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Gaza rescuers say 37 killed in Israel attacks, as aid group reopens centres
The Israeli military has recently stepped up its campaign in Gaza in what it says is a renewed push to defeat Hamas, whose October 2023 attack sparked the war. But Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva rejected the term "war" to describe the conflict in the devastated Palestinian territory, accusing Israel instead of carrying out "premeditated genocide". Gaza civil defence official Mohammed al-Mughayyir said that "37 people have been martyred in Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip", reporting attacks up and down the length of the territory. The Israeli military did not immediately respond to an AFP request for comment. Calls have mounted for a negotiated ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, but indirect talks between the parties have failed to yield a breakthrough since the collapse of the last brief truce in March. "What is happening in Gaza is not a war. It's a genocide being carried out by a highly prepared army against women and children," said Brazil's Lula, who has previously used the legal term to describe the conflict. "It's no longer possible to accept," he added. French President Emmanuel Macron, who has declined to use the term himself, vowed at a joint appearance with Lula to "ramp up pressure in coordination with the Americans to obtain a ceasefire". France is due later this month to co-host with Saudi Arabia a United Nations conference in New York on a two-state solution to the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians. Aid sites reopen Israel has also faced mounting international pressure to allow more aid into Gaza, after it imposed a more than two-month blockade that led to widespread shortages of food and other essentials. It recently eased the blockade and has worked with the newly formed, US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation to implement a new aid distribution mechanism via a handful of centres in south and central Gaza. But since its inception, GHF has been a magnet for criticism from the UN and other members of the aid world -- which only intensified following a recent string of deadly incidents near its facilities. The United Nations and other aid groups have declined to work with GHF, citing concerns it serves Israeli military goals. Reports from Gaza that dozens were killed over the course of three days as they attempted to reach the group's aid sites drew sharp condemnation. GHF shut down its distribution centres on Wednesday for what it called "reorganisation" to improve its work, but said it had reopened two of them on Thursday. "GHF can confirm that we were open for distribution today," it said in an email to AFP, adding it had delivered 1.4 million meals at two sites on Thursday and more than 8.4 million since opening a little over a week ago. Gaza rescuers and eyewitnesses implicated Israeli troops in the instances of deadly gunfire near a GHF centre in Rafah. Israel's military has maintained it does not prevent Gazans from collecting aid, but army spokesperson Effie Defrin said after one such incident on Tuesday that soldiers had fired towards suspects who "were approaching in a way that endangered" the troops. He added that the incident was under investigation. Hostage bodies recovered During their October 2023 attack, militants abducted 251 hostages, 55 of whom remain in Gaza, including 32 the Israeli military says are dead. On Thursday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the remains of two Israeli-Americans killed on October 7 had been recovered in Gaza and returned to Israel. "In a special operation by the Shin Bet (security agency) and the (military) in the Gaza Strip, the bodies of two of our hostages held by the murderous terrorist organisation Hamas were returned to Israel: Judy Weinstein Haggai and Gad Haggai from Kibbutz Nir Oz, may their memory be blessed," Netanyahu said in a statement. Hamas's unprecedented attack on Israel resulted in the deaths of 1,218 people, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally based on official figures. According to the health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza, at least 4,335 people have been killed since Israel resumed its offensive on March 18, taking the war's overall toll to 54,607, mostly civilians. © 2025 AFP
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US President Donald Trump held a long-awaited phone call with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday, June 5, as the leaders of the world's two biggest economies tried to avoid an all-out trade war. Trump said that the call reached a "very positive conclusion" and that they agreed to meet in person – but Beijing issued a more muted readout saying that Xi spoke of a need to "correct the course" of ties. The call – the first to be publicly announced since Trump returned to power in January – comes after Beijing and Washington had accused each other of jeopardizing a trade war truce agreed last month in Geneva. "The call lasted approximately one and a half hours, and resulted in a very positive conclusion for both Countries," Trump said on Truth Social, adding that US and Chinese trade teams would hold a new meeting "shortly." "President Xi graciously invited the First Lady and me to visit China, and I reciprocated. As Presidents of two Great Nations, this is something that we both look forward to doing," Trump added. Trump said they would announce the time and place of the "soon to be meeting" later. The two leaders did not, however, discuss Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Trump said, despite long-standing US hopes that Beijing could exert influence on Moscow to end the war. "The conversation was focused almost entirely on TRADE," said Trump, adding that they hoped to have resolved issues over crucial rare earth minerals used in tech products. Relations between superpower rivals Beijing and Washington have been fraught ever since Trump introduced sweeping worldwide tariffs in April that targeted China most heavily of all. At one point the United States hit China with additional levies of 145% on its goods as both sides engaged in tit-for-tat escalation. China's countermeasures on US goods reached 125%. Trump had accused Xi as recently as Wednesday of being "extremely hard to make a deal with." Chinese state media said Trump had requested the call. There was no immediate confirmation from the White House. 'Correcting the course' In its more restrained readout, Beijing said that relations needed more work. "Correcting the course of the big ship of Sino-US relations requires us to steer well and set the direction, especially to eliminate all kinds of interference and even destruction, which is particularly important," Xi told Trump, according to state news agency Xinhua. It said Xi told Trump he was welcome to visit China again, following an earlier visit during his first term in 2017. Learn French with Gymglish Thanks to a daily lesson, an original story and a personalized correction, in 15 minutes per day. Until Thursday, the two leaders had not had any confirmed contact for more than five months since the Republican returned to power, despite frequent claims by the US president that such a call was imminent. Trump said in a Time magazine interview in April that Xi had called him – but Beijing insisted that there had been no call recently. Beijing and Washington agreed in Geneva last month to slash their staggeringly high tariffs for 90 days, but the two sides have since traded blame for derailing the deal. Trump argued last week that China had "totally violated" the agreement, without providing further details. China's commerce ministry hit back this week, saying the Trump administration had since introduced "discriminatory restrictive measures," including revoking Chinese student visas in the United States. Trump then dialed up tensions this week. "I like President XI of China, always have, and always will, but he is VERY TOUGH, AND EXTREMELY HARD TO MAKE A DEAL WITH!!!" he posted Wednesday on his Truth Social platform. Washington has meanwhile targeted Chinese nationals who entered the US both legally and illegally, with the president vowing to aggressively revoke Chinese student visas. Trump has separately ramped up tensions with other trade partners, including the European Union, by vowing to double global tariffs on steel and aluminum to 50% from Wednesday.
