LiveLive Updates May 19, 2026Share to FacebookShare to XArticle printing is available to subscribers onlyPrint in a simple, ad-free formatSubscribeComments: Zen reading is available to subscribers onlyAd-free and in a comfortable reading formatSubscribeMay 19, 2026Gaza Health Ministry says three pronounced dead in past 24 hoursThe Gaza Health Ministry said three dead were identified at hospitals in the Gaza Strip in the last 24 hours.Palestinians inspect the site of an Israeli strike on a house in Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip, on Tuesday. Credit: Ebrahim Hajjaj/ REUTERSPalestinians inspect the site of an Israeli strike on a house in Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip, on Tuesday. Credit: Ebrahim Hajjaj/ REUTERSThe death toll since the October Israel-Hamas cease-fire has reached 880, with 2,605 wounded and 776 bodies recovered; the total death toll since the start of the war has risen to 72,772, with 172,707 wounded, according to the ministry.J Street: Israeli ambassador should be 'engaging seriously' instead of calling group 'cancer within Jewish community'After the Israeli ambassador to the United States called J Street a "cancer within the Jewish community," the group's president said the ambassador should be "engaging seriously" with the organization, he wrote on X.On Monday, Ambassador Yechiel Leiter referred to J Street as a "cancer within the Jewish community" at a National Task Force to Combat Antisemitism meeting at the Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C."How can you be pro-Israel and advocate for an arms embargo on a state that's fighting a seven-front war against Iranian proxies?" the ambassador said. Instead of disparaging friends of Israel who disagree with its government and calling us names, Israel’s ambassador to the United States should be engaging seriously with us.