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UNRWA
Al Jazeera - October 29, 2024 - By Al Jazeera Staff
<<'Intolerable', 'dangerous precedent': World condemns Israel's UNRWA
ban
The new Israeli laws will prevent UNRWA from providing life-saving
support to Palestinians in Gaza and the occupied West Bank. The United
Nations and countries across the globe have denounced Israel after its
parliament passed two laws that brands the UN agency for Palestinian
refugees (UNRWA) a <terror> group and bans the humanitarian organisation
from operating on Israeli soil. The legislation, approved on Monday,
would - if implemented - prevent UNRWA from providing life-saving
support to Palestinians across Israeli-occupied Gaza and the West Bank.
UNRWA was created by the UN General Assembly in 1949 to support
Palestinian refugees expelled from their homes during the creation of
Israel and it remains the main organisation providing humanitarian
services in Gaza, and supports millions of Palestinians refugees in the
occupied West Bank, Lebanon, Jordan and Syria.
Here's a round-up of the global reaction to Israel's move:
Palestine
The Palestinian presidency rejected and condemned the Israeli
legislation.
"We will not allow this. The overwhelming vote of the Knesset reflects
Israel's transformation into a fascist state," said Nabil Abu Rudeineh,
a spokesman for the presidency in Ramallah. Hamas also denounced the
move saying it considers the bill a "part of the Zionist war and
aggression against our people", while the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ)
called it "an escalation in the genocide" against Palestinians.
United Nations
Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called UNRWA's work "indispensable"
and said there is "no alternative" to the agency. "The implementation of
the laws could have devastating consequences for Palestine refugees in
the Occupied Palestinian Territory, which is unacceptable," he said,
urging Israel to "act consistently with its obligations under the
Charter of the United Nations and its other obligations under
international law". UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini, meanwhile, said the
Knesset move set a "dangerous precedent" as it "opposes the UN Charter
and violates the State of Israel's obligations under international law.
These bills will only deepen the suffering of Palestinians, especially
in #Gaza where people have been going through more than a year of sheer
hell," he wrote on X.>>
Read here on how other countries react:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/10/29/intolerable-dangerous-precedent-world-condemns-israels-unrwa-ban
Al Jazeera - October 28, 2024 - By Osama Bin Javaid
<<Gaza ceasefire talks resume in Doha, but 'no breakthrough' expected
Israel's Mossad spy chief and the CIA director held talks in a bid to
reach a ceasefire deal, but analysts say a breakthrough is unlikely.
Doha, Qatar - Israel's Mossad spy chief and the CIA director have
attended talks in the Qatari capital, Doha - the first high-level talks
since ceasefire efforts aimed at ending the war in Gaza broke down in
August. David Barnea and William Burns were joined by Qatari Prime
Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani in efforts
to revive talks after the killing of Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar on October
16. Families of Israeli captives have also built pressure on the Israeli
government to sign a deal to secure the release of their relatives.
Nearly 100 captives still remain in Gaza as Israeli Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu has rebuffed talks and escalated military operations.
He has faced months of protests demanding a deal to bring back the
captives. On Sunday, Israeli protesters interrupted him, shouting
'"shame on you", as he was speaking at a memorial for the victims of the
October 7, 2023, attacks. At least 1,100 people were killed in the
attacks led by Hamas. The Israeli Prime Minister's office said in a
statement on X that the Mossad chief had returned from the talks. <In
the coming days, discussions will continue between the mediators and
Hamas to assess the feasibility of talks and to further efforts to
promote a deal,> the statement said on Monday. The Qatari prime minister
said his country has recently "re-engaged" with Hamas leaders in Doha
since Sinwar was killed. Israel also killed the main Hamas negotiator
Ismail Haniyeh in July while he was visiting Tehran. Truce talks have
repeatedly stalled over more than one year of war, which has killed
nearly 43,000 Palestinians. Hamas has been seeking a permanent ceasefire
and wants the withdrawal of Israeli forces as part of any deal. But
Netanyahu wants military control over parts of Gaza. <As long as Israel
sticks to its definition of success, there will be no peaceful release
of hostages,> said Sultan Barakat, a professor of public policy at Qatar
Foundation's Hamad Bin Khalifa University and an honorary professor at
the University of York. "The careful calibration has sadly moved to
avoiding the spread of a regional conflict as a result of the Israel and
Iran confrontation and not to ending the genocide."
'Not ready to make any concessions'
On Sunday, Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant said military
operations alone are not sufficient to achieve the country's war goals.
<In carrying out our moral and ethical duty to return the hostages to
their homes, painful compromises are required,> he said at a state
ceremony to honour the soldiers killed in the conflict. According to
Israeli media, Barnea, the Mossad chief, is travelling with a commitment
to <goodwill> but lacks a mandate regarding a change in the status of
the Israeli takeover of the Philadelphi and Netzarim Corridors in Gaza.
Netanyahu wants control of these two corridors - the Philadelphi on the
border with Egypt and the Netzarim, which splits northern and southern
Gaza. Hamas sources said its demands are firm for a complete withdrawal
of the Israeli military from the entire Gaza Strip, the release of
Palestinian prisoners jailed in Israel, aid deliveries to all of Gaza
and an end to the war. Luciano Zaccara, an adjunct associate professor
at Georgetown University in Qatar, said he isn't "optimistic about a
breakthrough. Even though the Israeli delegation is here, they attacked
Iran. So it seems they are not ready to make any concessions to any of
their enemies. Israel has decided to push for a definitive military
solution against Hamas," he told Al Jazeera. Egypt and Qatar have been
mediating between Israel and Hamas, which led to the only breakthrough
in November when a prisoner swap deal led to the release of about 100
Israeli captives in exchange for about 240 Palestinian prisoners.
Analysts said they believe this round of talks most likely will result
in a holding pattern just days before the US elections. In addition to a
much-trumpeted plan unveiled by US President Joe Biden in May, another
proposal that includes a temporary ceasefire and aid deliveries in
exchange for releasing several Israeli captives in Gaza is also being
discussed. Ronen Bar, the head of Israel's Shin Bet internal security
service, already went to Cairo to discuss the proposal with Egyptian
officials last week. Egypt on Sunday proposed a two-day ceasefire in
Gaza that would entail an exchange of four Israeli captives for some
Palestinian prisoners. President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi said on Sunday
that talks should resume within 10 days of implementing the temporary
ceasefire to try to reach a permanent one.
'A PR exercise'
The new head of Egypt's General Intelligence Service, Hassan Mahmoud
Rashad, has already held a meeting with Hamas deputy chief Khalil al-Hayya
in Cairo. Before the talks, there was already opposition from Israeli
National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir and Finance Minister Bezalel
Smotrich. The far-right leaders have called temporary proposals as <a
gift to Hamas while Israel is in a momentum>. But there are supporters
of the proposal as the fighting has dragged on for more than a year and
the pressure from the captives' families is mounting. Among the
proponents of a deal to release some captives are Gallant,
Transportation Minister Miri Regev, Foreign Minister Israel Katz and
Deputy Prime Minister Yariv Levin. According to Hamas officials who have
visited Moscow recently, if an agreement is reached, two Israeli
captives who are dual Russian citizens would be among the first to be
released. But all of it depends on Israel's willingness to temporarily
stop its assault. The situation in Lebanon after Israeli incursions and
bombardments is most likely to also come up, but separate talks are
being held for ending that conflict. US Secretary of State Antony
Blinken met acting Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati in London on
Friday and called for the protection of civilian lives but stopped short
of explicitly calling for a ceasefire. He has emphasised reaching
understandings on the disarmament of Hezbollah. According to Israeli
media, the head of the Mossad has already told the CIA boss this week
that any ceasefire agreement with Hezbollah in Lebanon must also include
a deal for the release of captives in Gaza. Noureddine Miladi, professor
of media and communication at Qatar University, said the current
negotiations whether in Qatar or in Cairo are unlikely to lead to any
tangible results. "In my opinion, it is mainly a PR exercise with no
substantial results to alleviate the plight of the Palestinians or lead
to the release of hostages," he told Al Jazeera. "All of these exercises
of talks-for-show are nonsense. Things on the ground are going in just
one direction, a total control of Gaza by Israel and the establishment
of settlements" in the Palestinian territory.
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA>>
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/10/28/gaza-ceasefire-talks-resume-in-doha-but-no-breakthrough-expected
BBC - Oct 28, 2024 - By Robert Greenall
<<One dead, dozens injured after truck hits Israel bus stop
A man has died and at least 30 more have been injured after a truck hit
a bus stop near an Israeli military base north of Tel Aviv, in what
authorities are investigating as a suspected terror attack. "A truck hit
dozens of people who had disembarked at a bus stop. Eight of the wounded
were trapped under the truck and others were lying and walking near it,"
a medic for Israel's Magen David Adom (MDA) emergency service said. Many
of the injured were reportedly pensioners on a day trip to a nearby
museum. The driver of the truck, named as Rami Natur, an Arab Israeli
from the town of Qalansawe in central Israel, was shot dead by a
civilian at the scene.
The emergency services treated dozens of casualties
Emergency services were called to the Glilot Junction around 10:00 local
time (08:00 GMT) on Sunday following reports of a truck ramming. Yechiel
Ben Moshe told the Ynet website: "We were a group of retirees going to
Glilot to visit a museum and listen to a lecture. The bus parked, and
people got off. A truck came from behind and I heard a huge noise from
the truck. It drove toward us to run us over. Around me, everyone was
injured and bleeding, and others were in shock. It looked like an
accident at first, but then shots were fired at the terrorist."
Far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, who is responsible
for the police, called for the family of the suspected attacker to be
deported from Israel.
Israel is already fighting its enemies on multiple fronts in Gaza and
Lebanon.
But this attack raises a different question: how to keep its people safe
from attackers already inside Israel, who use vehicles as weapons.>>
Source:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdj33rwlyepo
Al Jazeera - October 28, 2024
<<Report from scene of major Israeli attack on north Gaza homes
Al Jazeera's Moath al-Kahlout has been to the site of a major Israeli
air attack on homes in north Gaza’s Beit Lahiya, where dozens of people
were killed and left buried under rubble.>>
View video here:
https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/10/28/report-from-scene-of-major-israeli-attack-on-north-gaza-homes
Al Jazeera - October 28, 2024
<<Egypt urges two-day truce as Israel kills 1,000 during northern Gaza
siege
President el-Sisi's plan includes exchanging four Israeli captives held
in Gaza for Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails.
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has proposed a two-day truce in
Gaza that would potentially pave the way for a long-term ceasefire, as
Israel's genocide has killed more than 1,000 Palestinians in the
northern areas of the Strip in less than a month. El-Sisi's proposal,
which includes exchanging four Israeli captives held in Gaza for
Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, came as thousands of trapped
civilians endure relentless Israeli attacks that have killed at least 50
people, including five journalists, since Sunday. At a news conference
in Cairo on Sunday, el-Sisi said the 48-hour lull in fighting and
prisoner exchange would be followed by more talks in the next 10 days,
with the hope that negotiators could hammer out a peace deal. Out of 251
captives seized by Hamas during the October 7, 2023 attack inside the
Israeli territory, 97 are believed to be still held in Gaza, including
34 the Israeli military claims are dead. More than 100 captives were
released during a weeklong truce last November. El-Sisi did not say
whether the plan had been formally presented to either Israel or Hamas.
But efforts to defuse the conflict have resumed in the Qatari capital of
Doha with the directors of the CIA and Israel's Mossad taking part.
There was no immediate comment from Israel or Hamas on the plan.
Egypt, alongside Qatar and the United States, has for months been
mediating indirect talks with little success. Among the key issues
preventing a breakthrough has been Hamas's insistence that Israel
withdraw completely from Gaza, which Israeli officials have repeatedly
rejected. On Sunday, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said <painful
concessions> would be needed in negotiations, and that military action
alone would not achieve the country's war aims. Al Jazeera's senior
political analyst Marwan Bishara said with the US, Egypt and Qatar
involved in the negotiations, "there is a chance for Israeli Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to get something more today than what he
would have gotten back in June." But Bishara added that it is "unclear"
if negotiations would result in a deal this time, saying "the
continuation of the war is important" to Netanyahu "politically and
personally". Meanwhile, Al Jazeera correspondents in Gaza on Monday said
the latest Israeli attack on a group of people in the Shujayea
neighbourhood of Gaza City in the north of the Strip has killed at least
three people. Another Palestinian was killed in a separate Israeli
attack in central Gaza's Nuseirat refugee camp, according to the Wafa
news agency. Earlier, Wafa reported that Israeli forces hit the Asma
School housing displaced Palestinians in the Shati refugee camp in
northern Gaza, killing at least 11 people, including three journalists.
In all, at least 53 people were killed by Israeli raids across Gaza on
Sunday and early Monday, most of them in the north. Gaza's Government
Media Office said the five journalists killed on Sunday were Saed Radwan
from Al-Aqsa TV, Hamza Abu Salmiya from the Sanad News Agency, Haneen
Baroud from Al-Quds Foundation, Abdul Rahman Samir al-Tanani from Sawt
Al-Shaab, and Nadia Imad al-Sayed, who worked for multiple media
outlets. Their killing brings to at least 170 the number of journalists
killed in Gaza since October 7 last year, according to the Strip’s media
office. The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) places
the number of journalists killed in Gaza at 131. Palestinian-American
journalist Said Arikat told Al Jazeera that Netanyahu and his cabinet
have no strategy on Gaza other than making the territory
"uninhabitable". United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres also
expressed deep concern for the fate of Gaza's civilians. "The plight of
Palestinian civilians trapped in north Gaza is unbearable," Guterres's
spokesman said on Sunday. Al Jazeera's Hind Khoudary, reporting from
Deir el-Balah in Gaza, described the scene in the north in the last 24
hours as "horrifying". "It's still escalating, and people are trying to
reach out, crying, feeling that they've been abandoned, asking for food,
water and medicine," she said.
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA AND NEWS AGENCIES>>
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/10/28/egypt-urges-two-day-truce-as-israel-kills-1000-during-northern-gaza-siege
At least 1,000 Palestinians killed
Jinha - Womens News Agency - Oct. 28 , 2024
<<At least 1,000 Palestinians killed in 3-week Israeli attacks on
northern Gaza
At least 1,000 Palestinians,mostly women and children, were killed in
Israeli attacks on northern Gaza in the last three weeks, the
Palestinian Civil Defense said in a statement.
News Center- In a video statement on a social media network, Mahmoud
Bassal, Spokesperson for Palestinian Civil Defense said that the Israeli
army has killed over 1,000 Palestinians during its three-week-long
military operation on the areas of Jabalia, Beit Hanoun, and Beit Lahia,
northern Gaza.
Israel has implemented a genocidal policy by using the silence of the
international community, Mahmoud Bassal said, calling on international
human rights organizations to take immediate action to save the
Palestinians in northern Gaza.
Number of journalists killed in Israeli attacks rises to 182
The Government Media Office in Gaza has announced that five journalists
were killed in Israeli airstrikes on Sunday. The five journalists have
been identified as Saed Radwan with Al-Aqsa TV, Hamza Abu Salmiya with
Sanad News Agency, Haneen Baroud with Al-Quds Foundation, Abdulrahman
Al-Tanani with Sawt Al-Shaab, and Nadia Al-Sayed who worked with
multiple news outlets. The journalists were killed in Israeli airstrikes
on the Asma School sheltering displaced people in the al-Shati refugee
camp west of Gaza City, the Palestinian news agency WAFA reported on
Sunday.
The number of journalists killed in Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip
has risen to 182, the media office said.>>
Source:
https://jinhaagency.com/en/actual/at-least-1-000-palestinians-killed-in-3-week-israeli-attacks-on-northern-gaza-35900?page=1
Al Jazeera - October 28, 2024
<<'Children torn apart' as Israel attacks Gaza school sheltering
Palestinians
Residents report a plane destroying the UN building, which collapsed on
top of people, calling the raid a 'massacre'. Israel has bombed a United
Nations-run school sheltering displaced Palestinians, killing at least
nine, officials and residents say. The attack at Asma School in Gaza
City's Shati refugee camp also wounded several people, Gaza's Civil
Defence said on Sunday, as rescuers searched for more victims under the
rubble. Taher al-Rantisi said he "saw a plane destroying the building,
which collapsed on top of the people" there, calling the attack "a
massacre". The Palestinians sheltering at the school building included
"innocent children and elderly" people, said Rantisi. When the strike
hit, "all the people and children were torn apart", he said. The Civil
Defence said six bodies had been identified, including one of a young
girl. The Israeli military said it was <looking> into the reported air
attack, the latest such attack on displacement shelters across the Gaza
Strip where the army says it is targeting Hamas fighters. Paramedic
Hussein Mohsen said the displaced Palestinians who had taken refuge at
the UN school had come from Jabalia and other parts of north Gaza, where
Israeli forces have laid a devastating siege for a fourth week. "This is
not the first time that the Israeli occupation has targeted schools,"
Mohsen said. In recent months, the Israeli forces have bombed several
schools-turned-shelters, claiming Palestinian fighters were operating
there. Israel has presented no evidence to back its claim. In recent
days, tens of thousands of Palestinians have fled Israel's bombardment
in northern areas of the besieged Gaza Strip. The Israeli military says
it aims to prevent Hamas from regrouping there. But Palestinians and
rights groups say Israel is conducting a genocide in Gaza. Israeli
forces have killed nearly 43,000 people as the assault on Gaza enters a
second year.>>
Source and view photos here:
https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2024/10/28/children-torn-apart-as-israel-strikes-gaza-school-sheltering-palestinians
Al Jazeera - October 28, 2024
<<An urgent call to save the staff and patients of Gaza's al-Awda
Hospital
Hospitals have become prisons in northern Gaza. This is a desperate cry
to humanity.
Craig Redmond CEO at Relief International
As I write, thousands of people in northern Gaza are on the move,
attempting to escape the worst nightmare imaginable. Forced from their
homes and temporary shelters, they are leaving behind everything they
have known. The landscape of devastation is reminiscent of some of the
worst conflicts in recent memory. Northern Gaza, which is one-fourth of
Gaza's territory, has been under siege for 23 days. The nearly 400,000
residents who had remained there after a year of war face inhumane
conditions as food, water and medicines have run out and aid is not
reaching them. More than 800 people have been killed in three weeks. The
situation in Jabalia refugee camp, which has been the focus of the
ongoing military assault, is particularly dire. Al-Awda Hospital, which
is supported by Relief International, is the only partially functional
medical centre in the area. The facility has been struck three times in
three weeks. Its upper floors and water system have been destroyed,
along with its warehouse and pharmacy where critical medicine was
stored. Last week, an ambulance carrying patients was hit, killing a
woman who had just given birth, as well as her companion.
For the past five days, the facility has been encircled by armed forces,
meaning neither civilians nor staff can get in or out. Inside, a total
163 people are trapped, including 24 patients in critical care, 31
others with their companions, and seven children. The surrounding area
is inaccessible, and transportation is impossible without a ceasefire. I
am extremely worried that the hospital will soon be stormed as we have
seen with other health facilities in the past 24 hours. Alongside the
patients are 65 al-Awda staff. They are heroes who have shown incredible
dedication - choosing to stay to help members of their communities in
critical need. Since the start of the offensive on northern Gaza in
early October, they have helped thousands of patients and performed
hundreds of surgeries with the hospital crumbling around them. Our
shipments of medicine and equipment that were due to arrive at al-Awda
Hospital this month could not be delivered due to the border crossings
at Erez West and Erez Crossing/Beit Hanoon being closed.
After the horrors of World War II, the right to health was enshrined in
the 1946 Constitution of the World Health Organization. Just a few years
later, in 1949, the Geneva Conventions were adopted to protect civilians
and essential infrastructure in times of war and occupation. These
conventions explicitly prohibit forced transfers of civilians,
regardless of motive, and demand protection for medical personnel and
healthcare facilities.
Yet today, in Northern Gaza, these principles are being shattered.
Humanity must not turn away. This is a call to all parties in this
conflict: protect healthcare workers and civilians, ensure humanitarian
access, and halt hostilities near health facilities. This is also a call
to third states to uphold international humanitarian law and demand its
enforcement in Gaza.
This is not just a plea for justice, it is a desperate call to save the
163 lives trapped within al-Awda Hospital and countless others in
northern Gaza. Relief International demands a ceasefire now.
The views expressed in this article are the author's own and do not
necessarily reflect Al Jazeera's editorial stance.>>
Source:
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/10/27/an-urgent-call-to-save-the-staff-and-patients-of-gazas-al-awda-hospital
Al Jazeera - October 28, 2024
<<Palestinians 'starving to death' in northern Gaza due to Israeli siege
Oxfam official tells Al Jazeera Israel is using starvation as a weapon
in its genocide against the Palestinians. The struggle to survive
continues in northern Gaza as Israel's devastating siege and bombing of
the area enters its 23rd day. An Oxfam official told Al Jazeera on
Sunday Israel is using starvation as a weapon in its genocide against
the Palestinians and that the United Kingdom-based NGO was unable to
reach people in the north because of Israel’s ongoing bombing campaign.
Mahmoud Alsaqqa, who is Oxfam's food security and livelihood lead in
Gaza, warned that some Palestinians are "starving to death" from hunger
in northern Gaza and more people will die in the coming days. "There is
nothing. You are talking about tens of days that they are not receiving
any supplies," he said, adding that most Palestinians in the area rely
on aid supplies.
Aid agencies say about 96 percent of Gaza’s population is facing high
levels of food shortages. According to UNICEF, nine out of 10 children
lack the nutrition they need for growth and development. At least 37
children have died of malnutrition or dehydration in a year of war. The
United Nations says Israel has blocked the entry of 83 percent of food
aid into the Strip since the war began. It said about 50,000 children
below the age of five need urgent treatment for malnutrition by the end
of the year. On Sunday, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for
an immediate ceasefire, for the release of captives and "accountability
for crimes under international law. The devastation and deprivation
resulting from Israel's military operations in North Gaza are making the
conditions of life untenable for the Palestinian population there," he
said on X. "This conflict continues to be waged with little regard for
the requirements of international humanitarian law." The Oxfam warning
came as Israeli forces bombed more neighbourhoods in northern Gaza on
Sunday and humanitarian officials sounded alarm about the ongoing ground
assault by Israeli forces which is forcibly displacing tens of thousands
of residents out of the area. At least 35 people were killed in Beit
Lahiya on Saturday after the Israeli army targeted five buildings in the
north of the Strip. Another 10 people were killed in a separate attack
in Beit Lahiya. Israel's strikes on the towns of Jabalia, Beit Hanoon
and Beit Lahiya in northern Gaza have so far killed about 800
Palestinians during the ongoing siege, the Ministry of Health in Gaza
said. Al Jazeera's Hani Mahmoud, reporting from Deir el-Balah in central
Gaza, said at least 35 people are missing and are feared to be under the
rubble, or have been "vapourised" by the force of the Israeli bombs.
Additionally, an Israeli air strike on a house in Jabalia killed several
people and wounded others on Sunday morning, Palestinian medics said.
"People were told to evacuate the Jabalia refugee camp in order to avoid
being bombed, but by the time they got to areas far from Jabalia in the
central and western parts of northern Gaza, they were bombed and maimed
in the areas they were told to evacuate to," said Mahmoud. "The Israeli
soldiers are forcing people to get out of evacuation centres and setting
them on fire," he added.
'Dying in a genocide'
Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur on the occupied
Palestinian territories, said on social media platform X that "the
entire population of Gaza is at risk of dying in a genocide that has
been announced and executed under our watch". Albanese was responding to
a statement made by UN humanitarian chief Joyce Msuya on Saturday,
warning that "the entire population of north Gaza is at risk of dying"
under Israel's siege.
The International Committee of the Red Cross on Saturday said the
ongoing Israeli evacuation orders and restrictions on the entry of
essential supplies to the north had left the civilian population in
"horrific circumstances". "Many civilians are currently unable to move,
trapped by fighting, destruction or physical constraint and now lack
access to even basic medical care," it said. Palestinian health
officials said the siege had crippled the healthcare system in northern
Gaza and was blocking medical teams from reaching bombed sites. Israel
maintains that its forces have returned to northern Gaza more than a
year into the war to root out Hamas fighters who had regrouped there.
The Israeli military claimed it <eliminated over 40 terrorists> in the
Jabalia area in the past 24 hours, as well as dismantled infrastructure
and located <large quantities of military equipment>. But Mansour
Shouman, a Palestinian journalist who used to live in Gaza, said Israel
wants to force Palestinians to leave the northern part of the Strip to
create settlements there. "That area has been going through three weeks
of very heavy land invasion attempts by the Israelis. You all are
hearing what's happening with the medical services there. You all are
hearing what has happened with the implementation of the General's Plan,
which is trying to eradicate the presence of Palestinians in the north
of the Gaza Strip ... and push them further south, in order to create a
buffer zone for the Israelis and then to create settlements there,"
Shouman told Al Jazeera.
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA AND NEWS AGENCIES>>
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/10/27/palestinians-starving-to-death-in-northern-gaza-due-to-israels-siege
Al Jazeera - October 27, 2024
<<Israel expands its wars, but is it closer to 'total victory'?
Palestinian politician Mustafa Barghouti argues that Israel's plans will
fail as long as Palestinians reject occupation.>>
Read more and view video here:
https://www.aljazeera.com/program/the-bottom-line/2024/10/27/israel-expands-its-wars-but-is-it-closer-to-total
Al Jazeera - October 27, 2024
<<Echoes of a Lost Gaza - 2024 version
Documentary filmmaker Mariam Shahin meets Gazans and reflects on how war
has reduced their hopes and dreams to rubble.>>
View video here:
https://www.aljazeera.com/program/featured-documentaries/2024/10/27/echoes-of-a-lost-gaza-2024-version
Al Jazeera - October 27, 2024
<<Gaza's al-Shifa doctor: The struggle to save lives amid war
Dr Ahmed Mokhallalati on the fight to save lives amid Israeli attacks.
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https://www.aljazeera.com/program/talk-to-al-jazeera/2024/10/27/gazas-al-shifa-doctor-the-struggle-to-save-lives-amid-war
Al Jazeera - October 26, 2024
<<Dozens killed in 'horrific' Israeli bombing in Beit Lahiya: Gaza
ministry
Israeli air strikes have hit densely populated area in northern Gaza
with no warning, killing at least 35 Palestinians.
Dozens of Palestinians have been killed after an Israeli strike
destroyed several buildings in a residential area of Beit Lahiya in
besieged northern Gaza, with the Health Ministry describing it as a
"horrific massacre". According to witnesses and medical sources, at
least 35 people were killed on Saturday evening with dozens more
wounded, Al Jazeera's Tareq Abu Azzoum said, reporting from central
Gaza. Local media reports said civil defence crews were not able to
reach the site because of Israeli fire. Abu Azzoum said multiple air
strikes hit the densely populated area with no warnings given. "People
are trying to recover victims from under the rubble because civil
defence rescuers are unable to reach the scene after first responders
were targeted by Israeli forces earlier today," he said. "Beit Lahiya
and Jabalia are considered to be the two main key urban centres in
northern Gaza, and displaced families from other parts of Gaza have come
to take refuge in shelters there. They've both been under heavy attack
for more than three weeks now." Palestinian Wafa news agency reported
that many of the killed and injured are children, women and the elderly.
Rescue efforts are being hampered due to a lack of ambulances and civil
defence services, as Israeli forces have blocked access to the area, it
said. The air strike targeted at least five homes near the western
roundabout in Beit Lahiya, belonging to the Abu Shdaq, Al-Masri, and
Salman families, Wafa said.
Northern Gaza has been under a three-week ground assault by Israeli
forces who are forcibly displacing tens of thousands of residents out of
the area. The Health Ministry reported that Israeli military strikes on
Jabalia, Beit Hanoon, and Beit Lahiya in northern Gaza have killed
approximately 800 people over the course of a three-week offensive. The
Israeli forces withdrew from Kamal Adwan Hospital on Saturday, leaving a
trail of destruction. At least 30 medical staff have been abducted and
the hospital building has suffered widespread damage. On Friday, the UN
special rapporteur on health used a new term - medicide - to describe
the widespread and systematic attacks by Israel on healthcare workers
and facilities.
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA>>
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/10/26/dozens-killed-in-horrific-israeli-bombing-in-beit-lahiya-gaza-ministry
Al Jazeera - October 26, 2024
<<Israeli forces detain medics, patients after violent raid on Gaza
hospital
Dozens of staff detained and parts of Kamal Adwan Hospital damaged
during Israeli raid on the facility in north Gaza. Israeli forces have
withdrawn from Kamal Adwan Hospital after detaining dozens of medics and
some patients, and causing widespread damage to one of the last
functioning hospitals in northern Gaza, the Health Ministry in the
besieged enclave has said. The medical facility is in disarray after it
was raided and shelled amid Israel's three-week offensive in the north,
with a top Gaza Health Ministry official urging the World Health
Organization (WHO) to evacuate the wounded from the hospital considered
a lifeline for people in northern Gaza. "The smell of death has spread
around the hospital," Marwan al-Hams, director of field hospitals at
Gaza's Health Ministry, told Al Jazeera, adding that the Israeli forces
destroyed the hospital's medical supplies during their raid to prevent
the medics from saving the wounded. More than 600 people, including
patients and those accompanying them were housed in the hospital before
it was raided on Friday. Medics said on Saturday that at least 44 out of
the hospital's 70-member team had been detained by the army. Later, it
was reported that 14 of those detained, including the hospital's
director Hussam Abu Safia, were released. "A critical shortage of
medical supplies, compounded by severely limited access, are depriving
people of life-saving care," Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the WHO chief,
posted on X on Saturday. Al Jazeera's Tareq Abu Azzoum reporting from
Deir el-Balah in central Gaza said that the Israeli forces caused
widespread damage to the pharmaceutical warehouse and the ICU. "Everyone
knows that Kamal Adwan Hospital is considered a medical lifeline for the
two-thirds of Palestinians in northern Gaza."
'Shooting from all directions'
Outside the hospital, hundreds of spent bullet cartridges littered the
floor. Footage shared by the Health Ministry revealed damage to
buildings and vandalised wards. Nurse Mayssoun Alian said Israeli forces
surrounded the hospital in the morning "and there was shooting from all
directions. They evacuated all those who were sheltering here. They
separated the men from women and made two queues. It was very
humiliating for our men since they were stripped of their clothes," she
told Al Jazeera. There was chaos inside the hospital with patients lying
on the floor, including in the hallways, according to footage accessed
by Al Jazeera. A patient and witness in the hospital told Al Jazeera
that Israeli forces first shelled the courtyard at about 5am (03:00 GMT)
on Friday. "Thirty minutes later, bulldozers destroyed everything,
including the tents housing the displaced," he said. "They destroyed the
hospital's pharmacy and riddled the hospital with bullets. They started
calling for Dr Hussam over the loudspeakers."
At least two children died inside the intensive care unit when Israeli
forces destroyed the generators and oxygen station on Friday, medics
said.
'Medicide'
Kamal Adwan Hospital spokesperson Hisham Sakani told Al Jazeera that the
latest assault marks the 14th time that the hospital has come under
Israeli fire. Israel has repeatedly attacked hospitals since it launched
the devastating war on October 7, 2023. More than 42,000 Palestinians
have been killed by Israeli forces and large parts of Gaza lay in ruins.
At least 17 out of 35 hospitals across the Strip are partially
functioning. On Friday, the UN special rapporteur on health used a new
term - medicide - to describe the widespread and systematic attacks by
Israel on healthcare workers and facilities. Gaza's Health Ministry
stated that all detained medical personnel were held by the Israeli
military without access to food or water. According to the ministry,
three nurses were injured, and three ambulances were destroyed. Among
those taken was Mohamed Obeid, head of the orthopaedics department at
Al-Awda Hospital nearby, though his current location remains unknown,
according to the hospital. Footage shared on social media on Saturday
showed hospital director Abu Safia, mourning the loss of his minor son,
who was killed during the two-day Israeli assault.
An Israeli military spokesperson declined to comment on the report. On
Friday, the Israeli military stated it had conducted operations near the
hospital based on intelligence indicating the presence of <terrorists
and terrorist infrastructure> in the area. A spokesperson from the UN
agency for children said northern Gaza is a disaster zone after the
Israeli military's three-week ground incursion. "Attacks have been
escalating, hospitals and schools used as shelters haven't been spared,"
UNICEF's Rosalia Bollen told Al Jazeera. "It's been extremely difficult
to bring supplies to the north with only 224 trucks reaching. But 224
trucks is the number we'd like to get in on a daily basis, not for an
entire month. In the hospitals, there's no food or water for patients.
There's no fuel, no electricity."
The Health Ministry reported that Israeli military strikes on Jabalia,
Beit Hanoon, and Beit Lahiya in northern Gaza have killed approximately
800 people over the course of a three-week offensive.
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA>>
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/10/26/israeli-forces-detain-medics-patients-after-violent-raid-on-gaza-hospital
Al Jazeera - Oct 22, 2024
<<Israel's war on Gaza has set development back by 69 years, UN says
UNDP assessment says poverty will cross 74 percent in 2024, affecting
4.1 million people, in the Palestinian territory.
Israel's war on Gaza has set back development indicators such as health
and education by nearly 70 years, a new United Nations report has found,
with millions more Palestinians falling below the poverty line. In a
report published on Tuesday, the UN Development Programme (UNDP) said
the overall Palestinian economy is now 35 percent smaller compared with
a year ago at the start of Israel's offensive in Gaza, with unemployment
"potentially rising" to an estimated 49.9 percent. The UNDP research
showed the Human Development Index (HDI) for Gaza, a measure of “average
achievement in key dimensions of human development", is projected to
drop to a level estimated for 1955, "erasing over 69 years of progress".
In the occupied West Bank, the HDI was expected to drop to a level
"reflecting a loss of 16 years", the report said, warning it was "likely
to further worsen" if Israeli military assaults expand. The poverty rate
across the enclave will almost double this year to 74.3 percent, it
said. In all, 4.1 million people are now considered impoverished across
the Palestinian territory, including the Gaza Strip and the occupied
West Bank, with 2.61 million added in the last year alone, according to
the report. "The state of Palestine is experiencing unprecedented levels
of setbacks," said Chitose Noguchi, a UNDP representative, from Deir el-Balah
in central Gaza. UNDP head Achim Steiner told the AFP news agency that
the immediate consequence of the war in terms of infrastructure
destruction, as well as poverty and loss of livelihoods "is enormous".
"It's quite clear from this socioeconomic assessment, that the level of
destruction has set back the state of Palestine by years, if not
decades, in terms of its development pathway," Steiner added. Steiner
said even if humanitarian aid is delivered each year after the war ends,
the Palestinian economy will not return to its pre-crisis levels for at
least a decade. The study also said Israel's bombing campaign created 42
million tonnes of rubble in Gaza, posing serious health risks. The
destruction of solar panels is particularly dangerous given the lead and
other heavy metals they release, the report said. On Tuesday, the UN
agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) made an urgent plea for a pause
in the fighting in northern Gaza to allow humanitarian aid to reach
trapped civilians there. In a post on X, UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini
said the agency's staff reported being unable to find food, water or
medicine in the war-battered region.
"The smell of death is everywhere as bodies are left lying on the roads
or under the rubble. Missions to clear the bodies or provide
humanitarian assistance are denied," he said.
Gaza's Government Media Office said since the beginning of Israel's war
on Gaza, Israeli forces have prevented the entry of "more than a quarter
of a million trucks of aid and goods", leaving 96 percent of its people
facing high levels of food shortage.
At least 42,718 people have been killed and 100,282 wounded in Israeli
attacks since October 7, 2023, according to Gaza's Ministry of Health.
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA AND NEWS AGENCIES>>
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/10/22/israels-war-on-gaza-has-set-development-back-69-years-un-says
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