The UN agency for Palestinian refugees has slammed the Israeli regime over deliberate disruption of the aid operation in Gaza by blocking the flow of necessary aid into the war-torn territory following two years of genocide.
A UN official in Gaza says the agency for Palestinian refugees is the backbone of humanitarian action in the besieged strip and must lead response there.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has issued a stern warning amid the Israeli blockade of Gaza saying malnutrition in the besieged strip has reached a dangerous level marked by a spike in deaths.
The Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC) announced it has scheduled to launch its second vessel to Gaza in a new attempt to break the Israeli siege of the occupied territories.
At least 20 Palestinians were killed and over 120 wounded on 10 June after Israeli forces opened fire on civilians waiting for humanitarian aid near the Netzarim Corridor in central Gaza, according to medical staff at Al-Quds Hospital.
Dozens of Palestinians were killed and wounded as Israeli forces opened fire on starving Palestinian near an aid center in Rafah, southern Gaza. The following images show families mourning their loved ones killed in these attacks as bodies are prepared for burial.
The Malaysian Consultative Council of Islamic Organizations (MAPIM) has condemned, in strongest terms, a US-Israeli initiated plan for distributing aid in war-torn Gaza warning that the so-called Gaza Humanitarian Foundation is in fact buying time for the regime to annihilate Gaza.
“Six weeks of intense hostilities, combined with a complete blockage of aid for two months, have left civilians without the essentials they need to survive,” the aid group said in a statement on its website.
In a statement issued on Sunday, the Qatari Ministry of Foreign Affairs reaffirmed Qatar’s absolute rejection of using food as a weapon of war and starving civilians.
In a statement issued on Monday, the OIC stressed that these unlawful measures constitute a violation of international humanitarian law, the Fourth Geneva Convention and relevant United Nations resolutions.
Citing the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric told reporters that the percentage of humanitarian movements denied by Israeli authorities more than doubled, jumping from 7% in June to 15% in July.
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) has warned that thousands of civilians in Gaza are at the risk of imminent starvation urging for delivery of humanitarian aid into the besieged Strip.
In a joint statement, the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrell, and EU Commissioner for Crisis Management, Janez Le, warned that “the very fabric of civil society is unravelling,” and that civilians in Gaza, who are suffering from hunger, are now resorting to desperate measures to obtain the limited aid that ...