In Occupied Palestine – 29 May 2025
In Occupied Palestine
Zionism in practice
Israel’s Daily Toll on Palestinian Life, Limb, Liberty and Land
08:00, 29 May 2025 until 08:00, 30 May 2025
Gaza Strip
Merciless blitz on starving Gaza — growing numbers
of dead and injured
Victims 29–30 month 2025:
72 more killed and 278 wounded
Since dawn, Israeli air strikes, missile launches and gunfire on homes, as well as medical and other facilities, have resulted in 72 dead and 278 wounded. The total number now killed in Gaza, since 7 October 2023, has risen to at least 54,321 and the total wounded to at least 123,770. The daily average number of men, women and children killed in Gaza is at least 90 and, that of those injured, is more than 206. A UN report states that, as of 14 January 2025, around 70% of those killed in Gaza were women and children.
Briefing to journalists by Jonathan Whittall, Head of OCHA OPT
Opening Remarks at Press Briefing
Jerusalem, 28 May 2025
Thank you for taking the time to join this briefing at such a critical moment for Gaza, for Palestinians and for the humanitarian response.
Today marks 600 days of horror in Gaza. Yesterday, we saw tens of thousands of desperate people – under fire – storming a militarized distribution point established on the rubble of their homes. Nearly 50 people were reportedly shot and injured. These events illustrate how the collective punishment of Palestinians continues and the assault on their human dignity is accelerating.
The newly developed distribution scheme is more than just the control of aid. It is engineered scarcity: four distribution hubs located in central and southern Gaza, secured by private US security contractors, where those Palestinians who can reach them will receive rations.
One of these hubs is near the spot where Israeli forces killed and buried in a mass grave 15 first responders. For me this is a grotesque symbol of how life in Gaza, and that which sustains it, is being erased and controlled.
The new distribution model cannot possibly meet Gaza’s needs. Knowingly designing a plan that falls short of minimum obligations under international law, is essentially an admission of guilt.
The US-backed entity that has been created to deliver on this plan institutionalizes Israel’s restrictions on aid delivery from the outset. This is not humanitarianism. Humanitarian action would seek to reach all civilians wherever they are, and would push back on measures to limit aid, instead of accepting these conditions upfront. This new scheme is surveillance-based rationing that legitimizes a policy of deprivation by design. And it comes at a time when people in Gaza, half of whom are children, are facing a crisis of survival.
Israel has publicly claimed that the UN and NGO aid is being diverted by Hamas. But this doesn’t hold up to scrutiny. We do not have evidence that aid coordinated through credible humanitarian channels has been diverted. Aid coordinated through the UN system made up for 35 per cent of what entered during the ceasefire. We have no oversight on those supplies which were facilitated to enter by Israel through other channels.
The real theft of aid since the beginning of the war has been carried out by criminal gangs, under the watch of Israeli forces, and they were allowed to operate in proximity to the Kerem Shalom crossing point into Gaza.
The challenge facing humanitarian operations in Gaza isn’t the unfounded claim of UN aid diversion, neither is it the so-called inability of the UN to deliver. During the last ceasefire, when restrictions on aid delivery were eased, coordinated humanitarian agencies demonstrated they could deliver aid effectively. Of course we can make improvements to our systems. But ultimately, when we are enabled, we can work. There is no logistical solution to the political decision to obstruct aid.
Today we are facing challenges in collecting goods from Kerem Shalom crossing because of escalating insecurity; long delays in receiving the needed approvals from forces on the ground to move; we are given inappropriate routes to transport goods; the desperation of crowds that are looting some of our cargo and because of the restrictions placed by Israeli authorities that we can only deliver flour to bakeries. These bakeries are overwhelmed by crowds, and many have had to shut down.
While our work continues to be obstructed, the changes to the distribution system are being rolled out. This is happening in tandem with Israel’s escalating air and ground offensive, that has further dismantled the means of survival in the strip by destroying Gaza’s hospitals, bakeries and water sources.
The message that is being sent through the establishment of these militarized hubs appears to be that in Gaza, survival is a privilege, granted only to those who comply with a military plan that has been described by an Israeli minister as being to “conquer, clear and stay.”
The UN has refused to participate in this scheme, warning that it is logistically unworkable and violates humanitarian principles by using aid as a tool in Israel’s broader efforts to depopulate areas of Gaza. It doesn’t have to be this way: We need our existing system to be enabled.
Humanitarian agencies have the capacity to help feed Gaza and provide other life-saving and life-sustaining services and supplies. We are ready to work. We are ready to deliver directly to families as we always have. We are being denied from doing so, because it appears that the intention from Israel is not to facilitate an efficient aid response at scale.
The International Court of Justice has ruled on provisional measures that continue to be blatantly ignored. Governments around the world must finally enforce the political and economic pressure needed to stop these atrocities.
West Bank
Palestinian Monitoring Group — Since midnight on 07 October 2023, Occupation forces have been imposing a complete closure around the whole of the West Bank, preventing people (even including permit-holders) from entering both Jerusalem City as well as Israel, other than for especially-negotiated exceptions. Permanent military checkpoints impose severe travel restrictions within the Occupied West Bank.
Israeli Army attack – injuries and home invasions: Ramallah – 15:10, Israeli Occupation forces raided the town of Birzeit and searched a home, shooting and wounding a child and injuring two other people, one of whom, Asaf Mustafa Safi, suffered a heart attack and was hospitalised.
Israeli Army attack: Jenin – Israeli forces continued to storm the city and the refugee camp, firing live ammunition.
Israeli Army attacks – ambulance under fire: Tulkarem – Israeli forces continued storming the city as well as the Tulkarem and Nur Shams refugee camps, opening fire towards people and shattering the windscreen of a Palestinian Red Crescent ambulance. One person was taken prisoner, while more homes and other buildings were ordered to be demolished by the Israeli military.
Home invasions: Jerusalem – 17:00, Israeli Occupation forces raided the town of Hizma and invaded a number of homes.
Home invasions: Jerusalem – 05:00, Israeli forces raided the town of Kafr Aqab and searched two houses.
Home invasion and demolition – beatings-up and population-control: Ramallah – 08:00, the Israeli Army, firing rubber-coated bullets and stun grenades, demolished a house in the village of al-Mughayir, beating-up a woman and a man, Atef Al-Nasan and Muhammad Haitham Saleh Abu Aliya. The Army also ordered a halt to the construction of another house in the village.
Home invasions: Nablus – 00:45-05:00, Israeli troops raided the village of al-Lubban al-Sharqiya and searched three homes.
Home invasions: Hebron – 15:50, the Israeli military raided the village of Beit Marsam and searched a number of homes.
Israeli police and settlers’ mosque violation: Jerusalem – 08:00, Israeli settlers, escorted by Occupation police, invaded the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound and molested worshippers.
Israeli Army vandalism: Ramallah – 08:00, Israeli Occupation forces demolished part of an al-Mughayir village park.
Israeli Army agricultural sabotage: Ramallah – midnight, Israeli forces bulldozed an area of agricultural land in east Turmusaya.
Israeli Army mosque violation and Occupation dominance: Tulkarem – 17:25, the Israeli Army invaded the Abu Bakr al-Siddiq Mosque in the Nour Shams refugee camp, raiding its Occupation flag on the mosque’s dome.
Israeli Army economic and agricultural sabotage: Nablus – 08:10, Israeli troops bulldozed streets, water supply lines, and two areas of agricultural land, in the village of Duma.
Israeli Army vandalism: Hebron – 10:50, the Israeli military demolished a house, used for storing agricultural tools, in the town of Idhna.
Occupation settlement development: Tubas – Israeli Occupation settlers, in the Umm al-Qaba plain area of the North Jordan Valley, set up a new settlement outpost with a livestock shelter as well as cattle and water tanks.
Occupation settler violence: Ramallah – 10:10, Israeli Occupation settlers invaded the Marj Sa’i area, between the villages of al-Mughayir and Khirbet Abu Falah, and assaulted local farmers and shepherds.
Occupation settler population-control: Salfit – 09:05, armed Israeli settlers held up motor vehicles on the al-Matwi Road between Salfit and the town of Bruqin.
Occupation settler land-grab: Salfit – 19:00, Occupation settlers set up a mobile home and a tent-dwelling, near homes in the Balata of Bruqin.
Occupation settler population-control: Jericho – 18:40, Israeli settlers closed the north-western entrance gate to the city.
Occupation settler land seizure: Jericho – 04:15, Israeli settlers built a new settlement road, north of the town of al-Auja.
Occupation settler agricultural sabotage: Hebron – morning, Israeli Occupation settlers uprooted dozens of olive tree saplings and released their livestock onto land in the Masafer area of Yatta, vandalising the fence surrounding the land.
Occupation settler stoning: Hebron – 10:25, Israelis, from the Telem Occupation settlement, stoned passing vehicles near the entrance on Bypass Road 35.
Raid: Jerusalem – 22:40, Israeli Occupation forces raided and patrolled the village of Jaba’.
Raid: Ramallah – 14:20, Israeli forces raided and patrolled the village of Surda.
Raid: Ramallah – 21:50, the Israeli Army raided and patrolled the village of Nabi Saleh.
Raid: Ramallah – 23:30, Israeli troops raided and patrolled the village of Deir Abu Mash’al.
Raid – 1 taken prisoner: Ramallah – midnight, the Israeli military raided the village of Beitin, taking prisoner one person.
Raid – 1 taken prisoner: Tulkarem – morning, Israeli soldiers raided the village of Safarin, taking prisoner one person.
Raid – 4 abductions: Tulkarem – 23:15-01:00, Israeli Occupation forces raided the town of Anabta and abducted four minors: 16-year-old Ibrahim Muhammad Mansour and three 17-year-olds, Qusay Samir Barakat, Diaa Yousef Shaath and Yousef Sufyan Zubeidi.
Raid: Qalqiliya – 20:20, Israeli forces raided and patrolled the village of al-Nabi Elias.
Raid – 1 taken prisoner: Qalqiliya – 01:00-04:25, the Israeli Army raided the city, taking prisoner one person.
Raid – destruction – economic and agricultural sabotage: Nablus – 08:10-14:55, Israeli troops raided the village of Duma, bulldozing streets, water-supply pipelines and two plots of agricultural land.
Raid – 1 taken prisoner: Nablus – 01:45-04:50, the Israeli military raided the city, taking prisoner one person.
Raid: Salfit – 17:05, Israeli soldiers raided and patrolled the town of Bruqin.
Raid – stun grenades fired: Salfit – 23:05, Israeli Occupation forces, firing stun grenades, raided and patrolled Kafr al-Dik.
Raid: Salfit – 23:35, Israeli forces raided and patrolled the city.
Raid – mosque violation by settlers and Israeli military: Jericho – 07:30, the Israeli Army, escorting settlers, raided the city and invaded the Shahwan Synagogue.
Raid: Bethlehem – 08:45-12:40, Israeli troops raided and patrolled al-Minya village.
Raid – surveillance: Bethlehem – 02:55-04:40, the Israeli military raided Janata and forced shopowners to open their stores to have their surveillance-camera recordings examined.
Raid – 1 taken prisoner: Hebron – 12:05, Israeli soldiers raided the town of Yatta, taking prisoner one person.
Raid: Hebron – 13:35, Israeli Occupation forces raided and patrolled the city.
Raid – pastoral sabotage: Hebron – 14:00-16:45, Israeli forces raided the village of al-Bureij and demolished a livestock shelter.
Raid: Hebron – 16:35, the Israeli Army raided and patrolled the town of Halhul.
Raid – refugee camp: Hebron – 20:45-23:00, Israeli troops raided and patrolled the al-Fawar refugee camp.
Raid – children and adults injured: Hebron – 22:00-02:00, the Israeli Army raided the town of Idhna, injuring six residents, including two children.
Raid – 1 taken prisoner: Hebron – 01:50, Israeli troops raided and patrolled the city, taking prisoner one person.
‘Occupation settlement development: Tubas – Israeli Occupation settlers, in the Umm al-Qaba plain area of the North Jordan Valley, set up a new settlement outpost with a livestock shelter as well as cattle and water tanks.’
The Title deed, dated 2300 BCE, claims the patriarch Lot committed incest at this spot and impregnated his daughters here and thereby established a land claim for Jews living in any part of the world.
For those misinformed that Judaism is a religion, and not a race, you should bear in mind that the Nazis classified Jews as a race and modern Zionists have adopted this Nazi concept.
( If you do not believe Lot and his daughters had a sexual relationship look it up – also bear in mind if the Adam and Eve Story is true this original couple’s children must have produced generations of inbreds).