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SvennoJ on 10 March 2024
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Palestinian Foreign Ministry condemns international community’s inability to protect civilians

The ministry has described the international failure to protect Palestinians during Ramadan as “an assassination of humanity”.

In a statement posted on X, it said more than two million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip will experience the Muslim holy month of Ramadan with barely any food or access to clean water, as well as the continuing escalation of Israel’s aggression on the coastal enclave.

“The failure of the Security Council to implement Resolution 2720 and its inability to guarantee the entry of humanitarian and medical aid on a constant basis to civilians in the Gaza Strip has no justification,” the statement said.


Gaza municipal official: Israel destroyed 1 million square metres of roads in Gaza

Asem al-Nabeh, a member of the Gaza Municipality’s emergency committee, told Al Jazeera that Israel has destroyed one million square metres of roads in Gaza City. “Municipalities need machinery, heavy equipment and fuel,” he said, adding that the city has accumulated 70,000 tonnes of waste.

Nabih also said that while food aid that has arrived is important, it does not meet the needs of citizens. Groundwater reserves in Gaza are also in danger, he added. “The per capita share of water in the Gaza municipality is now two litres per day,” he said.

Gaza municipality calls on international groups to provide essential aid

The Municipality of Gaza has sent out an urgent appeal to international organisations ahead of the start of the holy Muslim month of Ramadan. “Essential services like water, sanitation, and waste management are severely affected,” the municipality said in a post on X.

It called for international aid in supplying fuel and electricity for water wells and providing heavy machinery for infrastructure repair and waste management.


Gaza’s civil defence decries tactic of airdropping aid

A spokesman for Gaza’s Civil Defence has criticised the move by several countries to airdrop aid over people in the Gaza Strip, saying it has caused casualties instead. “The method of using the dropping of aid via international relief planes has not limited the famine crisis suffered by our people in the Gaza Strip, but has increased the number of victims looking for a living,” Mahmoud Basal said in a statement.

“The continuation of this method of providing relief to citizens has caused a number of victims and injuries among citizens.

“Therefore, we affirm the need to search for radical solutions to prove the futility of this method in providing relief to citizens suffering from famine in the Gaza Strip, and we stress the need to work to enter this aid through the ports of the Gaza Strip and deliver it in a safe manner to all besieged citizens to avoid further victims.”

A senior UN aid official warned that at least 576,000 people across the Gaza Strip – one-quarter of the population – faced catastrophic levels of food insecurity and one in six children under the age of two in the north were suffering from acute malnutrition.


United States Air Force drops humanitarian aid to Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, Saturday

Protests under way as Israel’s Herzog visits Amsterdam

Israeli President Herzog is attending the opening of the National Holocaust Museum in Amsterdam amid pro-Palestinian protests demanding an immediate ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas conflict in Gaza.

Protesters were chanting “Never again is now” and “Ceasefire now” at a square close to the museum holding Palestinian flags and signs that said “Jews against genocide” and “The grandchild of a holocaust survivor says: Stop Gaza Holocaust”.

Amnesty International put up detour signs around the museum to direct Herzog to the International Court of Justice in The Hague.

Dutch King Willem-Alexander is set to meet Herzog today.


Demonstrators protest against Israel’s President Isaac Herzog attending the opening of the new National Holocaust Museum in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Sunday


‘Genocide Joe’: Activist disrupts Biden speech in Georgia

A pro-Palestine activist has interrupted Joe Biden as he was delivering a campaign speech in Atlanta in the southern state of Georgia.

“You’re a dictator, genocide Joe,” the activist could be heard shouting in videos of the incident posted online. “Tens of thousands of Palestinians are dead. Children are dying.”

Local media said the protester was dragged away by Secret Service personnel. Afterwards, Biden said he did not “resent” the protester’s “passion”. The US leader added that “there’s a lot of Palestinians who are being unfairly victimised”.