Overview

• UNICEF reports that 538 schools—95 percent of all school buildings in Gaza—have been destroyed or damaged, leaving children without access to education.
• UNICEF warns that one in five babies in Gaza is now born premature or underweight because health and sanitation services have collapsed.
• Médecins Sans Frontières denounces the US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation distributions as “a massacre disguised as humanitarian aid,” citing over 500 deaths and nearly 4,000 injuries.
• A Haaretz investigation alleges that IDF troops were ordered to fire live ammunition on unarmed civilians at aid centers, prompting an internal military investigation.
• UN Secretary-General António Guterres and President Trump are intensifying diplomatic efforts for a ceasefire and secure humanitarian corridors.