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Main events on May 13th
- At least 16 Palestinians were killed and 70 wounded after Israeli warplanes dropped a large number of bombs on Gaza’s European Hospital.
- The Israeli army killed at least four people and wounded others in an attack on the Jabalia refugee camp after issuing a forced evacuation order in response to three rockets launched from Gaza.
- With his envoy Steve Witkoff meeting captive families in Israel, US President Donald Trump told leaders gathered in Saudi Arabia that he is working on ending the war in Gaza as soon as possible.
- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu renewed his promise that the war will not stop even if Israel agrees to a deal to bring back some of the captives still held in Gaza.
- The Houthis in Yemen launched a ballistic missile at Israel, with the Israeli army saying it intercepted the projectile while a second fell short.
Criticism surges over Israel’s Gaza blockade amid famine warnings
UN officials and European nations are increasingly demanding that Israel end its two-month total blockade of food aid to Gaza after dire warnings of imminent starvation and famine in the Strip.
When asked whether the US supports aid quickly entering 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 State Department spokesman Tommy Pigott told reporters.
