Heavy Israeli bombardment in Gaza City forces medical facilities to close

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — An apparent Israeli airstrike on a school-turned-shelter in southern Gaza has killed at least 25 Palestinians. Heavy bombardment in the north meanwhile forced the closure of medical facilities in Gaza City and sent thousands fleeing in search of increasingly elusive refuge. Israel’s new ground assault in Gaza’s largest city is its latest effort to battle Hamas militants regrouping in areas the army previously said had been largely cleared. Large parts of Gaza City and urban areas around it have been flattened or left a shattered landscape after nine months of fighting. Much of the population fled earlier in the war, but several hundred thousand Palestinians remain in the north. An Associated Press reporter at a nearby hospital counted the bodies from the strike on the school.

Ukraine mourns as rescuers search the rubble of a Kyiv children’s hospital

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says rescue operations have stretched into a second day at a major Kyiv children’s hospital struck by a Russian missile. Officials said Tuesday that at least 42 people throughout Ukraine were killed in Monday’s attacks, which targeted several cities. Zelenskyy posted on X on Tuesday that 64 people were hospitalized in the capital, in addition to 28 in Kryvyi Rih and six in Dnipro — both in central Ukraine. It was Russia’s heaviest bombardment of Kyiv in almost four months. The strike on the Okhmatdyt children’s hospital, which interrupted open-heart surgery and forced young cancer patients to take their treatments outdoors, has drawn international condemnation. Russia denies responsibility for the hospital strike.

Rescuers search for dozens buried by an Indonesian landslide that killed at least 23

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Rescue workers are digging through tons of mud and rubble as they search for dozens of missing people after a landslide hit an unauthorized gold mining area on Indonesia’s Sulawesi island, killing at least 23 people. More than 100 villagers were digging for grains of gold on Sunday in the remote and hilly village of Bone Bolango when tons of mud plunged down the surrounding hills and buried their makeshift camps. Some 66 villagers managed to escape and 23 bodies have been recovered. About 23 people have been pulled out alive by rescuers, including 18 with injuries. There are 35 others still missing.

Elephants trample a Spanish tourist to death in South Africa

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Elephants have trampled a Spanish tourist to death at a wildlife reserve in South Africa after he got out of his vehicle and approached a herd to take photographs. Local authorities say the 43-year-old man was killed on Sunday at Pilanesberg National Park in the North West province. The herd had young calves. Police say the man’s fiancée and two other women were also in the vehicle and were unharmed. A conservation officer says that “in some cases, people are oblivious to the dangers in the parks. We must remember that you are entering a wild area.”