McCain connected Gaza assistance trucks
Israeli strikes killed astatine slightest 52 radical successful the Gaza Strip connected Monday, including immoderate 36 successful a school-turned-shelter that was struck arsenic radical slept, igniting their belongings, according to section wellness officials. The subject said it targeted militants operating from the school.
Israel renewed its violative successful March aft ending a ceasefire with Hamas. It has vowed to prehend power of Gaza and support warring until Hamas is destroyed oregon disarmed, and until it returns the remaining 58 hostages, a 3rd of them believed to beryllium alive, from the Oct. 7, 2023, onslaught that ignited the war.
The onslaught connected the schoolhouse successful the Daraj vicinity of Gaza City besides wounded much than 55 people, said Fahmy Awad, caput of the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry's exigency service. He said a begetter and his 5 children were among the dead. He said the schoolhouse was deed 3 times portion radical slept, mounting their belongings ablaze.
Palestinians comb the country pursuing an Israeli airstrike astatine dawn connected a schoolhouse successful the al-Daraj vicinity of Gaza City that killed astatine slightest 31 radical connected May 26, 2025.
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The Israeli subject said it had targeted a militant bid and power halfway wrong the schoolhouse that Hamas and Islamic Jihad utilized to stitchery quality for attacks. Israel blames civilian deaths connected Hamas due to the fact that it operates successful residential areas, adding that "numerous steps were taken to mitigate the hazard of harming civilians," according to French quality bureau AFP.
Israel says it plans to prehend afloat power of Gaza and facilitate what it describes arsenic the voluntary migration of its implicit 2 cardinal inhabitants, a program that has been rejected by Palestinians and overmuch of the planetary community.
Israel's subject run has destroyed immense areas of Gaza and internally displaced immoderate 90% of its population. Many person fled aggregate times.
Hamas-led militants killed immoderate 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and abducted 251 radical successful the 2023 violent attack. More than fractional the hostages person been returned successful ceasefire agreements oregon different deals, 8 person been rescued, and Israeli forces person recovered the remains of dozens more.
The violative has destroyed immense areas of Gaza, rendering full neighborhoods uninhabitable. Hundreds of thousands of radical person been forced to structure successful schools and squalid structure camps for good implicit a year.
Israel's retaliatory violative has killed astir 54,000 Palestinians, according to the Hamas-run Gaza Ministry of Health. It says much than fractional the dormant are women and children but does not separate betwixt civilians and combatants successful its count.
Growing interest implicit nutrient shortages successful Gaza
Israel began allowing immoderate humanitarian assistance into Gaza past week aft blocking each food, medicine, substance oregon different goods from entering for 2-1/2 months. But assistance groups accidental the supplies that person travel successful are obscurity adjacent capable to conscionable the mounting needs of the enclave's residents.
U.N. World Food Program Executive Director Cindy McCain said Sunday connected the CBS News' "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" that the fig of assistance trucks allowed to participate Gaza past week was lone a "drop successful the bucket" compared to what's needed to stave disconnected imaginable famine successful the Palestinian territory.
A caller assistance system, supported by Israel and the United States but rejected by U.N. agencies and different assistance groups, is expected to statesman operations arsenic soon arsenic Monday, contempt the resignation of the American who was expected to pb the effort, who said it would not beryllium capable to run independently.
Israel plans to rotation retired the caller assistance organisation system, tally by a radical known arsenic the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation and made up of erstwhile humanitarian, authorities and subject officials, to acceptable up organisation points guarded by backstage information firms. Israel has agelong accused Hamas of siphoning disconnected assistance supplies brought into Gaza, without providing evidence.
Palestinians, struggling with hunger owed to an Israeli blockade, hold successful enactment to person blistery meals distributed by foundation organizations successful Jabalia Refugee Camp, successful Gaza City, Gaza, May 17, 2025.
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The instauration said successful a connection that it would statesman delivering assistance Monday and would scope a cardinal Palestinians — astir fractional of Gaza's colonisation — by the extremity of the week.
U.N. agencies and large assistance groups person refused to cooperate with the planned U.S.-backed system, saying it would unit adjacent much displacement, neglect to conscionable section needs and interruption humanitarian principles that prohibit a warring enactment from controlling humanitarian assistance. They besides accidental determination is nary grounds of systematic diversion of assistance by Hamas oregon different equipped groups.
Jake Wood, the American heading the foundation, unexpectedly resigned Sunday, saying it had go wide that the instauration would not beryllium allowed to run independently. It's not wide who is backing the group. The instauration said successful a connection Monday that it would "not beryllium deterred" by Wood's resignation and would statesman its transportation arsenic planned.
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