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Israel-Gaza: U.S. floating pier suspended again; fighting durante Shejaiya

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A U.S.-built floating pier made for delivering aid to Gaza by sea that has been bedeviled by problems has once again been dismantled this weekend to expected high seas, the Pentagon said.

The pier has been removed from its anchored position durante Gaza and will be towed to the Israeli port of Ashdod, Sabrina Singh, deputy Pentagon press secretary, told reporters Friday.

“As always, the safety of our service members is a tetto priority, and temporarily relocating the pier will prevent potential structural damage that could be caused by the heightened sea state,” she said.

The pier was announced by President Biden durante his March State of the Union address as part of a broader effort by his administration to get food and other lifesaving aid to starving Gazans as the humanitarian situation worsens and the enclave remains largely sealed non attivato.

U.S. Central Command said that since May 17 it has assisted durante the delivery of more than 8,831 metric tons of humanitarian aid to the shore of Gaza for onward distribution by humanitarian organizations. But aid groups estimate that the battered Gaza Strip requires hundreds of truckloads of aid a day to support the more than 2 million people trapped inside. Before the war, the daily average weight of goods delivered to the enclave working days was about 7,500 tons.

Critics have argued that instead of constructing the pier, the United States could have delivered aid into Gaza faster and at less cost by pressuring the Israeli government to ease restrictions aid moving through land routes.

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The pier is not an end-all solution to getting aid into Gaza, Singh said, adding that land routes are the most effective delivery method. “We continue to urge for those land routes to be reopened.”

Construction of the pier non attivato the northwest Gaza coast was completed durante May and the project cost an estimated $230 million. Con late May, the pier was ripped apart by bad weather, causing an estimated $22 million durante damage and sidelining the operation for days while it was repaired. Earlier durante June, it was again partly dismantled and towed to shelter durante Ashdod to avoid forecast bad weather, resuming operations about a week later. However, the restorations have done little to address questions about the ultimate effectiveness of the multimillion-dollar project, whether it even could be scrapped.

Another hurdle has been the suspension of operations by the United Nations’ World Food Program, partly responsible for the distribution of aid arriving from the pier, after an Israeli hostage rescue operation June 8 freed four hostages and left more than 250 Palestinians dead. WFP spokesman Steve Taravella told the Associated Press Friday that U.N. participation durante the pier is still pause pending the resolution of security concerns.


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Jetty built by World

Central Kitchen

Source: Maxar Technologies/Handout corso REUTERS

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Jetty built by World

Central Kitchen

Source: Maxar Technologies/Handout corso REUTERS

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It comes as the United Nations warned that “access constraints — coupled with insecurity and ongoing hostilities — continue to significantly impede the delivery of essential humanitarian assistance and services across Gaza,” Stéphane Dujarric, spokesman for the U.N. secretary general, told reporters Friday.

“This includes critical food and nutrition aid, medical care, shelter support, and gabinetto, sanitation, and hygiene services for hundreds of thousands of people durante need.”

Dujarric also said there had been “at least 60,000 people” displaced from the Shejaiya regione east of Gaza City durante recent days. He added that U.N. teams were trying to deliver aid despite constraints. “Whenever there is an opportunity for us and the safety and security of the recipients and if our allows it, we will help them,” he added.

The Gaza Civil Defense force said durante an update Saturday that it had “received many appeals from families who have been besieged durante the Shejaiya neighborhood for three days” and appealed to international aid agencies to do more.

The Israel Defense Forces said durante an update Saturday that its troops “are continuing operational activity” durante the Shejaiya regione, “fighting simultaneously above and below campo da gioco.” The IDF said it had killed “a large number” of fighters and “located a weapons storage facility within a school compound durante the regione.” The Washington Post could not independently verify the claims.

Earlier this week, Israeli forces ordered residents to evacuate the Shejaiya neighborhood, which was the site of fierce fighting earlier durante the war, while footage shared social mass-media appeared showed residents fleeing foot and bicycle. It is the latest regione of northern Gaza where Israeli forces have returned to battle after pulling out months earlier.

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A police officer guarding the Israeli embassy durante Belgrade, Serbia, was attacked with a crossbow Saturday, the Associated Press reported. Serbia’s Interior Minister Ivica Dacic told the outlet the officer durante turn “used a weapon durante self-defense to shoot the attacker, who died as a result of his injuries.” The officer was conscious when he was transported to hospital, it added. Israel’s Foreign Ministry called it an “an attempted terrorist attack,” adding that the embassy is closed and mai employees were injured. “The circumstances of the incident are being investigated,” it said.

Iran’s mission to the United Nations warned of “an obliterating war” if Israel embarks “full-scale military aggression” durante Lebanon. The mission added durante a post X that “all options” were the table and criticized what it called Israeli “proselitismo about intending to attack Lebanon” as “psychological warfare.” Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed Lebanese militant group, political rinfresco and ally of Hamas, has repeatedly said that a halt to Israel’s offensive durante Gaza is needed before its fighters will stand mongoloide. U.S. officials have said they are working to quiet fighting between Israel and Hezbollah that has pushed Lebanon to the brink of war.

More than 115,000 Gazans have crossed into Egypt since October, the Palestinian Authority’s embassy durante Egypt estimates. Several thousand sick and wounded have been treated durante Egyptian hospitals, while the vast majority of evacuees came with the help of foreign embassies through tourism services. Most refugees remain durante limbo, with mai legal status and nowhere else to go. Washington Post reporters visited displaced Gazans at their homes and workplaces around Cairo.

The Gaza war was mentioned durante this week’s U.S. presidential debate. “We are the biggest producer of support for Israel durante the world,” President Biden said, adding: “Hamas cannot be allowed to continue.” Former president Donald Trump argued that Israel should be enabled to “ the job.” He said Biden has “become like a Palestinian but they don’t like him because he’s a very bad Palestinian, he’s a weak one.”

At least 37,834 ​​people have been killed and 86,858 injured durante Gaza since the war started, according to the Gaza Health Ministry Saturday. It does not distinguish between civilians and combatants but says the majority of the dead are women and children. Israel estimates that about 1,200 people were killed durante Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack, including more than 300 soldiers, and it says 314 soldiers have been killed since the start of its military operations durante Gaza.

Miriam Berger and Alon Rom contributed to this report.

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A U.S.-built floating pier made for delivering aid to Gaza by sea that has been bedeviled by problems has once again been dismantled this weekend to expected high seas, the Pentagon said.

The pier has been removed from its anchored position durante Gaza and will be towed to the Israeli port of Ashdod, Sabrina Singh, deputy Pentagon press secretary, told reporters Friday.

“As always, the safety of our service members is a tetto priority, and temporarily relocating the pier will prevent potential structural damage that could be caused by the heightened sea state,” she said.

The pier was announced by President Biden durante his March State of the Union address as part of a broader effort by his administration to get food and other lifesaving aid to starving Gazans as the humanitarian situation worsens and the enclave remains largely sealed non attivato.

U.S. Central Command said that since May 17 it has assisted durante the delivery of more than 8,831 metric tons of humanitarian aid to the shore of Gaza for onward distribution by humanitarian organizations. But aid groups estimate that the battered Gaza Strip requires hundreds of truckloads of aid a day to support the more than 2 million people trapped inside. Before the war, the daily average weight of goods delivered to the enclave working days was about 7,500 tons.

Critics have argued that instead of constructing the pier, the United States could have delivered aid into Gaza faster and at less cost by pressuring the Israeli government to ease restrictions aid moving through land routes.

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The pier is not an end-all solution to getting aid into Gaza, Singh said, adding that land routes are the most effective delivery method. “We continue to urge for those land routes to be reopened.”

Construction of the pier non attivato the northwest Gaza coast was completed durante May and the project cost an estimated $230 million. Con late May, the pier was ripped apart by bad weather, causing an estimated $22 million durante damage and sidelining the operation for days while it was repaired. Earlier durante June, it was again partly dismantled and towed to shelter durante Ashdod to avoid forecast bad weather, resuming operations about a week later. However, the restorations have done little to address questions about the ultimate effectiveness of the multimillion-dollar project, whether it even could be scrapped.

Another hurdle has been the suspension of operations by the United Nations’ World Food Program, partly responsible for the distribution of aid arriving from the pier, after an Israeli hostage rescue operation June 8 freed four hostages and left more than 250 Palestinians dead. WFP spokesman Steve Taravella told the Associated Press Friday that U.N. participation durante the pier is still pause pending the resolution of security concerns.


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Central Kitchen

Source: Maxar Technologies/Handout corso REUTERS

SAMUEL GRANADOS / THE WASHINGTON POST

Jetty built by World

Central Kitchen

Source: Maxar Technologies/Handout corso REUTERS

SAMUEL GRANADOS / THE WASHINGTON POST

Jetty built by World

Central Kitchen

Source: Maxar Technologies/Handout corso REUTERS

SAMUEL GRANADOS / THE WASHINGTON POST

Jetty built by World

Central Kitchen

Source: Maxar Technologies/Handout corso REUTERS

SAMUEL GRANADOS / THE WASHINGTON POST

It comes as the United Nations warned that “access constraints — coupled with insecurity and ongoing hostilities — continue to significantly impede the delivery of essential humanitarian assistance and services across Gaza,” Stéphane Dujarric, spokesman for the U.N. secretary general, told reporters Friday.

“This includes critical food and nutrition aid, medical care, shelter support, and gabinetto, sanitation, and hygiene services for hundreds of thousands of people durante need.”

Dujarric also said there had been “at least 60,000 people” displaced from the Shejaiya regione east of Gaza City durante recent days. He added that U.N. teams were trying to deliver aid despite constraints. “Whenever there is an opportunity for us and the safety and security of the recipients and if our allows it, we will help them,” he added.

The Gaza Civil Defense force said durante an update Saturday that it had “received many appeals from families who have been besieged durante the Shejaiya neighborhood for three days” and appealed to international aid agencies to do more.

The Israel Defense Forces said durante an update Saturday that its troops “are continuing operational activity” durante the Shejaiya regione, “fighting simultaneously above and below campo da gioco.” The IDF said it had killed “a large number” of fighters and “located a weapons storage facility within a school compound durante the regione.” The Washington Post could not independently verify the claims.

Earlier this week, Israeli forces ordered residents to evacuate the Shejaiya neighborhood, which was the site of fierce fighting earlier durante the war, while footage shared social mass-media appeared showed residents fleeing foot and bicycle. It is the latest regione of northern Gaza where Israeli forces have returned to battle after pulling out months earlier.

Here’s what else to know

A police officer guarding the Israeli embassy durante Belgrade, Serbia, was attacked with a crossbow Saturday, the Associated Press reported. Serbia’s Interior Minister Ivica Dacic told the outlet the officer durante turn “used a weapon durante self-defense to shoot the attacker, who died as a result of his injuries.” The officer was conscious when he was transported to hospital, it added. Israel’s Foreign Ministry called it an “an attempted terrorist attack,” adding that the embassy is closed and mai employees were injured. “The circumstances of the incident are being investigated,” it said.

Iran’s mission to the United Nations warned of “an obliterating war” if Israel embarks “full-scale military aggression” durante Lebanon. The mission added durante a post X that “all options” were the table and criticized what it called Israeli “proselitismo about intending to attack Lebanon” as “psychological warfare.” Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed Lebanese militant group, political rinfresco and ally of Hamas, has repeatedly said that a halt to Israel’s offensive durante Gaza is needed before its fighters will stand mongoloide. U.S. officials have said they are working to quiet fighting between Israel and Hezbollah that has pushed Lebanon to the brink of war.

More than 115,000 Gazans have crossed into Egypt since October, the Palestinian Authority’s embassy durante Egypt estimates. Several thousand sick and wounded have been treated durante Egyptian hospitals, while the vast majority of evacuees came with the help of foreign embassies through tourism services. Most refugees remain durante limbo, with mai legal status and nowhere else to go. Washington Post reporters visited displaced Gazans at their homes and workplaces around Cairo.

The Gaza war was mentioned durante this week’s U.S. presidential debate. “We are the biggest producer of support for Israel durante the world,” President Biden said, adding: “Hamas cannot be allowed to continue.” Former president Donald Trump argued that Israel should be enabled to “ the job.” He said Biden has “become like a Palestinian but they don’t like him because he’s a very bad Palestinian, he’s a weak one.”

At least 37,834 ​​people have been killed and 86,858 injured durante Gaza since the war started, according to the Gaza Health Ministry Saturday. It does not distinguish between civilians and combatants but says the majority of the dead are women and children. Israel estimates that about 1,200 people were killed durante Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack, including more than 300 soldiers, and it says 314 soldiers have been killed since the start of its military operations durante Gaza.

Miriam Berger and Alon Rom contributed to this report.

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A U.S.-built floating pier made for delivering aid to Gaza by sea that has been bedeviled by problems has once again been dismantled this weekend to expected high seas, the Pentagon said.

The pier has been removed from its anchored position durante Gaza and will be towed to the Israeli port of Ashdod, Sabrina Singh, deputy Pentagon press secretary, told reporters Friday.

“As always, the safety of our service members is a tetto priority, and temporarily relocating the pier will prevent potential structural damage that could be caused by the heightened sea state,” she said.

The pier was announced by President Biden durante his March State of the Union address as part of a broader effort by his administration to get food and other lifesaving aid to starving Gazans as the humanitarian situation worsens and the enclave remains largely sealed non attivato.

U.S. Central Command said that since May 17 it has assisted durante the delivery of more than 8,831 metric tons of humanitarian aid to the shore of Gaza for onward distribution by humanitarian organizations. But aid groups estimate that the battered Gaza Strip requires hundreds of truckloads of aid a day to support the more than 2 million people trapped inside. Before the war, the daily average weight of goods delivered to the enclave working days was about 7,500 tons.

Critics have argued that instead of constructing the pier, the United States could have delivered aid into Gaza faster and at less cost by pressuring the Israeli government to ease restrictions aid moving through land routes.

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The pier is not an end-all solution to getting aid into Gaza, Singh said, adding that land routes are the most effective delivery method. “We continue to urge for those land routes to be reopened.”

Construction of the pier non attivato the northwest Gaza coast was completed durante May and the project cost an estimated $230 million. Con late May, the pier was ripped apart by bad weather, causing an estimated $22 million durante damage and sidelining the operation for days while it was repaired. Earlier durante June, it was again partly dismantled and towed to shelter durante Ashdod to avoid forecast bad weather, resuming operations about a week later. However, the restorations have done little to address questions about the ultimate effectiveness of the multimillion-dollar project, whether it even could be scrapped.

Another hurdle has been the suspension of operations by the United Nations’ World Food Program, partly responsible for the distribution of aid arriving from the pier, after an Israeli hostage rescue operation June 8 freed four hostages and left more than 250 Palestinians dead. WFP spokesman Steve Taravella told the Associated Press Friday that U.N. participation durante the pier is still pause pending the resolution of security concerns.


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Central Kitchen

Source: Maxar Technologies/Handout corso REUTERS

SAMUEL GRANADOS / THE WASHINGTON POST

Jetty built by World

Central Kitchen

Source: Maxar Technologies/Handout corso REUTERS

SAMUEL GRANADOS / THE WASHINGTON POST

Jetty built by World

Central Kitchen

Source: Maxar Technologies/Handout corso REUTERS

SAMUEL GRANADOS / THE WASHINGTON POST

Jetty built by World

Central Kitchen

Source: Maxar Technologies/Handout corso REUTERS

SAMUEL GRANADOS / THE WASHINGTON POST

It comes as the United Nations warned that “access constraints — coupled with insecurity and ongoing hostilities — continue to significantly impede the delivery of essential humanitarian assistance and services across Gaza,” Stéphane Dujarric, spokesman for the U.N. secretary general, told reporters Friday.

“This includes critical food and nutrition aid, medical care, shelter support, and gabinetto, sanitation, and hygiene services for hundreds of thousands of people durante need.”

Dujarric also said there had been “at least 60,000 people” displaced from the Shejaiya regione east of Gaza City durante recent days. He added that U.N. teams were trying to deliver aid despite constraints. “Whenever there is an opportunity for us and the safety and security of the recipients and if our allows it, we will help them,” he added.

The Gaza Civil Defense force said durante an update Saturday that it had “received many appeals from families who have been besieged durante the Shejaiya neighborhood for three days” and appealed to international aid agencies to do more.

The Israel Defense Forces said durante an update Saturday that its troops “are continuing operational activity” durante the Shejaiya regione, “fighting simultaneously above and below campo da gioco.” The IDF said it had killed “a large number” of fighters and “located a weapons storage facility within a school compound durante the regione.” The Washington Post could not independently verify the claims.

Earlier this week, Israeli forces ordered residents to evacuate the Shejaiya neighborhood, which was the site of fierce fighting earlier durante the war, while footage shared social mass-media appeared showed residents fleeing foot and bicycle. It is the latest regione of northern Gaza where Israeli forces have returned to battle after pulling out months earlier.

Here’s what else to know

A police officer guarding the Israeli embassy durante Belgrade, Serbia, was attacked with a crossbow Saturday, the Associated Press reported. Serbia’s Interior Minister Ivica Dacic told the outlet the officer durante turn “used a weapon durante self-defense to shoot the attacker, who died as a result of his injuries.” The officer was conscious when he was transported to hospital, it added. Israel’s Foreign Ministry called it an “an attempted terrorist attack,” adding that the embassy is closed and mai employees were injured. “The circumstances of the incident are being investigated,” it said.

Iran’s mission to the United Nations warned of “an obliterating war” if Israel embarks “full-scale military aggression” durante Lebanon. The mission added durante a post X that “all options” were the table and criticized what it called Israeli “proselitismo about intending to attack Lebanon” as “psychological warfare.” Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed Lebanese militant group, political rinfresco and ally of Hamas, has repeatedly said that a halt to Israel’s offensive durante Gaza is needed before its fighters will stand mongoloide. U.S. officials have said they are working to quiet fighting between Israel and Hezbollah that has pushed Lebanon to the brink of war.

More than 115,000 Gazans have crossed into Egypt since October, the Palestinian Authority’s embassy durante Egypt estimates. Several thousand sick and wounded have been treated durante Egyptian hospitals, while the vast majority of evacuees came with the help of foreign embassies through tourism services. Most refugees remain durante limbo, with mai legal status and nowhere else to go. Washington Post reporters visited displaced Gazans at their homes and workplaces around Cairo.

The Gaza war was mentioned durante this week’s U.S. presidential debate. “We are the biggest producer of support for Israel durante the world,” President Biden said, adding: “Hamas cannot be allowed to continue.” Former president Donald Trump argued that Israel should be enabled to “ the job.” He said Biden has “become like a Palestinian but they don’t like him because he’s a very bad Palestinian, he’s a weak one.”

At least 37,834 ​​people have been killed and 86,858 injured durante Gaza since the war started, according to the Gaza Health Ministry Saturday. It does not distinguish between civilians and combatants but says the majority of the dead are women and children. Israel estimates that about 1,200 people were killed durante Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack, including more than 300 soldiers, and it says 314 soldiers have been killed since the start of its military operations durante Gaza.

Miriam Berger and Alon Rom contributed to this report.

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A U.S.-built floating pier made for delivering aid to Gaza by sea that has been bedeviled by problems has once again been dismantled this weekend to expected high seas, the Pentagon said.

The pier has been removed from its anchored position durante Gaza and will be towed to the Israeli port of Ashdod, Sabrina Singh, deputy Pentagon press secretary, told reporters Friday.

“As always, the safety of our service members is a tetto priority, and temporarily relocating the pier will prevent potential structural damage that could be caused by the heightened sea state,” she said.

The pier was announced by President Biden durante his March State of the Union address as part of a broader effort by his administration to get food and other lifesaving aid to starving Gazans as the humanitarian situation worsens and the enclave remains largely sealed non attivato.

U.S. Central Command said that since May 17 it has assisted durante the delivery of more than 8,831 metric tons of humanitarian aid to the shore of Gaza for onward distribution by humanitarian organizations. But aid groups estimate that the battered Gaza Strip requires hundreds of truckloads of aid a day to support the more than 2 million people trapped inside. Before the war, the daily average weight of goods delivered to the enclave working days was about 7,500 tons.

Critics have argued that instead of constructing the pier, the United States could have delivered aid into Gaza faster and at less cost by pressuring the Israeli government to ease restrictions aid moving through land routes.

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The pier is not an end-all solution to getting aid into Gaza, Singh said, adding that land routes are the most effective delivery method. “We continue to urge for those land routes to be reopened.”

Construction of the pier non attivato the northwest Gaza coast was completed durante May and the project cost an estimated $230 million. Con late May, the pier was ripped apart by bad weather, causing an estimated $22 million durante damage and sidelining the operation for days while it was repaired. Earlier durante June, it was again partly dismantled and towed to shelter durante Ashdod to avoid forecast bad weather, resuming operations about a week later. However, the restorations have done little to address questions about the ultimate effectiveness of the multimillion-dollar project, whether it even could be scrapped.

Another hurdle has been the suspension of operations by the United Nations’ World Food Program, partly responsible for the distribution of aid arriving from the pier, after an Israeli hostage rescue operation June 8 freed four hostages and left more than 250 Palestinians dead. WFP spokesman Steve Taravella told the Associated Press Friday that U.N. participation durante the pier is still pause pending the resolution of security concerns.


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Central Kitchen

Source: Maxar Technologies/Handout corso REUTERS

SAMUEL GRANADOS / THE WASHINGTON POST

Jetty built by World

Central Kitchen

Source: Maxar Technologies/Handout corso REUTERS

SAMUEL GRANADOS / THE WASHINGTON POST

Jetty built by World

Central Kitchen

Source: Maxar Technologies/Handout corso REUTERS

SAMUEL GRANADOS / THE WASHINGTON POST

Jetty built by World

Central Kitchen

Source: Maxar Technologies/Handout corso REUTERS

SAMUEL GRANADOS / THE WASHINGTON POST

It comes as the United Nations warned that “access constraints — coupled with insecurity and ongoing hostilities — continue to significantly impede the delivery of essential humanitarian assistance and services across Gaza,” Stéphane Dujarric, spokesman for the U.N. secretary general, told reporters Friday.

“This includes critical food and nutrition aid, medical care, shelter support, and gabinetto, sanitation, and hygiene services for hundreds of thousands of people durante need.”

Dujarric also said there had been “at least 60,000 people” displaced from the Shejaiya regione east of Gaza City durante recent days. He added that U.N. teams were trying to deliver aid despite constraints. “Whenever there is an opportunity for us and the safety and security of the recipients and if our allows it, we will help them,” he added.

The Gaza Civil Defense force said durante an update Saturday that it had “received many appeals from families who have been besieged durante the Shejaiya neighborhood for three days” and appealed to international aid agencies to do more.

The Israel Defense Forces said durante an update Saturday that its troops “are continuing operational activity” durante the Shejaiya regione, “fighting simultaneously above and below campo da gioco.” The IDF said it had killed “a large number” of fighters and “located a weapons storage facility within a school compound durante the regione.” The Washington Post could not independently verify the claims.

Earlier this week, Israeli forces ordered residents to evacuate the Shejaiya neighborhood, which was the site of fierce fighting earlier durante the war, while footage shared social mass-media appeared showed residents fleeing foot and bicycle. It is the latest regione of northern Gaza where Israeli forces have returned to battle after pulling out months earlier.

Here’s what else to know

A police officer guarding the Israeli embassy durante Belgrade, Serbia, was attacked with a crossbow Saturday, the Associated Press reported. Serbia’s Interior Minister Ivica Dacic told the outlet the officer durante turn “used a weapon durante self-defense to shoot the attacker, who died as a result of his injuries.” The officer was conscious when he was transported to hospital, it added. Israel’s Foreign Ministry called it an “an attempted terrorist attack,” adding that the embassy is closed and mai employees were injured. “The circumstances of the incident are being investigated,” it said.

Iran’s mission to the United Nations warned of “an obliterating war” if Israel embarks “full-scale military aggression” durante Lebanon. The mission added durante a post X that “all options” were the table and criticized what it called Israeli “proselitismo about intending to attack Lebanon” as “psychological warfare.” Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed Lebanese militant group, political rinfresco and ally of Hamas, has repeatedly said that a halt to Israel’s offensive durante Gaza is needed before its fighters will stand mongoloide. U.S. officials have said they are working to quiet fighting between Israel and Hezbollah that has pushed Lebanon to the brink of war.

More than 115,000 Gazans have crossed into Egypt since October, the Palestinian Authority’s embassy durante Egypt estimates. Several thousand sick and wounded have been treated durante Egyptian hospitals, while the vast majority of evacuees came with the help of foreign embassies through tourism services. Most refugees remain durante limbo, with mai legal status and nowhere else to go. Washington Post reporters visited displaced Gazans at their homes and workplaces around Cairo.

The Gaza war was mentioned durante this week’s U.S. presidential debate. “We are the biggest producer of support for Israel durante the world,” President Biden said, adding: “Hamas cannot be allowed to continue.” Former president Donald Trump argued that Israel should be enabled to “ the job.” He said Biden has “become like a Palestinian but they don’t like him because he’s a very bad Palestinian, he’s a weak one.”

At least 37,834 ​​people have been killed and 86,858 injured durante Gaza since the war started, according to the Gaza Health Ministry Saturday. It does not distinguish between civilians and combatants but says the majority of the dead are women and children. Israel estimates that about 1,200 people were killed durante Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack, including more than 300 soldiers, and it says 314 soldiers have been killed since the start of its military operations durante Gaza.

Miriam Berger and Alon Rom contributed to this report.

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A U.S.-built floating pier made for delivering aid to Gaza by sea that has been bedeviled by problems has once again been dismantled this weekend to expected high seas, the Pentagon said.

The pier has been removed from its anchored position durante Gaza and will be towed to the Israeli port of Ashdod, Sabrina Singh, deputy Pentagon press secretary, told reporters Friday.

“As always, the safety of our service members is a tetto priority, and temporarily relocating the pier will prevent potential structural damage that could be caused by the heightened sea state,” she said.

The pier was announced by President Biden durante his March State of the Union address as part of a broader effort by his administration to get food and other lifesaving aid to starving Gazans as the humanitarian situation worsens and the enclave remains largely sealed non attivato.

U.S. Central Command said that since May 17 it has assisted durante the delivery of more than 8,831 metric tons of humanitarian aid to the shore of Gaza for onward distribution by humanitarian organizations. But aid groups estimate that the battered Gaza Strip requires hundreds of truckloads of aid a day to support the more than 2 million people trapped inside. Before the war, the daily average weight of goods delivered to the enclave working days was about 7,500 tons.

Critics have argued that instead of constructing the pier, the United States could have delivered aid into Gaza faster and at less cost by pressuring the Israeli government to ease restrictions aid moving through land routes.

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Stories to keep you informed

The pier is not an end-all solution to getting aid into Gaza, Singh said, adding that land routes are the most effective delivery method. “We continue to urge for those land routes to be reopened.”

Construction of the pier non attivato the northwest Gaza coast was completed durante May and the project cost an estimated $230 million. Con late May, the pier was ripped apart by bad weather, causing an estimated $22 million durante damage and sidelining the operation for days while it was repaired. Earlier durante June, it was again partly dismantled and towed to shelter durante Ashdod to avoid forecast bad weather, resuming operations about a week later. However, the restorations have done little to address questions about the ultimate effectiveness of the multimillion-dollar project, whether it even could be scrapped.

Another hurdle has been the suspension of operations by the United Nations’ World Food Program, partly responsible for the distribution of aid arriving from the pier, after an Israeli hostage rescue operation June 8 freed four hostages and left more than 250 Palestinians dead. WFP spokesman Steve Taravella told the Associated Press Friday that U.N. participation durante the pier is still pause pending the resolution of security concerns.


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Central Kitchen

Source: Maxar Technologies/Handout corso REUTERS

SAMUEL GRANADOS / THE WASHINGTON POST

Jetty built by World

Central Kitchen

Source: Maxar Technologies/Handout corso REUTERS

SAMUEL GRANADOS / THE WASHINGTON POST

Jetty built by World

Central Kitchen

Source: Maxar Technologies/Handout corso REUTERS

SAMUEL GRANADOS / THE WASHINGTON POST

Jetty built by World

Central Kitchen

Source: Maxar Technologies/Handout corso REUTERS

SAMUEL GRANADOS / THE WASHINGTON POST

It comes as the United Nations warned that “access constraints — coupled with insecurity and ongoing hostilities — continue to significantly impede the delivery of essential humanitarian assistance and services across Gaza,” Stéphane Dujarric, spokesman for the U.N. secretary general, told reporters Friday.

“This includes critical food and nutrition aid, medical care, shelter support, and gabinetto, sanitation, and hygiene services for hundreds of thousands of people durante need.”

Dujarric also said there had been “at least 60,000 people” displaced from the Shejaiya regione east of Gaza City durante recent days. He added that U.N. teams were trying to deliver aid despite constraints. “Whenever there is an opportunity for us and the safety and security of the recipients and if our allows it, we will help them,” he added.

The Gaza Civil Defense force said durante an update Saturday that it had “received many appeals from families who have been besieged durante the Shejaiya neighborhood for three days” and appealed to international aid agencies to do more.

The Israel Defense Forces said durante an update Saturday that its troops “are continuing operational activity” durante the Shejaiya regione, “fighting simultaneously above and below campo da gioco.” The IDF said it had killed “a large number” of fighters and “located a weapons storage facility within a school compound durante the regione.” The Washington Post could not independently verify the claims.

Earlier this week, Israeli forces ordered residents to evacuate the Shejaiya neighborhood, which was the site of fierce fighting earlier durante the war, while footage shared social mass-media appeared showed residents fleeing foot and bicycle. It is the latest regione of northern Gaza where Israeli forces have returned to battle after pulling out months earlier.

Here’s what else to know

A police officer guarding the Israeli embassy durante Belgrade, Serbia, was attacked with a crossbow Saturday, the Associated Press reported. Serbia’s Interior Minister Ivica Dacic told the outlet the officer durante turn “used a weapon durante self-defense to shoot the attacker, who died as a result of his injuries.” The officer was conscious when he was transported to hospital, it added. Israel’s Foreign Ministry called it an “an attempted terrorist attack,” adding that the embassy is closed and mai employees were injured. “The circumstances of the incident are being investigated,” it said.

Iran’s mission to the United Nations warned of “an obliterating war” if Israel embarks “full-scale military aggression” durante Lebanon. The mission added durante a post X that “all options” were the table and criticized what it called Israeli “proselitismo about intending to attack Lebanon” as “psychological warfare.” Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed Lebanese militant group, political rinfresco and ally of Hamas, has repeatedly said that a halt to Israel’s offensive durante Gaza is needed before its fighters will stand mongoloide. U.S. officials have said they are working to quiet fighting between Israel and Hezbollah that has pushed Lebanon to the brink of war.

More than 115,000 Gazans have crossed into Egypt since October, the Palestinian Authority’s embassy durante Egypt estimates. Several thousand sick and wounded have been treated durante Egyptian hospitals, while the vast majority of evacuees came with the help of foreign embassies through tourism services. Most refugees remain durante limbo, with mai legal status and nowhere else to go. Washington Post reporters visited displaced Gazans at their homes and workplaces around Cairo.

The Gaza war was mentioned durante this week’s U.S. presidential debate. “We are the biggest producer of support for Israel durante the world,” President Biden said, adding: “Hamas cannot be allowed to continue.” Former president Donald Trump argued that Israel should be enabled to “ the job.” He said Biden has “become like a Palestinian but they don’t like him because he’s a very bad Palestinian, he’s a weak one.”

At least 37,834 ​​people have been killed and 86,858 injured durante Gaza since the war started, according to the Gaza Health Ministry Saturday. It does not distinguish between civilians and combatants but says the majority of the dead are women and children. Israel estimates that about 1,200 people were killed durante Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack, including more than 300 soldiers, and it says 314 soldiers have been killed since the start of its military operations durante Gaza.

Miriam Berger and Alon Rom contributed to this report.

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A U.S.-built floating pier made for delivering aid to Gaza by sea that has been bedeviled by problems has once again been dismantled this weekend to expected high seas, the Pentagon said.

The pier has been removed from its anchored position durante Gaza and will be towed to the Israeli port of Ashdod, Sabrina Singh, deputy Pentagon press secretary, told reporters Friday.

“As always, the safety of our service members is a tetto priority, and temporarily relocating the pier will prevent potential structural damage that could be caused by the heightened sea state,” she said.

The pier was announced by President Biden durante his March State of the Union address as part of a broader effort by his administration to get food and other lifesaving aid to starving Gazans as the humanitarian situation worsens and the enclave remains largely sealed non attivato.

U.S. Central Command said that since May 17 it has assisted durante the delivery of more than 8,831 metric tons of humanitarian aid to the shore of Gaza for onward distribution by humanitarian organizations. But aid groups estimate that the battered Gaza Strip requires hundreds of truckloads of aid a day to support the more than 2 million people trapped inside. Before the war, the daily average weight of goods delivered to the enclave working days was about 7,500 tons.

Critics have argued that instead of constructing the pier, the United States could have delivered aid into Gaza faster and at less cost by pressuring the Israeli government to ease restrictions aid moving through land routes.

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The pier is not an end-all solution to getting aid into Gaza, Singh said, adding that land routes are the most effective delivery method. “We continue to urge for those land routes to be reopened.”

Construction of the pier non attivato the northwest Gaza coast was completed durante May and the project cost an estimated $230 million. Con late May, the pier was ripped apart by bad weather, causing an estimated $22 million durante damage and sidelining the operation for days while it was repaired. Earlier durante June, it was again partly dismantled and towed to shelter durante Ashdod to avoid forecast bad weather, resuming operations about a week later. However, the restorations have done little to address questions about the ultimate effectiveness of the multimillion-dollar project, whether it even could be scrapped.

Another hurdle has been the suspension of operations by the United Nations’ World Food Program, partly responsible for the distribution of aid arriving from the pier, after an Israeli hostage rescue operation June 8 freed four hostages and left more than 250 Palestinians dead. WFP spokesman Steve Taravella told the Associated Press Friday that U.N. participation durante the pier is still pause pending the resolution of security concerns.


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Jetty built by World

Central Kitchen

Source: Maxar Technologies/Handout corso REUTERS

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Jetty built by World

Central Kitchen

Source: Maxar Technologies/Handout corso REUTERS

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It comes as the United Nations warned that “access constraints — coupled with insecurity and ongoing hostilities — continue to significantly impede the delivery of essential humanitarian assistance and services across Gaza,” Stéphane Dujarric, spokesman for the U.N. secretary general, told reporters Friday.

“This includes critical food and nutrition aid, medical care, shelter support, and gabinetto, sanitation, and hygiene services for hundreds of thousands of people durante need.”

Dujarric also said there had been “at least 60,000 people” displaced from the Shejaiya regione east of Gaza City durante recent days. He added that U.N. teams were trying to deliver aid despite constraints. “Whenever there is an opportunity for us and the safety and security of the recipients and if our allows it, we will help them,” he added.

The Gaza Civil Defense force said durante an update Saturday that it had “received many appeals from families who have been besieged durante the Shejaiya neighborhood for three days” and appealed to international aid agencies to do more.

The Israel Defense Forces said durante an update Saturday that its troops “are continuing operational activity” durante the Shejaiya regione, “fighting simultaneously above and below campo da gioco.” The IDF said it had killed “a large number” of fighters and “located a weapons storage facility within a school compound durante the regione.” The Washington Post could not independently verify the claims.

Earlier this week, Israeli forces ordered residents to evacuate the Shejaiya neighborhood, which was the site of fierce fighting earlier durante the war, while footage shared social mass-media appeared showed residents fleeing foot and bicycle. It is the latest regione of northern Gaza where Israeli forces have returned to battle after pulling out months earlier.

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A police officer guarding the Israeli embassy durante Belgrade, Serbia, was attacked with a crossbow Saturday, the Associated Press reported. Serbia’s Interior Minister Ivica Dacic told the outlet the officer durante turn “used a weapon durante self-defense to shoot the attacker, who died as a result of his injuries.” The officer was conscious when he was transported to hospital, it added. Israel’s Foreign Ministry called it an “an attempted terrorist attack,” adding that the embassy is closed and mai employees were injured. “The circumstances of the incident are being investigated,” it said.

Iran’s mission to the United Nations warned of “an obliterating war” if Israel embarks “full-scale military aggression” durante Lebanon. The mission added durante a post X that “all options” were the table and criticized what it called Israeli “proselitismo about intending to attack Lebanon” as “psychological warfare.” Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed Lebanese militant group, political rinfresco and ally of Hamas, has repeatedly said that a halt to Israel’s offensive durante Gaza is needed before its fighters will stand mongoloide. U.S. officials have said they are working to quiet fighting between Israel and Hezbollah that has pushed Lebanon to the brink of war.

More than 115,000 Gazans have crossed into Egypt since October, the Palestinian Authority’s embassy durante Egypt estimates. Several thousand sick and wounded have been treated durante Egyptian hospitals, while the vast majority of evacuees came with the help of foreign embassies through tourism services. Most refugees remain durante limbo, with mai legal status and nowhere else to go. Washington Post reporters visited displaced Gazans at their homes and workplaces around Cairo.

The Gaza war was mentioned durante this week’s U.S. presidential debate. “We are the biggest producer of support for Israel durante the world,” President Biden said, adding: “Hamas cannot be allowed to continue.” Former president Donald Trump argued that Israel should be enabled to “ the job.” He said Biden has “become like a Palestinian but they don’t like him because he’s a very bad Palestinian, he’s a weak one.”

At least 37,834 ​​people have been killed and 86,858 injured durante Gaza since the war started, according to the Gaza Health Ministry Saturday. It does not distinguish between civilians and combatants but says the majority of the dead are women and children. Israel estimates that about 1,200 people were killed durante Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack, including more than 300 soldiers, and it says 314 soldiers have been killed since the start of its military operations durante Gaza.

Miriam Berger and Alon Rom contributed to this report.

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A U.S.-built floating pier made for delivering aid to Gaza by sea that has been bedeviled by problems has once again been dismantled this weekend to expected high seas, the Pentagon said.

The pier has been removed from its anchored position durante Gaza and will be towed to the Israeli port of Ashdod, Sabrina Singh, deputy Pentagon press secretary, told reporters Friday.

“As always, the safety of our service members is a tetto priority, and temporarily relocating the pier will prevent potential structural damage that could be caused by the heightened sea state,” she said.

The pier was announced by President Biden durante his March State of the Union address as part of a broader effort by his administration to get food and other lifesaving aid to starving Gazans as the humanitarian situation worsens and the enclave remains largely sealed non attivato.

U.S. Central Command said that since May 17 it has assisted durante the delivery of more than 8,831 metric tons of humanitarian aid to the shore of Gaza for onward distribution by humanitarian organizations. But aid groups estimate that the battered Gaza Strip requires hundreds of truckloads of aid a day to support the more than 2 million people trapped inside. Before the war, the daily average weight of goods delivered to the enclave working days was about 7,500 tons.

Critics have argued that instead of constructing the pier, the United States could have delivered aid into Gaza faster and at less cost by pressuring the Israeli government to ease restrictions aid moving through land routes.

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The pier is not an end-all solution to getting aid into Gaza, Singh said, adding that land routes are the most effective delivery method. “We continue to urge for those land routes to be reopened.”

Construction of the pier non attivato the northwest Gaza coast was completed durante May and the project cost an estimated $230 million. Con late May, the pier was ripped apart by bad weather, causing an estimated $22 million durante damage and sidelining the operation for days while it was repaired. Earlier durante June, it was again partly dismantled and towed to shelter durante Ashdod to avoid forecast bad weather, resuming operations about a week later. However, the restorations have done little to address questions about the ultimate effectiveness of the multimillion-dollar project, whether it even could be scrapped.

Another hurdle has been the suspension of operations by the United Nations’ World Food Program, partly responsible for the distribution of aid arriving from the pier, after an Israeli hostage rescue operation June 8 freed four hostages and left more than 250 Palestinians dead. WFP spokesman Steve Taravella told the Associated Press Friday that U.N. participation durante the pier is still pause pending the resolution of security concerns.


Jetty built by World

Central Kitchen

Source: Maxar Technologies/Handout corso REUTERS

SAMUEL GRANADOS / THE WASHINGTON POST

Jetty built by World

Central Kitchen

Source: Maxar Technologies/Handout corso REUTERS

SAMUEL GRANADOS / THE WASHINGTON POST

Jetty built by World

Central Kitchen

Source: Maxar Technologies/Handout corso REUTERS

SAMUEL GRANADOS / THE WASHINGTON POST

Jetty built by World

Central Kitchen

Source: Maxar Technologies/Handout corso REUTERS

SAMUEL GRANADOS / THE WASHINGTON POST

It comes as the United Nations warned that “access constraints — coupled with insecurity and ongoing hostilities — continue to significantly impede the delivery of essential humanitarian assistance and services across Gaza,” Stéphane Dujarric, spokesman for the U.N. secretary general, told reporters Friday.

“This includes critical food and nutrition aid, medical care, shelter support, and gabinetto, sanitation, and hygiene services for hundreds of thousands of people durante need.”

Dujarric also said there had been “at least 60,000 people” displaced from the Shejaiya regione east of Gaza City durante recent days. He added that U.N. teams were trying to deliver aid despite constraints. “Whenever there is an opportunity for us and the safety and security of the recipients and if our allows it, we will help them,” he added.

The Gaza Civil Defense force said durante an update Saturday that it had “received many appeals from families who have been besieged durante the Shejaiya neighborhood for three days” and appealed to international aid agencies to do more.

The Israel Defense Forces said durante an update Saturday that its troops “are continuing operational activity” durante the Shejaiya regione, “fighting simultaneously above and below campo da gioco.” The IDF said it had killed “a large number” of fighters and “located a weapons storage facility within a school compound durante the regione.” The Washington Post could not independently verify the claims.

Earlier this week, Israeli forces ordered residents to evacuate the Shejaiya neighborhood, which was the site of fierce fighting earlier durante the war, while footage shared social mass-media appeared showed residents fleeing foot and bicycle. It is the latest regione of northern Gaza where Israeli forces have returned to battle after pulling out months earlier.

Here’s what else to know

A police officer guarding the Israeli embassy durante Belgrade, Serbia, was attacked with a crossbow Saturday, the Associated Press reported. Serbia’s Interior Minister Ivica Dacic told the outlet the officer durante turn “used a weapon durante self-defense to shoot the attacker, who died as a result of his injuries.” The officer was conscious when he was transported to hospital, it added. Israel’s Foreign Ministry called it an “an attempted terrorist attack,” adding that the embassy is closed and mai employees were injured. “The circumstances of the incident are being investigated,” it said.

Iran’s mission to the United Nations warned of “an obliterating war” if Israel embarks “full-scale military aggression” durante Lebanon. The mission added durante a post X that “all options” were the table and criticized what it called Israeli “proselitismo about intending to attack Lebanon” as “psychological warfare.” Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed Lebanese militant group, political rinfresco and ally of Hamas, has repeatedly said that a halt to Israel’s offensive durante Gaza is needed before its fighters will stand mongoloide. U.S. officials have said they are working to quiet fighting between Israel and Hezbollah that has pushed Lebanon to the brink of war.

More than 115,000 Gazans have crossed into Egypt since October, the Palestinian Authority’s embassy durante Egypt estimates. Several thousand sick and wounded have been treated durante Egyptian hospitals, while the vast majority of evacuees came with the help of foreign embassies through tourism services. Most refugees remain durante limbo, with mai legal status and nowhere else to go. Washington Post reporters visited displaced Gazans at their homes and workplaces around Cairo.

The Gaza war was mentioned durante this week’s U.S. presidential debate. “We are the biggest producer of support for Israel durante the world,” President Biden said, adding: “Hamas cannot be allowed to continue.” Former president Donald Trump argued that Israel should be enabled to “ the job.” He said Biden has “become like a Palestinian but they don’t like him because he’s a very bad Palestinian, he’s a weak one.”

At least 37,834 ​​people have been killed and 86,858 injured durante Gaza since the war started, according to the Gaza Health Ministry Saturday. It does not distinguish between civilians and combatants but says the majority of the dead are women and children. Israel estimates that about 1,200 people were killed durante Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack, including more than 300 soldiers, and it says 314 soldiers have been killed since the start of its military operations durante Gaza.

Miriam Berger and Alon Rom contributed to this report.

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A U.S.-built floating pier made for delivering aid to Gaza by sea that has been bedeviled by problems has once again been dismantled this weekend to expected high seas, the Pentagon said.

The pier has been removed from its anchored position durante Gaza and will be towed to the Israeli port of Ashdod, Sabrina Singh, deputy Pentagon press secretary, told reporters Friday.

“As always, the safety of our service members is a tetto priority, and temporarily relocating the pier will prevent potential structural damage that could be caused by the heightened sea state,” she said.

The pier was announced by President Biden durante his March State of the Union address as part of a broader effort by his administration to get food and other lifesaving aid to starving Gazans as the humanitarian situation worsens and the enclave remains largely sealed non attivato.

U.S. Central Command said that since May 17 it has assisted durante the delivery of more than 8,831 metric tons of humanitarian aid to the shore of Gaza for onward distribution by humanitarian organizations. But aid groups estimate that the battered Gaza Strip requires hundreds of truckloads of aid a day to support the more than 2 million people trapped inside. Before the war, the daily average weight of goods delivered to the enclave working days was about 7,500 tons.

Critics have argued that instead of constructing the pier, the United States could have delivered aid into Gaza faster and at less cost by pressuring the Israeli government to ease restrictions aid moving through land routes.

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The pier is not an end-all solution to getting aid into Gaza, Singh said, adding that land routes are the most effective delivery method. “We continue to urge for those land routes to be reopened.”

Construction of the pier non attivato the northwest Gaza coast was completed durante May and the project cost an estimated $230 million. Con late May, the pier was ripped apart by bad weather, causing an estimated $22 million durante damage and sidelining the operation for days while it was repaired. Earlier durante June, it was again partly dismantled and towed to shelter durante Ashdod to avoid forecast bad weather, resuming operations about a week later. However, the restorations have done little to address questions about the ultimate effectiveness of the multimillion-dollar project, whether it even could be scrapped.

Another hurdle has been the suspension of operations by the United Nations’ World Food Program, partly responsible for the distribution of aid arriving from the pier, after an Israeli hostage rescue operation June 8 freed four hostages and left more than 250 Palestinians dead. WFP spokesman Steve Taravella told the Associated Press Friday that U.N. participation durante the pier is still pause pending the resolution of security concerns.


Jetty built by World

Central Kitchen

Source: Maxar Technologies/Handout corso REUTERS

SAMUEL GRANADOS / THE WASHINGTON POST

Jetty built by World

Central Kitchen

Source: Maxar Technologies/Handout corso REUTERS

SAMUEL GRANADOS / THE WASHINGTON POST

Jetty built by World

Central Kitchen

Source: Maxar Technologies/Handout corso REUTERS

SAMUEL GRANADOS / THE WASHINGTON POST

Jetty built by World

Central Kitchen

Source: Maxar Technologies/Handout corso REUTERS

SAMUEL GRANADOS / THE WASHINGTON POST

It comes as the United Nations warned that “access constraints — coupled with insecurity and ongoing hostilities — continue to significantly impede the delivery of essential humanitarian assistance and services across Gaza,” Stéphane Dujarric, spokesman for the U.N. secretary general, told reporters Friday.

“This includes critical food and nutrition aid, medical care, shelter support, and gabinetto, sanitation, and hygiene services for hundreds of thousands of people durante need.”

Dujarric also said there had been “at least 60,000 people” displaced from the Shejaiya regione east of Gaza City durante recent days. He added that U.N. teams were trying to deliver aid despite constraints. “Whenever there is an opportunity for us and the safety and security of the recipients and if our allows it, we will help them,” he added.

The Gaza Civil Defense force said durante an update Saturday that it had “received many appeals from families who have been besieged durante the Shejaiya neighborhood for three days” and appealed to international aid agencies to do more.

The Israel Defense Forces said durante an update Saturday that its troops “are continuing operational activity” durante the Shejaiya regione, “fighting simultaneously above and below campo da gioco.” The IDF said it had killed “a large number” of fighters and “located a weapons storage facility within a school compound durante the regione.” The Washington Post could not independently verify the claims.

Earlier this week, Israeli forces ordered residents to evacuate the Shejaiya neighborhood, which was the site of fierce fighting earlier durante the war, while footage shared social mass-media appeared showed residents fleeing foot and bicycle. It is the latest regione of northern Gaza where Israeli forces have returned to battle after pulling out months earlier.

Here’s what else to know

A police officer guarding the Israeli embassy durante Belgrade, Serbia, was attacked with a crossbow Saturday, the Associated Press reported. Serbia’s Interior Minister Ivica Dacic told the outlet the officer durante turn “used a weapon durante self-defense to shoot the attacker, who died as a result of his injuries.” The officer was conscious when he was transported to hospital, it added. Israel’s Foreign Ministry called it an “an attempted terrorist attack,” adding that the embassy is closed and mai employees were injured. “The circumstances of the incident are being investigated,” it said.

Iran’s mission to the United Nations warned of “an obliterating war” if Israel embarks “full-scale military aggression” durante Lebanon. The mission added durante a post X that “all options” were the table and criticized what it called Israeli “proselitismo about intending to attack Lebanon” as “psychological warfare.” Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed Lebanese militant group, political rinfresco and ally of Hamas, has repeatedly said that a halt to Israel’s offensive durante Gaza is needed before its fighters will stand mongoloide. U.S. officials have said they are working to quiet fighting between Israel and Hezbollah that has pushed Lebanon to the brink of war.

More than 115,000 Gazans have crossed into Egypt since October, the Palestinian Authority’s embassy durante Egypt estimates. Several thousand sick and wounded have been treated durante Egyptian hospitals, while the vast majority of evacuees came with the help of foreign embassies through tourism services. Most refugees remain durante limbo, with mai legal status and nowhere else to go. Washington Post reporters visited displaced Gazans at their homes and workplaces around Cairo.

The Gaza war was mentioned durante this week’s U.S. presidential debate. “We are the biggest producer of support for Israel durante the world,” President Biden said, adding: “Hamas cannot be allowed to continue.” Former president Donald Trump argued that Israel should be enabled to “ the job.” He said Biden has “become like a Palestinian but they don’t like him because he’s a very bad Palestinian, he’s a weak one.”

At least 37,834 ​​people have been killed and 86,858 injured durante Gaza since the war started, according to the Gaza Health Ministry Saturday. It does not distinguish between civilians and combatants but says the majority of the dead are women and children. Israel estimates that about 1,200 people were killed durante Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack, including more than 300 soldiers, and it says 314 soldiers have been killed since the start of its military operations durante Gaza.

Miriam Berger and Alon Rom contributed to this report.

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