Babies at Nasser Hospital could die due to fuel crisis: Report
Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic say sources at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis are warning that babies in the facility’s neonatal department could die if generators have to be switched off due to a lack of fuel.
The warning came as figures from the UN show Israeli authorities only allowed an average of 80 trucks carrying supplies into the Gaza Strip per day in the period from June 26 to July 2.
The UN noted that the pre-conflict average per working day in 2023 was 500 truckloads, including fuel.
More than 10,000 Palestinians missing under rubble in Gaza Strip
The Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor has called for global action to help Palestinians recover the bodies of more than 10,000 people who are missing under the rubble of buildings destroyed in Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip.
The rights group also has accused Israel’s military of preventing and obstructing the recovery of victims and missing people, including by targeting Civil Defence crews, rescue teams and families trying to find the bodies of their relatives.
Israel’s military has also prevented the entry of equipment needed for rescue operations as well as the entry of fuel necessary to operate heavy machinery in Gaza, it said.
The group said Israel’s obstruction of the recovery of Palestinian victims from under the rubble of destroyed buildings in Gaza constitutes a “flagrant and compound breach” of international law, including the rights to “investigations, redress, and reparations, as well as the final right of all people to be treated with dignity and respect when their bodies are buried”.
It added that “the fact that thousands of Palestinians are still missing is a further crime against their families, who endure terrible psychological injury”.
The group also called for international pressure to “compel Israel to fulfil its legal obligations and bring in trucks, special equipment, and sufficient fuel, given the urgent need to clear the debris, locate bodies, and recover them with special procedures to identify and bury them in marked graves, and ensure the victims’ and their families’ rights to a respectful and appropriate burial in accordance with their religious rituals.”
One Samouni brother comes home in Gaza, recalls months of Israeli torture
Faraj al-Samouni, 39, sits in a tent in a makeshift camp in Deir el-Balah, surrounded by his family who can hardly believe he is alive after months of Israeli captivity.
“My brothers didn’t recognise me when I was released,” he says. He is diminished – he lost 30kg (66 pounds) or 30 percent of his body weight after spending more than six months in Israeli custody. He and his two brothers were arrested while walking down the so-called “safe corridor” on November 16 on their way to the south of Gaza.
They were taken to a military barracks, where they were tortured severely, he says. “The beatings focused on sensitive body parts. Female soldiers stomped on our heads with their metal-toed boots,” he says.
One day, he says, three young men returned from interrogations bleeding from their bottoms, unable to move. They had been beaten and raped with sticks. “We tried to support them as much as we could, demanding treatment. The only response was to give them half a paracetamol pill.”
Faraj al-Samouni in Deir el-Balah, Gaza
Lack of treatment killed 436 cancer patients in Gaza since October 7: Source
A medical source has told Al Jazeera that 436 cancer patients have died due to the lack of treatment since October 7.
