Truckloads of aid idled at Egypt’s border with Gaza as residents and humanitarian groups pleaded Monday for water, food and fuel for dying generators, saying the tiny Palestinian territory sealed off by Israel after last week’s rampage by Hamas was near total collapse.
U.S. President Joe Biden will travel to Israel on Wednesday to signal White House support for the country and amid fears that Israel's war with Hamas could spread to other countries. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced the trip early Tuesday in Tel Aviv following hours of talks with Israeli officials, and an invitation from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
“We share Israel’s concern that Hamas may seize or destroy aid entering Gaza or otherwise prevent it from reaching the people who need it,” Blinken said. Iran’s foreign minister, meanwhile, warned that “preemptive action is possible” if Israel moves closer to a ground offensive. Hossein Amirabdollahian did not elaborate on his threat, but it follows a pattern of escalating rhetoric from Iran, whose theocracy provides support to Hamas and Hezbollah.
The Israeli military said Schem's family was told of her abduction last week, and officials dismissed the video as propaganda. “There will be time for investigation — now is a time for war,” he wrote in a letter to Shin Bet workers and their families. Hospitals are expected to run out of generator fuel in the next 24 hours, meaning life-saving equipment like incubators and ventilators will stop functioning, the U.N. said. Thousands of patients’ lives were at risk, the U.N. said.
The few operating bakeries had long snaking lines of people. Ahmad Salah in the city of Deir al-Balah said he waited 10 hours to get a kilo of bread to feed 20-30 family members.UNRWA said 170,000 people were sheltering at its schools in the north when the order to leave came. But it couldn't evacuate them and doesn’t know if they remained. More than 40,000 have crowded in the grounds of Gaza City’s al-Shifa Hospital and surrounding streets, hoping it will be safe from bombardment.
The country’s water ministry said water had been restored at one “specific point” in Gaza, outside the southern town of Khan Younis, but aid workers in Gaza said they had not yet seen evidence the water was back.
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