A look at the war in Gaza five months after the Oct. 7 attacks in Israel. Alabama passes a new law to protect in vitro fertilization, weeks after a controversial state Supreme Court ruling. And why a Chinese American family in California is donating millions for Black college students.
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In Gaza, a worsening humanitarian crisis fueled by Israel’s stalled military goals
Five months after Hamas launched multipronged attacks on Israel, almost half of Gaza’s buildings lie in ruins and at least 30,000 Palestinians have been killed, according to the enclave’s Health Ministry. That organization, along with aid agencies, is now warning that some of the most vulnerable children in the territory have begun to starve to death.
The Israeli military controls swaths of the Gaza Strip, and it has threatened to attack Rafah, a southern city where 1.5 million Palestinians have fled, unless a cease-fire deal is reached by next week. Israel has not achieved its military goals: destroying Hamas in response to its Oct. 7 attacks, which killed 1,200 people, and rescuing the 100-plus remaining hostages taken that day. It is unclear whether either is even possible.
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Abroad, the worsening humanitarian tragedy has heaped international pressure on Israel, including the U.S. Washington is also sponsoring talks in Egypt to negotiate a cease-fire by the start of Ramadan, but there is little sign of a breakthrough
“When children are starting” to “die from starvation, that should be a warning like no other,” Jens Laerke, a spokesperson for the United Nations humanitarian office, said at a news briefing Tuesday. “If not now, when is the time to pull the stops, break the glass, flood Gaza with the aid that it needs?”
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