Gaza, Humanitarian aid
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People in the Gaza Strip are getting hungrier because of the “very limited” volume of food being allowed in, UN aid agencies reiterated on Wednesday.
Multiple aid workers were killed after a bus was attacked in Gaza on Wednesday night, according to a US-backed humanitarian aid organization which accused Hamas of carrying out the assault.
Dr. Victoria Rose, a London-based consultant plastic surgeon, spent the month of May operating on the wounded in the war-torn Gaza Strip.
The worsening humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip has reached “unprecedented levels of despair,” the UN said on Monday, amid more reports of people being killed and injured near newly-established distribution sites.
Humanity is failing in Gaza, warned Mirjana Spoljaric, president of the International Committee of the Red Cross, according to whom it is becoming unbearable to watch the suffering of the people unfold daily in the war-torn Palestinian region.
What is happening today in Gaza is a suffering that is intolerable, even for those who have always defended the existence of Israel,' says Francois Bayrou - Anadolu Ajansı
Israel's foreign ministry has branded it a "selfie yacht", while Thunberg says she has been "kidnapped" after Israeli forces boarded the vessel.
India abstained from a UNGA vote demanding an immediate Gaza ceasefire. Despite supporting humanitarian aid, India continues its abstention pattern on Israel-Palestine resolutions.
In a disturbing turn of events, new footage has emerged showing Hamas operatives executing Gazan civilians accused of stealing humanitarian aid. The videos, which have been circulating on social media,
Greta Thunberg has been deported from Israel after the humanitarian aid ship she was aboard was intercepted by the Israeli military and towed to the port city of Ashdod.
IDS Honorary Associate and former UN Humanitarian Chief Martin Griffiths described the situation in Gaza as genocide. Alongside IDS Research Fellow Philip Proudfoot, here he calls for a decisive realignment of humanitarian law and humanitarian action to halt genocide and other atrocities in Gaza.