Israel strikes eastern Rafah as ceasefire talks end with no deal
MONITORING (SW) – Israeli forces bombarded areas of Rafah on Thursday, Palestinian residents said, as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dismissed U.S. President Joe Biden’s threat
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Gaza war separates parents from their new born baby
GAZA STRIP (SW) – Born two months premature as war raged in Gaza, Palestinian baby Yehia Hamuda was evacuated to southern Gaza after Israeli forces raided the hospital where he was being cared for in the north.
Thousands of Israelis join anti-government protests
MONITORING (SW) – Thousands of Israeli demonstrators took to the streets on Saturday to call for new elections and demand more action from the government to bring the hostages held in Gaza home, in the latest round of protests against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Child killed or injured every 10 minutes in Israel’s war on Gaza, UN says
MONITORING (SW) – The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has warned that a Palestinian child is either killed or injured every 10 minutes in Gaza, according to data from the territory’s Ministry of Health.
At least 56 people killed, 89 injured in Gaza City in 24 hours
MONITORING (SW) – An Israeli strike on Gaza City’s Sheikh Radwan neighborhood killed at least seven people and wounded 20 others.
UN chief calls for investigations into deaths of 196 aid workers killed in Gaza
MONITORING (SW) – U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Friday called for independent investigations into the deaths of all aid workers killed in the Gaza Strip
ICJ orders Israel to halt Gaza famine; Hamas says ceasefire needed
MONITORING (SW) – The International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Thursday unanimously ordered Israel, accused by South Africa of genocide in Gaza, to take all necessary and effective action to ensure basic food supplies to the enclave’s Palestinian population and halt spreading famine.
US, EU ratchet up pressure on Israel over Gaza ceasefire
MONITORING (SW) – The United Nations Security Council is expected to vote as soon as Friday on a United States-drafted resolution calling for a ceasefire in Gaza as the European Union called for a “humanitarian pause”, adding to the pressure on Israel to end its five-month-long bombardment of the Palestinian territory.
Famine in northern Gaza is imminent as over 1 mln people face ‘catastrophic’ levels of hunger
MONITORING (SW) – Famine is imminent in northern Gaza where 70% of the population are already suffering with catastrophic levels of hunger, a UN-backed report said Monday, as the EU’s top diplomat accused Israel of using “starvation as a weapon of war.”
Israel using starvation as ‘weapon of war’, says EU foreign policy chief
MONITORING (SW) – Josep Borrell, the EU’s foreign policy chief, has said the humanitarian crisis in Gaza is “not a natural disaster” and has accused Israel of using starvation as a “weapon of war”.
Israeli strikes kill 82 people in Gaza over past day: Ministry
GAZA (SW) – Eighty-two people have been killed in 10 Israeli attacks on Palestinians in the last 24 hours, raising the total number of deaths
How Israeli shelling of Gaza turned one Palestinian girl’s life into a nightmare
Looking down to discover her right foot was attached by just a few tattered shreds of skin, 17-year-old Ahed, still in a state of shock, asked the cousin who was carrying her to confirm what she already knew. “Is my leg gone?”
