Israel’s war on Gaza updates: Tanks, jets ‘wipe out everything’ in Jabalia

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• At least six people were killed and many wounded in the Jabalia camp in northern Gaza as the Israeli military intensifies its its ground assault.
• An estimated 630,000 people have fled Israeli attacks in southern Rafah in the past week and another 100,000 in Gaza’s north.
• Israel delivered its defence before the International Court of Justice, denying South Africa’s charges of “genocidal acts”.
• Aid reached Gaza for the first time via a US-built temporary pier, but an American official urged Israel to open much more efficient land crossings.
• The armed wing of Hamas says Palestinians will continue to stand up to Israel’s ground invasion of Rafah and other places in Gaza “no matter how long the aggression lasts and regardless of its form”.

The incident took place during a raid by Israeli forces in the town of Beit Ummar, Wafa news agency reports.

Israeli forces fired live ammunition and tear gas against residents, it said.

Israeli incursions in the occupied West Bank have intensified since the war on Gaza started on October 7. More than 8,700 Palestinians have been arrested over the past seven months.

Clare Daly, a left-wing Irish member of the European Parliament, says the Irish government should suspend US military flights passing through Shannon in County Clare to stop the killing in Gaza.

The lawmaker, an outspoken backer of a Gaza ceasefire, writes the Irish government missed its chance during conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Yemen and Ukraine.

“For god’s sake, can they finally do it during the Gaza genocide?”

The US military has been sending major shipments of arms to Israel for the war on Gaza, which has killed more than 35,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children.

Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians are displaced, their homes turned to rubble and their futures indefinitely on hold.

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During pro-Palestine Houthi-organised marches earlier in Yemen’s Sanaa, the group emphasised solidarity with students demonstrating for a ceasefire in Gaza and divestment from Israel at universities across the US and Europe.

“To our free colleagues around the world, know well that you are not alone,” said Houthi member Mohamed Abdulmalik in an address to crowds of hundreds of thousands, read out in English while he wore a graduation cap and was flanked by masked armed guards.

“The massacre will continue and reach every inch of the Earth if the extremist Zionist ideology isn’t suppressed and stopped. Everyone, in the eyes of Zionism, is an enemy,” he said.

“Never retreat or surrender! The wall that protects the children and the innocent in Gaza, and the world thereafter, will crumble. You are the heroes that our children should emulate. From Yemen, our respect to you.”

Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic report one person was also wounded when an Israeli drone fired missiles at the Faisal bin Fahd School, west of the Jabalia refugee camp.

Israeli forces have stepped up their attacks on northern Gaza in recent days, displacing more than 100,000 people, according to United Nations figures.

Al Jazeera is reporting from outside Israel because it has been banned by the Israeli government

We’ve had a response on the three dead captives from the Bring Them Home campaign, the umbrella organisation that represents the families of those being held in Gaza.

They say the “return of the bodies is a painful and clear reminder that we must return all of the brothers and sisters – the living for rehabilitation and the murdered for burial – from the bitter and cruel captivity as quickly as possible”.

The Bring Them Home campaign has been incredibly critical of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his government. They say he simply hasn’t done enough, that he could have brought these captives home far sooner and refuses to do so because it’s politically expedient for him.

There is a tremendous amount of support for the war from the general public in Israel. But with each passing day, and with more news like this, of captives that have been captured dead, that’s going to put more pressure on him – because more and more people will come out on the streets.

An Israeli lawyer was interrupted by a heckler as she spoke at the International Court of Justice before it cut the video feed.

Israel has rejected accusations of genocide and South Africa’s plea to judges to order a halt to the attack on Rafah.

Unnamed sources familiar with the situation tell Israel’s Kan News the negotiations on a ceasefire and captive-prisoner swap between Hamas and Israel “have been stopped”.

The main sticking point was the cessation of the war in exchange for the release of captives, it said.

“The sources said the gaps between the parties are very large with an emphasis on the definition of the term ‘end of the war’, and the Israeli demand for a veto on the names of ‘terrorists’ that Hamas wants released,” said the news report.

Media organisations run by the Houthis in Yemen released images and video of people turning up for weekly demonstrations at the main square in capital Sanaa.

The marches are aimed at expressing solidarity with Palestinians and backing attacks by the Yemeni group on commercial and military vessels in the Red Sea and beyond to oppose the war on Gaza.

Translation: An atmosphere of jihad and faith, and chants with deep connotations in the millions (with Gaza, holy jihad, and no red lines) in Sanaa – al-Sabeen Square.

New York City – Mahmoud Khalil faced a dilemma common to international students: He was in the United States on an F-1 student visa. His ability to stay in the country hinged on his continued enrollment as a full-time student.

But participating in a protest – including the encampment that cropped up on Columbia’s lawn last month supporting an end to the Gaza war – meant risking suspension and other punishments that could endanger his enrollment status.

Read the full story here.

Israel’s army released aerial footage of its air strike targeting a vehicle in southern Lebanon that killed Hamas member Sharhabil al-Sayed near the Syrian border.

The military identified al-Sayed as a top Al-Jamaa al-Islamiyya operative in Lebanon who cooperated with Hamas. The Palestinian group said he was a Hamas commander.

“[He] led and promoted many attacks and acts of terrorism from Lebanese territory against Israel in the eastern sector in recent times”, the Israeli army said.

The strike was aimed at thwarting future attacks on northern Israel, it added.

National security spokesperson John Kirby also told reporters the United States has a “robust security plan” to protect personnel involved in operating the pier.

Aid groups have criticised the pier as a costly and ineffective distraction from the fact that land deliveries are the most efficient way to help starving people in Gaza.

The United States evacuated out of Gaza 17 American doctors who were stranded since an Israeli takeover of the Rafah crossing closed the border with Egypt.

US diplomats arranged for the 17 doctors to leave instead through the Karem Abu Salem (Kerem Shalom) crossing into Israel.

“Some of the US citizen doctors who had been stuck in Gaza have now safely departed and made their way to safety with assistance from the US embassy in Jerusalem,” a State Department spokesperson said. “We have been in close contact with the groups that these US doctors are part of, and we have been in contact with the families of these US citizens.”

A source familiar with the operation told the AFP news agency three other US citizen doctors who were part of the volunteer medical mission chose to stay despite the uncertainty about when they will again have a chance to leave.

The Rafah crossing into Egypt has been the main gateway for goods and people entering Gaza. It has been closed since Israel on May 7 said seized the border post from Hamas.

Members of the United Auto Workers (UAW) union, which represents 48,000 graduate workers throughout the California university system, has organised a series of strikes to protest the treatment of demonstrators calling for ceasefire in Gaza.

The union called on graduate workers at the University of California (UC) at Santa Cruz to walk off the job on Monday, saying others in the system should stand ready for more strikes to be announced.

“For many months, workers across California have protested the death, destruction and human suffering in Gaza,” Rafael Jaime, president of UAW 4811, said in a video message.

“Over the last two weeks, UC has allowed appalling violence and intimidation against members of our academic community who exercised their right to protest,” said Douglas Grion Filho, another union representative.

White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan will travel on Saturday to Saudi Arabia for talks with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and will also visit Israel to see Netanyahu.

John Kirby, the White House national security spokesman, told reporters Sullivan will stress in his talks with the Israelis the need to go after Hamas fighters in Gaza in “a targeted way”, not with a full-scale assault on Gaza’s southern city of Rafah.

The Israeli offensive in Rafah has so far displaced about 650,000 Palestinians and further limited the flow of humanitarian aid into Gaza.

The spokesman for the armed wing of Hamas says in a video message that Palestinians will continue to stand up to the ground invasion of Rafah and other places in Gaza “no matter how long the aggression lasts and regardless of its form”.

“Despite our full desire to stop the aggression against our people, we are prepared for a long battle of attrition against the enemy, dragging them into a swamp where they will gain nothing but the death of their soldiers and the capture of their officers,” said Abu Obeida.

“This is not because we are a great power, but because we are the people of this land and rightful owners.”

The spokesman said Hamas has targeted more than 100 Israeli armoured vehicles, including tanks, troop carriers and bulldozers, along with inflicting casualties on Israeli soldiers by blowing up tunnels, launching rockets and mortars, and through sniping and close-quarters combat.