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Seven aid workers with the World Central Kitchen were killed Monday in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza, according to the nongovernmental organization. The workers were leaving a warehouse in Deir al-Balah, in central Gaza, and driving in a “deconflicted zone” in two armored cars when the strike hit, the World Central Kitchen (WCK) said. The…

The volunteers were understood to have been employees from the World Central Kitchen

Israeli forces pulled out of the biggest hospital in Gaza on Monday after a two-week raid and large protests against the government, urging Israeli leaders to make a truce with the Palestinian militant group Hamas. The Israeli military stated that around 200 militants died in the raid on Shifa Hospital and approximately 900 other suspected militants were captured, explaining it…

Video circulating on the internet seems to indicate an officer informing the woman that the symbol might ‘need to be considered in context’.

Philippe Lazzarini, the leader of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA), appealed for more global pressure on Israel to collaborate with the U.N. In a Friday post on X, the platform previously known as Twitter, Lazzarini mentioned a Thursday directive from the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to Israel to…

A three-ship convoy departed Cyprus for Gaza early Saturday, with 400 tons of food and other supplies, the second delivery of the kind recently as concerns about widespread famine in the region grow. The aid deliveries are organized by World Central Kitchen (WCK). The boats are carrying ready-to-eat items like rice, pasta, flour, legumes, canned…

At least 12 Gazans drowned Monday while trying to reach humanitarian airdrops, according to Palestinian health authorities, a revelation that comes as Pentagon officials confirmed three out of the 80 bundles it airdropped into Gaza the same day had parachute malfunctions and fell into the water. Palestinian officials said the individuals drowned off the coast near…

Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Monday criticized the Biden administration’s decision to abstain from a vote on a United Nations Security Council resolution calling for a cease-fire in Gaza, arguing it made Hamas and Iran happy. “Hamas, when they saw the abstention, were thrilled,” Pompeo said on Fox News’s “The Story” with anchor…

Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) defended her statement that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, saying that the humanitarian situation in the area has reached a point of intention. When asked by CNN anchor Jake Tapper about her use of the word genocide to describe Israel's actions during wartime, Ocasio-Cortez stated, "The word is very serious. It's one that is treated…"

Cindy McCain, executive director of the United Nations’s World Food Programme (WFP), said Friday that there is an urgent need for food in Gaza amid the war occurring there. “[O]ur obstacles are many,” McCain said in an interview on MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports” Friday. “We have to be cleared at every level, the Israelis block…