The Russell 2000 is down 146.35 points, or 6.6%.

Earlier on Saturday, a statement said Israel’s air force struck over 100 targets throughout Gaza over the past day.The Health Ministry said the new deaths brought the war’s toll to 53,901 since the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas-led attack on Israel that sparked the 19 months of fighting. The ministry said 3,747 people have been killed in Gaza since Israel resumed the war on March 18 in an effort to pressure Hamas to accept different ceasefire terms. Its count doesn’t differentiate between civilians and combatants.

Israel’s pressure on Hamas has included a blockade of Gaza and its over 2 million people since early March. This week, thethe territory and began reaching Palestinians since the blockade began.COGAT, the Israeli defense body overseeing aid for Gaza, said 388 trucks had entered since Monday. About 600 trucks a day had entered during the ceasefire.

Warnings of famine by food security experts, andjostling for bowls of food at the ever-shrinking number of charity kitchens, led Israel’s allies to press the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to allow some aid to return.

Netanyahu’s government has sought a new aid delivery and distribution system by a newly established U.S.-backed group, but the

have rejected it, saying it allows Israel to use food as a weapon and violates humanitarian principles.The dead also included a photographer and two young women just starting out in the music industry.

Here’s what to know about the victims and the crash:Shapiro, 42, got into music playing in a band he founded with friends while in high school, called Count with Stars.

But it was the connections he made that made him successful, more than the music he played.Shapiro helped bring the underground $10-a-show alternative scene of the 2010s to the mainstream. He also was huge in creating a community, said Mike Shea, founder of Alternative Press Magazine.