“So many Hamas members are killed”lamented the Turkish president. “More than 1 000 members of Hamas” are currently hospitalized in Türkiye for treatment, announced Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday, May 13. The Turkish leader reiterated that he “do not consider[érait] not” the Palestinian Islamist movement targeted by the Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip “like a terrorist organization”but like a “resistance organization”.
Israel bombs Rafah again, UN says. Israeli strikes increased on Monday in different sectors of the Gaza Strip, where, according to the United Nations, there are no longer any “safe place” for the approximately 2.4 million inhabitants. They target in particular the city of Rafah, populated alone by 1.4 million Palestinians, the majority displaced by bombings and fighting.
Israeli activists block a humanitarian aid convoy bound for Gaza. Activists from the Tsav 9 group once again blocked humanitarian aid trucks at the Tarqumia crossing point in the West Bank.
Gazan hospitals in agony. Gaza’s health ministry, administered by Hamas, warned that the healthcare system was “a few hours from collapse” fault of “fuel needed to run hospital generators, ambulances and personnel transportation”.
The UN calls for a ceasefire. Antonio Guterres on Sunday again called for a ceasefire and the release of Israeli hostages held in the Gaza Strip at a conference in Kuwait where donors pledged more than $2 billion over two years for humanitarian operations in Gaza.