In a single day, the Israeli bombing of Gaza has killed 92, including 60 in Gaza City alone.
The death toll from the massacre carried out by the Israeli occupation in its bombing of the vicinity of a Thai Restaurant on al-Wehda Street and surrounding area in the al-Rimal neighborhood, west of Gaza City, has risen to 33 martyrs, with more than 86 others injured so far, Al Mayadeen’s correspondent reported.
Earlier, the Gaza Ministry of Health confirmed that in 24 hours, hospitals in Gaza received 38 martyrs, including four of whom were retrieved from under the rubble, in addition to 145 injuries.
8 May 2025 By Al Mayadeen English
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Our correspondent added that a total of 92 people have been killed in Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip since dawn on Wednesday, including 60 in Gaza City alone.
بائع القهوة الصغير لم ترحمه صواريخ الحرب انسكب دمه وقهوته وزبائنه من المارة ضمن مجزرة قرب مطعم التايلندي بغزة . لا رحمة ولا إنسانية pic.twitter.com/reG8ZItUBO — غــادةٌ🌻🇵🇸 (@gh_shihada) May 7, 2025
In its latest report, the ministry announced that the death toll from the ongoing Israeli war on Gaza has reached 52,653 martyrs, while the number of wounded has reached 118,897 since October 7, 2023.
Since March 18, the casualty toll has reached 2,545 martyrs and 6,856 wounded, according to the ministry’s report. Related News Israeli military avoids calling up unwilling reservists: Haaretz Al-Qassam ambushes 2 IOF units in Gaza, inflict heavy casualties
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Hamas, in a statement, affirmed that the Israeli occupation is deliberately targeting civilian gatherings, including shelters, displacement centers, and food distribution points, as part of a systematic genocide aimed at causing the highest possible number of civilian casualties and breaking the will of the Palestinian people through killing, starvation, and siege.
The group called for “urgent and serious international action to halt this criminal campaign and to deter the terrorist occupation government, which continues to commit war crimes and ethnic cleansing amid a troubling international silence.
Hamas also urged the masses across the Arab and Islamic worlds, as well as all free people globally, to “intensify popular mobilization by all possible means” in support of the Palestinian people’s resilience, in rejection of genocide and starvation, and in demand for holding Israeli leaders accountable as war criminals before international courts. International silence emboldens ‘Israel’
On its part, the Palestinian al-Mujahideen Movement stated that the latest massacre committed by the Israeli occupation reflects “a blatant disregard for the world, international organizations, and international resolutions, particularly the decision of the International Criminal Court.”
The movement condemned the international silence, complicity, and Arab abandonment in the face of Israeli crimes, stressing that this has “emboldened the occupation to continue its campaign of ethnic cleansing and genocide, and to tighten the brutal blockade on the Gaza Strip.”
It also held the US administration fully responsible for all Israeli crimes, calling on Palestinian Resistance fighters to escalate their top-tier and painful strikes against the occupation and its settlers.
The extreme right racist Israeli regime is deliberately starving over 2,000,000 Gaza civilians, half of them children, to an agonising death.
The neo-Nazi rulers have not allowed any goods to enter Gaza now for more than 60 days, while daily bombing homes schools, camps and hospitals in the open air prison…..
… by Dave DeCamp, Antiwar. com, May 7, 2025
The World Central Kitchen (WCK), a US-based charity, said on Wednesday that it was forced to shut down aid operations in Gaza due to the total Israeli blockade on the Palestinian territory.
Dear Readers: Tomorrow is Victory Day in Russia. It’s an annual holiday, of course, with a big parade.
But this year is special.
As the war continues, Zelensky has more or less threatened the participants with some kind of terror attack, probably involving drones bombing Red Square.
We unequivocally condemn all sections—be they in politics, media, or elsewhere—who are beating the drums of war and stoking hatred between two peoples with shared histories, cultures, and struggles.
The Syrian regime has chosen Ahmad al-Hayis (Abu Hatim Shakra) a brutal misogynist mass murderer of women and Kurds, as head of the Army Division tasked with taking over the Rojava Autonomous Area (DAANES)
WORLD-Middle EastWOMANThe decision by Damascus to appoint the killer of Hevrin Khalaf as the leader of a military division has sparked widespread condemnation and rejection, with growing calls for justice and accountability for crimes against women.
The appointment of Turkish paid mercenary Hatim Abu Shakra, responsible for the assassination of Future Syria Party Secretary-General Hevrin Khalaf, as the head of Division 86 has ignited a storm of anger, particularly among women, activists, and journalists. Many are demanding that he be held accountable rather than rewarded with a promotion.
The Syrian interim government has appointed Ahmad al-Hayis, known as Abu Hatim Shakra, a former commander of the Ahrar al-Sharqiya faction, as head of the newly formed 86th Division, tasked with securing the provinces of al-Hasakah, Raqqa, and Deir Ezzor.
The decision, issued by interim Defense Minister Murhaf Abu Qasra, also grants al-Hayis the rank of brigadier general in what is being called the “new Syrian army.”
“In response to this murder and other documented abuses, the US Treasury Department sanctioned Ahrar al-Shakra in 2021, citing extrajudicial killings and gross human rights violations… The group’s connections to the so-called Islamic State (ISIS) were also underscored in the sanction’s announcement, which named al-Shakra as a central figure in facilitating abuses and maintaining extremist ties”.
Abu Shakra, whose real name is Ahmad Ihsan Fayadh Al-Hayes, is a leader of the “Ahrar al-Sharqiya” mercenaries. He was involved in the brutal assassination of Hevrin Khalaf and her driver Farhad Ramadan in October 2019, a crime that drew widespread international condemnation at the time.
The appointment of Abu Shakra to dismantle the Rojava Democratic Social Revolution destroys any hope that the radical concessions made to the ‘interim’ ex Al Qaeda regime would allow the mainly Kurdish DAANES area to maintain its horizontal multi-ethnic community based economy, and especially its unique and inspiring women’s revolution.
With the hope of being part of national reconciliation the leadership of the DAANES administration agreed to integrate their multi ethnic 100k strong SDF defense forces into the ‘new Syrian Army’ now commanded by ex Al Qaeda war criminals who are now committing ongoing massacres with total impunity against the Alawite, Druze, other minorities and ex Assad era officials, as well as eliminating women’s rights.
With the hope of finding a place in a ‘New Syria’ and escaping annihilation by the genocidal Turkish offensives (as the US coalition forces pull out) Rojava even agreed to cede control of their Iraqi border to the new Damascus regime, thus totally isolating themselves, as well as control of the limited oil deposits….
The appointment of Abu Shakra, a proven mercenary, murderer, rapist and ethnic cleanser as ‘commander’ of their homeland, ‘tasked with ‘securing’ the provinces of al-Hasakah, Raqqa, and Deir Ezzor’, makes these concessions in hindsight appear naive and suicidal”.
Feminist and international condemnation
In an early response, Roxan Muhammad, spokesperson for the Women’s Protection Units (YPJ), strongly condemned the decision, describing it as “a legitimization of impunity and an endorsement of violence against women and indigenous peoples.” In a post on X (formerly Twitter), she stated: “We will continue our struggle until justice is served.”
Despite the US Blitz on Yemen the Houthis have launched new Hypersonic missiles which evaded the Israelí and US ‘State of the ‘ defences to close Ben Gurion Airport, killing nobody.
Ansarallah now claims it can permanently blockade Israel from the air, smashing its economy, unless it starts a new Ceasefire to stop its depraved Gaza Genocide.
Until now the Houthi’s missiles ‘only’ reached a reported 6 times the speed of sound (Russian ones can go up to 3 times as fast).
But It was only a matter of time until their brilliant engineers increased the speed to make them truly unstoppable.
If the ‘Houthi heroes’ can really mass produce top class Hypersonics in their underground factories they will likely also close down the main Israeli port of Haifa, which Hezbollah should have done when they had the chance.
But the greatest most shocking consequence is that if the Ansarallah Revolution has a full Hypersonic weapon it could spell the historic end of the Aircraft Carrier as a main enforcer of the US Empire.
Ever since Russia deployed its range of Hypersonic missiles arms commentators have agreed that the US Carrier groups, and there are currently two trying to stop the Houthis, are nothing more than sitting ducks.
The two US Carrier naval groupings in the Red Sea, the USS Harry Truman and the USS Carl Vinson, are trying in vain to stop the Houthis naval blockade, which is protesting the Gaza Genocide, by a massive ongoing 24/7 bombing campaign killing hundreds of Houthi civilians
Just this week a US Carrier lost a $ 300m jet which “fell overboard” during emergency manouvers to avoid Houthi missiles”.
But tonight the US Navy may well be finally seeking Trump’s permission to flee the Red Sea, under any invented excuse.
The Free 