US contractors say their colleagues are firing live ammunition as Palestinians seek food in #Gaza. The AP has obtained videos of a food-distribution site in Gaza and interviewed two American contractors working there.

The evidence calls into question why Israeli forces went through with the strike. Witnesses say Israel frequently observed the position by drone, including about 40 minutes before the attack, giving an opportunity to correctly identify al-Masri. https://t.co/okXLPEyZ4M

AP has gathered new evidence indicating the camera in question actually belonged to a Reuters video journalist who routinely covered his equipment with a white cloth to protect it from the scorching sun and dust. The journalist, Hussam al-Masri, was killed in the initial strike.

The official cited “suspicious behavior” and unspecified intelligence, but the only detail given was that there was a towel on the camera and the person with it — which the army interpreted as an effort to avoid identification.

AP reporting calls into question why and how Israel attacked a #Gaza hospital. Israeli forces struck a position well known as a journalists’ gathering point, because — a military official said — they believed a camera on the roof was being used by Hamas to observe troops.

The Israel-Hamas war has been one of the bloodiest conflicts for media workers, with at least 189 journalists killed in Gaza in the 22-month conflict, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists. https://t.co/Qv2O8usSns

During the war, Dagga regularly based herself at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis. She was among 20 people, including five journalists, killed there Monday by Israeli strikes, according to health officials and news organizations.

Through photographs and video, Dagga captured the lives of ordinary Palestinians facing extraordinary challenges: families displaced from homes, people crowding around aid trucks, mourners attending funerals and doctors treating wounded or malnourished children.

Mariam Dagga, a visual journalist who freelanced for The Associated Press and other news organizations and produced harrowing images of the war in Gaza, was killed Monday by an Israeli strike on a hospital. She was 33.

The situation is expected to get worse with a third of the strip facing catastrophic levels of hunger by the end of next month. https://t.co/B9LBdJ0BiX

The IPC determination comes after months of warnings by aid groups that Israel's restrictions of food and other aid into Gaza, and its military offensive, were causing high levels of starvation among Palestinian civilians, particularly children.

The leading authority on food crises said that there is famine in Gaza City and it's likely to spread. More than half a million people in Gaza — about a quarter of the population — face catastrophic levels of hunger. Many are at risk of dying from malnutrition-related causes.

Israel is in discussions with #SouthSudan about the possibility of resettling Palestinians from #Gaza to the war-torn East African country. https://t.co/xKAGPBW3z3

Video appears to show the moment a Palestinian activist is killed in as an Israeli settler opens fire

The “worst-case scenario of famine is currently playing out in the Gaza Strip,” says the leading international authority on food crises. It predicts “widespread death” without immediate action.

Two prominent Israeli rights groups on Monday said their country is committing genocide in Gaza, the first time that local Jewish-led organizations have made such accusations against Israel during nearly 22 months of war.

The testimonies & videos offer a rare glimpse inside the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, the newly created, American organization backed by Israel to feed Gaza's population w/@FrankelJulia https://t.co/i6JR9QIfyr

A confidential brief to the ICC, seen exclusively by AP, accuses Wagner of promoting atrocities. It asserts that Wagner has committed war crimes by spreading images of apparent atrocities including ones alluding to cannibalism w/@MonikaPronczuk

Firms led by US military veterans deliver aid in #Africa and #Gaza, alarming humanitarian groups. https://t.co/RhJ7TK4xA8

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