Gazans wait for aid as UN says supplies sitting in warehouse despite Israel easing blockade
Summary
Palestinians in Gaza are still waiting for aid to arrive after Israel eased an 11-week blockade on Sunday
Israeli officials said 93 trucks entered Gaza on Tuesday but the UN says its teams have not yet been able to distribute aid
Unrwa, the UN's Palestinian refugee agency, says supplies "sit waiting" in a warehouse just a few hours' drive from Gaza
People in Gaza tell the BBC the situation there is "getting harder every day" as global experts warn of an imminent famine in the territory
Michael Kleiner, a member of Netanyahu's Likud party, tells the BBC Israel is trying to ensure Hamas does not steal aid and blames the group for preventing peace
Meanwhile dozens have been killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza in the past day, according to Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry
Israel using hunger as weapon of war, UK minister tells BBC
UK Development Minister Jenny Chapman has told the BBC Israel is “using hunger as a weapon of war” in Gaza.
Speaking to the BBC’s Middle East correspondent Lucy Williamson in the city of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, Chapman said Israel was “withholding food in order to force people to move”.
“That is not something that the UK, or any of our partner governments, can stand by and allow to watch happen,” she said.
Former Ukrainian politician shot dead outside Madrid school
Andriy Portnov, ex-aide to pro-Russia former president, was dropping off children when he was targeted by gunmen
Unidentified gunmen have shot and killed a former Ukrainian politician, Andriy Portnov, outside a school in an upmarket suburb of Madrid.
The killing of Portnov, who had worked as a senior aide to Ukraine’s pro-Russia former president, Viktor Yanukovych, took place on Wednesday morning outside the American School of Madrid in Pozuelo de Alarcón.
Authorities said he had been targeted when he was getting into his car, a black Mercedes-Benz. “Several persons shot him in the back and the head and then fled towards a forested area,” said a source at Spain’s interior ministry.
Israeli army fires ‘warning shots’ at French and other diplomats visiting West Bank
The Israeli army on Wednesday fired shots at a delegation of regional, European and Western diplomats visiting the West Bank city of Jenin, sparking condemnations from the Palestinian Authority and several European capitals. An IDF statement said its troops fired "warning shots" and that the delegation "deviated from the approved route". No one was injured in the incident.
A group of foreign diplomats came under fire while visiting the Jenin refugee camp in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, according to the Palestinian Authority. The diplomats were on an official mission to observe the humanitarian situation in Jenin when shots rang out.
An aid worker, who did not want to be named for fear of reprisal, said a delegation of about 20 diplomats was being briefed about the situation in Jenin by the Palestinian Authority. The group of regional, European and Western diplomats were standing near the entrance of the Jenin refugee camp when they heard gunshots just before 2pm local time, said witnesses.
South Africa’s leader aims to salvage relationship with Trump in White House visit
U.S. President Donald Trump will host South Africa’s leader at the White House on Wednesday for a meeting that might be tense after Trump accused the country’s government of allowing a “genocide” to take place against minority white farmers.
South Africa has strongly rejected the allegation and President Cyril Ramaphosa pushed for the meeting with Trump in an attempt to salvage his country’s relationship with the United States, which is at its lowest point since the end of the apartheid system of racial segregation in 1994.
New agriculture minister Koizumi says he will put rice before anything
By MARI YAMAGUCHI
Japanese agriculture minister Taku Eto was forced to resign Wednesday because of political fallout over recent comments that he “never had to buy rice” because he got it from supporters as gifts. The resignation comes as the public struggles with record high prices of the country's traditional staple food.
Ishiba appointed popular former Environment Minister Shinjiro Koizumi, the son of a former prime minister, to lead the ministry, noting his experience in agriculture and fisheries policies and enthusiasm for reforms.
Former prisoners and hostages urge Starmer to secure release of Jimmy Lai
Wed 21 May 2025 15.24 BST
Former prisoners and hostages wrongly held abroad have urged the UK prime minister to urgently secure the release of the pro-democracy campaigner Jimmy Lai before he dies in a Hong Kong jail.
The 77-year-old media mogul, who is a British citizen, has been held in solitary confinement for 1,602 days and his family fears he might not survive another summer in Hong Kong, where temperatures can reach 40C (104F).
A letter to Keir Starmer signed by 22 people who were detained abroad and their family members, says he must act “before it is too late”.
The Spy Factory
Russia’s intelligence services turned Brazil into an assembly line for deep-cover operatives. A team of federal agents from the South American country has been quietly dismantling it.
Artem Shmyrev had everyone fooled. The Russian intelligence officer seemed to have built the perfect cover identity. He ran a successful 3-D printing business and shared an upscale apartment in Rio de Janeiro with his Brazilian girlfriend and a fluffy orange-and-white Maine coon cat.
But most important, he had an authentic birth certificate and passport that cemented his alias as Gerhard Daniel Campos Wittich, a 34-year-old Brazilian citizen.
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