Good evening. I'm John Yang.

Palestinians say an Israeli air strike on a United Nations aid distribution site in Gaza City

has killed at least eight people.

The Israeli military said Hamas and Islamic jihad had been operating from the building.

Palestinian witnesses said those killed were either sheltering at the site or had gone there to get water or other aid.

It came as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu doubled down on his

complaints about the Biden administration's support.

But about four months ago, there was a dramatic decline in armed supplies from the U.S. to Israel.

Over long weeks we have turned to our American friends with a request to speed up deliveries.

We did it time and again.

Israeli defense minister Joav Galant and Netanyahu rival is to meet in Washington this week

with Biden administration officials. The White House has denied any slowdown in weapons shipments.

The Saudi Arabian Health Minister said that more than 1,300 Muslims making this year's

hodge pilgrimage died amid scorching heat.

Able-bodied Muslims are required to make the journey to holy sites around Mecca at least once in

their lifetime.

More than half of those who died came from Egypt, leading Egypt to revoke the licenses of 16 travel

agencies for failing to provide adequate services or protection from the heat.

At least two Americans were among the dead.

Police in Arkansas said they believed the victims of a grocery store shooting were

targets of opportunity.

The motive in Friday shooting in Ford Ice, the small town south of Little Rock remains a mystery.

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