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Defense experts who looked at pictures of the wreckage from an Israeli bomb that caused a big fire in a camp for Palestinians who had to leave their homes, are wondering why Israel did not use smaller and more accurate weapons when there were so many innocent people close by. They said the bombs were probably made in the US.

The attacks, aimed at Hamas members, killed about 45 people who were staying in a temporary camp in southern Gaza near Rafah. Many countries have criticized the attacks.

Israel is looking into the attack and says the Hamas targets were 17 kilometers (1 mile) away from a place where they are supposed to help people in need. They checked before attacking and thought no civilians would be hurt.

Displaced people were all over the place, and Israel had not told them to leave. Even though the tents that caught on fire were not in the designated safe area, the people living there believed they would be protected.

Israel was attacked by Hamas on October 7, 2023. Israel hasn’t said where the burned tents were in relation to the compound it bombed on Sunday. They shared a satellite image showing some known civilian shelters about 180 meters (600 feet) away. It said that there were no tents nearby, but a fire started unexpectedly and sadly killed people in Gaza.

The Israeli military released a video showing people walking near the buildings that were targeted before they were blown up. The video also seems to show tents close by.

Israel has not said what bombs it used, but Rear Adm. (Ret) John Kirby, a Pentagon spokesman, said that the U. S is providing Israel with bombs. Daniel Hagari, who speaks for the Israel Defense Forces, said that they used small bombs that weigh 37 pounds each and that an accidental explosion might have started the fire.

Defense experts said that even small bombs dropped from jets can be dangerous to civilians because they explode and can send pieces flying far away.

Pictures on social media from the tent camp on Monday, verified by The Associated Press, showed a special code on parts of the exploded weapons. This code is used to identify US government suppliers.

Two experts who know about military weapons said that they think the bombs used were probably small, 250-pound bombs made in the United States. They looked at pictures and photos from a satellite to decide.

Even though these bombs are smaller than other weapons the US has given to Israel, they can still cause a lot of damage. The whole 250-pound shell and parts are made to explode and send pieces flying up to 2,000 feet (600 meters) away.

“You have two bombs that can travel up to 600 meters in a crowded space. ” “Trevor Ball, who used to disarm bombs in the Army, said it doesn’t make sense if they’re trying to avoid injuries. ”

Ball said that the serial numbers on the tail kit and shell debris in the photos show that the bombs are 250-pound GBU-39. It’s not common to talk about a bomb’s explosive power, in this case 37 pounds, instead of its total weight, according to Ball and Mark Cancian, a retired Marine Corps Reserves colonel and senior adviser to the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

The messy area in Gaza shows that the bombs might have been set to explode before they hit, so they would have killed the people they were meant to but also might have hurt others by accident, according to Ball and Cancian. The pictures showed a little opening where pieces of metal were discovered.

The GBU-39 bomb can be set to explode right away when it hits the ground, making a big hole, or it can be set to explode later to go deeper into a target first.

They can also be programmed to explode in the air just before hitting the target, so they can hit more than one thing. But that place also causes a lot of damage over a wide area, which could explain a second explosion even if weapons or other flammable things were far away, Ball said.

Antony Blinken, who is in charge of the US’s foreign affairs, said that the US is waiting for an investigation in Moldova to find out what weapons were used and how they were used.

Blinken said that even though Israel used a small weapon for targeted attacks on terrorists, it can still have bad unintended results.

The experts in defense said that Israel had other, better choices to use instead of the GBU-39 when there were civilians close by.

“Israelis have used small, accurate drones to launch weapons before. ” These accurate attacks have not caused much damage besides hitting the exact target.

Israel could have used a smaller weapon called the mini-Spike in the strike. This weapon would have made less mess and been more targeted at specific Hamas leaders.

The US did not give Israel a delivery of big bombs because they were worried that Israel would use them in a place with a lot of Palestinians after bombing other parts of Gaza. Now, the same amount of people have left Rafah and are living in temporary tent camps and other places.

The strike on Sunday proved that even the small 250-pound bombs that the US has been giving can be too big to use in refugee areas with a lot of people. Cancian said this.

John Kirby, a person who helps keep the US safe, said on Wednesday that the US is still trying to get information from Israel about the deadly Rafah attack. He refused to talk about the weapons Israel used. But he did say that Israel’s public comments show they want to be more careful and exact when targeting.

A bomb from Israel hit central Gaza and killed 20 people, mostly women and children. There is a lot of fighting happening in the north of Gaza. Israel’s leaders are arguing about who should be in charge of Gaza after the war, which has been going on for eight months.

The Prime Minister is getting criticized by his own War Cabinet. His main rival, Benny Gantz, says he will quit the government if a plan isn’t made by June 8 that involves other countries in running Gaza after the war.

US national security adviser Jake Sullivan was supposed to talk to important Israeli leaders on Sunday about a big plan the US has. The plan is for Saudi Arabia to agree to Israel and help the Palestinian Authority rule Gaza. In return, the Palestinians would eventually be able to have their own country.

Netanyahu doesn’t want a Palestinian state and said no to the proposals. He wants Israel to have control over security in Gaza and work with Palestinians who are not part of Hamas or the Palestinian Authority.

Gantz quitting won’t make Netanyahu’s government fall apart, but it will make him depend more on far-right friends who want Palestinians to leave Gaza, have a strong military presence, and create more Jewish towns there.

While people are talking more about planning for after the war, the fighting is still going on and it doesn’t look like it will end anytime soon. Lately, Hamas has come together again in some areas in the north of Gaza that were hit hard by bombings at the beginning of the war. Israeli soldiers had also been in these areas.

An air attack in Nuseirat, a crowded Palestinian refugee camp in central Gaza that has been around since the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, killed 20 people. This included eight women and four children, as reported by the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in the nearby town of Deir al-Balah, where the bodies were taken.

A different attack on a street in Nuseirat caused the deaths of five more people, as reported by the Palestinian Red Crescent emergency service. In Deir al-Balah, a powerful attack caused the death of Zahed al-Houli, who was a high-ranking officer in the police force run by Hamas, and another man, as reported by Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital.

Palestinians are saying that there have been more airstrikes and intense fighting in the northern part of Gaza. Israel has been keeping this area cut off for a long time, and the World Food Program says there is a shortage of food.

The Civil Defense says that the attacks hit some houses near Kamal Adwan Hospital in the town of Beit Lahiya and at least 10 people were killed. The rescuers showed a video of them trying to save a woman stuck under collapsed buildings. There were loud explosions and smoke in the background.

In the nearby Jabliya refugee camp, people said there were many bombs and attacks with weapons.

Abdel-Kareem Radwan, a 48-year-old in Jabaliya, said that the situation is really hard. He said that the eastern side has turned into a place where Israeli fighter jets attack anything that moves.

Mahmoud Bassal, who speaks for the Civil Defense, said that rescuers found at least 150 bodies. More than half of them were women and children. This happened after Israel started a mission in Jabaliya last week. He said about 300 houses have been “completely ruined. ”

Israel attacked after Hamas attacked on Oct 7. The Palestinian fighters entered southern Israel, killing about 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and taking around 250 as prisoners.

At least 35,000 Palestinians have died in the war, says Gaza’s Health Ministry. About 80% of the 23 million Palestinians have been forced to move within their area, sometimes more than once.

Israel says it tries not to hurt innocent people and says that Hamas is responsible for the high number of deaths and damage because they put their fighters, tunnels, and rocket launchers in crowded neighborhoods.

Netanyahu’s opponents, including many protesters, say that he is making the war last longer and refusing to agree to a ceasefire that would free hostages, because he wants to avoid being held accountable for the security mistakes that caused the attack.

Surveys say that Gantz, who is in the middle politically, would probably become the leader instead of Netanyahu if elections happen soon. This could lead to Netanyahu being charged for corruption he is accused of for a long time.

Netanyahu says he is not doing this for politics and wants to keep attacking until Hamas is stopped and the people being held captive in Gaza are released. He thinks it’s a waste of time to talk about what will happen after the war while Hamas is still fighting. The fighters have warned people not to work with Israel.

Netanyahu is being pressured by the United States, which is Israel’s closest friend. The United States has been giving important military help and support for the attack, but they are starting to get frustrated with how Israel is handling the war.

The US President Joe Biden’s team stopped a delivery of 3,500 big bombs to southern Gaza. They said they don’t want to give weapons for a big attack on the city of Rafah because they are worried about a big disaster for people living there.

Last week, Israel started a small military operation in Rafah. The government plans to go ahead with selling $1 billion worth of weapons, tank ammunition, vehicles and mortar rounds to Israel.

Sullivan is supposed to go to Israel after meeting with Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on Saturday. The government is making a big plan for Saudi Arabia to accept Israel and work with other Arab countries to help Gaza. In return, they would get a defense agreement with the US and assistance in starting a civilian nuclear program.

US and Saudi officials say that the agreement needs Israel to agree to a realistic plan for a future Palestinian state, which Netanyahu has refused to do.

In Gantz’s statement, he said he wants to make friendly relationships with Saudi Arabia and other Arab countries. But he also said “we will not let anyone from another country, whether they are our friends or enemies, make us have a Palestinian state. “

In the past day, Israeli attacks in Gaza have killed 31 people and hurt 56, as reported by the Palestinian Ministry of Health.

More than 35,300 people have been killed and 79,261 have been injured in the Israeli attacks on Gaza since October 7. The ministry does not mention the number of people who are believed to be missing in Gaza since October 7.

Earlier on Friday morning, people who work to keep others safe and local reporters said that attacks from Israel in the area had caused the deaths of at least 10 people and injured others.

A bombing in the Jabalya refugee camp in northern Gaza killed at least six people. Civil defense officials came and helped evacuate the injured. Fighting has been very heavy in the Jabalya district in northern Gaza lately. A lot of people were hurt and some people died at a hospital in northern Gaza after Israel bombed the area.

People in Jabalya heard continuous gunfire throughout the night from Thursday to Friday.

Salama Maroof, who leads the government media office in Gaza, said on Thursday that the Israeli military had entered Jabalya and blocked off Beit Hanoun in the northeast.

In another attack at the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, Israeli warplanes bombed the Al-Jaouni School, where displaced people were staying, killing at least four people. Local reporters saw the bodies being brought to the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir Al-Balah.

The hospitals in central Gaza said that 40 people died in two Israeli attacks that happened close to each other last night.

Al Aqsa hospital got 29 bodies from one attack, including 9 children. Al Awda hospital got 11 bodies from the second attack.

The strikes happened around 1 in the morning. According to people who saw it, this happened at 2:45am on Tuesday. For people in the Eastern time zone, it was at 6pm and 7:45pm on Monday.

Rescue workers are still trying to find bodies under the rubble of a four-story building in Nuseirat. The building was destroyed in the first attack. Onlookers said that many people were seeking shelter in the building’s backyard.

A video on CNN showed people who were hurt and killed being taken to Al Aqsa Martyrs Hospital. Another video showed the bodies of some children being taken out from the wreckage.

The video showed family members anxiously waiting to see if anyone will be found alive in the rubble. The workers there don’t have the right tools to take away the concrete.

Some of the people who were killed had just come from Rafah, as said by the people who were there.

One person named Ashraf Al Jalees told CNN at the place: “I promise that these are innocent people. They are all under the ground, even kids. ” There are seven girls in this place. “What did they do wrong. ”

He told me he put up a tent for his friend Hassan Obeid, who he said is not connected to Hamas or anyone else.

Al Jalees called for Obeid and told him that he stayed to sleep at the house, but it collapsed on everyone inside. He said there are over 50 people trapped, and they are all innocent civilians. One day, God will ask me if I am telling the truth.

Hamdan Karaja said to CNN that his children, girls and boys, are trapped under the collapsed building. “My wife too,”

Karaja said he had seven kids. He said they found his father’s body.

“We have more than 100 people who had to leave their homes, and some of them are in groups of 20 family members. ” They are all stuck under the debris. “We were attacked while we were sleeping, without any warning,” he said.

“We also have tents for people who have been forced to leave their homes in the yard. ” We have 10 people who died here, and 20 people who died there.

Rami Al Aida, who works for the Civil Defense in Central Gaza, said that it’s really hard for crews to do their job because they don’t have enough fuel and equipment. We want to find people who are still alive. We ask all international groups to give the Civil Defense the tools, bulldozers, and fuel they need.

Al Aida also believed that many people were still trapped under the collapsed building, just like others at the site. “There are more than four families stuck under the collapsed building, and other families are looking for a place to stay nearby. ” There are over 100 people.

A girl named Sama Alousha said they heard a loud noise around 1am.

“We all got scared and went to see what happened. ” I saw my friend’s house all broken down. We can’t save anyone. “I have five friends stuck under here. ”

One man, who did not give his name, said that he and his family had been moved to different places many times.

“We were forced to leave Shajaiya. ” We went to Khan Younis and then to Rafah, and from Rafah, we came here. My brother got a house here and lived there with his family.

All of a sudden, I got a call telling me that the place where my brother was staying got hit. There are no tools to get them back. They are a family of six people who are not involved in any fighting or war. “My brother, his wife, and four kids. ”

Then he said the names of his brother’s family, but no one answered.

A woman named Um Mahmoud was crying and she said to the reporters, “My brother came to the area from Rafah three days ago because he had to leave his home, and now we don’t know where he is. ” He and his wife and their five kids don’t have any relationships with others. He is a person who had to leave Rafah and is still looking for a place to live in Deir el Balah.

“She said his name was on the list to leave Gaza through the Rafah border, but something unexpected happened. ”

A man named Salah Abu Jarada said his brother also came from the Rafah area. “They were struck by three floors falling on them. ” “They still haven’t been saved. ”

Another attack happened at the UNRWA school in Nuseirat, about two hours after the first one, as reported by people who saw it happen.

Ismail Abu Ghosheh said, “Everything is destroyed, and seven people died. ”

Another man at the school, Najah Abu Daher, said that there is nowhere safe to go. They go with us everywhere we go. My son and three of my family members were all killed. They attacked us in the middle of the night, making children run and breaking glass.

The Israeli military bombed a house in the city of Rafah in Gaza, killing at least nine people, including six children. Israel has been attacking Gaza for almost seven months.

The fighting between Israel and the militant group Hamas has made the Middle East more tense, especially between Israel and Iran. Now all eyes are on Rafah, a place where more than half of Gaza’s 2. 3 million people live. Many of them had to leave their homes because of the fighting in other parts of Gaza.

The attack on Friday hit the Tel Sultan neighborhood in Rafah, according to Gaza’s civil defense. At al-Najjar hospital, where dead bodies are kept, family members cried and hugged the bodies of children covered in white cloth. “Hamza my dear. ” The grandma said, “Your hair looks very nice. ”

Abdel-Fattah Sobhi Radwan, his wife Najlaa Ahmed Aweidah, and their three kids died, according to his brother-in-law Ahmed Barhoum. Barhoum’s wife, Rawan Radwan, and their five-year-old daughter, Alaa, died.

Barhoum told The Associated Press that this world doesn’t have good values and morals. He was crying as he gently rocked Alaa’s body. “They attacked a house where people who had to leave their homes lived, including women and children. ” Only women and children died as martyrs.

Israel has been saying for a long time that it will send its soldiers into Rafah, to go after the Hamas fighters who are still there. But other countries, including the United States, have asked Israel to be careful and not use too much force.

Some people from Rafah near the border with Egypt left their homes after being told to by the Israeli army. “Hey, they’re going to attack at 3:40. ” It is happening. It is going on. “Can you tell me the time. ” someone askedA few minutes later, there was a strike. It was not clear if anyone died right away.

On Saturday, an Israeli airstrike hit a house in a refugee camp in central Gaza. At least one man was killed and two others were injured. This information was given by authorities at the al-Aqsa Martyrs hospital in Deir al-Balah, where an AP journalist saw the casualties.

The war started on Oct 7 when Hamas and other militant groups attacked southern Israel. About 1,200 people, mostly civilians, died and around 250 were kidnapped and taken to Gaza. Israel says that there are still around 130 people being held in Gaza, even though more than 30 have been killed.

At least 34,049 Palestinians have died and 76,901 have been injured in the war. In the last 24 hours, 37 bodies of people killed by Israeli attacks were taken to hospitals. The health authorities in charge of Hamas don’t separate between fighters and regular people when counting the casualties. They say that at least two-thirds of the casualties are children and women.

Israel says that Hamas is responsible for the deaths of innocent people, because it hides among civilians.

The war has made tensions between neighboring regions get worse and worse. On Friday, Israel and Iran, who are enemies, downplayed a possible Israeli attack near a big air base and nuclear site in central Iran. This shows they were stepping back from a potential full-scale war. Last week, Iran shot a lot of missiles at Israel because they were angry that Israel had allegedly killed two Iranian generals in Syria.

Israel is still fighting with groups supported by Iran. They often shoot rockets and fly drones back and forth over the border between Lebanon and Israel. This is with a group called Hezbollah, which is supported by Iran. Yemen’s Houthi rebels, who are supported by Iran, have attacked merchant ships in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden to show support for Palestinians in Gaza.

There is also a lot of tension in the West Bank.

The Palestinian Health Ministry reported that 12 people were found dead on Saturday in a refugee camp, bringing the total number of deaths to 13 since the Israeli military operation started on Thursday night. It means they were killed because the occupation attacked them.

The Islamic Jihad group said that three of their members have died. Another person who got killed was a 15-year-old boy. The Israeli army reported that its soldiers killed 10 fighters in the camp and nearby areas, and also arrested eight suspects. Nine soldiers and officers were hurt, the report stated.

Since October, Israeli forces have killed at least 469 Palestinians from east Jerusalem and the West Bank, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry.

In another part of the West Bank, the ministry reported that an ambulance driver was killed near Sawiya town while trying to help Palestinians who were hurt in fights with Israeli settlers. The Palestinian Red Crescent reported that Mohammed Musa got shot in the chest. A bunch of settlers started attacking people a week ago because an Israeli teenager went missing and was found dead.

Israel’s army said on Sunday that they have taken their soldiers out of the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis. This is an important part of their mission against the Hamas group. Now, they have fewer soldiers in Gaza than they did before.

Defence officials said soldiers were getting ready to move into the last place controlled by Hamas, called Rafah. “The fighting in Gaza is still going on, and we are a long way from ending it,” said the military leader, Lt. Write in simple words: Gen. Herzi Halevi is an Israeli general.

Channel 13 TV said that Israel will start moving people out of Rafah in a week and it could take a few months.

Nevertheless, the withdrawal was an important event as Israel and Hamas reached six months of fighting. Military officials, who want to keep their names secret, said a big group of soldiers is still in Gaza to do planned operations, including in a place called Khan Younis where the leader of Hamas, Yehya Sinwar, is from.

A video in Khan Younis showed people going back to a place with broken tall buildings and climbing over wreckage. Cars were flipped upside down and burned. The main hospital in Southern Gaza, called Nasser, was in very bad condition.

Ahmad Abu al-Rish said sadly, “It’s all just broken pieces. ” “Animals can’t survive here, so how can a person. ”

Israel has promised to send soldiers to fight in Rafah soon. But there are 1. 4 million people living in the city, which is more than half of the population of Gaza. The idea of an attack has made the whole world worried, even Israel’s closest friend, the US, wants to see a good plan to keep civilians safe. Letting people go back to Khan Younis might help ease some stress on Rafah.

John Kirby, who speaks for national security at the White House, said again on Sunday that the US doesn’t support an attack on Rafah. He told ABC that the US thinks the Israeli soldiers leaving Rafah is just a break for them to rest and get ready to go back, and not a sign that they are planning a new attack.

Israel’s military withdrew some of its troops from the badly damaged northern Gaza during the war, without making much noise about it. It keeps doing airstrikes and attacks in places where it thinks Hamas is back, like Gaza’s biggest hospital, Shifa. The head of the World Health Organization said the hospital is now empty and destroyed.

After six months, many people in Israel are feeling more and more upset. There are big protests against the government and people are getting angrier because they think the government is not doing enough to free around 130 hostages. The government says that about a quarter of the hostages have died. Hamas fighters took around 250 people captive when they went from Gaza to Israel on October 7 and caused the deaths of 1,200 people, mostly innocent civilians.

Thousands of people protested outside the Knesset in Jerusalem, demanding that the government make a deal to free hostages. The protest was organized by the families of the hostages. In the south part of Israel, sad family members came together at a music festival where over 300 people died on October. Reworking the sentence would allow me to comprehend it better, so I could try to help you further if you provide more information.

“We cannot believe this is real and the people in Gaza and our country also cannot believe it’s real. ” “We just want to stay alive,” said a person named Talia Ezrahi who was protesting.

Another protester, Michal Fruchtman, said she would agree to anything in order to bring back the hostages and stop the mass killings in Gaza.

Talks were supposed to start again on Sunday in Cairo to try to make a deal to stop fighting in exchange for letting the hostages go. An Israeli group, led by the head of the Mossad intelligence agency, was going to Cairo, as told by an Israeli official who wanted to keep their identity a secret. They were not allowed to talk about it with the media.

There was a lot of pressure to take action right away.

“This doesn’t look like a war against terror. ” This no longer looks like a war to protect Israel. Chef Jose Andres said it seems like a war against humanity. Seven of his colleagues were killed in Gaza. Help deliveries to the area were stopped on a very important new path by the sea.

“Gaza has been left alone by most of humanity,” according to a statement from the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies.

The UN and other groups are saying that a lot of people in Gaza will soon not have enough food. They want Israel to allow more aid to be brought in by land so that people can get the food they need. Some Palestinians are even looking for plants to eat because there isn’t enough food. Many trucks full of help have been stuck outside Gaza, waiting to go in.

“People are slowly dying because they are not getting enough food and water. This has been happening for the last six months,” said Avril Benoit, the head of Doctors Without Borders USA, in an interview with CBS.

Mothers who have had babies in Gaza since the war began are at high risk.

The Gaza Health Ministry reported that 38 people who were killed in Israel’s bombing were brought to the hospitals in the last day. It was reported that 33,175 people have died since the war started. It doesn’t tell the difference between regular people and fighters, but it says that two-thirds of the people who died are children and women.

Israel’s army kept losing soldiers, including four who died in Khan Younis. More than 600 Israeli soldiers died since October. 7, as per the government of Israel.

Worries about a bigger fight in the area kept going as a high-ranking Iranian military adviser cautioned Israel that none of its embassies were secure after a strike in Damascus last week – said to be done by Israel – that killed two important Iranian generals and destroyed an Iranian consular building. Israel has not admitted to being involved.

“No Israeli embassies are safe anymore,” General said. Rahim Safavi, a military advisor to Iran’s top leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was quoted by the semi-official Tasnim agency.

Israel’s army said on Saturday that they found the body of a 47-year-old farmer who was kept captive in Gaza. Negotiators are getting ready to start talking again to try to make a truce and free the other hostages. This has been going on for six months since the war started.

Israel’s military found the body of Elad Katzir and thinks he was killed by fighters from Islamic Jihad, one of the groups that came into southern Israel in October. 7 attacks, killed over 1,200 people, and held about 250 people as hostages. Katzir was taken from Nir Oz, a community near the border that was hit hard.

The finding put more pressure on Israel’s government to make a deal and free the rest of the hostages. Families are worried that time is running out. At least 36 people who were held as captives have been confirmed to have died. About half of the original number of hostages have been set free.

“If a deal had happened in time, he could have been saved,” said Katzir’s sister Carmit in a statement. “Our leader is afraid and only thinks about politics, that’s why (a deal) didn’t happen. ”

Some Israelis disagree with the way Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his government are handling the ceasefire negotiations, which have not been successful so far. Last week, many Israelis gathered in central Jerusalem for a big protest against the government, which was the largest protest since the war started.

In Gaza, many people have been killed and over a million Palestinians have been forced from their homes because of Israel’s attack.

“We have reached a really bad point,” said Martin Griffiths, the head of UN humanitarian. “It’s been six months and there might be a terrible famine soon. The situation in Gaza getting worse is not acceptable. ”

The talks to stop fighting will start again on Sunday, as per an Egyptian official and Egypt’s state-owned Al Qahera TV. The official spoke without giving their name because they were not allowed to talk about the negotiations in public.

The US President Joe Biden has asked CIA Director Bill Burns to go to Egypt and have more discussions about the people who are being held captive, stopping the fighting, and making sure the border between Egypt and Gaza is safe.

A group from Hamas will come on Sunday to join the talks, said the militant group.

Hamas says they won’t agree to end the war in stages unless hostages are released. It said it will release 40 people as part of a 6-week ceasefire deal, and also release Palestinian prisoners from Israeli jails. Hamas wants the people who had to leave their homes in northern Gaza to come back, and they want more help. Israel said they would let 2,000 people come back each day for six weeks, but only women, children, and older people.

Israel said they will let 2,000 Palestinian people, mostly women, children, and older people, move to the north each day for six weeks.

The discussions happened a few days after people all around the world criticized Israel for bombing and killing seven people who were working to help others with a charity called World Central Kitchen. The Israeli military said they made a mistake with the strike and it’s sad. Aid groups say that this mistake is not unusual.

Some of Israel’s friends are thinking about stopping selling weapons. Biden told Netanyahu that the US will only keep supporting the war if they take quick action to protect civilians and aid workers.

“Marika Guderian from the World Food Program said we need to be sure we’ll be safe while we help people in Gaza. ”

The violence stopped help from being brought by ship to Gaza, which was an important new way to bring food and supplies. The UN and its partners are worried that there could be a severe lack of food.

In Jabaliya, a place where people who had to leave their homes live near Gaza City, families looked for mallow leaves to make a light soup to have when they finish fasting for Ramadan every day. Life is very unhappy. My daughters tell me, “Dad, you keep giving us mallow to eat every day. ” We want to have fish, chicken, and canned food for our meal. Wael Attar, who is staying in a school with 1. 7 million other people who had to leave their homes in Gaza, said, “We really want some eggs, or anything to eat. ” The Health Ministry in Gaza said that 33,137 people have died in the war. The toll doesn’t care if people are civilians or soldiers. But it has said that most of the dead are women and children.

The ministry said 46 Palestinians were killed in Israeli airstrikes and their bodies were brought to hospitals in the past day. This is the lowest number of deaths in months.

Israel says that Hamas is responsible for the deaths of civilians in Gaza. They say that Hamas is working in areas where civilians live and in places like hospitals.

The UN said it was able to get into Gaza’s biggest hospital, Shifa, after an Israeli attack, and the head of the World Health Organization called it “completely destroyed” with most of the buildings ruined. The WHO found many shallow graves and bodies that were only partly buried outside the emergency department after the Israeli siege.

The hospital in southern Gaza, Nasser, was destroyed and it has made the already struggling health system even worse, according to the WHO.


The city of Rafah in Gaza has more than half of the area’s 2. 3Israel has promised to launch a ground attack there, causing fear and warnings even from the United States.

The Israeli military has fired two officers and gave warnings to three others for their part in drone attacks in Gaza that killed seven aid workers. The military said they mishandled important information and broke the rules.

The investigation by a retired general found that Israel was embarrassed to admit that it is not doing enough to protect civilians in Gaza from its conflict with Hamas. The US and other important allies are accusing Israel of not taking proper steps to safeguard the people in Gaza.

The results will probably make people doubt the choices made by the Israeli military. Palestinians, aid groups, and human rights organizations keep saying that Israeli forces shoot at civilians without being careful, but Israel says this is not true.

“It’s a very sad event,” said the military’s spokesperson, Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari spoke to the reporters. “We are responsible for a serious event that should not have happened, and we will make sure it doesn’t happen again. ”

Israel is being told to take responsibility for what it did. Hagari and other officials told reporters the results of the military’s investigation on Thursday night.

It’s not certain if the punishments and apology will make people feel better about the workers who died, or make aid groups feel safe to come back to Gaza, where many people don’t have enough to eat.

According to what the people who speak for the Israeli army said, targets have to be seen as dangers for many reasons before they can be attacked. But the investigation found out that a colonel gave permission for several drone attacks on the group of vehicles because a major saw, in blurry footage from a drone camera, that someone in the group had a weapon. The military officials said that the observation was not true.

The army said the colonel and the major were fired, and three other officers were told they did something wrong. It said the investigation results were given to the military’s advocate general. The advocate general will decide if the officers and others involved in the killings should get more punishment or be prosecuted.

Israel’s friends were very upset about the killings and they criticized Israel for how they have been acting in the war with Hamas, which has been going on for almost six months.

The aid workers were five people from different countries who worked for a charity called World Central Kitchen, which was started by a famous chef named José Andrés. The driver from Palestine was also killed.

A recent report found that an Israeli attack in Gaza in October killed 106 civilians, including 54 children. The investigation did not find any evidence that the building targeted was used by militants, making the attack seem like a war crime.

International rules say that it’s not allowed to attack military places if it will probably hurt a lot of innocent people. The 31 attack was one of the worst since the war began about six months ago.

Human Rights Watch reported that four different airstrikes destroyed a building in central Gaza where about 350 people were living. Around one-third of these people had left their homes in other parts of the territory.

The people who died were children playing soccer outside and others were charging their phones in the grocery store on the first floor.

The group says that 34 women, 18 men, and 54 children were killed in the attack. They checked their list with a group in London to make sure it was correct. The people who died were from 22 different families. The Abu Said family lost 23 of their family members in the attack.

The news reported that four brothers and sisters, including 18-month-old twins, were killed in the attack in October.

“They didn’t have enough time here,” said Sami Abu Sultan, their uncle, one day after the building was destroyed. “It was what God wanted. ”

Human Rights Watch collected information for the report by talking to 16 people, including family members of those who died in the attack. They also looked at satellite pictures, 35 photos and 45 videos of what happened afterwards. I couldn’t go to the site because Israel doesn’t allow people to easily enter Gaza.

People who saw the attack told the organization that there was no warning before it happened. Human Rights Watch says Israel has not given any information about the supposed target and did not answer their requests for information.

The Israeli military did not reply right away when the Associated Press asked for a comment on Thursday.

Israel says it tries not to hurt innocent people and says it’s Hamas’ fault that civilians are dying because Hamas operates in crowded neighborhoods. The military doesn’t often talk about specific attacks that kill many people, including women and children, every day.

Israel is getting more and more criticism from other countries because it killed seven aid workers in recent attacks. Israel has been attacking Gaza very strongly and has killed more than 33,000 Palestinians, says the Gaza Health Ministry. This has been happening since Hamas attacked in October. Seven attackers caused the death of 1,200 people and held about 250 people as hostages. The attack on the strip is one of the most serious air attacks of the 21st century.

The foreign minister of South Africa says that people from her country who fight in the Israeli army or with them in Gaza will be arrested when they come back. This has made the relationship between the two countries even worse, especially after South Africa accused Israel of genocide at the United Nations.

Earlier this week, Foreign Minister Naledi Pandor spoke at a Palestinian solidarity event that was attended by officials from South Africa’s ruling African National Congress party.

She told people to protest outside the embassies of five countries that support Israel and its military actions in Gaza. She didn’t say their names but she was probably talking about the United States and the U. Kand also Germany and other countries.

“I have already warned South Africans who are fighting with or in the Israeli Defense Forces: We are prepared. ” “When you get home, we’re going to catch you,” Pandor said, and the audience clapped loudly.

In December, the South African government said it was worried that some of its citizens or residents had joined the IDF to fight in Gaza. They warned that these people could get in trouble if they didn’t have permission to do so under South Africa’s laws.

People who have citizenship in both South Africa and Israel may lose their South African citizenship, according to the foreign ministry.

Pandor’s comments showed that the government is taking a stricter position.

It’s not known how many people from South Africa have fought for Israel in the current Gaza war. South Africa has a lot of Jewish people, about 70,000.

South Africa’s government has always supported the Palestinian people and criticized Israel, even before the recent war.

Many South Africans and the ruling ANC party see similarities between how Israel treats Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank and how non-whites were treated during apartheid in South Africa.

Israel says no to South Africa’s accusation that it is treating Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza in a way that is similar to apartheid. Israel also strongly disagrees with South Africa’s claim in the International Court of Justice that it is committing genocide in Gaza. The decision in that case might not come for a very long time.

Israel said that South Africa is supporting the Hamas group that attacked southern Israel on Oct. and is not on their side. The fighting between Israel and Gaza started when 1200 Israelis were killed and 250 hostages were taken back to Gaza.

Israel’s attack on Gaza has caused a lot of damage. More than 31,000 Palestinians have died, and many of the 2. 3 million people who live there have been forced to leave their homes. This has caused a big problem, with hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in danger of starving.

Pandor asked people at the event to make signs that say “Stop Genocide” and protest outside the embassies of the countries that support Israel.

“Don’t just come to this dinner. “Be seen supporting the people of Palestine,” she said.