Desperately Needed Aid n US Hunger Strike

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At least 41 Palestinians have been killed in the latest Israeli attacks on Gaza since Thursday morning.
Among them are four children killed in an Israeli strike on a family home in the north of Gaza City.
Civil defence teams have pulled several people including small children from the rubble.

Israel's 11-week blockade on aid has affected every corner of the Gaza Strip.
The UN is warning thousands more children could die because there's a lack of food, water and medicine.
Palestinians are living in near-famine conditions and are constantly being displaced.

Al Jazeera’s Tareq Abu Azzoum has the latest from outside central Gaza's largest hospital in Deir el-Balah, Palestine.

A Palestinian student at US college UCLA has gained attention for going on a hunger strike to pressure the university to divest from Israel, as other supporters of Palestinian rights join the FastForGaza movement to call attention to Israel’s restrictions on food.

A group of former Columbia students have destroyed their diplomas to denounce the university’s crackdown on protests against Israel’s war on Gaza. The alumni group gathered outside the gates as the university’s commencement ceremony was taking place. Several current Columbia students have been detained by the Trump administration since March.

Al Jazeera’s Kristen Saloomey reports from New York.

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