UPDATING LIVE: 'Insidious campaign' by Israel is denying live-saving aid to Gaza says UNRWA chief

UPDATING LIVE: ‘Insidious campaign’ by Israel is denying live-saving aid to Gaza says UNRWA chief

3:15 PM ‘Insidious campaign’ to end UNRWA aid operation in Gaza: Lazzarini UNRWA is the backbone of the aid effort to stop Gaza slipping into famine, Mr. Lazzarini told ambassadors, and beyond that it has championed Palestinian development for decades. “Today an insidious campaign to end UNRWA’s operations is underway, with serious implications for international…

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Gaza: No let up in deadly toll as rights chief demands end to suffering

Gaza: No let up in deadly toll as rights chief demands end to suffering

Echoing new dire assessments of the catastrophic situation in the devastated enclave, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) issued a new ceasefire call so that humanitarian relief can be brought into Gaza to help rebuild hospitals including Al Shifa, which has been “basically destroyed” after a recent Israeli incursion. “The management is trying to get the…

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Gaza: rights experts condemn AI role in destruction by Israeli military

Gaza: rights experts condemn AI role in destruction by Israeli military

“Six months into the current military offensive, more housing and civilian infrastructure has now been destroyed in Gaza as a percentage, compared to any conflict in memory,” said the experts, who included Francesca Albanese, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian Territory occupied since 1967. In a statement, the experts estimated…

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Gaza: No improvement in aid access to north, insists senior UN aid official

Gaza: No improvement in aid access to north, insists senior UN aid official

Jamie McGoldrick, the UN Humanitarian Coordinator overseeing crisis relief in Gaza, pushed back at Israeli claims that more than 1,000 trucks had entered Gaza in the last few days but only around 800 had been collected on the Palestinian side. The veteran aid official also maintained that the deconfliction system in which humanitarians shared their…

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Hope grows for UN mission to ‘flood’ Gaza with food, despite fears of imminent Rafah invasion

Hope grows for UN mission to ‘flood’ Gaza with food, despite fears of imminent Rafah invasion

That’s according to the Humanitarian Coordinator for the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Jamie McGoldrick, speaking in-depth to UN News exactly six months since hostilities began with the Hamas-led terror attack. He underlined that the entire UN aid effort is about saving lives “and nothing else.” The veteran humanitarian was speaking as the Israeli defence forces said…

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Gaza: ‘Systematic dismantling of healthcare must end’ says WHO

Gaza: ‘Systematic dismantling of healthcare must end’ says WHO

That’s the assessment following a WHO-led multi-agency mission to  Al-Shifa Hospital in northern Gaza on 5 April which examined the extent of destruction following a weeks-long Israeli offensive aimed at rooting out militant forces who were allegedly operating inside. The highly complex mission was conducted in collaboration with the acting Hospital Director. Prior to the…

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