Live updates: Aid groups collect some supplies that have entered Gaza

Aid groups person collected humanitarian assistance carried by astir 90 trucks, retired of a full of astir 200 that person entered Gaza since Israel began allowing constricted goods successful earlier this week, the United Nations said Thursday.

Jens Laerke, spokesperson for the U.N. Humanitarian bureau OCHA, said the trucks that entered carried medicine, wheat flour and nutrition supplies. Aid groups faced important challenges distributing the assistance due to the fact that of insecurity, the hazard of looting and coordination issues with Israeli authorities, Laerke added.

Under planetary pressure, Israel has allowed dozens of assistance trucks into Gaza aft blocking each food, medicine, substance and different worldly for astir 3 months. But the supplies person been sitting connected the Gaza broadside of the Kerem Shalom crossing with Israel.

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Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels occurrence 2 missiles astatine Israel

The missiles were fired hours isolated connected Thursday, each clip mounting disconnected nationwide aerial raid sirens.

The Israeli subject said it intercepted some missiles, and determination were nary contiguous reports of casualties oregon damage. An Associated Press newsman heard a large detonation successful cardinal Israel that mightiness person been caused by an interceptor.

Israeli constabulary said they were searching the Jerusalem country for debris.

The Houthis person launched repeated rocket attacks targeting Israel arsenic good arsenic planetary shipping successful the Red Sea, portraying it arsenic a effect to Israel’s violative against Hamas successful the Gaza Strip. Most of the targeted ships had nary narration to Israel oregon the conflict.

The United States halted a punishing bombing campaign against the Houthis earlier this month, saying the rebels had pledged to halt attacking ships. That statement did not see attacks connected Israel.

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France condemns shooting extracurricular Jewish depository successful Washington

France’s overseas curate says the sidesplitting of two unit members of the Israeli Embassy successful Washington, D.C. connected Wednesday “is an abhorrent enactment of antisemitic barbarity.”

In a station successful English connected X, the minister, Jean-Noël Barrot, said: “Nothing tin warrant specified violence. My thoughts spell to their loved ones, their colleagues, and the State of Israel.”

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