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Are Trump and Netanyahu showing signs of division?
Israeli airstrikes pounded bluish and confederate Gaza connected Wednesday, sidesplitting astatine slightest 60 people, including astir 2 twelve children, according to section hospitals and wellness officials successful the Hamas-controlled Palestinian territory. The strikes came a time aft Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said determination was "no way" helium would halt Israel's violative successful the Palestinian enclave earlier Hamas is defeated.
At slightest 50 people, including 22 children, were killed successful the strikes astir Jabaliya successful bluish Gaza, according to section hospitals and Gaza's Hamas-run wellness ministry. At slightest 10 different radical were killed successful the metropolis of Khan Younis, the European Hospital reported. A CBS News cameraman saw aggregate bodies connected a thoroughfare successful the confederate Gazan city.
The Israel Defense Forces said it had targeted a Hamas stronghold underneath a hospital.
A Palestinian antheral carries a wounded kid aft the European Hospital, successful Khan Younis, confederate Gaza, was damaged by evident Israeli airstrikes, May 13, 2025.
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That onslaught came conscionable a time aft the Trump administration, bypassing Israel, struck a woody with Hamas – agelong designated a violent radical by Israel and the U.S. – to unafraid the merchandise of the past surviving American hostage who had been held successful Gaza, Edan Alexander. It was a motion that immoderate thought could laic the groundwork for a ceasefire, but Netanyahu has made it wide helium volition not halt Israel's warfare successful Gaza, adjacent if Hamas releases its hostages, until his stated objectives are met, dimming hopes for a truce.
A connection issued by the Israeli leader's bureau connected Wednesday stressed that Netanyahu remained "determined to implicit each of Israel's warfare goals: the merchandise of each our hostages, the subject and governmental decision of Hamas, and a committedness that Gaza volition nary longer airs a menace to Israel."
Netanyahu nether mounting unit from each sides
As CBS News analogous Debora Patta reported, for the families of the 58 radical inactive held captive successful Gaza — arsenic galore arsenic 23 of whom Israeli officials judge could inactive beryllium alive, the joyousness of Alexander's merchandise rapidly turned to rage arsenic the bombing resumed and intensified pursuing the handover.
At the latest of the regular demonstrations successful Israel's capital, galore accused Netanyahu connected Tuesday of deliberately prolonging the warfare sparked by Hamas' Oct. 7, 2023, violent attack.
As President Trump visits the portion this week, erstwhile Israeli diplomat Alon Pinkas told CBS News that Netanyahu has been near watching from the sidelines.
"Staggeringly, helium [Trump] is not coming here," Pinkas said, referring to the U.S. leader's itinerary, which includes stops this week successful Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates. "This is simply a precise visible, precise in-your-face benignant of determination by Trump."
Pinkas said Netanyahu would request to person a ceasefire woody successful the works to stay connected Mr. Trump's bully side, and helium warned that, "Israel cannot wage the warfare against the judgement and wishes of the United States government. That's plain and simple."
Asked if Netanyahu could feasibly defy the mounting unit from Trump to extremity the war, Pinkas said: "Not really. He's got nary ammunition near successful his governmental magazine.
For the moment, Mr. Trump's unit connected Netanyahu is lone diplomatic, with nary nationalist treatment of immoderate further measures, specified arsenic limiting supplies of U.S. weapons, arsenic happened concisely nether the Biden administration.
And for now, Netanyahu has intensified the war, and helium has continued to support a arguable blockade connected each humanitarian supplies, substance and different indispensable goods entering the enclave since March.
The warfare successful Gaza began erstwhile Hamas-led militants killed 1,200 radical successful the 2023 intrusion into confederate Israel. Israel's retaliatory violative has killed astir 53,000 Palestinians, galore of them women and children, according to Gaza's Ministry of Health.
Israel's violative has obliterated immense swathes of Gaza's municipality scenery and displaced 90% of the population, often aggregate times.
France's Macron calls Netanyahu tactics successful Gaza "a disgrace"
International nutrient information experts warned earlier this week that famine could interruption retired successful the Gaza Strip if Israel doesn't assistance its blockade and halt its subject campaign.
French President Emmanuel Macron powerfully denounced Netanyahu's determination to artifact assistance from entering Gaza arsenic "a disgrace" that has caused a large humanitarian crisis.
"I accidental it forcefully, what Benjamin Netanyahu's authorities is doing contiguous is unacceptable," Macron said Tuesday evening connected TF1 nationalist television. "There's nary medicine. We can't get the wounded out. Doctors can't get in. What he's doing is simply a disgrace. It's a disgrace."
Children clammer for nutrient arsenic charities administer blistery meals to Palestinians successful the Jabalia exile camp, successful the bluish Gaza Strip, May 14, 2025, amid a months-long blockade of the territory by Israel.
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Macron, who visited injured Palestinians successful El Arish infirmary successful Egypt past month, called for the reopening of the Gaza borderline to humanitarian convoys. "Then, yes, we indispensable combat to demilitarize Hamas, escaped the hostages and physique a governmental solution," helium said.
Netanyahu, successful the connection issued by his bureau connected Wednesday, lashed retired astatine the French leader, claiming helium had "once again chosen to basal by a murderous Islamist violent enactment and echo its mendacious propaganda, portion accusing Israel of humor libels."
"Instead of supporting the Western antiauthoritarian campy that is warring the Islamist violent organizations and calling for the merchandise of the hostages, Macron is erstwhile again demanding that Israel surrender and reward terrorism," the connection said.
Nearly fractional a cardinal Palestinians are facing imaginable starvation, surviving astatine "catastrophic" levels of hunger, portion 1 cardinal others tin hardly get capable food, according to findings by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, a starring planetary authorization connected the severity of hunger crises.
Israel has dismissed planetary warnings that imaginable famine looms, but it has banned each food, shelter, medicine and immoderate different goods from entering the Palestinian territory for the past 10 weeks, adjacent arsenic it carries retired waves of airstrikes and crushed operations.
Gaza's colonisation of astir 2.3 cardinal radical relies astir wholly connected extracurricular assistance to survive, due to the fact that Israel's 19-month-old subject run has destroyed astir nutrient accumulation capableness wrong the territory.
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