As Biden heads to Israel and Jordan, aid is held up for a Gaza on the verge of total collapse

By Associated Press

Oct 17, 2023 6:55 pm

KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip: The US worked to break a deadlock over delivering aid to millions of increasingly desperate civilians in the Gaza Strip, which has been besieged and under assault by Israel since a brutal attack by Hamas militants, as US President Joe Biden prepared to head to the region.

Israeli airstrikes continued to pound Gaza early Tuesday, killing dozens of people in the besieged enclave's south, where Israel told civilians from the north to seek shelter ahead of an expected ground offensive.

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