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‘Complete nightmare’: Humanitarian group chief describes ‘impossible situation’ in Gaza

Arwa Damon, founder of the International Network for Aid, Relief and Assistance (INARA), which provides medical and mental healthcare to children affected by war, says the situation in Gaza is “a complete nightmare”.

“The bombing is relentless, there has been no adequate humanitarian assistance, and there isn’t sufficient medical care either,” she told Al Jazeera from central Gaza’s Deir el-Balah, where her organisation is assisting people displaced from northern Gaza.

“People are deeply traumatised, part of the reluctance to leave the north is fear of the road. People are afraid to be targeted as they are leaving. There are families that are being separated – women and children from teenage boys,” Damon said.

She also said access for humanitarian organisations like hers to the north of Gaza is extraordinarily difficult, “because the vast majority of the movement requests that go through the Israelis are either denied or impeded”.

“It is an impossible situation but it has been from the get-go,” Damon added.



MSF calls on Israel to ensure evacuation of patients from Gaza

Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has denounced the Israeli decision to block the medical evacuation of eight children and their caretakers from Gaza to Jordan on Sunday. The global medical charity said it applied for 32 children and caretakers to be evacuated from Gaza to Jordan in recent months and only six were allowed to leave.

“It’s utterly shocking and outrageous that children who need essential treatment are being blocked by Israel from leaving Gaza. Israel’s denial of urgent medical evacuations defies reason and humanity,” Moeen Mahmood, MSF country director in Jordan, said in a statement on X.

According to the World Health Organization, there are at least 14,000 people in need of medical evacuation, MSF said, calling on the Israeli authorities to ensure medical evacuations and guarantee a “safe, voluntary and dignified return to Gaza”.


Gaza in dire need of medical and food aid: MSF

MSF President Christos Christou spoke to Al Jazeera about the situation in Gaza:

  • We have 14,000 people in Gaza who need urgent healthcare.
  • There are gross human rights and international humanitarian law violations in Gaza.
  • We lost eight colleagues in Gaza and more than 1,000 humanitarian workers have been killed overall.
  • Healthcare in Gaza is almost non-existent at the moment.
  • Gaza is in dire need of medical and food aid.
  • There is no entry of aid. It is being prevented and we do not know the reasons for that.
  • Gaza is also in dire need of new hospitals.



Activists say British firm cut ties with Israeli weapons maker

The Palestine Action network has announced that UK-based machinery supplier Hydrafeed has cut ties with Israel’s largest arms manufacturer Elbit Systems after a pressure campaign.

The group said its activists spotted and “destroyed” machinery built by the company inside Elbit’s factory in Kent in June. It also said four activists in the US were imprisoned for making a move against Elbit’s factory in New Hampshire and will serve two months.