Raja Abdulrahim

The latest order, which the United Nations estimated affects about 250,000 people, was the largest since October, the U.N. said.

The peril faced by humanitarian workers in Gaza has interrupted or obstructed the delivery of aid in a place where, aid groups have warned, hundreds of thousands of people are facing famine conditions.

The Muslim holiday typically involves slaughtering an animal for food for loved ones and the needy, but many in Gaza are going hungry as Israel’s offensive continues.

Ordinary Gazans are bearing the brunt of the 8-month Israeli military onslaught on the territory and many blame the Palestinian armed faction for starting the war.

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The news was met with jubilation in Israel, where tensions over the hostages’ safety have been rising in recent months.

Video footage showed people running for cover as a powerful airstrike exploded near them. The attack appeared to have hit a market.

The Israeli military said it killed militants in the central part of the enclave on Friday, a day after a strike on a former school, where Gazan officials say civilians were killed.

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After a barrage from Hezbollah militants on northern Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu threatened a “very intense” military response.

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The Israeli military withdrew its forces from the northern town of Jabaliya in Gaza on Friday, leaving behind scenes of devastation, returning residents said.

“The destruction is indescribable,” said Mohammad Awais, who returned with his family to their home on Friday.

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Despite fierce criticism, Israel insists it must take control of Rafah and the border with Egypt to prevent future arms smuggling.

The International Court of Justice has no means to enforce its order in the Gazan city, but the ruling added pressure on the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel.

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Israeli bombardments and raids have put many of Gaza’s hospitals out of operation and only a few remain even partially functional.

The moves, while largely symbolic, were welcomed by Palestinians and denounced by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who called them “a prize for terrorism.”

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At least 64,000 people were displaced from Jabaliya and a neighboring town in the past week, according to the main U.N. agency aiding Palestinians.

Benny Gantz, a centrist member of leadership, presented the prime minister with an ultimatum that demanded a plan for the future of Israel’s war.

Amid the destruction, a marketplace of survival has arisen focused on the basics: food, shelter and money.

Looming over daily survival is the fear that Israel’s offensive in Gaza might force them to flee again.

Israel said Friday that it was facilitating the flow of aid and that its operations in Rafah, which have caused 630,000 people to flee, were ‘limited and localized.’

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Fighting in Rafah has closed off a vital border crossing in southern Gaza, forced hundreds of thousands to flee and cut off humanitarian aid.

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Many say there is nowhere to go, and even the “humanitarian zone” recommended by Israel is neither safe nor equipped to handle all of them, the U.N. says.

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With no resumption of deliveries in sight, officials fear the territory’s threadbare humanitarian relief effort could collapse altogether.

‘We feel depressed and so exhausted from repeating the same suffering,’ one mother of 11 said.

Three days after an evacuation

Israel has not offered an explanation for the death of Dr. Adnan Ahmad Albursh, chief of orthopedics at Al-Shifa hospital, four months after he was first detained.

Israel says the number of trucks entering the enclave has doubled to an average of 400 a day. The U.N. disputes that, but agrees that the pace of deliveries has quickened.

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The money from Washington, which includes $5 billion to replenish Israel’s defenses and $1 billion for Gazan civilians, comes as Israel readies to invade Rafah.

The tents that failed to keep out the cold when many Gazans first fled their homes have now become suffocating as highs surpass 100 degrees Fahrenheit.

The retaliatory attack damaged a defense system near Natanz, a city in central Iran that is critical to the country’s nuclear weapons program.

For weeks, Palestinians have been bracing for a ground offensive on the southern Gaza city, where over one million displaced people have fled.

The drone attack may have been launched from inside Iran, once again demonstrating Israel’s ability to carry out clandestine operations there.

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An emergency worker and two people who tried to make the journey said Israeli troops shot into the crowd, forcing people to turn back in panic.

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The holiday used to be a joyful time in Gaza. But with Israel’s military offensive and famine threatening the enclave, Palestinians there feel far from any sense of festivity.

World leaders welcomed the shift by an Israel facing increasing pressure, but they stressed that the measure of success would be whether enough trucks get in to ease the humanitarian crisis.

The charity food group World Central Kitchen suspended its relief efforts after seven of its workers were killed in Israeli airstrikes.

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Israel’s military did not immediately comment on the Syria strikes, but its defense minister said Israel would pursue Hezbollah, an Iran-backed militia, “every place it operates.”

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Several patients have died as a result of the Israeli military assault, the Gazan authorities say. Israel says the operation is targeting Hamas leaders.

The 200 tons of food provided by a celebrity chef’s charity arrived as UNICEF said rising numbers of children in Gaza were facing food deprivation.

The United Nations human rights office has not blamed any side for the attacks, including one on Thursday that Gazan health officials say killed 20.

A time of religious devotion, dawn-to-dusk fasting and charity is instead a daily struggle for survival.

The Gaza Health Ministry accused Israel of a “targeted” attack. Israel’s military denied the accusation, blaming Palestinian gunmen for the violence.

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Muslim access to the mosque compound has long been a point of contention as Israel has exerted tighter control.

The Israeli prime minister rejected a rebuke from the U.S. president over the scale of the Israel assault.

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“I saw people falling to the ground after being shot,” said one witness, “and others simply took the food items that were with them and continued running for their lives.”

“I saw things I never ever thought I would see,” said a Palestinian who was in the crowd.

The Israeli military and Gazan officials have offered diverging accounts of one of the deadliest known disasters involving civilians in the nearly five-month war.

A day after President Biden suggested that there could be a deal as soon as Monday, a Hamas official indicated that the group was not satisfied with what had been floated in truce and hostage talks.

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“It is a public health concern,” one U.N. official said of the lack of toilets for displaced people in the territory. “But the second thing is simply just dignity.”

An exhibition in the Israeli-occupied West Bank features works evoking Palestinian life and protest. But the show is as much about the art that cannot be displayed, lost forever in the war.

Israeli forces have been expanding their operations in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis for weeks, and on Wednesday called for civilians at a hospital there to leave for “safer spaces.”

The Israeli military threatened to take action to stop what it called Hamas activity at Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis.

The Israeli military accused Hamas of operating from Nasser Hospital, but did not provide evidence. Past Israeli orders to evacuate hospitals have preceded military raids.

Israel has asked the military to come up with plans to evacuate Gazans, but it isn’t clear where they are supposed to go or when Israel’s ground invasion might begin.

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The Palestine Red Crescent had issued a series of posts about the girl, named Hind, and two rescuers sent to find her after she was trapped in a car with dead relatives in it.

A day after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu signaled that the Israeli military was preparing to move into Rafah, airstrikes there killed and wounded multiple people.

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The airstrikes, meant to deter attacks on ships in the Red Sea, came one day after the United States struck at other Iran-backed militias in Iraq and Syria.

The Palestine Red Crescent said the girl, named Hind, was in a car in northern Gaza with six of her relatives who were all killed by Israeli fire. She was the sole survivor.

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A U.N. official described Rafah, a refuge for hundreds of thousands of displaced people, as a “pressure cooker of despair.” It is one of the last cities in southern Gaza that Israeli ground forces have not reached.

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The actions came as specific, “horrific” details were more widely shared by the U.N. and Israel.

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The top United Nations court in The Hague did not rule on whether Israel was committing genocide in Gaza, the accusation that South Africa brought before the court.

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A U.N. office said Israel’s detention and treatment of detainees might amount to torture. It estimated thousands had been detained and held in “horrific” conditions. Some were freed wearing only diapers.

A senior Iranian intelligence official was killed in an Israeli strike in Damascus as U.S. troops came under attack in Iraq.

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Officials of the Iran-backed Houthi militia in Yemen threatened to respond to American-led airstrikes over the past two days.

The military fired at a target in response to rising attacks on Red Sea shipping, which the Houthis linked to the war between Israel and Hamas.

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Other critics also included militias allied with Iran, as well as Oman, a U.S. ally that often mediates between the Houthis and international parties.