The Jordanian monarchy supports the establishment of a #PalestinianState. While some right-wing politicians in #Israel have envisaged #Jordan becoming an alternative Palestinian state, #KingAbdullah has repeatedly warned that there is no such thing as a "Jordan option."

Jordan foils arms plot as kingdom caught in #Iran-Israel shadow war
https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/jordan-foils-arms-plot-as-kingdom-caught-in-iran-israel-shadow-war-801218

In recent days #Egypt has announced it will no longer participate in allowing the transit of aid into #Gaza and said it planned to join the #genocide case brought by #SouthAfrica against Israel at the UN’s top court. #TheHague

#Israel and Egypt in growing diplomatic row over #Rafah border crossing
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/15/israel-egypt-diplomatic-row-rafah-border-crossing-gaza

The hearings at the #InternationalCourtOfJustice(#ICJ), also known as the #WorldCourt, come after #SouthAfrica last week asked for additional emergency measures to protect #Rafah, a southern #Gaza city where more than a million #Palestinians have been sheltering. #TheHague

South Africa seeks halt to #Israel's #RafahOffensive at World Court
https://www.reuters.com/world/south-africa-seeks-halt-israels-rafah-offensive-world-court-2024-05-15/

A long-festering split at the heart of #Israel’s #WarCabinet has burst into the open with the defence minister, #YoavGallant, challenging the prime minister, Benjamin #Netanyahu, to come up with plans for the “day after” the war in #Gaza, and saying he would not permit any solution where Israeli military or civil governance were in the territory.

Israel war cabinet split looms as defence minister demands post-war Gaza plan
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/15/israel-war-cabinet-split-looms-as-defence-minister-demands-plan-for-post-war-gaza

Recently, #food and other supplies have fail to make it in to #Gaza as #Israel recently seized the key #Rafah border crossing in its push on that southern city on the Egyptian border.

The #USMilitary has finished installing a floating pier for the #GazaStrip.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/may/16/israel-gaza-war-rafah-middle-east-floating-pier-aid-hamas-latest?page=with:block-6645b1468f0835020111211c#block-6645b1468f0835020111211c

Crucially, however, it is not considered a substitute for far cheaper land-based deliveries that aid agencies say are much more sustainable. #Israel #Egypt

Fraught with logistical, weather and security challenges, delivering aid via the maritime route and floating pier is designed to bolster the amount of aid getting into the #GazaStrip.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/may/16/israel-gaza-war-rafah-middle-east-floating-pier-aid-hamas-latest?page=with:block-6645b43a8f081942f56c4bc9#block-6645b43a8f081942f56c4bc9

"If we're shooting down a $50,000 one-way #drone with a $3 million #missile, that's not a good cost equation," Bill LaPlante, the #Pentagon's chief weapons buyer, told a Senate appropriations subcommittee on Wednesday. #RedSea #Houthis #Israel #Gaza

The Pentagon's growing costly headache: Cheap drones
https://www.axios.com/2024/05/16/us-military-attack-drones-pentagon

The South African legal team, which set out its case for fresh emergency measures the previous day, framed the Israeli military operation as part of a #GenocidalPlan aimed at bringing about the destruction of the Palestinian people. #Gaza #Rafah #TheHague #ICC

#Israel tells #WorldCourt #SouthAfrica case makes a mockery of genocide
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/israel-tells-world-court-south-africa-case-makes-a-mockery-of-genocide/ar-BB1myJuN?ocid=emmx-mmx-feeds&PC=EMMX01

#AidGroups warn of a looming crisis in #Gaza's southern city of #Rafah where they have no more #food to distribute since the closure of the Rafah border crossing over a week ago, even as the first trucks of humanitarian aid entered Gaza via a temporary pier built by the #US. #Israel

Rafah is running out of food, even as the U.S. pier starts operating in Gaza : NPR
https://www.npr.org/2024/05/17/1252095266/rafah-is-running-out-of-food-even-as-the-u-s-pier-starts-operating-in-gaza

#JERUSALEM - Israeli war Cabinet minister #BennyGantz demanded on May 18 that Prime Minister Benjamin #Netanyahu commit to an agreed vision for the #Gaza conflict that would include stipulating who might rule the territory after the war with #Hamas. #Israel

Israel's Gantz demands day-after plan for Gaza by June 8, threatens to quit Cabinet
https://www.straitstimes.com/world/israels-gantz-demands-gaza-day-after-plan-by-june-8-threatens-to-quit-cabinet

The crash comes as the #MiddleEast remains unsettled by the Israel-Hamas war, during which #Raisi under Supreme Leader Ayatollah #AliKhamenei launched an unprecedented drone-and-missile attack on #Israel just last month.

Raisi, 63, a hard-liner who formerly led the country’s judiciary, was viewed as a protégé of Khamenei and even as a possible successor.

#Iran's president, foreign minister and others found dead at helicopter crash site, state media says
https://apnews.com/article/iran-president-ebrahim-raisi-426c6f4ae2dd1f0801c73875bb696f48