At least 85 people have been killed in Gaza since early Thursday, 22 May, 2025, as Israel conducted heavy airstrikes across several areas. Casualty figures are likely to rise amid ongoing bombardment, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, which further added that 29 children and elderly people who died in recent days in Gaza have been registered as "starvation-related deaths," and thousands more are at risk of starving.
Israel also carried out bomb strikes in southern and eastern Lebanon, killing at least one person, in what has been described as one of the heaviest attacks since a ceasefire with Hezbollah was reached in November last year. According to the latest estimates, 81 per cent of Gaza’s entire territory is now within Israeli-declared “militarised zones” or is subject to forced displacement orders by Israeli forces, according to the latest UN situation report on the war-torn enclave. The UN Human Rights office has also identified an “escalating pattern” of Israeli strikes on crowded hospitals, residential apartments, and even on tents and shelters housing the displaced Palestinians, a methodical destruction of entire neighbourhoods in the occupied territory.
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“The use of weapons with wide area effects suggests deliberate, indiscriminate attack,” according to the UN Human Rights office. Meanwhile, the Israeli left wing and right wing are fighting it out over yesterday’s Washington shooting incident, where two Israeli officials were killed in a targeted shootout. The Israeli left has blamed the right wing for its consistently offensive, charged rhetoric against the Palestinians in Gaza as a “root cause of the attack."
While the right accused the left wing of an attack on two diplomats in Washington. Additionally, Israel is facing strong criticism for its actions in Gaza. As many as 21 countries, including the members of the G7 group, have demanded an immediate halt to Israeli operations in Gaza and the allowing of aid to enter Gaza as the population is facing the risk of starvation.
Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 53,762 Palestinians and wounded 122,197, 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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