War on Gaza: Meanwhile, Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 55,362 people and wounded 128,741, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry. An estimated 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the Hamas-led attacks of October 7, 2023, and more than 200 were taken captive.

Tuesday, May 27, 2025

Middle East 2025.05.27, 21:00 hours | SITUATION UPDATE

Introduction / Background

1.180,000 Palestinians displaced from Gaza amid renewed Israeli offensive: UN. Gaza death toll tops 54,000. Germany hints at steps to be taken against Israel.

2. The Gaza health ministry said on 27.05.2025 that at least 79 people were killed and another 163 wounded over the past 24 hours.

  • The death toll in Gaza now stands at 54,056 people killed since the start of the war, with thousands remaining missing.

3. The Israeli media outlet Haaretz is reporting that some 20 Israeli right-wing activists from Tzav 9 group are blocking the route of humanitarian aid trucks heading to Gaza, in the Ashdod port in southern Israel.

Key Highlights – Israel Hamas war updates

  • Killed 79 (54,056)
  • Injured 163 (123,129)
  • Home Destroyed

Governments’ Response

4. The Palestinian Mujahideen Movement has said that the Israeli raids on money exchanges in the occupied West Bank mark a "dangerous escalation" in the "open war against our people, targeting their very existence and cause”. (https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/palestinian-mujahideen-movement-condemns-israeli-raids-money-exchanges?nid=422779&topic=Israel%2527s%2520war%2520on%2520Gaza&fid=544983) 

5. Israel’s Defence Ministry has announced the 800th flight bringing in military equipment and ammunition since the start of the war on Gaza has landed in the country.

  • In a statement, it said the military equipment and weapons airlift is being carried out in collaboration with the ministry’s mission to the US, Israel’s top ally, and other parts of the Israeli military. (https://aje.io/d9wxs3?update=3735997) 

Military Developments

6. The Israeli media outlet Haaretz reported that Palestinians in the occupied West Bank fled the Bedouon village of Mughayyir al-Dir, following settlers’ harassment and the erection of an outpost within metres from their houses.

7. The Israeli army has carried out arrests in the cities of Nablus and Hebron, as it continues storming several areas across the occupied West Bank.

8. The Israeli military said on 27.05.2025 that a projectile it claims it had intercepted earlier has caused shrapnel to fall around the village of Imreish, located south of Hebron in the southern West Bank.

The Israeli media outlet Haaretz says this marks the sixth missile launched from Yemen this week. (https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-army-says-shrapnel-intercepted-missile-dropped-hebron?nid=422779&topic=Israel%2527s%2520war%2520on%2520Gaza&fid=544983) 

9. The Israeli army says it has set up four aid distribution centres “in recent weeks” in Gaza.

  • Two began operations 27.05.2025 “as part of the gradual opening of the distribution centers”, it said in a statement. The sites are giving out food packages, it added, without specifying how many were distributed. (https://aje.io/d9wxs3?update=3735952) 

Militants’ Activity

Impact On the Trade and Travel

International Response

10. Norway is set to reject campaigners' call to instruct its $1.8 trillion wealth fund to boycott any company selling products and services in the occupied Palestinian territories, Reuters is reporting. 

11. The UN has said it has no information on whether the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) aid distributions in the territory have actually taken place.

12. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has said that Israeli attacks on Gaza are no "longer comprehensible" and "can no longer be justified". (https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/germany-israeli-attacks-gaza-no-longer-comprehensible?nid=422779&topic=Israel%2527s%2520war%2520on%2520Gaza&fid=544983)

13. EU chief Ursula von der Leyen has condemned Israel's "abhorrent" attacks on civilian targets in Gaza, including yesterday's deadly attack on a school which killed 33 people. (https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/eu-denounces-abhorrent-israeli-strikes-civilian-targets-gaza?nid=422779&topic=Israel%2527s%2520war%2520on%2520Gaza&fid=544983) 

14. The UN has warned that 95 percent of Gaza’s agricultural land has been rendered unusable by Israeli attacks, further exacerbating the risk of famine in the territory.

15. The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (Unrwa) said that only six out of 22 of its health facilities remain functioning in Gaza due to “constant bombardment”.

16. Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has denounced Israel’s ongoing use of last-minute displacement orders in Gaza as a form of ethnic cleansing, warning that Palestinians are being trapped in an endless cycle of suffering.

  • People are sometimes forced to flee in the middle of the night, only for their new “safe refuge” to be bombed again, the medical charity said in a statement. (https://aje.io/d9wxs3?update=3735846) 


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