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SvennoJ on 25 March 2024
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Germany to give $48m to UNRWA across region

The German government says it is providing 45 million euros ($48m) to the UN’s agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) in Jordan, Lebanon, Syria and the occupied West Bank.

“With this sum, we support health and education services as well as cash-for-work programs for Palestinian refugees,” the Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development said in a post on X.

Good first step, next arms embargo. Except, still not funding UNWRA in Gaza... No aid for starving children.

‘This is a struggle to survive’: Gaza shop owner

This video from the al-Haq rights group, based in the occupied West Bank, shows how Abu al-Saeed al-Sousi, the owner of the oldest felafel shop in Gaza, is running his business amid widespread starvation there.

“There is no electricity, no gas, and we still manage to work,” he said, adding that he is selling his felafels much cheaper than usual to help people out even as prices are skyrocketing as local markets have shut down in Gaza.

“This is a struggle to survive. We are struggling to maintain our existence. We were hit in 2021, and the shop was gone, and hopefully, if God wills it, we will come back and rebuild again.”


Red Crescent: Gaza’s al-Amal Hospital out of service after Israeli siege

The Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) says it has managed to evacuate staff, patients and dead bodies from the besieged al-Amal Hospital in southern Gaza’s Khan Younis.

The organisation said it coordinated with the UN Office for Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to evacuate 27 medical staff, six patients and one patient companion.

The organisation was also able to get two bodies out of the hospital, namely of PRCS volunteer Amir Abu Aisha, killed by the Israeli military, and a civilian who was shot in the head by Israeli soldiers.

“PRCS Al-Amal Hospital, in Khan Yunis, is out of service after the occupation forces forced the hospital staff and the wounded to evacuate it and closed its entrances with earthen barriers.”