Health officials and civil defense responders in Gaza said an Israeli airstrike hit an apartment building in Gaza City early Saturday, killing five people, four of them women. Al-Shifa Hospital said it received the dead and the injured from the strike. Civil defense spokesperson Mahmoud Bassal said his teams pulled five bodies from the site and transported several wounded to care. Several outlets repeated this same toll from the same event, citing local medical sources.

by Dave De Camp, antiwar.com

While oil exports from the Middle East have reportedly exceeded pre-war levels, attacks on tankers in or near the Strait of Hormuz have also risen over the past week, with at least 11 coming under attack since last Monday, according to a count from The New York Times.

Posted by Tyler Durden:  Authored by Larry C. Johnson via SonarIntelligence (Sonar21),

Kelley Beaucar Vlahos,  responsiblestatescraft.org

The US stopped refueling Saudi warplanes in 2018, several months after the Saudis bombed a school bus in Yemen

Dave De Camp, antiwar.com

The US is refueling Saudi fighter jets as part of its support for Riyadh’s war in Yemen, a US official has told Al Jazeera, marking an escalation of US involvement in the conflict.

by Jason Ditz, antiwar.com

t least one Palestinian was killed, and several others were wounded on Monday in Israeli attacks targeting al-Mawasi in southern Gaza, an area filled with sprawling tent encampments housing Palestinian families displaced by Israel’s genocidal war.

by Jason Ditz

Israeli forces continue to operate in southwestern Syria, with incidents reported in Quneitra, Daraa, and Rif Damasq Governorates. While most of the cross-border incidents involve the Israeli military searching homes and establishing temporary checkpoints in Syrian territory, there are also increasingly destructive incidents to report.

Former Israeli prime minister says failure to challenge calls for killing and starving Palestinians has eroded Israel’s moral standards

Nadav Rapaport in Tel Aviv, Israel

There are "no innocent people" in Gaza and Israel should "also kill two-week-old babies" in the Palestinian enclave, Israel's former prime minister Yair Lapid has recounted young Israelis telling him.

https://www.reddit.com/r/BreakingPoints

Focus has been on the resulting rise in oil prices, but it is potential food shortages the world should be paying attention to, said ICC secretary-general John Denton.

About one-third of global fertilizer shipments pass through the narrow waterway, creating potentially catastrophic knock-on effects for agricultural producers.

Andrew Korybko, via newsletter, globalresearch.ca

Ethiopia’s continued existence is indispensable to Israeli security since Egypt’s exploitation of a “Balkanized” Ethiopia’s natural resource wealth, which could follow the Hybrid War that Egypt is masterminding against Ethiopia, could eventually empower Egypt to become an existential threat to Israel (once again).