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An Israeli Apache helicopter fires flares over the Gaza Strip as seen from southern Israel, Monday, March 4, 2024. The army is battling Palestinian militants across Gaza in the war ignited by Hamas' Oct. 7 attack into Israel. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

At least 17 killed in an Israeli airstrike in southern Gaza

Associated Press

Palestinians line up for a free meal in Rafah, Gaza Strip, Friday, Feb. 16, 2024. The World Food Program said Tuesday it has paused deliveries of food to isolated northern Gaza because of increasing chaos across the territory, hiking fears of potential starvation. A study by the U.N. children's agency warned that one in six children in the north are acutely malnourished. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair, File)

Why isn’t desperately needed aid reaching Palestinians in Gaza?

By Joseph Krauss - Associated Press

Palestinian looks from his house damaged by Israeli airstrikes in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2023. (AP Photo/Hatem Ali)

U.N. agency says it can’t deliver aid to northern Gaza because of chaos, and famine fears are rising

By Wafaa Shurafa and Samy Magdy - Associated Press

Rubble from buildings destroyed in the Israeli Army's ground operation in the Gaza Strip are seen from southern Israel, near the Gaza border fence, Friday, Feb. 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

Deceptive normalcy: A border town with a front-row seat to the Gaza carnage

By Seth J. Frantzman

An Israeli medical team evacuate a person injured by a rocket fired from Lebanon, at Ziv hospital in Safed, northern Israel, Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2024. Israeli media reported 1 killed and eight wounded in the rocket attack. The town, which is around 12 kilometers (7 miles) from the border is farther south than most of the daily border skirmishes with Lebanon's Hezbollah militant group. (AP Photo/Gil Eliyahu)

Live updates | Israel’s war against Hamas, now in its fifth month, has devastated Gaza’s hospitals

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Smoke rises after a bombardment in the Gaza Strip as seen from southern, Israel, Monday, Feb. 12, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Live updates | China calls on Israel to halt military operations in Gaza as soon as possible

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Palestinians mourn a child killed in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip at a hospital morgue in Rafah, Monday, Feb. 12, 2024. (AP Photo/Hatem Ali)

Live updates | Israeli military rescues 2 hostages in a dramatic raid in the Gaza Strip

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Israeli soldiers guard a crater-like hole giving way to a small tunnel entrance in UNRWA compound where the military discovered tunnels underneath the main headquarters of the U.N. agency that the military says Hamas militants used to attack its forces during a ground operation in Gaza, Thursday, Feb. 8, 2024. The Israeli military says it has discovered tunnels underneath the main headquarters of the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees in Gaza City, alleging that Hamas militants used the space as an electrical supply room. The unveiling of the tunnels marked the latest chapter in Israel's campaign against the embattled agency, which it accuses of collaborating with Hamas. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Biden faces pressure to cut funding for U.N. relief agency after Hamas data center found

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Israeli soldiers take position as they enter the UNRWA headquarter where the military discovered tunnels underneath of the U.N. agency that the military says Hamas militants used to attack its forces during a ground operation in Gaza, Thursday, Feb. 8, 2024. The Israeli military says it has discovered tunnels underneath the main headquarters of the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees in Gaza City, alleging that Hamas militants used the space as an electrical supply room. The unveiling of the tunnels marked the latest chapter in Israel's campaign against the embattled agency, which it accuses of collaborating with Hamas. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Israel unveils tunnels underneath Gaza City headquarters of U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees

Associated Press

In this image taken from surveillance video provided by the Palestinian Health Ministry, Israeli forces disguised as civilians and medical workers hold weapons in a hallway at the Ibn Sina Hospital in the West Bank town of Jenin, Tuesday, jan 30, 2024, in the occupied West Bank, killing three Palestinian militants in a dramatic raid that underscored how deadly violence has spilled into the territory from the war in Gaza. (Palestinian Health Ministry via AP)

Elite police unit members killed Palestinian terrorists in West Bank hospital, Israeli general says

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

An Israeli soldier takes up position on the border with the Gaza Strip in southern Israel, Monday, Jan. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

Live updates | Israeli forces raid a West Bank hospital, killing 3 Palestinian militants

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Palestinian medics treat a girl wounded in the Israeli bombardment at a building of an UNRWA vocational training center which displaced people use as a shelter in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Ramez Habboub)

Gaza’s Health Ministry blames Israeli troops for deadly shooting as crowd waited for aid

By Najib Jobain, Jack Jeffery and Lee Keath - Associated Press

Humanitarian aid trucks enter the Gaza Strip from Israel through the Kerem Shalom crossing in Rafah on Sunday, Jan. 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Hatem Ali)

Israeli army says 12,000 trucks filled with medical supplies have entered Gaza since start of war

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Rockets are launched by Palestinian militants from the Gaza Strip toward Israel, in Gaza, Saturday, Oct. 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa, File)

Israel says more than 700 rocket launchers destroyed since start of ground war in Gaza

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Israeli soldiers are seen during a ground operation in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip on Wednesday, Jan. 10. 2024. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Live updates | UN top court will hear genocide allegation as Israel focuses fighting in central Gaza

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Israeli soldiers store ammunition in a staging area at the Israeli-Gaza border in southern Israel, Tuesday, Jan. 2, 2024. The army said Monday that several thousand troops would be taken out of Gaza in the coming weeks. Some will head to bases for further training or rest, while many older reservists will go home. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Israel says it will defend itself against genocide accusations at world court filed by South Africa

By Melanie Lidman and Wafaa Shurafa and Samy Magdy - Associated Press

Israeli soldiers are seen at a staging area near the Israeli-Gaza border, in southern Israel, Thursday, Dec. 28, 2023. The army is battling Palestinian militants across Gaza in the war ignited by Hamas' Oct. 7 attack into Israel. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Israel says shooting of hostages ‘should not have occurred,’ but soldiers acted without malice

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, wears a protective vest and helmet as he receives a security briefing with commanders and soldiers in the northern Gaza Strip, on Monday, Dec. 25, 2023. (Avi Ohayon/GPO/Handout via AP)

Live updates | Israel’s forces raid a West Bank refugee camp as its military expands Gaza offensive

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

FILE - Palestinians look at the destruction of the Al-Gatshan family building after an Israeli strike in Nusseirat refugee camp, central Gaza Strip, on Dec. 18, 2023. After 11 weeks of war in Gaza, the Israeli military campaign against Hamas now sits among the deadliest and most destructive in history. The Palestinian death toll is approaching 20,000 and satellite data shows that one-third of structures across the tiny enclave have been destroyed. (AP Photo/Adel Hana, File)

Israel’s military campaign in Gaza seen as among the most destructive in history, experts say

By Julia Frankel - Associated Press

A Palestinian boy cries for his relatives who were killed in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip, at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis, Friday, Dec. 15, 2023. (AP Photo/Mohammed Dahman)

Live updates | Israeli military mistakenly kills 3 hostages, US envoy to meet Palestinian president

By The Associated Press - Associated Press