Israel has prevented entry of 3,000 aid trucks into Gaza: Media office
The Israeli forces have prevented 3,000 aid trucks from entering Gaza in the past two weeks, according to a statement by the Government Media Office in Gaza.
The office said in a statement on Telegram that the army has also prevented 690 sick and wounded people from travelling abroad for treatment as the Rafah and Karem Abu Salem (Kerem Shalom) crossings stay closed for the 13th day in a row.
“This constitutes a clear danger in light of the collapse of the health system [in Gaza],” the statement said.
“The American administration, the European Union and the international community did not do their duty and did not exercise the role required of them to prevent genocide,” it added. “Rather, they gave the occupation the green light to continue the crime of genocide,” the office also said, calling on the international community to put pressure on Israel to stop “the genocidal war”.
A drone view shows a trail of trucks lining up on a road near Mitzpe Ramon southern Israel
Palestinians forced to use Israeli missile parts to erect tents in displacement camp
Gaza child’s appeal to Jordan’s king over aid airdrops
A Palestinian child from northern Gaza has sent a message to Jordan’s King Abdullah II and Queen Rania as well as to all Arab officials after the cessation of aid airdrops in Gaza.
“You used to send us aeroplanes with aids, but now there are no more planes. You cut off all the supplies [that you used to send] to us. You cut off food and drinks and everything,” he said in a video address posted on Instagram by a Palestinian activist. “Why do you do this to us? What have we done to you? Speak, for the sake of God!”
Israel ‘regularly and blatantly’ disregards UN in Gaza: Lazzarini
Philippe Lazzarini, the commissioner general of UNRWA, says “almost nothing” in terms of aid is getting into the Gaza Strip after Israel closed the Rafah crossing and Karem Abu Salem crossing, known as Kerem Shalom to Israelis.
Speaking at a news conference with Jordan’s Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi, he said the UN has been “regularly and blatantly disregarded in Gaza”.
“Look at the number of staff who have been killed, more than 200, among them 189 staff from UNRWA,” he said.
He added that there have been more than 160 UN premises that have been damaged or fully destroyed. A number of UN staff have been rounded up, arrested, mistreated, tortured and forced into confessions during Israel’s war on Gaza, Lazzarini added.
