THE WAR ROOM: There’s a lot of depressing news today, but some days are like that.

  An Israeli airstrike on a tent camp in the Rafah area of Gaza killed at least 45 people, the Gaza Health Ministry said. 

  The Israeli military said it had been using “precise munitions” aimed at a Hamas compound. The IDF said that they had killed two Hamas leaders and that they were looking into reports that “several civilians in the area were harmed” by the strike and a subsequent fire. 

  This is not an uncommon story and the American military has done it as well, declaring that they know exactly how many enemy they killed but they don’t know the exact number of civilians killed in the process.

  Also yesterday, Hamas launched rockets at central Israel for the first time since late January, revealing offensive power despite devastating losses in seven months of war with Israel.

BOOED AND CHEERED: Donald Trump was booed speaking Saturday night at the Libertarian National Convention when he suggested that they nominate him as their candidate for president, then he mocked the audience after their response.

  “Only do that if you want to win,” he said of the Libertarians nominating him. “If you want to lose, don’t do that. Keep getting your three percent every four years.” The crowd then booed even louder.

  The audience included people wearing red MAGA hats chanting “We want Trump,” which resulted in shouting back and forth between the Trumpies and Libertarians.

  Trump has some things in common with the Libertarians, including an opposition to taxes and the power of regulatory agencies. He also promised to commute the life sentence of Ross Ulbricht, the founder of the underground narcotics-market website Silk Road, who was sentenced to life in prison in 2015. Libertarians have been demanding his release.

  The party ultimately skipped over Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to pick as their candidate Chase Oliver, an openly gay former Democrat who once ran for the Senate from Georgia.

FATAL WEATHER: A tornado in northern Texas on Saturday killed at least seven people, including two children ages 2 and 5, and injuring another 100 people. The storm destroyed 200 homes and structures.

  In all, at least 15 people were killed over the weekend as powerful storms and tornadoes rupped through parts of Texas, Kentucky, Oklahoma, and Arkansas on Saturday night. About 600,000 thousands residents were left without power in 13 states.

LANDSLIDE: As many as 2,000 people were killed Friday in a landslide in Papua, New Guinea. The landslide hit in a rural area of the island country and responders were having a hard time reaching the scene of the disaster. 

  The ground remained unstable as people searched for possible survivors and bodies using spades and pitchforks. Rocks and dirt were still falling and the land was being undermined by running water.

PEAK SEASON: The annual traffic jam has collected under the summit of Mt. Everest with five climbers dead and three missing so far this season. Videos show the line of climbers separated by as little as a foot for their moment at the top despite fewer climbing permits being issued this year. One day there was a backup of 150 climbers.

  Changing climate and the increasing number of less experienced climbers has made the expedition more dangerous.

  Last year alone a record 18 climbers died. As many as 300 people are known to have died on Everest over the years and roughly 200 bodies are still up there. Climbers step over or near the frozen carcasses. 

THE OBIT PAGE: Richard Sherman, who with his older brother Robert wrote the lasting Disney movie songs “A Spoonful of Sugar,” “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious,” and the ubiquitous “It’s a Small World (After All),” died on Saturday in Beverly Hills, Calif. He was 95.

  The brothers won two Oscars and two Grammys.

  “Small World” was written for a Disney theme park ride. Like others of the Sherman songs, it can be a pleasure or an ear worm. Sherman once said, “People want to kiss us or kill us.”     

THE SPIN RACK: Venezuela has lost all of its glaciers, becoming the first country with territory in the Andes to become glacierless. Alejandra Melfo, an astrophysicist at the Universidad de los Andes in Mérida, said in an interview with Noticias Telemundo that, “It is a great sadness and the only thing we can do is use their legacy to show children how beautiful our Sierra Nevada was.” — The family of two-time PGA golf winner Grayson Murray revealed that he died by suicide Saturday at age 30. Murray had admitted struggling with depression and alcohol. He was engaged to be married. — Former “General Hospital” actor Johnny Wactor was shot dead in in downtown Los Angeles early Saturday morning when he and a friend came upon three masked thieves trying to steal the catalytic converter from under his car. Police said the 37-year-old Wactor had not put up resistance but he was shot anyway.

BELOW THE FOLD: Stock in Cracker Barrel took a dive after the company’s CEO admitted that the Southern country restaurant chain isn’t as “relevant” as it once was. The chain is hiring an industrial engineering firm to advise on kitchen processes which no doubt will improve the food.

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