Updates: Israel kills 80 in Gaza, aid remains insufficient, says UN

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• The Israeli military relentlessly bombarded Gaza, killing at least 80 and wounding dozens of people across the territory.
• The Palestinian Civil Defence said about 50 people remain trapped under the rubble after an Israeli strike that killed at least four others in Jabalia in northern Gaza.
• UN agencies and rights groups warned that the limited aid that entered Gaza over the past days is not sufficient, calling for the lifting of the blockade on the enclave.
• The Israeli military launched a wave of strikes across Lebanon, including an attack in the centre of the southern town of Toul.
• According to several Palestinian sources, Amr Hatem Odeh, who was abducted from Gaza in December 2023, died in Israel’s Sde Teiman military base, where rights groups have documented rampant torture and sexual violence against detainees.
• Dozens of Israeli settlers stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, Islam’s third-holiest site, in occupied East Jerusalem under the protection of Israeli police.

Israeli settlers have attacked the outskirts of the Palestinian town of Bruqin, in the north of the occupied West Bank, setting fire to several houses and vehicles and wounding several people, the Wafa news agency has reported.

The Palestinian Red Crescent Society said it treated eight burn victims from the blazes.

Local sources told Wafa that a group of settlers, under the protection of Israeli military forces, attacked the al-Buq’an area of the town, burning about five homes and five vehicles belonging to residents.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is facing mounting criticism within Israel.

A Palestinian member of the Knesset was removed from the podium during a speech in which he accused Netanyahu of prolonging the war in Gaza for political gain.

The UN humanitarian office (OCHA) says 90 trucks carrying nutritional supplies, food and medicine reached distribution centres in Gaza yesterday.

“OCHA stresses that this shipment is limited in quantity and nowhere near sufficient to meet the scale and scope of the needs of Gaza’s 2.1 million people,” the agency said in a statement. “Other supplies as basic as fresh food, hygiene items, water purification agents, and fuel to power hospitals have not been let in for over 80 days.”

Palestinian residents of Maghayer al-Deir in the occupied West Bank have told the AFP news agency that they had begun packing their belongings and preparing to leave the village following repeated attacks by Israeli settlers.

“No one provides us with protection at all,” Yusef Malihat, a resident of the tiny village east of Ramallah, told AFP, a keffiyeh scarf protecting his head from the sun as he loaded a pickup truck with chain-link fencing previously used to pen up sheep and goats.

“They demolished the houses and threatened us with expulsion and killing,” he said, as a group of settlers looked on from a new illegal outpost a few hundred metres away.

“It’s very sad, what’s happening now … even for an outpost,” said Itamar Greenberg, an Israeli peace activist present at Maghayer al-Deir on Thursday.

“It’s a new outpost 60 metres [200 feet] from the last house of the community, and on Sunday, one settler told me that in one month, the Bedouins will not be here, but it [happened much] more quickly,” he told AFP.

The Palestinian Authority’s Colonization and Wall Resistance Commission denounced Maghayer al-Deir’s displacement, describing it as being the result of the “terrorism of the settler militias”.

A Chicago-born man arrested as the lone suspect in the fatal shooting of a pair of Israel embassy workers outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, DC has been charged in federal court with two counts of first-degree murder.

Elias Rodriguez, 30, is accused of opening fire on a group of people on Wednesday night as they left an event for young diplomats hosted by the American Jewish Committee, an advocacy group that supports Israel and fights anti-Semitism.

Officials said he was heard chanting “Free Palestine” after he was taken into custody.

In addition to first-degree murder, Rodriguez was charged in a criminal complaint with murder of foreign officials, causing death with a firearm and discharging a firearm in a crime of violence.

The charges were filed in United States federal court as FBI and police investigators pored over apparent writings and political affiliations of the suspect.

Detained Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil was allowed to hold his one-month-old son for the first time on Thursday after a federal judge blocked efforts by the administration of US President Donald Trump to keep the father and infant separated by a Plexiglass barrier.

The visit came ahead of a scheduled immigration hearing for Khalil, a legal permanent resident and Columbia University graduate who has been detained in a Louisiana jail since March 8.

Khalil was the first person arrested under Trump’s promised crackdown on pro-Palestinian protesters and is one of the few who has remained in custody as his case winds its way through both immigration and federal court.

Federal authorities have not accused Khalil of a crime, but have sought to deport him on the basis that his prominent role in protests against Israel’s war in Gaza may have undermined US foreign policy interests.

His request to attend his son’s birth on April 21 was denied last month by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

“This is not just heartless,” Khalil’s wife, Noor Abdalla, said of the government’s position.

“It is deliberate violence, the calculated cruelty of a government that tears families apart without remorse. And I cannot ignore the echoes of this pain in the stories of Palestinian families, torn apart by Israeli military prisons and bombs, denied dignity, denied life.”

The World Health Organization (WHO) warns that Gaza’s healthcare system is on the verge of collapse.

“Israel’s intensified military operations continue to threaten an already weakened health system, amidst worsening mass population displacement and acute shortages of food, water, medical supplies, fuel and shelter,” the UN agency said in a statement.

According to WHO, only 19 of Gaza’s 36 hospitals remain operational, with some only providing limited services.

Gaza bakeries are making freshly baked bread in weeks after limited amounts of aid entered the territory.

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The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) says the fatal shooting of two Israeli embassy staffers does not represent the Palestine solidarity movement in the United States.

“We condemn last night’s deadly attack on Israeli embassy employees in Washington, DC,” CAIR said in a statement.

“While millions of Americans feel extreme frustration at the sight of the Israeli government slaughtering Palestinian men, women and children on a daily basis with weapons paid for with our taxpayer dollars, political violence is an unacceptable crime and is not the answer.”

The Palestinian group says the policy of “engineered starvation” is continuing in Gaza, stressing that the limited aid that has entered the territory is a “drop in the ocean” of Palestinians’ humanitarian needs.

Hamas also warned against establishing what it called “concentration camps” to allow people to get access to food, calling on the international community to pressure Israel to end its blockade on Gaza.

Israel has renewed its bombardment of Lebanon, striking a building in the southern town of Toul after issuing an evacuation warning for the area.

Below are photos from the attack and its aftermath.