On May 29, 2025 the IDF issued orders for a complete evacuation of Al-Awda Hospital in North Gaza, which housed 97 people including 13 patients and injured and 84 medical staff. This follows continued Israeli strikes on the hospital that lasted throughout a one week period starting May 22nd. UN staff participated in evacuating the hospital who was effectively shut down hours after the order according to medical staff. Al-Awda was the last hospital relatively operating in the North Gaza governorate after Israel had destroyed Kamal Adwan Hospital and besieged and shelled the Indonesian Hospital, forcing the latter's evacuation.

Around 7 pm, an Israeli airstrike targeetd a car on Al-Nafaq Street in Gaza City, killing four young men including journalist Moataz Rajab and humanitarian relief manager Muhammad Al-Mubayad **Names of the martyrs:** 1. Mohammad Al-Mubayad (project manager at the Turkish IHH Humanitarian Relief Foundation) 2. Ahmad Bustan 3. Moataz Muhammad Rajab (journalist) 4. Is'haq Al-Tayf

Around 2 am, an Israeli airstrike targeted the home of journalist Osama Al-Arbeed in the vicinity of Yasin station in Al-Saftawi area, northern Gaza. The journalist survived with injuries, but lost 9 memebrs of his family including his wife and children (one still an infant). **Names of the martyrs** 1. Siham Al-Arbeed 1. Ahmad Samir Al-Arbeed 1. Muhammad Iyad Al-Arbeed 1. Safad Marwan Al-Arbeed 1. Sham Muhammad Al-Arbeed 1. Israa Issa Al-Arbeed Hassaan 1. Iyad Osama Al-Arbeed (journalist's son) 1. Muhammad Osama Al-Arbeed (journalist's son) 1. Hussein Muhammad Hassaan Al-Arbeed

On May 28, Israeli authorities have invaded the village of al-Rifa'iyya in order to destroy a fence, solar panels, a water tank, a chicken coop, and a family home – a father, mother, and six children. The forces evacuated the family from the house and prevented them from removing their belongings, so they would be destroyed along with the house. The systematic destruction of homes is an integral part of the state’s efforts to dispossess Palestinians of their land and push them into the urban ghettos of Area A – which themselves are subject to endless raids and attacks by the Israeli military. **Testimony of local activist Mohammad Hesham Huraini @MHureini:** *"Today, a large-scale demolition took place in my community, Masafer Yatta. IOF forcibly displaced yet another family in the village of Al-Rifaiya, leaving them homeless. But it didn’t stop there — they moved on to the nearby village of Al-Jawaya, next to my village Al-Tuwani, demolished an agricultural home and a livestock shelter that families depend on to survive. This is not just destruction. This is a deliberate policy of ethnic cleansing — a systematic attempt to erase us from our land and our lives. Every home destroyed is a family shattered. Every demolition is an act of violence. And every silence is complicity. We are here. We will not be erased. The world must see. The world must act."* **According to the Activestills Collective:** Israeli forces demolished two homes and agricultural structures in The villages of Ar Rifa’iyya and al-Jawaya, east of the city of Yatta. In Ar Rifa’iyya the home belongs to the Al-Amur family and 8 people lived there. The home in Al-Jawaya, made of tin, housed 5 members of the Shawahiya family (Photo 1) and their sheep pen. These demolitions have left the family displaced and without shelter or livelihood. The destruction is part of a broader pattern of demolitions in Area C of the West Bank, where Palestinians often face severe restrictions on building and development. The Photoreporter was @basilaladraa and @mosab.shawer for Activestills. **Location** The village mentioned, א-ריפאעיה (al-Rifa'iyya), is a Palestinian village located in the southern West Bank, near Yatta in the Hebron Governorate. Area A refers to one of the three administrative divisions of the West Bank established under the Oslo II Accord (1995) between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). Here's what it means: - Full Palestinian civil and security control. - Comprises about 18% of the West Bank. - Includes major Palestinian cities like Ramallah, Nablus, Bethlehem, and parts of Hebron. - Israeli citizens are prohibited from entering without special permission. In practice, the Israeli military regularly enters Area A for operations such as arrests or raids, despite the official designation.

On May 28, 2025, at dawn, Israeli special forces executed 20-year-old Jassem Ibrahim al-Sadda during a raid on the village of Jit, east of Qalqilya. Israeli special forces stormed the village at dawn and raided several homes, including the home of al-Sadda family. When they stormed al-Sadda's home, they come inside his beroom and shot him with several bullets while he was sleeping, leaving him bleeding on the ground. Then they detained al-Sadda's body before later handing it over to Palestinian Red Crescent crews at the entrance to the village, who transported it to Darwish Nazzal Governmental Hospital in Qalqilya. Jasem al-Sadda was his parents' youngest son and worked as a vendor at a small stall in the village. **Location :** Jit (Arabic: جيت) is a Palestinian village situated in the northern West Bank, within the Qalqilya Governorate. It lies approximately 10 kilometers west of Nablus and about 19.7 kilometers northeast of Qalqilya. **Name of the martyr :** Jasem Ibrahim Al-Sadda, 20

**Context:** - The Dance of Flags (or March of Flags) is an annual parade held on Jerusalem Day to mark what some Israelis call the "reunification of Jerusalem," following Israel's annexation of East Jerusalem after the 1967 Arab-Israeli War, including the Old City and its holy sites sacred to Jews, Christians and Muslims. - The event, dominated by far-right Jewish Israelis and groups like Lehava, passes through the Muslim Quarter of Jerusalem’s Old City, often resulting in violence and racist chants targeting Palestinians. Many Palestinian residents close their businesses and homes on this day to avoid violence, and the Israel Police enforce closures and checkpoints. - The event is closely associated with the Religious Zionism party, which led efforts for judicial reform in Israel in 2023. - The parade features Israeli flag-bearers, mobile orchestras, and performances, but today it is largely attended by members of the Religious Zionism movement. - Extremist Jewish youths attending the Flag March have been known to harass and beat Palestinians during the procession, especially as it enters the Old City through the Muslim Quarter’s Damascus Gate. - On June 2024, march saw several attacks on Palestinians and journalists by marchers, who chanted anti-Arab refrains and plastered stickers on shuttered shops supporting the ideology of the late ultranationalist rabbi Meir Kahane and calling for the expulsion of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip. **On May 26, 2025** - National-religious Israelis clash with Palestinian shopkeepers and sing racist chants in the Muslim Quarter of Jerusalem’s Old City ahead of the annual contentious Flag March. - The Jewish marchers chant “Death to Arabs” while thronging the Muslim Quarter. - A group of Jewish young men and teens singing “May your village burn,” a common anti-Arab refrain. - Some are filmed shoving an elderly Palestinian man making his way through the crowd. - One of the Jewish teen celebrants attempts to prevent the reporter from filming as police and border cops use force to separate the crowd from Palestinians and left-wing activist - A Palestinian youth was arrested after he pepper-sprayed a crowd of Jewish revelers during a scuffle that broke out between the two groups. - The video shows security officials escorting a group of Arab women away from the jostling crowd in the Muslim Quarter of Jerusalem’s Old City. But, in the international press, the role of the Israeli Police is more criticized noticing that a policeman raised his arms in celebration at one point, recognizing a marcher and going in for a hug. - Activits from "Standing Together" were seen assaulted or harrassed by the young marchers. **Al Aqsa mosquee desecration** Hundreds of Jewish "Marchers" desecrated the mosquee Al Aqsa with dances, prayers and Israeli flags, even if this place is prohibated for Jews in order to avoid escalation between Muslim and Jewish communities in Jerusalem and in the diplomatic international relations. Al-Aqsa Mosque is part of the Haram al-Sharif (also known to Jews as the Temple Mount) in East Jerusalem. According to the long-standing "status quo" agreement (established under Ottoman, then British, Jordanian, and later Israeli authority): Muslims have the exclusive right to worship at the Al-Aqsa Mosque. But Non-Muslims, including Jews, are allowed to visit, but not pray at the site. This arrangement is overseen by the Islamic Waqf (a Jordanian religious trust), while Israel controls security. *Dangerous Precedents:* In recent years, especially under far-right Israeli politicians and settler groups, Jewish visits — and even prayers — have increasingly occurred at the site, often with police escort. This is seen by Palestinians and much of the Muslim world as a violation of the status quo, and a step toward asserting Jewish religious control over the site. Many fear it sets a "dangerous precedent" because it could trigger wider religious conflict, given the site's extreme sensitivity. It may pave the way for partitioning the compound, as happened at the Ibrahimi Mosque (Cave of the Patriarchs) in Hebron, after the 1994 massacre — where Jews and Muslims were eventually allocated separate space. Thee Second Intifada (2000) were triggered by Ariel Sharon’s visiting to the Al Aqsa compound. **UNRWA compound assault** A small group of protesters, including an Israeli member of parliament Yulia Malinovsky of the Yisrael Beiteinu party, meanwhile, stormed a compound in east Jerusalem belonging to the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees, known as UNRWA. Malinovsky set up a makeshift “parliamentary office” near the compound at Ammunition Hill in Jerusalem. She was one of the sponsors of the law to shut down UNRWA’s operations in Israel. She took a jab at the coalition: “Happy Jerusalem Day! Government of Israel, we’re here—you’re welcome to come and see how sovereignty is applied". **Echoes in the International Media Outlets** The event is reported in the international Media, in reason of the risk to inflame tensions in a context of the genocide in Gaza. Aviv Tatarsky, a researcher with the Ir Amim non-profit that works for an equitable Jerusalem, said: “It deprives people of their economic livelihood, makes them feel unsafe in their surroundings. Symbolically it sends a message: ‘You don’t belong here, we are the ones who own this place.’” **B'tselem statement** "The ‘Flag March’ is an example of Jewish supremacy: thousands of Jewish-Israelis celebrate defiantly while Palestinians are forced to shut their shops and stay home in fear." **Emek Shaveh statement** "The march is anything but a show of love for Jerusalem. It is anything but educational. It is what a society looks like when it has lost its way."

On May 25, 2025, the city of Nablus in the northern West Bank experienced a series of violent incidents involving Israeli forces and settlers, leading to significant unrest and casualties. **Israeli Military Raids:** Israeli troops conducted raids in Nablus and Ramallah, following a surge in violent settler attacks across the West Bank. The Israeli occupation forces raided the old city of Nablus and detained the Palestinian youth Jehad Aqoub after shooting him on the roof of his home. The operation was under Shin Bet direction, Israeli undercover counter-terror forces (Yamam). The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) reported on Sunday morning that around 10 Palestinians were wounded during the latest Israeli raid in the Old City of Nablus this morning, who suffered suffocation due to tear gas inhalation and were treated at the scene. The PRCS also reported that a 16-year-old boy, Mujahid Akoub, was shot during a raid on the Old City, stating he was struck by live ammunition in the foot. According to al-Araby al-Jadeed, The New Arab’s Arabic-language news site, three (under) 10-year-old children from the village of Beit Dajan, east of Nablus, were arrested on Sunday. Israeli soldiers arrested a Palestinian child from his home in Beit Dajan, east of Nablus. They took him into a military vehicle. It seems he was only seven years old. **Settler Violence:** Illegal Israeli settlers set fire to wheat fields in the Salim plain, east of Nablus in the occupied West Bank,causing substantial losses to Palestinian farmers. Settlers from the illegal Shavei Shomron settlement and a nearby outpost set fire to about 10 acres of wheat fields in Sebastian.The blaze destroyed the entire crop of two Palestinian farmers—roughly 7.5 football fields. Settlers also used sheep to graze on the Palestinian farmland, further destroying crops.

On May 25, in the morning, reports were published confirming that the Barakat family in Burqin, Salfit, was forced to leave their home during the night of May 23–24, 2025. According to Al-Jarmaq News, the family was compelled to evacuate due to repeated attacks by Israeli settlers. Additionally, Suribelle reported that Yafi Barakat, along with his wife and children, was forced to leave their home in Burqin, west of Salfit, in the occupied West Bank. These sources indicate that the Barakat family's displacement was a result of coordinated settler violence, which has been escalating in Burqin over recent days. For Activstills reporting by the Palestinian Photographer Wahaj Bani Moufleh the house targeted ownes to Mustafa abdlrahman Khater, located just a few meters of a new Israeli outpost During the night of May 25,while the residents were asleep,gangs of Israeli settlers infiltrated the village of Burqin, west of Salfit in the West Bank, and set fire to their homes with them inside A Palestinian elderly woman was injured and is receiving first aid after Israeli settlers tried to burn her and her family alive. She was rescued just moments before the flames engulfed their home. ### **Chronological summary of the events in Bruqin (Burqin) village near Salfit, May 14–24, 2025** ** May 14, 2025 – Evening** - After a shooting attack kills an Israeli settler and injures her husband near Bruqin, the Israeli Forces (IDF) storm the village. - They raid homes, assault residents, and turn some houses into military posts and interrogation centers. **May 15, 2025 – Morning** - IDF announces seizure of 2,336 dunums of land (2,323 in al-Balata; 13 in al-Fakhakhir and al-Shayyab). - 20 bulldozers begin razing the land. - In the evening, settlers set up a large tent and raise Israeli flags, declaring a new outpost. **May 16, 2025** - Additional settlers arrive, erecting two more tents on the razed land. **May 17, 2025 – Morning** - IDF announces the killing of Nael Samara, alleged perpetrator of the earlier shooting, after arresting him that day. **May 19, 2025** - IDF demolishes a 3-storey house after forcibly evacuating its residents. - They take measurements of Nael Samara’s family home, suggesting a pending demolition. **May 21–22, 2025** Ongoing IDF siege of Bruqin includes: - Closure of village entrances. - Restriction of movement. - Closure of shops and main bakery. - Continued settler violence including attacks, threats, and property seizures. **May 22 pogrom:** - Resident Rakiz Khatir is attacked by 30 settlers while driving. - Vehicle is stoned, he sustains eye and head injuries. - IDF allegedly watched but did not intervene. **May 23, 2025 – 22:00 Violent pogrom with several arsons** Coordinated settler attacks on the al-Buq’an area: - Houses and vehicles set on fire. - IDF fires tear gas and stun grenades at Palestinians trying to defend themselves. - 8 people sustain burns, 2 injured by stones, 6+ vehicles and houses burned. - Israeli soldiers obstructs firefighters and allows violence to continue.  *Establishment of an Israeli outpost, Bruqin, 23.5.2025 Photographer: Wahaj Bani Moufleh* *Israeli settlers dance to celebrate the establishment of a new outpost, right above Palestinian homes in the village of Bruqin, west of the city of Salfit in the West Bank, May 23, 2025. The previous night, Israeli settlers seized Palestinian land, attempted to burn Palestinian houses, sat fire to agricultural land, raised Israeli flags, and began constructing a settlement outpost after a settler was killed in a shooting attack near the village on May 14.*   *Bruqin, 23.5.2025 Photographer: Wahaj Bani Moufleh The vandalized roof of the Palestinian home of Mustafa Khater after Israeli settlers established a new outpost, seen at the background, located right above Palestinian homes* **Ongoing Situation (as of May 24, 2025)** Bruqin remains under siege while soldiers and settlers continue: - Land confiscation and settlement expansion. - Raids and collective punishment. - Communication with villagers is limited due to restrictions. **Human rights groups (e.g. PCHR) condemn the actions and call for international accountability.**

Umm al-Fahm is a city located in northern Israel, within the Haifa District. It is situated in the Wadi Ara area of the Jezreel Valley region. Umm al-Fahm is one of the largest Arab cities in Israel and lies approximately 20 kilometers southeast of Haifa.

On May 22, at the first hours of the night, Israeli settlers are carrying out a pogrom in the village of Burqin, Salfit, in the West Bank. Around 40 Israeli settlers rioted in the village of Burqin, in the West Bank, Palestine, burning houses and cars, according to a report by Israel’s state-owned television station, Kan TV News, on Friday (May 23). They setting Palestinian homes on fire in an apparent attempt to burn families alive and opening fire at houses. - Residents are urgently pleading for help. - 8 Palestinians, including children, have been injured - Six homes and five cars have been set on fire in the ongoing assault. - According to the report, the riots took place overnight, shortly after Israeli soldiers completed a mapping operation in preparation for the possible demolition of two homes belonging to Palestinian residents suspected of involvement in a shooting attack that killed a pregnant Israeli woman near the village on May 14. - The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) stated that the two individuals whose homes were mapped are Maher Samara and Jamil Samara, accusing them of assisting Nael Samara in carrying out the shooting attack. **Franceska Albanese appeal on X** ALARMING! Burqin, near Salfit, occupied West Bank- Desperate phone calls report violent attack by armed settlers, escorted by army- babies at great risk- Need for urgent intervention and protection from diplomats and NGOs in loco. ### **Chronological summary of the events in Bruqin (Burqin) village near Salfit, May 14–24, 2025** ** May 14, 2025 – Evening** - After a shooting attack kills an Israeli settler and injures her husband near Bruqin, the Israeli Forces (IDF) storm the village. - They raid homes, assault residents, and turn some houses into military posts and interrogation centers. **May 15, 2025 – Morning** - IDF announces seizure of 2,336 dunums of land (2,323 in al-Balata; 13 in al-Fakhakhir and al-Shayyab). - 20 bulldozers begin razing the land. - In the evening, settlers set up a large tent and raise Israeli flags, declaring a new outpost. **May 16, 2025** - Additional settlers arrive, erecting two more tents on the razed land. **May 17, 2025 – Morning** - IDF announces the killing of Nael Samara, alleged perpetrator of the earlier shooting, after arresting him that day. **May 19, 2025** - IDF demolishes a 3-storey house after forcibly evacuating its residents. - They take measurements of Nael Samara’s family home, suggesting a pending demolition. **May 21–22, 2025** On Wednesday (May 21), the IDF claimed that Nael Samara, who was shot dead by its forces on Saturday (May 17), was the gunman responsible for the shooting attack. Ongoing IDF siege of Bruqin includes: - Closure of village entrances. - Restriction of movement. - Closure of shops and main bakery. - Continued settler violence including attacks, threats, and property seizures. **May 22 pogrom:** - Resident Rakiz Khatir is attacked by 30 settlers while driving. - Vehicle is stoned, he sustains eye and head injuries. - IDF allegedly watched but did not intervene. **May 23, 2025 – 22:00 Violent pogrom with several arsons** Coordinated settler attacks on the al-Buq’an area: - Houses and vehicles set on fire. - IDF fires tear gas and stun grenades at Palestinians trying to defend themselves. - 8 people sustain burns, 2 injured by stones, 6+ vehicles and houses burned. - Israeli soldiers obstructs firefighters and allows violence to continue. **Ongoing Situation (as of May 24, 2025)** Bruqin remains under siege while soldiers and settlers continue: - Land confiscation and settlement expansion. - Raids and collective punishment. - Communication with villagers is limited due to restrictions. **Human rights groups (e.g. PCHR) condemn the actions and call for international accountability.**