Compilation of news reports – IAK staff
NOTE: The Gaza Health Ministry’s daily casualty figures are based on the number of dead and wounded Palestinians brought to hospitals, and does not include victims that are under the rubble or elsewhere, where ambulance and civil defense crews can not reach them.
Gaza health officials have said that 143 people have been killed since dawn on Thursday, making it the deadliest day since Israel resumed its war on Gaza on 18 March. The death toll has now surpassed 53,000.
Among the dead were two Palestinian journalists: Hassan Sammour, an anchor for Al-Aqsa Voice Radio, and his family were killed in a pre-dawn strike that hit eastern Khan Younis in southern Gaza; Ahmed al-Halou, a reporter for the local Al-Quds News Network, was also killed. Their deaths bring the overall media worker death toll since October 2023 to 217.
Three Palestinian prisoners from Gaza have been confirmed dead (see below).
Five Palestinians were also killed in the West Bank (see below).
An Israeli strike in southern Lebanon also killed one.
Around 90% of Gaza’s 2.4 million population has been forcibly displaced by Israel’s ongoing war on the enclave, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) said on Thursday.
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Thousands Flee in Gaza City After Israel Issues Mass Displacement Orders and Vows to Attack ”With Great Force”
The scenes of mass displacement on Wednesday were like a slow-moving human flood flowing through destroyed streets.
On Wednesday, the Israeli military warned it would attack parts of Gaza City “with great force” and issued new displacement orders targeting several areas in the central and western neighborhoods of the city. Thousands of displaced families in Gaza City began fleeing their shelters in the evening in a state of panic and chaos.
The displacement orders came several hours after Israel committed yet another horrific massacre, bombing five homes in Jabaliya, killing more than 50 Palestinians, including 22 children and 18 women. Israel is on a rampage of bombardment across Gaza—at least 77 killed on Wednesday, over 100 Thursday. On Tuesday, Israel bombed two hospitals in one day, while the third month of a total blockade has left everyone in Gaza hungry and thirsty. Hundreds of thousands of people, many of them children, are facing starvation.
According to a map posted online by the Israeli military, the areas targeted with displacement orders are home to at least eight schools, some run by UNRWA—including the Al-Shati school complex, Al-Karmel School, Mustafa Hafez School, the Al-Furqan school complex, and Islamic University—that serve as shelters for hundreds of thousands of Palestinians already displaced from northern and eastern parts of the enclave (continue reading here).
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Palestine Chronicle: ‘Deadliest Chapter’ – Three More Gaza Detainees Die in Israeli Detention
Three more Palestinian detainees from the Gaza Strip have been announced dead in Israeli detention, raising the death toll to 69 since October 2023, prisoner rights organizations said on Thursday.
According to the organizations, the three detainees have been identified as follows:
- Ayman Abdel-Hadi Qudeih, aged 56. Qudeih was arrested on October 7, 2023, and martyred five days later on October 12, 2023.
- Bilal Talal Salama, aged 24. He was arrested during displacement from Khan Younis in March 2024, and died on August 11, 2024.
- Mohammad Ismail Al-Astal, aged 46, Al-Astal was arrested on February 7, 2024, and died on May 2, 2025.
“With these latest cases, the number of announced martyrs of the Palestinian prisoner movement since the beginning of the Israeli aggression on October 7 has risen to 69 martyrs, 44 of whom are from Gaza,” a statement from the Prisoners’ Media Office said, citing the groups.
The total number of prisoners who have died in detention “since 1967 has now reached 306,” the statement noted.
Their deaths were confirmed in responses sent by the Israeli military to Palestinian human rights organizations, which provided only the dates of death without further details regarding the circumstances of their deaths, the official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported.
The organizations emphasized that this period marks the deadliest chapter in the history of the Palestinian prisoner movement, especially amid Israel’s ongoing concealment of the identities of many Gaza detainees who have died in custody.
They stressed that the plight of Palestinian detainees from Gaza has revealed “unprecedented levels of violence and atrocities,” including reports of torture, starvation, medical neglect, and sexual abuse.
The Prisoners’ Media Office statement noted that as of early May 2025, the number of prisoners in Israeli jails has surpassed 10,100, including 37 women, over 400 children, 3,577 administrative detainees, and 1,846 prisoners from Gaza, who are classified by the Israeli army as “unlawful combatants.”
Hamas reiterates readiness to release all hostages for end to Gaza war
Sky News debunks Israeli justification for Gaza hospital strike
Israel’s justification for bombing the European Hospital in Gaza has been debunked by Sky News’ Data and Forensics Team which contradicted the Israeli occupation military’s claims that the hospital housed an underground Hamas base. The strike, which killed at least 16 people, is part of a larger pattern of attacks on Gaza’s health infrastructure, with dozens of hospitals and medical centres damaged or destroyed over the past 19 months.
Israel claimed on Tuesday that it had struck a Hamas “command and control centre” beneath the European Hospital near Khan Yunis, releasing aerial footage as evidence. But Sky News analysis revealed that the video does not show the hospital at all — rather, it depicts the adjacent Jenin Secondary School for Boys. Satellite imagery expert Corey Scher of Oregon State University said the markings Israel presented as signs of underground terrorist infrastructure were in fact drainage ditches, visible in earlier images.
The occupation army later confirmed the footage was from outside the hospital grounds but insisted without evidence that underground infrastructure continued beneath the hospital itself. No independent evidence has supported that claim (continue reading here).
The European Hospital in southern Gaza – the only health facility still providing cancer treatment – went out of service on Thursday after repeated Israeli strikes damaged critical infrastructure and surrounding roads, according to the Ministry of Health.
According to a report by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, between 7 October 2023 and 7 May 2025 the World Health Organization documented 686 attacks on Gaza’s health sector, affecting 122 facilities and 180 ambulances.
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As Donald Trump hops from one Gulf capital to another, signs some eye-catching deals, meets the new Syrian president and even supposedly makes progress on the Iran nuclear issue, it looks like the war in Gaza has been pushed on to the sidelines of US diplomacy.
While there were negotiations involving the Americans this week in Qatar over the release of hostages, Israel also saw fit to conduct a devastating assassination attempt on Hamas’s leader, Mohammed Sinwar, followed by intensive airstrikes across the strip. While Sinwar’s fate has not yet been confirmed, it is telling that this all took place while the US president was in the region: it reveals how unserious the Israeli government is about ending the war.
The truth is that if the war is resumed in earnest, it will be unsurprising because, earlier this month, the Israeli security cabinet unanimously approved a plan to expand its military offensive in the Gaza Strip (with the caveat of waiting until the US president’s Middle East trip was over).
The new Israeli military plan, agreed under immense pressure by the most extreme rightwing members of the coalition, goes beyond “defeating Hamas” and expresses little interest in the fate of the remaining hostages. Instead, it aims to indefinitely occupy the entire territory (continue reading here).
NOTE: Under IHL, an occupation is a form of international armed conflict. An occupation occurs when the territory of a State is actually placed under the authority of a hostile army.
Civilians living in occupied territory are entitled to specific protection which aims to prevent abuses by the occupying power. These protections are set out in Section III of the Fourth Geneva Convention and in the 1907 Hague Regulations, as well as in customary law rules.
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Trump talks of turning Gaza into ‘freedom zone’
In Qatar, on the third day of his Middle East tour, Trump said: “I have concepts for Gaza that I think are very good: make it a freedom zone, let the United States get involved and make it just a freedom zone. I’d be proud to have the United States have it, take it, make it a freedom zone.”
Basem Naim, a senior Hamas official, rejected the idea, saying: “Gaza is an integral part of Palestinian land – it is not real estate for sale on the open market.
“We remain firmly committed to our land and our national cause, and we are prepared to make every sacrifice to preserve our homeland and secure our people’s future.”
West Bank: Israeli Forces Kill Five Palestinians In Tammun
On Thursday, Israeli occupation soldiers killed five Palestinians in Tammun town, south of Tubas, in the occupied West Bank’s northeastern part.
Media sources reported that Israeli special forces invaded the town of Tammun, south of Tubas, on Thursday morning, encircling a residential apartment in a three-story building at the town’s center.
According to local sources and eyewitnesses, an exchange of fire erupted between the invading Israeli troops and Palestinian fighters sheltering inside the besieged home.
They added that the army then launched Energa anti-tank grenades and heavy gunfire on the building, followed by bulldozer-led demolitions that destroyed sections of the structure.
The Mayor of Tammun, Samir Qteishat, said the soldiers took the corpses of four of the slain Palestinians, while the fifth was later found burnt and his body severely mutilated under the rubble.
The slain Palestinians have been identified as:
- Wadea’ Eyad Ahmad Bani Odah (19 years old)
- Ibrahim Yassin Ahmad Bani Odah (24 years old)
- Rida Kamal Mahmoud Bani Odah (22 years old)
- Islam Azmi Hussein Bani Odah (22 years old)
- Saher Nabil Bisharat (23 years old)
Residents gathered to lay Saher Bisharat to rest, while Israeli forces continue to withhold the bodies of the other four.
A shocking scene in Tammoun: After killing four Palestinian resistance fighters, Israeli forces used a bulldozer to haul their bodies away—another grim show of contempt for Palestinian life. pic.twitter.com/ha8lTAfqAv
— The Palestine Chronicle (@PalestineChron) May 15, 2025
After besieging and killing four Palestinians and confiscating their bodies, an Israeli army bulldozer embarks on tearing down the house where the four were killed by Israeli forces in the town of Tammoun, north of the occupied West Bank. pic.twitter.com/iewAfBSppF
— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) May 15, 2025
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IMEMC Daily Reports
STATISTICS OCTOBER 7, 2023 – MAY 15, 2025:
- At least 54,097 Palestinians killed, 128,607 injured – including:
- at least 53,119 killed in Gaza (~15,600 children)
- at least 978 killed in the West Bank (~196 children)
- at least 120,214 injured in Gaza
- at least 8,393 injured in the West Bank
According to Palestinian authorities, during the ceasefire Jan. 19- March 18 2025, Israeli attacks killed at least 170 Gazans, and Israel committed at least 962 ceasefire violations.
Thousands of those killed in Gaza have yet to be identified, and an estimated 14,000 more are still buried under rubble.
Reported Israeli death toll from October 7, 2023 – May 15, 2025: ~1,598 – including ~1,139 on October 7, 2023 (~36 children), 414 military forces since the ground invasion began in Gaza, 46 military and civilians in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Israel.
By one count, Israeli attacks have killed approximately 207 Palestinian journalists and media workers; Palestinians have killed 4 Israelis (other groups have tallied between 179 and 266 Palestinian journalists killed – depending on the criteria used).
NOTE: It is unknown at this time how many of the deaths and injuries of Israelis on October 7 were caused by Israeli soldiers.
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