Palestinian rescuers dig up the buried body of a man from the rubble of a building destroyed by an Israeli airstrike in Nuseirat, Gaza Strip, on May 14, 2024.

　　Palestinian rescuers dig up the buried body of a man from the rubble of a building destroyed by an Israeli airstrike in Nuseirat, Gaza Strip, May 14, 2024. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced on May 14 that it had attacked a Hamas fighting room inside a school run by the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza. Palestinian authorities said the attack in central Gaza killed at least 12 people between the night and May 14. Eight bodies were recovered from a flattened three-story vertical house in the built-up, flattened Nuseirat refugee camp.

　　About 450,000 Palestinians were driven out of Rafah in southern Gaza in one week, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees said on May 14. Israeli forces have pushed into the city of Rafah, the last stronghold of Hamas. Health officials say more than 35,000 people, mostly women and children, have been killed in seven months of Israeli shelling and ground attacks in Gaza. The war began on October 7, when Hamas attacked southern Israel, killing about 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and abducting about 250. According to Israel, the militants announced that they are still holding about 100 hostages and more than 30 dead bodies.

　　For the past week, food has been unable to enter two major border crossings in southern Gaza. According to the UN, some 1.1 million Palestinians face catastrophic hunger. In the north, there is a “full-blown famine,” with only 50 humanitarian aid trucks entering Gaza on May 12. In previous weeks, the number was in the hundreds per day.This risks exacerbating the already deteriorating humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip. They warn of escalation in Rafah. Officials from NISEF, Doctors Without Borders, the Palestinian Red Crescent, and others expressed concern about the increased hostilities as well as restrictions on the entry of aid supplies.

Warning: Palestinians rescuers dig around the body of man in the rubble of a building destroyed in an Israeli airstrike in Nuseirat, Gaza Strip, Tuesday, May 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)