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I'm David Enders, and this is The Take.

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We are coming to you on Sundays

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with weekly roundups as Israel's war in

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Gaza continues. The

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World Food Program said northern

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Gaza is now experiencing full-blown

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famine. Ceasefire talks

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were continuing. Protests at

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U.S. universities continued as graduation

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ceremonies began. Gaza's

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largest university is completely

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destroyed. Today is Sunday, May

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5. It

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is day 212 of the war. More

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than 34,600 Palestinians in Gaza have been killed. What

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I can explain to you is that

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there is full-blown famine in the north,

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and it's moving its way south. That's

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Cindy McCain, the director of the World

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Food Program, speaking to NBC News earlier

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this week. In the central

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Gaza city of Deir al-Bala, reporter

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Hindal Khodri said on Sunday that

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the Israeli military, which controls all

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aid entering Gaza, continued to prevent

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sufficient supplies from being distributed. The

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Israeli forces are challenging them

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with putting them coordination, giving

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them green lights to enter,

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and it's not enough.

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They need full access,

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and they need continuous

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and safe access to

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be able to deliver as much

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food as they can to different

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parts of the northern Gaza Strip.

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In Cairo, mediators continued to seek an

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agreement between Hamas and Israel to end

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the fighting, though major sticking

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points remain. Al Jazeera's

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Hamda Salhut filed this report on

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Saturday from Tel Aviv. What

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we know from Israeli officials is that

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they have not yet sent a delegation

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to Cairo and said that they're not

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going to send one until they think

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there is significant progress in

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ceasefire talks with Hamas. Now,

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while these negotiations are ongoing with

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mediators, Hamas did in fact send

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their own team to the Egyptian

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capital. And while mediators

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like the United States are trying

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to remain optimistic, there are still

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major sticking points from both sides.

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Now, Anonymous is really official. Speaking

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to media have said that under no

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circumstances will there be an end

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to the war. And that's

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something that Hamas has been asking for since

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the beginning of these negotiations that

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go back months. Investigators

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from the International Criminal Court have

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interviewed doctors at two Gaza hospitals

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where mass graves were discovered after

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Israeli forces occupied the hospitals and

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then withdrew. Here's

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Al Jazeera's Hanim Hmud. Prosecutors

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from International Criminal Court are investigating

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whether these mass graves are evidence

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of a war crime. They

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have interviewed staff from Gaza, Shifa

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and Nasser hospitals. Rescue

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workers have exhumed more than 400 bodies

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within hospital grounds and say some

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people may have been buried alive

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or executed. The

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class of 2024 has carried a

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heavy burden down a hard road.

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Their education has been paused for the

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pandemic, moved to virtual classrooms and now

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this. Protests and arrests

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continued this week at universities across

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the United States. Al

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Jazeera's John Hendren reported from the

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University of Michigan, which held its

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spring commencement on Saturday. Protests

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have already caused some universities to

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cancel graduation ceremonies. For some graduates,

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like this Palestinian American who's lost

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family in Gaza, the protests go

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on even as they don cap

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and gown. It feels as

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though it is the only thing that I can do.

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I cannot operate as business as usual.

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I cannot. engage in anything

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celebratory because we have all been

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under such immense grief for

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the last seven months. To

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university professors, the protests at graduation

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are a learning opportunity for post-pandemic

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students. And it's usually ironic

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that in other institutions, thus

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far not here, but in other institutions,

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university administrators have taken it upon

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themselves with very little reason to

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shut down students' voices, to arrest

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and detain and break up in

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cabinets that has served the purpose

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really of enlivening campus debate as

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opposed to closing it down. In

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Gaza on Thursday, the Israeli

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military completed its demolition of

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Al-Azhar University, Gaza's largest. Here's

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Hindal Khudri again. The

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Israeli forces not only bombed

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and destruct Al-Azhar University, but

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also it deprived hundreds of

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thousands of students currently studying

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in this university

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from education. Thousands have

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been killed, thousands of

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students, thousands of others have been

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injured, and also the teachers in

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this university have been killed.

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And it's not only that students

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do not know how they will continue

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their educational journey even

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after this ends. And

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that's the take for Sunday, May 5.

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Please join us again tomorrow. This

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episode was produced and mixed by me,

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David Enders. Our sound designer

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is Alex Roldan. Alexandra

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Locke is the takes executive producer

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and Ne Alverez is Al Jazeera's

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head of audio.