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Israel Today: Ongoing War Report - Update from 2026-05-22 at 16:01
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- May 22, 2026
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HEADLINES Israel Strikes Gaza Central Complexes Evacuations Ordered Iran Rejects US Nuclear Demands, Pushes Mediation Appeals Court Denies Khalil Rehearing Deportation Bid The time is now 4:01 PM in New York, I'm Noa Levi and this is the latest Israel Today: Ongoing War Report. In Regional Impacts, Israeli fighter jets struck two residential complexes in central Gaza tonight, one in the Alberij refugee camp and the other in the Nitzirat refugee camp, with evacuation warnings issued beforehand. Earlier, Gazan sources said Israeli forces and anti-Hamas militias evacuated residents from the eastern part of Deir al-Balah in central Gaza, and bulldozers subsequently leveled several homes in the area. In US Policy Concerning Israel, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei told state media IRNA that US demands aimed at tempering Iran’s nuclear ambitions are unreasonable and excessive. He said no conclusion will be reached in the US-Iran peace process if the United States insists on discussing Iran’s stockpile of enriched uranium, arguing the negotiations are focused on ending the war and that nuclear issues will not be discussed in detail at this stage. Baghaei blamed the American push for previous peace talks’ collapse, noted that senior Pakistani officials have arrived in Tehran to help mediation, and said the differences between Iran and the United States are deep and numerous. In Israeli Domestic Politics, a divided federal appeals court on Friday declined to reconsider a ruling in Mahmoud Khalil’s case that could permit the Trump administration to rearrest and deport the pro-Palestinian activist. The 3rd US Circuit Court of Appeals, in a 6-5 vote, rejected Khalil’s request to rehear a January decision that a lower-court judge had no jurisdiction to order hi…