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.
Category: HUMANITARIAN CRISIS
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?”
Israel bombs mosque, hitting families sheltering nearby
Deir el-Balah, Gaza – At dawn on Saturday, Israeli aircraft bombed a mosque next to makeshift tents housing displaced people in the city of Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip.
Hamas says it will continue negotiating for ceasefire as Ramadan nears
GAZA (SW) – Hamas said on Wednesday it would continue working towards achieving a ceasefire in Gaza with Israel despite the absence of Israeli negotiators from the latest round of talks in Cairo.
UN Women calls war in Gaza “a war on women”
GAZA (SW) – UN Women, a United Nations organization dedicated to gender equality and the empowerment of women, called the war in Gaza “also a war on women.”
More than 100 killed while seeking aid in Gaza, overall death toll passes 30,000
MONITORING (SW) – Gaza health authorities said Israeli forces on Thursday shot dead more than 100 Palestinians as they waited for an aid delivery, but Israel blamed the deaths on crowds that surrounded aid trucks, saying victims had been trampled or run over.
