Israel’s finance minister Bezalel Smotrich has said victory in Gaza means that the Palestinian territory be “entirely destroyed” before its people depart for other countries.

The UN and aid organizations in Gaza say they will not cooperate with Israel and the US to establish a new mechanism of aid delivery to Palestinians in the territory.

Here are Press TV's latest top stories at 02:00 GMT on May 5, 2025.

Nearly 290,000 Palestinian children are “on the brink of death” in Gaza as Israel continues to use starvation as a weapon of war, Palestinian officials say. 

A recently unearthed social media post by Elad Barashi, an Israeli producer associated with Channel 14, has sparked public outrage and condemnation for advocating a Holocaust against Gaza’s 2.3 million residents.

At least 30 Palestinians have been killed in the Gaza Strip since dawn, according to medical sources, as a result of the ongoing Israeli bombardment of the besieged territory.

The Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) has rejected the comments of the US legal representative to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) as false and unsubstantiated.

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) for Palestine Refugees has said more than 50 of its aid workers who had been abducted by the Israeli regime suffered severe abuse.

A United Nations official has censured Israel for weaponizing aid as the regime forces continue to block aid into the besieged Gaza Strip.

Israel continues to weaponize food as part of its genocidal siege on Gaza.