War
Two strikes hit a U.N. school-turned-shelter just north of Gaza City, killing several people in tents in the schoolyard and women who were baking bread inside the building.
“Many people are relying on brackish or saline ground water, if at all,” said U.N. deputy Mideast coordinator Lynn Hastings.
“This debacle will be investigated. Everyone will have to give answers, including me,” Netanyahu said, two and half weeks after the attack.
With no end in sight after nearly four weeks of war, U.S. and Arab leaders raised pressure on Israel to ease its siege and at least briefly halt its attacks.
WHAT'S HAPPENING
The toll from Tuesday’s strikes was also unknown, though the director of a nearby hospital said hundreds were killed or wounded.
Internet and phone services collapsed in the Gaza Strip under intensified Israeli bombardment Friday night.
Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant told ground troops to “be ready” to invade — though he didn’t say when.
A community-based website for sharing LGBTQ+ stories and memories has gone viral as accounts emerge from Palestine amid the ongoing war.
President Joe Biden on Wednesday said the blast appeared not be Israel’s fault.
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