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Hundreds of people were killed by an explosion<\/a> at a hospital in Gaza City where thousands of civilians had been sheltering last night, local officials said, a devastating loss of life that ignited protests against Israel and the U.S. across the Arab world. The Health Ministry in Gaza said the number of casualties was expected to rise.<\/p>\n Photographs and videos showed bloodied and charred bodies strewn across the courtyard of the Ahli Arab Hospital. Blankets, backpacks and mattresses lay nearby, traces of families who had come to seek refuge at the hospital after their homes had been destroyed.<\/p>\n Palestinian officials said the blast was caused by an Israeli airstrike. Israeli officials said the explosion was the result of a failed rocket attack by Palestinian Islamic Jihad, an armed group aligned with Hamas, which a spokesman for the group denied. The Times could not verify either claim.<\/p>\n Context: <\/strong>The deadly explosion came as conditions in Gaza grew ever more desperate. Food, fuel and water supplies are dwindling fast. Israel said yesterday that it had intensified its bombing in the southern cities<\/a> of Khan Younis and Rafah. Israel\u2019s bombardment of Gaza has killed 2,800 people and wounded 10,000 others, Palestinian officials said, and Israel\u2019s orders to evacuate northern Gaza have displaced at least 600,000, according to the U.N.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Rising anger:<\/strong> Aid and human rights groups have stepped up criticism of Israel\u2019s bombing campaign and evacuation orders which are taking an ever deadlier toll on civilians<\/a>.<\/p>\n First person: <\/strong>\u201cI can\u2019t describe what I saw. I swear to God \u2014 I witnessed the killing of my family<\/a>, but I couldn\u2019t even handle what I saw today,\u201d Ali Jadallah, a longtime war photographer, said of the hospital blast. \u201cI can\u2019t handle what is happening.\u201d<\/p>\n President Biden is set to land today in Israel, in a politically and personally treacherous trip<\/a> in the midst of an ever-worsening war. His visit had been intended to deter Iran and its proxy forces in the region and prevent the conflict from expanding beyond Israel and Hamas.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n But the trip, which also was meant to show solidarity with Israel and urge it to avoid civilian casualties, has already hit hurdles: White House officials yesterday said that a planned summit in Jordan, during which Biden planned to stress to Middle Eastern leaders the risks of the crisis expanding beyond Gaza, had been canceled.<\/p>\n Officials said the decision to cancel the Jordan meeting was \u201cmade in a mutual way\u201d between Biden and King Abdullah II of Jordan after Mahmoud Abbas, the leader <\/strong>of the Palestinian Authority, said that he wanted to cut his own trip to Jordan short to return home.<\/p>\n Quotable: <\/strong>Biden said that he was \u201coutraged and deeply saddened\u201d by the devastating blast that struck the Ahli Arab Hospital just hours before he left Washington. \u201cThe U.S. stands unequivocally for the protection of civilian life during conflict,\u201d he said, \u201cand we mourn the patients, medical staff and other innocents killed or wounded in this tragedy.\u201d<\/p>\n Analysis: <\/strong>\u201cThe timing and optics of such a significant visit couldn\u2019t be any worse,\u201d said Charles Lister, the director of counterterrorism at the Middle East Institute. \u201cWhatever the circumstances behind this strike at the hospital in Gaza, it doesn\u2019t really matter at this point. The tensions have been inflamed beyond anything we\u2019ve seen over the last week.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Ukraine\u2019s forces struck Russian air bases using powerful American-made long-range missiles<\/a>, after President Biden overcame his longstanding reluctance to providing the weapons. It represented a shift by the U.S. at a time when the Ukrainian military is struggling in a counteroffensive in the country\u2019s south and east.<\/p>\n Here\u2019s the back story on how Biden decided to reverse course and give the missiles to Ukraine<\/a>.<\/p>\n Related:<\/strong> Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping, the leaders of Russia and China, will meet in Beijing this week. They are expected to demonstrate the strength of their \u201cno limits\u201d partnership<\/a> in challenging the Western-dominated global order.<\/p>\n Across the U.S., working Americans are living in their cars<\/a> and sleeping in parking lots. They earn too little to afford rent but too much to receive government assistance and so have turned their vehicles into a form of affordable housing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n \u201cTens of thousands of people are living in their vehicles,\u201d said Graham Pruss, an applied anthropologist studying the trend. \u201cIt\u2019s huge.\u201d<\/p>\n Roland Griffiths helped pioneer a new era of research on psychedelics, which he saw as a way to alleviate suffering and even reach a mystical state. He died at 77<\/a>.<\/p>\n How not to score: <\/strong>Alan Shearer\u2019s guide to missing chances<\/a>.<\/p>\n David Raya: <\/strong>An interview with the Arsenal and Spain goalkeeper<\/a>.<\/p>\n Injury comeback: <\/strong>Daniel Ricciardo\u2019s Formula 1 return<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n A fit pic provocateur, full-time fl\u00e2neur and occasional stylist, Beenslackin, 24, was born Menelik Demissie in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and moved to the U.S. at 11.<\/p>\n Over the last three years, he has made a name in downtown New York as a street-level avant-gardist<\/a>, dressing in chaotically ecstatic single-designer outfits with ease, confidence and low-key experimental flair.<\/p>\n \u201cMy mom had a boutique, literally the only place in Ethiopia where you could buy Ralph Lauren and, like, Cavalli,\u201d he told The Times. \u201cWhenever someone asks me, when did you get into fashion, it really has been in me since I was born.\u201d<\/p>\n
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