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The image provided by U.S, Central Command, shows U.S. Army soldiers assigned to the 7th Transportation Brigade (Expeditionary), U.S. Navy sailors assigned to Amphibious Construction Battalion 1, and Israel Defense Forces placing the Trident Pier on the coast of Gaza Strip on Thursday, May 16, 2024. (U.S. Central Command via AP)

Trucks are rolling across a new US pier into Gaza. But challenges remain to getting enough aid in

Trucks carrying badly needed aid for the Gaza Strip have rolled across a newly built U.S. pier and into the besieged enclave for the first time.
 
Smoke rises following an Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip, as seen from southern Israel, Friday, May 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

The Latest | Israel finds bodies of 3 hostages in Gaza, as first aid unloaded by sea

 
Children attend an activity at a makeshift class in Deir al Balah, on Sunday, April 21, 2024. Since the war erupted Oct 7, all schools in Gaza have closed, and nearly 90% of school buildings are damaged or destroyed, according to aid groups. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareen Hana)

For the children of Gaza, war means no school — and no indication when formal learning might return

 
Front row from left, South Africa's agents Cornelius Scholtz, Vusimuzi Madonsela and Israel's agents Gilad Naom, Tamar Kaplan Tourgeman and co-agent Avigail Frisch Ben Avraham wait for the start of hearings at the International Court of Justice, in The Hague, Netherlands, Thursday, May 16, 2024. The U.N.'s top court opened two days of hearings in a case brought by South Africa to see whether Israel needs to take additional measures to alleviate the suffering in war-ravaged Gaza. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

Israel insists it is doing all it can to protect civilians in Gaza and denies genocide charges

 
The fence of an Israeli military position is seen damaged after Hezbollah targeted it by rockets, on an occupied hill of Kfar Chouba village, southeast Lebanon, Sunday, Oct. 8, 2023. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)

Hezbollah introduces new weapons and tactics against Israel as war in Gaza drags on

 

More coverage of the war
FILE - New York University students and pro-Palestinian supporters rally outside the NYU Stern School of Business building, Monday, April 22, 2024, in New York. Some NYU students facing discipline for their actions during this spring's pro-Palestinian protests have been assigned a 49-page workbook that includes a "Simpsons"-based module on ethical decision making. Some have been asked to write an apologetic "reflection paper" and submit it "in 12-point Times New Roman or similar font."(AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)

What would Lisa Simpson do? NYU student protesters asked to ponder ethical issues

Would Lisa Simpson set up a tent at New York University to protest the war in Gaza? How would Principal Skinner respond if she did?
 
Dr. Ammar Ghanem, an ICU specialist from Detroit volunteering with the Syrian American Medical Society at one of Gaza's last functioning hospitals, second from right, poses on May 7, 2024, in Khan Younis, Gaza, with a Palestinian doctor and two other American doctors volunteering at the European General Hospital where they have been since early May. A group of 35 foreign doctors on a volunteer mission to help at the hospital, including 22 Americans, have been trapped in Gaza by Israel’s seizure of the Rafah crossing into Egypt.

They were treating waves of wounded in Gaza. Then an Israeli assault trapped the foreign doctors

Teams of 35 international doctors, including 22 Americans, were trapped in Gaza after Israel seized the main crossing into Egypt and sealed off their way out.
 
Passersby observe the photos of hostages held in the Gaza Strip that are plastered to the walls of a plaza known as Hostages Square in Tel Aviv, Israel, Friday, May 17, 2024. The Israeli military said Friday its forces rescued from Gaza the remains of three Israeli hostages taken by militants during the Oct. 7 attack, including 22-year-old German-Israeli Shani Louk, 28-year-old Amit Buskila, and 56-year-old Itzhak Gelerenter. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty).

Israeli army finds bodies of 3 hostages in Gaza killed at Oct. 7 music festival

The Israeli military says its troops in Gaza found the bodies of three Israeli hostages killed by Hamas in its Oct. 7 attack, including German-Israeli Shani Louk.
 
This screen grab taken from PA Video shows judge Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb, during a live broadcast from Teesside Crown Court, sentencing Moroccan asylum seeker Ahmed Alid, 45, who was found guilty of murdering Terence Carney, attempting to murder his own housemate and assaulting two police officers, to life with a minimum term of 45 years, at the court in London, Friday May 17, 2024. (PA Video/PA via AP)

Moroccan asylum-seeker gets life sentence for killing UK retiree in attack motivated by war in Gaza

A Moroccan asylum-seeker who stabbed a British retiree to death in revenge for Israel’s war against Hamas has been sentenced to at least 45 years in prison.
 
This is a locator map for Yemen with its capital, Sanaa. (AP Photo)

Yemen’s Houthi rebels claim shooting down another US MQ-9 Reaper drone as footage shows wreckage

Yemen’s Houthi rebels have claimed the shooting-down of an American drone, hours after footage circulated online of what appeared to be the wreckage of an MQ-9 Reaper drone.
 
A view of the synagogue in Rouen where a man armed with a knife and a metal bar is suspected of having set fire, Friday, May 17, 2024. French police have shot and killed a man armed with a knife and a metal bar who is suspected of having set fire to a synagogue in the Normandy city of Rouen. French police said officers were alerted early Friday morning that smoke was rising from the synagogue and came face to face with the man when they got there. (AP Photo)

French police fatally shoot a man suspected of setting fire to a synagogue

France’s Interior Minister says that a man who was shot and killed by police after a suspected arson attack on a synagogue in the Normandy city of Rouen was an Algerian national who’d sought medical treatment in France and wasn’t flagged as a suspected extremist.
 
A ship is seen off the coast of Gaza near a U.S.-built floating pier that will be used to facilitate aid deliveries, as seen from the central Gaza Strip, Thursday, May 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

What to know about how much the aid from a US pier project will help Gaza

A U.S.-built pier is in place to bring humanitarian aid to Gaza by sea, but no one will know if the new route will work until a steady stream of deliveries begins reaching starving Palestinians.
 
From left, GOP Conference Chair Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., Majority Whip Tom Emmer, R-Minn., speak to reporters about President Joe Biden pausing a shipment of bombs to Israel, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, May 16, 2024. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

House votes to require delivery of bombs to Israel in GOP-led rebuke of Biden policies

House Republicans are delivering a rebuke to President Joe Biden for putting a pause on a shipment of bombs to Israel that could be used in an assault on Rafah.
 
A ship is seen off the coast of Gaza near a U.S.-built floating pier that will be used to facilitate aid deliveries, as seen from the central Gaza Strip, Thursday, May 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

The Latest | Israel says it will send more troops to Rafah, as fighting also rages in Gaza’s north

Israel’s defense minister says the military will send more troops into Rafah, a city along Gaza’s southern border with Egypt, as fighting also rages in northern Gaza, where Hamas has regrouped.
 
The image provided by U.S, Central Command, shows U.S. Army soldiers assigned to the 7th Transportation Brigade (Expeditionary), U.S. Navy sailors assigned to Amphibious Construction Battalion 1, and Israel Defense Forces placing the Trident Pier on the coast of Gaza Strip on Thursday, May 16, 2024. (U.S. Central Command via AP)

Aid for Gaza will soon flow from pier project just finished by US military, Pentagon says

Officials will begin ferrying badly needed humanitarian aid into the besieged enclave.
 
FILE - President Joe Biden speaks in support of changing the Senate filibuster rules that have stalled voting rights legislation, at Atlanta University Center Consortium, on the grounds of Morehouse College and Clark Atlanta University, Jan. 11, 2022, in Atlanta. Biden will have his most direct engagement with college students since the start of the Israel-Hamas war when he speaks at Morehouse College's commencement. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Biden’s upcoming graduation speech roils Morehouse College, a center of Black politics and culture

President Joe Biden will have his most direct engagement with college students since the start of the Israel-Hamas war when he speaks at Morehouse College’s commencement.
 
FILE - Attorney Ron Bamieh, left, listens to his client, Loay Abdelfattah Alnaji, a professor of computer science at Moorpark College, in Ventura County Superior Court on Nov. 17, 2023, in Ventura, Calif. A judge decided Wednesday, May 15, that Alnaji will stand trial for involuntary manslaughter and battery in the death of a Jewish counter-protester during demonstrations over the Israel-Hamas war last year. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)

California college professor to stand trial in death of pro-Israel protester last year

A judge has decided that a Southern California college professor will stand trial for involuntary manslaughter and battery in the death of a Jewish counter-protester during demonstrations over the Israel-Hamas war last year.
 
Dawud Assad, 92, stands in front of Palestinian decor in his home in Monroe Township, N.J., on May 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Noreen Nasir)

Palestinians recount painful history with war in Gaza as a reminder

Dawud Assad still has nightmares of the day Jewish militias attacked his village of Deir Yassin outside Jerusalem 76 years ago, killing more than 100 people.
 

Interior Dept staffer becomes first Jewish Biden appointee to publicly resign over war in Gaza

An Interior Department staffer has become the first Jewish political appointee to publicly resign in protest of U.S. support for Israel’s war in Gaza.
 
This is a locator map for Yemen with its capital, Sanaa. (AP Photo)

Yemen’s Houthi rebels acknowledge attacking a US destroyer that shot down missile in the Red Sea

Yemen’s Houthi rebels have claimed targeting a U.S. Navy destroyer and a commercial ship in the Red Sea.
 
Palestinian Fayrouz Safi cries while she takes the last look at the body of her son Aysar Safi, 20, at the family house during his funeral in the West Bank refugee camp of Jalazoun, north of Ramallah Wednesday, May 15, 2024. Safi was killed during clashes with Israeli forces at the northern entrance of al-Bireh city, Palestinian ministry of health said. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

Netanyahu fends off criticism at home and abroad over his lack of a postwar plan for Gaza

The Nakba, Arabic for “catastrophe,” refers to the 700,000 Palestinians who fled or were driven out of what today is Israel before and during the war surrounding its creation in 1948.
 
Students wave Palestinian flags as they march to show solidarity with Palestinians amid the ongoing war in Gaza and to commemorate the Nakba Day, Arabic for catastrophe, in Barcelona, Spain, Wednesday, May 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

Palestinians mark 76 years of their dispossession as more catastrophe looms in Gaza

Palestinians are marking 76 years of dispossession, commemorating their mass expulsion from what is today Israel as a potentially even larger catastrophe unfolds in Gaza.
 
FILE - A man uses a cell phone in New Orleans on Aug. 11, 2019. Some social media users are calling out celebrities for what they say is inaction in the face of a humanitarian crisis in Gaza — and they've taken to a "blockout" to pressure the stars to take a stand. For the blockout, users put a block on seeing any and all content from the accounts of certain celebrities on social media platforms including X, TikTok and Instagram. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane, File)

What is the celebrity ‘blockout’ over the war in Gaza?

Some social media users are calling out celebrities for what they say is inaction in the face of a humanitarian crisis in Gaza — and they’ve taken to a “blockout” to pressure the stars to take a stand.
 
Exterior view of the International Criminal Court, or ICC, in The Hague, Netherlands, Tuesday, April 30, 2024. Israeli officials sound increasingly concerned that the International Criminal Court could issue arrest warrants for the country's leaders more than six months into the Israel-Hamas war. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

ICC prosecutor faces demand for action against Israeli leaders and Russian attack over Putin warrant

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The International Criminal Court’s prosecutor faced demands Tuesday for speedy action against Israeli leaders and a blistering Russian attack over the ICC’s arrest warrant for President Vladimir Putin stemming from Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.
 

North Carolina bill to curb mask-wearing in protests could make it illegal for medical reasons too

Republican lawmakers in North Carolina have proposed a bill that would enhance penalties for people wearing a mask during a crime or intentionally blocking traffic during protests.
 
FILE - In this image provided by the U.S. Army, soldiers assigned to the 7th Transportation Brigade (Expeditionary) and sailors attached to the MV Roy P. Benavidez assemble the Roll-On, Roll-Off Distribution Facility (RRDF), or floating pier, off the shore of Gaza in the Mediterranean Sea on April 26, 2024. The pier is part of the Army's Joint Logistics Over The Shore (JLOTS) system which provides critical bridging and water access capabilities. (U.S. Army via AP, file)

The US is wrapping up a pier to bring aid to Gaza by sea. But danger and uncertainty lie ahead

In the coming days, the U.S. military in the eastern Mediterranean is expected to jab one end of a hulking metal dock into a beach in northern Gaza.
 
People talk as they sit on sofas during Israel's Independence Day celebrations at a park in Tel Aviv, Tuesday, May 14, 2024. Israelis are marking 76 years since Israel's creation. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg).

Israelis mark a subdued Independence Day under the shadow of war in Gaza

Israel’s Independence Day is normally a raucous affair, celebrated with day parties and barbecues in parks, but this year, celebrations — from Monday evening through Tuesday — were muted.
 
Signs and a food table are set up in a tent camp, set up by pro-Palestinian students and demonstrators at the University of Antwerp, as students occupy parts of the campus in Antwerp, Belgium, Tuesday, May 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

Amsterdam university cancels classes after violence erupted at a pro-Palestinian rally

The University of Amsterdam has canceled classes and shut buildings for two days after the latest demonstrations over the war in Gaza turned destructive.
 

2 men accused of plotting Islamic State-inspired attack against Jews in England

Two men accused of plotting to gun down Jews in an Islamic State-inspired attack in northwest England have been held without bail after appearing in a London court.
 
FILE - Students protesting against the war in Gaza, and passersby walking through Harvard Yard, are seen at an encampment at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., on April 25, 2024. Participants at the Harvard encampment protesting the war between Israel and Hamas announced they were voluntarily ending their occupation of Harvard Yard. The student protest group said in a statement that the encampment “outlasted its utility with respect to our demands,” and interim Harvard University President Alan Garber agreed to pursue a meeting between those involved in the protest and university officials. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)

Harvard students end protest as university agrees to discuss Middle East conflict

Anti-war protesters have taken down their tents in Harvard Yard after the university agreed to meet to discuss their demands.
 

Paris mayor decries vandalism of a memorial honoring people who rescued Jews in World War II

A Paris memorial honoring people who distinguished themselves by helping to rescue Jews in France during the country’s Nazi occupation in World War II has been defaced with painted blood-red hands.
 
Palestinians mourn their relatives killed during Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip, next to the morgue in Deir al Balah, Tuesday, May 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

The Latest | UN says over half a million people flee fighting in Gaza; Israel marks Independence Day

The United Nations says more than half a million Palestinians have been displaced in recent days by escalating Israeli military operations in both southern and northern Gaza.
 
A Palestinian woman sits in front of her makeshift tent with her grandchildren after been displaced by the Israeli air and ground offensive on the Gaza Strip at a camp in Deir al Balah, Monday, May 13, 2024. Palestinians on Wednesday, May 15, 2024, will mark the 76th year of their mass expulsion from what is now Israel. It's an event that is at the core of their national struggle, but in many ways pales in comparison to the calamity now unfolding in Gaza. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Palestinians mark 76 years of dispossession as a potentially even larger catastrophe unfolds in Gaza

Palestinians on Wednesday will mark the 76th year of their mass expulsion from what is now Israel. It’s an event that is at the core of their national struggle, but in many ways pales in comparison to the calamity now unfolding in Gaza.
 

Pro-Palestinian demonstrators who blocked road near Sea-Tac airport plead not guilty

More than three dozen pro-Palestinian protesters accused of blocking a main road into Seattle-Tacoma International Airport last month have pleaded not guilty to misdemeanor charges of disorderly conduct and failing to disperse.
 
A Houthi soldier stands on board of the Israeli Galaxy ship which was seized by the Houthis, in the port of Saleef, near Hodeidah, Yemen, Sunday, May. 12, 2024. (AP Photo/Osamah Abdulrahman)

US calls on Iran to halt unprecedented weapons transfers to Yemen’s Houthis for attacks on ships

The United States is calling on Iran to halt its transfer of an “unprecedented” amount of weaponry to Yemen’s Houthi rebels, enabling their fighters to attack ships in the Red Sea and elsewhere.