In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Emergency Services on May 8, 2025, a rescue worker helps an injured elderly woman evacuated from a building which was heavily damaged by a Russian strike in Sumy region, Ukraine. (Ukrainian Emergency Service via AP)
“His hugs were so warm,” Zavadska said.“We were waiting for the summer so much. We had so many plans.”
A young couple in Kyiv surprised their parents with the intensity of their first love. As Ukraine’s war with Russia roiled around them, they felt at peace and prepared to build a life together. But that was cut short after 17-year-old Danylo Khudia was among those killed in a Russian missile strike on a residential building in Kyiv. (AP Video: Vasilisa Stepanenko)Associated Press journalists Alex Babenko and Vasilisa Stepanenko contributed to this report.KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — Multiple airstrikes hit Gaza’s southern city of Khan Younis overnight into Thursday, killing more than 50 people in a second consecutive night of heavy bombing, while another airstrike in the north of the Palestinian territory left more than a dozen people dead, authorities said.
visits the Middle East, visiting Gulf states but not Israel. There had been widespread hope that Trump’s regional visit could usher in a ceasefire deal or renewal of humanitarian aid to Gaza. An Israeli blockade of the territory is now in its third month.An Associated Press cameraman in Khan Younis counted 10 airstrikes on the city overnight into Thursday, and saw numerous bodies taken to the morgue in the city’s Nasser Hospital. It took time to identify some of the bodies due to the extent of their injuries. The hospital’s morgue confirmed 54 people had been killed.
The Israeli military had no immediate comment on the strikes.
AP correspondent Karen Chammas reports on more Israeli airstrikes in Gaza.The ransacking in Gaza City began Wednesday evening after reports that aid trucks had entered the north from the south, said one aid worker who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to address the media. A security report circulated among aid agencies that night saying a group of armed people had broken into a bakery, driven by rumors that it held food supplies.
The storage was empty and the group then looted a soup kitchen affiliated with an international aid group in the al-Shati camp, the report said.The United Nations Relief and Works Agency said its staff were safely evacuated on Wednesday after thousands of Palestinians breached its Gaza City field office and took medications. Louise Wateridge, a senior emergency officer at UNRWA, called the looting “the direct result of unbearable and prolonged deprivation.”
The ransacking continued through Friday night. Three witnesses told the AP that dozens of armed men stormed into at least two U.N. warehouses, pushing past police and local security guards who were protecting the facilities. The warehouses were nearly empty before the men arrived.“There were organized gangs,” said Ahmed Abu Awad, a resident of western Gaza City, where some of the looting took place.