Hamas…Israel Conflict Day 225….More of the Same….

• The U.N. agency that aids Palestinians said it had suspended food distribution in Rafah, the southern Gazan city from which hundreds of thousands of people have fled as Israel conducts what it has called a limited operation there. The agency, known as UNRWA, cited in a post on social media a lack of supplies and security, and warned that closures and disruptions at two critical border crossings in southern Gaza had blocked medical supplies from reaching hospitals for the past 10 days.

• Seven Palestinians, including a 50-year-old doctor, were killedand 19 others were wounded during an Israeli military raid in Jenin in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on Tuesday morning, according to the Palestinian Authority’s Health Ministry. It was the latest in a series of near-nightly raids that Israeli officials describe as counterterrorism operations in the West Bank, where over 500 Palestinians have been killed since the war in Gaza began.

• France expressed support for the International Criminal Court, taking the opposite stance of the United States and some other allies of Israel, after the court’s chief prosecutor said he would seek arrest warrants for leaders of both Israel and Hamas. “France supports the International Criminal Court, its independence and the fight against impunity in all situations,” the French Foreign Ministry said on Monday. But Stéphane Séjourné, France’s foreign minister, stressed on Tuesday that the warrant requests “must not create an equivalence” between Hamas, which he called a terrorist group, and Israel, which he said was a “democratic state” that must “respect international law.”

• Missiles hit the emergency room of the Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza on Tuesday, the hospital’s director, Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, told Reuters. Video footage from the news agency showed people evacuating the scene, some wearing white medical coats, others being wheeled out on gurneys. The Israeli military has renewed its offensive in the north, and Kamal Adwan is one of two hospitals in the area that was still partially operational. The other, Al Awda, has been surrounded by fighting for three days, according to its acting director and the World Health Organization.

• Pro-Palestinian protesters repeatedly interrupted Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday as he began testifying to a Senate committee. The heckling started as soon as Mr. Blinken entered the hearing room. Demonstrators — some with their hands painted red — called him a “war criminal” and the “secretary of genocide” before the Capitol Police forcibly removed them. Since the war began, Mr. Blinken, who has managed U.S.-Israel relations as the war in Gaza grinds on, has regularly drawn pro-Palestinian protesters at his public appearances, and an encampment even sprang up outside his Northern Virginia home….

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