内容摘要：and other natural resources, an agreement Kyiv hopes will secure long-term support for its defense against Russia.

and other natural resources, an agreement Kyiv hopes will secure long-term support for its defense against Russia.

“It is a cynical sideshow. A deliberate distraction. A fig leaf for further violence and displacement,” Fletcher said about the proposal, adding that it would exclude the disabled, women, children and the elderly.Asked Tuesday when aid would get into Gaza, a spokesperson for the State Department repeated Israeli rhetoric that Hamas “bears responsibility” for the humanitarian conditions in Gaza. It’s a claim that aid officials have continuously disputed.

“I will reiterate that we are supportive of creative solutions to get aid in there but also in a way that the aid is not falling into the hands of Hamas, that it actually reaches the people that need it,” deputy spokesman Tommy Pigott told reporters.Renard said “criminal gangs,” not Hamas, had stripped WFP trucks of supplies between October and early January. He said some taking of food recently was not by gangs but people with nothing to eat.Hamas-led militants killed 1,200 people in a surprise Oct. 7, 2023, attack in southern Israel. Israel’s retaliatory offensive has killed over 52,800 Palestinians, many of them women and children, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry, which does not say how many of the dead were combatants or civilians.

Israel says it has killed thousands of militants, without giving evidence. Thewhat it said was a Hamas “command and control center” located beneath a hospital in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis.

“I can tell you from having visited what’s left of Gaza’s medical system, that death on this scale has a sound and a smell that does not leave you,” the U.N.'s Fletcher said.

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Some 40 world leaders announced their support Friday for the creation of a new international court to prosecute those most responsible for Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.by resuming military operations in the territory on March 18. It said both steps aim to pressure the militant Hamas group to

. Rights groups call the blockade a “starvation tactic” and a potential war crime.With restaurants and bakeries closed, community kitchens are

of Palestinians in Gaza to eat a daily meal. But a third of those supported by the U.N. have closed in the past 10 days for lack of food or fuel, according to the U.N. humanitarian office, or OCHA, which said more closures could be imminent.“The hot meals provided by these kitchens constitute one of the last remaining lifelines” for Palestinians, OCHA said.