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A siege by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces has caused a famine in North Darfur’s capital el-Fasher.Sudan’s 27-month civil war is being compounded by a hunger crisis affecting the vulnerable, especially the people trapped in North Darfur’s capital, el-Fasher.Despite numerous pleas for help from the people within, aid agencies say they have been denied access to el-Fasher.As a result, some 740,000 people are deteriorating from hunger, according to the African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies.In December 2024, global hunger monitor the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, declared a famine in Zamzam and Abu Shouk camps – two camps housing…
Vehicle overturned after Israeli forces directed it down an ‘unsafe road’, local officials tell WAFA news agency.At least 20 Palestinians have been killed and many injured after a truck carrying humanitarian aid overturned onto a crowd of people in central Gaza, according to the Government Media Office in the enclave.The incident occurred on Wednesday as large numbers of Palestinians gathered in central Gaza in search of food and basic supplies, amid an increasingly dire humanitarian crisis.Local officials quoted by the official Palestinian news agency Wafa said the vehicle overturned after Israeli forces directed it down what they described as an…
Moscow says Israeli troops did not intervene as settlers attacked a Russian diplomatic vehicle and verbally threatened diplomats.Moscow has lodged a formal complaint with Israel over an attack by Israeli settlers on a Russian diplomatic vehicle near an illegal settlement in the occupied West Bank.Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said in a statement on Tuesday that Moscow considered the attack a “gross violation of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations of 1961”, and expressed “bewilderment and disapproval” that the attack “occurred with the connivance of Israeli military personnel”.According to Zakharova, the vehicle belonging to Russia’s representation to the…
US president’s comments come amid warnings that expanding Israeli operations would be ‘catastrophic’ for Palestinians.Washington, DC – United States President Donald Trump has suggested that he will not block possible Israeli plans to take over Gaza.When asked on Tuesday about reports that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has decided to occupy the entire Palestinian territory, Trump said he is focused on getting “people fed” in Gaza.“As far as the rest of it, I really can’t say. That’s going to be pretty much up to Israel,” the US president told reporters.Washington provides Israel with billions of dollars in military aid annually,…
Among the Palestinians killed are scores of aid seekers and eight who lost their lives due to hunger and malnutrition.Israeli attacks have killed at least 83 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip amid a deepening Israel-induced hunger crisis, medical sources have told media, as hospitals in the besieged territory have recorded eight more deaths from starvation and malnutrition.Among those killed on Tuesday were 58 aid seekers who were shot by Israeli forces as they approached aid distribution sites operated by the US- and Israeli-backed GHF.media’s Hind Khoudary, reporting from Deir el-Balah in central Gaza, said the “same exact scenario plays out…
Israel international Shon Weissman was expected to complete move from Spain’s Granada to Germany’s Fortuna Dusseldorf.Bundesliga 2 side Fortuna Dusseldorf has pulled out of signing Israel striker Shon Weissman in response to fan anger about his social media posts on the Gaza war, German tabloid Bild has reported.Fan furore erupted online on Monday when news emerged that Weissman was on the cusp of joining Dusseldorf from Spanish side Granada FC.On Tuesday, the club tweeted: “We looked into Shon Weissman intensively, but ultimately decided not to sign him”.The club did not reveal the reasons for the decision, but Bild reported the…
North Darfur’s capital has been under RSF siege for more than a year with key roads blocked and supplies running out.Thousands of families trapped in the besieged city of el-Fasher in western Sudan are at “risk of starvation”, the World Food Programme (WFP) warns as the country’s brutal civil war rages well into its third year.Since May last year, el-Fasher, the capital of North Darfur state, has been under siege by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), which has been at war with the government-aligned Sudanese armed forces (SAF) since April 2023.The RSF has encircled the city, blocking all major…
The meagre amount of food dropped from the sky does not reach the hungry, but it does cover up global inaction on Gaza’s starvation.Last week, I saw aid dropping from the sky near my central Gaza neighbourhood of az-Zawayda. Neither I nor any of my neighbours had the courage to chase after it because we knew that the moment it hit the ground, a battle would erupt. If the aid survived the air, it wouldn’t survive the looters.It is almost always the same scene. Gunfire breaks out the second the plane drops the boxes. Armed gangs are already waiting on…
Gaza faces famine as convoys are delayed and deaths from hunger rise amid Israel’s ongoing military assault.Gaza is now facing its fiercest fight: absolute hunger.There’s no food to buy even if you could afford it, people there have told media.The widespread hunger has been imposed by the Israeli military as it restricted the entry of aid for months and enforced a food distribution system where people get shot almost daily.“It’s one of the most … barbaric ways to kill,” Dr James Smith, an emergency doctor who has volunteered twice in Gaza, told media. “Starvation is always something that is done…
Israel has killed more than 18,000 children since the start of its genocidal war on Gaza.Approximately 28 children are being killed daily in Gaza due to the ongoing Israeli bombardment and its restrictions on the delivery of direly needed humanitarian assistance, according to the United Nations.“Death by bombardments. Death by malnutrition and starvation. Death by lack of aid and vital services,” the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said in a post on X on Tuesday.“In Gaza, an average of 28 children a day – the size of a classroom – have been killed.”The agency stressed that children in Gaza are in…