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Boy whose father burned to death in Rafah attack speaks
“My dad is gone. … Where will I go?” Nine-year-old Omar Hamad just lived through the worst day of his life when his father was burned alive in Israel’s attack on a tent camp in Rafah.
Dozens of Palestinians in Gaza were killed that day, and dozens more lost loved ones.
Biden should be forced to watch videos like this of all 25,000 orphaned children in Gaza. In your name.
Situation in Gaza ‘worse than ever before’
The head of the US government’s aid agency says the humanitarian disaster in the Gaza Strip is at its worst since the war began nearly eight months ago.
“Our humanitarian partners working in Gaza tell us that conditions are worse now than ever before. Israeli military operations and closed crossings are making it extremely difficult to distribute aid,” said Samantha Power, administrator of the US Agency for International Development.
She said the widely opposed Israeli ground assault on the southern city of Rafah has only exacerbated the situation. “The catastrophic consequences that we have long warned about are becoming a reality.”
Our humanitarian partners working in Gaza tell us that conditions are worse now than ever before. Israeli military operations & closed crossings are making it extremely difficult to distribute aid.
Today I convened fellow donor govts to surge our response to those in dire need.
— Samantha Power (@PowerUSAID) May 30, 2024
Food and health centres close as aid supply grinds to a halt
The amount of humanitarian relief getting into Gaza has plummeted nearly 70 percent since Israeli launched its Rafah operation, the United Nations says.
“The flow of humanitarian aid supplies into Gaza – already insufficient to meet the soaring needs – has dropped by 67 percent since 7 May,” the UN aid coordination office OCHA said, noting food distribution centres, health clinics, and hospitals are shutting down.
According to World Food Programme, access to land crossings is so “constrained” to southern parts of Gaza it “risks causing the same catastrophic levels of hunger witnessed in the north”.
Israel, as the occupying power under international law, bears the responsibility of ensuring sufficient aid reaches the desperate people of Gaza.
State Department official quits in protest of US’s Gaza policy
Stacy Gilbert, a US State Department official with more than 20 years of experience around the world, quit her position in protest of the Biden administration’s “patently, demonstrably, quantifiably false” claim that Israel is not deliberately blocking humanitarian aid from Gaza.
In an interview with the Huffington Post, Gilbert said a report on Israeli conduct in Gaza released by the State Department earlier this month “is not informed by reality or context or the informed opinions of subject matter experts”.
That report found Israel has likely used US-provided weapons in a manner “inconsistent” with international law in Gaza and stopped short of identifying violations that would put an end to ongoing military aid.
