Israel-Gaza war live: Trump says Israel has agreed terms for 60-day ceasefire, urges Hamas to accept deal
US president says in social media post he hopes Hamas will accept deal because ‘it will only get worse’
More than 170 non-governmental organisations called on Tuesday for a secretive US- and Israeli-backed food aid distribution scheme in Gaza to be dismantled as the death toll from Israeli attacks on Palestinians waiting for food at its sites has risen to more than 500. Reuters reports:
More than 500 people have been killed in mass shootings near aid distribution centres or transport routes guarded by Israeli forces since the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation started operating in late May, according to medical authorities in Gaza.
The GHF uses private US security and logistics companies to get supplies into Gaza, largely bypassing a UN-led system that Israel says had let militants divert aid. The United Nations has called the plan “inherently unsafe” and a violation of humanitarian impartiality rules.
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