Israel-Hamas war latest: Israel says it killed one of Hezbollah's commanders in Beirut strike

Israel struck the Lebanese capital of Beirut on Tuesday and said it killed the militant commander allegedly behind a rocket strike that killed 12 youths. The attack on a Beirut apartment building left at least three others killed and dozens wounded. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had vowed heavy retaliation against Hezbollah for Saturday's strike, though Hezbollah has denied any role in the attack.

Meanwhile, tensions remained high in Israel as soldiers appeared before a military court Tuesday over allegations of sexual abuse of a Palestinian at a facility where Israel has held prisoners from Gaza during the war.

Hard-line nationalists in Netanyahu’s government and others have protested. An investigation by The Associated Press has exposed abysmal conditions at Sde Teiman, where most of the thousands detained in Gaza have been held. Israeli authorities have generally denied abuses in detention facilities for Palestinians.

More bodies and further destruction were found after Israeli forces withdrew from parts of Khan Younis in Gaza. The territory's Health Ministry says over 39,300 people have been killed since Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel sparked the war. Some diseases run rampant in appalling conditions in overcrowded tent camps housing hundreds of thousands of Palestinians. The sanitation system has collapsed, leaving pools of sewage.

Here’s the latest:

JERUSALEM — Israel says its airstrike Tuesday on a Beirut apartment building killed the Hezbollah commander who was allegedly behind a weekend rocket attack that killed 12 young people in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights. At least three other people were killed.

Hezbollah did not immediately confirm the commander’s death. The Israeli strike killed a woman and two children and wounded dozens of other people in escalating hostilities with the Lebanese militant group.

An Israeli official said the target was Fouad Shukur, a top Hezbollah military commander whom the U.S. blames for planning and launching the deadly 1983 Marine bombing in the Lebanese capital. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the details of the strike with the media. Shukur is also suspected in other strikes that killed Israeli civilians.

Lebanon’s public health ministry said Tuesday’s strike in a southern suburb of Beirut wounded 74 people, some of them seriously.

ATLANTA — Vice President Kamala Harris says she “unequivocally” supports Israel’s right to defend itself hours after Israel's air strike on a Beirut apartment building. Israel has said the strike was aimed at a Hezbollah commander allegedly behind the deaths of 12 youths in a weekend rocket attack on the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights.

Harris, the likely Democratic presidential nominee, said “I unequivocally support Israel’s right to remain secure and to defend the security of Israel.”

“What we know, in particular, is it has the right to defend itself against the terrorist organization, which is exactly what Hezbollah is,” she added.

Speaking to reporters as she arrived in Atlanta ahead of a campaign rally, Harris added that “we still must work on a diplomatic solution to end these attacks, and we will continue to do that work.”

BAGHDAD — A strike near a base of an Iran-backed Iraqi militia southwest of Baghdad killed at least one militant and wounded two others, two militants familiar with the incident told The Associated Press.

The attack comes days after an umbrella group of Iran-backed Iraqi militias dubbed “the Islamic Resistance” resumed rocket attacks on U.S. military bases in the country and in eastern Syria.

The militants spoke about the attack on Jurf al-Sakher on condition of anonymity in line with regulations.

The attack came hours after Israel said it launched a strike in a southern Beirut suburb in Lebanon targeting a Hezbollah militant commander.

The United States has claimed responsibility for strikes targeting Iran-backed militia groups in Iraq, but has not immediately commented on the matter.

Associated Press writer Kareem Chehayeb contributed to this report.

Israel's rocket strike on a Beirut apartment building Tuesday killed one person and wounded 68 others, including five who are in critical condition, Lebanon’s public health ministry said.

The Israeli military said the strike was aimed at the Hezbollah commander allegedly behind the deaths of 12 youths in a weekend rocket attack on the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights, as well as the deaths of numerous Israeli civilians hit in other strikes. It was not immediately clear if the intended target of Tuesday’s strike was hit.

Hezbollah’s Al-Manar TV said 17 wounded were taken to the private Bahman Hospital, while 14 were taken to Hezbollah’s Rasoul Aazam hospital.

“The Israeli enemy has committed a great stupid act in size, timing and circumstances by targeting an entirely civilian area,” Hezbollah official Ali Ammar told Al-Manar TV. “The Israeli enemy will pay a price for this sooner or later.”

Lebanese caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati condemned the Israeli attack, saying it hit a few meters from one of the largest hospitals in the capital.

BEIRUT — Israel's rocket strike on Beirut hit an apartment building next to a hospital, collapsing half of the targeted building. The hospital sustained minor damage, while the surrounding streets were littered with debris and broken glass. Paramedics could be seen carrying several injured people out of the damaged buildings.

A forklift was in the middle of the street, reaching to the top floors of the destroyed building, while utility crews removed fallen power lines. Crowds gathered to inspect the damages and check on their families. Some of them chanted in support of Hezbollah.

A resident of the suburb whose home is about 200 meters (220 yards) away said that dust from the explosion “covered everything,” and that the glass in his son’s apartment was broken.

“Then people went down on the streets,” he said. “Everyone has family. They went to check on them. It was a lot of destruction.” He spoke on condition of anonymity out of concerns about his security at a tense moment.

Associated Press writer Sarah El Deeb contributed to this report from Beirut.

JERUSALEM — The World Health Organization said it evacuated 85 “sick and severely injured” Palestinians from war-ravaged Gaza to the United Arab Emirates on Tuesday.

The U.N. health agency said the evacuation, which was coordinated with the UAE government, included 50 adults and 35 children, all of whom were transported across Kerem Shalom crossing and into Israel. They then departed the country from Ramon Airport in Israel’s deep south.

Of the 85 evacuees, 53 were cancer patients while an additional 63 family members and companions accompanied them.

Some 5,000 people have been evacuated outside of the war-stricken enclave for treatment since the breakout of the war, with over 80% receiving care in Egypt, Qatar and the UAE, the U.N. agency said.

Rafah crossing, which connects Gaza and Egypt, had been the main exit point for Palestinians leaving the war-stricken enclave and entry point for humanitarian aid, but has not been operational since Israel launched its ground offensive on areas of the southern city in early May.

“We hope this paves the way for the establishment of evacuation corridors via all possible routes, including the Kerem Shalom and Rafah crossings to Egypt and Jordan, and from there to other countries,” said Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General.

BEIRUT — Israel's rocket strike on a Beirut suburb Tuesday killed at least one person, according to Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency.

The news outlet reported that the strike, carried out with a drone that launched three rockets, killed one woman and wounded several other people, some of them seriously. The wounded were taken to nearby hospitals. Bahman Hospital near the site of the blast called on people to donate blood.

The Israeli military said the strike targeted the Hezbollah commander allegedly behind the deaths of 12 children and teens in a weekend rocket attack on the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights, as well as the deaths of numerous Israeli civilians hit in other strikes.

The airstrike on Beirut’s southern suburb of Haret Hreik damaged several buildings, but it was not immediately clear if any Hezbollah official was hit.

WASHINGTON — Brett McGurk, the White House coordinator for the Middle East and North Africa, arrived in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday amid heightened anxiety in the U.S. about the escalating tensions on the Israel-Lebanon border.

McGurk is leading a senior-level group of administration officials that includes representatives from the State Department and Pentagon for the talks, according to a U.S. official who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the travels that the administration hadn’t formally announced.

McGurk has shuttled regularly between Washington and Middle East capitals since Hamas launched the Oct. 7 attack on Israel spurring the war in Gaza.

The latest visit comes after Israel had launched retaliatory strikes earlier this month against Houthi rebels in Yemen carried out a drone attack on Tel Aviv.

Yemen has been engulfed in civil war since 2014, when the Houthis seized much of northern Yemen and forced the internationally recognized government to flee from Sanaa. A Saudi-led coalition intervened the following year in support of government forces, and in time the conflict turned into a proxy war between Saudi Arabia and Iran.

McGurk is expected to travel on to Cairo for talks with Egyptian officials on the increasingly complicated situation and ongoing efforts to seal a U.S-backed cease-fire and hostage deal aimed at freeing remaining captives being held by Hamas in Gaza.

Associated Press writer Aamer Madhani contributed to this report from Washington.

JERUSALEM — The Israeli military said Tuesday it carried out a strike on Beirut targeting the militant commander allegedly behind the deaths of 12 children and teens in a rocket attack on the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights over the weekend.

Israel has blamed the rocket attack on the Hezbollah militant group, which has denied any role in the attack

A Hezbollah official and the group’s TV station said that an Israeli airstrike hit Hezbollah’s stronghold south of Beirut on Tuesday evening, causing damage.

The airstrike on Beirut’s southern suburb of Haret Hreik damaged several buildings but it was not immediately clear if any Hezbollah official was targeted, the Hezbollah official said on condition of anonymity in line with regulations.

UNITED NATIONS — A senior United Nations official on Tuesday appealed for the reopening of land crossings into the Gaza Strip and removing crippling restrictions on the delivery of aid to avert a humanitarian catastrophe in the war-torn Palestinian enclave.

Corinne Fleischer, regional director of the World Food Program, said her agency has become unable to provide food rations in the strip since it doesn’t have enough food inside Gaza.

“Right now the biggest challenge is we don’t have enough crossing points to bring the food in,” she told The Associated Press in Cairo. “We need road access. We need the Rafah (crossing) to open again. We need Kerem Shalom to work better. We need law and order.”

The Rafah crossing, which had been the main entry point for humanitarian aid, was closed early in May after Israel’s military took over the crossing’s Palestinian side as part of its ground assault on Gaza’s southernmost city of Rafah.

Fleisher’s comments came a month after the leading international authority on the severity of hunger crises warned that Gaza remains at “high risk” of famine after Israel’s offensive in Rafah caused displacement and the disruption of aid operations in the south.

She spoke after returning Monday from a seven-day trip to Gaza, where she witnessed mass destruction, including homes, health centers and food processing plants that had been leveled.

The WFP has scaled up its operations, providing 420,000 meals every day and helping 13 bakeries across the strip.

But there is an urgent need to bring food in, Fleischer said.

“We are not where we should be to sustain that and to scale that,” she said.

KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip — Hundreds of Palestinians have returned to eastern districts of Khan Younis in southern Gaza after Israeli troops withdrew from the area following a weeks-long offensive. They are searching wrecked homes and looking for a place to stay.

Families with few possessions straggled down the dirt roads. One school was gutted. Another building was recognizable as a mosque only from its surviving dome. Emergency workers recovered the bodies of 22 people.

Residents fled in early July after the Israeli military issued evacuation orders ahead of an assault it said was targeting Hamas militants launching attacks. The military said it killed dozens of Hamas militants and destroyed tunnels.

Rizq Abu Rouk returned to find his family's tent destroyed along with the few possessions they took from their original home. “We’ve collapsed, physically and mentally. It’s enough,” he said. “If the decision of war or peace were in our hands, we would choose peace forever.”

TEL AVIV, Israel — Israeli authorities say a man is dead after a rocket from Lebanon hit a kibbutz in the country’s north. The death comes days after 12 Druze children and teens were killed when a rocket from Lebanon hit a soccer field in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights. Israel blamed Hezbollah for the strike, but the militant group denied a role.

Israeli emergency medical service Magen David Adom says the man died after sustaining shrapnel wounds.

The Israeli military says about 10 projectiles crossed into Israel from Lebanon, most of them intercepted. Hezbollah said it attacked an army barracks in retaliation for Israeli airstrikes near the southern Lebanese village of Jibsheet that injured several people.

The attacks threaten to push Israel and Hezbollah toward all-out war after months of low-level cross-border fighting that began soon after Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7. The fighting has killed more than 500 people, including 90 civilians, in Lebanon. On the Israeli side, 22 soldiers and 25 civilians have been killed.

Hospital officials say emergency workers in Gaza have recovered the bodies of 22 Palestinians found in eastern parts of Khan Younis city after Israeli troops withdrew from the area following a weeks-long offensive.

It is not clear when they were killed. Workers have often found bodies in rubble or on the streets after Israeli offensives. Another seven people were killed by Israeli airstrikes in Khan Younis late Monday and early Tuesday, according to officials at Nasser Hospital, where the bodies were brought.

In central Gaza, Israeli bombardment of the Bureij refugee camp killed at least nine people, according to hospital authorities. Seven of the dead were killed in an airstrike on a residential building, Awda hospital said. As residents were transferring the bodies, Israeli forces opened fire on the vehicle close to the Salahuddin road, killing two, it said.

The Israeli military says it completed operational activity in the area of Khan Younis and was conducting targeted raids in central Gaza.

JERUSALEM — Nine Israeli soldiers are due to appear before a military court for an initial hearing Tuesday on what a defense lawyer says are allegations of sexual abuse of a Palestinian at a shadowy facility where Israel has held prisoners from Gaza during the war.

The investigation into the soldiers stoked tensions between the military command and hard-line nationalists in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government who advocate even harsher treatment in Israel’s conduct of the 10-month-old war in Gaza.

The soldiers’ detention Monday triggered protests by supporters demanding their release, including members of parliament and at least two government ministers. Several hundred broke into the facility in southern Israel, known as Sde Teiman, and then into the military base where the soldiers were held.

Defense lawyer Nati Rom, who represents three of the soldiers, did not elaborate on the nature of the alleged sexual abuse and said they were innocent. The military has said only it was looking into allegations of “substantial abuse.”

JERUSALEM — A report from the United Nations Development Program says there has been a collapse in the solid waste collection system in Gaza during the war.

The report found that Gaza’s two major landfills are inaccessible due to fighting, while the number of waste collection vehicles has dropped from 251 before the war to 51.

Chitose Noguchi, the deputy special representative for UNDP, said most of the destruction to Gaza’s garbage system is due to Israeli bombardment, but Israeli evacuation orders and safety restrictions have also hampered municipal workers’ ability to access landfills. The UNDP is collecting around 680 tons of garbage in Gaza each day, Noguchi said, but it has nowhere to go. Garbage trucks cannot leave the strip.

Noguchi said the pileup of garbage has fueled outbreaks of communicable diseases across the Strip.

The report also found there’s only one remaining vehicle operational to transfer medical waste in Gaza. The medical disinfection machines distributed inside hospitals by the U.N. are nearly all non-functional.

Israel’s military did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Its body in charge of humanitarian efforts in Gaza has said it’s working to improve waste collection processes and considering plans to allow more garbage trucks into Gaza.

People inspect damaged cars in the southern suburbs of Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, July 30, 2024. An Israeli airstrike hit Hezbollah's stronghold south of Beirut Tuesday evening causing damage, a Hezbollah official and the group's TV station said. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

A man inspects a destroyed building that was hit by an Israeli airstrike in the southern suburbs of Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, July 30, 2024. An Israeli airstrike hit Hezbollah's stronghold south of Beirut Tuesday evening causing damage, a Hezbollah official and the group's TV station said. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

A man removes power cables near a destroyed building that was hit by an Israeli airstrike in the southern suburbs of Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, July 30, 2024. An Israeli airstrike hit Hezbollah's stronghold south of Beirut Tuesday evening causing damage, a Hezbollah official and the group's TV station said. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

People gather near a destroyed building that was hit by an Israeli airstrike in the southern suburbs of Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, July 30, 2024. An Israeli airstrike hit Hezbollah's stronghold south of Beirut Tuesday evening causing damage, a Hezbollah official and the group's TV station said. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

People walk near the building that was hit by an Israeli airstrike in the southern suburbs of Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, July 30, 2024. An Israeli airstrike hit Hezbollah's stronghold south of Beirut Tuesday evening causing damage, a Hezbollah official and the group's TV station said. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

A man inspects a destroyed building that was hit by an Israeli airstrike in the southern suburbs of Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, July 30, 2024. An Israeli airstrike hit Hezbollah's stronghold south of Beirut Tuesday evening causing damage, a Hezbollah official and the group's TV station said. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

People inspect damaged cars in the southern suburbs of Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, July 30, 2024. An Israeli airstrike hit Hezbollah's stronghold south of Beirut Tuesday evening causing damage, a Hezbollah official and the group's TV station said. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

A general view shows a damaged building that was hit by an Israeli airstrike in the southern suburbs of Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, July 30, 2024. An Israeli airstrike hit Hezbollah's stronghold south of Beirut Tuesday evening causing damage, a Hezbollah official and the group's TV station said. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

A man inspects a destroyed building that was hit by an Israeli airstrike in the southern suburbs of Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, July 30, 2024. An Israeli airstrike hit Hezbollah's stronghold south of Beirut Tuesday evening causing damage, a Hezbollah official and the group's TV station said. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

People gather near a destroyed building that was hit by an Israeli airstrike in the southern suburbs of Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, July 30, 2024. An Israeli airstrike hit Hezbollah's stronghold south of Beirut Tuesday evening causing damage, a Hezbollah official and the group's TV station said. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

People wait at the arrival terminal of the Rafik Hariri International Airport in Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, July 30, 2024. Fears of an escalation in the simmering conflict between Hezbollah and Israel have prompted some airlines to cancel flights to Lebanon, but business appeared to be proceeding as usual Tuesday at the Beirut airport, where many travelers greeted the warnings with a shrug. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Palestinian Manar al-Hessi, who was displaced by the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip, sits next to her children, at a makeshift tent camp in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, Monday, July 29, 2024. Skin diseases are running rampant in Gaza, health officials say, from appalling conditions in overcrowded tent camps housing hundreds of thousands of Palestinians driven from their homes. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana )

Photos of the12 children and teens, killed in a rocket strike at a soccer field, and chairs with their names are seen displayed on a roundabout in the village of Majdal Shams, in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights, Tuesday, July 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

On a scorching day in June 2013, the Grand Canyon discouraged hikers from making a long trek to the bottom because there would be no potable water. A set of historic cabins and bunks also would be closed overnight because of a water pipeline break.

The incident was one of more than 85 breaks that the 12.5-mile (20-kilometer) long Transcanyon Waterline, which supplies potable water to the Grand Canyon's South Rim and inner canyon, has experienced since 2010. Finished in 1970, the pipeline has long exceeded its 30-year design life, disrupting operations at one of the most popular U.S. national parks.

The pipeline has remained a leaky, flimsy albeit vital piece of infrastructure for millions of visitors. This year, after multiple breaks, officials imposed water restrictions and canceled overnight stays at busy hotels, upending some summer vacations over Labor Day weekend.

A long-term fix is expected by roughly 2027, but it's taken decades to get to that point. The lengthy timeline is due to a complex design process and the challenge of funding expensive projects at the National Park Service, which struggles under mountains of overdue maintenance, according to experts who know its history.

“It just takes awhile for something this big,” said Robert Parrish, chief of planning, environment and projects at Grand Canyon National Park, adding that it’s not just the park service — utilities can take 10 to 15 years to start building big projects.

Recent stays at El Tovar Hotel, Bright Angel Lodge and other hotels on the canyon's South Rim were halted for roughly a week as officials rushed to patch up four breaks in the water line.

The Transcanyon pipeline twists and turns over the canyon's rugged terrain. For years, the park service repaired pipeline failures from rock falls, freezes, flash floods and other causes on an ad hoc basis, Parrish said. One 2015 estimate said over roughly the previous three decades, the pipeline suffered five to 30 breaks per year. Those cost on average about $25,000 each.

It isn't like fixing most pipelines, according to Dan Cockrum, chief of maintenance and engineering at the park for nearly a decade until 1993.

Helicopters had to shuttle workers to the leak. They would measure the damaged pipe's thickness and bend, return to the rim and craft a replacement piece, then head back down to install the new section, he recalled.

Leaks happened a few times a year. Around when Cockrum left that job, engineers studied replacing the entire thing or its most vulnerable portions, because it was suffering stress fractures and corrosion and was near the end of its useful life. But the plan for a major fix wasn't adopted.

“When you have inadequate resources it comes down to sort of a triage approach," said Ernie Atencio, Southwest regional director with the National Parks Conservation Association and a former Grand Canyon ranger. "You do the best you can for as long as you can. And sometimes things will blow up on you.”

In the short term, a piecemeal approach may have made economic sense. A few repairs a year were significantly cheaper than the tens of millions of dollars for a replacement project, according to Greg MacGregor, chief of the project management team at the park from 2006 to 2017.

That thinking shifted toward a permanent solution in the early 2010s, Parrish said.

"Instead of looking at a large number of small repair projects, the teams really transitioned to ‘how do we look at making an overall replacement of the entire system?’” he said.

MacGregor remembers a huge brainstorm process to figure out the best option and years of analyzing how to solve the complex problem of moving scarce water up to the South Rim.

The park service has hurried to fix breaks, some bigger than others, and slowly save for a major overhaul, Parrish said, “There was too much to tackle at once."

In 2018, the National Park Service released an environmental assessment, asked for public input, then the next year officials signed off on a more comprehensive fix. The Transcanyon Waterline project will involve replacing about 3 miles (5 kilometers) of pipe inside the canyon, upgrading 3 miles (5 kilometers) of electrical supply line inside the canyon, building a water intake at a new location and updating water treatment and electrical systems.

Officials say the project will ensure the park will be able to meet its water supply needs for the next 50 years or more.

Funding was one of the biggest hurdles. The park’s maintenance backlog kept growing during MacGregor’s time, and he remembers Congress was reluctant to write a big check. The park would end up contributing from visitor fees. In 2018, fees went up in part to help pay for the pipeline.

U.S. national parks fund costly maintenance work mainly through Congress but also from donations, philanthropy and park entrance fees. Large parks like the Grand Canyon, with nearly 5 million visitors in 2023, don’t keep everything they receive from entrance fees; larger parks distribute a portion of fees to smaller parks, many of which don't charge visitors. Grand Canyon keeps 80% of its visitor fees, Parrish said.

A $208 million construction contract was awarded in 2023. Congress provided more than $70 million for the project but the bulk will come from park fees, Parrish said.

“The sheer magnitude of the scope of this project is maybe the answer to why it took so long to decide, plan and execute,” he said.

Over the years, breaks have taken a toll.

Wendy Haluda is a former baker at El Tovar Hotel where diners this spring could order a filet mignon with a demi glace for $54. After a pipeline break in 2016, water restrictions forced the restaurant to reduce dishwashing and use paper plates and plastic utensils. And Haluda recalled staff worrying about where they would go if conditions worsened to where they couldn't stay overnight at their park housing.

“It was scary,” she recalled.

Badly needed repairs, maintenance and infrastructure replacement like the Grand Canyon's pipeline are a nationwide problem. The park service has a nearly $23 billion maintenance backlog for aging infrastructure.

More than half that is for road work and maintaining buildings at national parks. The remainder is for water systems, trails, campground and infrastructure such as wastewater treatment.

The Grand Canyon has a backlog of $823 million for maintenance and repairs, mostly maintaining buildings and trails.

The Great American Outdoors Act of 2020 provided billions in additional funding, although it will expire soon if Congress doesn't renew it.

A lot of park infrastructure dates 70 years or more and upkeep has been neglected, according to Tate Watkins, a researcher at the think tank Property and Environment Research Center.

“People like cutting ribbons on new national parks,” he said. “But it’s a lot less sexy to talk about fixing sewer lines or, you know, rebuilding a water line for the Grand Canyon.”

Associated Press reporter Rio Yamat contributed from Las Vegas. Researcher Rhonda Shafner contributed from New York.

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FILE - In this undated photo provided by the National Park Service shows a water spraying from a break in an exposed section of the Grand Canyon trans-canyon waterline as a worker attempts repairs. (National Park Service via AP, File)

Guests exit Bright Angel Lodge, after visitors won't be able to stay overnight in hotels at Grand Canyon National Park beginning Thursday after a series of breaks in the only pipeline that serves the popular tourist destination, Thursday, Aug. 29, 2024, in Grand Canyon, Ariz. AP Photo/Matt York)

A group of day visitors walk past a closed water bottle tap along the Rim Trail, as visitors won't be able to stay overnight in hotels or refill water bottles at Grand Canyon National Park after a series of breaks in the only pipeline that serves the popular tourist destination, Thursday, Aug. 29, 2024, in Grand Canyon, Ariz. (AP Photo/Matt York)