First Thing: Gaza food points called a ‘death trap’ as hundreds of civilians killed seeking aid

Hungry Palestinians must enter evacuation zones patrolled by Israeli forces, where centres open and close within minutes. Plus, one woman's fight for justice for her son

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Raed Jamal sends the message shortly after he returns, empty-handed, from a food distribution point to his tent in the al-Mawasi displacement camp in south-west Gaza. The tanks came and started firing. Three boys near me were martyred," says the 36-year-old, who has four children. I didn't even get anything, just two empty boxes."

What is the GHF and what happened to the former aid sites? GHF, a startup organisation with no experience of distributing food in complex conflict zones, employs US mercenaries at the sites, which opened in May. They replaced 400 non-militarised aid points run under a UN system that Israel claimed had to be shut down because Hamas was diverting aid from it. No evidence for this has been provided.

Has Trump been accused of anything? Law enforcement agencies have not accused the president of any wrongdoing related to Epstein, and he has never been named as a target of any investigation.