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No One Cares: We Grieve When We Bury Our Children

No words. Of over 600 Palestinians killed this week in savage new US-funded Israeli bombings, officials say over 40% were children in the bloodiest few days of a bloody campaign Israeli leaders call "only the beginning." Amidst gruesome wounds and grieving parents' luminous images of babies now gone, one desperate father who saved his five children from their bombed home bewailed, "I brought them out to what? A life where we run from one death to another."

Despite Israel's persistent pretense it's targeting Hamas and Islamic Jihad fighters, this week's bloodshed saw the most lethal day for Gazan children on record, with over 200 children killed Tuesday in a few vicious hours of air strikes. Overall, since Israel broke the ceasefire agreement, children and women have made up two-thirds of the dead, as well as the over 900 wounded. They join a still-vastly-incomplete list of 61,700 confirmed dead - one in every 50 Gazans - and 112,719 wounded, one in every 20.With strikes deliberately timed to kill the most victims - in the middle of the night - they caught many women and children sleeping, and social media is full of people mourning and memorializing their dead children. At one site , rescue teams pulled just two infants still alive from a bombed building where they found over 170 dead children, and 80 women. Having seen too many "attacks like this," aid officials bitterly dismiss Israeli claims of protecting civilians with, "Look at the evidence." Despite IDF lies, says one, "Eighteen thousand dead children (since 2023) tells me this is a war on children."

A Palestinian man hugs the body of his baby at Indonesian HospitalA Palestinian man hugs the body of his baby at Indonesian Hospital.Bashar Taleb/AFP via Getty Images

Also, again deliberately, a war against families. With the help of its deadly, deeply flawed Lavender IA program, the IDF has established a "mass assassination program of unprecedented size, blending algorithmic targeting with a high tolerance for bystander deaths." Its premise: Why target one Hamas fighter when you can kill their whole family? Data shows the current assault has entirely wiped out 902 extended families, some with dozens of members; at least 1,364 families have only one survivor, and 3,472 have two. This week, the brutal trend continued. A strike on a tent in southern Gaza  killed five siblings and their mother: Mohammed, Tareq, Lana, Aya, Wateen and Hadee Al-Humaida. Another killed all 30 members of Muntaser Qreiqeh's family; gesturing to their bodies, he said, "These are the (ceasefire) negotiations." Ramy Abdu's sister, her children and the rest of her family all died in a strike on their home in Gaza City. "Israel may kill us at will, burn us alive, and tear us apart," said Abdu, head of Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor, "but it will never succeed in uprooting us from our land."

Lest we forget, the carnage has descended onto an already decimated medical infrastructure of ravaged hospitals, meager or non-existent supplies, and surviving, overwhelmed health workers, almost all of whom have, while on duty, seen loved ones arrive dead or grievously wounded in the E.R's. of their gutted hospitals. This week, they recounted more horrors: "We received many bodies and body parts, most of them children and women...many burned head to toe (with) limbs and heads missing." Seven girls were getting their legs amputated, without anesthesia or sedation: "The screams were everywhere." Doctors collapsing, crying, "the smell of burnt flesh in their noses." A 29 year-old woman with hideous wounds - sacrum, rectum, bladder, colon - who died; she was the sister of a doctor. A six-year-old child with shrapnel wounds in his chest and abdomen, two holes in his heart, a laceration in his left lung, a liver split in half, two holes in his colon, three holes in his stomach, five holes in his small bowel. Reported one doctor, "He did not survive."

A wounded Palestinan child is treated at Indonesia HospitalA wounded Palestinan child is treated at Indonesia HospitalPhoto by Abdalhkem Abu Riash/Anadolu via Getty Images

Many more Palestinians, of course, never make it to the hospital. In "Scenes from a Ramadan Massacre," survivors describe running from a blast to find half a woman's body, dismembered corpses scattered in the street, the smell of blood and decaying flesh. Neighbors gather up the body parts into plastic bags and spend hours guarding the bodies, throwing stones at hungry stray dogs drawn by the rank smell until a single ambulance arrives. They only have space for the wounded; they refuse to take the dead. Meanwhile, even those improbably spared by the bombs are starving, or close to it, with Israel's blockade the last few weeks preventing access to or deliveries of food, fuel, electricity, and water that Israel already long used as a weapon of war. Beleaguered aid groups say they made gains in helping survivors during the ceasefire, but those gains have been wiped out; today, Gazans are left feeling “terrified, helpless and devastated." And despite leaflets dropped by a cruelly disingenuous IDF urging evacuation, there is truly, north or south, even braving bombardment overhead, "Nowhere safe to go."

But Tuesday night, amidst non-stop shelling near their home outside Khan Younis, brothers Muhammad and Ibrahim Hamidi thought it would be safer to flee and take their families to Mawasi, the nearby coastal area that during the war Israel deemed a "safe zone." In the middle of the night, after setting up their tents, Muhammad awoke to bombing. Running to Ibrahim's tent, he found his brother lying on the ground covered in blood from a missile hit to his head; his daughter lay nearby, also wounded; his pregnant wife cradled their one-year-old son, both of them engulfed in flames; their three-year-old-son lay wounded in the head and back, in his last moments helplessly watching as his mother and baby brother burned alive. In the later telling, Muhammad didn't know if his brother or niece survived. He only knew that Ibrahim, who had no political affiliation, worked during the war selling felafel to feed his family after his workplace was destroyed, and, "These are the targets of the Israeli ‘Defense’ Forces: A father selling falafel with three children, their mother, and her unborn child."

Relative mourns victim of Israeli strikes at Indonesian HospitalRelative mourns victim of Israeli strikes at Indonesian HospitalPhoto by BASHAR TALEB/AFP via Getty Images

Last year, tens of thousands of deaths ago, Gaza's Ministry of Health published a 649-page list containing the names of what were then 34,344 Palestinians known to have been killed by Israel. On the House floor, Rep. Rashida Tlaib, America's lone Congressperson of Palestinian descent, entered the names into the Congressional Record in defiant response to her colleagues' thunderous silence in the face of the U.S.-backed slaughter - and to the hateful rhetoric of Israelis like a lawmaker who declared amidst the bloodbath, "The children of Gaza have brought this upon themselves." Citing the first 14 pages, all dedicated to the deaths of infants under one, Tlaib called the list "one of the most documented horrific crimes against humanity in our history." Then she mused whether Congress was silent "because these babies are Palestinian," angrily reminding her colleagues that "Palestinians are also human beings." "Fourteen pages of babies' names. That's 710 babies the Israeli government has murdered," she said of what is more than ever an ungodly truth. "This is not self-defense. This is genocide."

Today, survivors in Gaza say they are "trying to hold on to life," but it is "no longer what we once knew." "We are good people :with deep feelings," said one. "We grieve when we bury our children, and we try to understand how death has become ordinary." On Friday, Israel blew up what remained of Gaza's only cancer hospital, Turkish-Palestinian Friendship Hospital, which treated 10,000 patients a year. The same day, rescue workers pulled a 25-day-old girl alive from the rubble of a blast that killed the rest of her family; said a worker who heard her cries, "Thank God she is safe.” And Rasha Abu Jalal described surviving an airstrike with her family: "Suddenly, the screams of my five children pierced my ears. I couldn’t tell whether we were alive or dead and buried under the rubble." They run outside, "not knowing if we were escaping death or racing toward it." “When will this nightmare end?" she asks her husband; his reply, "We are alone in this world. No one cares.” And still, "fear follows us everywhere." "We survived this airstrike," she says in shock and sorrow, "but did we really survive this war?"

A few of the hundreds of Palestinian children killed this week  by Israel. A few of the hundreds of Palestinian children killed this week by Israel. Montage of images posted by families on social media

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'Completely Delusional': Trump Calls for Reinvigorating Domestic Use of US Coal

After U.S. President Donald Trump declared on Truth Social on Monday night that he is ordering his administration "to immediately begin producing Energy with BEAUTIFUL, CLEAN COAL," a leader at the grassroots environmental group Sierra Club quickly hit back, calling the move "completely delusional."

Trump said he was announcing the move as a means to counter China's economic edge. The announcement comes "after years of being held captive by Environmental Extremists, Lunatics, Radicals, and Thugs, allowing other Countries, in particular China, to gain tremendous Economic advantage over us by opening up hundreds of all Coal Fire Power Plants," Trump wrote.

It was not immediately clear what Trump's directive was referring to or how his announcement on social media would impact U.S. policy, according to Bloomberg.

"There is no such thing as clean coal. There is only coal that pollutes our air and water so severely that nearly half a million Americans have died prematurely from coal in the last two decades," said Sierra Club director of climate policy Patrick Drupp in a statement Tuesday. "Donald Trump is not concerned with Americans' health or economic wellbeing. He is only concerned with helping out his billionaire buddies in the fossil fuel industry."

Trump's cabinet includes a number figures who are friendly to the fossil fuel industry, such as Energy Secretary Chris Wright, who was a fracking industry CEO, and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, a known ally of oil and gas companies.

On his first day in office, Trump declared a national energy emergency to ensure "an affordable and reliable domestic supply of energy," called for expedited "permitting and leasing of energy and natural resource projects in Alaska," and withdrew the United States from the the world's main climate pact.

The U.S. is mulling using emergency authority to bring coal-fired plants back online and halt others from shutting, Burgum toldBloomberg Television in an interview last week.

"Under the national energy emergency, which President Trump has declared, we've got to keep every coal plant open," Burgum said while at the energy sector gathering CERAWeek. "And if there had been units at a coal plant that have been shut down, we need to bring those back."

Meanwhile, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin earlier this month announced a new effort to rollback a host of EPA regulations, including some that will impact coal producers.

The coal mining company Peabody Energy saw their stock rise 3.5% after Trump's Monday post on social media about "clean coal," according to Tuesday morning reporting from Schaeffer's Investment Research.

As of 2023, coal accounted for 16.2% of U.S. electricity generation, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. That year, 21.4% came from renewables.

In its statement released on Tuesday, Sierra Club took issue with Trump's assertion that investing in coal has provided an economic boost to other countries. "Trump refers to the 'Economic advantage' that burning coal has afforded other nations. In reality, renewable energy is quickly becoming more affordable and reliable than coal," they wrote.

In 2023, the think tank Energy Innovation Policy & Technology released an analysis which found that 99% of coal plants are more expensive to run compared to replacing their generation capacity with either solar or wind power, when taking into account credits that were made available through the Inflation Reduction Act.

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'Toasts Not Tariffs': Critics Slam Trump's Threat of 200% Levy on EU Alcohol Products

U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday threatened to slap a 200% tariff on many alcohol products made in the European Union in retaliation for a 50% levy on American whiskey and bourbon recently announced by the 27-nation bloc's executive commission.

"The European Union, one of the most hostile and abusive taxing and tariffing authorities in the World, which was formed for the sole purpose of taking advantage of the United States, has just put a nasty 50% Tariff on Whisky," Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform. "If this tariff is not removed immediately, the U.S. will shortly place a 200% tariff on all wines, champagnes, and alcoholic products coming out of France and other E.U.-represented countries."

"This will be great for the wine and champagne businesses in the U.S.," added Trump, who owns a Virginia winery. Only sparkling wine from grapes grown in France's Champagne region can be called champagne under a law protecting the product origin designation.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said Thursday that "we deeply regret this measure."

"Tariffs are taxes, they are bad for business and worse for consumers," she added. "They are disrupting supply chains. They bring uncertainty for the economy."

The European Commission's move to reimpose a 50% tariffs on U.S.-made whiskey and bourbon starting April 1 was itself part of the bloc's response to Trump's 25% levy on steel and aluminum imported from the E.U., which took effect on Wednesday. Trump has also unleashed a barrage of tariffs on some of the U.S.' main trading partners including Canada, China, and Mexico, and is threatening even broader tariffs if countries don't lower trade barriers by April 2.

French Foreign Trade Minister Laurent Saint-Martin struck a defiant tone Thursday, accusing Trump of "escalating the trade war he chose to unleash."

"We will not give in to threats and will always protect our sectors," he added.

The Distilled Spirits Council of the United States, an alcohol industry lobby, urged Trump "to secure a spirits agreement with the E.U. to get us back to zero-for-zero tariffs, which will create U.S. jobs and increase manufacturing and exports for the American hospitality sector."

"We want toasts not tariffs," the lobby added.

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Georgetown Academic 'Abducted by Masked DHS Agents' at Risk of Deportation

The Trump administration was accused of "abducting" a postdoctoral fellow at Georgetown University, following reporting thatBadar Khan Suri, who was studying and teaching at the school on a student visa, was arrested by masked immigration authorities on Monday night.

Following his arrest, a spokesperson with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security said that Secretary of State Marco Rubio had determined that Suri's "activities and presence" in the United States "had rendered him deportable."

Agents who identified themselves as being with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) arrested Suri, an Indian national, outside his home in Virginia, per Politico, which was first to report on Suri's arrest. The immigration officials told Suri that his student visa had been revoked, the outlet reported, citing court papers.

The news comes days after immigration agents arrested green-card holder Mahmoud Khalil, a graduate student at Columbia University until this past December who was involved in pro-Palestine demonstrations on the school's campus last year. U.S. President Donald Trump said that Khalil's arrest would be the "first of many."

"Another student who's legally in the U.S. was arrested for deportation, without a crime—allegedly for opposing U.S. foreign policy," said Nancy Okail, the head of the Center for International Policy. "If this absurdity continues, it won't be limited to specific groups. Any form of opposition will be punished and criminalized."

Nermeen Arastu, a member of Suri's legal team and an associate professor of law at the City University of New York similarly told the outlet Drop Site, "Mr. Suri's case is emblematic of a broader strategy by the Trump administration to suppress voices—citizens and noncitizens alike—who dare to speak out against governmental policies."

Tricia McLaughlin, assistant secretary for public affairs at DHS, wrote on X on Wednesday evening that Suri was "rendered deportable" under section of the Immigration and Nationality Act.

That is the same provision of immigration law that the Trump administration has invoked in its effort to Mahmoud Khalil.

"Suri was a foreign exchange student at Georgetown University actively spreading Hamas propaganda and promoting antisemitism on social media," McLaughlin also said. In the post, she did not add anything to bolster this claim. McLaughlin also wrote that Suri has connections to a "known or suspected terrorist, who is a senior adviser to Hamas."

Suri has not been charged with a crime, per his lawyer's petition for a writ of "habeas corpus," or an order demanding that he be brought to court to determine if he is lawfully detained,according Politico.

Suri's petition, filed on Tuesday in federal court by his lawyer Hassan Ahmed, argues that his arrest violates his First and Fifth Amendment rights, according to Drop Site, and also "challenges the legality of his detention under U.S. immigration law."

Politico reported that "Suri is being punished because of the Palestinian heritage of his wife—who is a U.S. citizen—and because the government suspects that he and his wife oppose U.S. foreign policy toward Israel," citing the petition.

Drop Site reported that Suri is currently being held at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Louisiana, though it is reportedly not the same facility as where Mahmoud Khalil is currently located.

Suri's wife, Mapheze Saleh, is a Georgetown graduate student in the Walsh School of Foreign Service's Center for Contemporary Arab Studies.

Her father, Ahmed Yousef, is a former adviser to the Hamas leader, Ismail Haniyeh, who was assassinated last year by Israeli security forces, according to The New York Times. Yousef told the Times that he departed his position as part of the Hamas-led government in Gaza over 10 years ago, and that his son-in-law is not involved in any "political activism." Yousef has also criticized Hamas' attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, per the Times.

Drop Site reported that Suri's arrest came after pro-Israel groups targeted Saleh with an "exceptionally public media campaign." The petition notes that Saleh and Suri have been targeted online due to their support for Palestinian rights, per Politico.

In February, the group CAMERA on Campus—which according to its X account helps students share "accurate education" and "correct misinformation" about Israel on campus—called Saleh a "Hamas affiliate" and alleged she "glorifie[d]" Hamas on social media. Also in February, the outlet Jewish News Syndicate published an opinion piece alleging that Suri "repeatedly endorsed Hamas terror and actively spreads its propaganda."

On Wednesday night, a Georgetown University spokesperson issued the following statement: "Dr. Khan Suri is an Indian national who was duly granted a visa to enter the United States to continue his doctoral research on peacebuilding in Iraq and Afghanistan. We are not aware of him engaging in any illegal activity, and we have not received a reason for his detention."

"We support our community members' rights to free and open inquiry, deliberation and debate, even if the underlying ideas may be difficult, controversial or objectionable. We expect the legal system to adjudicate this case fairly," the spokesperson wrote.

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'No More Cuts': Colorado Teachers Rally for Quality Education

Thousands of teachers and allies rallied at the Colorado State Capitol in Denver Thursday to demand that officials stop diverting money meant for public education to balance the state's budget.

Led by the Colorado Education Association (CEA), the state's largest teachers union, protesters wore crimson T-shirts reading "#RedForEd," a nationwide campaign for quality public education. Demonstrators chanted slogans including, "You left us no choice, we have to use our teacher voice!" and held placards with messages including "No More Cuts" and "Fund the Future."

CEA president Kevin Vick toldChalkbeat Colorado that "we feel like we've done our time. We simply are at our limit and we can't absorb any more losses."

"Districts are operating at such a thin margin that if there is significant losses in revenue at this point, it's going to mean a lot of teachers lost," Vick added. "It's going to mean a lot of schools closing."

Thousands of teachers, parents, students, and educators at the state capitol today asking Governor Polis to properly fund education. Colorado consistently ranks below average on education funding.

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— Allen Cowgill (@allencowgill.bsky.social) March 20, 2025 at 1:01 PM

Rob Gould, president of the Denver Classroom Teacher's Association, toldKMGH that "our teachers are tired of always—and every year—balancing the budget on the backs of our students."

Many Colorado school districts canceled classes for the day due to the high number teachers who said they would miss work to attend the protest. The Colorado Sunreported that around two-thirds of schools in Denver, the state's largest district, were closed Thursday.

Rally participants demanded that state lawmakers and Democratic Colorado Gov. Jared Polis preserve education funding jin the face of a $1.2 billion budget shortfall for next fiscal year. This could complicate a promise by Polis and lawmakers to stop using a mechanism called a budget stabilization factor—often derisively dubbed the "B.S. factor"—to divert funding from public schools to cover other budget items. Colorado state lawmakers are now considering allocating less money than promised to school districts in order to address the projected deficit.

Huge crowd of teachers, students and community (including my 1st grade kiddo) rallying at the Colorado State Capitol right now for the statewide day of action to protect public education. It’s time to get rid of TABOR and fully fund our public schools! #coleg #copolitics

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According toColorado Public Radio:

Last year, state lawmakers voted to fully fund Colorado schools by no longer withholding funding from schools and diverting it to other departments. In January, two studies commissioned by lawmakers concluded that full funding—$9.8 billion this year—isn't enough. The studies said Colorado needs to spend $3.5 billion to $4.1 billion more per year to adequately fund its public schools.

But two months later, it's clear that doing so will be impossible in the short term and could mean asking voters for more money in the long term. A coalition of education advocacy groups say lawmakers' current struggles and the history of K-12 spending in the state illustrate why Colorado needs to discuss a long-term solution to increase revenue for school funding.

"Colorado students and educators are already being asked to do more with less every year—and now lawmakers are considering even more cuts to public education," CEA said in a statement promoting Thursday's rally. "Despite being one of the wealthiest states in the country, Colorado chronically underfunds its public schools by $4,000 to $4,500 per student per year compared to the national average."

"Now, facing a budget shortfall of over $1 billion, we must take action to protect funding for education in Colorado to ensure that the budget is no longer balanced off the backs of students across all four corners of the state," the union added. "Let's be clear: A cut is a cut, and students pay the price."

Thursday's rally came as U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing Education Secretary Linda McMahon to "take all necessary steps to facilitate the closure of the Department of Education and return education authority to the states."

Joan Marcano, whose two daughters attend a Denver elementary school that was closed for the day, said he backs the protesters.

"I support the teachers," he told KMGH. "These are the people who take care of my daughters every day."

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Israeli Blockade Leaves 1 Million Children in Gaza Without Basic Necessities 'Yet Again': UNICEF

After a four-day mission to the West Bank and Gaza, a top official for the United Nations' children's welfare agency on Sunday described the effects that Israel's blockade on all humanitarian aid into the latter territory has had on roughly 1 million children in recent weeks, and demanded that lifesaving essentials—currently "stalled just a few dozen kilometers outside the Gaza Strip"—be allowed into the enclave.

Edouard Beigbeder, Middle East and North Africa regional director for the U.N. Children's Fund (UNICEF), said that during his most recent trip to Gaza he witnessed how "1 million children are living without the very basics they need to survive—yet again," following Israel's decision in early March to once again block all aid in a purported effort to pressure Hamas into accepting a U.S. hostage release plan.

The blocking of food, water, medications, and other essential supplies is a violation of "international humanitarian law," said Beigbeder.

"Civilians' essential needs must be met, and this requires facilitating the entry of lifesaving assistance whether or not there is a cease-fire in place," he said. "Any further delays to the entry of aid risk further slowing or shuttering essential services and could fast-reverse the gains made for children during the cease-fire."

Israel's blockade has left a water desalination plant in Khan Younis without electricity, allowing it to run at just 13% capacity and "depriving hundreds of thousands of people from drinkable water and sanitation services," said Beigbeder.

He particularly warned of the blockade's impact on some of Gaza's most vulnerable residents—premature newborns and children under the age of two who need access to lifesaving vaccines and medical equipment that have been languishing in delivery trucks just outside the Gaza Strip for two weeks.

UNICEF has managed to deliver 30 continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) machines to aid premature newborns with acute respiratory syndrome, but Beigbeder warned that "approximately 4,000 newborns are currently unable to access essential lifesaving care due to the major impact on medical facilities in the Gaza Strip."

"Every day without these ventilators, lives are lost, especially among vulnerable, premature newborns in the northern Gaza Strip," he said.

Beigbeder's warning came as the operator of 10 charity food kitchens in Gaza toldAl Jazeera that it has only been able to operate two distribution centers since Israel began blocking aid again following the cease-fire that began in January.

"We had 80 pots every day that we were serving to people," Omar Abuhammad, a coordinator with the Heroic Hearts organization, told the outlet. "Now we're working on about 20... As the main source of food for [people], we no longer have the ability to serve them."

Abuhammad said the organization had been able to serve about 40,000 Palestinians in Deir el-Balah each day before the newest blockade was imposed, but now it is only able to help 10,000 people daily.

Om Mahmoud, a displaced woman in Deir el-Balah, toldAl Jazeera that she "used to rely on this simple community kitchen for food, but now even they are struggling to feed us."

"My children are crying at home from hunger and I have nothing to give them," said Mahmoud. "I can't afford to buy what we need. There's simply no way to survive."

Beigbader said that on the four-day mission to the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and Gaza, "nearly all of the 2.4 million children" living there are being "affected in some way" by Israel's continued assaults.

"Some children live with tremendous fear or anxiety; others face the real consequences of deprivation of humanitarian assistance and protection, displacement, destruction, or death. All children must be protected," said Beigbader. "UNICEF continues to do everything we can to protect and support children in the state of Palestine. We are repairing water systems, running mental health sessions, setting up learning centers, and advocating constantly with decision makers for access and for the violence to cease. But this alone is not enough."

Israel has demanded the release of 11 living hostages captured by Hamas on October 7, 2023, in exchange for extending the cease-fire by 50 days and allowing aid into Gaza, but Hamas has objected to the U.S.-drafted proposal because it does not include a firm timeline for a permanent cease-fire.

As Israel has blocked humanitarian aid to pressure Hamas to accept the cease-fire extension, it has also launched strikes in Gaza, including a drone strike that killed three men who a witness in the Bureij refugee camp said were collecting firewood due to the lack of cooking gas stemming from the blockade.

Israel had claimed the men were planting roadside bombs.

A woman at the scene told Al Jazeera that "the young men were busy, not very far away from me, collecting firewood. But without warning, a missile hit them. Some other people were injured. We climbed a hill to try to help them, and we were shocked to see a quadcopter overhead. We are so terrified."

Hani Mahmoud ofAl Jazeera reported on Monday that "this is not the first time we're seeing this happen since the cease-fire began on January 19."

"Just now, a drone is hovering above in the western part of Gaza City," Mahmoud said. "It is buzzing and casting fear on the population. The streets have been emptied of people because of concerns over more attacks."

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