Palestinian children wait to receive donated food at a distribution center in Muwasi, on the outskirts of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, Thursday, April 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
“I am scared it will take her months instead of weeks to heal,” said her aunt.under Israel’s ban on food to Gaza, with aid groups warning that people are starving. Without proper nutrition, patients’ recovery is slowed and their bodies can’t fight infection, say health professionals.
At the meeting of Netanyahu’s security Cabinet this week, which decided to expand operations in Gaza, ministers were told that “at this point there is enough food in Gaza,” without elaborating. according to two Israeli officials, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss the meeting.Israel says its blockade and renewed military campaign aim to pressure Hamas to release the remaining 59 hostages it holds and to accede to Israel’s demands that it disarm. Rights groups have saidand a potential war crime.
The United Nations has warned that Gaza’s health-care system is on the brink of collapse, overwhelmed by casualties with essential medicines running out.Haneen al-Khazandar cares for her 10-year-old daughter Mira who was severely burned on her arms and chest when an Israeli army strike hit near her tent, in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, Sunday, May 4, 2025.(AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
Haneen al-Khazandar cares for her 10-year-old daughter Mira who was severely burned on her arms and chest when an Israeli army strike hit near her tent, in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, Sunday, May 4, 2025.(AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
Doctors say they’re also worried about prospects for long term care for burn patients. Many need reconstructive surgery, buta revamped version of Russia’s
in November 2024, spelling out the circumstances that allow him to use Moscow’s atomic arsenal, the world’s largest. That version lowered the bar, giving him that option in response to even a conventional attack backed by a nuclear power.In the film, Putin also said Russia did not launch a full-scale invasion of Ukraine — what he called a “special military operation” — in 2014, when it illegally annexed Crimea, because it was “practically unrealistic.”
“The country was not ready for such a frontal confrontation with the entire collective West,” he said. He claimed also that Russia “sincerely sought to solve the problem of Donbas by peaceful means.”Putin said that reconciliation with Ukraine was “inevitable.”