KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — Internet and telephone services collapsed across the Gaza Strip on Thursday for lack of fuel, the main Palestinian provider said, bringing a potentially long-term blackout of communications as Israel signaled its offensive against Hamas could next target the south, where most of the population has taken refuge. Israeli troops […]
Posts Tagged ‘humanitarian’
Internet, Phone Networks Collapse In Gaza, Worsening Humanitarian Crisis
Humanitarian Thought To Be Among Hamas Hostages Confirmed Dead
Vivian Silver, the Canadian Israeli humanitarian believed to have been abducted by Hamas militants during their Oct. 7 attack, was confirmed dead Monday by Israeli authorities, according to her sons. Silver, a 74-year-old retiree, had for years dedicated herself to the cause of peace between Israelis and Palestinians. She was at home in Kibbutz Be’eri […]
Israel ‘Agrees’ to 4-Hour Humanitarian ‘Pauses’ It Was Aready Doing Anyway
Israel reportedly “agreed” to unilateral, daily four-hour pauses in the fight against Hamas in Gaza for “humanitarian” reasons, though it was already pausing on its own and providing an evacuation corridor for Palestinian civilians from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. daily. Source Views: 0
White House Says Israel Agrees To 4-Hour Daily ‘Humanitarian Pauses’ In Gaza Fighting
The White House says Israel has agreed to put in place four-hour daily humanitarian pauses in its assault on Hamas in norther Gaza. Source Views: 0
Israeli ambassador on U.S. calls for humanitarian aid to Gaza: ‘We don’t need urging’
The Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Michael Herzog said Israel does not need “urging” to provide humanitarian aid to Gaza. Herzog said Israel is “ramping up humanitarian supplies into” the areas of Gaza that are away from Hamas’s reach, in the southern region. He told Blake Burman during an interview on “The Hill on NewsNation”… […]
They let humanitarian aid in. Then they bombed it so that Gaza would starve.
One of the bakeries that Israel bombed in Nuseirat refugee camp had just received a shipment of flour from UNRWA meant to cover the food needs of the entire camp. Israel waited to bomb it once all the flour was unloaded. Source Views: 0
U.N. Calls For ‘Immediate Humanitarian Cease-Fire’ To Provide Aid To Gaza
The United Nations called for the cease-fire to the Israel-Hamas attacks so that aid can reach people in Gaza, who have gone nearly two weeks without food, water and other essentials. Source Views: 0
Egypt Opens Gaza Border Crossing to Humanitarian Aid, but Still Rejects Refugees
The Egyptian government agreed on Thursday to open the Rafah crossing into Gaza for humanitarian aid convoys, although Egypt still refuses to accept any Palestinian refugees from Gaza. Source Views: 0
‘Al-Aqsa Flood Operation’ Day 13: Humanitarian aid to Gaza stalls as Israel renews airstrikes
Due to the destruction Israel wrought at the Rafah crossing and to roads, moving humanitarian aid into Gaza is currently impossible. Meanwhile, Israel has renewed its indiscriminate airstrikes with U.S. diplomatic cover. Source Views: 0
Concern that U.S. Demands for Humanitarian Aid will Hurt Israel, Help Hamas
U.S. buy-in could shield Israel from international pressure and allow it to win. But U.S. conditions could also make it more difficult to destroy Hamas. Source Views: 0
Israeli Ambassador To U.K. Says There’s ‘No Humanitarian Crisis’ In Gaza
The Palestinian territory is currently under siege. Source Views: 0
Gaza Draws Closer To Total Collapse With Humanitarian Aid Blocked At Egyptian Border
As Israel prepared a likely ground offensive into Gaza that would mean deadly house-to-house fighting, fears rose over the conflict spreading. Source Views: 0
US names special envoy for Middle Eastern humanitarian efforts, with eye on Gaza
The White House announced Sunday the appointment of David Satterfield, former U.S. ambassador to Turkey, to serve as Special Envoy for Middle East Humanitarian Issues. Satterfield, in his new position, “will focus on ensuring life-saving assistance can reach vulnerable people throughout the Middle East,” national security adviser Jake Sullivan said in a statement Sunday. The… […]
Scotland pledges $606,000 for humanitarian aid for Gaza
The Scottish Government will provide £500,000 ($606,183) towards the United Nations Relief and Works Agency’s flash appeal in response to the ongoing escalation in the Gaza Strip. In a tweet, First Minister Hamza Yousaf said: “A humanitarian corridor must be opened to allow supplies through to those in need.” UNRWA’s appeal is urgently seeking funds to respond […]
Israel refusing to allow HUMANITARIAN AID to reach the 2 million civilians trapped in Gaza
(NaturalNews) The Israeli government is refusing to allow any kind of humanitarian aid to reach the more than two million civilians trapped inside the besieged and… Source Views: 0
Jordan, Palestine leaders call for Gaza humanitarian corridors amid Israel attacks
The leaders of Jordan and Palestine, on Thursday, called for opening humanitarian corridors into Gaza amid a massive Israeli air campaign on the Palestinian territory, Anadolu Agency reports. Jordan’s King Abdullah II held talks in Amman with Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, to discuss the situation in Gaza. A joint statement said the two leaders called […]
King Abdullah II of Jordan Orders Humanitarian Aid to Gaza; IDF Says “no”
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Israeli Humanitarian Who Fought To End Occupation Feared To Be Among Hamas Captives
Vivian Silver, who has spent the last 50 years fighting for justice alongside Palestinians and the Bedouin community, went missing after the attack on Israel. Source Views: 0
Turkiye charity sends more humanitarian aid to war-torn Sudan
The Humanitarian Relief Foundation (IHH), a Turkish charity, on Thursday said it sent 30 new containers with relief supplies to the needy in war-torn Sudan, Anadolu Agency reports. The new package is part of IHH’s continuing aid campaign, which was launched in June, and includes food items, blankets, hygiene kits, clothes and wheelchairs. The organisation […]
CHRIS HEDGES: HUMANITARIAN IMPERIALISM CREATED THE LIBYAN NIGHTMARE
SEPTEMBER 18TH, 2023 Source CHRIS HEDGES Washington DC — (Scheerpost) — “We came, we saw, he died,” Hillary Clinton famously quipped when Muammar Gaddafi, after seven months of U.S. and NATO bombing, was overthrown in 2011 and killed by a mob who sodomized him with a bayonet. But Gaddafi would not be the only one to die. […]