Gaza’s humanitarian catastrophe has deepened following a weekend of Israeli attacks that killed scores of Palestinian civilians, including children. In just one of the attacks, an Israeli strike on a school turned shelter in Gaza City killed 36 people as they slept; dozens of others were wounded, many with burns. Video of the aftermath shows the silhouette of a 7-year-old girl rushing to escape the flames; her mother and siblings were killed in the attack. Survivors described a horrific scene.

Farah Nussair: “An indescribable sight: body parts, charred people, the smell of sulfur, the smell of charring. I swear to God, our hearts have died. This is how we are shaken. Our nerves are damaged. We’re exhausted. We’re tired. By God, we’re tired. Enough.”

Separately, Dr. Alaa al-Najjar, a pediatrician at Nasser Medical Complex in southern Gaza, saw nine of her 10 children killed or buried under the rubble of her family’s home in an Israeli airstrike. Only one of her children survived; 11-year-old Adam was left hospitalized along with Dr. al-Najjar’s husband, who’s also a doctor. We’ll have more on this story after headlines.

On Monday, a nonprofit group backed by Israel and the United States began distributing limited amounts of aid in Gaza, despite objections from the United Nations, which says the mission could force the further displacement of Palestinians and likely violates international humanitarian law. Other aid agencies, including Mercy Corps and Save the Children, have distanced themselves from the NGO, known as the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. It began operations just hours after its executive director, Jake Wood, announced his resignation. Wood wrote a statement calling for Israel to allow more aid into Gaza, adding, “It is clear that it is not possible to implement this plan while also strictly adhering to the humanitarian principles of humanity, neutrality, impartiality, and independence, which I will not abandon.”

On Sunday, Israel’s military announced plans to capture 75% of the Gaza Strip within two months and to force Palestinian civilians into just a quarter of Gaza’s territory. The announcement came as U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem visited Jerusalem and toured Gaza’s border with members of Israel’s army.

Russia fired a massive wave of drones and missiles at Ukraine overnight, killing at least six people. This follows a weekend of deadly Russian attacks that killed at least 14 civilians. Children were among the dead, including three siblings killed in a Russian strike on a home in northwestern Ukraine. Both parents were hospitalized, their mother with severe injuries. In Kyiv, at least eight people were injured when falling debris from intercepted drones crashed into neighborhoods. This resident survived a fire triggered by the attacks.

Olha Chyrukha: “Putin doesn’t want to end the war. I wish they’d agree to a ceasefire. To bomb people like this… Poor children! My 3-year-old granddaughter was screaming from terror. Of course, I wish for the Russians to accept the ceasefire, but Putin doesn’t want it. I hope he dies.”

Russia’s wave of attacks followed hundreds of Ukrainian drone strikes over several days on targets inside Russia, including the capital Moscow. Meanwhile, Russia and Ukraine completed a deal Sunday to exchange 1,000 prisoners each. It was the largest prisoner swap since Russia invaded Ukraine over three years ago. Here in the U.S., President Trump used his social media platform to criticize Russian leader Vladimir Putin, writing he had “gone absolutely crazy.” Reporters later asked him about the comments.

President Donald Trump: “And I don’t know what the hell happened to Putin. I’ve known him a long time, always gotten along with him. But he’s sending rockets into cities and killing people, and I don’t like it at all.”

Trump also lashed out at Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky for criticizing the White House after it pulled back U.S. support for Ukraine. Trump wrote that Zelensky “is doing his Country no favors by talking the way he does. Everything out of his mouth causes problems, I don’t like it, and it better stop.”

Meanwhile, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said Germany and its allies will no longer impose limits on long-range weapons supplied to Ukraine.

Immigration rights advocates around the U.S. are raising alarm over the Trump administration’s arrest of dozens of people, including families with children, at U.S. immigration courts nationwide. Reports have emerged of federal immigration agents ambushing and detaining people at federal buildings in cities including Phoenix, Arizona; Miami; Seattle; New York; Chicago; Los Angeles, and across Northern California and Texas. Trump policies now allow ICE agents to make arrests at public schools, hospitals, places of worship and other sites that were once off limits.

Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts temporarily halted a lower court order directing Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency to turn over documents as part of a Freedom of Information Act request. The Justice Department argued DOGE is not a federal agency and therefore cannot be subject to the FOIA request, which came from the accountability group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, or CREW. This comes as Musk says he’s returned to working “24/7” on his companies, after wreaking havoc in the federal government for the past four months. Musk also announced last week he’ll do a “lot less” political spending going forward.

The Trump administration told a federal judge Friday it had reached an agreement with Boeing to drop criminal prosecutions over the fatal crashes of two 737 MAX jets in 2018 and '19, which together killed 346 people. Under the deal, Boeing would pay $1.1 billion in fines and investments, including to a crash victims' fund. A lawyer for the families promised to urge a judge to reject the deal, saying in a statement, “This kind of non-prosecution deal is unprecedented and obviously wrong for the deadliest corporate crime in U.S. history.”

Here in New York, students from CUNY Graduate Center, Brooklyn College and Baruch College are launching an indefinite hunger strike today to protest “the Israeli-US war machine [that] continues to starve Palestinians in Gaza to death and rain bombs down upon them.” On the West Coast, Stanford University hunger strikers are entering their third week, and University of Oregon students, faculty and staff have entered the second week of their fast for Gaza. U of Oregon hunger strikers spoke from the steps of the federal courthouse in Eugene.

University of Oregon hunger striker: “The students, faculty and staff participating in this hunger strike have one primary goal. And that goal is that all who bear witness to the hunger strike that we’re participating in also bear witness to the humanity of Palestinians, who are being starved to death en masse in Gaza, and to take every action possible to stop this crime against our shared humanity.”

Students at Yale ended their hunger strike Friday after 10 days amid deteriorating health conditions among the activists.

On Monday, President Trump threatened to cancel $3 billion in federal grants to Harvard unless the university hands over personal information about international students — who make up more than a quarter of the student body. We’ll have more on President Trump’s escalating war on Harvard later in the broadcast.

In Seattle, police deployed pepper spray and arrested at least 23 people Saturday after residents came out to protest a right-wing Christian event that locals dubbed “Fascist Family Values.” The far-right religious group Mayday USA has been on tour throughout the U.S., spreading transphobic and anti-LGBTQ messages through their mass public prayer events. Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell condemned the fundamentalist rally, which he said was “inherently opposed to our city’s values, in the heart of Seattle’s most prominent LGBTQ+ neighborhood.”

Venezuela’s ruling party has claimed victory in regional and parliamentary elections that were boycotted by the opposition. Sunday’s controversial elections were seen as another victory for President Nicolás Maduro’s government, which claimed that for the first time it will have representation in the disputed region of Essequibo, which is administered by the neighboring country of Guyana and is internationally recognized as Guyanese territory. Maduro has recently intensified Venezuela’s assertion over the oil-rich region and said on Sunday that local voters had elected the first-ever governor of Venezuela’s newly created state, Guayana Esequiba. Guyana’s president has denounced this as a “threat.”

This comes as the Miami Herald reports the Trump administration is quietly negotiating a high-stakes deal with Maduro to allow Chevron to continue exporting Venezuelan oil to the U.S. in exchange for Venezuela to begin accepting deported Venezuelan immigrants.

The world-renowned Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado died Friday in Paris. He was 81 years old. Salgado won global praise for his striking black-and-white photographs depicting the environment and the plight of workers and refugees around the world. He spent decades documenting the Amazon rainforest and Indigenous communities in the region. One of his most celebrated series, taken in 1986, depicted the grueling labor conditions faced by gold mine workers in Brazil. Salgado also went on to document famine in Ethiopia, as well as Ronald Reagan’s failed assassination attempt in 1981. He also co-founded the environmental organization Instituto Terra with his wife. In 2000, Democracy Now! spoke to Sebastião Salgado during an event in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Sebastião Salgado: “You have a responsibility to tell the people what is going on. And you must show. You must provoke a debate. You must provoke a discussion, because there is so many injustices. There is so many problems of distribution of wealth. There is so many problems of security. There is so many injustices around that you must show this. And that becomes a way of life.”

Sebastião Salgado is survived by his wife, two sons and two grandchildren. His family said his cause of death was leukemia. Click here to see our interviews over the years with Sebastião Salgado.