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GAZA: The United Nations humanitarian aid agency says hundreds of thousands of people would be “at imminent risk of death” if Israel carries out a military assault in the southern Gaza city of Rafah. The city has become critical for humanitarian aid and is highly concentrated with displaced Palestinians. Leaders internationally have urged Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to be cautious about any incursion into Rafah, where seven people — mostly children — were killed overnight in an Israeli airstrike.

Antonio Guterres says he fears war in Gaza 'will worsen exponentially' without a truce as Israel's Rafah assault looms.

Antonio Guterres says he fears war in Gaza 'will worsen exponentially' without a truce as Israel's Rafah assault looms.

GAZA: Adnan Al-Bursh, a Palestinian surgeon and former head of orthopedics at Gaza’s Al-Shifa medical complex, was killed on April 19 under torture in Israeli detention. According to a statement from the Palestinian Prisoners Society, Al-Bursh, 50, died in Ofer Prison, an Israeli-run incarceration facility in the West Bank. His body remains held by the Israeli authorities, according to the Palestinian Civil Affairs Committee. The Palestinian Prisoners Society described the doctor’s death in Israeli custody as “assassination.”

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