the state’s fundamental lack of legal authority to carry out an arrest – which was effectively an abduction – in international waters. A lawful arrest under these circumstances would require formal extradition. Since there is no lawful authority to arrest, every subsequent day of detention is illegal.” Both activists have been on hunger strike since their abduction by Israeli forces, according to the Global Sumud Flotilla organization. On Wednesday, Saif Abukeshek Adalah’s legal team reports that the activists have been subjected to systematic psychological torture and explicit threats to the lives of their families. On Tuesday, Brazil’s president Luiz Incio Lula da Silva demanded that both activists be immediately released and admonished Israel’s violations of international law. > Manter a prisão do cidadão brasileiro Thiago Ávila, integrante da flotilha “Global Sumud”, é uma ação injustificável do governo de Israel, causa grande preocupação e deve ser condenada por todos. A detenção dos ativistas da flotilha em águas internacionais já havia representado… > — Lula (@LulaOficial) > من شاطئ غزة… إلى أبطال أسطول الصمود، > من جراح المصابين في غزة… إلى أحرار العالم، > رسالة صمودٍ لا تنكسر، وصوت حقٍ لا يُقهر > — عبود بطاح🇵🇸 (@abod_bt) Israeli soldiers shoot expectant father in the head Turning to the occupied West Bank, Israeli forces invaded the city of Nablus on 3 May and opened fire into a crowded shopping area, firing tear gas and live ammunition. Nayef Samaro, a 26-year-old man, was Nayef Samaro’s body was Meanwhile, Avi Bluth, the head of the Israeli military’s central command in the West Bank, admitted that the army is killing Palestinians at levels “not seen since 1967,” _Haaretz._ Bluth made the Veteran journalist Ali Samoudi was > “Prisoners’ food not enough for a cat; I was arrested weighing 120 kilograms, and now I weigh 60” > > This is how journalist Ali Al-Samoudi Summarizes the overall dire conditions in Israeli prisons after he spent a year under administrative detention. Al-Samoudi described the… > — Quds News Network (@QudsNen) In a testimony Samoudi gave upon his release, he said that he lost half of his body weight “under brutal detention conditions.” The prisons, he added, “are a true hell, a graveyard for the living.” Israeli forces raided and ransacked Ali Samoudi’s home on 29 April 2025, then interrogated and detained him. The military’s administrative detention order cited Samoudi’s quote “presence posing a danger to the security of the region” as justification for his detention. CNN, which worked with Samoudi over the years, stated at the time that the Israeli military acknowledged that it did not have “sufficient evidence” to substantiate terrorism funding allegations it leveled against Samoudi, but the military court sentenced him anyway. Samoudi, who has reported from Jenin for decades and contributed to local and international outlets, was working alongside Al Jazeera correspondent Shireen Abu Akleh when she was assassinated by an Israeli sniper nearly four years ago. He was also shot in the shoulder during that attack, and the Israeli soldier who killed her has never been held to account. And in East Jerusalem, Israel notified dozens of Palestinians that their shops and businesses will be demolished in the town of al-Eizariya as part of a plan to expand a nearby massive settlement colony. Anadolu news agency Palestinian officials said appeals against the demolition orders have been submitted to an Israeli court, with hearings expected later this month. The Jerusalem governorate and municipal authorities linked the demolitions to the E-1 settlement colony project, which aims to connect the Maale Adumim settlement bloc with East Jerusalem. Palestinian officials warn that the plan would effectively divide the occupied West Bank into northern and southern sections and isolate Palestinian communities. The municipal authorities also said the project includes a separate road infrastructure system involving tunnels and segregated roads for Palestinians and Israeli occupiers. Israeli attacks in Lebanon Meanwhile in Lebanon, our contributor Roqayah Chamseddine reports that since the early morning hours on Thursday, there has been a wave of Israeli airstrikes in the south, targeting residential neighborhoods, civilian infrastructure and emergency responders. > Today's morning report (thus far) on Israeli attacks in south Lebanon: > > Since the early morning hours, widespread Israeli bombardment has targeted residential neighborhoods, civilian infrastructure, and emergency responders. In Nabatieh, Israeli warplanes struck the Maslakh… > — roqayah chamseddine (@roqchams) Israel also Highlighting reclamation And finally, as we always do, we wanted to highlight people expressing joy, determination and reclamation across Palestine and around the world. At the University of Michigan, history and African studies professor Derek Peterson delivered a commencement speech honoring some of the student body’s current and historical figures, including those who have fought for the rights of Palestinians against Israel’s genocide and stood up to the university’s repressive administration. > 2/2 > Here at Michigan we prize academic freedom as the foundation of our work. Faculty & students have to be free to engage controversial & difficult questions. > > That is why Michigan is the defining public university, & not a posh finishing school for polite young people. > — Derek R Peterson (@Unseen_Archive) After Peterson’s speech, Domenico Grasso, the university’s president, Two candidates for the university’s board of regents called for the university to censure and punish Peterson for his speech, and right-wing politicians including Senator Rick Scott and Nikki Haley On 4 May, Peterson “Congratulations to all of those who graduated last weekend,” he added. “Go out there and make good trouble.” Tags Nablus Ali Samoudi Shireen Abu Akleh humanitarian aid prosthetic limbs hunger Global Sumud Flotilla Avi Bluth Nora Barrows-Friedman's blog Log in to post comments * Donate Now Nora Barrows-Friedman !Nora Barrows-Friedman's picture Nora Barrows-Friedman is a staff writer and associate editor at The Electronic Intifada, and is the author of In Our Power: US Students Organize for Justice in Palestine (Just World Books, 2014).