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Palestinians carry boxes containing food and humanitarian aid packages delivered by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, a U.S.-backed organization approved by Israel, in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, on Tuesday, May 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Israeli troops fire warning shots as Palestinians overwhelm new Gaza food center

Chaos has erupted on the second day of aid operations by a new U.S.-backed group in Gaza. Palestinians overwhelmed a center distributing food on Tuesday, breaking through fences.

People fill water containers at a distribution point due to water outages in Khartoum, Sudan, Sunday, May 25, 2025. (AP Photo)

A new cholera outbreak in Sudan has killed over 170 people in a week, officials say

Andrei Kozlov, an artist who was taken hostage by Hamas during the Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel, speaks with The Associated Press during an interview Monday, May 19, 2025, at his studio in New York.

Freed from Hamas captivity, former hostage tells his story through his paintings

Israelis wave national flags during a march marking Jerusalem Day, an Israeli holiday celebrating the capture of east Jerusalem in the 1967 Mideast war, in Jerusalem's Old City, Monday, May 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

AP PHOTOS: Israeli nationalists march through Jerusalem

Palestinians struggle to receive cooked food distributed at a community kitchen in the Muwasi area of Khan Younis, in the Gaza Strip, Friday, May 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

How a US-backed body plans to handle Gaza’s food distribution and why aid groups oppose it

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Mourners attend funeral of Israeli soldier killed during military operation in northern Gaza

Mourners attended the funeral of an Israeli soldier on Tuesday who was killed during a military operation in northern Gaza. (AP video by Alon Bernstein)

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Al-Awda Hospital in northern Gaza goes out of service following evacuation orders

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The body of Palestinian child Aya Al-Talli, 5, killed in an Israeli army airstrike of the Gaza Strip is lies on the floor of Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir al-Balah, Sunday, April 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

51 deaths reported in Gaza from Israeli strikes, bringing the war’s Palestinian toll to over 52,000

Hussein al-Sheikh, secretary-general of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization, gestures during an interview with The Associate Press at his office in the West Bank city of Ramallah, June 13, 2022. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser, File)

A look at the PLO’s new vice president, Hussein al-Sheikh

Palestinians mourn over the bodies of their relatives who were killed in an Israeli airstrike, as they brought to Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, on Saturday, April 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

Israeli airstrike kills 10 people, half of them children, as mediators try to restart a ceasefire

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, visits the Muscat International Book Fair in Oman, Friday, April 25, 2025. (AP Photo/ Fatima Shbair)

Iran and the US hold hours of expert talks in Oman over Tehran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program

Palestinian children receive donated food at a distribution center in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, Monday, April 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

UN food agency says its food stocks in Gaza have run out under Israel’s blockade

Houthi supporters chant slogans during a weekly, anti-U.S. and anti-Israel rally in Sanaa, Yemen, Friday, April 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Osamah Abdulrahman)

Houthi rebels have shot down 7 US Reaper drones worth $200 million in recent weeks

A woman reaches to a shark swimming in Mediterranean Sea in Hadera, Israel, Saturday, April 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Swimmer’s remains found after shark attack in waters off Israel’s Mediterranean coast

Palestinians bid farewell to their relatives who were killed in Israeli airstrikes early this morning on Yaffa School, in Gaza City, Wednesday, April 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

Israeli strike in Gaza kills 23 as Arab mediators seek long-term truce

Wasem Attiya pushes his father, Mohamed, 54, in a wheelchair as they head to Shifa hospital in Gaza City for a dialysis session, Monday, April 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

Dialysis patients struggle to get treatment in blockaded Gaza. Officials say hundreds have died

Leaders of different faiths in Argentina call to deepen dialogue after death of Pope Francis

U.S. Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz and Head of the Iranian Atomic Energy Organization Ali Akbar Salehi, left, meet at an hotel in Vienna, July 9, 2015. (Carlos Barria/Pool Photo via AP, File)

What do ‘expert level’ talks signal for the progress of the Iran-US nuclear negotiations?

Faithful around the world mourn death of Pope Francis

FILE.- Mourners carry the bodies of 8 Red Crescent emergency responders, recovered in Rafah a week after an Israeli attack, as they are transported for burial from a hospital in Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip, on Monday, March 31, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana,File)

Gaza rescue service dismisses Israeli probe into killing of medics as a ‘fabricated investigation’

FILE.- Mourners gather around the bodies of 8 Red Crescent emergency responders, recovered in Rafah a week after an Israeli attack, as they are transported for burial from a hospital in Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip, on Monday, March 31, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana, file)

Israeli probe into the killings of 15 Palestinian medics in Gaza finds ‘professional failures’

This is a locator map for Yemen with its capital, Sanaa. (AP Photo)

Yemen’s Houthi rebels report US strikes in the capital and a coastal city

Thousands of Christians gather in Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulcher for Holy Fire ceremony

Christian pilgrims light candles during the Holy Fire ceremony, at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, the site where according to tradition Jesus was crucified and buried, in Jerusalem's Old City, Saturday, April 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

What’s behind the visually stunning ‘Holy Fire’ ceremony in Jerusalem?

Mourners grieve over the body of Palestinian child Mohammad Abu Nada, killed in an Israeli army airstrike, during his funeral in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, on Saturday, April 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Netanyahu says Israel has ‘no choice’ but to continue fighting in Gaza

Convoy carrying U.S. Mideast envoy Steve Witkoff arrives at Omani Embassy in Rome for second round of talks with Iran

Palestinian Christians attend a Good Friday Mass at the Greek Orthodox Church of Saint Porphyrius in Gaza City, Friday, April 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

Israeli strikes kill at least 25 in Gaza and Huckabee makes first appearance as US ambassador

People gather in a protest demanding the immediate release of hostages held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip, during the Jewish holiday of Passover, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Saturday, April 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Protest letters from former Israeli soldiers lay bare profound rifts over the ongoing war

This photo taken from video released by Al Masirah TV channel shows medics carrying a wounded man into the hospital after U.S. airstrikes targeted the Ras Isa oil port held by Yemen's Houthi rebels in Hodeida, Yemen, Friday, April 18, 2025.( Al Masirah TV via AP)

Deadly US airstrike on Yemeni oil port escalates Trump’s campaign against the Houthis

Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem washes feets pf priests to mark Easter’s holy week

This image provided by World Press Photo and taken by Samar Abu Elouf, for The New York Times, won the World Press Photo Award of the Year and shows Mahmoud Ajjour (9), who was injured during an Israeli attack on Gaza City in March 2024, finds refuge and medical help in Doha, Qatar, 28 June 2024. (Samar Abu Elouf, for The New York Times/World Press Photo via AP)

Portrait of Palestinian boy who lost both arms is World Press Photo of the year for 2025

French President Emmanuel Macron, left, welcomes US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff, center, and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio for a meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris, Thursday April 17, 2025. (Ludovic Marin, Pool Photo via AP)

Rubio and Witkoff met Ukrainian and European officials for landmark talks on Ukraine’s future

Mourners pray over the bodies of 10 members of the Abu Al-Rous family, killed when an Israeli airstrike struck their displacement tent overnight, during their funeral in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Thursday, April 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Thousands of Gaza children are malnourished under Israel’s food blockade, aid groups say

Israeli forces carry out raids in northern West Bank

Egyptian dredging ship, Mashhour, sails at the Suez Canal in Ismailia, Egypt, Wednesday, April 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

Egypt’s revenue from the Suez Canal plunged sharply in 2024

Nashat Seiam carries the body of his granddaughter Ahlam Seiam, who was just days away from her first birthday, into Nasser Hospital, after their home was hit by an overnight Israeli airstrike in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, on Wednesday, April 16, 2025.(AP Photo/Mariam Dagga)

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Sandstorm and dust clouds hit Dubai in United Arab Emirates