Israel's war on Gaza — now in its 146th day — has killed at least 30,035 Palestinians, mostly children and women, and wounded 70,457 others.
Israel's war on Gaza — now in its 146th day — has killed at least 30,035 Palestinians, mostly children and women, and wounded 70,457 others.At least 104 Palestinians were killed and 760 others injured when Israeli forces shelled a crowd waiting for humanitarian aid south of Gaza City. / Photo: AAThe United States has fallen short of condemning Israel's brutal opening of fire on Palestinians waiting to receive aid in Gaza which killed at least 104 people.
Nizar Sadawi has the latest from Gaza on Israel's comments on its deadly attack which killed over 100 Palestinians waiting for humanitarian aidHumanitarian aid groups appealed to the European Union to release tens of millions of euros in funding due to the main UN agency that delivers most aid to people in Gaza as the organisation teeters on the brink of financial collapse.
Speaking at a meeting with representatives of Palestinian political forces in Moscow, Lavrov said the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is because of the absence of a Palestinian state. A group of right-wing Israelis blocked the entry of trucks carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza amid fears of a famine in the war-battered Palestinian enclave.
The blood of Gaza is on the hands of the US administration under President Joe Biden and members of Congress, according to an American Jewish activist and co-founder of the women-led peace group, CODEPINK. "What I have witnessed in Gaza this week is a civilian population engulfed by destruction, desperation and despair. Famine is a growing threat here, as millions of trapped people face a nightmare of violence and starvation," Jan Egeland, secretary general of the humanitarian organisation, said in a statement.
The new arrests brought the number of Palestinians detained by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank since October 7, 2023, to 7,325.Lebanese group Hezbollah and Israeli forces have exchanged cross-border fire amid growing tensions between the two sides. Tormod Endresen's remarks came during his speech at the Interactive Dialogue on the human rights situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory under the 55th session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva.
"The prospect of an Israeli ground assault on Rafah would take the nightmare being inflicted on people in Gaza into a new dimension. Over 1.5 million people are sheltering in Rafah, despite continuing bombardment, and it has become Gaza's humanitarian aid hub," Turk said. Acute shortages of food, clean water and medicine have hit Gaza, while 60 percent of the enclave's infrastructure has been damaged or destroyed, according to the UN.
A young man was shot in the abdomen during the raid and was later pronounced dead, the official news agency Wafa reported.The Health Ministry in Gaza has said that the number of people killed in the Palestinian territory in Israel's war in the enclave has surpassed 30,000.It added that the toll includes at least 79 deaths reported overnight.
He made the comments following a trip to the Rafah border crossing, the only way in or out of Gaza since Israel's war began in October.Israeli police have warned that imposing restrictions on the entry of Palestinians to Al Aqsa Mosque during the holy month of Ramadan could inflame tensions in occupied Jerusalem, local media reported.
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