The death toll in Gaza surpassed 60,000 on Tuesday as the IDF continued its killing spree across the destroyed enclave—with the full backing of the Trump administration. Health officials also reported that at least 145,870 people have been injured in the war.
President Donald Trump fully supported Israel’s decision to abandon the ceasefire deal in March that enabled Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to ramp up his starvation campaign inside the enclave—likely at the expense of the remaining Israeli hostages still in Hamas captivity, Haaretz, an Israeli paper, said.
Israel’s revenge campaign in Gaza has gotten so atrocious that even Tel Aviv’s most loyal allies are beginning to speak out about the need to end the war and rush humanitarian aid into the enclave.
B’Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights-Israel, two top Israeli human rights groups, issued new reports on Monday that accused Tel Aviv of carrying out a genocide in Gaza—the first time these two groups made such a severe claim.
Columbia University, which became the epicenter of anti-genocide protests in the spring of 2024, agreed last week to settle with the Trump administration so that it can, once again, receive federal grants from the government.
Three Iranian officials told The New York Times last week that they believe the country has been targeted in sabotage attacks that have resulted in mysterious explosions and fires across the country, and they have a suspicion that the Israelis have been behind the incidents.
Steve Witkoff, President Donald Trump’s special envoy, posted on X late Thursday that he decided to withdraw his negotiating team from Doha, Qatar, because Hamas has shown a “lack of desire to reach a ceasefire in Gaza” and has not been negotiating in “good faith.”
An unnamed former guard for the controversial Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) said in an interview on Israel’s Channel 12 that he could no longer work for the foundation because of the abuses that he witnessed at aid sites where Israeli forces have killed more than 1,000 Palestinians since the end of May.
A Houthi spokesman said Sunday that his group will begin targeting any ship in the Red Sea that deals with Israeli ports, which was seen as an escalation from its previous position to target ships that had direct ties to Israel.
Mahdi al-Mashat, the chairman of Yemen's Supreme Political Council, issued a statement to the country’s official news agency last week, warning neighbors that Israel’s aggression will not stop in Gaza.