JERUSALEM DAILY: Half a million Palestinians lose food aid

A man's life brutally taken in Gaza right in front of his sister as half a million Palestinians are set to lose food aid as the World Food Programme runs out of money. And could Netanyahu sideline Smotrich over settler pogroms in the occupied West Bank? This is Jerusalem Daily with the latest news from Palestine and Israel. Israel's prime minister might have a new solution to ending settler violence in the occupied West Bank. According to Israel's Channel 13, it may be as simple as removing his finance minister from overseeing the situation. Bezalel Smotrich, who lives in an illegal settlement himself, has criticized his own government's efforts to dismantle settler outposts. But pressure has grown on Netanyahu to at least clean up the image Israel sends abroad after settlers attacked a French mayor and an American journalist. That caused an uproar among European and American officials. Of course, it didn't stop Trump from endorsing Netanyahu in Israel's election. More on that later. For Palestinians, nothing has changed, as they face more home demolitions, military raids, and settler incursions. Israeli forces raided the old city of Nablus and detained a Palestinian man. In Yabrud, masked men were filmed breaking into a home and stealing a car. In the Salfit area, settlers reportedly set fire to two Palestinian vehicles, while another video showed an overturned car. Settlers also burned olive trees, attacked Palestinian farmers, and surrounded homes in Masafer Yatta. Israel continues its relentless attacks in Gaza. In the immediate aftermath of a strike on El Jalaat Street, a Palestinian man was brutally killed, blood pooling beneath his head, as his sister looked on. Hours later, another Israeli strike hit a residential building near Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, killing two Palestinians. Footage shows Palestinians scrambling to evacuate sleeping children from the damaged building. Palestinians say that if Israeli strikes don't kill them, hunger might. The World Food Programme says it's been forced to cut monthly food assistance to 500,000 people in Gaza amid funding shortages. One Palestinian mother living in a tent with her six children says even buying flour is out of reach. That's around $3, nowhere near enough to feed a family. Now, there's just eight days to go until Israelis vote in what could be the most consequential election in the country's history. Some have been wondering why Donald Trump came out to endorse Netanyahu so forcefully. I asked Palestinian-Canadian lawyer Diana Butu what she makes of it, who was in Doha for the Global Security Forum. There's a connection between these two men, and that connection is Iran. Donald Trump believes that he can win an election by pounding Iran, so too Netanyahu has been the person who's been pushing for more than two decades for this attack to be on Iran. And Donald Trump believes that this is going to give him a lot of support. I think he's wrong. I think that we've already seen public opinion polls in the U.S. that are showing this very unpopular war. Inside Israel, however, the more that you hit another country, the more popular you become. with Al Jazeera for all the latest developments.