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UN agency warns of a grave risk of famine as the number of starvation deaths hits 162 Palestinians, including 92 children.Gaza faces a grave risk of famine, with one in three people going days without food, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has warned.UNICEF on Friday urged the international community to act swiftly as conditions continue to deteriorate due to Israel’s genocidal war.“Today, more than 320,000 young children are at risk of acute malnutrition,” Ted Chaiban, UNICEF’s deputy executive director for humanitarian action and supply operations, said in a statement on Friday following a recent trip to Israel, Gaza and the…
Relatives of slain Chicago resident Khamis Ayyad urge Trump administration to launch probe into 40-year-old’s killing.The family of a United States citizen who was killed in a settler attack in the occupied West Bank is calling on the administration of President Donald Trump to open its own investigation into the incident.Relatives of Khamis Ayyad, 40, who died in the town of Silwad, north of Ramallah, on Thursday, confirmed on Friday that he was an American citizen and called for justice in the case.Ayyad — a father of five and a former Chicago resident — was the second US citizen to…
MSF official says Palestinians have no choice but to risk their lives in ‘desperate search for food’.Israel is “engineering chaos and massacres” in the Gaza Strip by continuing to block aid deliveries and opening fire on starving Palestinians seeking desperately needed food supplies, a humanitarian official has warned.Caroline Willemen, Gaza project coordinator for Doctors Without Borders, known by its French initials MSF, told media on Friday that food remains “critically scarce” in the besieged enclave despite the increased entry of aid in recent days.“There is little indication that sufficient aid will arrive consistently,” Willemen said. “As a result, every day,…
Palestinians tell media they witness ‘shooting, killing, death’ by soldiers at GHF distribution sites in Gaza.Starvation is spreading across the Gaza Strip, and the only organisation on the ground mandated to provide food aid stands accused of grave rights violations and the targeting of civilians.The controversial United States and Israel-backed GHF took over aid distribution in Gaza in May, after Israel eased its total blockade of the Strip.Since then, the United Nations says, more than 1,300 Palestinians have been killed trying to reach food.Many have been purposefully shot by Israeli soldiers or US security contractors hired by GHF, according to…
The Central European country has also recognised Palestinian statehood in 2024.Slovenia has become the first country in the European Union to ban all weapons trade with Israel over its war on Gaza.The announcement comes two weeks after the Central European nation declared Israeli ministers persona non grata, the state news agency STA reported.The arms embargo was announced by Prime Minister Robert Golob after a government session on Thursday.“Slovenia is the first European country to ban the import, export and transit of weapons to and from Israel,” the government said in a statement.It said it was moving ahead “independently” because the…
Israel said ‘terrorist organisations’ were motivated to exact revenge on it due to its recent military campaigns against Iran and in Gaza.Israel’s National Security Council (NSC) has sharpened its travel warnings for Israelis visiting and staying in the United Arab Emirates, citing a heightened risk of “terrorist organisations” carrying out attacks in the Gulf State.In a statement published on Thursday, the NSC cited a growing threat from “terrorist organisations (The Iranians, Hamas, Hezbollah and Global Jihad)” attacking Israeli targets, motivated by Israel’s military operations in the Middle East.“They are driven by heightened motivation to exact revenge following Operation Rising Lion,…
US envoy Steve Witkoff to visit aid distribution sites in Gaza to assess ‘dire situation on the ground’: White HouseUnited States President Donald Trump’s special envoy, Steve Witkoff, will travel to Gaza to inspect aid distribution as pressure mounts on Israel over its starvation policy in the war-torn Palestinian territory.Witkoff will travel to Gaza on Friday with US ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, to inspect aid distribution as condemnation of Israel grows over famine in Gaza and reports that more than 1,000 desperately hungry Palestinians have been killed since May at food distribution sites operated by the notorious US- and…
Supporters of Palestinian rights say although bill to block arms to Israel failed to pass, vote shows ‘shift’ on issue.Washington, DC – Palestinian rights advocates are hailing the growing number of lawmakers in the United States showing willingness to restrict weapons to Israel over the atrocities in Gaza after a Senate vote on the issue.The majority of Democrats in the Senate voted late on Wednesday in favour of a resolution to block a weapons sale to Israel in what rights advocates have hailed as a major blow to the bipartisan support that Israel has traditionally enjoyed in Congress.The measure, introduced…
Mothers fill bottles with water and whatever food they can find as Israel’s blockade continues to fuel starvation crisis.Palestinian mothers in the Gaza Strip are desperately trying to feed their newborns as Israel’s punishing blockade on the besieged enclave has led to dire shortages of infant formula, with some resorting to filling bottles with water and whatever food they can find.Dr Kahlil Daqran told media on Thursday that as supplies of formula run out, many mothers are often too malnourished to breastfeed their infants.“In the Gaza Strip, we have thousands of children being starved because there is no milk for…
More than 1,000 Palestinians have been killed at food distribution sites since May, fuelling international outcry.The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), a US nonprofit backed by the US and Israel, was set up earlier this year to provide humanitarian aid in Gaza. Its aid distribution got under way in May, following a prolonged halt in supply deliveries to the enclave. But according to the UN, more than 1,000 Palestinians have been killed trying to access food at the GHF aid hubs.Starving and beleaguered Palestinians in Gaza have no choice but to walk several miles to collect much-needed food packages from the…