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CBS News
05-07-2025
- Health
- CBS News
2 American aid workers injured at food distribution site in Gaza; Palestinians die amid airstrikes and attempts to find food
Two American aid workers with the U.S. and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation were injured in southern Gaza in an attack at a food distribution site on Saturday. The organization claimed the attack was carried out by Hamas but did not provide further evidence. The GHF said assailants threw grenades at a distribution site in Khan Younis, in southern Gaza. The foundation later posted a photo of the fragments of the explosive device and claimed, without providing evidence, that it was detonated by Hamas militants. It said the injuries were not life-threatening, and the two men received medical attention. Meanwhile, Israeli airstrikes killed 14 people in the Gaza Strip, hospital officials in Gaza told the Associated Press on Saturday. The strikes hit tents in the Muwasi area on the southern end of Gaza's Mediterranean coast, killing seven people, including a Palestinian doctor and his three children, according to Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis. Four others were killed in the town of Bani Suheila in southern Gaza, and three people were killed in three different strikes in Khan Younis. The Israeli army did not provide immediate comment on the strikes. The mother of Anas Al-Basyouni mourns his loss shortly after he was killed while on his way to an aid distribution center, during his funeral at Shifa Hospital in Gaza City on Thursday, July 3, 2025. Jehad Alshrafi / AP The latest bloodshed comes as U.S.-led ceasefire efforts aimed at halting a nearly 21-month war appear to be gaining momentum. Hamas gave a "positive" response late Friday to the latest U.S. proposal for a 60-day truce but said further talks were needed on implementation. Hamas has been seeking guarantees that the initial truce would lead to a total end to the war and withdrawal of Israeli troops from Gaza. Hamas has also said they want aid to be delivered exclusively by the U.N. and its partners, and that the GHF be shut down. President Trump has been pushing for an agreement and is set to host Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House next week to discuss a deal. Netanyahu has previously ruled out ending the war until all the hostages are freed and the military and governing capability of Hamas has been permanently destroyed. "We cannot bear it anymore," Saleh Abu Odeh told CBS Saturday Morning. He said he has been displaced countless times within the war-torn territory. "We pray there will be a ceasefire, regardless of the demands. Just agree and let the people breathe." Palestinians die seeking food In addition to those killed in the airstrikes, 10 Palestinians were killed as they sought food in the embattled enclave, Gaza hospital officials told the Associated Press. Eight were killed near a GHF aid distribution site in the southern city of Rafah, the hospital said. One Palestinian was also killed near another GHF point in Rafah. It was not clear how far away the Palestinians were from the sites. GHF denied that the killings happened near their sites. Previously, the organization has said no one has been shot at its sites, which are guarded by private contractors but can only be accessed by passing Israeli military positions hundreds of meters away. CBS News previously reported that a contractor said their colleague had fired into the crowd at one aid site. The army had no immediate comment, but has said it fires warning shots as a crowd-control measure and it only aims at people when its troops are threatened. One Palestinian was also killed waiting in crowds for aid trucks in eastern Khan Younis, officials at Nasser Hospital said. The United Nations and other international organizations bring in their own supplies of aid. It was unclear to which organization the aid trucks the Palestinians were waiting for belonged to, but the incident did not appear to be connected to GHF operations. A youth carries an empty box of relief supplies from the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), as displaced Palestinians walk near a food distribution centre in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on June 1, 2025. -/AFP via Getty Images Crowds of Palestinians often wait for trucks and unload or loot their contents before they reach their destinations. These trucks must pass through areas under Israeli military control. The Israeli military did not immediately comment on the incident. The GHF — a U.S.- and Israeli-backed initiative meant to bypass the U.N. — distributes aid from four sites that are surrounded by Israeli troops, three of which are in the far south of Gaza. The U.N. and other humanitarian groups have rejected the GHF system, saying it allows Israel to use food as a weapon, violates humanitarian principles and it's not effective. Israel says Hamas has been siphoning off aid delivered by the U.N. — a claim the U.N. denies. Hamas has urged Palestinians not to cooperate with the GHF. GHF, which is registered in Delaware, began distributing food in May to Palestinians, who say Israeli troops open fire almost every day toward crowds on roads heading to the distribution points, through Israeli military zones. Several hundred people have been killed and hundreds more wounded, according to the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry and witnesses. The war in Gaza was set off after Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, killing some 1,200 people and taking 250 others hostage. Israel responded with an offensive that has killed over 57,000 Palestinians, according to the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry, displaced nearly all of Gaza's 2 million people and left many on the edge of famine. The ministry is led by medical professionals employed by Gaza's Hamas government. It does not differentiate between civilians and combatants, but its figures are seen by the U.N. and other international organizations as the most reliable statistics on war casualties. contributed to this report.
The Guardian
19-05-2025
- Politics
- The Guardian
Israel targets Nasser hospital as Netanyahu vows to take control of all of Gaza
The IDF told residents living in southern Gaza's Khan Younis, Bani Suheila and Abasan to 'evacuate immediately' ahead of an 'unprecedented attack' on Monday. The IDF's Arabic spokesperson Avichay Adraee claimed the attack was targetting Hamas infrastructure and that the area would be considered a 'dangerous combat zone'. It comes a day after Israel allowed the entry of a 'basic quantity' of food into Gaza, after coming under international criticism over its 10-week blockade on food and humanitarian aid
Al Jazeera
15-05-2025
- Politics
- Al Jazeera
Israel kills dozens in Gaza as Palestinians mark 77 years since the Nakba
More than 74 Palestinians, mostly women and children, have been killed in a wave of Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip, deepening an already catastrophic toll after 19 months of unrelenting bombardment. At least 57 people were killed overnight and into Thursday in a barrage of strikes on residential areas in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis, according to local health officials. Medical staff at Nasser Medical Complex reported an influx of casualties, many of them children. Speaking to Al Jazeera, displaced Palestinian Hasan Moqbel described the continuing assault as a war on civilians. 'They have been bombing Gaza for 19 months. What's left in Gaza? Innocent children are dying. There is no armed activity here. Most of them are elderly people who are dying,' he said. Among those killed was Palestinian journalist Hassan Samour. He and several members of his family were killed when an Israeli strike targeted their home in Bani Suheila, a town east of Khan Younis. Earlier this week, another Palestinian journalist, Hassan Aslih, was killed in an Israeli drone attack on the emergency wing of Nasser Hospital. He had been receiving treatment for injuries sustained in a previous Israeli strike. Since October 7, 2023, Israel has killed more than 170 journalists and media workers, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), making Gaza one of the deadliest places in the world for the press. The latest killings have triggered new waves of forced displacement. Thousands fled Gaza City on Thursday after the Israeli military issued sudden forced evacuation orders. Al Jazeera's Hani Mahmoud reported scenes of panic and fear as residents packed their belongings and tried to escape the expected onslaught. 'We're seeing families carrying their belongings and taking to the streets,' Mahmoud said. 'The children and elderly are carrying whatever they're able to carry … They don't know where to go. There is no safe place for these people – the so-called shelters have already been destroyed by Israeli bombs.' Meanwhile, the Israeli government appears to be laying the groundwork for a parallel escalation in the occupied West Bank. Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, a key figure in Israel's far-right coalition, has openly called for military forces to destroy Palestinian towns and villages in the West Bank, echoing the destruction witnessed in Gaza. 'Just as we are flattening Rafah, Khan Younis and Gaza, we have to flatten the terror hubs,' Smotrich said, referring specifically to the Palestinian village of Bruqin, where an Israeli settler was killed on Wednesday evening. Israeli forces launched new raids across the occupied West Bank at dawn on Thursday, storming cities and refugee camps including Tubas, Nablus, Bethlehem and Dura. Residents in Qalandia, Ya'bad, Fawwar and Askar camps also reported house raids, arrests and what rights groups describe as systematic abuse. The calls to escalate violence in the West Bank come as Palestinians mark the 77th anniversary of the Nakba, or catastrophe, when more than 750,000 Palestinians were forcibly expelled by Zionist militias during the creation of Israel in 1948. More than 530 villages and towns were razed, and the majority of the Palestinian population was either killed or exiled. The newly created state of Israel seized 78 percent of historic Palestine. The remaining 22 percent – the West Bank and Gaza Strip – were occupied by Israel following the 1967 war and remain under military control. Since October 2023, the Israeli army's brutal offensive in Gaza has killed nearly 53,000 Palestinians, most of them women and children. As the bombing continues and the death toll rises, rights groups, media freedom advocates and Palestinian civilians are warning of a campaign of deliberate annihilation. With both Gaza and the West Bank under assault, Palestinians are increasingly questioning whether any part of their homeland will be left intact.
