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<article data-history-node-id="422473" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/death-toll-israeli-attacks-rises-60" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/death-toll-israeli-attacks-rises-60" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Death toll from Israeli attacks rises to 60</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>At least 60 people have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza since dawn, Al Jazeera reported, citing medical sources.</p> <p>At least 50 people were killed in attacks on northern Gaza, including on Jabalia refugee camp.</p> <figure role="group" class="media-block"> <div class="group-inner"> <div alt="Palestinians inspect the damage, after the European Hospital was partially damaged following Israeli airstrikes, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, May 13, 2025. REUTERS" data-embed-button="file_browser" data-entity-embed-display="image:image" data-entity-embed-display-settings="{" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="0f1eb533-923e-4faf-b3ce-3278cd809e67" data-langcode="en" class="embedded-entity"> <img src="https://www.middleeasteye.net/sites/default/files/2025-05-13T194610Z_472645037_RC23HEA7NJ9V_RTRMADP_3_ISRAEL-PALESTINIANS-GAZA111.jpg" width="900" height="570" alt="Palestinians inspect the damage, after the European Hospital was partially damaged following Israeli airstrikes, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, May 13, 2025. REUTERS" typeof="foaf:Image" fetchpriority="high"> </div> <figcaption>Palestinians inspect the damage, after the European Hospital was partially damaged following Israeli airstrikes, according to the&nbsp;Gaza&nbsp;Health Ministry, in Khan Younis, in the southern&nbsp;Gaza&nbsp;Strip, 13 May, 2025. (REUTERS)</figcaption> </div> </figure> <p><span style="background: url(&quot;https://www.middleeasteye.net/modules/contrib/ckeditor/vendor/plugins/widget/images/handle.png&quot;) rgba(220, 220, 220, 0.5); top: -15px; left: 0px;"><img height="15" role="presentation" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAPABAP///wAAACH5BAEKAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAICRAEAOw==" title="Click and drag to move" width="15" loading="lazy"></span></p> </div> </div> </article>

The West's deliberate conflation of Zionism and Judaism is doing nothing to protect Jewish life

<article data-history-node-id="422472" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-says-it-intercepted-missile-yemen" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-says-it-intercepted-missile-yemen" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Israel says it intercepted a missile from Yemen</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>The Israeli military said on Wednesday that it intercepted a missile launched from Yemen towards its territory. The launch coincides with US President Donald Trump's visit to the Gulf.</p> <p>Trump has announced that he reached a ceasefire with Yemen's Houthis that will halt attacks on US vessels. Trump announced early in May that the US would stop bombing the Houthis in Yemen as the group had agreed to stop attacking US&nbsp;ships.</p> <p>The Houthis said they will continue to fire missiles and drones towards Israel.</p> <p>The Houthis have attacked numerous vessels in the Red Sea, disrupting global trade, in a campaign that they say is aimed at showing solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza.</p> </div> </div> </article>

<article data-history-node-id="422471" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/morning-update-322" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/morning-update-322" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Morning update</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Good morning, Middle East Eye readers,</p> <p>Here are some of the latest updates on Gaza and across the region:</p> <ul> <li> <p>Israeli attacks have killed&nbsp;at least 56 Palestinians&nbsp;since the early hours of this morning, Al Jazeera reported, citing medical sources.</p> </li> <li> <p>Russia slams US-Israeli aid distribution mechanism plan for Gaza, saying that it can be hardly expected that&nbsp;"it will be possible to effectively provide assistance to the 2 million Palestinians" who are hostage to&nbsp;political and military decisions.</p> </li> <li> <p>China’s envoy, too, has criticised the US-Israeli plan for Gaza aid distribution&nbsp;during a speech&nbsp;at the UN Security Council, saşd&nbsp;aid ‘must not be weaponised’.</p> </li> <li> <p>The United Kingdom’s envoy to the UN, Barbara Woodward, told journalists outside the meeting that Israel must lift its blockade on Gaza, rejected&nbsp;US-Israeli plan for aid distribution in Gaza.</p> </li> <li> <p>United Nations relief chief Tom Fletcher on Tuesday called on the UN Security Council to take action "to prevent genocide" in Gaza, delivering a scathing account of Israel's actions in the Palestinian territory.</p> </li> <li> <p>US President Donald Trump, speaking in the Saudi Arabian capital, Riyadh, said&nbsp;he is working to end Israel’s war on Gaza as soon as possible, adding that the people of the enclave “deserve a much better future”.</p> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </article>

New details about government's decision to suspend some arms sales - but not F-35 fighter jet parts - laid out in court case brought by campaign groups

<article data-history-node-id="422428" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/forgotten-searching-palestines-hidden-places-and-lost-memorials" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/forgotten-searching-palestines-hidden-places-and-lost-memorials" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Forgotten: Searching for Palestine’s Hidden Places and Lost Memorials</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p><a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/discover/muqarnas-middle-east-mosque-architecture-historical-buildings-honeycombs" target="_blank">Ancient buildings</a>&nbsp;are the keepers of secrets: the ghosts and stories of the people who have gone before rest within their walls.</p> <p>Despite attempts to conceal the past, remnants stubbornly remain, as anyone who has renovated can attest - faded posters, peeling wallpaper, chipped paint - such immutable objects can bear witness to a forgotten time.</p> <p>In this meditative travelogue,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/features/time-will-come-when-there-will-be-real-eruption" target="_blank">Raja Shehadeh</a>&nbsp;and his wife&nbsp;<a href="https://www.palestinebookawards.com/authors/item/penny-johnson" target="_blank">Penny Johnson</a>, both in their eighth decade, contemplate the hidden history and geography of historic&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/palestine" target="_blank">Palestine</a>, now&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/israel" target="_blank">Israel&nbsp;</a>and the Occupied Palestinian Territories of the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza.&nbsp;</p> <p>This is a place where even “archaeology is politicised”.</p> <p>The couple’s quest is to reveal the lost, neglected and intentionally erased stories that criss-cross and sustain the land.&nbsp;</p> <h3>Read more:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/discover/forgotten-searching-palestines-hidden-places-and-lost-memorials">Forgotten: Searching for Palestine’s Hidden Places and Lost Memorials</a></h3> <figure role="group" class="media-block"> <div class="group-inner"> <div alt="A view of the Old City of Jerusalem including the iconic Dome of the Rock in February 2024 (AFP)" data-embed-button="file_browser" data-entity-embed-display="image:image" data-entity-embed-display-settings="{" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="76a47047-89d0-498f-b8d6-503c5b3049bd" data-langcode="en" class="embedded-entity"> <img src="https://www.middleeasteye.net/sites/default/files/images-story/al-aqsa-dome-of-rock-jerusalem-february-2024-ahmad-gharabli-afp.jpg" width="1920" height="1080" alt="A view of the Old City of Jerusalem including the iconic Dome of the Rock in February 2024 (AFP)" typeof="foaf:Image" fetchpriority="high"> </div> <figcaption>A view of the Old City of Jerusalem including the iconic Dome of the Rock in February 2024 (AFP)</figcaption> </div> </figure> <p><span style="background: url(&quot;https://www.middleeasteye.net/modules/contrib/ckeditor/vendor/plugins/widget/images/handle.png&quot;) rgba(220, 220, 220, 0.5); top: -15px; left: 0px;"><img height="15" role="presentation" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAPABAP///wAAACH5BAEKAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAICRAEAOw==" title="Click and drag to move" width="15" loading="lazy"></span></p> </div> </div> </article>

<article data-history-node-id="422427" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/hollywood-stars-condemn-gaza-genocide-cannes-festival-opens" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/hollywood-stars-condemn-gaza-genocide-cannes-festival-opens" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Hollywood stars condemn Gaza 'genocide' as Cannes Festival opens</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>More than 380 figures from the cinema world including "Schindler's List" actor Ralph Fiennes condemned "genocide" in&nbsp;Gaza&nbsp;in an open letter <a href="https://variety.com/2025/film/global/letter-about-killing-of-fatma-hassona-1236391687/">published</a> on Tuesday ahead of the Cannes Festival opening.</p> <p>"We cannot remain silent while genocide is taking place in&nbsp;Gaza," read the letter initiated by several pro-Palestinian activist groups and published in French newspaper Liberation and US magazine Variety.&nbsp;</p> <p>The signatories - which include Hollywood stars Richard Gere and Susan Sarandon, as well as acclaimed Spanish director Pedro Almodovar and former Cannes winner Ruben Ostlund - decried <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/gaza-photojournalist-fatima-hassouna-killed-israeli-strike-mourns">Israel's killing&nbsp;of&nbsp;Palestinian photojournalist</a> Fatima Hassouna in Gaza.</p> <p>Hassouna, 25, is the subject of a documentary which will premiere in Cannes on Thursday by Iranian director Sepideh Farsi, titled "Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk".</p> <p>Hassouna was killed along with 10 relatives in an Israeli air strike on her family home in northern&nbsp;Gaza&nbsp;last month, the day after the documentary was announced as part of the ACID Cannes selection.</p> <p>Other signatories include Jonathan Glazer, the British director of Jewish origin who won an Oscar for his 2023 Auschwitz drama "The Zone of Interest", as well as US star Mark Ruffalo and Spanish actor Javier Bardem.</p> </div> </div> </article>

<article data-history-node-id="422409" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/bbc-accused-political-censorship-over-failure-release-gaza-medics" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/bbc-accused-political-censorship-over-failure-release-gaza-medics" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">BBC accused of 'political censorship' over failure to release Gaza medics documentary</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p><meta charset="UTF-8"></p> <p>The BBC has been accused of "political censorship" as it faces increasing pressure to broadcast a film it commissioned about&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/palestine" target="_blank">Palestinian</a>&nbsp;doctors working in Gaza.</p> <p>Over 600 prominent figures from the arts and media, including British film director Mike Leigh, Oscar-winning actor Susan Sarandon and Lindsey Hilsum, the international editor of Channel 4 News, have signed an open letter calling on the corporation to release&nbsp;<em>Gaza: Medics Under Fire</em>, which has been ready for broadcast since February.</p> <p>The letter, sent to BBC Director-General Tim Davie on Monday, criticises the BBC for withholding the documentary, which tells the stories of Palestinian doctors working in Gaza under Israeli bombardment, despite months of editorial reviews and fact-checking.&nbsp;</p> <h3>Read more:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/bbc-under-increasing-pressure-release-gaza-medics-documentary">Other well-known signatories to the letter include the actors Miriam Margolyes, Harriet Walter, Maxine Peake and Juliet Stevenson</a></h3> </div> </div> </article>