Here are Press TV's latest top stories at 18:00 GMT, May 03, 2025.

Iran says Israel’s drone attack on a ship carrying aid to Gaza was a criminal war and a crime against humanity.

Confronted with a growing crisis in troop numbers, the Israeli military has been compelled to initiate a large-scale mobilization of reserve soldiers as it prepares to escalate its ongoing onslaught against Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip.

Ireland has slammed as “unconscionable” Israel’s ban on humanitarian aid into Gaza, as Palestinian children there are “starving”, calling on the occupying regime to allow goods and supplies into the besieged territory.

Yemeni forces have conducted a “successful” missile attack on Israel, the second of its kind in the past hours, in defiance of the US strikes.

The Red Cross warns that the humanitarian response in Gaza is on the “verge of total collapse” as Israel continues a genocidal war and maintains its criminal siege on the Palestinian territory.

Israel has carried out a drone attack on a Gaza-bound ship carrying humanitarian aid and activists off the coast of Malta in international waters, the Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC) says.