Fletcher said he’s not convinced from his meetings “that there is the will to find a way to ensure this complies with basic humanitarian law.” ___ Associated Press writer Matthew Lee in Antalya, Turkey, and Edith Lederer contributed to this report.
and lifting of crippling sanctions on Iran.Associated Press writers Samy Magdy in Cairo and Bassem Mroue in Beirut contributed to this report.
KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — Multiple airstrikes hit Gaza’s southern city of Khan Younis overnight into Thursday, killing more than 50 people in a second consecutive night of heavy bombing, while another airstrike in the north of the Palestinian territory left more than a dozen people dead, authorities said.visits the Middle East, visiting Gulf states but not Israel. There had been widespread hope that Trump’s regional visit could usher in a ceasefire deal or renewal of humanitarian aid to Gaza. An Israeli blockade of the territory is now in its third month.An Associated Press cameraman in Khan Younis counted 10 airstrikes on the city overnight into Thursday, and saw numerous bodies taken to the morgue in the city’s Nasser Hospital. It took time to identify some of the bodies due to the extent of their injuries. The hospital’s morgue confirmed 54 people had been killed.
The Israeli military had no immediate comment on the strikes.AP correspondent Karen Chammas reports on more Israeli airstrikes in Gaza.
It was the second night of heavy bombing, after
on northern and southern Gaza killed at least 70 people, including almost two dozen children.On the edge of the rapidly growing camp for displaced people, an official was drawing lines in the dust. He was marking squares, a hopscotch of future homes for the waiting families. What they would build on the spaces little bigger than a king-sized bed, and where they would find the materials, would be their problem.
For Issack, Hassan and the rest, the huts would be better than sleeping under the stars, with thorn bushes giving no protection from the mosquitoes and grit flung by the wind. Families hurried in the last hour before sunset to occupy their squares, digging with twigs to make holes for poles of stripped branches.Twenty-four hours later, their section of the camp looked like any other, with plastic sheeting and fabric, even strips of mosquito nets and clothing, stretched around the branches.
Issack lived in one hut built by his wife, Hassan in another built by his sister.Mohamed Kheir Issack, 80, right, and Issack Farow Hassan, 75, sit in Issack’s shelter at a camp for displaced people on the outskirts of Dollow, Somalia on Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2022. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)