内容摘要：An elephant walks in the Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe, Monday, April 28 2025. (AP Photo/Aaron Ufumeli)

An elephant walks in the Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe, Monday, April 28 2025. (AP Photo/Aaron Ufumeli)

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, butin Gaza. Israel has increasingly rejected entry for international medical staff in recent weeks, aid workers say, though some continue to have access.

At the end of April, 10-year-old Mira al-Khazandar was severely burned on her arms and chest when a strike hit near her tent. Worried that she will have permanent scars, her mother combs pharmacies looking for ointments for her.

Mira’s been able to return to the family’s tent to recover, but she suffers from the sand and mosquitos there, said her mother Haneen al-Khazandar. She has to go regularly to the hospital, which risks infecting her burns and causes her pain, standing under the sun waiting for transport.Follow AP’s coverage of the war in Ukraine at

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A war next door inDoubts about the U.S. commitment to Europe’s security.

presidential election Sunday, security looms large. So do questions about the country’s strength as a democracy and its place in the European Union. One of the new president’s most important tasks will be maintaining strong ties with the United States, widely seen as essential to the survival of a country in an increasingly volatile neighborhood.Voters in this Central European nation of 38 million people will cast ballots to replace conservative incumbent Andrzej Duda, whose second and final five-year term ends in August.