In other words, the sun had an alibi.

Early Thursday, sirens sounded across Israel as its military said it intercepted a missile launched by Yemen’s Houthi rebels. The Houthis did not immediately claim the attack, though it can take hours or days for them to acknowledge their assaults.Currently, after supplies enter at Kerem Shalom, aid workers are required to unload them and reload them onto their own trucks for distribution.

Antoine Renard, the World Food Program’s country chief for Palestine, said 78 trucks were waiting. He told The Associated Press that “we need to ensure that we will not be looted.”Looting has plagued aid deliveries in the past, and at times of desperation people have swarmed aid trucks, taking supplies.A U.N. official and another humanitarian worker said the Israeli military had designated a highly insecure route known to have looters. The military also set a short window for trucks to come to Kerem Shalom and rejected a number of individual truck drivers, forcing last-minute replacements, they said. Both spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the press.

COGAT, the Israeli defense body overseeing aid for Gaza, did not immediately respond when asked for comment.An activist stands on a concrete block signaling border ahead as she 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)

An activist stands on a concrete block signaling border ahead as she 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)

Israeli strikes continued across Gaza. In the southern city of Khan Younis, where Israel recently ordered new evacuations pending an expanded offensive, 24 people were killed, 14 from the same family. A week-old infant was killed in central Gaza. In the evening, a strike hit a house in Jabaliya in northern Gaza, killing two children and their parents, according to hospital officials.Shula is driving home from a fancy dress party one night when she encounters an unusual sight in the middle of a country road: her Uncle Fred’s dead body.

But Shula, portrayed by Susan Chardy, does not behave in a way that we would expect. She doesn’t cry out in horror or appear the least bit upset or shocked by the sight. Instead, we sit there with her in silence, her in sunglasses and a silver helmeted mask adorned with sparkling rhinestones. Shula looks straight out of a music video as she stares off into the distance. This, we realize quickly, is going to be a thing. At the very least, it’s an inconvenience, ripping her out of her independent life and back into the throes of her traditional family, their patriarchal ways and all their crippling secrets.This is the opening scene of “On Becoming a Guinea Fowl,”

darkly comedic, stylish and hauntingly bizarre portrait of a Zambian family funeral. It is perhaps the first great film of 2025 — though it’s technically been awaiting its moment in the United States since 2024. It premiered last year at theand has already had a run in the U.K.