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The Gaza Media Office reports that Israel’s 80-day blockade – involving strict border closures and aid restrictions – has resulted in approximately 330 deaths and over 300 miscarriages, describing the situation as amounting to a campaign of genocide.
Calling the hunger crisis in the war-torn territory “heart-rending,” the pope used his first general audience to highlight the issue.
Three days after Israel said it would relax its blockade of humanitarian aid to Gaza, little, if any, of the urgently needed food, fuel and medicine appeared to have reached Palestinians.
The United Nations’s humanitarian chief warned on Tuesday that up to “14,000 babies” in the besieged Gaza Strip could die “within the next 48 hours” if humanitarian aid doesn’t reach them promptly.
More than 20 countries and the EU have called on Israel to lift blockade of aid delivery into the Gaza Strip and enable the UN and humanitarian organizations to work independently and impartially.
Three more staff members of the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) were killed in the Gaza Strip, bringing the total number of staff killed to over 300, the global organization has announced.
Britain, France and Canada called the Israeli plans for escalation “disproportionate” and “egregious” at a time when the U.N. is warning the population is at risk of famine.
Members of the Co-operative Group, one of the UK’s biggest supermarket chains, have voted to remove Israeli products from its shelves over the ongoing war in the Gaza Strip.
Trucks were seen heading toward the Gazan side of the Kerem Shalom border crossing with Israel on Tuesday morning after other humanitarian help had reached the territory the previous day.
The United Nations has announced that nine trucks carrying humanitarian aid “were cleared” to enter the Gaza Strip via the Kerem Shalom crossing after Israel temporarily eased a nearly three-month blockade.