Israel will coordinate airdrops of aid into Gaza from foreign countries in the coming days, an Israeli security official confirmed to ABC News.

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Jehad Alshrafi is a 23-year-old freelance photojournalist working with The Associated Press since May 2024 in the Gaza Strip. He documents the humanitarian crisis and the impact of the Israel-Hamas war on Gaza.

In another effort, the military and COGAT say that in the Israel Electric Corporation connected a power line from Israel to a desalination plant in the Strip’s south, which is is expected to supply “approximately 20,000 cubic meters of water per day, up from the 2,000 cubic meters supplied until now, to serve about 900,000 residents in the area.”

Renowned Polish-US historian and journalist Anne Applebaum warned of global anti-democratic tendencies at the opening of the Salzburg Festival on Saturday. Civil society, with its freedoms that are taken for granted,

Those killed in the strikes include four people in an apartment building in Gaza City among others, hospital staff and the ambulance service said.

The Handala was carrying 19 activists, including European politicians, and two Al Jazeera journalists. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

The aid flotilla has reportedly already made it closer to the Strip than the Madleen flotilla that was stopped by Israeli forces last month. Activists aboard the Handala ship said on Saturday that they are approaching the coast of the Gaza Strip and have already passed the point where the Madleenflotilla was stopped last month.

Global leaders and international aid organizations have been issuing escalating warnings about famine in the war-torn region.