News Wrap: Israel conducts airstrikes in central Gaza as aid airdrops continue

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• John Yang:

  Good evening, I'm John Yang. Tonight nearly a million and a half. Gazans are sheltering of the southern city of Rafah, the last remaining haven on the Gaza Strip, as Israel moves towards sending ground forces into the city. Across northern Gaza There were more airdrops of aid from the United States Jordan and Germany. The UN says a quarter of the population of Gaza is starving. And some say the aid isn't enough.

• Zahr Saqr, Khan Younis Resident (through translator):

  The situation is so bad that no one can imagine it. And the ship even if it helps will be a drop in the ocean. Because the entire region is in need. They throw us air drops of aid and we run like dogs behind the air drops.

• John Yang:

  In Central Gaza, Israeli bombs were also delivered by plane. Gaza hospital officials say about 20 people were killed overnight in Israeli strike in a refugee camp. They said nearly half of them were children.

  Talks aimed at a deal for the release of Israeli hostages in exchange for Palestinian prisoners are expected to resume tomorrow in Doha, Qatar. Hamas has proposed an eventual permanent ceasefire, something that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he is out of the question.

  Police are surrounded a home in Trenton, New Jersey at this hour where a 26-year-old shooting suspect has barricaded himself. Trenton Police say the residents of the home have been evacuated. The suspect is armed with an AR-15 style long gun and is believed to have killed at least three people in Falls Township, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia. There was a Shelter In Place order but it's been lifted.

  Police said the suspect knew his victims and that the shooting was the result of a domestic situation.

  There's been another incident involving a Boeing jetliner, an older United Airlines 737 landed safely in Oregon on Friday minus a large external panel along the planes belly. There were no indications of trouble during the flight and the missing panel was only discovered during a post flight inspection. Both United and the FAA are investigating.

  In Russia, protests on the second day of voting and the country's three-day presidential election, protesters tried to set fire to voting booths and poured green dye into ballot boxes. At least a half dozen cases of vandalism have been reported at polling stations and supporters of the late opposition leader Alexei Navalny tried to undermine President Vladimir Putin is hold on power. Putin is facing no serious challenges and is almost certain to win another six-year term.

  Meanwhile, in Belgorod, Russian officials say Ukrainian shelled the border city killing two people.

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