Three Palestinians killed in Gaza bread stampede
https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/29/middleeast/gaza-bakery-crush-palestinians-killed-intl-latam/index.html
Two children and a woman were crushed to death as a crowd of Palestinians pushed to get bread at a bakery in the Gaza Strip during a worsening food crisis in the war-ravaged territory.
The bodies of two girls aged 13 and 17 and the 50-year-old woman were taken to the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir el-Balah in central Gaza, where a doctor confirmed they died from suffocation because of crowding at the al-Banna bakery.
Osama Abu Laban, the father of one of the girls, wailed over the loss of her life outside the hospital. “She went to buy bread and she barely managed to get a loaf of bread before being swept away by the crowd of women. They brought her out a lifeless body,” he said.
The flow of food allowed into Gaza by Israel has fallen to nearly its lowest level of almost 14-month-old war for the past two months. UN and aid officials say hunger and desperation are growing among Gaza’s population, almost all of which relies on humanitarian aid to survive.
Palestinians gather for bread from a bakery in Khan Younis, southern Gaza
Muslim charities face discrimination as Palestinians are desperate for aid
https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2024/11/29/muslim-charities-face-discrimination-as-palestinians-are-desperate-for-aid
As the people of Gaza face famine and the continued bombing of their homes by Israel, numerous Muslim charities and organisations are desperately trying to help keep Palestinians alive.
However, many of these groups have found over the past year that the banks they rely on to help get this aid to the people of Gaza do not want to work with charities run by Muslims – especially if they are focused on Gaza. This has become referred to as “Muslim while banking”.
“We used to joke when we started our company that we had 99 problems and payments wasn’t one of them, and that quickly changed,” says Amany Killawi, co-founder of LaunchGood, a crowdfunding platform for Muslims. “I do feel there’s additional scrutiny on Muslim organisations.”
Palestinians receive food cooked by a charity kitchen in Khan Younis, southern Gaza
Gaza hunger: ‘Dreadful struggle for survival’
Ajith Sunghay, head of the UN Human Rights Office in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, expressed concern about the levels of hunger even in areas of central Gaza where aid agencies have teams on the ground.
“I was particularly alarmed by the prevalence of hunger,” Sunghay told a Geneva press briefing. “Acquiring basic necessities has become a daily, dreadful struggle for survival.”
Sunghay said the UN has been unable to take any aid to northern Gaza, where he said an estimated 70,000 people remain following “repeated impediments or rejections of humanitarian convoys by the Israeli authorities”.
Sunghay visited camps for people recently displaced from parts of northern Gaza. They were living in horrendous conditions with severe food shortages and poor sanitation, he said.
“It is so obvious that massive humanitarian aid needs to come in – and it is not. It is so important the Israeli authorities make this happen,” he said.
You mean Israeli authorities need to stop blocking aid. The aid is there, but can't get in where it's needed.
