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CNN
12 hours ago
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- CNN
Desperate scenes at community kitchen in northern Gaza
Desperate scenes at community kitchen in northern Gaza Chaotic scenes broke out at this community-run kitchen in Gaza City, in the north, as Palestinians desperate for a meal rushed to receive food. More than 2 million Palestinians have been pushed towards famine after an 11-week blockade on aid by Israel. US and Israeli-backed aid distribution centers have only been opened in the center and the south of the strip. 01:18 - Source: CNN Palestinian UN envoy breaks down talking about Gaza's children The Palestinian ambassador to the UN made an emotional address, saying more than 1,300 children have been killed in Gaza since Israel ended the ceasefire in March. 01:19 - Source: CNN Political candidate wears body armor daily CNN's David Culver met César Gutiérrez Priego as he was readying to campaign for office in Mexico City. Gutiérrez Priego, who is running for a seat on the Supreme Court in Mexico, shows Culver the safety precautions he takes with political violence in Mexico at an all-time high. See Culver's full reporting on CNN. 00:53 - Source: CNN Harvard students and faculty speak out against Trump Harvard students and faculty spoke to CNN ahead of commencement as Donald Trump said the university should cap foreign enrollment. The Trump administration has recently sought to cancel $100 million in contracts with the school. 02:03 - Source: CNN Palestinians desperate for food rush US-backed aid site Scores of people rushed over fencing and through barricades in southern Gaza on the first day a US-Israeli-backed aid site was opened. CNN's Jeremy Diamond explains the desperate humanitarian situation that remains in the region. 01:22 - Source: CNN Journalists spit on at Jerusalem Day flag march Ultra-nationalist Israeli Jews chanted anti-Arab slogans as they marched through Jerusalem's Old City to mark Jerusalem Day. CNN's Oren Liebermann describes heavy police presence on the ground. Members of the crowd were seen spitting on journalists, including a CNN producer. 01:50 - Source: CNN Finland's president responds to Russian military activity along border CNN's Erin Burnett speaks with Finland's President Alexander Stubb about his country ramping up its military to deter potential Russian aggression. 02:16 - Source: CNN King Charles stresses Canada's 'self determination' amid pressure from US King Charles III delivered the ceremonial Speech from the Throne in the Canadian Senate. The address marks only the second time in Canadian history that the reigning sovereign has opened parliament, and the third time that the British monarch has delivered the address. 00:42 - Source: CNN Huge ship refloated after nearly crashing into house A larger container ship has been refloated after nearly crashing into a house in Norway. According to local police, the navigator had fallen asleep at the helm. 00:42 - Source: CNN Vehicle plows into crowd in Liverpool Police in the United Kingdom say a man has been arrested after a car plowed into Liverpool fans celebrating during the soccer club's Premier League trophy parade. 01:14 - Source: CNN Iran's Foreign Ministry on progress of Iran-US talks Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baqaei gave an exclusive interview to CNN's Fred Pleitgen on the progress of continuing nuclear talks with the US. Baqaei told CNN that any attempt by the Trump administration to 'deprive' Iranians of their right to nuclear energy would be 'very problematic'. But he also said that there were many ways to come to a compromise. Iran and the United States concluded a fifth round of talks in Rome on Friday. 01:16 - Source: CNN Video of President Macron's wife 'pushing' him goes viral A video of French President Macron's wife pushing him as they disembarked a flight has caught the attention of Russian trolls after going viral. While Macron himself tried to downplay the video saying it merely showed a couple 'bickering,' it's not the first time Russian troll accounts and state media outlets have tried to use videos of the French president to spread disinformation. CNN's Saskya Vandoorne has more. 01:35 - Source: CNN Israeli strikes were one of this hostage's biggest fears in captivity An Israeli soldier released by Hamas during a ceasefire-hostage deal has said one of her biggest fears during captivity were strikes carried out by Israel. It's 'what endangered me more than anything,' Na'ama Levy said. The former hostage's comments came after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said earlier this month that defeating Israel's enemies is the 'supreme objective' and more important than securing the release of the remaining hostages in Gaza. 00:57 - Source: CNN Nine of this doctor's children killed in Gaza Dr. Alaa al-Najjar left her ten children at home when she went to work in the emergency room at the Nasser Medical Complex in southern Gaza. Hours later, the bodies of seven children - most of them badly burned - arrived at the hospital, according to the Ministry of Health in Gaza. They were Dr. Najjar's own children, killed in an Israeli strike on her home. The bodies of two more of her children – a 7-month-old and a 12-year-old who authorities presume to be dead – remain missing. 02:03 - Source: CNN Harvard foreign student describes atmosphere of 'pure panic' CNN spoke to 20-year-old Abdullah Shahid Sial, a rising junior and student body co-president at Harvard University, about his reaction to the Trump administration's decision to revoke the university's ability to enroll international students. A federal judge temporarily halted the Trump administration's ban on Friday, after the nation's oldest and wealthiest college filed a suit in federal court. 01:29 - Source: CNN This Indian YouTuber is accused of spying An Indian travel vlogger has been arrested on suspicion of spying for Pakistan just days after tensions soared between the two longtime rival nations following an attack last month that left 26 tourists dead in India-administered Kashmir. Police say that 'in the pursuit of views, followers, and viral content, she fell into a trap.' 01:46 - Source: CNN See what Gaza's hotels looked like before the war When Donald Trump announced his plans to turn war-torn Gaza into the "Riviera of the Middle East," many Palestinians were angered. CNN spoke to two hoteliers, who explained what life was like before the war and their hopes for the future. 01:51 - Source: CNN Mountaineers scaled Mt. Everest in less than a week Mountaineers usually spend weeks or months acclimating to high altitudes before ascending Mt. Everest. But one group accomplished the feat in less than a week after using an anesthetic gas that critics warn could be dangerous. 01:40 - Source: CNN See moment OceanGate team noticed something wrong Newly released video shows OceanGate founder and CEO Stockton Rush's wife, Wendy Rush, who was working on the communications and tracking team, notice the sound of a 'bang' while monitoring the submersible. The Titan submersible imploded on June 18, 2023, killing all five passengers on board. 00:49 - Source: CNN
Free Malaysia Today
17 hours ago
- Business
- Free Malaysia Today
Israel tells Hamas to accept hostage deal or ‘be annihilated'
Hamas says the 'Witkoff Deal' fails to satisfy its demands, but stopped short of rejecting it outright. (AP pic) GAZA CITY : Israel yesterday said Hamas must accept a hostage deal in Gaza or 'be annihilated', as US President Donald Trump announced that a ceasefire agreement was 'very close'. It came amid dire conditions on the ground, with the United Nations warning that Gaza's entire population was at risk of famine. Defence minister Israel Katz said Hamas must agree to a ceasefire proposal presented by US envoy Steve Witkoff or be destroyed, after the Palestinian resistance group said the deal failed to satisfy its demands. 'The Hamas murderers will now be forced to choose: accept the terms of the 'Witkoff Deal' for the release of the hostages – or be annihilated.' Israel has repeatedly said that the destruction of Hamas was a key aim of the war. Negotiations to end nearly 20 months of war in Gaza have so far failed to achieve a breakthrough, with Israel resuming operations in March following a short-lived truce. In the US, Trump told reporters 'they're very close to an agreement on Gaza', adding: 'We'll let you know about it during the day or maybe tomorrow.' Food shortages in Gaza persist, with aid only trickling in after the partial lifting by Israel of a more than two-month blockade. Jens Laerke, a spokesman for the UN humanitarian agency, called Gaza 'the hungriest place on Earth'. 'It's the only defined area – a country or defined territory within a country – where you have the entire population at risk of famine,' he said. Later, the UN condemned the 'looting of large quantities of medical equipment' and other supplies 'intended for malnourished children' from one of its Gaza warehouses by armed individuals. Aid groups have warned that desperation for food and medicine among Gazans was causing security to deteriorate. 'Crusade' against Israel The United Nations warned that Gaza's entire population is at risk of famine. (AP pic) Israel has doubled down on its settlement expansion in the occupied West Bank, while defying calls from French President Emmanuel Macron and other world leaders for a two-state solution. This week, Israel announced the creation of 22 new settlements in the Palestinian territory, which Israel has occupied since 1967. London said the move was a 'deliberate obstacle' to Palestinian statehood, while Egypt called it 'a provocative and blatant new violation of international law and Palestinian rights'. The 57-member Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, which includes Egypt, also condemned Israel's decision. Yesterday, Katz vowed to build a 'Jewish Israeli state' in the West Bank. Israeli settlements in the Palestinian territory are considered illegal under international law and seen as a major obstacle to a lasting peace in the decades-long Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Katz framed the move as a direct rebuke to Macron and others pushing for recognition of a Palestinian state. Macron yesterday said that recognition of a Palestinian state, with some conditions, was 'not only a moral duty, but a political necessity'. Israel's foreign ministry accused the French president of undertaking a 'crusade against the Jewish state'. Separately, a diplomatic source told AFP that Saudi foreign minister Faisal bin Farhan would make the first visit of its kind to the West Bank tomorrow. 'Children in pieces' The White House announced on Thursday that Israel had 'signed off' on a new ceasefire proposal submitted to Hamas. The Palestinian group said the deal failed to satisfy its demands, but stopped short of rejecting it outright, saying it was 'holding consultations' on the proposal. Gaza's civil defence agency told AFP that at least 45 people had been killed in Israeli attacks yesterday, including seven in a strike targeting a family home in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip. Palestinians sobbed over the bodies of their loved ones at Gaza City's Al-Shifa Hospital following the strike, AFPTV footage showed. 'These were civilians and were sleeping at their homes,' said neighbour Mahmud al-Ghaf, describing 'children in pieces'. The Israeli military did not immediately respond to a request for comment, but said separately that the air force had hit 'dozens of targets' across Gaza over the past day. The health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza said yesterday that at least 4,058 people had been killed since Israel resumed operations on March 18, taking the war's overall toll to 54,321, mostly civilians. Hamas's 2023 attack on Israel resulted in the deaths of 1,218 people, also mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally based on official figures. Of the 251 hostages seized during Hamas's attack, 57 remain in Gaza, including 34 the Israeli military says are dead.
BBC News
2 days ago
- Health
- BBC News
Gaza: Security breaks down as desperate people search for food
There is a state of chaos, a breakdown of security, and looting in north Gaza's main city, where Palestinians are desperately searching for food and where aid is difficult to Hamas-run interior ministry said seven of its police officers deployed to a market in Gaza City on Thursday were killed by an Israeli air strike as they attempted to restore order and confront what it called "looters".The Israeli military has not commented on the incident, but it did say it had struck "dozens of terror targets" throughout Gaza over the past medics and rescuers said at least 44 people were killed across the territory on Thursday, including 23 at the central Bureij refugee camp. It comes a day after the UN's World Food programme (WFP) said at least two people were shot dead as what it described as "hordes of hungry people" broke into its warehouse in the central town of Deir al-Balah in search of food after 11 weeks of a total Israeli blockade. It was not clear who opened 50 people were also reportedly shot and injured when thousands overran a new aid distribution centre run by the US and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) in the southern city of Rafah on Tuesday, according to a senior UN official in Gaza. The Israeli military said troops fired warning shots into the air but not at the crowds. On Thursday, interior ministry police officers armed with Kalashnikov-style rifles and handguns went to a market near Gaza City's central al-Saraya junction, which houses a number of small stalls selling canned food and circulating on social media, too graphic to share, show bodies, blood, and scattered remains lying on the ground following what the ministry said was an Israeli attack."Israeli occupation aircraft targeted a number of police officers... while they were performing their duty in confronting a group of looters earlier today, leading to the martyrdom of several officers and civilians in yet another massacre," a statement BBC sought comment from the Israeli military about the incident.A statement from the military on Thursday afternoon said aircraft had struck dozens of targets over the past day, including "terrorists, military structures, observation and sniper posts that posed a threat to [Israeli] troops in the area, tunnels, and additional terrorist infrastructure sites".There has been increased lawlessness in Gaza since Israel began targeting the Gaza interior ministry's police officers last year, citing their role in Hamas the territory's police chief and his deputy were killed in a strike in January, the ministry insisted the force was a "civilian protection agency". The Israeli military accused the force of "violating human rights and suppressing dissent". There were reports of a breakdown of order elsewhere in Gaza on Thursday, as desperate people searched for food and other witness who had gone to a GHF aid distribution centre near Rafah told the BBC that thousands of people had gathered in the area from dawn, and that they ended up breaking through the site's gate to try to obtain 08:00 local time, the witness said, the Israeli military issued a warning via a quadcopter drone instructing people to head to the distribution centre, and that they began moving in an orderly way towards the area."For exactly 10 minutes, things were organised but then the crowd broke through the gate and rushed into the courtyard.""People grabbed boxes and sacks of flour and left, all under the surveillance of the Israeli quadcopter," they from near the GHF site shows thousands of Palestinians walking near the centre on Thursday morning. Some are in horse-drawn carts, while others wheel bicycles covered with goods. Young men, for the most part, can be seen carrying sacks of flour on their heads and backs. One exhausted woman appears to struggle to walk among the crowd. Abu Fawzi Faroukh, a 60-year-old Palestinian man who was at the site on Thursday morning, told AFP news agency that aid supplies were more difficult for the elderly and vulnerable to obtain."The young men are the ones who have received aid first, yesterday and today, because they are young and can carry loads. But the old people and women cannot enter due to the crowding.""We have been humiliated, the Palestinian people are humiliated," he described similar scenes at the newly opened GHF distribution site in central Gaza, with a number telling the BBC they had come away Mohammed Abu Hajar said she had heard there was aid being distributed in the area, so took her ID and went to see what she could get."I found all the people hungry," she said. "So, I couldn't get anything. I left like this... empty-handed."She said more organisation was needed in order to distribute aid "fairly", adding that currently, "some people eat and some people don't". Another man, Hani Abed, who was at the same distribution centre, said he'd failed to get any aid for him and his 10 family members."I came empty-handed and I left empty-handed," he said. "I will take dirt for my children to eat."The GHF said approximately 17,280 food boxes, containing the equivalent of 997,920 meals, were handed out to Gazans at its three operational distribution sites on Thursday."Operations will continue scaling, with plans to build additional sites across Gaza, including in the northern region, in the weeks ahead," it also rejected the reports of Palestinians being shot at while trying to obtain aid at its centres. "No shots have ever been fired," it GHF's new aid system bypasses the UN and requires Palestinians to collect food parcels from distribution sites protected by US security contractors in areas controlled by the Israeli military in southern and central Gaza. The UN has refused to co-operate with the system, saying it is unethical and head of the UN's humanitarian office in Gaza, Jonathan Whittall, said on Wednesday that GHF could not possibly meet the needs of the 2.1 million population and was "essentially engineering scarcity".The US and Israeli governments have said the new system is preventing aid from being stolen by Hamas, which the armed group denies doing. Israel imposed a total blockade on humanitarian aid and commercial supplies to Gaza on 2 March and resumed its military offensive two weeks later, ending a two-month ceasefire with Hamas. It said the steps put pressure on the armed group to release the 58 hostages still held in Gaza, at least 20 of whom are believed to be 19 May, the Israeli military launched an expanded offensive that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said would "take control of all areas" of Gaza. The following day, he said Israel would also temporarily ease the blockade and allow a "basic" amount of food families of the remaining hostages have urged Netanyahu to agree a new ceasefire with Hamas to secure their Thursday, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said the Israeli government "supported" a new ceasefire proposal that was sent to Hamas by US special envoy Steve Witkoff. "Israel signed off on this proposal before it was sent to Hamas," she a senior Hamas official later told the BBC that the group rejected the proposal because it contradicted the discussions that it had with official said it did not include guarantees that the temporary ceasefire would lead to a permanent end to the fighting or that Israeli troops would withdraw to the positions they held before 2 and US media cited Israeli officials as saying Witkoff's proposal included releasing 10 living hostages and the remains of dead hostages in two phases in exchange for a 60-day ceasefire and the release of a number of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli launched a military campaign in Gaza in response Hamas' cross-border attack on 7 October 2023, in which about 1,200 people were killed and 251 others were taken least 54,249 people have been killed in Gaza since then, including 3,986 since Israel resumed its offensive, according to the territory's health ministry.
Sky News
2 days ago
- Health
- Sky News
'We carry our coffins with us': For Gaza's paramedics, every shift could be their last
Why you can trust Sky News In Gaza, the frontline is not just where the bombs fall - it's where the ambulances arrive. When an Israeli airstrike hit a busy market in Gaza City today, people were queuing for flour. Minutes later, medics were picking up body parts. The bodies were heaved onto stretchers, mutilated limbs twisted unnaturally. Blood soaked the concrete. Sky News has spent several days filming with emergency crews based at Shifa Hospital, Gaza's largest medical complex and one that has itself come under repeated attack. There are few paramedics left, and fewer ambulances. Fuel is low. Equipment is basic. They operate in one of the most dangerous places in the world, where the medics themselves are no longer spared. "There is no safety", says Hamdallah Ali Daher, a paramedic from Jabalia Camp in northern Gaza. "When we respond to a strike, drones are still overhead. They targeted my colleague in one of our vehicles. You could be walking any day and get hit." The danger is constant. Daher describes how they operate under the hum of drones, often arriving at scenes where smoke still rises from the wreckage. "We go out risking life and limb", he says. "We carry our coffins with us." One of his colleagues, Alaa al-Hadidi, was killed in a drone strike in December last year. His fellow medics buried him. Israel has accused Hamas of using ambulances to move around Gaza disguised. Wael Eleywa, another paramedic, has worked throughout the more than 600 days of war. "What affects us the most is the children", he says. "After a mission, you begin to imagine the injured children as your own relatives. These images stay with you and get mixed in your mind." "Some of us have had to pull family members from the rubble." He describes responding to scenes where tents have caught fire after a strike - children burned inside. "There's no mental peace in this job", he adds. "But the work still needs to be done." The war, now nearing its twentieth month, has severely degraded Gaza's emergency response network. Many hospitals are no longer functioning. The roads are dangerous or impassable. The strikes come during the day and in the dark of night. Combat zones shift daily. "There is no protocol anymore", Eleywa says. "We are medics in name, but the occupation doesn't distinguish between civilians, or paramedics or anyone else. Even with permits, they detain or target us." Daher echoes the plea: "To all people, to all organisations - we need protection. We are trying to provide safety in a place where safety can't exist." Despite the horror, there is also resolve. "We lean on and support each other as colleagues", says Daher. "Before the strikes, we're often together laughing, trying to lift each other up. Then the call comes, and we go." The medics speak with the matter-of-fact calm of those who have seen too much. As they race between ruins and hospitals, they know that each shift could be their last. "In this field of work", Eleywa says, "we prepare for the worst, and go. Safety is out of reach."
Arab News
2 days ago
- General
- Arab News
Israel kills another journalist in Gaza as global criticism intensifies
LONDON: Israeli forces killed Moataz Mohammed Rajab, a Palestinian photojournalist and video editor for Al-Quds Al-Youm TV, in an airstrike on Gaza City late Wednesday, amid mounting international condemnation of Israel's conduct in the war. According to the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate, Rajab was killed while covering Israeli attacks near Al-Nafaq Street, when an airstrike hit a civilian vehicle. He died instantly along with other civilians. The Government Media Office in Gaza condemned what it called the 'systematic targeting and assassination' of Palestinian journalists, accusing Israel of a deliberate campaign against the press. 'This is not random,' the office said in a statement. 'Israel is deliberately assassinating Palestinian journalists.' It urged the International Federation of Journalists, the Arab Journalists Union and global press freedom organizations to move beyond statements and take tangible action. Rajab's death comes amid mounting pressure on Israel to deescalate its assault on Gaza and ease a months-long blockade that has plunged the enclave's 2.3 million residents into a severe humanitarian crisis. Calls for restraint have grown increasingly urgent in recent days. Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said Israeli actions had taken 'tragic and unacceptable forms,' and urged an immediate end to the bombings and resumption of humanitarian aid. He added that the forced displacement of Palestinians 'is not and never will be an acceptable option.' In one of the strongest public criticisms yet from a close ally, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz earlier this week questioned the justification for continued Israeli airstrikes, calling them 'no longer comprehensible' and suggesting they go beyond the stated aim of defeating Hamas. Observers say the remarks reflect a growing shift in German public opinion. As the war passes the 600-day mark, international calls for a ceasefire are gaining traction. At least 44 people were killed in Israeli airstrikes across the Gaza Strip on Thursday. The latest attacks came a day after desperate civilians looted a World Food Programme warehouse in central Gaza, highlighting the deepening humanitarian crisis. Since the war began on Oct. 7, 2023, more than 54,000 people have been killed in Gaza, the vast majority of them civilians, including thousands of children. The toll on journalists has also been staggering. According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, at least 181 media workers have been confirmed killed: 173 Palestinian, six Lebanese and two Israeli. The organization said that at least 17 journalists and two media workers were deliberately targeted by Israeli forces in what CPJ classifies as murder. In a report issued Wednesday, CPJ said Israel's blockade and hunger crisis are severely hampering the ability of the press to cover the war, with Gaza's media sector now described as 'dismantled' and 'exhausted.'
