2 American aid workers injured at food distribution site in Gaza

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Two American assistance workers with the U.S. and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation were injured successful confederate Gaza successful an onslaught astatine a nutrient organisation tract connected Saturday. The enactment claimed the onslaught was carried retired by Hamas but did not supply further evidence.

The GHF said assailants threw grenades astatine a organisation tract successful Khan Younis, successful confederate Gaza. The instauration aboriginal posted a photograph of the fragments of the explosive instrumentality and claimed, without providing evidence, that it was detonated by Hamas militants. It said the injuries were not life-threatening, and the 2 men received aesculapian attention.

Meanwhile, Israeli airstrikes killed 14 radical successful the Gaza Strip, infirmary officials successful Gaza told the Associated Press connected Saturday.

The strikes deed tents successful the Muwasi country connected the confederate extremity of Gaza's Mediterranean coast, sidesplitting 7 people, including a Palestinian doc and his 3 children, according to Nasser Hospital successful Khan Younis.

Four others were killed successful the municipality of Bani Suheila successful confederate Gaza, and 3 radical were killed successful 3 antithetic strikes successful Khan Younis. The Israeli service did not supply contiguous remark connected the strikes.

The latest bloodshed comes arsenic U.S.-led ceasefire efforts aimed astatine halting a astir 21-month warfare look to beryllium gaining momentum.

Hamas gave a "positive" response precocious Friday to the latest U.S. connection for a 60-day truce but said further talks were needed connected implementation.

Hamas has been seeking guarantees that the archetypal truce would pb to a full extremity to the warfare and withdrawal of Israeli troops from Gaza. Hamas has besides said they privation assistance to beryllium delivered exclusively by the U.N. and its partners, and that the GHF beryllium unopen down.

President Trump has been pushing for an agreement and is acceptable to big Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu astatine the White House adjacent week to sermon a deal. Netanyahu has antecedently ruled retired ending the warfare until each the hostages are freed and the subject and governing capableness of Hamas has been permanently destroyed.

"We cannot carnivore it anymore," Saleh Abu Odeh told CBS Saturday Morning. He said helium has been displaced countless times wrong the war-torn territory. "We commune determination volition beryllium a ceasefire, careless of the demands. Just hold and fto the radical breathe."

Palestinians dice seeking food

In summation to those killed successful the airstrikes, 10 Palestinians were killed arsenic they sought food successful the embattled enclave, Gaza infirmary officials told the Associated Press. Eight were killed adjacent a GHF assistance organisation tract successful the confederate metropolis of Rafah, the infirmary said. One Palestinian was besides killed adjacent different GHF constituent successful Rafah. It was not wide however acold distant the Palestinians were from the sites.

GHF denied that the killings happened adjacent their sites. Previously, the enactment has said nary 1 has been changeable astatine its sites, which are guarded by backstage contractors but tin lone beryllium accessed by passing Israeli subject positions hundreds of meters away. CBS News antecedently reported that a contractor said their workfellow had fired into the assemblage astatine 1 assistance site.

The service had nary contiguous comment, but has said it fires informing shots arsenic a crowd-control measurement and it lone aims astatine radical erstwhile its troops are threatened.

One Palestinian was besides killed waiting successful crowds for assistance trucks successful eastbound Khan Younis, officials astatine Nasser Hospital said. The United Nations and different planetary organizations bring successful their ain supplies of aid. It was unclear to which enactment the assistance trucks the Palestinians were waiting for belonged to, but the incidental did not look to beryllium connected to GHF operations.

Crowds of Palestinians often hold for trucks and unload oregon loot their contents earlier they scope their destinations. These trucks indispensable walk done areas nether Israeli subject control. The Israeli subject did not instantly remark connected the incident.

The GHF — a U.S.- and Israeli-backed inaugural meant to bypass the U.N. — distributes assistance from 4 sites that are surrounded by Israeli troops, 3 of which are successful the acold southbound of Gaza.

The U.N. and different humanitarian groups person rejected the GHF system, saying it allows Israel to usage nutrient arsenic a weapon, violates humanitarian principles and it's not effective.

Israel says Hamas has been siphoning disconnected assistance delivered by the U.N. — a assertion the U.N. denies. Hamas has urged Palestinians not to cooperate with the GHF.

GHF, which is registered successful Delaware, began distributing nutrient successful May to Palestinians, who accidental Israeli troops unfastened occurrence astir each time toward crowds connected roads heading to the organisation points, done Israeli subject zones. Several 100 radical person been killed and hundreds much wounded, according to the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry and witnesses.

The warfare successful Gaza was acceptable disconnected aft Hamas attacked Israel connected Oct. 7, 2023, sidesplitting immoderate 1,200 radical and taking 250 others hostage. Israel responded with an violative that has killed implicit 57,000 Palestinians, according to the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry, displaced astir each of Gaza's 2 cardinal radical and near galore connected the borderline of famine.

The ministry is led by aesculapian professionals employed by Gaza's Hamas government. It does not differentiate betwixt civilians and combatants, but its figures are seen by the U.N. and different planetary organizations arsenic the astir reliable statistic connected warfare casualties.

Debora Patta contributed to this report.