One person died and two were wounded when Russian forces dropped guided bombs on residential areas near the border in the northeast Sumy region, the regional prosecutor’s office said.
International food security experts warnedthat Gaza will likely fall into famine if Israel doesn’t lift
Nearly half a million Palestinians arewhile 1 million others can barely get enough food, according to findings by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, a leading international authority on the severity of hunger crises.French President Emmanuel Macron strongly denounced Netanyahu’s decision to block aid as “a disgrace” that has caused a major humanitarian crisis.
“I say it forcefully, what Benjamin Netanyahu’s government is doing today is unacceptable,” Macron said Tuesday evening on TF1 national television. “There’s no medicine. We can’t get the wounded out. Doctors can’t get in.”Macron, who visited injured Palestinians in Egypt last month, called for the reopening of the Gaza border to humanitarian convoys. “Then, yes, we must fight to demilitarize Hamas, free the hostages and build a political solution,” he said.
Netanyahu retorted that Macron was “echoing the false propaganda” of an extremist militant organization.
Gaza’s population of around 2.3 million people relies almost entirely on outside aid to survive. Israel’s 19-month-old military campaign has wiped away most capacity to produce food in the territory. Markets are empty of most items, and prices for what remains have skyrocketed.Municipal workers clean up near burnt cars and a crater made by a drone in the residential area following Russia’s air raid in Kyiv, Ukraine, Sunday, May 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
Municipal workers clean up near burnt cars and a crater made by a drone in the residential area following Russia’s air raid in Kyiv, Ukraine, Sunday, May 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Emergency Service, emergency services personnel work to extinguish a fire following a Russian attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, Sunday, May 4, 2025. (Ukrainian Emergency Service via AP)
In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Emergency Service, emergency services personnel work to extinguish a fire following a Russian attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, Sunday, May 4, 2025. (Ukrainian Emergency Service via AP)“We have enough strength and means to bring what was started in 2022 to a logical conclusion with the outcome Russia requires,” he said.