- Israeli forces order medical staff at Rafah’s Kuwaiti Hospital to evacuate as Gaza’s Health Ministry warns that the health system could collapse across the Strip in “a few hours”.
- Fierce clashes in Jabalia in north Gaza as Israel sends troops and tanks back into the area. The ground assault follows a night of intense air raids in the area.
- At least 360,000 Palestinians have fled Rafah, according to the United Nations, as Israel expands its offensive in the southern city and confronts Hamas fighters there.
- Egypt says it will formally join the lawsuit filed by South Africa against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), which accuses Israel of violating its obligations under the Genocide Convention in the Gaza Strip.
- At least 35,034 people have been killed and 78,755 wounded in Israeli attacks on Gaza since October 7. The revised death toll in Israel from Hamas’s October 7 attacks stands at 1,139, with dozens of people still held captive.
- UNRWA video shows extensive damage to its facilities in Khan YounisThe UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) has shared a video on X showing families and children returning to UNRWA schools in Khan Younis.The facilities show “extensive damage”, it said on X, with no water available in the city.“A new level of desperation, unfolding under the world’s watch.”
- Israeli soldiers injured by antitank missiles launched from LebanonThe Israeli military has reported that three of its soldiers were “lightly injured” and one “moderately injured” by two antitank missiles that crossed into Israeli territory from southern Lebanon.Hezbollah in Lebanon and the Israeli military have regularly traded fire since October 8, when the Lebanese armed group launched an attack on Israel in solidarity with the Palestinian people in Gaza.
- University of Amsterdam staff join pro-Palestine protestsProfessor of sociology at the University of Amsterdam, Sarah Bracke, spoke to Al Jazeera about the student and staff protests against Israel’s war on Gaza in the Netherlands.She said the staff at three higher education institutions in Amsterdam witnessed police “violently” attempting to disperse a peaceful student encampment last Monday.She said the staff today are protesting as they want to end the university’s complicity in “the ongoing genocide” in Gaza and call out the violent methods that police have used to suppress peaceful protests.She noted that Jewish staff and student protesters were beaten by police despite the educational institutions’ claim that police were needed to protect the Jewish students on campus.
- Police officers remove a pro-Palestinian protester outside the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, May 8, 2024 [Piroschka van de Wouw/Reuters]
- Hezbollah claims it destroyed tank in missile strike on Yiftah barracksLebanon’s Hezbollah armed group has claimed to have hit an Israeli Merkava tank with a guided missile in Yiftah barracks in the occupied Lebanese village of Qadas.“It was destroyed and its crew was killed and wounded,” it said in a statement on Telegram.The attack came in support of Gaza at , it added.Earlier today, it also claimed an air attack on the newly-created position of the 403rd Reserve Artillery Battalion of the 91st Division, south of Beit Hillel in northern Israel.That attack left “enemy officers and soldiers dead and wounded”, it said.
- Shin Bet investigating its security failure on October 7: ReportIsraeli newspaper Haaretz reports that Shin Bet Chief Ronan Bar has said the agency is conducting an “in-depth” investigation into its role in the Hamas-led attack on October 7.Israel’s Shin Bet, or Shabak as it is known in both Hebrew and Arabic, is the internal intelligence service and one of the three branches of the Israeli General Security Service.Bar said at a ceremony at the agency’s headquarters that it was “a painful and significant investigation”, according to Haaretz.Click here to share on social media
- People flee as Israeli troops invade Jabalia refugee camp
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- Israeli forces continued to attack the Jabalia refugee camp, and intensified attacks on Gaza City, killing at least three people in the Sabra neighbourhood and one in the Shujayea neighbourhood.They fired on ambulances trying to reach the wounded as Israeli air raids pound crowded residential areas within the refugee camp, Al Jazeera Arabic reported.In south and central Rafah, Israeli forces continued with their air attacks, killing at least one person in a strike on a medical centre in the Bureij refugee camp and targeting residential buildings in east Rafah.An Israeli air attack on a house in the Brazil neighbourhood of Rafah killed four people, including a young girl, according to the Wafa news agency.Medical staff at the Kuwaiti Hospital in Rafah received an evacuation order from Israeli forces, Al Jazeera’s Tareq Abu Azzoum reported.Gaza’s Health Ministry said without fuel for hospital generators, the health system across Gaza could collapse in “a few hours”.
- Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/5/13/israels-war-on-gaza-live-israel-reinvades-north-gaza-as-people-flee-south
Israel’s war on Gaza live: Enclave’s health system ‘collapsing’
