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Oxfam is warning that a total siege on Gaza will lead to a humanitarian catastrophe.
The UK-based charity has suspended all humanitarian work in the besieged coastal enclave because of ongoing air strikes and violence.
“The decision to implement a ‘total siege’ by the Israeli government, in addition to the ongoing blockade, will further deny Gazan civilians essentials like food, water and electricity,” said Mustafa Tmaizi, Oxfam’s acting country director in the occupied Palestinian territory and Israel.
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“This constitutes collective punishment of a population that bears no responsibility for the violence and is illegal under international law. It will not contribute to peace and security, instead, it will further fan the flames of this crisis.”
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Al Jazeera: Netanyahu is drawing the US into war with Iran
The Israeli prime minister’s persistent obsession with the Islamic Republic may finally drag the US into another disastrous regional war. Egypt claims they warned Israel repeatedly but Israel deliberately ignored the warnings. Hezbollah is armed to the teeth by Iran and promised to open a second front, and today it openly began to join the war on the side of the Palestinians which could drag in Iran.
The war between Israel and Palestine divides the European Union
MEP Claire Daly criticizes Ursula von der Leyen for supporting Israel on behalf of the entire European Union: “Who do you think you are? You have not been elected and do not have the authority to determine the foreign policy of the European Union, which is set by the European Council. Europe does NOT ‘support Israel’. We are in favor of peace. Don’t speak for us. If you don’t have anything constructive to say, and you clearly don’t, shut up.”
Following Saturday’s attack, a European Union commissioner, Oliver Varhelyi, announced the suspension of economic aid to Palestine….
Among others, Paris, Madrid and Dublin protested against Oliver Varhelyi’s statement. considering that it should be discussed first by the 27. “We are not in favor of suspending aid that directly benefits the Palestinian populations
Houthi demonstrators rally to show support to Palestinian factions, in Sanaa, Yemen [Houthi Media Office via Reuters]
UNRWA struggling with supplies for displaced Gazans: Official
Jenifer Austin, an operations manager with UNRWA (The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees) in Gaza, said that 88 schools run by the UN agency have been converted to emergency shelters, with “177,000 people seeking refuge with the safety of the blue flag of the UN”.
She said the UN agency for Palestinian refugees has supplied food and water for 12 days, when accounting only for those displaced staying at the shelters and not those living elsewhere in Gaza.
“We are so stretched. We’ve got huge demands on our supply lines, and of course, the supply has been cut,” she said, referring to Israel’s announcement of a full siege of the enclave.
“Our own compound here, where I’m calling from, we’ve been in a bunker for six hours yesterday, completely bombarded around us,” she said. “Our whole infrastructure here is just about down and we are we are relatively safe here, compared to the people of Gaza.”
Bodies continue to arrive at Israeli mortuary
By Sara Khairat outside a building used as an Israeli military mortuary in Ramla
We’ve been seeing ambulances turning up in large numbers. We’ve counted about seven to eight of those in about 40 minutes after first arriving here. We’ve also seen a tent has been set up for family members that are coming here to see if anyone they have lost is on the list of those that have been identified……. They also told us there are not just bodies of Israeli soldiers and civilians in the building. … “About 1,500 bodies of Hamas [fighters] have been found in Israel around the Gaza Strip,” said Colonel Richard Hecht, an Israeli army spokesman. ”
Hamas attack on Israel was ‘unadulterated evil’, Biden says
US President Joe Biden says the attack by Hamas on Israel was “sheer evil”….
Palestinians walk amid the rubble following Israeli air strikes that razed swaths of a neighbourhood in Gaza City [Fatima Shbair/AP Photo]
Former ICC lawyer says US, Israel do not live up to claim they respect international law
Former International Criminal Court lawyer Geoffrey Nice has responded to Biden’s claim that the US and Israel stand apart from Palestinian fighters in their adherence to international rules and laws….. “It’s an unhappy reality that Israel is more or less immune from the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court, and that America will save it if there’s any attempt to refer it there by the [UN] Security Council, and that America itself is not a member of that court,” he said.“It’s an unhappy reality that Israel is more or less immune from the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court, and that America will save it if there’s any attempt to refer it there by the [UN] Security Council, and that America itself is not a member of that court,” he said.
Palestinians inspect the damage of destroyed building after Israeli airstrikes in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip [Hatem Ali/AP Photo]
A view of the rubble of buildings hit by an Israeli air strike, in Gaza City [Hatem Moussa/AP Photo]
‘Lebanon is becoming an area of operations’
By Ali Hashem in Naqoura, southern Lebanon
Lebanon is currently not a warzone, but it has become an area of operations. For now, everyone is watching whether tensions will escalate especially after the killing of three Hezbollah fighters yesterday following Israel’s retaliatory attacks……
Funeral of Hezbollah members Ali Ftouni and Hussam Ibrahim, who died during Israeli shelling on south Lebanon [Mohamed Azakir/Reuters]
Gaza death toll jumps to 830
The Palestinian health ministry says the number of people killed has risen to 830, with 4,250 wounded.
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