PRCS calls attention to crew members detained by Israel
The Palestine Red Crescent Society has taken to X to highlight the situation of four of its team members, who it says were “forcibly disappeared” and detained by Israeli forces for more than five months.
“PRCS expresses deep concern for the safety of its detained teams, whose fate remains unknown, and calls on the international community to urgently intervene to pressure the Israeli occupation authorities to immediately release our detained teams,” the group said.
The Israeli occupation continues to forcibly disappeared 4 PRCS team members for more than 5 month.
🚨PRCS expresses deep concern for the safety of its detained teams, whose fate remains unknown, and calls on the international community to urgently intervene to pressure the… pic.twitter.com/TgLfKwuRoY
— PRCS (@PalestineRCS) June 15, 2024
UNICEF: Rising heat in Gaza poses grave threat to children
James Elder, the UN’s child relief agency spokesperson, has posted a video on X in which he tours a displaced persons’ camp in southern Gaza’s Khan Younis, that houses children who have been orphaned by Israel’s war on Gaza.
Visibly sweating inside one of the tents, he says the rising heat exacerbates the crises of poor hygiene and disease in displacement camps across Gaza.
These concerns were echoed earlier today by UN World Food Programme Deputy Executive Director Carl Skau, who spent two days assessing the plight of Palestinians this week, saying the challenges are “like nothing I have ever seen”.
”The situation in southern Gaza is quickly deteriorating. One million people in southern Gaza are trapped without clean water or sanitation in a highly congested area along the beach in the burning summer heat. We drove through rivers of sewage,” said Skau.
Gaza's extreme heat poses a new danger to children left homeless by war pic.twitter.com/Feuds80HEM
— James Elder (@1james_elder) June 15, 2024
Steady streak of 30c, 31c (86F, 88F) no rain https://www.accuweather.com/en/ps/gaza/258096/weather-forecast/258096
It says air quality fair...
Israelis make entry of aid more difficult amid ‘critical nutritional situation’ in Gaza: UNICEF
Spokesman for the UN’s Children’s Fund (UNICEF) James Elder, speaking from Deir el-Balah in central Gaza, said Israeli forces were making it more difficult to get humanitarian aid into the territory.
“It’s a very complicated process to get in because of the restrictions put on top of aid. But we do it. We know the paperwork. We know the hoops to jump through. But it is very difficult to get aid in,” Elder told Al Jazeera.
“For example, in May, humanitarian agents got in half as many trucks of aid as in April. Half as many when we have this critical nutrition situation. Why was that the case? That was the case because in May, of course, we had the Rafah offensive,” Elder said.
“The ‘limited’ offensive in Rafah that led to the displacement of a million people. So less aid is coming in,” he said.
“But it’s not just getting it in. When we get it in, it’s making sure we can get it across the Gaza Strip without aid workers being killed. More aid workers have been killed in this war than any war since the advent of the United Nations,” he added.
