The Israeli Revolutionary Guard Corps, Israel Retaliates on Fourth Day of Conflict, a Post by U.S. Ambassador to Israel Michiel Huckabee
The Israeli military said it “precisely struck” command centers belonging to Iran’s Quds Force — an elite military and intelligence arm of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) — overnight, killing four officials, including the head of the IRGC’s Intelligence Organization
In Petah Tikvah, near Tel Aviv, four people were killed after an Iranian missile hit a residential building. The dead were four people, two men and two women. The Emergency Services in Israel shared pictures of babies being pulled from the rubble.
One missile hit the U.S. consulate in Tel Aviv, causing minor damage to its facade, U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee said in a post on X, adding the consulate would remain closed on Monday. No U.S. personnel were reported injured in the strike. The side that was willing to enter talks showed no sign of being ready to stop the fighting.
“The issue here is not ceasefire, the issue here is stopping those things that will threaten our survival and we are committed to stopping it and I think we can achieve it.”
On Monday, Iran’s Revolutionary Guard warned more rounds of strikes against Israel would be “more forceful, severe, precise and destructive than previous ones.”
In a post on his Truth Social site Sunday, President Trump renewed calls for Iran and Israel to make a deal, but later told reporters “sometimes, they just have to fight it out.”
If confirmed, the strike would mark the latest blow in a string of hits to Iran’s military power since Israel launched its surprise attack last week targeting the country’s nuclear capabilities. Israel considers Iran’s nuclear program to be a direct threat to its national security.
The Israeli military has a spokesman. Gen. Effie Defrin said the Air Force had achieved “full aerial superiority” over the skies of Tehran on Monday. He added that the military had destroyed a third of Iran’s missile launchers.
Gaza: As Israel turns its focus to Iran, hunger deepens: A Palestinian teacher’s advice for avoiding helping his sons go to work
Iran’s Health Ministry says more than 200 people have been killed since the start of Israel’s offensive, including many women and children, and more than 1,000 people have been injured.
The war with Iran is the focus of Israeli policy, but troops are holding territory deep in the Gaza Strip and Tuesday was a time when Palestinians were the most difficult to reach food distribution sites.
According to the Gaza’s Health Ministry, Israeli attacks have killed at least 400 people and wounded more than 3000 since March 27. The ministry’s death toll in the war is more than 50,000.
The aid restrictions have plunged families in Gaza into extreme hunger. Half a million people in Gaza are now starving and the entire territory is at risk of famine, according to a report last month by dozens of independent experts on hunger.
A teacher was walking from his tent to a store to get a sack of flour for his children.
“Most of the time I try to distract my children when they talk of hunger, until they go to sleep,” he said, adding that often doesn’t work. “So, I decided to go and take the risk and get some flour.”
They slept on the road while waiting for the trucks. He said he would grab a sack of flour off the trucks, but that he was also carrying $170 to buy something from others in case he wasn’t able to get it himself.
Source: As Israel turns its focus to Iran, the death toll mounts in Gaza — and hunger deepens
Gaza’s Red Cross Field Hospital During the Second Israeli Attack in Khan Younis: a humanitarian crisis in need of help? Palestinians and doctors, Israeli soldiers, and medical personnel
Palestinian survivors and doctors say just before 9 a.m., the crowd swelled and moved closer to the main roundabout, which is in an area Israel has ordered evacuated. They say that’s when Israeli drones fired onto the crowd. Artillery shells were also fired.
Saigaly survived the attack by pieces of human flesh and bones. I saw a lot of dead people.
Nasser Hospital, which has been bombed and raided by the Israeli military throughout the war, has just six operating rooms. The hospital was already past capacity, with hundreds of patients being treated inside and around 50 people, including children, in its intensive care unit from other incidents of troops firing onto crowds of people trying to reach food aid in recent days and weeks. Israel’s military ordered the hospital to be evacuated.
Doctors Without Borders, which has staff at the hospital, said its medical team had to evacuate the maternity ward to make room for the wounded from Israel’s attack in Khan Younis on Tuesday. Many of the injured were required to have their limbs removed.
“The hospital has exceeded its capacity and is operating with limited supplies. It could collapse at any moment,” the group’s emergency coordinator Aitor Zabalgogeazkoa said.
The Red Cross Field Hospital in southern Gaza said on Sunday it received more than 170 people, many of whom were wounded by gunshots, as they tried to access one of GHF’s sites in southern Gaza. And on Monday, the field hospital said another 200 cases arrived at the hospital under similar circumstances.
The food is being distributed at four fenced-off sites under erratic operating times. The sites are located in military red zones. This has drawn thousands of Palestinians almost daily to areas designated as off-limits to them, and where Israeli troops are positioned.
In a statement Tuesday, GHF said, “People are starving in Gaza and their desperation can create hazardous conditions.” The group said that until there is enough food in Gaza, it will not always complete orderly deliveries but is doing everything it can to provide food quickly.
“We have made clear, since this particular scheme for aid distribution was developed, that we did not think it would work,” he said. “And now I think the whole world can see that that was the case.”
