Israeli aggression on besieged Gaza — now in its 164th day — has killed at least 31,726 Palestinians and wounded 73,792 others as Israel’s Netanyahu rejects calls for a ceasefire.
In more than five months of war and siege, the humanitarian situation in Gaza has deteriorated to what the UN has repeatedly warned is an imminent famine. / Photo: Reuters ArchiveThe head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees said Israel had blocked him from entering the war-torn and besieged Gaza where the UN has warned of impending famine.
Lebanon called for doubling efforts to support the UN agency for Palestinian refugees amid reports of a famine in Gaza. Israel has asked the International Court of Justice not to issue emergency orders for it to step up humanitarian aid to Gaza to address a looming famine, dismissing South Africa's request to do so as"morally repugnant".
The statement pointed out that no measures to protect civilians or ensure continuous entry of aid to the region have been implemented internationally, despite the decisions of the UN and the International Court of Justice's provisional measures order to protect civilians in Gaza and secure their basic needs.
Ted Chaiban stressed that one in every three children in Gaza’s north is acutely malnourished."There needs to be faster inspections at both Rafah and Kerem Shalom so that the population can get the support it needs," he said and added:"This is a deliberate squeezing of humanitarian space." "Hundreds of humanitarian trucks must access . Opening all access routes is a priority," she said in a post on X."The violence by settlers cannot go unpunished," she said and also emphasized that the EU must adopt sanctions against the settlers' violence in the West Bank, as Belgium did.1228 GMT — WHO voices concern over attack on Gaza's Al Shifa Hospital
"The occupation army severely beat Al Jazeera correspondent Ismail Al Ghoul before arresting him from inside Al Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza," Al Jazeera said in a post on X. The report stated that these conditions are now"catastrophic as a direct result of the carnage in Gaza," and that Israel has"total control" over what enters Gaza, including the timing, location, and manner in which aid is delivered and distributed.
"We are doing everything we can to achieve this, and as German Chancellor made clear in Israel this weekend, as friends of Israel we believe that the Israeli government must now finally ensure that humanitarian assistance reaches Gaza," the minister said.The head of the UN Palestinian refugee agency has said the hunger in Gaza is"man-made".
The 250th soldier was killed on Monday in what a security source said was the offensive centred on the Al Shifa hospital complex, Gaza's largest.The Israeli army has ordered residents and displaced people in the Al Rimal neighbourhood and the Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza City to evacuate immediately to the southern part of Gaza.
The talks in the Qatari capital are the first after weeks of intense negotiations involving Qatari, US and Egyptian mediators failed to secure a truce between Israel and Palestinian resistance group Hamas for the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, which began last week.Israel is provoking famine in Gaza and using starvation as a weapon of war, the EU's foreign policy Chief Josep Borrell has said.
The ministry in a statement said a fire broke out at the entrance, pointing there were women and children taking shelter in the hospital who were affected by the smoke. Qatari Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani met with his UAE counterpart Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan in the capital Doha, Qatar News Agency reported.
The Israeli army allowed nine trucks carrying humanitarian aid to enter northern Gaza including Jabalia, Beit Hanoun and Beit Lahiya, sources told Anadolu Agency.
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