Aid to Palestine
Updated 2024 07-15
2024-05-26 Aid trucks enter Gaza after weeks as Israeli attacks continue across strip Estimated 200 aid trucks still fall far short of what the UN says is a minimum of 500-600 trucks required daily to feed millions of Palestinians on the brink of starvation. Aid trucks are entering Gaza through Karem Abu Salem crossing in the south as the living conditions of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians continue to deteriorate under Israel’s relentless war on the Palestinian enclave.
Egypt’s state-affiliated Al-Qahera TV on Sunday shared a video on X, showing aid trucks entering Gaza through the crossing, known to Israelis as Kerem Shalom. Aid officials said 200 trucks loaded with aid are set to enter the strip. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/5/26/aid-trucks-enter-gaza-after-weeks-as-israeli-attacks-continue-across-strip
2023-12-05 “There Simply Is No Safe Place in Gaza”: Aid Groups Demand Ceasefire as Israel Intensifies Its War The World Health Organization is warning the crisis in Gaza is getting worse by the hour as Israel intensifies its ground and air assault across all parts of the Gaza Strip, including surrounding the Jabaliya refugee camp and bombing Khan Younis, where many had fled to from the north. With Israel’s attack killing close to 16,000 Palestinians, Shaina Low from the Norwegian Refugee Council describes the “hectic, chaotic, desperate” conditions on the ground and says she can barely get in touch with her colleagues in Gaza, let alone coordinate a humanitarian response to the destruction. “If they can’t get in touch with each other, our operations come to a standstill,” says Low. “We desperately need a ceasefire in order to be able to finally address these dire needs.” https://www.democracynow.org/2023/12/5/no_safe_zones_in_gaza
2023-11-22 Don’t Trust a Model UN Nerd Aid sites hit: “The Biden administration has been providing Israel with the location of humanitarian groups in Gaza for weeks to prevent strikes against their facilities,” reports Politico. But this has not dissuaded the Israeli military from hitting those areas. “Israel’s continued bombardment of these humanitarian facilities raises more questions about whether Washington has the political sway many in the administration want with Israel.”
Aid workers have said that the Israeli military’s commitment to protecting humanitarian groups from strikes has been stronger in the past, but that they are showing less concern for those sites now. “We don’t see eye-to-eye on what they consider collateral damage or military necessity and what we consider a very high civilian toll, whether it’s in life or in infrastructure, including ours,” a United Nations official told Politico. https://reason.com/2023/11/22/dont-trust-a-model-un-nerd/
2023-11-18 UN Forced to Halts Aid Deliveries Into Gaza, Warns of “Immediate Starvation” On Friday the UN said that it was no longer able to continue aid deliveries into Gaza as an Israeli fuel blockade of the enclave has led to a widespread communications blackout. The World Health Organization warned that the ending of aid deliveries means the “immediate possibility of starvation” for the 2.3 million people in Gaza.
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) announced it was forced to halt aid shipments into Gaza. “The communications network in #Gaza is down because there is NO fuel,” the agency said in a statement on social media. “This makes it impossible to manage or coordinate humanitarian aid convoys.” https://www.activistpost.com/2023/11/un-forced-to-halts-aid-deliveries-into-gaza-warns-of-immediate-starvation.html
2023-11-17 UN warns of Gaza starvation as concerns rise about safety in the south The UN has said Gaza’s civilians face the “immediate possibility” of starvation, amid mounting concerns about Israeli plans to expand military operations in parts of the south where people have sought refuge from fighting.
Fuel shortages on Friday halted aid shipments and blacked out communications across the strip. The UN said its trucks could not move and it could not coordinate deliveries. Palestinian network operators said they could no longer power the phone and internet systems. Fuel shortages have also in effect shut down water treatment and sewage systems, leading health authorities to warn about the spread of infectious diseases.
Israel said its forces were consolidating control of the north, as they continued the hunt for a Hamas command and control centre under al-Shifa hospital. A spokesperson attacked the “impatience” of demands for proof of Hamas headquarters there. Since troops entered the compound on Wednesday, the military has published images of what it claimed was one tunnel entrance and weapons found in a truck inside the compound but no further evidence of Hamasactivity. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/17/gaza-un-starvation-disease
2023-10-27 ‘Gaza Is Being Strangled’: Head of UN Refugee Agency Issues Stirring Appeal for Cease-Fire The head of the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees issued an urgent appeal for a cease-fire in Gaza on Friday, warning that Israel’s blockade and incessant bombing are plunging the territory’s population into a horrific humanitarian emergency. https://www.commondreams.org/news/un-gaza-cease-fire
2023-10-24 UN begs for more aid to enter Gaza as hospitals run out of fuel Israel’s relentless bombing of Gaza is getting even deadlier, with more than 700 Palestinians killed overnight, the health ministry in the territory said on Tuesday. Nearly 5,800 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since 7 October, according to the health ministry, including 2,360 children. Hundreds of people remain under the rubble of destroyed buildings. The UN is begging Israel to allow more aid into Gaza, particularly fuel.
More than 5,000 patients are currently being treated at al-Shifa hospital, “significantly over its capacity of 700 patients,” the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said on Monday. Additionally, there are around 45,000 displaced people staying on the hospital grounds.
The UN added that “12 hospitals and 46 primary care clinics across Gaza have been forced to shut down due to damage they had sustained or lack of electricity and supplies.” The World Health Organization has meanwhile documented 72 attacks on health care in Gaza resulting in 16 deaths and 30 injuries of on-duty health care workers.
The lives of thousands of patients are at risk as hospitals run out of fuel, including 1,000 patients dependent on dialysis treatment, 130 premature babies and patients in intensive care or who rely on life support equipment. WHO said that 34,000 liters of fuel were delivered to four hospitals in southern Gaza and the Palestine Red Crescent Society “to sustain its ambulance services.” “However, this is only enough to keep ambulances and critical hospital functions running for a little over 24 hours,” WHO added. https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/maureen-clare-murphy/un-begs-more-aid-enter-gaza-hospitals-run-out-fuel
2023-10-19 Biden’s Gaza “aid” plan a fig leaf for genocide The Biden administration on Wednesday vetoed a UN Security Council resolution calling for humanitarian pauses to deliver urgently needed aid to Gaza. But it put forward its own bogus “aid” plan that amounts to nothing more than “humanitarian” window dressing for Israel’s genocidal, US-backed bombing campaign. The resolution introduced by Brazil “called for humanitarian access to Gaza and protection of civilians” and “condemned the Hamas attack on Israel” on 7 October, The New York Times reported.
Majed Bamya, a diplomat representing the Palestinian Authority at the UN, said that Brazil’s “draft resolution was biased, politicized, failed to acknowledge Palestinian victims and the Israeli indiscriminate attacks against them, failed to call for a ceasefire, all to avoid a US veto.” “It was just vetoed nevertheless,” Bamya added. The US cast its veto, according to the Times, “because the US wanted to give diplomacy a chance as President Biden was in Israel and because it did not state that Israel has the right to defend itself.” https://electronicintifada.net/content/bidens-gaza-aid-plan-fig-leaf-genocide/38976 2023-10-19 Bernie Sanders Blocks Ban on U.S. Aid to Gaza as Pentagon Sends More Materiel to Middle East In Washington, D.C., Vermont independent Senator Bernie Sanders has blocked legislation that would have effectively barred U.S. humanitarian aid from reaching Gaza. On Wednesday, Sanders objected when Florida Republican Senator Rick Scott tried to pass the so-called Stop Taxpayer Funding of Hamas Act by unanimous consent. https://www.democracynow.org/2023/10/19/headlines/gaza_death_toll_nears_3_800_as_israels_siege_and_bombardment_enters_13th_day
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