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“My son,” a woman screamed as a truck carried her and her injured son to Hamad Hospital in northern Gaza. “My son. My son.” He had been shot while trying to get aid near the Zikim crossing between Gaza and Israel — an increasingly common story as the war went on. Israeli restrictions on aid meant desperate people routinely risked their lives taking aid from trucks or lining up at aid distribution points. Hundreds of Palestinians were killed seeking aid, even as famine was declared in northern Gaza. The woman’s son had been trying to grab aid from this truck — the same one that was now taking him to the hospital.
CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA - NOVEMBER 19: A person is detained by U.S. Border Patrol agents on November 16, 2025 in Charlotte, North Carolina. Federal Agents are carrying out “Operation Charlotte’s Web,” an ongoing immigration enforcement surge across the Charlotte region.
Ukrainian servicemen of the 59th brigade mobile air defence unit fire a Soviet made ZU-23 anti-aircraft twin autocannon at a Russian drone during an air attack, near Pavlohrad, Dnipropetrovsk region, on July 19, 2025. A menacing buzz reverberates through the night sky in eastern Ukraine. Explosions ring out, flashes illuminate sunflower fields below and the smell of gunpowder poisons the air. "There! Three kilometres away!" shouted one Ukrainian serviceman in the air defence unit equipped with Soviet-era weapons and tasked with intercepting Russian drones, before they home in on Ukrainian towns and cities. The long-range unmanned aerial vehicles originally designed by Iran but improved and launched by Moscow have been devastating Ukraine since the early chapters of the Kremlin's invasion launched in early 2022. On that night in July, Russia launched 344 drones. "It's rotten tonight, just like the day before," said one serviceman in the air defence unit, leaning over a radar.
A bomb dropped from an Israeli jet falls before hitting a building in Dahiyeh, in the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, March 28, 2025.