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SvennoJ on 21 February 2024
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Northern Gaza residents eat animal feed for three weeks: Government media office

Ismail al-Thawabteh, the head of Gaza’s government media office, says that residents of the northern Gaza Strip have been eating animal feed for three consecutive weeks. He warned of a humanitarian catastrophe affecting hundreds of thousands of Palestinians if the world fails to force Israel to allow humanitarian aid into the besieged coastal enclave.

Gaza mother feeds her starving children fried pancakes using animal feed

Um Saher al-Amoudi is being forced to get creative. She is making fried pancakes from ground animal feed, which she seasons with salt and other spices. The woman lives with her eight family members in the playground of an UNRWA school in Jabalia refugee camp, northern Gaza, after their home was destroyed.

She laments her limited options for feeding her children. “This food is insatiable. My little one wakes up at night screaming from hunger because only bread fills the children’s stomachs. “Today I found this corn flour, and maybe I won’t find it tomorrow … the situation is getting worse day by day, our situation is very miserable.”

Israel orders evacuation from Zeitoun, Turkmen districts

The Israeli army has told all residents of the Zeitoun and Turkmen neighbourhoods in Gaza City to urgently move to al-Mawasi town in the south of the Gaza Strip, calling the town a “humanitarian zone”. They would have to travel more than 30km (19 miles) through bombed roads of the war zone.

Avichay Adraee, a spokesman for the Israeli army, told the Palestinians via X that the evacuation order comes “for your safety”, despite there being no safe place in the war-torn and besieged enclave.



Nasser Hospital has ‘become a place of death’: UN official

An official with the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has described “appalling” conditions inside Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, which have transformed “a place of healing” to “a place of death”. Jonathan Whittall, senior humanitarian affairs officer with the OCHA, made his comments during a mission to the besieged hospital with the WHO and the Palestine Red Crescent to evacuate the most critically ill who have been trapped inside for weeks amid Israeli bombardments.

“There are 150 patients in one of these buildings. They have no food and water, no electricity. There’s very few doctors and nurses that are remaining inside this hospital. The conditions are appalling,” Whittall said in a video posted on social media. “There are dead bodies in the corridors. Patients are in a desperate situation. This has become a place of death, not a place of healing.

“This is a preventable tragedy that should not have happened”.


Situation at Nasser Medical Complex ‘unbearable’

Gaza’s Ministry of Health spokesman, Dr Ashraf Al-Qudra, has just shared the following updates:

  • The situation at Nasser Medical Complex is unbearable and poses a real danger to the lives of staff and patients.
  • Medical teams are unable to provide care to patients due to a lack of oxygen and medical supplies.
  • While 45 patients were transferred to other hospitals, Israeli forces are delaying the evacuation of another 110.
  • Water and oxygen were cut off as a result of the electrical generator stopping.
  • Tonnes of medical and non-medical waste have accumulated in the corridors and courtyards.
  • Sewage water is flooding the emergency and radiology departments.

Israeli soldiers kill Palestinian child in occupied West Bank

According to the official WAFA news agency, Israeli forces shot Fadi Suleiman in the town of Azzun, east of Qalqiliya. The 15-year-old succumbed to his wounds at hospital after he was shot in the chest, medical sources told WAFA.

Ninth Palestinian prisoner dies in Israeli jail since October 7

Khaled Shawish has been identified as the ninth Palestinian prisoner to die in Israeli jails since October 7. The 53-year-old from Tubas in the occupied West Bank was detained in 2007 and given a life sentence for his role in the second Intifada. The father of four was severely wounded and disabled in 2001.

The Palestinian Prisoner’s Society said 247 Palestinians have died in Israeli custody since 1967. Israeli authorities have withheld the remains of 17 of them. It added that Israeli forces arrested 30 people from the occupied West Bank overnight, bringing the number of detainees since October 7 to 7,150.

Since October 7, at least 401 Palestinians, including the nine prisoners, have been killed in Israeli army and settler attacks across the occupied West Bank.