Israel strikes Gaza refugee camps

Israeli strikes hit refugee camps in Gaza as reports on May 24 said a ceasefire framework still existed on paper, underscoring how little protection it was providing on the ground. One report cited strikes on camps in Gaza despite the framework, while separate Reuters-connected imagery from April showed an attack on Shati refugee camp in Gaza City during the same ceasefire period. (sundayguardianlive.com) UN reporting this month said residential areas in Gaza were still being hit and that most of the population remained displaced. (palestinechronicle.com) Basem Naim, a senior Hamas official cited in a separate report, said the agreement signed in October had not been implemented in key areas. (news.un.org) Naim said roughly 900 Palestinians had been killed and about 2,600 wounded since then, and said no cement, wood or glass had entered Gaza despite reconstruction commitments. He also accused Israel of failing to reopen the Rafah crossing and described Israeli actions as a “coup” against the agreement. ### Which ceasefire is still being referenced? An October 10, 2025 ceasefire agreement is referenced in later reporting on Gaza’s conditions. Al Jazeera, citing the situation six months on, said the deal had produced only relative calm and recurring escalation rather than durable relief for civilians. (sundayguardianlive.com) A UN-linked humanitarian update published in May said aid operations had delivered some results under a 60-day response plan, but risks remained. The May 15 humanitarian situation report from OCHA said living conditions in Gaza remained dire, with continued reports of attacks hitting residential areas. The same report said most people in Gaza were displaced and exposed to health and environmental risks. (palestinechronicle.com) ### What is Hamas saying Israel failed to do? Basem Naim said Israel had not carried out the reconstruction and access terms that Hamas says were part of the October agreement. In the Palestine Chronicle report, he said no cement, wood or glass had entered Gaza, despite commitments tied to rebuilding homes, health facilities, schools and infrastructure. Rafah was another point of dispute. (aljazeera.com) Naim said Israel had failed to reopen the Rafah crossing, a key route for movement and supplies, and used that claim to argue that the agreement was being undermined in practice. (ochaopt.org) ### What do outside agencies say about conditions in Gaza? The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said on May 15 that attacks on residential areas were continuing and that rehabilitation services were overstretched. The report said more than 43,000 people in Gaza had sustained life-changing injuries, citing World Health Organization estimates. UN News, summarizing the same update, said hundreds of families had recently been displaced from eastern Deir al-Balah and that most people in Gaza remained exposed to serious health and environmental risks. (palestinechronicle.com) That account did not verify Hamas’s political claims, but it did describe a setting in which civilian insecurity and displacement were continuing despite the ceasefire period. ### How does António Guterres fit into this story? António Guterres, the UN secretary-general, has tied the Gaza war to a broader regional crisis involving Israel, the United States and Iran. In an April 14 UN News report, Guterres called for “serious negotiations” between Washington and Tehran to resume and said international law was being “trampled” as the Middle East war continued. (ochaopt.org) The Sunday Guardian report cited by the briefing said Guterres warned of widening nuclear tensions as diplomacy faltered. That places the Gaza strikes inside a wider diplomatic breakdown, though the available sourcing here does not independently establish a new UN action on May 24 itself. (news.un.org) ### What comes next on the record? The next documented milestones are humanitarian and diplomatic rather than military. OCHA’s May 15 situation report and the UN-linked six-month ceasefire update remain the latest cited multilateral assessments of conditions in Gaza, while Guterres’s April appeal for renewed U.S.-Iran talks remains the latest directly sourced UN call tied here to regional escalation. (news.un.org) (ochaopt.org) (sundayguardianlive.com)