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SvennoJ on 02 March 2024
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Doctor treating dehydrated, malnourished newborns appeals for help

Dr Imad Dardonah, a paediatrician at Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, says that the most doctors at the hospital can do for malnourished and dehydrated children is to give them saline solution or sugar solution.

“All of this is happening due to the lack of food,” he said.

“My message is an appeal to the entire world to intervene and save all the children,” he said. “The war must stop immediately.”

Children search for supplies in Deir el-Balah

Children look through tents and makeshift shelters which were destroyed in Israeli strikes in Deir el-Balah in central Gaza on Saturday. As fewer aid convoys reach Gaza, people are searching through destroyed buildings for supplies and in the hopes of finding food.

UNSC issues statement on aid convoy ‘incident involving Israeli forces’

The UN Security Council (UNSC) has issued a joint statement from members expressing “deep concern” that more than “100 individuals lost their lives” in “an incident involving Israeli forces at a large gathering surrounding a humanitarian assistance convoy southwest of Gaza City”.

The statement notes that several hundred people were also injured, including with “gunshot wounds as observed by [the UN humanitarian agency] UN-OCHA” but does not specify who was responsible for the gunfire.

Council members jointly called on “all parties to refrain from depriving the civilian population in the Gaza Strip of basic services and humanitarian assistance”.

The statement does specifically mention Israel’s role in keeping “border crossings open for humanitarian aid to enter Gaza” and calls on Israel “to support the rapid and safe delivery of relief items to people in all of the Gaza Strip”.

The joint statement comes after the US on Thursday blocked a statement from the council which would have assigned blame to Israel for the so-called “flour massacre“.

The US has its way again, the people fell on the bullets.



Photo op achieved

US military releases footage of aid airdrops into Gaza

The United States military has released footage of its personnel preparing aid packages and airdropping them into Gaza.

The US Central Command posted the footage on X after announcing it had airdropped 38,000 meals into the enclave.



Every bit helps, hopefully it landed in places where people can reach it. The parachutes should make good tent material as well. Yet if not scaled up each day until there are over 500 flights daily, it won't be enough. Get the waiting trucks in and what about the sea route.



Looks like Israel is sending another delegation again, or maybe not...

More reports that Israel will send delegation to Cairo talks

The Reuters news agency is now reporting that Israeli and Hamas delegations are expected in Cairo for talks on Sunday, citing two Egyptian security sources.

Earlier, our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic reported that the Israeli and Hamas delegations plan to meet on Sunday in the Egyptian capital for an “indirect round of negotiations” towards a possible truce and prisoner-captive exchange deal.

Reuters also cited another unspecified source “briefed on the talks” that says Israel would not send a delegation until it got a full list of captives still alive.

Talks discuss temporary pause, but ceasefire needed

Negotiators are currently discussing a temporary pause in fighting not a more permanent ceasefire, HA Hellyer, a senior associate fellow with the Royal United Services Institute in London, has told Al Jazeera.

“A pause will be a welcome respite to the people of Gaza. But of course, what they really need – especially in the midst of this incredible humanitarian crisis that has been on the screens of the world’s media for so long – is for a ceasefire,” Hellyer said. “The Israelis have made it very clear that once they got the hostages out, then bombardment will continue so it’s not exactly a ceasefire deal.”

Al Jazeera’s Tareq Abu Azzoum, reporting from Rafah, said a ceasefire would allow Palestinians in Gaza a chance “to retrieve the bodies of their beloved ones from under the rubble”. Azzoum noted that negotiators have been working to “bridge the gaps of understanding” and that Palestinians hope they will see a ceasefire soon.

New York Times executive editor defends leak inquiry amid Hamas rape article controversy

The New York Times’ executive editor Joseph Kahn has sent an email to his newsroom defending the paper’s decision to investigate internal leaks related to controversy over an article alleging systemic sexual violence during Hamas’ October 7 attack on Israel, The Intercept has reported. In his email to staff cited by The Intercept, Kahn said that leaking material related to a shelved episode of the Times’s podcast The Daily had crossed  a “clear red line.”

“It threatens the culture of trust essential to the intensive editing process in every part of the newsroom,” Kahn wrote, according to a screenshot of the email shared by the Intercept. Kahn’s message to staff comes after the union representing New York Times employees on Friday accused the company of targeting employees with Middle Eastern or North African heritage during the leaks investigation.

The Times said in a statement to the Washington Post that accusations that it targeted staff based on their associations or ethnicity were “preposterous”.

The Times launched the leaks inquiry after The Intercept in January reported that the paper had pulled an episode of The Daily about an article describing widespread sexual violence on October 7 amid questions about the article’s credibility.

UFC fighter dedicates victory speech to people in Gaza

Russian UFC fighter Umar Nurmagomedov has used a victory speech to call on the world to “wake up” and show “minimum humanity” to the people of Gaza.“They don’t have any food, they don’t have any water, medical, nothing,” Nurmagomedov said after defeating Bekzat Almakhan at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas on Saturday. 


Jill Biden heckled by antiwar protester in Arizona

Jill Biden, the wife of US President Biden, was heckled by a protester about the war in Gaza during a speaking event in the state of Arizona.

Footage posted on social media showed a young woman standing up from her seat and yelling, “Jill, when are you and the president going to call for a ceasefire in Gaza?”, before she was dragged away by security.

The first lady was in Arizona to talk about abortion rights ahead of the US presidential election in November.



Look at all these old white people jumping into action to silence her.... Isn't that assault... Damn women, sit down, how dare you use your first amendment rights.