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Israeli Defense Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has a history of mocking blindfolded prisoners. In the past, he was accompanied by cameras like him visited Israeli prisons that hold Palestinian prisoners.
This week, Ben-Gvir was seen on camera cheering on a group of foreign activists who were forced to kneel on the ground with their arms tied after the Israeli military blocked their flotilla in international waters. This was part of efforts by activists around the world to end the siege of Gaza and provide urgently needed aid.
The movie – including reports that at least 15 have taken action being raped at the time of construction – it caused the most important International diplomatic backlash against Israel in recent weeks.
France has banned Ben-Gvir from entering its territory, while more than a dozen governments, including Italy, Canada, Spain, Ireland, Germany and South Korea, have summoned Israeli ambassadors or imposed sanctions after the brutal arrest of their citizens.
Even US ambassador Mike Huckabee said Ben-Gvir “has betrayed the honor of his country”, a rare criticism of an Israeli minister by an American official.
By Sunday, President Isaac Herzog, who holds a large part of the ceremony, felt obliged to respond to the group, condemning the violence of those who live as “cruelty” that “threatens us all”, and that “it must be forbidden to torture prisoners”. Ben-Gvir responded in a social media post calling for Herzog’s removal from office.
Khan al-Ahmar orders the destruction of the ‘creepy annexation’ laws
While the threat of the flotilla was at the top of the world’s headlines, the Minister of Finance Bezalel Smotrich ordered to advance the demolition of the long-term threat of Khan al-Ahmar – a Bedouin village Strategic E1 corridoreast of Jerusalem, whose destruction has been prevented by international pressure.
The right-wing minister has made clear the expansion of settlements in the West Bank, which are considered illegal under international law, as retaliation for the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) an application for an arrest warrant against him.
“The Palestinian Authority has started a war, and it will get a war,” Smotrich told Israeli media.
The week also saw the Knesset’s Education Committee fast-track a bill to establish a heritage authority in the West Bank and Gaza, giving Israeli forces control over archaeological sites in areas A, B and C as well as in Gaza.
The committee’s legal adviser warned the organization was “contrary to international agreements” signed by Israel and that “Israel has no authority whatsoever in the Gaza Strip”, according to The Times of Israel. The Israeli military separately said it opposed the bill’s proposed move to Gaza – the Palestinian territory still occupied by Israel – warning it could be seen as annexation.
West Bank: Demolition and attack
In this political context, the well-known conservative leader of Elisha Yared this week published a map of 219 illegal authors. a pastoral place which has been established across the West Bank, which he said “continues every week” to “the whole of Israel”, possibly referring to the Palestinian state.
Al-Mughayyir, northeast of Ramallah, saw another terrorist attack and arrests by Israeli forces this week. On May 21, Israeli soldiers set fire to fields west of the village using tear gas and shot local people who tried to put out the fire, according to Wafa.
The army also fired tear gas canisters at the boys’ school – where an intruder killed two Palestinians on April 21 – for the third week in a row.
In the early hours of May 22, about 20 soldiers beat human rights activist Mohammed Abu Naim, punched him in the face and whipped him with a belt, while ransacking four houses and arresting children in al-Mughayyir.
In Ein el-Hilweh in the northern Jordan Valley, Israeli forces demolished the Daraghmeh family’s home and livestock shelter on May 20.
Letters to the Israeli military from the family’s lawyer, sent in April, argued that the family of Bedouin shepherds had lived there for decades – some members since before 1967 – and that demolishing the buildings would be an exodus that would destroy their homes and lives. The letters criticized the Israeli government for refusing to allow the family legal status and housing without considering other suitable housing options for the ranch. It called for international law to protect against forced displacement in areas where people live, asked for a stay of violations pending a permit application, and sought clarification and documentation regarding denials.
But the letters were not answered. Instead, as the bullets hit the family’s houses and animal shelters, soldiers who were accompanied by a foreigner prevented Red Crescent workers from providing the displaced family with a tent and confiscated their car.
Ein el-Hilweh is the last Palestinian community left on Road 5799 – the only one that connects the northern Jordan Valley to Tubas, and the three surrounding areas that were already evacuated in 2026.
In Rantis, west of Ramallah, Israeli forces demolished two houses without warning on May 19: one was occupied by a woman and her son and a family of nine children, including seven children.
Their rapid destruction left evacuees with no time to collect their belongings before they were destroyed, according to activist networks. Israeli forces demolished a cement factory in Kharbatha Bani Harith and a house in Shuqba.
In the early hours of May 25, the Israeli army, the Israeli Civil Administration and the inspection of the Jordan Valley Regional Council began a major operation to seize vehicles, tractors and water tanks in the shooting areas 900, 901, 902, 903 and 904, traveling through al-Farsiya, al-Jiftlik Hamsamar, Khüftlik Hamsamar
In the Silwan neighborhood of al-Bustan in East Jerusalem, three police-escorted shelling began another demolition on May 25, while 57 of the area’s 115 homes had already been destroyed in recent months, according to Silwan activists.
At the same time, terrorist attacks by refugees continued in many areas. According to the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) report of May 25, more than 50 attacks, which resulted in injuries or property damage, were recorded in the occupied West Bank in just one week.
This brings the threat of immigrants in more than 220 areas in 2026 to 870. destroyed fields in Beit Ummar; cut electricity poles in Madama; destroyed olive trees in Wadi al-Sha’ar and Qaryut; and beat up the Shanaran family in Wadi al-Rakhim, according to reports from activist groups and Wafa.
On May 24, Israeli forces detained more than a dozen people in Burin, southwest of Nablus. All but one were later released, after being beaten by Israeli soldiers, according to activists.
Gaza: The police want, it is a plan to rebuild without money
At least 27 Palestinians were killed in Gaza last week, as Israel continues to violate the “ceasefire” that covers the Palestinian territory.
In the early hours of May 24, a Air strikes in Israel killed Mohammad Abu Mallouh, 38, his wife Alaa Zaqlan, 36, and their six-month-old son Osama in the house they live in Nuseirat refugee camp.
A day earlier, five policemen and a 13-year-old boy were also killed when an Israeli plane hit police in northern Gaza.
A pastor, Rafat Breika, 42, was killed by an Israeli plane near Rafah on May 22, while a refugee tent in al-Mawasi was hit on May 21, killing one, according to Wafa.
Israeli forces also demolished residential buildings east of Khan Younis and the Shujayea area of Gaza City throughout the week. More than 150 families fled east of Khan Younis and east of Gaza City following tank movements and shelling, according to OCHA.
Since the October 11 “cease fire”, 904 Palestinians in Gaza have been killed; The death toll as of October 7, 2023 is 72,797, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health.
Meanwhile, the political process that seeks to end Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza has revealed new tensions among its members.
The Peace Council appointed by Trump admitted to the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) that it cannot function properly due to a lack of funds, and only about 1 percent of the $17bn pledged has been transferred, according to Israeli reports.
Nickolay Mladenov, a member of the Gaza Executive Board, which works under the US-led Peace Board, warned the UNSC that the destruction of the site could be “perpetual”, saying, “the realization cannot continue depending on the responsibility of the Palestinians alone”.
The United States asked Israel to return Palestinian tax money deposited with the Peace Board. However, Israel’s Finance Minister Smotrich refused, saying that it would give the Palestinian Authority to Gaza.
In Gaza, the humanitarian situation remains critical. According to OCHA’s May 25 report, half of the aid trucks from Egypt were able to unload their cargo at Israeli crossings in the first 18 days of May.
About 1.7 million people live in about 1,600 refugee camps in Gaza – about 88 percent of the population living in dire conditions.
UN agencies have launched an anti-pest campaign targeting more than 1,700 sites in the besieged Palestinian territory, but have warned that a full response will require action on Gaza’s sewage disposal sites. This is still not available due to Israeli military restrictions.
Gaza’s Ministry of Health warned this week that 250 Palestinians with kidney problems are at risk of losing access to dialysis – a penalty that could result in death if nothing is done.
Currently, 11,000 diabetics are facing a lack of insulin, and 110 Palestinians with haemophilia do not have the necessary treatment. It comes amid a medical collapse that has seen 76 percent of Gaza’s medical equipment destroyed, including nine MRI units, with only five of 18 CT scanners working.
Also, for the third year in a row, Israel they blocked the Muslims from Gaza to Hajj.
