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SvennoJ on 25 January 2024
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WHO chief says ceasefire is ‘long overdue’

World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has reiterated his call for a ceasefire in Gaza, where Israel’s assault continues to take a heavy toll on Palestinian civilians.

“The ceasefire in Gaza is long overdue. 26,000 people have died – 70 percent women and children. 8,000 missing. 64,000 injured. 1.7 million displaced. Sick not getting services. Outbreaks and hunger spreading. Health system on its knees,” he said in a social media post on Thursday. “The solution exists. It’s only the will that is required. Let’s choose peace.”

Israeli forces racing against time to destroy Khan Younis

The situation in Khan Younis is considered to be completely chaotic there. We’re talking about an extreme, aggravating humanitarian crisis in the city as Israeli forces are stepping up military attacks and destroying complete residential neighbourhoods one after the other. We’ve been seeing Israeli forces encircling Nasser Hospital alongside al-Amal Hospital – the last two remaining hospitals operating in Khan Younis.

That led to terrorising the hundreds of patients and evacuees. Medical workers are trying to keep providing treatment for the injured and pregnant women, who are unable to flee from the hospital due to the intensifying raids of attacks on the city. We’ve heard from medical sources saying they are unable to get out of the hospital, that they are trapped there, they are isolated.

The Israeli forces are racing against time to destroy the city of Khan Younis, and to blow up the majority of residential buildings as they have been stating earlier that they are about to set up a “buffer zone” in Gaza.




Israel’s Gaza landgrab ‘unjustified, by any view, under international law’

A former UN war crimes prosecutor says Israel has no grounds legally to create a “buffer zone” in Gaza by destroying Palestinian homes and confiscating agricultural land. “If you want to a demilitarised zone that you’re going to fill with landmines, why not have it on the Israeli side and stop people crossing it,” Geoffrey Nice told Al Jazeera. “What they’re proposing, effectively and in anyone’s interpretation, is occupation.”

He noted the fertile farmland Israel is eyeing to takeover is “crucial to Gaza’s economy”. “But the process has already started. A large number of buildings have already been flattened. It is unjustified, by any view, under international law,” said Nice, proposing sanctions by powerful nations against Israel to stop the landgrab.

Environment Quality Authority: 66 percent of people in Gaza Strip suffer from water-borne diseases

A Palestinian environmental body says two-thirds of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip suffer from water-borne diseases due to the lack of potable water and the lack of working desalination plants as a result of the war.

In a statement, the Environment Quality Authority said people are at risk from cholera, chronic diarrhoea and intestinal diseases. “The Israeli occupation’s bombing of sewage lines and their flooding had led to a health and environmental catastrophe, especially the Sheikh Radwan pond [in Gaza City], which has reached a critical level due to the accumulation of rainwater and the leakage of wastewater into it,” the authority said.

Know their names: Palestinian children killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza

Since October 7, Israeli attacks have killed at least 10,000 children in the Gaza Strip. Thousands more are missing under the rubble, most of them presumed dead. The grim toll means that one Palestinian child is killed every 15 minutes, or that about one child out of every 100 in Gaza has perished, leading the UN to say that the Gaza Strip is a “graveyard for children“.

https://interactive.aljazeera.com/aje/2024/israel-war-on-gaza-10000-children-killed/

Israeli authorities turn Negev prison ‘into hell’

The Palestinian Commission for Prisoners’ and Ex-Prisonders’ Affairs says Israeli authorities are tightening their grip on detainees in the Negev prison, making their lives an “unbearable hell”. In a statement, the commission said that “the Israeli occupation’s oppressive measures against the prisoners in the Negev Desert Prison make life more miserable, cruel and anxious in light of the strict security measures imposed on the prisoners after October 7”.

It added that the prison administration has “deliberately” cut off electricity and water for varying periods and has also isolated the prisoners from the outside world, removed food supplies and reduced meals, as well as closed a shop for purchasing necessities. “In addition, it has deprived sick detainees of being transferred to clinics or to civilian hospitals. It has also prevented prisoners from going out to the yard and stopped family visits,” the statement said.

More than 6,000 Palestinians, including children and women, have been arrested by Israel since the start of the war, bringing the number of prisoners inside Israeli jails to about 9,000 Palestinians.