内容摘要：Minutes later, a bullet hit just centimeters from her head. She played dead for hours before making her way back to the road. Eventually, Israeli security forces brought her to a police station. As the hours passed and her husband didn’t make contact, she grew increasingly worried. He was pronounced dead five days later.

Minutes later, a bullet hit just centimeters from her head. She played dead for hours before making her way back to the road. Eventually, Israeli security forces brought her to a police station. As the hours passed and her husband didn’t make contact, she grew increasingly worried. He was pronounced dead five days later.

Any sense that this was once a university is gone.Tents for displaced Palestinians are set up at the Islamic University of Gaza compound amid the ongoing conflict in Gaza, Saturday, April 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

Tents for displaced Palestinians are set up at the Islamic University of Gaza compound amid the ongoing conflict in Gaza, Saturday, April 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)Families have set up tents in lecture halls and classrooms. They take books from the library and burn them in cooking fires because they have no fuel. Kids run around in gardens reduced to fields of debris and mounds of earth.Manal Zaanin, a mother of six, has converted a filing cabinet into a makeshift oven to bake pita bread, which she sells to other families. Her children and other relatives lay out the dough on mattresses in one of the classrooms.

Families pool their resources to buy fuel for tractors to bring in large containers of water. A makeshift market has been set up under the archway of the main gate.Palestinians walk by the gate of the Islamic University in Gaza City, which now is a shelter for displaced Palestinians amid the ongoing war in Gaza, Saturday, April 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

Palestinians walk by the gate of the Islamic University in Gaza City, which now is a shelter for displaced Palestinians amid the ongoing war in Gaza, Saturday, April 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

Members of the Al-Basyouni family, displaced from Beit Hanoun, eat in their tent at the Islamic University in Gaza City, which now is a shelter for displaced Palestinians amid the ongoing war in Gaza, Friday, April 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)The U.S. Homeland Security Department has given Temporary Protected Status to a small number of South Sudanese already living in the United States since the country was founded in 2011, shielding them from deportation because conditions were deemed unsafe for return. Secretary Kristi Noem recently extended those protections to November to allow for a more thorough review.

South Sudan’s diplomatic relations with the U.S grew tense in April when a deportation row led to theof visas and a ban on South Sudanese nationals.

The U.S is one of the biggest donors to South Sudan’s humanitarian aid programs with the total funding in 2024 standing at over $640 million, according to the U.S embassy in South Sudan.Associated Press writers Rebecca Santana, Tim Sullivan and Elliot Spagat contributed to this report.