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May 21 - 16, 2024 <<Dozens of Palestinians killed in Israel’s attacks... and <<France backs 'independence' of ICC after prosecutor seeks arrest warrants for Israel, Hamas leaders... and <<Live: ICC trying to deny Israel's right to self-defence, says Defence Minister Gallant... and <<Women and children killed in Israeli airstrikes in Gaza, officials say - as US envoy meets with Benjamin Netanyahu... and <<Gantz threatens to quit Israeli war cabinet over postwar plans for Gaza... and <<'Bombardments intensified over the whole of Gaza Strip', says journalist Rami Abou Jammous... and <<Girl, three, with ultra-rare disease denied escape from Gaza for treatment... and <<Gaza: Starving children and adults dying the 'size of a skeleton', says World Food Programme boss... and more news but most with a 'give way or go away' yell!

May 17 - 14, 2024 <<Journalist casualties in the Israel-Gaza war... and <<'There is no safe place' in Gaza, displaced Palestinians say... and <<224th day of Israeli attacks on Gaza: Death toll rises to 35,303... and <<Live: Israel to respond to charges of genocide at UN's top court... and <<Arab League calls for deployment of UN peacekeepers in Palestinian territories... and <<'More than 15,000 children have been killed in the Gaza Strip'... and <<Palestinians mark 76 years of Nakba as Israel renews offensive... and <<Gazan woman launches initiative to support displaced children... and <<Aid for Gaza civilians 'is not charity', rather a 'legal obligation' to provide minimum vital needs... and more news but most with a 'give way or go away' yell!

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 When one hurts or kills a women
one hurts or kills hummanity and is an antrocitie.
Gino d'Artali
and: My mother (1931-1997) always said to me <Mi figlio, non esistono notizie <vecchie> perche puoi imparare qualcosa da qualsiasi notizia.> Translated: <My son, there is no such thing as so called 'old' news because you can learn something from any news.>
Gianna d'Artali.


Dozens of Palestinians killed
Jinha - Womens News Agency - May 21, 2024
<<Dozens of Palestinians killed in Israel’s attacks
Dozens of Palestinians, including children and women, were killed and injured in Israeli bombardment on various parts of the Gaza Strip in the early Tuesday morning, the Palestinian news agency WAFA reported.
News Center- Israel's attacks on the Gaza Strip continue on their 228th day. Dozens of Palestinians, including children and women, were killed and injured in Israeli bombardments on various parts of the Gaza Strip in the early Tuesday morning, the Palestinian news agency WAFA reported.
According to the WAFA, three people were killed and many others injured when Israeli warplanes targeted a house of the Al-Kahlot family in the city of Beit Lahia, northern Gaza Strip; one person was killed and others were injured as a result of a missile strike that targeted two homes belonging to the Abu Amer and Abu Tair families, in the city of Khan Yunis, southern Gaza Strip. The WAFA also reported that Israeli warplanes targeted a group of civilians behind the building of the Association for the Disabled located on the Palestinian-Egyptian border, south of Rafah, killing and injuring dozens. The Israeli warplanes also targeted the northern area of Bureij camp in the central Gaza Strip, killing and injuring dozens. 35,562 Palestinian have been killed, 79,652 others injured in the Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip since October, 7, 2023, the Gaza's health ministry said in a statement on Monday.>>
Source:
https://jinhaagency.com/en/actual/dozens-of-palestinians-killed-in-israel-s-attacks-35085?page=1

France 24 - May 21, 2024
<<France backs 'independence' of ICC after prosecutor seeks arrest warrants for Israel, Hamas leaders
France backs the International Criminal Court (ICC) and the 'fight against impunity', its foreign ministry said after the court's prosecutor sought an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, Defence Minister Yoav Gallant and three Hamas leaders. On Monday, ICC prosecutor Karim Khan said he had requested arrest warrants for Netanyahu, his Defence Minister Yoav Gallant and three Hamas leaders, including its chief, Yahya Sinwar. If such warrants are issued, however, members of the court, which includes nearly all countries of the European Union, could be put in a diplomatically difficult position. <France supports the International Criminal Court, its independence and the fight against impunity in all situations>, the foreign ministry said in a statement late on Monday. While US President Joe Biden called the legal step against Israeli officials <outrageous>, the French foreign ministry took a different stance. It reiterated both its condemnation of Hamas's 'anti-Semitic massacres' on Oct. 7 as well as its warnings over possible violations of international humanitarian law by Israel's invasion of the Gaza strip. <As far as Israel is concerned, it will be up to the court's pre-trial chamber to decide whether to issue these warrants, after examining the evidence put forward by the prosecutor ... ,> the ministry said.
'Wilful killing'
The ICC prosecutor said on Monday he had applied for arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant for crimes including <wilful killing>, <extermination and/or murder>, and <starvation> during the war in Gaza. Khan said Israel had committed <crimes against humanity>, and accused it <of a widespread and systematic attack against the Palestinian civilian population>. He also said the leaders of Palestinian militant group Hamas, including Qatar-based Ismail Haniyeh and Gaza chief Yahya Sinwar, <bear criminal responsibility> for actions committed during the October 7 attack. These included <taking hostages>, <rape and other acts of sexual violence>, and <torture>, he said. <International law and the laws of armed conflict apply to all,> Khan said. <No foot soldier, no commander, no civilian leader - no one - can act with impunity.>
(FRANCE 24 with Reuters and AFP)>>
Source:
https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20240521-france-backs-independence-of-icc-after-prosecutor-seeks-arrest-warrants-for-israel-hamas-leaders

France 24 - May 21, 2024
<<Live: ICC trying to deny Israel's right to self-defence, says Defence Minister Gallant
Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant on Tuesday described a request by the International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor for arrest warrants against him and Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu as a <disgraceful> bid to interfere in the Gaza war. US President Joe Biden echoed this sentiment on Monday, denying that Israel's war in Gaza was a genocide and slamming the <outrageous> ICC arrest warrants against Israeli leaders.
Summary:
The Biden administration has slammed a decision by the International Criminal Court (ICC) to request arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, Defence Minister Yoav Gallant, and three Hamas leaders. In a statement, the US president said, <whatever this prosecutor might imply, there is no equivalence - none - between Israel and Hamas>. Israel also condemned the decision, with Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu calling the decision a <disgrace>. Earlier, Defence Minister Yoav Gallant said the military would expand its operations in the southern Gaza city of Rafah in its efforts to defeat Hamas. France's foreign ministry meanwhile said that France supported the <independence> of the ICC and <the fight against impunity in all situations>. Israeli forces raided a militant stronghold in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, killing at least seven Palestinians, including a doctor, according to local authorities, in some of the deadliest violence in the territory since the war in the Gaza Strip erupted seven months ago. At least 35,647 Palestinians have been killed and 79,852 wounded in Israel’s war in Gaza, according to the health ministry in the Hamas-run territory. Some 1,170 people were killed in the Hamas-led October 7 attacks and 250 people were taken hostage, according to Israeli figures, with 132 still missing.>>
Watch video here:
https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20240520-%F0%9F%94%B4-live-biden-slams-icc-warrant-request-says-war-in-gaza-not-a-genocide-israel-hamas

France 24 - May 20, 2024
<<ICC prosecutor seeks arrest warrants for Netanyahu and three Hamas leaders
The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court Monday (May 20) applied for arrest warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and top Hamas leaders on suspicion of war crimes and crimes against humanity.>>
Source incl. video:
https://www.france24.com/en/video/20240520-icc-prosecutor-seeks-arrest-warrants-for-netanyahu-and-three-hamas-leaders


Over 810,000 people have fled Rafah
Jinha - Womens News Agency - May 20, 2024
<<UNRWA: Over 810,000 people have fled Rafah in the past two weeks
The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) has said it estimates more than 810,000 people fled Rafah in the past two weeks.
News Center- The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) has released a statement on X about the number of Palestinians, who have fled Rafah since May 6. Calling for an immediate ceasefire, the UNRWA said, <The exodus continues in Gaza. UNRWA estimates over 810,000 people have fled Rafah in the past two weeks. Every time families are displaced, their lives are at serious risk. People are forced to leave everything behind looking for safety. But there's no safe zone.> On May 6, the Israeli military issued an order for residents of eastern Rafah to evacuate the southern Gazan city ahead of a ground assault. On May 7, the Israeli army launched a ground operation in Rafah and took control of the Gaza Strip side of the Rafah border crossing with Egypt.>>
Source:
https://jinhaagency.com/en/actual/unrwa-over-810-000-people-have-fled-rafah-in-the-past-two-weeks-35077?page=1

Sky News - May 19, 2024
<<Women and children killed in Israeli airstrikes in Gaza, officials say - as US envoy meets with Benjamin Netanyahu
The latest bombings came as US national security adviser Jake Sullivan was set to meet with Israeli leaders for talks on Sunday. The UN has warned that just a <fraction> of health centres are still operating in the territory. Women and children were among 28 people killed in Israeli airstrikes on Gaza on Sunday, officials have said. The territory's Hamas-run health ministry said at least 20 people died in the bombing of a house in Nuseirat - a refugee camp in central Gaza. The dead included eight women and four children, including a two-year-old girl called Sabreen, according to records at the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital. A separate strike on a street in Nuseirat killed another five people, according to the Palestinian Red Crescent emergency service. It came as heavy fighting continued in northern Gaza, which has been largely isolated by Israeli troops for months and where the World Food Program says a famine is underway.
Just <a fraction> of health centres are still operating in the territory, the United Nations (UN) warned on Saturday.
US national security adviser Jake Sullivan was on Sunday due to meet with Israeli leaders, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, to discuss a plan for Saudi Arabia to recognise Israel and for the Palestinian Authority to govern Gaza in exchange for eventual statehood. Netanyahu, whose war cabinet member Benny Gantz is threatening to resign unless a new plan is adopted, has rejected the proposals and wants open-ended security control over Gaza. The UN said on Saturday that 800,000 people have now been forced to flee Rafah since Israel Defence Forces launched an offensive against the city on 6 May - closing off a vital aid supply route. Philippe Lazzarini, commissioner-general of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), said last night on X: <Since the war in Gaza began, Palestinians have been forced to flee multiple times in search of safety that they have never found.> Each time people move <they are forced to leave behind the few belongings they have: mattresses, tents, cooking utensils and basic supplies that they cannot carry or pay to transport", he said. Mazen Abdel Dayem, who has been displaced from Beit Hanoun, said: <Life is unbearable. There is no sewage network... no one to provide water for us, or the municipality to clean up the dumped garbage and the bombing sites. There is no life.> In the UK, Green Party MP Caroline Lucas on Sunday issued fresh calls for the UK to restart funding for UNRWA, as Defence Secretary Grant Shapps appeared on Sunday morning political programmes. The Foreign Office in January paused funding for UNRWA over allegations that 12 staff members had taken part in the 7 October Hamas attack on Israel, which killed around 1,200 people.>>
Source:
https://news.sky.com/story/women-and-children-killed-in-israeli-airstrikes-in-gaza-as-us-envoy-meets-with-benjamin-netanyahu-13139175

France 24 - May 19, 2024
<<Deadly israeli overnight raid on Gaza's Nuseirat
An Israeli airstrike killed 20 people in central Gaza, mostly women and children, and fighting raged across the north on Sunday as Israel's leaders aired divisions over who should govern Gaza after the war, now in its eighth month. Story by Leo McGuinn and Alexandre Guin.>>
Watch it here:
https://www.france24.com/en/video/20240519-deadly-israeli-overnight-raid-on-gaza-s-nuseirat

France 24 - May 19, 2024 : by NEWS WIRES
<<Gantz threatens to quit Israeli war cabinet over postwar plans for Gaza
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is under mounting pressure from his own War Cabinet and his country's closest ally over postwar plans for Gaza, even as the war with Hamas shows no sign of ending. On Saturday, Benny Gantz, a member of the War Cabinet and Netanyahu's main political rival, said he would leave the government on June 8 if it did not formulate a new war plan including an international, Arab and Palestinian administration to handle civilian affairs in Gaza. Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, the third member of the Cabinet, has also called for a plan for Palestinian administration, and said in a speech this week that he wouldn't agree to Israel governing Gaza itself. The United States has meanwhile called for a revitalized Palestinian Authority to govern Gaza with assistance from Saudi Arabia and other Arab states ahead of eventual statehood. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan is expected to push those plans when he visits Israel on Sunday. So far, Netanyahu has brushed them all off. But Gantz' ultimatum could reduce his margin for maneuver. Netanyahu has ruled out any role for the Palestinian Authority in Gaza, saying he plans to hand civil responsibilities over to local Palestinians unaffiliated with it or Hamas. But he has also said that it's impossible to make any such plans until Hamas is defeated because it has threatened anyone who cooperates with Israel.
Netanyahu's government is also deeply opposed to Palestinian statehood.
In a statement issued after the ultimatum, Netanyahu said Gantz' conditions would amount to <defeat for Israel, abandoning most of the hostages, leaving Hamas intact and establishing a Palestinian state.> Netanyahu added, however, that he still thought the emergency government was important for prosecuting the war, and that he <expects Gantz to clarify his positions to the public.> Gantz' departure would leave Netanyahu even more beholden to his far-right coalition allies, including National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, who could more easily bring down the government if he doesn't meet their demands. They have called for Israel to reoccupy Gaza, encourage the <voluntary emigration> of Palestinians from the territory and reestablish Jewish settlements that were removed in 2005. Critics of Netanyahu, including thousands who have joined weekly protests in recent months, accuse him of prolonging the war for his own political survival. Gantz, who brought his centrist party into the government days after the Oct. 7 attack that triggered the war, warned Netanyahu not to <choose the path of fanatics and lead the entire nation to the abyss.> Netanyahu denies such accusations, saying he is focused on defeating Hamas and that elections would distract from the war effort. Polls indicate Netanyahu would be driven from office if new elections were held, with Gantz most likely to replace him. That would probably mark the end of Netanyahu's long political career and expose him to prosecution over longstanding corruption charges. Israeli media have reported growing discontent within the country's security establishment over the course of the war, with officials warning that the lack of any such planning was turning tactical victories into strategic defeat. With no one else to govern Gaza, Hamas has repeatedly regrouped, even in the hardest-hit areas that Israel previously said it had cleared. Heavy fighting has erupted in recent days in the built-up Jabaliya refugee camp in the north and the Zeitoun neighborhood on the outskirts of Gaza City. Israeli troops are meanwhile pushing into parts of the southern city of Rafah in what they say is a limited operation. The fighting there has displaced some 800,000 people, many who had already fled from other areas, and severely hindered the delivery of humanitarian aid. Indirect talks mediated by the United States, Qatar and Egypt aimed at a cease-fire and the release of scores of hostages held by Hamas meanwhile appear at a standstill, with many of the hostages' families and their supporters blaming the Israeli government. <Something has gone wrong,> Gantz said in his address. <Essential decisions were not taken. Acts of leadership required to ensure victory were not carried out. A small minority has taken over the command bridge of the Israeli ship and is leading it toward a wall of rocks.>
(AP)>>
Source incl. video:
https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20240519-netanyahu-faces-increasing-pressure-from-war-cabinet-us-over-postwar-plans-for-gaza

France 24 - May 18, 2024 : by NEWS WIRES
<<Israeli strikes on Jabalia camp in northern Gaza kill more than 10, injure dozens
Israeli troops and tanks pushed on Saturday into parts of a congested northern Gaza Strip district that they had previously skirted in the more than seven-month-old war, killing and wounding dozens of Palestinians, medics and residents said. Israel's forces also took over some ground in Rafah, a southern city by the Egyptian border that is packed with displaced people and where the launch this month of a long-threatened incursion to crush hold-outs of Palestinian Islamist militant group Hamas has alarmed Cairo and Washington. Exposing further cracks in Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's government, Benny Gantz, a centrist member of the war cabinet, threatened to resign if the right-wing leader does not agree by June 8 to a day-after plan that would include how Gaza might be ruled after the war with Hamas. In what Israeli media said was the result of intelligence gleaned during the latest incursions, the military announced the recovery of the body of a man who was among more than 250 hostages seized by Hamas in a cross-border rampage on October 7 that triggered the war. Ron Binyamin's remains were located along with those of three other slain hostages whose repatriation was announced on Friday, the military said without providing further details.
There was no immediate comment from Hamas.
Israel has conducted renewed military sweeps this month of parts of northern Gaza where it had declared the end of major operations in January. At the time, it also predicted its forces would return to prevent a regrouping by the Palestinian Islamist group that rules Gaza. One site has been Jabalia, the largest of Gaza's eight historic refugee camps. On Saturday, troops and tanks edged into streets so far spared the ground offensive, residents said. In one strike, medics said 15 Palestinians were killed and dozens wounded. The Gaza health ministry and the Civil Emergency Service said teams received dozens of calls about possible casualties but were unable to carry out any searches because of the ongoing ground offensive and aerial bombardment. <Today is the most difficult in terms of the occupation bombardment, air strikes and tank shelling have going on almost non-stop,> said one resident in Jabalia, Ibrahim Khaled, via a chat app. <We know of dozens of people, martyrs (killed) and wounded, but no ambulance vehicle can get into the area,> he told Reuters. The Israeli military said its forces have continued to operate in areas across Gaza including Jabalia and Rafah, carrying out what it called <precise operations against terrorists and infrastructure>. <The IAF (air force) continues to operate in the Gaza Strip, and struck over 70 terror targets during the past day, including weapons storage facilities, military infrastructure sites, terrorists who posed a threat to IDF troops, and military compounds,> the military said in a statement.
Strains in Israeli coalition
Netanyahu has faced criticism at home and abroad for failing to articulate an endgame more than seven months into the war. In a news conference, Gantz said he wanted the war cabinet to form a six-point plan in the next three weeks and that if his expectations are not met he would withdraw his centrist party from Netanyahu's emergency coalition. Gantz said his proposal would include creating a temporary US-European-Arab-Palestinian system of civil administration for Gaza while Israel retains security control. Though Gantz is Netanyahu's most formidable rival in opinion polls, were he to leave the government that would not be enough to bring about its collapse, as remaining parties would still give the premier a comfortable parliamentary majority. Yet Gantz's challenge shows increased strain on Israel's coalition, which is dominated by far-right parties. Defence Minister Yoav Gallant on Wednesday demanded clarity on post-war plans and for Netanyahu to forswear any military reoccupation of Gaza. Armed wings of Hamas, the Islamic Jihad, and Fatah said fighters attacked Israeli forces in Jabalia and Rafah with anti-tank rockets, mortar bombs, and explosive devices already planted in some of the roads, killing and wounding many soldiers. Israel's military said 281 soldiers have been killed in fighting since the first ground incursions in Gaza on Oct 20. At least 35,386 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli strikes since Oct. 7, according to the enclave's health ministry, while aid agencies have warned repeatedly of widespread hunger and dire shortages of fuel and medical supplies. In the Hamas cross-border attack on Oct. 7, 1,200 people were killed, according to Israeli tallies. About 125 people are believed to remain in captivity in Gaza.
In Rafah, where Israeli tanks thrust into some of the eastern suburbs and clashed with Palestinian fighters, residents said Israeli bombing from the air and ground persisted through the night into Saturday morning. Rafah had been sheltering more than one million displaced Gazans. UNRWA, the main U.N. aid agency for Palestinians, said on Saturday that nearly 800,000 Palestinians have fled the city since Israel launched its ground operation there on May 6. Israel says it must capture Rafah to destroy Hamas and ensure the country's security.
(Reuters)>>
Source incl. video:
https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20240518-israeli-strikes-jabalia-camp-in-northern-gaza-kill-10-injure-dozens

France 24 - May 17, 2024 : by
<<'Bombardments intensified over the whole of Gaza Strip', says journalist Rami Abou Jammous
<Last night and this morning, bombardments intensified over the whole of the Gaza Strip, especially in the north and in the city of Rafah>, journalist Rami Abou Jammous told FRANCE 24 from the ground in Gaza. <On a humanitarian level, the displacement of people is continuing. People are continuing to leave towards the north to Al-Mawasi and also to Deir al Balah. The living conditions are really hard because there is no space, there are no tents that could be used for shelter>, he added.>>
Source incl. video:
https://www.france24.com/en/video/20240518-bombardments-intensified-over-the-gaza-strip


Julia needs round-the-clock care
Sky News - May 17, 2024 - by Mark Stone
<<Girl, three, with ultra-rare disease denied escape from Gaza for treatment
The plight of Julia Abu Zeiter is reflective of thousands of other children in Gaza who are injured or ill - but cannot leave the territory for the urgent medical care they need. A three-year-old Palestinian girl with an ultra-rare genetic condition has been forced backwards in her quest to leave Gaza for life-saving treatment. Julia Abu Zeiter, whose story is being followed by Sky News, was moved with her family from a tent in the southern city of Rafah and relocated to a supposedly safer zone to the north and further away from the border they had hoped to cross.

Julia's mother Maha Abu Zeiter
Speaking to Sky News, her mother Maha said: <We were going through the travel procedures to leave Gaza. When the time for us to travel through Rafah crossing got close, the Israelis occupied the crossing, and they told us they want to invade Rafah.> She added: <I was between two fires, not knowing where to go. Do I go try to travel to treat my daughter or do I flee to another place? I did not know where to go.> The family's plight is reflective of the cases of many thousands of other children in Gaza who are injured or ill and need urgent medical care. Sky News first met Julia 12 days ago after a family in Washington DC told us about her case. The Abu Zeiter family and the Frost family were connected because their daughters, Julia and Annabel, both suffer from Alternating Hemiplegia of Childhood (AHC). Only about a thousand people worldwide have been diagnosed with the neurological disorder. Known sometimes as the <time bomb disease>, it causes paralysis and seizures. It is compounded by stress and without medication seizures can be fatal. Simon Frost, Annabel's father, has spent the past month in Washington DC bringing together a global network of people in an effort to try to evacuate Julia. Her case is now being driven by the Palestine Children's Relief Fund (PCRF). Local staff from the PCRF coordinated the family's move out of Rafah to a new tent site further north. On Friday morning, they organised the delivery of medication and solar panel chargers.>>
Source incl. video:
https://news.sky.com/story/girl-three-with-ultra-rare-disease-denied-escape-from-gaza-for-treatment-13138029

Sky News - May 16, 2024 - by Mark Stone
<<Gaza: Starving children and adults dying the 'size of a skeleton', says World Food Programme boss
Cindy McCain says children are <taking the brunt> of the dire situation in Gaza and she faces agonising decisions on where to allocate supplies.
Starving children and adults in Gaza are dying after being reduced to the <size of a skeleton>, according to the World Food Programme boss. Cindy McCain, executive director of the UN agency, said her staff describe it as <a complete disaster> and there are serious problems getting trucks in safely and in sufficient numbers. Israel's offensive following the Hamas attack on 7 October has displaced much of Gaza's population, many of whom are fleeing again as Israel escalates attacks in the southern city of Rafah. Hundreds of thousands are starving and desperate, and Mrs McCain told Sky News the reality is devastating. She told Yalda Hakim: <Imagine a child wasting into the size of a skeleton - and of course passing from it - and an adult doing the same thing. That's what we're seeing on the ground. If we could get in now we might be able to fend off a hardcore famine, but we're not there yet and we're not getting in.> Mrs McCain urged Israeli authorities to help her agency get <full access> to Gaza - and <at scale> - so they can try to meet the huge demand for food. She said trucks that do manage to get access often have to deal with chaotic circumstances. <An inability to get in or a miscommunication - wherever it came from - and we're stuck at a checkpoint, and by the time the sun comes up people figure out we're there and they loot the entire convoy. I'm not faulting them for looting - they're hungry - and we should be able to get in in a way that's at scale and unfettered.> Mrs McCain added: <Some days we can go in and the checkpoint's here, then they say 'no, you can't go that way' - when we were cleared to go that way - then we have to go back out. <So it's a combination of all kinds of confusion - it's a warzone, so you have miscommunications everywhere.> The WFP boss told Yalda Hakim children were <taking the brunt> of the dire situation in Gaza and that she faces agonising decisions on where to allocate supplies. <[I'm] having to make the decision - because of a lack of funding - about taking food from the hungry and giving it to the starving, and where I do that from,> said Mrs McCain.
<Those are decisions I make every day and that keeps me awake at night.>
Israeli protesters block Gaza aid trucks
The UN says around 600,000 people have left Rafah since Israel last week began its controversial ground offensive - which it says is vital to destroy Hamas cells and rescue hostages. Israel has provided other areas for people to move to, away from the fighting, but Mrs McCain said they were being <pushed into a smaller areas> - with ensuing problems for sanitation, and food, water and medicine supplies.>>
Source incl. video:
https://news.sky.com/story/gaza-starving-children-and-adults-dying-the-size-of-a-skeleton-says-world-food-programme-boss-13137414 

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