Israeli strikes kill at least 85 in Gaza as Israel allows more aid into Palestinian territory

By WAFAA SHURAFA SAMY MAGDY and TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH Gaza Strip AP Israel pressed ahead Tuesday with its new military offensive in Gaza despite mounting international criticism launching airstrikes that strength functionaries mentioned killed at least Palestinians Israeli leaders declared they also allowed in dozens more trucks carrying aid Two days after aid began entering Gaza the desperately needed new supplies have not yet reached people in Gaza which has been under an Israeli blockade for nearly three months according to the United Nations Experts have warned that a great number of of Gaza s million residents are at high jeopardy of famine Under pressure Israel agreed this week to allow a minimal amount of aid into the Palestinian territory after preventing the entry of food medicine and fuel in an attempt to pressure Hamas which is designated as a terrorist organization by the United States Canada and the European Union U N spokesperson St phane Dujarric disclosed that although the aid has entered Gaza aid workers were not able to bring it to distribution points where it is the greater part needed after the Israeli military forced them to reload the supplies onto separate trucks and workers ran out of time Palestinians line up for donated food at a neighborhood kitchen in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip on Monday May AP Photo Jehad Alshrafi After the first five trucks entered Monday dozens more began entering via the Kerem Shalom spanning on Tuesday afternoon Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesperson Oren Marmorstein announced The aid included flour for bakeries food for soup kitchens baby food and clinical supplies The U N humanitarian agency mentioned it is prioritizing baby formula in the first shipments Marmorstein reported Israel would allow dozens of aid trucks per day far less than the that entered daily during the latest ceasefire that Israel ended in March The United Nations humanitarian agency received approval for about trucks to enter Gaza spokesman Jens Laerke noted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu revealed he decided to let in limited aid after pressure from allies who informed him they couldn t assistance Israel while devastating images of starvation were coming out of Gaza Trucks load with humanitarian aid for the Gaza Strip are seen at the Kerem Shalom Traversing in southern Israel Tuesday May AP Photo Maya Alleruzzo U K suspends pact negotiations and sanctions settler movement But specific close allies say his decision is not enough Related Articles Pets with a toolkit Protection dogs train to handle burglars as sports stars boost home guard With little progress after phone calls and talks Ukraine s allies hit Russia with new sanctions Iran s supreme leader rejects US stance on uranium enrichment The present day in History May United States detonates first hydrogen bomb After US cuts funding WHO chief defends B budget request by comparing it with cost of war The British ruling body on Tuesday disclosed it was suspending free agreement negotiations with Israel and was leveling new sanctions targeting settlements in the occupied West Bank The move came a day after the U K France and Canada condemned Israel s handling of the war in Gaza and its actions in the West Bank and threatened to take action I want to put on record in the modern day that we re horrified by the escalation from Israel British Prime Minister Keir Starmer advised Parliament Marmorstein called the new sanctions unjustified and regrettable and claimed Israel and the U K had not been talking about free exchange The U K leveled sanctions against three settlers and a number of organizations including settler leader Daniella Weiss and the movement she heads In response Weiss declared hundreds of families are ready to build Jewish settlements in Gaza French Foreign Minister Jean-No l Barrot denounced the Israeli leadership s blind violence in Gaza that he noted has turned the Palestinian territory into a place of death This must stop Barrot communicated French radio France Inter on Tuesday Israel launched its new military operation in Gaza over the weekend saying it aims to return dozens of hostages held by Hamas and destroy the group More than people have been killed in Gaza during the latest onslaught according to fitness bureaucrats Israeli politician criticizes killing babies as a hobby Criticism against Israel s conduct in Gaza also came at home A leader of center-left politics mentioned Tuesday that Israel was becoming an outcast among nations because of the cabinet s approach to the war A sane country doesn t engage in fighting against civilians doesn t kill babies as a hobby and doesn t set for itself the goals of expelling a population Yair Golan a retired general and leader of the opposition Democrats party stated Reshet Bet radio Mohammad Nassar carries the body of his nephew Jana Nassar killed in an Israeli army airstrike on the Gaza Strip during his funeral at Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir al-Balah Gaza Tuesday May AP Photo Abdel Kareem Hana His comments were rare criticism from inside Israel of its wartime conduct in Gaza Several Israelis have criticized Netanyahu throughout the war but that has been mostly limited to what opponents argue are his political motives to continue the war Criticism over the war s toll on Palestinian civilians has been almost unheard Netanyahu swiftly slammed Golan s remarks calling them wild incitement against Israeli soldiers and accusing him of echoing disgraceful antisemitic blood libels against the country Golan who donned his uniform during Hamas Oct attack to join the fight against the combatants previously sparked an uproar when as deputy military chief of staff in he likened the atmosphere in Israel to that of Nazi-era Germany At an evening news conference Golan reported he refused to be silent because the meaning of silence is to join in the abandonment of the IDF and the abandonment of the hostages and the abandonment of the State of Israel He called on the opposition to band together to oppose the cabinet s plans for Gaza Strikes pound Gaza Over fresh days Israel has issued evacuation orders for Gaza s second-largest city Khan Younis which endured a previous offensive that left vast destruction In the latest assaults two strikes in northern Gaza hit a family home and a school-turned-shelter killing at least people more than half of them women and children according to Gaza s Vitality Ministry The Israeli military noted it targeted a Hamas command center and warned civilians ahead of time Displaced Palestinians flee from Khan Younis Gaza amid the ongoing Israeli military offensive in the area on Monday May AP Photo Abdel Kareem Hana A strike in the central city of Deir al-Balah killed people and another in the nearby built-up Nuseirat refugee camp killed according to al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital Two strikes in Khan Younis killed people according to Nasser Hospital Israel noted it was targeting combatants and blames Hamas for civilian deaths because the group operates in densely populated areas The war in Gaza began when Hamas-led combatants attacked southern Israel killing particular people mostly civilians and abducting others The combatants are still holding captives around a third of whom are concluded to be alive after greater part of the rest were returned in ceasefire agreements or other deals Israel s retaliatory offensive which has destroyed large swaths of Gaza has killed more than Palestinians mostly women and children according to Gaza s Strength Ministry which doesn t differentiate between civilians and combatants in its count Magdy published from Cairo and Goldenberg from Tel Aviv Israel Associated Press writers Natalie Melzer in Nahariya Israel Melanie Lidman in Jerusalem Sylvie Corbet in Paris Jamey Keaten in Geneva and Farnoush Amiri in New York contributed to this assessment