Live updates: A UN official says 20 aid trucks with food are waiting to enter Gaza

After a astir three-month blockade and warnings by planetary experts of impeding famine, Israel says it volition let a constricted magnitude of humanitarian assistance into Gaza adjacent arsenic it launches “extensive” caller crushed operations there.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says a “starvation crisis” successful Gaza would jeopardize the caller violative — the largest since Israel successful March ended the ceasefire — and that a “basic” magnitude of nutrient would beryllium allowed in.

Israel successful aboriginal March chopped disconnected each food, medicine and different supplies to the territory of implicit 2 cardinal radical to unit Hamas implicit ceasefire terms. Over the weekend, Israeli airstrikes killed astatine slightest 103 people, including dozens of children, hospitals and medics said.

Defense Minister Israel Katz said the violative — dubbed Operation Gideon Chariots — was being led with “great force.” Netanyahu had vowed to escalate unit with the purpose of destroying the militant Hamas radical that has ruled Gaza for astir 2 decades.

The warfare successful Gaza began connected Oct. 7, 2023, erstwhile Hamas-led militants attacked confederate Israel, sidesplitting 1,200 radical and abducting 251 others.

Israel’s retaliatory violative has killed much than 53,000 Palestinians, galore of them women and children, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry, which doesn’t differentiate betwixt civilians and combatants successful its count.

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A UN authoritative says assistance trucks are to participate Gaza connected Monday

A U.N. authoritative says 20 assistance trucks carrying mostly nutrient are expected to spell into the Gaza Strip connected Monday.

There was nary contiguous remark from Israeli authorities. The authoritative was not authorized to little reporters and spoke connected information of anonymity.

— Samy Magdy successful Cairo

A US-backed organisation radical welcomes Israel announcement connected Gaza assistance resumption

A U.S.-backed radical expected to tally assistance organisation successful Gaza said Israel's announcement was an “important archetypal step.”

The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation has said its 4 assistance organisation sites would beryllium up and moving earlier the extremity of the month. It was not wide erstwhile the assistance would resume.

The group’s caput Jake Wood called precocious connected Sunday connected planetary assistance groups to articulation successful the caller organisation mechanism.

But planetary assistance groups accidental the mechanics is not applicable and won't scope the astir susceptible Palestinians. They besides accidental they won’t enactment due to the fact that it doesn’t align with their humanitarian principles.

Israel says a caller assistance organisation attack is indispensable due to the fact that it accuses Hamas of siphoning disconnected assistance to enactment its subject activities, a assertion assistance groups dispute.

Palestinians accidental Israeli forces disguised arsenic civilians killed a antheral successful a Gaza raid

Palestinians successful Gaza accidental Israeli forces disguised arsenic civilians and nether dense aerial screen changeable and killed a antheral and detained his woman and kid successful a raid Monday connected a location successful the enclave's south.

The Israeli forces drove a civilian conveyance and raided the location successful the metropolis of Khan Younis arsenic airstrikes pounded the surrounding area, residents said.

“We thought that each houses would beryllium bombed,” said Mohammed Sarhan, a comparative of the antheral killed and a neighbor, who said the strikes lasted 10 minutes.

Mahmoud Safi, different neighbor, said the Israeli forces carried what appeared to beryllium luggage and blankets connected the apical of their achromatic vehicle.

The killed antheral was identified arsenic Ahmed Sarhan. The crushed helium was targeted was not instantly known.

The Israeli subject had nary contiguous comment.

Freed Israeli hostage pleads with lawmakers to extremity the warfare successful Gaza

Arbel Yehoud, who was freed aft 482 days successful captivity successful a ceasefire earlier this year, told lawmakers astatine a parliamentary committee connected Monday that they volition person humor connected their hands “if you bash not halt the war.”

Yehoud’s partner, Ariel Cunio, is inactive held successful Gaza, on with 57 different hostages, 23 of whom are believed to beryllium alive.

She said she was terrified by the sounds of missiles and bombs portion she was held captive. She said she would beryllium beaten if her captors’ relatives were harmed successful Israeli strikes and held successful isolation with nutrient “unfit for quality depletion and with a level of hygiene similar successful attraction camps of the Holocaust.”

“As idiosyncratic who was there, I cognize that lone done negotiations is (returning the hostages) possible,” she said.

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