Israeli’s keep protesting their governments seemingly disregard for the fate of the Israeli hostages…..
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The Palestinian health ministry in Gaza said at least 61 people were killed and 308 injured in Israeli attacks over the past 24 hours. It said victims remained under rubble and in the streets, with crews unable to reach them.
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The Wafa news agency reported that at least nine civilians were killed in separate Israeli strikes across Gaza on Saturday.
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At least 16 people were killed and 111 injured while attempting to collect aid in the past 24 hours, the ministry said, bringing the total number of what it describes as “aid victims” to 2,076 killed and more than 15,308 injured since the war began.
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Eight people, including two children, died of starvation in Gaza hospitals in the past day, according to health officials. That brings the total number of recorded deaths from hunger to 281, of whom 114 were children.
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Strikes also targeted tents sheltering displaced people in Khan Younis, home to hundreds of thousands who had fled elsewhere in Gaza. More than half the victims were women and children, the AP reported.
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In northern Gaza, Israeli gunfire killed at least five people waiting for aid near the Zikim crossing, where UN and other agencies’ convoys enter the strip, health officials at Sheikh Radwan field hospital told AP.
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Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, head of the World Health Organisation, urged more medical evacuations, warning that 15,600 patients, including 3,800 children, need specialised care.
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Philippe Lazzarini, head of UNRWA, said famine in Gaza is worsening “by the hour” and urged Israel to let aid in at scale. UNRWA said it has warehouses full of food, medicines and hygiene supplies in Jordan and Egypt but has been blocked from bringing them into Gaza.
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In the occupied West Bank, Israeli forces continued a large-scale assault on the village of al-Mughayyir near Ramallah. Marzouq Abu Naim, deputy head of the village council, told Wafa that troops had stormed more than 30 homes, destroyed property, and smashed or seized dozens of vehicles.
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Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said its clinics around Gaza City are treating large numbers of people as bombardments force further displacement. “Strikes are forcing people, including MSF staff, to flee their homes once again, and we are seeing displacement across Gaza City,” the group said.
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Iran’s foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, said he spoke by phone with his French, German and British counterparts to prevent a vote on UN sanctions over Tehran’s nuclear programme, ahead of a European deadline….
After Gaza Famine Report, U.S. Is Mostly Silent and Israel Is Defiant
The White House has not commented on a report finding famine in Gaza. Analysts say that absent U.S. pressure, Israel is unlikely to change course.
A report by a panel of food security experts that found famine in parts of Gaza prompted outrage from many European countries, but not from the United States, Israel’s main backer.
Neither the White House nor the State Department has directly addressed the report, which blamed Israeli restrictions on aid, among other factors, for the famine. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel on Friday called the report “an outright lie,” saying that Israel had “gone to unprecedented lengths to enable aid to go into enemy territory.”
Mike Huckabee, the U.S. ambassador to Israel, echoed Mr. Netanyahu’s criticisms on social media. “Tons of food has gone into Gaza but Hamas savages stole it, ate lots of it to become corpulent,” he wrote on X.
The release of the report capped a week in which the Trump administration backed Mr. Netanyahu’s government on several issues, or mostly stayed silent, even as many of Israel’s allies condemned its actions in increasingly harsh terms.
Over the past week, the Israeli government approved a settlement project in the central West Bank, which the country’s finance minister said “buries the idea of a Palestinian state.” And defying international calls to end the war, Mr. Netanyahu’s government is pressing ahead with a plan to invade Gaza City, where hundreds of thousands of people are sheltering.
American pressure is one of the few levers left that could persuade Mr. Netanyahu to change Israel’s conduct in the nearly two-year war against Hamas in Gaza, according to analysts.
Mr. Netanyahu is “clearly more comfortable with the fact that Donald Trump is not going to impose costs or consequences that would constitute real pressure,” said Aaron David Miller, a former U.S. diplomat who joined negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians during the 1990s….