A message of defiance: the appointment by Hamas of Yahya Sinwar, the man widely believed to have masterminded Operation Al-Aqsa Storm on October 7, as its political leader. Keeping up the pressure: continued Hezbollah retaliatory operations on the northern side of the Israeli-occupied territories over the genocide in Gaza. Also, a new push for a ceasefire: a joint statement by Qatar, the US, and Egypt calling for a renewed commitment to ceasefire negotiations. Should we hold our breath? Martyrs of journalism: a silent protest at a train station in Oslo, Norway, for journalists killed by Israel in Gaza. Elsewhere, Turkey says it's joining South Africa's genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice. The UK government continues to insist on the importance of de-escalation as the world awaits a retaliatory attack by the Islamic Republic of Iran on Israel. Also, in Europe: all words and no action: EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrel calls the deliberate starvation of civilians a war crime.

The world continues to hold its breath in anticipation of an Iranian response to the Israeli regime's violation of its sovereignty and the assassination of Hamas political bureau leader Ismael Haniyeh. Also, the appointment of Yahya Sinwar, Hamas's top official in Gaza as Hanieh's successor and the message it sends. Ongoing Hezbollah drone and rocket strikes on northern Israel in retaliation for the regime's assassination of the resistance group's chief of staff, Fuad Shukr, last week and the ongoing genocide in Gaza. Israel's allies are calling on Iran and Hezbollah to de-escalate. The UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy warns of devastating consequences for the region—no such warnings to the Israeli regime.

The fallout from the assassination of Hamas's Political Bureau Chief Ismail Haniyeh in the Iranian capital Tehran continues with Israeli fingerprints all over it. His killing came a day after Israel murdered a commander of the Lebanese resistance group Hezbollah in the southern suburbs of the capital Beirut. Both Iran and Hezbollah have promised a harsh response. Tehran has also said the US bears responsibility for supporting Israel. The Americans say a broader war in the Middle East is not inevitable but reaffirmed US support for the Israeli regime. To many, the recent killings raise the specter of an all-out war in the Middle East. But how will Iran, Hezbollah, and Hamas respond? And what does all that mean for the ongoing US-Israeli genocidal war on Gaza? And, UK foreign secretary David Lammy is on a surprise visit to Lebanon purportedly aiming to de-escalate the growing regional tensions.

A region on the brink: The Israeli regime has assassinated the political bureau chief of Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh, in the Iranian capital, Tehran.

Unending Israeli attacks, frequent evacuation orders, and forced displacements have further devastated the battered health system in the besieged Gaza Strip, according to the UN's Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, aka UNRWA. In Gaza's southern city of Khan Yunis, Israel has killed over two dozen Palestinians, with reports of the regime's snipers targeting everyone across the city. New revelations show that Washington has provided the Israeli regime with over 25,000 bombs and missiles since October last year. Also, in the US, Vice President and presidential candidate Kamala Harris claims she will "not be silent" about the "suffering" in Gaza. The response from the Israeli regime: There will be no truce, Madam Candidate. In Europe, the UK dropped its planned legal challenge against arrest warrants that the International Criminal Court is seeking for the Israeli regime's top officials. Germany and some other European countries are yet to support the court's decision. And, in the wake of a China-brokered national unity deal supported by Iran, will the rival Palestinian movements reconcile their differences and lobby for an end to the Israeli regime's occupation?

The US-Israeli genocide in Gaza grinds on unabated. At least fifty-five Palestinians have been killed in the coastal strip in the past 24 hours or so, pushing the death toll since October last year to more than 39 thousand. Israeli raids in the Occupied West are also ongoing. Occupation forces have killed at least four Palestinians during a raid in Qalandia refugee camp and other areas. Lebanon's Hezbollah has conducted multiple operations against Israeli military outposts in response to a deadly Israeli airstrike on a region in southern Lebanon that killed a commander of the resistance movement. Palestinian unity in the face of genocide. It's called the Beijing declaration: a reconciliation accord brokered by China signed between Hamas, Fatah, and other Palestinian factions and welcomed by the UN. Also, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is in the US to address Congress, where he's expected to face a number of empty seats. Among those not attending: Kamala Harris, the most high-profile Democrat who's now running for president. Outside Congress, protesters are saying Netanyahu isn't welcome. On this side of the Atlantic, France has deployed a thousand police officers ahead of the Israel-Mali Olympics football game amid demands to exclude the genocidal regime from the competitions.

The Israeli forces have bombed the ninth school shelter in recent days, with the most recent in Gaza City on Friday. There were multiple casualties from the latest strikes. Israel has been widely condemned for deliberately targeting areas sheltering large numbers of displaced Palestinians fleeing the devastation inside Gaza. In another development, Britain's new Labour administration has pledged to resume funding UNRWA. Foreign Secretary David Lammy told parliament that he is reassured that the UN Palestinian refugee agency has taken steps to ensure it meets the highest standards of neutrality. Britain funds UNRWA to the tune of $27m. Worst to come is the polio virus detected in sewage samples in Gaza, according to health officials in the besieged strip. The findings of the UNICEF-backed tests highlight the growing risk of a "new health disaster" if the disease is left untreated.

The Israeli killing spree in Gaza continues unabated.

After one of the deadliest days in Gaza in weeks, Israeli strikes killed at least 12 more Palestinians in Gaza with munitions provided by the United States and European allies.

The unrelenting US-Israeli bombardment continues unabated across the Gaza Strip. In Khan Yunis, the Israeli occupying forces have targeted safe zones, killing at least seven Palestinians and many more elsewhere in the West Bank. This episode of Gaza under Attack focuses on new developments in US-Israeli genocide in Gaza and brutal violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.

Israel has ordered Palestinians to once more evacuate large parts of southern Gaza, with fighting now spreading to the east.

Occupation forces attacked the eastern Shujayea neighborhood in Gaza City, sending residents running through the streets in terror with dead and wounded left lying on the ground. Nine months of a US-Israeli genocide in Gaza has killed nearly 38,000 people and wounded at least 86,000 others. Elections in two countries on the opposite sides of the Israel-Palestine conflict. Iranians go to the polls to choose their next president, and in the US, Joe Biden and Donald Trump's first presidential debate ahead of the November election. Both candidates fail to address Palestinian suffering and the toll of Israel's genocidal war on Gaza.

The UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory has found Israel intended to murder civilians en masse, inflict wide-scale civilian destruction, and collectively punish Palestinians in Gaza by holding them hostage to its political aims. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk addressing the Human Rights Council likened genocide in Gaza to "Unconscionable death and suffering in the Gaza Strip". He also warned of the worsening situation for Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. Meanwhile, occupation forces unleash a new wave of attacks on a refugee camp in central Gaza and on a so-called evacuation zone in the south. In less than nine months, the US-Israeli genocidal campaign in Gaza has killed over 37,000 people and wounded more than 85,500. The Lebanese Hezbollah resistance forces have conducted a strike against Israeli military positions on the northern side of the 1948 occupied territories in retaliation for a deadly attack on a town in southern Lebanon.

Israel has committed war crimes and crimes against humanity. So finds an independent UN Investigation in the first in-depth reporting into the genocidal war on Gaza. Hamas and Islamic Jihad resistance groups have offered their official response to a UN-backed ceasefire proposal to mediators in Qatar and Egypt. More than eight months of a US-Israeli genocidal campaign in Gaza has killed at least 37,000 people and wounded more than 85,000 others. The Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah has conducted a massive rocket attack against Israel after the Zionist regime killed one of the group's high-ranking commanders. Meanwhile, in the UK, as the country gears up for a historic general election, some voters are deciding between party loyalty and independent candidates. Will there be a major swing?

Israeli occupation forces have intensified their attacks in central Gaza, striking multiple targets, including refugee camps sheltering forcibly displaced Palestinians. At least 15 people have been killed over the past 24 hours. A day earlier, an Israeli air strike on a UN school packed with displaced Palestinians in central Gaza killed over forty people. Meanwhile, 17 countries call on Israel and Hamas to agree to a ceasefire. Spain has announced it will join South Africa's Genocide case against Israel before the International Court of Justice. Also, Gaza and the upcoming UK elections. How will the Muslim community in the UK vote? And is it just UK Muslims furious at the main political parties for their stance on the genocide in Gaza? Since October last year, the US-Israeli genocidal war on Gaza has killed at least 36,654 people and wounded more than 83000 others.

Israeli occupation forces have intensified their attacks on Rafah in the southernmost area of Gaza. More than 100,000 Palestinians have fled the south since the beginning of this week. Tens of thousands are heading to the center of the Strip amid fears of a looming humanitarian catastrophe for people who have endured the unthinkable over the past six months. The head of Israel's war cabinet, Benjamin Netanyahu, insists the invasion of Rafah will go ahead despite warnings from Tel Aviv's chief genocide enablers, Washington, that it will stop the supply of some types of weapons if the IOF does not change tact. Yet surely, this must be the most evident form of too little too late. The move also exposes the hypocrisy of Joe Biden and his cohorts surely speaking with their political forked tongues inadvertently admitting that the munitions they have supplied the genocidal regime in the past have been responsible for some of the greatest atrocities of the Israeli campaign. The situation in the West Bank is also deteriorating with hundreds of settler terrorist acts taking place since October 7 with the interlopers, using the cover of the genocide, taking place in Gaza to commit, ethnic cleansing of their own. As the global student movement in support of Palestinian rights gathers force ahead of a UN vote to consider full state rights for Palestine in the United Nations, is Israel able to recognize the futility of its actions in the region and immediately change course?

A tragic twist of fate for the Islamic Republic of Iran. The country's President Ebrahim Raeisi and senior dignitaries, including his foreign minister, were killed in a helicopter crash. What will that mean for the anti-Zionist, anti-imperialist axis of resistance and Iran's support for the Palestinian cause? A triumph for truth and justice: Three European countries will formally enact recognition of Palestine on May 28. The Israeli regime warns of consequences, but is this bluster no longer holding water? Has Tel Aviv overplayed its hand and now is reaping the negative international blowback? The International Criminal Court's top prosecutor seeks arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and war minister Yoav Gallant for war crimes and crimes against humanity. What does that mean for the devastating war on Gaza? And how does the international legal pressure on Israel impact the realities on the ground?

The world watches on as tents packed with refugees are set ablaze by the Israeli occupation forces. Rafah is witnessing a tragedy being played out across multiple acts. Israeli strikes are killing Palestinians in camps across southern Gaza, including 21 souls taken in Al Mawasi. In previous strikes that have led to high civilian casualties, the Israelis claim they were 'tragic mistakes' and said there will be an investigation, but nobody believes this will go anywhere. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says he's 'heartbroken' by the images of those killed and injured, including small children, and calls for the horror and suffering in Gaza to be brought to an immediate halt. If past Israeli behavior is anything to go by, that will be some time in coming. Despite the outrage, the international condemnation, and a social media campaign to raise awareness on Rafah- racking up tens of millions of support, the regime backers, including the United States, have raised the claim. Tel Aviv has not crossed its so-called red lines. Public anger is spreading from London to Lisbon, an emergency demo in the British capital, slamming the prime minister for the country's complicity in arming apartheid Israel.

Scores of Palestinians have been killed in US-backed Israeli air strikes in refugee camps across Gaza. The White House is still holding to the obvious lie that what the Israeli occupation forces are engaged in Rafah does not constitute a major offensive, as if global eyes are suddenly blind. Atrocities being perpetrated by Tel Aviv are not confined only to Gaza, but in the Occupied West Bank, the IOF have carried out numerous raids, with one in Ramallah causing a major fire in the local market after Israeli occupation forces fired tear gas canisters at the shops and stalls. Resistance forces in Yemen have pledged to inflict a "painful response" to overnight air strikes by US-British forces in three different locations across the port city of Hodeidah, which killed at least 16 and injured dozens more. Lebanon's resistance movement. Hezbollah continues to pile on the pressure, with fresh retaliatory strikes being inflicted on Israeli military positions. The global fightback continues with politicians pushing forward on the ballot box - including in the UK- for a pro-Palestinian position. Meanwhile, the Freedom Flotilla is continuing its journey to try and physically challenge apartheid Israel's brutal siege with a stopover in the British capital.