A spokesperson for the Israeli army announced, Friday, May 31, the end of operations in the Jabaliya region, located in the north of the Gaza Strip, reports the Israeli daily Haaretz. These operations made it possible to recover “seven bodies of hostages”, to destroy “10 km of tunnels” and kill “more than 100 terrorists”claims the IDF in a published message on. Follow our live stream.
The Houthis threaten to intensify their attacks. American-British strikes off the coast of Yemen, targeting Yemeni rebels supporting Hamas, left 16 dead on Friday, according to the Houthi television channel. One of the heaviest tolls since a coalition targeted this group in response to attacks on ships in the Red Sea. “This aggression (…) will not dissuade us from continuing our operations” reacted Mohammed al-Bukhaiti, a member of the Houthi political bureau, on X. “We will respond to escalation with escalation.”
Israel carries out new strikes near Rafah, the epicenter of the conflict. The Israeli army continues its strikes and ground offensive on Rafah, in the south of the Gaza Strip, on Friday. The Nousseirat sector, in the center of the Palestinian enclave, is also targeted.
Benyamin Netanyahu gives an interview to LCI. The Israeli Prime Minister maintained on Thursday that “the number of civilian casualties relative to combatant casualties” Palestinians were “the lowest rate we have seen in an urban war.” Israel estimates that about half of those killed since the start of the Gaza war have been Hamas or Islamic Jihad militants.
Egypt and Israel pass the buck on humanitarian aid. The two countries accuse each other of being responsible for blocking transit via the Rafah border post, the only crossing point between the Palestinian territory and Egypt. The Israeli army took control of it from the Palestinian side at the beginning of May.