Gaza Aid (see also Aid to Palestine)
Updated 2024-04-01
2024-03-23 UN chief calls blocked aid for Gaza a moral outrage A long line of blocked relief trucks on Egypt’s side of the border with the Gaza Strip where people face starvation is a moral outrage, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said during a visit to the Rafah crossing on Saturday.
It was time for Israel to give an “ironclad commitment” for unfettered access to humanitarian goods throughout Gaza, said Guterres, who also called for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire and the release of Israeli hostages held in Gaza. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/un-chief-calls-blocked-aid-for-gaza-a-moral-outrage/ar-BB1kpaOG?
2024-03-16 I’m A Cook: Feeding Hope In Gaza As children in Gaza starve and rapacious capitalism, fractured governments and toothless international groups all fail to act, let it not be said that one person – albeit with extraordinary grit, heart, political will, clarity of vision – cannot make a difference. This week, chef José Andrés’ World Central Kitchen, working with Jordan, UAE and Cyprus, made the first maritime delivery of food to Gaza. Please give this man his Nobel Peace Prize already. Also send him some money.
Since moving to the U.S. decades ago, the Spanish-born, award-winning Andrés, 54, has opened multiple restaurants in D.C and then across the country, including in New York, Chicago, Orlando and Las Vegas. In 2010, after volunteering at D.C.’s Central Kitchen helping repurpose food for those in need, he founded World Central Kitchen, whose chefs and first responders bring meals to people hit by natural disasters and humanitarian emergencies around the globe. Since his first mission to earthquake-ravaged Haiti, he and a worldwide “Chef Corps” of local cooks have made and distributed over 350 million meals – to Puerto Ricans devastated by Hurricane Maria, COVID-trapped cruise ship passengers in California, flooded-out Houston and, in 2022, in their first active war zone, to Ukraine, where, when a Russian missile hit the Kharkiv restaurant they were working in, injuring four WCK workers, team members insisted, “We wanna keep cooking. We wanna keep fighting.'” https://www.commondreams.org/further/i-m-a-cook-feeding-hope-in-gaza
2024-03-07 Biden Aid Port Plan Rebuked as ‘Pathetic’ PR Effort as Israel Starves Gazans President Joe Biden is expected to announce during his State of the Union address Thursday night that the U.S. military will construct a temporary port on Gaza’s coastline to facilitate the delivery of humanitarian assistance, a plan that critics said is a far cry from what’s needed to end Israel’s forced starvation of the enclave’s population.
It’s expected to take up to two months for large aid packages to begin flowing through the seaport, which a White House official said would be able to “receive large ships carrying food, water, medicine, and temporary shelters.”
“Wouldn’t it be easier to demand Israel let in aid right now while Palestinian children are literally being starved to death?” “Besides, how are you going to offload the aid from the pier to the land given that Israel shoots at Palestinian boats all the time?” Josh Ruebner, an adjunct lecturer at Georgetown University and former policy director of the U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights. continued. “And even if you get the aid to land, how does it get distributed to those most in need? Maybe you should have thought about that before you cut off aid to UNRWA, the only agency able to distribute aid throughout the Gaza Strip.” https://www.commondreams.org/news/state-of-the-union-gaza-port 2024-02-27 Aid coming into Gaza is a trickle compared to the needs that exist, ICRC spokesperson tells CNN ICRC spokesperson Sarah Davies says difficulties don’t only lie in the entry of aid into Gaza, but the logistics of safely distributing it. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/aid-coming-into-gaza-is-a-trickle-compared-to-the-needs-that-exist-icrc-spokesperson-tells-cnn/vi-BB1iYU22?
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