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>> this is bbc news world -- world news america. the you and says israel gave no warning before the deadly airstrike on a gaza school. israel says they were targeting militants. europe marks the 80th anniversary of the d-day landings in normandy, france. crowds line up in the key swing state of arizona, for the first campaign rally of former president donald trump since his conviction. welcome to world news america. at least 35 people reportedly killed when an israeli airstrike are getting hamas fighters hit a u.n. school in central gaza that was sheltering displaced palestinians. local journalists told the bbc a warplane fired two missiles at classrooms on the top floor of the school in the refugee camp. video shows the destruction in a

number of bodies. israel's military said it had quote, conducted a precise strike on a hamas compound in the school and killed many of the 20 to 30 writers they believed were inside. but gaza's hamas run government accuses israel of carrying out a horrific massacre saying 14 children and nine women are among the dead. casualties were rushed to a hospital in a nearby town, which has been overwhelmed since the israeli military began a new ground operation against hamas in central gaza this week. here are some survivors to scrubbing their experience. >> we were sleeping at 2:00 in the morning. we woke up and the ceilings, the walls and windows were falling on us. people came out to help. those the could be rescued were rescued. the rest were martyred or injured. >> people were asleep. they were civilians. they had fled from their homes in the north and came here to hide to live a safe life.

as you can see, rockets fell on them and destroyed them. >> why? what have we done for them to bomb us? we fled from place to place. there is no safe place. no u.n. school is safe. there is no safe place. >> the head of the human agency for palestinian refugees says there were 6000 people sheltering in the school and that the coordinates of that facility had been shared with the israeli army. a palestinian journalist posted this clip on social media the morning after the strike and it has been verified by our teams. >> i'm currently in a school that was targeted by the israeli forces with at least three airstrikes in the morning. people were sleeping when israeli forces targeted them. all of the floor is filled with blood. children and women are terrified. unfortunately they don't have

anywhere to go. there is no shelter in the school. >> israel says these were precise strikes that destroyed three specific classrooms. >> our strike was based on intelligence and used precise you nations. using surveillance and intelligence. we called it off twice to make sure we were precise and to limit any unwanted civilian casualties. >> the u.s. is calling on israel to publicly release the names of the 20 to 30 militants it said it targeted in the strike. here is what the state department spokesperson said in response to a question from the bbc. >> they have said that they were going to release the names of the 20 to 30 militants they were targeting. they are going to release the names of those that they believe they killed. they want to show that they were killing militants and not civilians. that does not obviate the chance

that there might have been civilians in this strike. that is what they have said they would provide. we expect them to do that as well as other details that would shed light on this incident. >> i spoke with a spokesperson for the norwegian refugee council in jerusalem about that strike. >> after the strike on the school complex, can you tell us what the situation is in that area? is your organization able to provide food and aid to those who are there? >> we've had challenges over the last several weeks, being able to provide assistance to people in southern gaza and gaza as a whole because of the lack of aid that is getting in, and then the difficulty in accessing aid and safely being able to distribute it. what we are hearing from our staff on the ground in gaza is that the situation, the security situation continues to deteriorate. there are no warnings in advance

of military operations, even when those military operations are happening within very close proximity to the static locations of aid agencies. it is important to note in the case of this strike on a school, u.n. premises are not to be attacked under any circumstances. under typical conditions you would expect at the very least, a warning for civilians to be able to seek safety and shelter to mitigate the harm. in this case, seeing an attack on premises that are never permitted to be attacked under international law is extremely troubling and makes our staff very worried. >> israel has said it quote, conducted a precise strike against terrorists where they were. was your staff able to witness any members of hamas embedded in this complex? >> our staff is not active in those facilities, so we can't speak to who or what was

happening in those facilities but again, it is important to note that under no circumstances are u.n. facilities allowed to be targeted, whether or not there are legitimate military targets. >> we know there were many palestinians sheltering their. where are they going now? >> displaced palestinians, many of whom have been displaced many times over the last several months, are sheltering wherever they can find a spare space to try and set up camp and afford some level of protection. for eight months we've been saying there is no safe space in gaza. palestinians are setting up on whatever empty piece of land they can find. there is little infrastructure to support displaced palestinians, whether it is water, sanitation, waste services. many people have even returned to areas where hostilities had been ongoing over the last several months, returning to buildings that are damaged,

might have unexploded ordinance and other hazards. people are looking for wherever they can go but there is no place for them to seek safety and all they want to do is be able to return home and start repairing their lives. >> the rafah crossing remains closed. can you describe to us the impact that has had on the work you are doing? >> it is not just the rafa crossing. very little is getting through other crossings. limited aid coming into gaza is not able to reach over one million people who have been displaced in southern gaza. the u.s. constructed peer is not operating. there is a trickle of aid entering gaza right now. it is very difficult for our teams and u.n. teams to be able to act because of ongoing hostilities within proximity of those crossings. as the situation continues to

get more desperate, we are seeing people resort to more extreme measures to find assistance and aid, including people taking aid themselves without distribution. the security situation is deteriorating and the little aid that is in is very difficult for our team to distribute. >> from your perspective, we know negotiation's are continuing, talks of a potential cease-fire. what is your message to those negotiators, to the international community on what needs to happen? >> we need to do whatever we can to get a cease-fire as soon as possible. people have been living under a tremendous amount of trauma, pain, suffering over the past eight months in gaza. we need to put an end to that immediately. on top of that, even with or without a cease-fire agreement, we need to scale up the amount of assistance, humanitarian assistance entering gaza. we cannot wait.

the humanitarian sector is struggling to complete basic tasks because the situation, security wise, has deteriorated so much. we need as much pressure as possible to implement a cease-fire and to allow for an increase of aid and safe conditions for aid workers trying to help the hundreds of thousands, millions of innocent civilians who have been trapped inside gaza. >> here in the u.s., the naacp is urging president biden to halt weapons deliveries to israel. they warned mr. biden that his support for israel could hurt him among black voters in november's election. they also called on hamas to release the hostages and for israel to commit to a strategy that aligns with international and human a terrien law. in normandy, president biden spoke at a ceremony to mark the 80th anniversary of the d-day landings. he warned democracy is more at risk now than at any point since

the second world war. mr. biden said isolation is not the answer and that d-day shows the power of alliances. >> we know the dark forces these heroes fought against 80 years ago. they never fade. they seek to dominate and control, change borders by force. the struggle between a dictatorship and freedom is unending. >> along the coast of normandy and northern france, ceremonies unearned the allied servicemen who carried out a historic assault that began the liberation of france in 1944, codenamed operation overlord. it was the largest ever seaborne invasion involving over 150,000 troops. world leaders and surviving veterans attended a series of events to mark the ceremony.

president zelenskyy arrived at omaha beach to commemorate the anniversary and king charles and queen camellia -- queen camilla paid amash. and french president macron handed out a number of of honor metals to veterans, including one british veteran who helped plan the landings while serving in the women's royal naval service. we spoke with the 103-year-old veteran. >> congratulations on your brand-new award. that must have been quite a moment. you are presented by president macron. >> it is nice of you to say so. i am very proud of it. it is very unusual, an unexpected treat. i don't know mr. macron. i was able to thank him and french, i think -- thank him in

french, i think. >> you want exciting to be here today, were you? >> somebody said i wouldn't come unless they found a helicopter and then i thought for a moment, they would. they did. >> what was that like, coming over in a helicopter? >> absolutely thrilling. >> you are verily nearly 100 -- you are very nearly hundred four next month. your role during world war ii was to map the normandy coast line. >> they wanted to be a -- they want to be able to identify something like a church or any sort of building which was recognizable, in terms of what they needed for landing on the right bit of coast. it was a very exciting job. not many people knew where they were going to land. i was very glad i did. >> what does it mean to you, to be here today? >> it is very moving because it

is such an amazing big memorial. i had no idea what it was going to be like. it is so enormous and all these names down the list, all these little statues, each representing so many of our own men who died, aged 18, 19, 20. all of that age when they were so valuable as soldiers and everything else. we have to remember them always. >> for more on d-day and president biden's comments, i spoke to the former cia director and commander of coalition forces in iraq, david petraeus. general, how significant is this 80th commemoration at a time when there is a land war raging in europe? >> i think it is very significant and it is striking to me that what president biden did in his remarks at normandy

was very similar to what president reagan did at the 40th anniversary, where he also paid tribute to the courage and sacrifice and initiative and bravery of those who scaled, the rangers who claim to those cliffs and knocked out german guns. he then pivoted to reminding those here -- hearing those words of the importance of standing up for values, for principles in the face of fascism at that time, which was all around the world. and also the importance of alliances, of allies and partners. this is really very similar to what president biden did in his own remarks, and i think it is fitting. this is not perhaps quite what it was at that 40th anniversary,

as the world was engaged in the cold war and it was particularly tough times, but certainly the threat posed by russia, this unprecedented in the post-cold war era, in the post-world war ii era, this brutal and unprovoked invasion of a neighboring country, trying to deny its right to exist, this has to be resisted in every way possible, and ukraine deserves our support. >> can we talk about that because he drew several comparisons between world war ii and russia's full-scale invasion of ukraine. how apt do you think those comparisons are? >> obviously world war ii was a moment in which the entire world hung in the balance. it literally was a battle between the forces of fascism and those who believed in democracy. this is not quite that kind of

moment. this is not a world war, but it is a very significant moment and it is a perilous moment. it took us six months in the united states to pass a substantial additional assistance, and did so with a bipartisan majority in each house. nonetheless, that was a costly p eriod of time and the pipeline is still being refilled, ukraine is still under enormous pressure. i hope they can stabilize the lines and begin to regain some of the ground that russia recently took, where they will not have the kind of formidable defenses. >> you mentioned alliances, something president biden talked about in his comments. we know nato has actually expanded since russia's full-scale invasion. at the same time, there are differences between allies on the war in ukraine, for instance

allowing ukraine to use weapons to strike targets in russia. >> i think it is ironic that putin set out to make russia great again and all he did was make nato great again, with the addition of two strategically important countries. very significant in that regard. >> we also heard the u.s. president try to rally western leaders by talking about the increasing threat from antidemocratic forces. beyond russia, what other forces do you think he is referring to? >> i think generally, countries that are essentially autocratic leader led, who are trying to make this world safe for their form of government, while we naturally understandably with our allies and partners, those who share the values around democracy and economics and freedom of speech and religion

and so on are trying to ensure the world stay safe for practice of our governance. >> you can also see this message as a message to those countries that are perhaps not natural allies. china has been criticized in its role for helping russia. do you think this is a message that resonates with other countries? >> i thick it certainly resonates with the other countries who share our principles and beliefs and core values. it might be seen as a bit of a challenge by others. i think understandably, in that regard. it is disappointing to see countries help russia carry out this unprovoked and brutal aggression against ukraine, trying to deny them their right to exist. i think we should recognize that, publicly. call them out, if you will, especially if they are violating sanctions that have been established to limit russia's ability to continue its military industrial production.

>> general, great to have you on bbc news. thank you for joining us. at least 150 people have been killed in a massacre in central sudan. local pro-democracy activists are blaming it on the paramilitary rapid support forces. 35 children were among those killed in a village in disease or estate. the rs f is -- in a war that has killed more than 15,000 people and forced about 9 million from their homes. our deputy africa editor has more. >> this is not an unusual occurrence in sudan during this war. it has been going on for 13 months. there have been allegations of massacres in the past, all of which have -- there have been accusations on different sides but it is the paramilitary forces fighting against the national army. it has not commented on this

issue but they issued a statement to say that it conducted a -- attacks near the village, targeting positions held by the military and said they killed eight soldiers. >> donald trump is holding his first campaign event since his historic conviction in the new york trial last week. the former president speaking at a town hall style meeting at a mega-church in phoenix, arizona organized by conservative youth group. he won the swing state in 2016 but narrowly lost in 2020. and the current campaign in arizona, mr. trump holds a nearly five lead over president biden, according to the latest polling average. it shows his conviction for falsifying business records appears to have had little effect on voter opinions. let's correct our correspondent, following the latest at that rally. -- let's go right to our correspondent, following the latest at that rally.

we mentioned donald trump is leading joe biden in that state. tell us more about what the president has been saying and why this is significant. >> donald trump took to the stage a few minutes ago and started off by paying tribute to everyone who has come out to support him. you'll be surprised to hear he talked about what he called a rigged trial in new york. why arizona, such an important state, it is a key battleground, won by trump in 2016, narrowly taken by joe biden in 2020. the term campaign knows it is a must win state. it is also a very important state because a number of talking points in the election converge here. arizona is a border state. immigration is such a hot topic. everything donald trump has to say about that subject is going to go down very well with this crowd today. also in arizona, abortion has been such a contentious subject, a matter of a huge local battle

between republicans and democrats in the local legislature here. there is an awful lot going on in arizona. it is a tossup state in this election and a must win state for the eventual presidential winner. >> we see a lot of supporters on hand. what have they been seeing? what impact if any has the conviction in the trial had on how they see the former president? >> before you can ask that question, when you look around in this room, people have been holding up placards saying never surrender, showing pictures of trump's mugshot, it is seen as a badge of honor. anyone you ask will tell you they see it as a sham trial and a politically motivated trial but away from an event like this, it is the swing voters in arizona who may decide the eventual outcome of november's election.

earlier today, away from this event i was speaking to people and there seems to be a lot of apathy about joe biden and donald trump. we know polls indicate this is an unpopular rematch for a lot of people. people saying to me this morning that they voted their whole lives and don't know if they are going to even turn out this election, because of that unpopular rematch. once again we are seeing evidence that it may be whichever side who is more successful in getting the vote out who decides the outcome of this election. >> reporting from arizona, thank you so much. fourth time is the charm for spacex as their starship rocket made its first successful splashdown in the indian ocean. it comes after three previous failed test flights, the last of which went up in flames. after launching from texas, the booster was brought down to earth to hover just above the water in the gulf of mexico. the team wanted to show that the spacecraft could return to

earth, meaning it can be used again. congratulations to that team. here we are seeing steve bannon. this is donald trump's former top advisor. he's been ordered to report to prison by the first of july to survey four month sentence for contempt of congress. he was convicted in 2022 for failing to testify before a congressional panel that investigated the january 6 insurrection at the capitol building by the former president's supporters. lawyers have promised to appeal the decision. you can find more on that story on our website, bbc.com/news, also on our app. for the latest, don't forget you can get the latest on social media. thank you for watching world news america. ♪ announcer: funding for presentation of this program is provided by...

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amna: good evening. i'm amna nawaz. geoff: and i'm geoff bennett. on the “newshour” tonight, 80 years after the allied invasion, world leaders converge on the beaches of normandy to mark the anniversary of d-day. amna: dozens are killed by an israeli strike on a united nations' school building in gaza as hamas rejects the latest