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Israeli strikes continued to lb the Gaza Strip Wednesday, contempt a surge successful planetary choler astatine Israel's widening offensive. The attacks killed astatine slightest 82 people, including respective women and a week-old infant, according to the Gaza Health Ministry and country hospitals.
Israel began allowing dozens of humanitarian trucks into Gaza connected Tuesday, but the aid has not yet reached Palestinians successful hopeless need.
Jens Laerke, the spokesperson for the U.N.'s humanitarian agency, said nary trucks were picked up from the Gaza broadside of Kerem Shalom, the Israeli borderline crossing with confederate Gaza.
A motortruck loaded with humanitarian assistance for the Gaza Strip makes its mode to the Kerem Shalom crossing arsenic borderline constabulary officers forestall activists from blocking the roadworthy successful confederate Israel, Wednesday, May 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg) (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
U.N. spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric said Tuesday that though the assistance had entered Gaza, workers were not capable to bring it to organisation points aft the Israeli subject forced them to reload the supplies onto abstracted trucks and workers ran retired of time.
The Israeli defence assemblage that oversees humanitarian assistance to Gaza said trucks entered Wednesday morning, but it was unclear if that assistance would determination deeper into Gaza for distribution. The U.N. bureau for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, said its unit had waited respective hours to cod assistance from the borderline crossing but were incapable to bash truthful connected Tuesday.
ISRAEL BLOCKS HUMANITARIAN AID INTO GAZA AFTER HAMAS REJECTS CEASEFIRE EXTENSION PROPOSAL
A fewer twelve Israeli activists opposed to Israel's determination to let assistance into Gaza portion Hamas inactive holds Israeli hostages attempted to artifact trucks carrying supplies Wednesday morning, but were kept backmost by Israeli police.
Diplomats travel nether occurrence successful Jenin
A radical of diplomats came nether occurrence portion visiting Jenin, a metropolis successful the Israeli-occupied West Bank, according to the Palestinian Authority. The diplomats were connected an authoritative ngo to observe the humanitarian concern successful Jenin erstwhile shots rang out.
An assistance worker, who did not privation to beryllium named for fearfulness of reprisal, said a delegation of astir 20 regional, European and Western diplomats were lasting adjacent the entranceway of the Jenin exile camp erstwhile they heard gunshots Wednesday, she said. No 1 was injured, she added.
The Israeli subject said the delegation "deviated from the approved route" and Israeli soldiers fired informing shots to region them from the area. The subject apologized and said they volition interaction each countries progressive successful the visit.
Palestinians transportation the bodies of their relatives including children who were killed successful an Israeli service airstrike successful Deir al-Balah, Gaza, Wednesday, May 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana) (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
Footage shows a fig of diplomats moving for screen arsenic accelerated shots rung out. European Union overseas argumentation main Kaja Kallas said firing adjacent informing shots was unacceptable and called connected Israel to investigate.
The Italian authorities of Premier Giorgia Meloni besides demanded an explanation, saying that its vice consul was among those who came nether fire.
Jenin has been the tract of Israel’s wide crackdown against West Bank militants since earlier this year.
On Jan. 21 — conscionable 2 days aft its ceasefire woody with Hamas successful Gaza — Israeli forces descended connected Jenin arsenic they person dozens of times since Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, onslaught connected Israel. The warring displaced tens of thousands of Palestinians, 1 of the largest West Bank displacements successful years.
International unit connected Israel
On Tuesday, the United Kingdom suspended free commercialized talks with Israel implicit its intensifying assault, a measurement that came a time aft the U.K., Canada and France promised factual steps to punctual Israel to halt the war. Separately, the European Union was reviewing an EU pact governing commercialized ties with Israel implicit its behaviour of the warfare successful Gaza, according to its overseas argumentation chief.
Israel says it is prepared to halt the warfare erstwhile each the hostages taken by Hamas instrumentality location and Hamas is defeated, oregon is exiled and disarmed. Hamas says it is prepared to merchandise the hostages successful speech for a afloat Israeli withdrawal from the territory and an extremity to the war. It rejects demands for exile and disarmament.
ISRAEL FIRES BACK AT UK OVER SUSPENDED TRADE TALKS, REJECTS ‘EXTERNAL PRESSURE’
Israel called backmost its elder negotiating squad from ceasefire talks successful the Qatari superior of Doha connected Tuesday, saying it would permission lower-level officials successful spot instead. Qatari leaders, who are mediating negotiations, said determination was a ample spread betwixt the 2 sides.
Meanwhile, Israeli strikes continued crossed Gaza. In the confederate metropolis of Khan Younis, wherever Israel precocious ordered caller evacuations pending an expected expanded offensive, 24 radical were killed, 14 from the aforesaid family. A week-old babe was killed successful cardinal Gaza.
The Israeli subject did not instantly remark connected the strikes, but has said it is targeting Hamas infrastructure and accused Hamas militants of operating from civilian areas.
Desperate request for food
Experts person warned that galore of Gaza’s 2 cardinal residents look a precocious hazard of famine. At 1 displacement campy successful Gaza City, a foundation radical distributed bladed and watery lentil soup.
Somaia Abu Amsha scooped tiny portions into bowls for her family, saying they person not person had breadstuff for implicit 10 days and she can’t spend atom oregon pasta.
Palestinians inspect a location destroyed by an Israeli airstrikes successful Deir al-Balah, Gaza, Wednesday, May 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana) (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
"We don’t privation thing different than that they extremity the war. We don’t privation foundation kitchens. Even dogs wouldn’t devour this, fto unsocial children," she said, pointing astatine the soup.
Pope Leo XIV connected Wednesday called for assistance to scope the Gaza Strip and for an extremity to the "heartbreaking" toll connected its radical during his archetypal wide assemblage successful St. Peter’s Square.
Hospitals surrounded
Israeli troops besides person surrounded 2 of bluish Gaza’s past functioning hospitals, preventing anyone from leaving oregon entering the facilities, infirmary unit and assistance groups said this week.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas connected Wednesday urged satellite leaders to instrumentality contiguous enactment to extremity Israel’s siege connected Gaza, issuing the entreaty during a sojourn to Beirut, wherever helium was expected to sermon the disarmament of Palestinian factions successful Lebanon’s exile camps.
ISRAEL ENCIRCLES 2 OF NORTHERN GAZA’S LAST FUNCTIONING HOSPITALS, GROUPS SAY
"It is clip to extremity the warfare of extermination against the Palestinian people. I reiterate that we volition not leave, and we volition stay present connected the onshore of our homeland, Palestine," Abbas said, demanding the contiguous introduction of aid, the merchandise of detainees, and a afloat withdrawal from Gaza.
The warfare successful Gaza began erstwhile Hamas-led militants attacked confederate Israel, sidesplitting immoderate 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and abducting 251 others. The militants are inactive holding 58 captives, astir a 3rd of whom are believed to beryllium alive, aft astir were returned successful ceasefire agreements oregon different deals.
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Israel’s retaliatory violative has destroyed ample swaths of Gaza and killed much than 53,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry, which doesn’t differentiate betwixt civilians and combatants successful its count.
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