STATEMENT: Rami Abdu, Chairman of the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor:

• The US-Israeli plan to entrust the distribution of limited aid in Gaza to international companies is a calculated maneuver to legitimize starvation.
• The goal is not relief but to impose control and buy time for Israel, forcing residents to displacement by exhausting and starving them.
• This is not a relief plan but a new form of siege, genocide, and forced displacement.
• Israel has tasked an organization headed by Armenian David Babazian, accused of corruption, to participate in its agenda to displace and subjugate Palestinians through food.

الخطة الأميركية‑الإسرائيلية التي تقضي بإسناد توزيع مساعدات محدودة في غزة إلى شركات دولية ليست مشروعًا إنسانيًا، بل مناورة مدروسة لإعادة تغليف الحصار، وتقنين التجويع، وتحويل الطعام إلى أداة قهر وخضوع تمهّد لاقتلاع السكان من أرضهم.

يُدير الخطة عسكريون أميركيون سابقون ومنظمات إغاثة… pic.twitter.com/CTQQeP47dJ

— Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده (@RamAbdu) May 8, 2025

STATEMENT: The Israeli army announced the killing of two soldiers from the Engineering and Golani Brigades and the injury of two officers and two soldiers in battles in the southern Gaza Strip yesterday, Thursday.

The Al-Qassam Brigades had announced yesterday that they inflicted casualties on two Israeli forces, totaling 19 soldiers killed and wounded, in the Al-Tanour neighborhood east of Rafah city in the southern Strip, as part of a series of operations they named “Gates of Hell.”

US MEDIA: The American website Axios, citing two sources, reported that US President Donald Trump discussed nuclear talks with Iran and the war in Gaza with Israeli Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer.

The site also reported, citing a source familiar with the matter, that Dermer met with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Wednesday and expressed Israel’s concerns about nuclear talks with Iran.

AL-JAZEERA: US Ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, stated that Washington is not obligated to obtain permission from Tel Aviv to enter into any arrangements that would prevent Ansarallah from targeting its ships.

He added that Washington’s actions against Ansarallah attacks on Israel will depend on whether American citizens have been harmed, following conversations with US President Donald Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance.

ISRAELI MEDIA: Israeli media revealed that the US President decided to cut off communications with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu due to suspicions that the latter was manipulating him.

The Israel Army Radio correspondent, Yanie Kozin, stated that those around the US President informed him that Netanyahu was manipulating him, which prompted him to sever contact. He added that this could change later, “but this is the current situation.”

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: Palestinian media outlets reported the death of the released prisoner Mu’tasem Raddad in an Egyptian hospital, succumbing to illness he suffered while in Israeli occupation prisons.

Raddad, who was from the town of Sayda, north of Tulkarm, was released in the prisoner exchange deal reached between the Palestinian resistance and the occupation in January and was one of those deported to Egypt.

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: The number of Palestinian fatalities has risen to 27 as a result of Israeli shelling on the Gaza Strip since dawn yesterday, Thursday.

AL-JAZEERA: Portuguese Foreign Minister Paulo Rangel expressed his country’s concern over the “tragic” situation in the Gaza Strip and called for a review of the partnership agreement between Israel and the European Union.

US Presses UN, Aid Bodies to Accept Israel’s Aid Distribution Plan for Gaza – Report

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: The death of a Palestinian child and the injury of 20 other individuals in three Israeli airstrikes that targeted Gaza City and the central Gaza Strip.

AL-JAZEERA: The Israeli army is carrying out large demolition operations of residential buildings east of the Sheja’iyya neighborhood in Gaza City.

ISRAELI MEDIA: Israel Hayom quoted an Israeli official as saying that Trump will not be able to secure approval to proceed with a civilian nuclear program for Saudi Arabia without Israel.

The official added that Trump does not have a majority in the Senate to support an agreement that does not include Israel or is implemented without its acceptance, noting that the Americans inquired with Israel about its position but chose to proceed with the initiative, and they confirmed Israel’s inability to accept Saudi Arabia’s demands regarding the Palestinians.

ISRAELI MEDIA: Israel Hayom, citing US officials, reported that there is a very high possibility that President Donald Trump will announce a comprehensive solution to the Gaza issue by the end of the week.

ISRAELI MEDIA: Israel Hayom, citing an Israeli official, reported that it is illogical to ask an ally for information about an agreement concerning a joint battle and not receive a response until a day later. It added that what they are really thinking now is that US President Donald Trump is marginalizing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu until he gets back on the right track.

ISRAELI MEDIA: Israeli Channel 12 quoted the US Ambassador in Tel Aviv as saying, regarding the agreement with the Ansarallah group, that America does not need permission from the Israelis, adding that if an American citizen is harmed, America will strike Ansarallah, but otherwise, it is none of their business.

US STATE DEPARTMENT: The US State Department stated that the efforts of Witkoff, Qatar, and Egypt are continuing to reach a ceasefire agreement in Gaza, and they are steps away from completing a plan to deliver aid to Gaza through the formation of a non-governmental organization.

ISRAELI MEDIA: Israel Army Radio quoted an Israeli official as saying that Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer spoke arrogantly with senior Republican officials about what US President Donald Trump should do, and Minister Dermer’s conversation with senior Republican officials in his usual arrogance did not work. Associates of Trump reportedly informed Dermer that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is manipulating the US President, and that Trump hates nothing more than appearing to be someone who is being manipulated, adding that Trump’s associates informed Dermer that the US President decided to cut off contact with Netanyahu.

ISRAELI MEDIA: Israeli Channel 12 reported that a US official, during a meeting with families of hostages held in Gaza, expressed support for their view that military pressure endangers the lives of their loved ones.

ISRAELI MEDIA: Haaretz, citing a Tel Aviv University study, reported that one in eight Israeli soldiers who fought in Gaza is mentally unfit to return to service. It added that 12% of reservists who fought in Gaza reported severe symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder, and the suffering of reserve soldiers from PTSD effectively makes them unfit for service.

PALESTINE CHRONICLE: The time has obviously come for some fresh thinking on the question of Palestine. Actually it’s the question of Israel, if we are to locate what is often incorrectly called ‘the Palestine problem’ at its true source. After all, there wasn’t a Palestine problem beyond the normal range until the Zionists turned up.

Finally, a ‘Solution’: Confronting the Source of Injustice in Palestine

NBC (citing US officials): The war on Ansarallah has cost the United States more than $1 billion since last March, including thousands of bombs and missiles, the downing of 7 drones, and the sinking of two fighter jets.

AL-JAZEERA: Israeli occupation forces fired heavily inside the Jenin camp in the northern West Bank, and Israeli special forces stormed the town of Tamoun, south of Tubas. The Palestinian Red Crescent reported one injury in the storming of Tamoun town.

AL-JAZEERA (citing medical sources): 25 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli raids on the Gaza Strip since dawn today

PALESTINE CHRONICLE: Undercover Israeli forces killed a Palestinian man and injured several others during a midday raid in Nablus’ Old City, amid widespread use of live fire and tear gas.

Palestinian Man Shot and Killed in Nablus Raid, 45 Detained across West Bank

PALESTINE CHRONICLE: Gaza’s Civil Defense said on Thursday that 75% of its vehicles have stopped working due to fuel shortages since Israel imposed a total blockade on the enclave more than two months ago.

“Seventy-five percent of our vehicles have stopped working due to the lack of diesel to operate them,” the Civil Defense said in a statement cited by Al-Jazeera.

Gaza Civil Defense says 75% of Vehicles Not Operating Due to Fuel Shortage

AL-JAZEERA: The spokesperson for the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), Olga Cherevko, told Al Jazeera that the situation in Gaza is more than catastrophic and their warehouses are empty of food, noting that all residents of the Strip currently need food and hundreds of thousands of tons of food are waiting at the crossings, appealing to all concerned to end the catastrophe.

AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: The Al-Qassam Brigades announced targeting a Zionist foot force of 7 Zionists with a high-explosive device in the Al-Tanour neighborhood, east of Rafah city in the southern Gaza Strip.

AL-JAZEERA: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan stated that Israel’s violations are turning the region into a bloodbath, especially in Gaza, and called on all countries of the world to pressure Israel to stop its violations.

AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: The Al-Qassam Brigades announced the targeting of an engineering force of the occupation forces consisting of 12 soldiers who were preparing to detonate a house near the Al-Fida’i junction, east of Rafah city.

ANSARALLAH LEADER: The leader of the Ansarallah group in Yemen, Abdul-Malik al-Houthi, stated that their operations in support of the Palestinian people continue. He reported that this week they carried out operations with about 10 missiles and drones targeting Jaffa (Tel Aviv), Asqalon, the Naqab, and Haifa, noting that the large number of their support operations was carried out despite the intense American aggression against their country.

ISRAELI MEDIA: The Air Force dispatched helicopters to evacuate wounded from the southern Gaza Strip and transfer them to Barzilai Hospital in Ashkelon.

AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: The Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), reported engaging in “fierce clashes from point-blank range with enemy soldiers and their vehicles in the incursion area of the Al-Jeneina neighborhood, east of Rafah.”

ISRAELI MEDIA: The censor imposed a ban on a security event in Gaza related to the collapse of a building and numerous injuries. They added that there are many injuries in the Gaza Strip, some described as critical, amid a blackout.

PALESTINE CHRONICLE: Tensions between former US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appear to be escalating, according to the Israeli newspaper Israel Hayom.

Two senior figures within Trump’s inner circle reportedly told Israel Hayom that Trump “has decided to stop waiting for Israel and instead move forward with Middle East initiatives without Netanyahu.”

Trump ‘Disappointed’ with Netanyahu, Excludes Israel from Regional Plans – Report

PALESTINE CHRONICLE: The UN, aid organizations such as the World Health Organization and allies of the US, are being urged by the Trump administration “to participate in a new Israeli plan to resume distribution of limited amounts” of humanitarian aid in Gaza under Tel Aviv’s strict control, the Washington Post reported on Thursday.

US Presses UN, Aid Bodies to Accept Israel’s Aid Distribution Plan for Gaza – Report

AL-JAZEERA (citing medical sources): 20 Palestinians in Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip since dawn today, Thursday.

YEMENI MEDIA: The leader of the Ansar Allah group in Yemen, Abdul-Malik al-Houthi, stated that their operations in support of the Palestinian people continue.

PALESTINE CHRONICLE: New York State Police raided Columbia University on Wednesday evening, dispersing a pro-Palestinian sit-in and arresting dozens of demonstrators.

According to Reuters news agency, the protest took place in the university’s main library reading room, where protesters stood on tables, beat drums, and held signs in solidarity with Palestinians. The agency described it as the largest demonstration on campus since protests erupted last year over Israel’s war on Gaza.

Police Storm Columbia University Library, Arrest Pro-Palestinian Student Protesters

ISRAELI MEDIA: The Israel Hayom newspaper affirmed that there is a deterioration in personal relations and mutual disappointment between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Donald Trump. The newspaper quoted US officials as saying that Trump has decided not to wait for Israel any longer, but to proceed with his steps in the Middle East. The officials indicated that Trump wants to make decisions he believes will enhance Washington’s interest, while he believes that Netanyahu is delaying making decisions and is not prepared to wait until Israel does what is expected of it.

ISRAELI MEDIA: Israeli Channel 12 quoted an informed source as saying that Tel Aviv estimates the number of detainees in the Gaza Strip at 59, only 24 of whom are alive.

AL-JAZEERA: Israeli occupation forces obstructed the movement of ambulances during their storming of the city of Nablus in the northern West Bank.

AL-JAZEERA: Doctors Without Borders stated that Palestinians are being killed and injured en masse, and Israeli forces are intensifying their attacks throughout Gaza. It added that the absence of accountability is shocking as more lives are lost every day, and no aid has entered the Gaza Strip since March 2nd by decision of the Israeli authorities, noting that they are suffering a shortage of basic supplies and fuel needed to maintain their medical response.

PALESTINE CHRONICLE: A new investigative documentary film, Who Killed Shireen?, produced by Zeteo and directed by veteran journalist Dion Nissenbaum, premiered this week in New York City, shedding light on the circumstances surrounding the 2022 killing of Al-Jazeera correspondent Shireen Abu Akleh in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin.

New Film Exposes Identity of Israeli Sniper Who Killed Journalist Shireen Abu Akleh

PRCS: The Palestinian Red Crescent reported that a Palestinian was injured by occupation fire during a raid on the Old City of Nablus in the occupied West Bank.

ISRAELI MEDIA: The Haaretz newspaper, citing sources, reported that the Israeli army refrained from sending conscription orders to soldiers who expressed refusal to fight for fear of their non-compliance. Israeli officers told the newspaper that the commitment rate to military service in the reserve ranks is low, adding that the officially announced rate of 80% does not reflect reality

OXFAM STATEMENT: The British Oxfam organization stated in a statement that it is issuing an open call for an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and an end to the humanitarian catastrophe and loss of life. It added that the war on Gaza has caused severe damage to the agricultural sector and food production, and the residents of Gaza face levels of food insecurity ranging from crisis to emergency and catastrophic famine.

PFLP STATEMENT: The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine stated in a statement that it warns against a new Israeli plan managed through a dangerous mechanism called “2720,” which the occupation has begun promoting as a “humanitarian” cover.

It added that this suspicious mechanism is essentially a new colonial tool to impose control over the humanitarian aid file in the Gaza Strip, turning it into a tool for political and security blackmail and a prelude to imposing the realities of forced displacement, warning that any international institution or so-called “donor” involved in this mechanism without a clear international legal cover or dealing with the occupation as a reference or coordinating body will be complicit.

ISRAELI MEDIA: Israel Army Radio quoted the head of the National Unity party, Benny Gantz, as saying that he does not believe that settlements in the Gaza Strip should be renewed, adding that there is enough important settlement that needs to take place in the West Bank, the north, and the south.

AL-JAZEERA: The Sheja’iyya and Al-Tuffah neighborhoods, east of Gaza City, were subjected to Israeli artillery shelling, with no reports of casualties so far.

UNRWA: The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) quoted a member of its team in Gaza as saying that the hunger in the Gaza Strip is unprecedented. The agency added that Gaza has become a land of despair, and the siege must end, aid must enter, detainees must be released, and a ceasefire must be immediate.

AL-JAZEERA: The death toll from the continuous Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip since dawn today has risen to 14.

AL-JAZEERA: The Palestinian Prisoners Club stated that the occupation’s intelligence issued an administrative detention order against journalist Ali Al-Samoudi for a period of 6 months.

AL-JAZEERA:

A Palestinian was killed in Israeli artillery shelling of the Sheja’iyya neighborhood, east of Gaza City.

A young man was killed and others were injured in an Israeli bombing of a house west of the Nuseirat camp in the central Strip.

A young man was killed and others were injured in an Israeli bombing of Deir al-Balah city in the central Gaza Strip.

UNRWA: Israeli forces bombed an agency school that had become a shelter for displaced people in the Bureij camp in central Gaza twice, noting that the school was sheltering around 2,000 people, many of whom had been displaced countless times during this war.

ISRAELI MEDIA: The Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper quoted Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar commenting on the renewed fighting in Gaza that it cannot be said there is no danger to the detainees, given the opposition and the families of the detainees rejecting plans to expand ground operations in Gaza.

AL-JAZEERA: Sources confirmed to Al Jazeera that occupation forces stormed schools belonging to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) in the Shuafat camp, northeast of occupied Jerusalem, in preparation for their closure.

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: The Civil Defense in Gaza reported that 75% of its vehicles have stopped due to the lack of diesel to operate them, noting that it faces a significant shortage in the availability of electricity generators and oxygen devices throughout the Strip.

ISRAELI MEDIA: The Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper quoted Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar confirming that Israel did not receive prior notification regarding US President Donald Trump’s announcement of a halt to attacks on the Houthis (Ansarallah – PC).

ISRAELI MEDIA: Channel 14 quoted security sources as saying that the security establishment held consultations regarding scenarios of the electricity grid being targeted by Ansarallah strikes.

ASSOCIATED PRESS:

The Associated Press quoted aid workers confirming that Israel has refused the entry of international medical teams in recent weeks, despite the ability of some to reach the Strip.

Doctors Without Borders told the agency that a large number of people in Gaza need reconstructive surgery, but there are only a few plastic surgeons left.

The organization confirmed that the number of burn injuries due to the bombing of Khan Yunis has increased fivefold since Israel resumed its bombing in March

AL-JAZEERA: Two people were killed in an Israeli bombing of a house in the Sheja’iyya neighborhood, east of Gaza City in the central Strip.

ISRAELI MEDIA: Israeli Channel 12 reported that the Spanish Iberia Express airline announced the suspension of its flights to Israel following the suspension of flights to Ben Gurion Airport by several companies.

ISRAELI MEDIA: Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir said that Israel should make it clear to US President Donald Trump that providing humanitarian aid “to those who use it against Israel harms its chances of victory”.

AL-JAZEERA: Al Jazeera’s correspondent confirmed the discovery of the body of a child who went missing following an Israeli bombing of a school sheltering displaced people in the Bureij camp two days ago. He also reported the killing of a child as a result of Israeli artillery shelling of displaced persons’ tents west of Khan Yunis city in the southern Gaza Strip.

Palestinian children gather at their friend’s grave, killed in an Israeli airstrike on Gaza.

“Who’s going to play with us now?” one of them asks. pic.twitter.com/skbOHg7flN

— The Palestine Chronicle (@PalestineChron) May 8, 2025

ISRAELI MEDIA: Israel Army Radio quoted the father of the Israeli-American captive, Idan Alexander, as saying that the war cabinet is looking for an “imaginary victory” in Gaza, referring to its decision to expand the ground operation in the Strip under the pretext of achieving “complete victory.”

AL-JAZEERA: The Israeli army carried out demolition operations of residential buildings in the city of Rafah, southern Gaza Strip

AL-JAZEERA: Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz threatened Iran, saying that what Israel did to “Hezbollah, Hamas, Assad, and the Houthis” it will also do to Tehran.

PALESTINIAN MEDIA:

• The Civil Defense in the Gaza Strip said that a number of people were killed and others were injured as a result of the Israeli occupation targeting a house in Beit Lahia, in the northern part of the Strip.
• Israeli artillery shelled the Al-Batan Al-Samin area in Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip, in a series of bombardments that began in early morning hours.
• The Israeli army carried out demolitions of residential buildings in the city of Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip.
• Two fishermen were injured by Israeli naval fire in the sea off the city of Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip.
• Four people were injured as a result of Israeli artillery shells falling on tents of displaced people in the Al-Mawasi area, west of Khan Yunis.
• A child was shot in the foot by the occupation forces in the vicinity of the Al-Sumoud camp in the Al-Mawasi area of Khan Yunis.
• A Palestinian succumbed to his injuries sustained in the Israeli bombing of a restaurant west of Gaza City yesterday, Wednesday.