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Attacks across Gaza obstructing humanitarian aid
The fighting continues. The air raids continue. The air strikes continue to pound areas across central Gaza, the city of Khan Younis, as well as Gaza City in the north.
These attacks are obstructing humanitarian aid. And following Israel’s attack on the World Central Kitchen (WCK) employees earlier this week, a lot of people – donors, volunteers, and aid workers on the ground – are very discouraged.
The more the bombings continue, the more we’re seeing increasingly difficult conditions on the ground.
No significant change in Gaza aid flow
Despite Israel’s announcement that it will open a new border crossing and pier for humanitarian aid into Gaza, there has been no meaningful change in the flow of aid on the ground, says Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud from Gaza.
Conditions are increasingly desperate in northern Gaza, where dozens of children have died from starvation or dehydration as famine sets in.
Mahmoud says it will be almost impossible to bring substantial aid to the north of Gaza “until there is a complete ceasefire and assurance of safety for aid workers and aid seekers”.
Overcrowded Al-Aqsa Hospital now treating patients in outdoor tents
Every day, dozens of wounded Palestinians are being brought to Al-Aqsa Hospital in central Gaza, even though the facility is totally full, a spokesperson for the hospital has told Al Jazeera Arabic.
The influx of new patients has forced the facility to set up outdoor tents to treat the wounded, the spokesperson said, adding that the conditions are unsanitary and health workers lack essential supplies.
“We lack medical supplies, medicines and fuel,” the spokesperson said. “We lack the necessary tools in the operating rooms, specifically for orthopaedics.”
‘Stuck in a cycle’
The US, Qatar and Egypt want to keep negotiations alive and see a ceasefire. But Hamas was unimpressed with the last Israeli proposal, enough that it didn’t properly respond to it, saying there wasn’t anything new.
The Israelis think that Hamas is making delusional demands, while Hamas thinks Israelis are being intransigent.
A reminder of where we are with these demands:
- Hamas says it wants the full withdrawal of Israeli troops from Gaza, a permanent ceasefire, the return of displaced Palestinians to the north of the strip, a substantial increase in aid and the rebuilding of the strip, the release of an unspecified number of Palestinian prisoners from Israeli jail in exchange for the Israeli captives.
- On the other side, Netanyahu said the war won’t stop with a ceasefire, that he won’t release any “terrorists” and that the military doesn’t want civilians returning to the north just yet.
They seem to be stuck in a cycle.
A ‘betrayal of humanity’, says UN relief chief
The United Nations under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief, Martin Griffiths, slammed Israel’s war on Gaza as a “betrayal of humanity”.
“Rarely has there been such global outrage at the toll of conflict, with seemingly so little done to end it and instead so much impunity,” Griffiths said in a statement on the eve of the six-month anniversary of the war.
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