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SvennoJ on 17 May 2024
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No medical aid has entered Gaza since May 6: WHO

Despite Israel’s contention at the ICJ that it is facilitating the flow of aid into Gaza, the WHO says it has not been able to get any medical supplies into the enclave since Israeli troops moved towards Rafah.

“The last medical supplies that we got in Gaza was before May 6,” WHO spokesperson Tarik Jasarevic said at a UN press briefing today. “We don’t have fuel. We have hospitals under evacuation order. We have a situation where we cannot move physically,” he said.

Palestinian health officials have warned that the few health facilities still operating are desperately depleted and at growing risk of shutting down as Israel presses on with its Rafah offensive.

 

PRCS says nurse killed in Israeli attack

The Palestine Red Crescent says that nurse Akram Mahmoud Abdullah Makki was killed in Khan Younis on Thursday during an Israeli attack on a school in Gaza’s Nuseirat refugee camp.

Civil defence teams unable to reach bombarded northern Gaza areas

The civil defence in Gaza says its crews are facing difficulties in accessing the areas targeted by the Israeli army in the north of the besieged and bombarded territory.

In a statement on Telegram, it warned of “ugly scenes of massacres” in Jabalia camp and the Tal al-Zaatar and Al-Qasasib neighbourhoods. “What makes it more painful is that our teams remain unable to meet the appeals of our people whose homes were affected by the Israeli bombardment,” it said.


Israel is making Gaza ‘uninhabitable’

The Israeli military continues to pound across the Jabalia refugee camp since the early hours of this morning, destroying more residential buildings. And on the ground, the occupying force is not only causing a great deal of damage to public facilities and remaining residential homes where they are stationed, but as soon as they move from one location to another, they set these locations on fire.

The fact that this Israeli military is causing this is all feeding into one conclusion – making the northern part, including Gaza city, quite uninhabitable by eliminating all social services and pushing people into more enforced displacement and eventually into expulsion from the Gaza Strip.

According to a statement made by the civil defense crew members on the ground, they were able within the past 24 hours to collect 93 bodies from the streets and the alleyways of the refugee camp in Jabalia. And they are saying there are still more bodies in areas that they are unable to reach. They also made it clear that there is quite difficulty and its challenge is on the ground for them to reach to areas where the Israeli military have bombed so.

‘Israel is doing nothing for the people of Gaza’

Marwan Bishara, Al Jazeera’s senior political analyst, has commented on the Israeli legal team’s claims earlier today at the ICJ that Israel is providing humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip: “Israel is trying to convey that it is aiding Gaza, but nothing out of Israel is going into Gaza. Israel is not contributing to the aid of Gaza, everything is coming from the outside world.

“There’s even, sometimes, criticism in Israeli media about, ‘Why are we helping the people of Gaza?’ “Israel is doing nothing – zero – for the people of Gaza.

“What you have expected them to do is allow shipments, allow the trucks in – and these are not Israeli trucks and on them there are not Israeli medicines or goods, they are part of the Middle East and international community’s attempt at helping the Palestinians as Israel continues to pound Gaza.

“Even in terms of Israel as the occupying power, it actually has an obligation to aid – meaning to protect and to make sure that the people in Gaza, as an occupied people, that they have certainly something to live on. “But Israel refuses to do any of that and if anything, what Israel attempts all along has been to block all aid coming into Gaza from around the world.”

Last edited by SvennoJ - on 18 May 2024