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Palestinians displaced by the Israeli air and ground offensive on the Gaza Strip flee from parts of Khan Younis following an evacuation order by the Israeli army to leave the eastern part of Gaza Strip's second largest city on Monday, July 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Saher Alghorra)

Strike kills family as Israeli evacuation order sparks panicked flight from southern Gaza city

An Israeli airstrike has killed a prominent Palestinian doctor and eight members of his extended family after they complied with military orders to evacuate their home and moved into an Israeli-designated safe zone.

Palestinians inspect the destruction following an Israeli operation in Nur Shams refugee camp, near the West Bank town of Tulkarem, Sunday, June 30, 2024. Palestinian health officials said one person was killed and several wounded during an Israeli operation in the Nur Shams refugee camp in the northern West Bank. Israel frequently operates in the area, saying it is a stronghold of Palestinian militants. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

Israeli airstrike in the northern West Bank kills a Palestinian militant and wounds 5 other people

Palestinian health officials say Israeli troops have carried out an airstrike in the northern West Bank, killing a Palestinian militant and wounding five other people.

The sun sets behind the buildings in the Gaza Strip as seen from southern Israel, Saturday, June 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

The UN starts to move tons of aid from US-built pier after security fears suspended work there

The United Nations says workers have begun moving tons of humanitarian aid that had been piled up at a United States-built pier off Gaza’s coast and distributing it to warehouses in the besieged territory.

Palestinian parents say goodbye to their sick son before leaving the Gaza Strip to get treatment abroad through the Kerem Shalom crossing, in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Thursday, June 27, 2024. Twenty one patients in the Gaza Strip evacuated the war-torn enclave in an initiative led by the World Health Organization for the children to receive life-saving treatment elsewhere. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Israel lets 19 kids leave Gaza who are sick or wounded, first medical evacuation in nearly 2 months

Israeli authorities say 68 people — 19 sick and injured children and their companions — have been allowed out of the Gaza Strip and into Egypt in the first medical evacuation since May, when the territory’s sole travel crossing was shut down.

Palestinians sort through trash at a landfill in Nuseirat refugee camp, Gaza Strip, Thursday, June 20, 2024. Israel's war in Gaza has decimated the strip's sanitation system while simultaneously displacing the vast majority of the population, leaving many Palestinians living in tent camps nearby water contaminated with sewage and growing piles of garbage. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

In the searing heat of the Gaza summer, Palestinians are surrounded by sewage and garbage

Children trudge through water contaminated with sewage and scale growing mounds of garbage in Gaza’s tent camps for displaced families. People relieve themselves in burlap-covered pits, with nowhere nearby to wash their hands.

Palestinian mourners pray at the body of Mohammad Hoshiya, 12, during his funeral in the West Bank village of Qatana, southwest of Ramallah Saturday, June 22, 2024. The Palestinian Health Ministry said Hoshiya died from his wounds after being shot by Israeli forces in Ramallah last week. Commenting on the shooting, the Israeli army said its forces raided al-Amari refugee camp near Ramallah to arrest a suspect last Friday and then opened fire on a group of Palestinians who were pelting them with stones. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

At least 39 people killed in Israeli strikes across northern Gaza, officials say

Palestinian and hospital officials said at least 39 people have been killed by Israeli strikes across northern Gaza.

A Palestinian family mourns a loved one killed by Israeli bombardment , as they take a last look before their funeral in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Friday, June 21, 2024. (AP Photo /Jehad Alshrafi)

Israeli strikes on tent camps near Rafah kill at least 25 and wound 50, Gaza health officials say

Gaza health officials say Israeli strikes on a tent camp outside the southern city of Rafah have killed at least 25 people and wounded another 50.

Palestinians carry a child killed in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip into a hospital in Deir al Balah on Sunday, June 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Israel’s army says it will pause daytime fighting along a route in southern Gaza to help flow of aid

The Israeli military says it is pausing fighting during daytime hours along a route in southern Gaza to free up a backlog of humanitarian aid deliveries for desperate Palestinians.

Basima al-Batsh sits with her family ahead of the Eid al-Adha holiday in Deir al Balah, Gaza Strip, Tuesday, June 11, 2024. They were displaced from their home by the war between Israel and Hamas. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

A usually joyous Muslim holiday reminds families in Gaza of war’s punishing toll

Last summer, Palestinians in the Gaza Strip celebrated the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha the way it’s supposed to be. They hosted large family feasts, shared meat with those less fortunate, and surprised their children with new clothes and gifts.

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Israelis and Palestinians are hopeful but cautious over the latest cease-fire proposal --- Update 5

A proposed cease-fire deal between Israel and Hamas is raising hopes across the Middle East and beyond that eight months of fighting could soon come to an end and that dozens of captives taken by the militant group could soon be freed.

A Palestinian runs away from an Israeli tank in the central Gaza Strip on Sunday, June 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Gaza’s Health Ministry says 274 Palestinians were killed in Israeli raid that rescued 4 hostages

Gaza’s Health Ministry says at least 274 Palestinians, including dozens of children, were killed in the Israeli air and ground raid that rescued four hostages held by Hamas. The ministry says about 700 other people were wounded.

CORRECTS AGE: Almog Meir Jan, 22, kidnapped from Israel in a Hamas-led attack on Oct. 7, 2023, raises his hands after arriving by helicopter to the Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan, Israel, Saturday, June 8, 2024. Israel says it has rescued four hostages in Gaza who were kidnapped in a Hamas-led attack on Oct. 7. (AP Photo/Tomer Appelbaum)

Israel rescues 4 hostages taken in Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack, and 210 Palestinians are reported killed

Israel has carried out its largest hostage rescue operation since the latest war with Hamas began on Oct. 7. Four hostages were freed and the military says they’re well.

Palestinians look at the aftermath of the Israeli strike on a U.N.-run school that killed dozens of people in the Nusseirat refugee camp in the Gaza Strip, Thursday, June 6, 2024. The Israeli military said that Hamas militants were operating from within the school. (AP Photo/Ismael Abu Dayyah)

Israeli strike kills at least 33 people at a Gaza school the military claims was being used by Hamas

Palestinian health officials say an Israeli strike on a school sheltering displaced families in central Gaza killed at least 33 people including 12 women and children. The Israeli military claims the school was being used as a Hamas compound.

People protest against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government and call for the release of hostages held in the Gaza Strip by the Hamas militant group in Tel Aviv, Israel, Saturday, June 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Israeli leader Netanyahu faces growing pressure at home after Biden’s Gaza proposal

Israel’s prime minister faces growing pressure after U.S. President Joe Biden described a proposed agreement to end the fighting in Gaza.

Israeli soldiers work on a tank near the Israeli-Gaza border, in southern Israel, Wednesday, May 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

Israel says it’s taken control of key area of Gaza’s border with Egypt awash in smuggling tunnels

Israel’s military says it’s seized control of a strategic corridor that runs along the length of Gaza’s border with Egypt.

Palestinians fleeing from the southern Gaza city of Rafah during an Israeli ground and air offensive in the city on Tuesday, May 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Israeli strikes kill at least 37 Palestinians, most in tents, near Gaza’s Rafah as offensive expands

Renewed Israeli shelling and strikes have killed at least 37 people, most of them sheltering in tents, outside the southern Gaza city of Rafah. That’s according to witnesses, first responders and hospital officials.

FILE - Palestinians displaced by the Israeli air and ground offensive on the Gaza Strip walk through a makeshift tent camp in Rafah on Jan. 27, 2024. The tent camps stretch for more than 16 kilometers (10 miles) along Gaza’s coast, filling the beach and sprawling into empty lots, fields and town streets. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair, file)

‘We have nothing.’ As Israel attacks Rafah, Palestinians are living in tents and searching for food

Israel’s offensive in Rafah has sent nearly a million Palestinians fleeing the southern Gaza city over the past three weeks. Most have been displaced multiple times already during Israel’s nearly 8-month-old war with Hamas in Gaza.

A Palestinian wounded in an Israeli bombardment on the Gaza Strip is brought to Al Aqsa hospital in Deir al Balah, central Gaza Strip, on Sunday, May 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Palestinian medics say Israeli airstrikes kill 35 in Gaza’s Rafah as displaced people are hit

Palestinian health workers say Israeli attacks have killed at least 35 people and hit tents for displaced people in the southern Gaza city of Rafah. They say “numerous” others are trapped in flaming debris.

Ricarda Louk places a candle on the grave of her daughter Shani Louk during her funeral in Srigim, Israel, on Sunday, May 19, 2024. Louk, a 22-year-old German-Israeli, was killed while fleeing a music festival during Hamas' Oct. 7 attack and her body was taken into Gaza. Israeli forces recovered her remains last week along with those of three other Israelis killed during the attack, which ignited the war in Gaza. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Airstrike kills 27 in central Gaza and fighting rages as Israel’s leaders are increasingly divided

An Israeli airstrike has killed 27 people in central Gaza, mostly women and children, and fighting again rages across the north.

Palestinians are storming trucks loaded with humanitarian aid brought in through a new U.S.-built pier, in the central Gaza Strip, Saturday, May 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Member of Israel’s War Cabinet says he’ll quit the government June 8 unless there’s a new war plan

A popular centrist member of Israel’s three-man War Cabinet has threatened to resign from the government if it doesn’t adopt a new plan for the war in Gaza in the next three weeks.

Children attend an activity at a makeshift class in Deir al Balah, on Sunday, April 21, 2024. Since the war erupted Oct 7, all schools in Gaza have closed, and nearly 90% of school buildings are damaged or destroyed, according to aid groups. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareen Hana)

For the children of Gaza, war means no school — and no indication when formal learning might return

Since the war between Israel and Hamas erupted Oct. 7, all Gaza’s schools have closed. That leaves hundreds of thousands of students without formal schooling or safe places to spend their days.

Palestinian Fayrouz Safi cries while she takes the last look at the body of her son Aysar Safi, 20, at the family house during his funeral in the West Bank refugee camp of Jalazoun, north of Ramallah Wednesday, May 15, 2024. Safi was killed during clashes with Israeli forces at the northern entrance of al-Bireh city, Palestinian ministry of health said. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

Netanyahu fends off criticism at home and abroad over his lack of a postwar plan for Gaza

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is fending off criticism that he is not planning for a postwar reality in the Gaza Strip, saying it’s impossible to prepare for any scenario in the embattled Palestinian enclave until Hamas is defeated.

Palestinians search for survivors after an Israeli airstrike on a residential building of the Karaja family in Nusseirat refugee camp, central Gaza Strip, early Tuesday, May 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Ismael Abu Dayyah)

Misery deepens in Gaza’s Rafah as Israeli troops press operation

Aid workers are struggling to distribute dwindling food to hundreds of thousands of Palestinians displaced by what Israel says is a limited operation in Rafah. The two main crossings near the southern Gaza city have been closed for over a week.

Palestinians displaced by the Israeli air and ground offensive on the Gaza Strip walk through a makeshift tent camp in Deir al Balah, Gaza, Sunday, May 12, 2024. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Israel moves deeper into Rafah and fights Hamas militants regrouping in northern Gaza

Israeli forces are battling Palestinian militants across Gaza, including in parts of the devastated north that the military said it cleared months ago.

Palestinians mourn relatives killed in the Israeli bombardments of the Gaza Strip in front of the morgue of the Al Aqsa Hospital in Deir al Balah, Gaza Strip, on Saturday, May 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Israel orders new evacuations in Gaza’s last refuge of Rafah as it expands military offensive

Israel has ordered new evacuations in Rafah. The southern city in Gaza is considered the Palestinian territory’s last refuge. That’s forcing tens of thousands of people to move as the military prepares to press closer to the city’s crowded center.

Palestinians mourn their relatives killed in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip, at a hospital in Rafah, Gaza, Friday, May 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Ismael Abu Dayyah)

Heavy fighting in Gaza’s Rafah keeps aid crossings closed and sends 110,000 civilians fleeing

The U.N. says heavy fighting between Israeli troops and Palestinian militants in the southern Gaza city of Rafah has left crucial nearby aid crossings inaccessible and caused over 110,000 people to flee north.

Smoke rises following an Israeli airstrike on buildings near the separating wall between Egypt and Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, Monday, May 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Ramez Habboub)

Palestinians flee chaos and panic in Rafah after Israel’s seizure of border crossing

Gaza’s overcrowded southernmost city, Rafah, has been thrown into panic and chaos by Israel’s seizure of the nearby border crossing with Egypt and as the possibility of a full-scale invasion looms.

FILE - A Palestinian baby girl, Sabreen Jouda, who was delivered prematurely after her mother was killed in an Israeli strike along with her husband and daughter, lies in an incubator in the Emirati hospital in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip. Sunday, April 21, 2024. A premature Palestinian infant, rescued from her mother's womb shortly after the woman was killed in an Israeli airstrike, has died, her uncle said Friday, April 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Mohammad Jahjouh, File)

Premature baby girl rescued from her dead mother’s womb dies in Gaza after 5 days in an incubator

A relative says a premature Palestinian infant, who was rescued from her mother’s womb shortly after the woman was killed in an Israeli airstrike, has died.

Parachutes drop supplies into the northern Gaza Strip, seen from southern Israel, Monday, April 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Israeli military tells Palestinians not to return to north Gaza after witnesses say troops killed 5

The Israeli military has renewed warnings for Palestinians not to return to northern Gaza. A day earlier, witnesses and medical officials said Israeli troops opened fire and killed five people among throngs of displaced residents trying to walk back to their homes in the devastated area.

A mission of mercy, then a fatal strike: How an aid convoy in Gaza became Israel’s target

It was hours after sundown when eight aid trucks and three support vehicles started their journey into Gaza. The roads were dark, except for occasional patches where ragged light spilled from buildings with their own generators.