Gaza! This Killing Has to Change The Status Quo
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Here’s what we know:
The convoy was one of four that Israeli officials coordinated with local Palestinian businessmen this week. The Israeli military promised to provide security.
Gaza convoy that ended in death was part of a plan to try to fill a void in aid distribution.
The U.S. has made its first airdrop of food into Gaza.
An Israeli strike near a hospital in Rafah killed at least 11 people, Gaza health officials say.
Harris to meet with top Israeli official as truce talks continue and concern grows over aid for Gaza.
The U.S. should focus on stopping Israeli obstruction of aid, not on airdrops, aid group says.
- Gaza convoy that ended in death was part of a plan to try to fill a void in aid distribution.

The aid convoy that devolved into a disaster on Thursday, ending with scores of Palestinians dead, was part of a new Israeli operation to get desperately needed food to Gaza residents by working directly with local businessmen, according to an Israeli official, Palestinian businessmen and Western diplomats.
In a rare move, Israel was involved in organizing at least four such aid convoys to northern Gaza this past week after international aid groups suspended operations to the area, citing both Israeli refusals to greenlight aid trucks and rising lawlessness. But on Thursday, that effort backfired on Israeli planners.
The United States made its first airdrops of humanitarian aid into Gaza on Saturday, as the Biden administration tried to prevent a greater humanitarian disaster in the Palestinian territory.
Three U.S. Air Force cargo planes airdropped 38,000 ready-to-eat meals, in a joint operation with the Jordanian Air Force, U.S. Central Command said in a statement on Saturday.
Videos Show Aftermath of Deadly Israeli Airstrike in Rafah
Gazan health authorities said that at least 11 people were killed and dozens were injured after an Israeli strike outside a hospital in Rafah, Gaza. The Israeli military said it had carried out a “precision strike” against “Islamic Jihad terrorists” near the hospital.
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An Israeli strike outside a hospital in Rafah, in southern Gaza, on Saturday killed at least 11 people and injured dozens of other displaced Palestinians, including children, who were sheltering in tents nearby, the Gaza Health Ministry said.
At least two health care workers, including a paramedic, were among those killed after the strike near the gate of the Emirati maternity hospital, the health ministry said.
Vice President Kamala Harris is scheduled to meet with Benny Gantz, a member of the Israeli war cabinet, in Washington on Monday, according to a White House official and a spokesman for Mr. Gantz.
During the meeting with Mr. Gantz, Ms. Harris is expected to discuss the urgency of securing a hostage deal, which would allow for a temporary cease-fire, and the need to significantly increase aid into Gaza, according to the White House official, who provided details on the condition of anonymity.

International aid groups are criticizing a Biden administration planto airdrop food to desperately hungry Gazans, saying that such a move would be ineffective and would distract from more meaningful measures like pushing Israel to lift its partial siege of Gaza.
“Airdrops do not and cannot substitute for humanitarian access,” the International Rescue Committee, a New York-based aid organization, said in a statement on Saturday. “Airdrops are not the solution to relieve this suffering, and distract time and effort from proven solutions to help at scale.”
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