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Hailed as Benetti ‘s first “Gigayacht”, the 107m Lana  is an exquisite custom-built motor yacht launched in 2019 and one of the largest yachts available. Over five decks,  Lana  boasts every conceivable lifestyle attribute that her 12 charter guests could dream of. For utter relaxation and well-being,  Lana has a large spa with a hammam, gym, and mosaic-tiled massage room forward adjacent to the beach club and an inviting pool on the sundeck that can be enjoyed cool or warm. The seven guest staterooms are located on the main deck. On the wheelhouse deck is the full-beam owner’s suite with two balconies, original modern art, Art Deco-style light fixtures, and finely crafted timber panelling. Each VIP guest cabin is decorated in an individual color scheme making each room unique. Her 34 professional charter crew occupy cabins on the lower deck, with the remaining cabins a further level down.

For entertainment, the owner and guests can watch movies in the upper saloon or on the wheelhouse deck, which also has an elegant baby grand piano.  Lana has no shortage of exquisite features, from the hand-sculpted onyx dining table to a winter garden that overlooks the sea. There’s also a large swimming pool, cinema room, a full gym, and multiple social spaces, indoors and out. Inside, this magnificent luxury charter yacht is a symphony of lavish yet tasteful contemporary interior design. The main deck is defined by dozens of floor-to-ceiling windows that allow in plenty of natural light and the use of tactile materials such as leather, timber, and stainless steel, as well as masterful use of lighting in sculptural forms.

Lana’s main salon is an intimate environment, comprising three large sofas around a coffee table for conversation and a widescreen TV for the latest films or sports. The onboard cinema is cosy and inviting, with oversized armchairs, a plush sofa, and a massive screen coupled with surround sound systems and blackout curtains for the ultimate private cinema experience. For water toys and tenders,  Lana  is laden with the latest and greatest for hours of on-water fun for charter guests of all ages. There are jet skis, Seabobs, windsurfs, wakeboards, scuba diving equipment, fishing gear, and golf set-up, including biodegradable balls guests can aim at the floating green.

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LANA Yacht – Stunning $250 Million Superyacht

LANA yacht is a 107-meter (351.1 ft) yacht built by Italian shipyard Benetti in 2021. She is available for charter for $1.8 million per week and is owned by an unknown millionaire.

LANA is currently the 45th largest yacht in the world at a total length of 107 meters (351.1 ft).

LANA yacht interior

The LANA yacht was entirely built and designed by Benetti, which includes her beautiful interior.

Twelve guests can stay aboard the luxury yacht in six spacious cabins, including a stunning master suite. Thirty-three crew members are accommodated in sixteen cabins below the deck.

The yacht includes a hammam, a spa with an onboard massage therapist, a large cinema, and a state-of-the-art entertainment system that allows guests to listen to music on all parts of the vessel.

The interior of LANA is beautifully decorated with opulent furnishings. Creme tones and wood accents create a tasteful and timeless design and the feeling of true luxury.

The spa area and hammam of the yacht are decorated with beautiful and intricate mosaics that set the interior of this yacht apart.

Specifications

The LANA yacht is an elegant 107-meter (351.1 ft) long yacht with a 14.4-meter (47.3 ft) beam and a 4.3-meter (14.1 ft) draft.

She weighs 3891 tons and is powered by Rolls Royce Diesel and electric engines.

Her maximum speed lies at 18 knots, although she most comfortably cruises at 16 knots which put her range at 4,000 nautical miles on average. 

The LANA yacht is a beautiful all-white yacht designed by the Italian shipyard and designer Benetti.

She has a helipad, a generous heated outdoor swimming pool with a comfortable seating area, and a beach club with folding terraces located aft of the vessel.

Her many decks invite guests to enjoy the breathtaking views of the surrounding ocean or dine al fresco. Since LANA is available for charter, she carries a wide variety of water toys on board.

This includes jet skis, sea bobs, wakeboards, water skis, windsurfing equipment, scuba diving gear, inflatables, fishing equipment, and even biodegradable golf balls.

The list goes on, and a charter trip with LANA will never be boring.

The LANA yacht cost her anonymous owner an estimated US $200 million, although the exact sales price is not known.

She generates annual running costs of US $10 to 20 million and is available for charter through Imperial Yachts for US $1.8 million per week.

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Brand new 107m Benetti charter yacht LANA begins sea trials

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By Katia Damborsky   13 June 2019

Formerly known as Project FB 277, the 107m/351ft motor yacht LANA  headed out on sea trials this morning.

Launched in December, LANA departed Benetti's facilities in Livorno this morning, ready to begin her first round of sea trials in the Mediterranean. 

A spokeswoman from the yacht's marketing company has stated that Lana is "one of the most exclusive vessels available for charter from Summer 2019 and beyond."

The megayacht will be spending her debut charter season exploring the glitzy cruising grounds of the Mediterranean, transporting her guests around popular superyacht hotspots in the lap of luxury.

Upon delivery, LANA will become the second largest yacht publicly available for crewed yacht charter vacations. Coincidentally, she is also the second largest launch from Italian shipyard Benetti to date.

Why you should charter luxury yacht LANA this summer

The 107m superyacht has plenty of on-board highlights to ensure the yachting vacation of a lifetime. Blending opulent interiors with a host of cutting-edge amenities and features, LANA is easily one of the most impressive recent additions to the global charter fleet.

While little information is known about the yacht, a press release by Benetti states that she boasts both interior and exterior styling from Benetti’s in-house design team, who have worked to create an elegant and sinuous profile enhanced by a plumb bow for exceptional seakeeping. Her interiors meanwhile, embody a minimalist and contemporary energy, with tall windows and high ceilings to enhance the space and light on board.

Her beach club area has been thoughtfully designed to promote a connection to the sea, with a traditional swim platform and twin fold-out sections on both sides of the beam, providing infusions of light and easy access to the water from all sides.

Forward, the beach club plays host to a Hamman-style, massage room and gym equipment, for guests in need of some down time.

The yacht’s oversized pool can be found on an elevated portion forward of the sundeck. This innovative design gives the pool a level of privacy and exclusivity, where guests can relax and unwind in peace.

The space is adjoined by laid-back dining areas and inviting spreads of sunpads for making the most out of the warm Mediterranean weather.

Alfresco areas for dining and unwinding continue on the upper and main decks aft, while the foredeck benefits from a touch n go helipad.

[LANA] represents the utmost luxury for all superyacht passionates looking [for] a tailor-made charter journey.

In terms of guest accommodation, motor yacht LANA has a highly unique and desirable configuration which includes seven VIP cabins, all located on the main deck, forward of the main salon and formal dining.

The owner’s suite can be found on the upper deck, flanked by a pair of balconies to port and starboard. It enjoys the use of vast private dressing rooms and an interconnecting bathroom.

Aft of this suite, guests can take full advantage of the upper deck salon, with its plush sofas, enormous cinema-style TV screen and grand piano.

A representative of the yacht’s marketing company has said; “[LANA] represents the utmost luxury for all superyacht passionates looking [for] a tailor-made charter journey.

“We are proud to give birth to a successful superyacht, and we look forward to seeing her sporty, roaring lines cruising along the seven seas.”

If you would like to be among the first to charter M/Y LANA, please reach out to your preferred yacht charter broker .

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Luxurious 107-metre LANA superyacht enjoys Ayia Napa Marina’s pioneering services

The state-of-the-art LANA superyacht, one of the most luxurious superyachts globally, has been anchored at Ayia Napa Marina since 24 November, enjoying its pioneering and high-end services. Having attracted significant attention, the 107-metre superyacht – worth 200 million dollars –  will remain at the marina for a few weeks, barring any unforeseen circumstances.

Despite the great challenge, the yacht was successfully moored owing to the expertise of the well-trained Ayia Napa Marina staff, who undertook all necessary steps in close cooperation with Caramondani Engineers, who immediately upgraded the power supply to fully meet the needs of the yacht.

Ayia Napa Marina, as an official port of entry to the Republic of Cyprus, and the only ISO 13687-1 certified marina on the island, offers world-class top-quality services and facilities.  It is worth noting that the marina can safely accommodate 360 yachts (including superyachts) while also providing storage services for 160 boats of up to 10 meters in the Dry Stack and an additional 80 spaces in the boatyard.

Ayia Napa Marina Director, Costas Fitiris, stated: “Mooring the LANA superyacht posed a great challenge, and it constitutes a step towards the realization of our goals, the most important of which is to earn the trust of luxury yacht owners of such renown, to ensure that Ayia Napa Marina becomes recognized as an international maritime tourism destination.”

The luxury LANA superyacht was constructed in 2020 in the Italian Benetti shipyard, which boasts the highest superyacht construction growth rate worldwide. LANA features chic interior spaces, a cinema room, beach club, and large swimming pool, as well as a specially designed space with a professional therapist. It can accommodate up to 12 guests and 33 onboard crew. LANA is the second superyacht to be accommodated at Ayia Napa Marina, having also welcomed the Sailing Yacht A (143 metres), which was anchored outside the marina for the second consecutive year.

The state-of-the-art marina is expected to become the No1 maritime destination in the Eastern Mediterranean, and since February 2021, it can officially accommodate large cruise ships and superyachts.

Ayia Napa Marina would like to remind all boat owners that they can benefit from its innovative and high-end services, with a 30% discount offered until 31 December 2021 on annual berthing contracts for 2022.

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Description, the 107 meter superyacht lana is one of the most luxurious superyachts in the world. her stunning architectual design with elegant lines and sculptural elements portrays cutting-edge yacht-building excellence. guests enjoy the wide range of amenities including a luxurious spa, a well-equipped gym, a cinema room with an impressive audio system as well as an impressive sized outdoor pool. the beach club and its two folding terraces offers all the state-of-the-art anemeties for a unforgettable day at sea., charter price, price per week, 1.700.000 €, price for 3 days, bitcoin per week, 26.14  btc, bitcoin for 3 days, 13.07  btc, prices may vary depending on the season and exclude local taxes as well as individual expenses the climate positive luxury initiative by rosenberg supports an environmentally concious and climate-friendly lifestyle.

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Inside the Secretive Interior of the 351-Foot ‘Lana,’ One of Benetti’s Largest Superyachts

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Superyacht owners are often guarded about the interiors of their vessels, just as most of us would be with the interior of our homes. This week, the owner of Lana —one of the largest yachts ever built by the Benetti yard in Italy—allowed images of the 351-footer to go public, courtesy of Imperial Yachts , which was the owner’s representative on the build and now is overseeing the yacht’s charter.

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Lana has no shortage of exquisite features, from the hand-sculpted onyx dining table to a winter garden that overlooks the sea. There’s also a large swimming pool, cinema room, a full gym and multiple social spaces, indoors and out.

The vessel’s interior is vast but tasteful. The beach club, in its way, represents the overall elegance of the yacht, with a large salon on the interior that connects to large fold-out terraces on either side, and lounges in the hallway between treatment rooms. A hammam , or Turkish bath, with ornate walls and large marble table, expands the beach club’s spa experience.

The interior is elegant, contemporary and spacious, such as the main dining area with a table for 16.  Imperial Yachts

The ensemble of spacious cabins, comprised of the owner’s suite on the wheelhouse deck and seven VIP staterooms on the main deck, add to the sense of luxury across the yacht. The full-beam master cabin has windows and a terrace on both sides, with pieces of modern art, Art Deco-style light fixtures and stylized wood paneling. The 8’9”-high ceilings add to the suite’s sense of space.

The main deck is defined by dozens of floor-to-ceiling windows that wrap around the superstructure, allowing plenty of natural light, while the 50-foot beam fosters the sense of open space. Social areas were critical to the design of this yacht and include everything from the terraces by the pool to a salon up near the wheelhouse, complete with a baby grand piano.

Lana ’s beautiful interior can be experienced as a charter yacht in the Mediterranean, and next winter, in the Indian Ocean. “Lana has an incredible appeal that will make her, for sure, the next decade superyacht charter yacht to experience in her range,” Julia Stewart, Imperial director, said in a statement. “She is bold, unique, sleek and aggressive, mixing perfect experience at sea with unforgettable charter moments.”

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Lana Specifications

• Model Custom
• Class Lloyds/Compliance LY3
• Hull NB FB 277
• Hull Colour -
• Naval Architects Benetti Pierluigi Ausonio
• Exterior Designer Benetti
• Interior Designer Benetti
• Length Overall 107.0m
• Length at Waterline -
• Draft (min) -
• Draft (max) 4.5m
• Gross Tonnage -
• Cabins Total 8
• Hull Configuration Displacement
• Hull Material Steel
• Superstructure -
• Deck Material Teak
• Fuel Type Diesel
• Manufacturer Rolls Royce
• Power 2800 kW
• Total Power 2800 kW
• Propulsion Twin Screw
• Max Speed 18.5 Kn
• Cruising Speed -
• Fuel Capacity 300000
• Water Capacity 69000
• Generator -
• Stabilizers N°4 fins Naiad Dynamics
• Thrusters Bow thruster - N° 2 Rolls Royce 200 kW electric_Stern thruster - SCHOTTEL Pump Jet 350 kW electric
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LANA // Benetti Yachts // 107m

Benetti yachts delivered the 107m lana - one of three 100m+ gigayacht projects realized recently the italian shipyard..

LANA has a length of 107 meters and a beam of 15.2 meters. The yacht is a traditional construction with a steel hull and aluminum superstructure with a full load displacement of 3,300 tons. The entire design comes from Benetti’s in-house team. P.L.A.N.A. – Pierluigi Ausonio Naval Architecture made the naval architecture.

LANA has diesel-electric propulsion with two engines (2,800 kW each) to reach a top speed of 18.5 knots. Furthermore, an operating range of 5,500 nautical miles at a rate of 12 knots.

The owner comments:

“I am absolutely satisfied with the work done by Benetti and Imperial together. ‘LANA’ represents a statement of building excellence, every technical feature, every aesthetic element, every single detail was executed to perfection. I am glad we all made this way to prove a new level of Italian shipbuilding industry.”

LANA has an unusually layout

The vessel accommodates up to 12 guests in eight cabins that include 7 VIP staterooms on the main deck. The full-beam master suite is on the bridge deck and has two balconies. A crew of 34 people serves guests and yacht.

The main features of LANA are a touch-and-go helipad, a large swimming pool on the sundeck, and a grand piano. Furthermore, a spa with a gym, hammam, and massage room.

Julia Stewart, Director of Imperial Yachts says:

“Being linked to the second 100m+ superyacht ever delivered in Italy by the private shipyard Benetti is a pride that we share with the builder. It was a pleasure to collaborate once again with their professional teams and their dynamic behavior in a proactive atmosphere. “LANA” is bold, unique, sleek and aggressive, boasting high ceilings up to 2.7m in height and mixing perfect experience at sea and unforgettable charter moments.

She is now entering our Charter Central Agency fleet, already with a large array of destinations in her bucket list that she will explore. “LANA” has an incredible appeal that will make her, for sure, the next decade superyacht charter yacht to experience in her range once in a lifetime. We would like to thank the Imperial team behind this impressive success, their hard work and extreme dedication to making the dream of our client come true.”

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Benetti-built mega yacht MAR (ex LANA, FB 277) was delivered in 2020 and was one of three luxury yachts over 100 metres (328 feet) launched as part of the shipyard's 'Giga Yacht Season'. The interior and exterior styling is the work of the Benetti in-house styling teams, who chose a sophisticated modern palette to complement her sleek white hull and superstructure featuring a modern plumb bow. The accommodation sleeps a maximum of 12 guests over eight en-suite staterooms, with a crew of 33 to provide first-class service throughout every journey. MAR is the largest Benetti yacht available for charter to date, 2020.

NOTABLE FEATURES OF MAR: ~ Beach club with hammam-style spa massage room and gym ~ Seven VIP staterooms located on the main deck ~ master suite on wheelhouse deck ~ Skylounge with cinema setup and a grand piano ~ Swimming pool on the sundeck ~ Air conditioning ~Wi-Fi

The lower deck swim platform joins onto the beach club to offer a large indoor/outdoor space close to the water.

The main deck and upper deck aft host alfresco dining and lounging areas with plenty of sunbathing options in the sunshine. On the foredeck, there is a helipad for fast and efficient transport to local airports for guests joining or leaving during the middle of the cruise.

Up, on the sundeck, the forward section has a large swimming pool, behind which is an alfresco dining area and a broad selection of sunbeds.

The lower deck contains a spacious beach club that contains a hammam-style spa massage room and a gym, and on both sides the bulwarks fold down to create sea terraces.

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On the main deck, there are several VIP staterooms placed forward, followed by a formal dining room and main salon in the aft.

The upper deck hosts the Owner's suite forward, which has the advantages of a private terrace to port and starboard, large dressing rooms and a spacious en-suite bathroom. Behind, the skylounge doubles as a cinema and is furnished with plenty of plush sofas and armchairs in addition to a massive widescreen TV and a grand piano for live entertainment.

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The accommodation sleeps up to 12 guests across 8 en-suite cabins: 1 Master suite located on the upper deck and 7 VIP staterooms located on the main deck. ~ The professional crew of 33 will keep everything onboard running smoothly throughout every cruise.

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We do have available further amenity, owner and price information for the 107.00m (351' 1") yacht MAR, so please enquire for more information.

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‘Holy grail of shipwrecks’: recovery of 18th-century Spanish ship could begin in April

The San José, sunk in 1708, has been at the center of a dispute over who has rights to the wreck, including $17bn in booty

S ince the Colombian navy discovered the final resting place of the Spanish galleon San José in 2015 , its location has remained a state secret, the wreck – and its precious cargo – left deep under the waters of the Caribbean.

Efforts to conserve the ship and recover its precious cargo have been caught up in a complicated string of international legal disputes , with Colombia, Spain, Bolivian Indigenous groups and a US salvage company laying claim to the wreck, and the gold, silver and emeralds onboard thought to be worth as much as $17bn.

When Colombia tried to auction off part of the bounty to fund the colossal costs of recovering the ship, Unesco and the country’s high courts intervened.

But eight years after the discovery, officials now say they are pushing politics to one side and could begin lifting artefacts from the “holy grail of shipwrecks” as soon as April.

“There has been this persistent view of the galleon as a treasure trove. We want to turn the page on that,” Alhena Caicedo, director of the Colombian Institute of Anthropology and History, said. “We aren’t thinking about treasure. We’re thinking about how to access the historical and archeological information at the site.”

The San José was returning to Europe with treasures to help fund the war of the Spanish succession when it was sunk by a British squadron in 1708, close to the Caribbean port city of Cartagena.

Historians say the wreck could help reveal much about the Spanish empire at the height of its power – and the shared, overlapping histories of Europe and Latin America.

Eventually, Caicedo’s team hopes to raise the wreck itself, and put it on display in a custom-built museum where visitors will be able to explore “all the secrets of the bottom of the ocean”, she said.

But as the expedition continues to explore the site, the scale and complexity of the challenge is coming into focus.

Few ships like the San José have ever been recovered – and none has ever been salvaged from warm tropical waters.

“This is a huge challenge and it is not a project that has a lot of precedents. In a way, we are pioneers,” said Caicedo.

The closest comparison would probably be to the Mary Rose, the flagship of Henry VIII’s fleet, which sank in 1545 while in battle with the French fleet off the coast of Portsmouth.

That 16th-century wreckage was explored by hundreds of divers – many of whom were volunteers – for a decade before being carefully lifted in 1982. The surviving section of the ship’s hull is now on display in a £35m ($45m) museum .

Colombia’s navy has been studying the Mary Rose and other such marine conservation projects to see how it could lift and conserve the 40-metre-long ship and its contents without it all crumbling to dust.

“The San José is a very, very special ship. It’s comparable to the Mary Rose in that it was in action at the peak of Spanish technology and shipbuilding,” said Ann Coats, associate professor in maritime heritage at the University of Portsmouth.

“There are so many questions the San José could help answer!”

The San José’s cargo includes articles of glass, porcelain and leather, and historians hope the haul could inform their understanding of global 18th-century trade networks, Spain’s complex colonial hierarchy and the lives of the 600 souls onboard.

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But while the Mary Rose lay in frigid coastal waters, the San José sank in deep, tropical waters which will probably have been cruel to the ship and could make the recovery one of the most costly and complex in history.

“The contents are really varied and we have no idea how the remains will react when they come into contact with oxygen. We don’t even know if it is possible to raise something out of the water,” said Caicedo.

The wreck’s precise location is a state secret to protect the site from looters, but Colombian authorities have revealed that it is 600 metres (2,000ft) below sea level – too far for divers to reach.

The country’s military is currently developing underwater robots that will first photograph, video and map the wreckage before carefully attempting any retrieval.

Exactly how much can be salvaged from the wreck will depend on myriad factors: currents, sea temperature, the type of silt the wreck is submerged in, how the ship’s 60 bronze cannons plunged to the seabed, and even which critters are now living there, says the head of the Mary Rose’s research program, Alex Hildred.

“It was also set on fire,” Hildred says. “Lifting the ship and creating a museum will be really difficult, really expensive and incredibly challenging … And then everyone wants a bit of it. It’s just a nightmare.”

The vessel’s international connections mean that historical research has until now been halted by international litigation over who is its rightful owner.

Although the wreck was found in Colombian waters, Spain has argued that the San José was part of the Spanish fleet and was returning from what was then part of the Spanish empire.

Meanwhile, Sea Search Armada (SSA), a US-based salvage company, has been locked in a legal battle with Colombia, arguing that it located the area in which the San José sank in 1981. SSA has argued that Colombia agreed to split any profits, but in 2011 a US court declared the galleon the property of the Colombian state.

Indigenous communities in Bolivia have also voiced a claim to any possible riches, arguing that their ancestors are likely to have mined the silver and gold used in many of the treasures .

The Colombian ministry of culture says the government has self-funded the first stage of exploration with $7.3m and it will not sell any of the precious artefacts as Unesco pleaded in 2018.

“Money has always driven the story of the San José. The British wanted to capture it to deny money to Spain, then the money onboard drove the archaeological search for the wreck,” said Coats. “Then disputes got in the way of studying the ship. It would be nice if for once money wasn’t driving things and a huge cultural collaboration could take place to study it properly.”

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The United States, after vetoing earlier resolutions, abstained.

U.n. security council demands an immediate cease-fire in gaza, the resolution passed after the united states abstained from voting. the cease-fire would last for the month of ramadan..

Will those in favor of the draft resolution contained in Document S/2024/254 please raise their hand? Those against? Abstention? The result of the voting is as follows: 14 votes in favor, zero vote against, one abstention. The draft resolution as been adopted as Resolution 2728 (2024). [applause]

The United Nations Security Council on Monday passed a resolution calling for an immediate cease-fire in Gaza, breaking a five-month impasse during which the United States vetoed several calls for ending the war, while the humanitarian toll of Israel’s military offensive climbed higher.

The resolution passed with 14 votes in favor. The United States abstained, allowing the resolution to pass. The chamber broke into applause after the vote.

“Finally, finally, the Security Council is shouldering its responsibility,” said Algeria’s ambassador to the U.N., Amar Bendjama, the only Arab member of the Council. “It is finally responding to the calls of the international community.”

Israel immediately criticized the United States for allowing the resolution to pass. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel’s office called the move “a retreat from the consistent American position since the beginning of the war,” and said the U.S. abstention “harms the war effort as well as the effort to liberate the hostages.”

In response, Mr. Netanyahu said he would not send an Israeli delegation to Washington to hold high-level talks with U.S. officials on a planned operation in the southern Gaza city of Rafah — a public rebuke to President Biden, who had asked for the meetings.

A State Department spokesman, Matthew Miller, called that decision “a bit surprising and unfortunate.”

The United States did not vote for the resolution because it did not condemn Hamas’s Oct. 7 assault on Israel and because of other concerns about the wording, he said at a briefing in Washington. But other aspects of the resolution “were consistent with our long-term position — most importantly, that there should be a cease-fire and that there should be a release of hostages, which is what we understood also to be the government of Israel’s position.”

The breakthrough resolution, which was put forth by the 10 nonpermanent members of the Council, was being negotiated intensely until the last minute. The United States asked for a change in the text that replaced “permanent cease-fire” in the war between Israel and Hamas with “lasting cease-fire,” according to diplomats, and it wanted language calling for both sides to create conditions allowing a halt in fighting to be sustained.

It calls for a cease-fire for the rest of the holy month of Ramadan, which has two weeks remaining.

While Security Council resolutions are considered international law and carry significant political and legal weight, the Council does not have the means to enforce them. The Council can take punitive measures such as sanctions against violators, but even that could run into obstacles if a veto-holding member opposes the measure. Israel is currently in violation of a 2016 resolution that demands it stop expanding settlements in the West Bank.

Over the years, the United States has vetoed dozens of Security Council resolutions critical of Israel; it has rarely abstained, and when it does, analysts say, it marks a clear signal of Washington’s displeasure with Israeli action or policy.

In 2009, in the final days of the George W. Bush presidency, the United States abstained on a 2009 cease-fire resolution on a previous war in Gaza. Under President Barack Obama, it abstained on the 2016 resolution on West Bank settlements. And it abstained again on a resolution three months ago on humanitarian aid for Gaza.

“The crucial variable is that the Biden administration is obviously not happy with Israel's military posture now, and allowing this resolution to pass was one relatively soft way to signal its concern,” said Richard Gowan, an expert on the United Nations at the International Crisis Group. “But the abstention is a not-too-coded hint to Netanyahu to rein in operations, above all over Rafah.”

As images of starving children, carnage and vast destruction of civilian infrastructure from Gaza have circulated, global anger has mounted against Israel, along with pressure on the U.S. to reconsider its staunch support of Israel and use its leverage to end the conflict.

“When such atrocities are being committed in broad daylight against defenseless civilians, including women and children, the right thing to do, the only thing to do morally, legally and politically is to put an end to it,” said Riyad Mansour, the Palestinian representative to the United Nations, to the Council.

The resolution adopted on Monday demands the unconditional and immediate release of all hostages, but it does not make its demands for a cease-fire conditional on hostage release — one of Israel’s stated objections.

Since the start of the war in October, pressure has been building on the Security Council to call for a cease-fire. Its members, particularly the United States, have been criticized sharply for failing to uphold peace and stability in the world.

The U.S. ambassador, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, said the adopted resolution fell in line with diplomatic efforts by the United States, Qatar and Egypt to broker a cease-fire in exchange for the release of hostages held in Gaza. She said the U.S. abstained because it did not agree with everything in the resolution, including its failure to condemn Hamas’s Oct. 7 attacks.

“A cease-fire of any duration must come with the release of hostages — this is the only path,” Ms. Thomas-Greenfield said.

The U.S. had vetoed three previous resolutions calling for a cease-fire, agreeing with Israel’s position that it had a right to defend itself and that a permanent cease-fire would benefit Hamas. Those vetoes infuriated many diplomats and U.N. officials as the civilian death toll in the war rose inexorably. The U.S. position also created rifts even with some of its staunch European allies, including France.

Russia and China then vetoed two alternative resolutions put forth by the United States, the most recent one last Friday, because, they said, those documents did not clearly demand a cease-fire.

It remained unclear whether Israel or Hamas would heed the resolution’s call for a halt in hostilities.

Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations, Gilad Erdan, accused the Council of being biased against Israel because it had taken no action on helping secure hostages held captive in Gaza. He said all Council members should have voted “against this shameful resolution.”

The resolution passed on Monday also calls for ensuring access to Gaza for humanitarian aid. It also requires both sides to “comply with their obligations under international law in relation to all persons they detain.”

The Oct. 7 Hamas attacks in Israel killed roughly 1,200 people, according to authorities there; about 250 were taken hostage, about half of whom have been released.

In Gaza, more than 32,000 people have been killed by the Israeli bombardment and ground offensive, a majority of them women and children, the Gazan Health Ministry says. Israel’s airstrikes have also laid waste to vast areas of Gaza.

The U.S.-backed resolution that failed on Friday also condemned Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack and called for U.N. member states to restrict funding to the Palestinian armed group. The new resolution is far more concise. It deplores “all attacks against civilians” and “all acts of terrorism,” specifically singling out the taking of hostages.

Michael Crowley contributed reporting.

— Farnaz Fassihi and Aaron Boxerman

After the U.N. vote, Israel called off meetings with the U.S. about Rafah, as relations grow more tense.

For the increasingly tense U.S.-Israel relationship, the fallout from passage of the U.N. cease-fire resolution was immediate, as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday that he would not send a planned high-level delegation to Washington for meetings with U.S. officials.

President Biden had requested the meetings to discuss alternatives to a planned Israeli offensive into Rafah, the southern Gaza city where more than a million people have sought refuge, an offensive that American officials have said would create an humanitarian disaster.

The United States had vetoed three previous U.N. Security Council resolutions calling for an end to the war in Gaza between Israel and Hamas, agreeing with Israel’s argument that it would leave Hamas intact and in control of the enclave after it carried out the Oct. 7 assault on Israel.

But on Monday, when the Security Council took up a less strongly worded resolution, calling for a cease-fire for the holy month of Ramadan, the U.S. representative abstained, allowing the measure to pass.

Mr. Netanyahu, in a statement, denounced the abstention as “a retreat from the consistent American position since the beginning of the war,” one which “gives Hamas hope that international pressure will enable them to achieve a cease-fire without freeing the hostages.”

In response, he said, the Israeli delegation that was to discuss Rafah would not go to Washington. The practical impact of his decision may be limited — Mr. Netanyahu has said repeatedly that although he would hear out the White House position, the offensive would proceed — but it is still a sharp, public rebuke of Israel’s closest and most powerful ally.

Briefing reporters at the White House, John F. Kirby, a spokesman for the National Security Council, insisted there had been no change in the American position, and said that the United States had abstained, rather than vote for the U.N. measure, chiefly because “this resolution text did not include a condemnation of Hamas.”

“The prime minister’s office seems to be indicating through public statements that we somehow changed here,” Mr. Kirby said. “We haven’t.”

As for the canceled Israeli delegation, he added: “We were looking forward to having an opportunity to speak to a delegation later this week on exploring viable options and alternatives to a major ground offensive in Rafah.”

“We felt we had valuable lessons to share,” Mr. Kirby said.

He noted that Yoav Gallant, the Israeli defense minister, was in Washington and was still meeting with President Biden’s national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, on Monday, and would be meeting with Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III.

Mr. Gallant, before meeting with Mr. Sullivan, gave no sign Israel would agree to a cease-fire. “We will operate against Hamas everywhere — including in places where we have not yet been,” he said. He added, “We have no moral right to stop the war while there are still hostages held in Gaza.”

Mr. Gallant and Mr. Austin will discuss Israel’s planning for Rafah when they meet on Tuesday, said Maj. Gen. Patrick Ryder, the Pentagon press secretary, and Israel’s request for more American weapons. He reiterated the administration’s position that before going into Rafah, Israel must have a detailed plan to protect, shelter and feed the civilians there.

“A ground invasion, especially without any type of credible plan, is a mistake given the large number of people, displaced people, that are there at the moment,” General Ryder told reporters.

The U.N. resolution and the American role in it drew angry responses from far-right elements of Israel’s government. Itamar Ben-Gvir, the national security minister, called the move “proof that President Biden is not prioritizing Israel and the free world’s victory over terrorism, but rather his own political considerations.” The resolution, he said in a statement, should prompt Israel to intensify rather than moderate its military campaign.

Israel has faced intense international criticism over its conduct of the war in retaliation for the Oct. 7 attack — a bombing campaign and ground invasion that have killed some 30,000 people, displaced most of Gaza’s population and reduced much of the territory to ruins.

President Biden and other U.S. officials have become increasingly, openly critical of the war effort, saying that Israel should do more to avoid civilian casualties and allow more aid into Gaza — an unusually stark breach between the two nations.

Hamas is holding more than 100 hostages seized during the Oct. 7 attack, and negotiations have been underway for the release of hostages in return for Israel freeing Palestinian inmates in its prisons. The U.N. resolution calls for the immediate release of hostages.

Hamas welcomed the U.N. Security Council resolution in a statement on Telegram, adding that the Palestinian armed group was willing “to immediately engage on a prisoner exchange process that would lead to the release of prisoners on both sides.”

“Hamas calls upon the Security Council to pressure Israel to comply with a cease-fire and end the war, the genocide and ethnic cleansing against our people,” the group said.

Eric Schmitt , David E. Sanger and Cassandra Vinograd contributed reporting.

— Aaron Boxerman

Trump urges Israel to ‘finish up your war.’

Former President Donald J. Trump, in an interview with a conservative Israeli news outlet that was published on Monday, exhorted Israel “to finish up your war,” mixing bellicose support for the government of Israel with harsh warnings that the Jewish state was losing international support by providing “a very bad picture for the world.”

But while Mr. Trump had typically harsh words for President Biden — he called Mr. Biden “dumb” — he offered no prescriptions for what the United States should do, or for what he would do, if elected, to bring the war in Gaza to an end or to advance the cause of peace between Israel and the Palestinians.

The interview with Israel Hayom, a publication started by the conservative American casino magnate Sheldon Adelson, was released on the same day that the Biden administration allowed the United Nations Security Council to pass a resolution demanding a cease-fire in Gaza.

It also came as former members of Mr. Trump’s administration have become more outspoken on policies that diverge sharply from President Biden’s. Jared Kushner, Mr. Trump’s son-in-law and a former senior White House adviser who led the Trump administration’s diplomatic efforts in the Middle East, took heat last week for calling the war in Gaza “a little bit of an unfortunate situation,” then adding, “but from Israel’s perspective I would do my best to move the people out and then clean it up.”

And David M. Friedman, who was ambassador to Israel during Trump’s administration, critiqued Vice President Kamala Harris on social media over the weekend for saying as many as 1.5 million Palestinians crowded into the southern Gaza city of Rafah had nowhere to go if Israel attacks. Mr. Friedman suggested that Gaza’s Palestinians could always emigrate.

“She ‘studied the maps’ and concluded that the people in Rafah have no place to go,” Mr. Friedman wrote. “It must have been an awfully small map — obviously left out Egypt and other Arab countries.”

Mr. Trump did not embrace the rhetoric of expulsion, but he told the Israeli interviewers that he planned to meet with Mr. Friedman to listen to his pitch that the United States recognize Israeli sovereignty over the West Bank, which has been occupied by Israel since 1967.

Mr. Trump’s main thrust, however, was a more mixed prescription for the Israeli right: Israel should finish the war in Gaza — “You have to get it done,” he said — and then move on quickly to “peace,” in some form, because “Israel is in trouble.”

“Israel has to be very careful, because you’re losing a lot of the world, you’re losing a lot of support,” Mr. Trump warned. “You have to finish up, you have to get the job done. And you have to get on to peace, to get on to a normal life for Israel, and for everybody else.”

The former president also delivered what appeared to be a critique of Israel’s propaganda efforts.

Asked how he would counter a rise in antisemitism during the Gaza War, he answered, “I think Israel made a very big mistake.” He continued, “These photos and shots, I mean, moving shots of bombs being dropped into buildings in Gaza. And I said, ‘oh, that’s a terrible portrait. It’s a very bad picture for the world.’”

Mr. Trump appeared to fault Israeli military officials for releasing such images of destruction. “Every night, I would watch buildings pour down on people,” he told Israel Hayom.

“It would say it was given by the Defense Ministry,” he said, adding: “I think Israel wanted to show that it’s tough, but sometimes you shouldn’t be doing that.”

— Jonathan Weisman

Israel’s defense minister is meeting with several senior U.S. officials.

Israel’s defense minister, Yoav Gallant, arrived in Washington on Monday for several meetings with senior U.S. officials, as ties between Israel and the Biden administration have frayed over the high civilian death toll in Gaza.

President Biden has voiced “deep concerns” over a planned Israeli ground invasion of Rafah, a city in the southern Gaza Strip where over one million Palestinians have taken shelter, and other top officials have urged Israel to seek an alternative.

Israeli leaders have said that even if a deal on a temporary cease-fire is reached, they intend to eventually proceed with a military offensive in Rafah to root out Hamas’s remaining forces there.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel has said that civilians would be evacuated from combat zones in the event of an Israeli operation there. But Palestinians who have followed previous Israeli orders to flee have often found themselves in places that were engulfed in fighting or subject to airstrikes.

Mr. Gallant said his visit would focus on preserving Israel’s military edge, especially in the air. The United States provides Israel with billions annually in military assistance and direct arms transfers.

Mr. Gallant said in a statement that he met for 90 minutes on Monday afternoon with Jake Sullivan, the national security adviser, at the White House to discuss efforts to release hostages held in Gaza, as well as the measures needed to destroy Hamas.

“The outcomes of this war will impact the region for decades to come, and will signal the common enemies of both countries,” Mr. Gallant said.

Mr. Gallant’s office said he was also expected to meet with Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III, who was scheduled to discuss with him Israel’s military planning for a possible Rafah operation, facilitating more aid into Gaza, and efforts to release the remaining Israeli hostages held by Hamas, said Maj. Gen. Patrick Ryder, the Pentagon press secretary.

In addition, Mr. Gallant will meet the C.I.A. director, William J. Burns, who was in Doha, Qatar, last week to participate in the continuing cease-fire talks between Israel and Hamas.

In recent weeks, international mediators have redoubled efforts to reach a cease-fire deal between Israel and Hamas. Qatar, a key mediator, has voiced cautious optimism but says there has not yet been a breakthrough. Other officials familiar with the negotiations have expressed similar sentiments.

Osama Hamdan, a senior Hamas official, said last week that the armed group had moderated its demands somewhat. Hamas had consented to a phased Israeli withdrawal rather than an immediate one, he said, and was discussing the release of some hostages before the declaration of a permanent cease-fire.

The biggest sticking point in the cease-fire talks in recent days has been the number of Palestinian prisoners to be released, in particular those serving extended sentences for violence against Israelis, according to two U.S. officials and an Israeli official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive matter.

During the talks in Doha, the U.S. delegation — led by Mr. Burns — proposed a compromise to try to bridge the gap between Israel and Hamas, according to the Israeli official and another person familiar with the negotiations. Israel has accepted the U.S. compromise, both people said.

Late on Monday, Hamas said that Israel’s proposal did not meet its demands. The announcement appeared to indicate that a breakthrough in cease-fire talks remained a distant possibility for now.

The Palestinian armed group said it continued to demand a comprehensive cease-fire, the return of displaced people to their homes, an Israeli withdrawal from Gaza and “a true prisoner exchange.”

“Netanyahu and his extremist government are completely responsible for causing all of the negotiating efforts to fail,” the group said on Telegram.

The slow pace of the talks and the continued fighting in the strip are causing many in Gaza to lose hope. Mohammad Iqtifan, a 36-year-old taxi driver from Gaza City who has been sheltering in Rafah with his wife and three children, said that with their savings dwindling, he was desperate to leave the enclave.

“They have put us in a cage of death,” Mr. Iqtifan said, referring to Israel’s military operations and the mounting civilian toll.

Eric Schmitt contributed reporting.

— Aaron Boxerman ,  Julian E. Barnes and Iyad Abuheweila

Israeli forces surround a hospital in Gaza and continue their raid on another.

The Israeli military said on Monday that its forces had surrounded a hospital in the city of Khan Younis in southern Gaza while pressing on with their raid on Al-Shifa Hospital in the north for an eighth day.

The Palestine Red Crescent said Israeli forces had forced patients and medical staff to evacuate Al-Amal Hospital in Khan Younis on Sunday amid heavy fighting and gunfire. It added in a statement on Monday that Israeli forces had bulldozed streets around the hospital and put up earthen barriers at its entrances.

The Red Crescent, which runs Al-Amal, said two people there had been killed, including one of the organization’s own staff, and three others had been wounded when Israeli forces opened fire as they were being evacuated. It added that the Israeli military had used drones with loudspeakers to issue a demand “that all those present in Al-Amal Hospital leave naked, as they forced them to leave by shooting directly at the displaced people and workers.”

Neither the Red Crescent’s account nor the Israeli military’s statements about its actions at the hospitals could be independently verified.

Little is known about the situation at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, which is about a mile from Al-Amal and which the Red Crescent said had also been besieged by the Israeli military. Dr. Mohammad Zaqut, a spokesman for the Gaza Health Ministry, said on Monday that the hospital was surrounded and coming under fire from Israeli troops.

Israel has long accused Hamas, the armed group that led an attack into southern Israel on Oct. 7, of using hospitals in Gaza for military purposes, a claim that Hamas and hospital administrators have denied. The Israeli military has provided evidence that Hamas had constructed a lengthy tunnel under Al-Shifa.

A later analysis by The New York Times found that Hamas had used the Shifa complex for military purposes. The Israeli military, however, has struggled to prove its claim that Hamas maintained a command-and-control center under it.

The Israeli military said in a statement on Monday that its forces were continuing “precise targeted raids on terror infrastructure” at Al-Amal “after encircling the area.” It added that it had killed more than 20 people it referred to as terrorists in the area. It did not mention an operation at Nasser.

The military also said that it was continuing its raid at Al-Shifa in Gaza City, the Gaza Strip’s largest hospital, where its forces had detained around 500 people and found weapons.

Israel’s assault on Al-Shifa, one of Israel’s longest hospital raids of the war in Gaza, began last Monday. The military said it was aimed at senior officials of Hamas, whose assault prompted the start of the war in Gaza.

Residents near Al-Shifa have described a relentless daily soundtrack of gunshots, airstrikes and explosions in the area. Witnesses have reported interrogations and detentions of Palestinian men by Israeli forces at the hospital, and a persistent lack of food and water.

Hamas said in a statement on Monday that Israel was “expanding its fascist war against the health sector and hospitals in the Gaza Strip.” Its assaults “confirm the occupation’s insistence on continuing the war of extermination against our people,” it said.

— Hiba Yazbek reporting from Jerusalem

UNRWA claims Israel has banned it from bringing aid to northern Gaza.

The U.N. agency that provides aid to Palestinians said that Israeli authorities will no longer allow it to run convoys of food to northern Gaza, the center of the enclave’s humanitarian crisis. Israel’s military on Monday rejected the agency’s claim and said it has not impeded aid.

Any ban on aid convoys sent by the agency, known as UNRWA, to northern Gaza could worsen the situation for the hundreds of thousands of people there who lack access to food, clean water and medicine. António Guterres, the U.N. secretary general, over the weekend called conditions in Gaza a “moral outrage.”

On Monday, Philippe Lazzarini , the head of UNRWA, called the Israeli decision “outrageous.” Speaking on social media, he accused the Israeli authorities of intentionally obstructing “lifesaving assistance during a man made famine.”

Juliette Touma, the agency’s spokeswoman, said Israel’s military has repeatedly denied in recent weeks UNRWA requests to run convoys to the north and did so again on Thursday and Friday. She said that the military, while meeting Sunday with the agency’s Gaza field assistance team, told UNRWA that it would decline all future authorization. She said the military had not offered a reason.

A spokesman for the Israeli military, Maj. Nir Dinar, said on Monday that Israel “does not block anyone from delivering aid,” but he declined to answer further questions.

It was not immediately possible to square the contradictory accounts, but they appeared to reflect a dispute over not only responsibility for the crisis, but the status of UNRWA itself.

In January, the Israeli government accused at least 12 of the agency’s employees of participating in the Hamas-led Oct. 7 attack on Israel, which killed about 1,200 people. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel then called for the agency to be closed. UNRWA suspended the staff members and opened an investigation, but some of its biggest donors have since suspended funding.

While UNRWA has for decades provided food to Gaza’s more than two million residents, and has organized schools, hospitals and other services, its deliveries of aid to northern Gaza have slowed to a trickle in recent months.

UNRWA last delivered aid to northern Gaza at the end of January, Ms. Touma said. Several times in recent months, she said, convoys have been hit by gunfire, including once, in February, by the Israeli navy , when more than 100 people were killed amid Israeli fire, Gazan health authorities said. The Israeli military has said that most of the people died in a stampede and that some were run over by the trucks.

Israeli airstrikes have devastated northern Gaza, and even before starting a ground invasion of the territory in late October, Israel’s military told civilians there to flee south. But many people remained, and some who evacuated to the south have returned.

In addition, the invasion has effectively toppled much of Hamas’s governing structure in the north, leaving chaos and lawlessness. The overwhelming majority of aid trucks in Gaza have entered from the south, with only a few permitted to continue on to the north.

The United States, Jordan, France and other governments have dropped aid by air, and the aid group World Central Kitchen towed a barge carrying aid to the area from Cyprus.

Aid groups say, however, that the most efficient means of delivering aid to the territory is by truck. The number of trucks carrying food and other aid going into the territory has fallen since Oct. 7 by around 75 percent, according to U.N. data , in part because of stringent Israeli checks on the cargo.

The Israeli authorities, however, blame the United Nations for the crisis, and say that its officials can process more aid than the U.N. is able to distribute.

Adam Sella contributed reporting

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Here’s how a disaster relief group built a jetty to get aid into Gaza.

Just a few hours before sunset in mid-March, World Central Kitchen workers scrambled to put the final touches on a makeshift jetty built out of rubble, as the ship carrying the first aid to reach the Gaza Strip by sea in nearly two decades backed toward the shore.

The crew from World Central Kitchen, the disaster relief nonprofit, still had to cover the jetty’s sharp edges and poking rebar, reminders that the rubble used to build the structure in northern Gaza had come from bombed buildings. Using square pieces of debris, they created a vertical concrete wall to meet the ship.

“Running any sort of construction project in Gaza at this current time has got a ridiculous amount of challenges,” said Sam Bloch, the director of emergency response for World Central Kitchen, which was founded by the renowned Spanish chef José Andrés. Mr. Bloch, who oversaw the building of the jetty and the arrival of the shipment, described the scene by phone from Oakland, Calif., after leaving Gaza.

The arrival of the ship, which had sailed from Cyprus after the aid was inspected there, was a milestone in a venture that Western officials hope will play a part in easing the enclave’s food deprivation. The operation has been described as a pilot project for the broader opening of a maritime corridor to supply the territory.

Once the food was unloaded, it was distributed in Gaza by truck — including in the north, where experts say famine is imminent. International aid agencies have largely stopped operations in the area, citing Israeli restrictions, security issues and poor road conditions.

At least two attempts to deliver food aid to desperate Palestinians in northern Gaza have ended in bloodshed in recent weeks, with Palestinian and Israeli officials blaming each other for the deadly scenes.

The Israeli military helped World Central Kitchen’s operation, providing security and coordination, according to an Israeli official who requested anonymity to speak about a sensitive matter. Every step was carried out with permission from the Israeli military, Mr. Bloch said.

“It was a lot of stop and go,” he said, and progress “was definitely not consistent or predictable.”

The construction of the World Central Kitchen jetty took six days, with the job site sometimes running around the clock as the jetty slowly extended into the sea, one rubble-filled truck at a time. “Using rubble was a big challenge,” Mr. Bloch said, “but it is the only resource that is plentiful enough in Gaza at the moment.”

The rubble was brought mostly from southern Gaza, but also from around the work site. The head contractor, who had lost two of his homes to bombings about one mile away from the jetty, went with his dump trucks and heavy machinery to collect what remained of his destroyed homes, Mr. Bloch said.

Most of the construction equipment, including front-end loaders, dump trucks, flatbed trucks, cranes and a fuel truck, came from southern Gaza, Mr. Bloch said. But one piece of equipment, a movable light tower that allowed construction to continue through the night, had to be retrieved from a bombed-out warehouse in the north.

In coordination with the Israeli military, a small convoy, accompanied by heavy machinery to clear the roads, was sent to a warehouse in Gaza City, where local contractors had identified what they believed was the only light tower left in Gaza, Mr. Bloch said.

To unload the ship, which contained just under half a million meals, a large crane at the end of the jetty transferred food pallets onto eighteen-wheeler trucks that had been carefully backed down the jetty.

By the time the shipment was unloaded, it was nearing midnight. World Central Kitchen decided to send the trucks to a warehouse in Deir al Balah, a few miles south of the jetty, and distribute the aid during daylight.

A few days later, the trucks moved up Salah al-Din road, the main artery through central Gaza, to the southern edge of Gaza City, where hungry families collected food directly off the trucks. Nobody was hurt during the distribution, according to Mr. Bloch.

In the future, World Central Kitchen hopes to speed up the process by sending food directly from the jetty to communities in northern Gaza, Mr. Bloch said. The organization is also working to develop community kitchens that will serve as distribution points.

Building community kitchens is the bread and butter of World Central Kitchen. The group already has 68 in southern Gaza that provide most of the hot meals to civilians there, Mr. Bloch said.

World Central Kitchen has loaded a larger ship in Cyprus that, as of Monday, was still waiting for the right weather conditions before departing for Gaza.

— Adam Sella

Missing people under Gaza’s rubble make for a shadow death toll.

Gaza has become a 140-square-mile graveyard, each destroyed building another jagged tomb for those still buried within.

The most recent health ministry estimate for the number of people missing in Gaza is about 7,000. But that figure has not been updated since November. Gaza and aid officials say thousands more have most likely been added to that toll in the weeks and months since.

The piles of debris have been multiplying ever since Oct. 7, when Hamas attacked Israel, killing about 1,200 people, according to Israeli officials. Israel began its retaliatory war, and the number of search-and-rescue operations also soared.

After airstrikes, a small crowd of would-be rescuers gathers. In Instagram videos, the searchers can be seen clambering over and onto the dusty wreckage of homes and buildings to dig.

But hopes dwindle quickly. The people they are looking for are usually found dead beneath the wreckage — days, weeks or even months later.

The buried make up a shadow death toll in Gaza, a leaden asterisk to the health ministry’s official tally of more than 31,000 dead , and an open wound for families who hope against hope for a miracle.

Most families have accepted that their missing are dead, and it is unclear how much of the estimate of those unaccounted for is already reflected in the official death toll. The continuing shelling, crossfire and airstrikes often make it too dangerous to sift through the wreckage for the bodies. Other times, relatives are too far away to do so, having separated from the rest of their families in the search for somewhere safer to go.

Photographs that have emerged of Gaza’s rubble heaps testify to families’ intention to recover the dead someday: “Omar Al Riyati and Osama Badawi are under the rubble,” reads the spray paint on a tarp draped across the door of one blown-out building.

When a multistory building collapses, it is impossible to comb the hill of debris without heavy machines or fuel to power them. Often, neither is available.

Gaza has been under a debilitating blockade jointly enforced by Israel and Egypt since Hamas took control of the strip in 2007, and the types of equipment typically used to rescue people after earthquakes and other events of mass destruction are largely forbidden to enter the territory.

Calling 101, the Gaza equivalent of 911, is of little use either. Communications networks are weak, erratic or nonfunctional.

Nada Rashwan contributed reporting from Cairo.

— Vivian Yee ,  Iyad Abuheweila ,  Abu Bakr Bashir and Ameera Harouda Reporting from Cairo, Istanbul, London and Doha, Qatar

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Planning a trip to see April's total solar eclipse? Be sure to pack green and red clothes to see a strange phenomenon known as the Purkinje Effect.

By Brian Lada , AccuWeather meteorologist and staff writer

Published Mar 25, 2024 5:34 AM PDT | Updated Mar 25, 2024 5:40 AM PDT

Cleveland Clinic’s Dr. Nicole Bajic explains the science behind the Purkinje Effect and how you can experience it during the solar eclipse.

The upcoming total solar eclipse will have some unusual effects on animals and the weather , but people who are in the path of totality may experience a strange effect with their vision and not because they use the wrong eclipse glasses.

"There's this thing that happens in the eye as we transition from day to nighttime called dark adaptation, but it takes about 20 to 30 minutes," Dr. Nicole Bajic, an ophthalmologist at the Cleveland Clinic, told AccuWeather's Tony Laubach.

The quick flip from day to night has an unusual reaction on eyesight, specifically with how we perceive colors. This is known as the Purkinje Effect .

"Reds appear [sic] kind of dark and then the, the greens and blues will pop in contrast," Dr. Bajic said.

Reds and green will appear much differently during a total solar eclipse than any other day, as demonstrated by AccuWeather Meteorologist and Storm Chaser Tony Laubach. (AccuWeather)

Wearing a green or red shirt on the day of the eclipse could help people take notice of the Purkinje Effect. Additionally, having red and green objects nearby while watching the eclipse can also help folks take notice of the eclipse's side effect.

"If you have a lot of people around you, if you're, you're making this a group activity, you could have some people wear red, some people wear blues and greens," Dr. Bajic added.

The Purkinje Effect may also explain the viral debate from 2015 about a dress that to some appeared black and blue while others saw white and gold.

Additional reporting by AccuWeather Meteorologist and Storm Chaser Tony Laubach.

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• Published: Mar. 25, 2024, 9:11 a.m.

FILE - A Holland America cruise ship is shown in Victoria, Canada on Saturday, April 9, 2022. Two crew members on a Holland America cruise ship died during an “incident” in the ship's engineering space, the cruise line said. The unidentified crew members died Friday, March 22, 2024, while the Florida-based Nieuw Amsterdam was at Half Moon Cay in the Bahamas, Holland America said in a statement.(Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press via AP) AP

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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Two crew members on a Holland America cruise ship died during an “incident” in the ship’s engineering space, the cruise line said.

The unidentified crew members died Friday while the Florida-based Nieuw Amsterdam was at Half Moon Cay in the Bahamas, Holland America said in a statement.

Authorities were notified and the cause of the accident is being investigated, the cruise line said. Crew members were being offered counseling.

“All of us at Holland America Line are deeply saddened by this incident and our thoughts and prayers are with our team members’ families at this difficult time,” the statement said. “The safety, security and welfare of all guests and crew are the company’s absolute priority.”

The cruise line did not offer any further details about the crew members. It later said the Bahamas Maritime Authority was leading the investigation. The ship set sail out of Fort Lauderdale on March 16 for a seven-night trip.

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