Deir al -Balah, Gaza (AP) – Israeli strikes continued to beat the Gaza strip on Wednesday, despite an increase in international anger at the extended offensive of Israel. The attacks killed at least 82 people, including several women and an elderly infant of the week, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health and hospitals in the region.
Israel began to grant dozens of humanitarian trucks in Gaza on Tuesday, but the aid has not yet reached the Palestinians in a desperate need.
Jens Laerke, the spokesperson for the UN humanitarian agency, said that no truck had been recovered from the Gaza side of Kerem Shalom, the Israeli border crossing with southern Gaza.
A truck loaded with humanitarian aid for the Gaza Strip heads towards the crossing of Kerem Shalom while the border police prevent activists from blocking the road in southern Israel, Wednesday May 21, 2025.
UN spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric, said on Tuesday that the aid entered Gaza, History employeesAfter the Israeli army forced them to recharge supplies on separate trucks and the workers lacked time.
The Israeli defense organization which oversees humanitarian aid in Gaza said that the trucks entered Gaza on Wednesday morning, but it was not clear if this aid was going to deepen Gaza for the distribution. The United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, said that its staff had waited for several hours to receive aid from the border passage, but could not do it on Tuesday.
A few dozen Israeli activists opposed Israel’s decision to authorize Gaza help while Hamas still holds Israeli hostages that tried to block trucks carrying supplies on Wednesday morning, but were kept by Israeli police.
An activist stands on a concrete signaling border as it waves an Israeli flag towards trucks loaded with humanitarian aid for the Gaza Strip in southern Israel, Wednesday May 21, 2025. (AP Photo / Ohad Zwigenberg)
Diplomats are criticized in Jenin
A group of diplomats was criticized during his visit to Jenin, a city in the West Bank occupied by Israel, according to the Palestinian authority. The diplomats were on an official mission to observe the humanitarian situation in Jenin when shots sounded.
A worker-different, who did not want to be appointed for fear of reprisals, said that a delegation of approximately 20 regional, European and Western diplomats was held near the entrance to the Jenin refugee camp when they heard shots on Wednesday, she said. No one was injured, she added.
The Israeli army said that the delegation “waved from the approved road” and that Israeli soldiers had drawn warning to keep them away from the region. The soldiers apologized and declared that they would contact all the countries involved in the visit.
Images show a number of diplomats that take place for a blanket while the quick blows have turned off. The head of the European Union foreign policy, Kaja Kallas, said that the shot, even warning shots, was unacceptable and called Israel to investigate.
The Italian government of the first first first Giorgia Meloni also demanded an explanation, saying that its vice-consul was one of those who were criticized.
Jenin has been the site of Israel’s general repression against the West Bank activists since earlier this year.
January 21 – just two days after his Break the ceasefire with Hamas in Gaza – Israeli forces descending on Jenin As they have tens of times From Hamas’ October 7, 2023, attack on Israel. Fights moved tens of thousands of PalestiniansOne of the largest trips in the West Bank for years.
International pressure on Israel
Tuesday, The United Kingdom. Suspended free trade speech With Israel on its intensifying assault, a stage which one day came after the United Kingdom, Canada and France promised concrete measures to encourage Israel to arrest war. In addition, the European Union examined an EU pact governing trade links with Israel on its conduct of war in Gaza, according to its leader in foreign policy.
Israel says he is ready to stop the war once all the hostages taken by Hamas are returning home and Hamas is defeated, or is exiled and disarmed. Hamas says it is ready to release hostages in exchange for a complete Israeli withdrawal from the territory and the end of the war. He rejects requests for exile and disarmament.
Israel recalled its senior negotiation team during cease-fire talks in the Qatari capital of Doha on Tuesday, saying that it would leave the lower level officials instead. Qatari leaders, who mediate the negotiations, said there were a big gap between the two parties.
Meanwhile, the Israeli strikes continued through Gaza. In the city of southern Khan Younis, where Israel recently ordered new evacuations while waiting for an enlarged offensive expected, 24 people were killed, 14 from the same family. A one -week -old child was killed in the center of Gaza.
The Palestinians wear the bodies of their loved ones, including the children who were killed on an air strike from the Israeli army in Deir al-Balah, Gaza, Wednesday May 21, 2025. (AP Photo / Abdel Kareem Hana)
The Israeli army did not immediately comment on strikes, but said it was aimed at Hamas’ infrastructure and accused Hamas activists of operating from civil areas.
Desperate need for food
Experts have warned that many of the 2 million Gaza residents are faced with a High risk of famine. In a travel camp in Gaza City, a charity group distributed a slim and aqueous lens soup.
Somaia Abu Amsha has picked up small portions in bowls for her family, saying that they had no bread for over 10 days and that she cannot afford rice or pasta.
“We want nothing more than to finish the war. We don’t want charity kitchens. Even dogs did not eat that, even less children, ”she said, pointing the soup.
Pope Leo XIV Wednesday called for help to reach the Gaza Strip And for the end of the “heartbreaking” assessment on his people during his first general public on Place Saint-Pierre.
Surrounded hospitals
Israeli troops too surrounded Two of the North Gaza Latest functional hospitalsprevent anyone from leaving or entering the facilities, hospital staff and aid groups said this week.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas urged world leaders on Wednesday to take immediate action to end the headquarters of Israel in Gaza, launching the appeal during a visit to Beirut, where he was to discuss the disarmament of the Palestinian factions in the refugee camps of Lebanon.
“It is time to put an end to the war of extermination against the Palestinian people. I reiterate that we will not leave, and we will stay here on the country of our homeland, Palestine,” said Abbas, demanding the immediate entry of aid, the release of detainees and a complete withdrawal from Gaza.
The war in Gaza began when activists led by Hamas attacked southern Israel, killing some 1,200 people, mainly civilians and removing 251 others. Activists still have 58 captives, of which about a third would be alive, after most cease-fire agreements or other agreements.
The Israel’s reprisal offensive has destroyed large expanses of Gaza and killed more than 53,000 Palestinians, mainly women and children, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health, which does not make the difference between civilians and combatants in its count.
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Magdy reported to Cairo and Lidman reported to Tel Aviv, Israel. The writers of the associated press Sally Abou Aljou in Beirut and Sam Mednick in Tel Aviv, Israel, contributed to this report.
