Israel's war on besieged Palestinians of Gaza — now in its 154th day — has killed at least 30,878 people, mostly children and women, and wounded 72,402, as Netanyahu vows to ignore global calls against planned Rafah invasion.
Israel's war on besieged Palestinians of Gaza — now in its 154th day — has killed at least 30,878 people, mostly children and women, and wounded 72,402, as Netanyahu vows to ignore global calls against planned Rafah invasion.A general view of the Israeli settlement of Efrat in the Gush Etzion settlement block in the occupied West Bank.
Olga Cherevko, a spokeswoman for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs spoke to Anadolu about the devastation she witnessed in Gaza, where she returned during the current Israeli offensive after working there from 2014 to 2017.Medical charity Doctor Without Borders, also known by its French acronym MSF, expressed concern about the wellbeing of one of its staffers who remains in Israeli detention for three weeks.
On Tuesday, US National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said that the US is working to open up a maritime corridor to deliver humanitarian aid to the enclave, and President Joe Biden later said they would set up a floating pier off the coast of the enclave. Volker Turk said there had been a drastic acceleration in Israel's illegal settlement building in the occupied West Bank, at the same time as it wages a relentless war in the Palestinian besieged territory of Gaza.
“Army Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi has assigned Brig. Gen. Chico Tamir to formulate a plan to start a ground manoeuvre against Hezbollah,” it added. “Any crimes of gender-based violence that may h ave been committed in the context of Palestine or Israel, like in the rest of the world, should be, first of all, investigated independently and impartially,” she said.At least 78 Palestinians have been killed and 104 others injured in the last 24 hours as Israel continued its onslaught on besieged Gaza, the territory’s Health Ministry said.
Hamas welcomes US plans to build a port on Gaza's coast to get humanitarian aid in by sea. Mohammad Al-Kassim has more from occupied East Jerusalem The statement said Austin underlined the vital importance of boosting humanitarian assistance through every available means of entry and guaranteeing the secure dispensation of aid upon its arrival in Gaza.UN humanitarian officials have said that in February half of the 224 missions they planned for delivering aid to areas in Gaza where coordination with Israeli authorities is required got it and succeeded — and half did not.
US President Joe Biden has said Israel's war in besieged Gaza"has taken a greater toll on innocent civilians than all previous wars in Gaza combined," acknowledging over 30,000 Palestinians were killed in last 153 days, including thousands of women and children. Hundreds of demonstrators demanding an immediate ceasefire in the besieged Gaza unfurled a large Palestinian flag and staged a sit-in on a major roadway the president would normally use to reach the Capitol building, just minutes before he is set to address a joint session of Congress.
The statement also said that such incidents require an international investigation by international legal groups.
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