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SvennoJ on 29 November 2024
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‘Ultimate solution’ in Gaza is peace, not aid: WHO

The chief of the World Health Organization says 90 percent of people in the coastal enclave are now living in tents, leaving them “vulnerable to respiratory and other diseases, food insecurity and malnutrition as winter approaches”.

“The ultimate solution to this suffering is not aid but peace,” said Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.


Palestine calls for emergency Arab League meeting

The request by the Palestinian presidency came after the Israeli army killed nearly 100 Palestinians in northern Gaza over the past 24 hours, including 75 killed in air strikes on two homes in Beit Lahiya.

A Palestinian presidency statement, cited by the official Wafa news agency, called on the Arab League “to hold an emergency meeting at the level of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs given the ongoing Israeli genocidal aggression, forced displacement, and starvation of the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip”.

It cited Israel’s “aggressive policies” aimed at separating the north from the rest of the Strip as it deploys “starvation as a method of warfare against Palestinians to displace them from their lands and houses”.

In early October, Israel launched a large-scale ground operation in northern Gaza. Residents have accused the army of depopulating the towns of Beit Lahiya and Beit Hanoon as well as the Jabalia refugee camp.



Palestinian prisoners facing ‘genocide’ of their own, rights group says

In a statement carried by the Palestinian Wafa news agency, the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society said among the “crimes” being committed against thousands of Palestinian detainees – including Palestinians in Gaza – are torture, starvation, medical negligence and sexual assault.

At least 45 prisoners have been killed while held in Israeli detention since the war on Gaza began in October last year, it said.

According to Addameer, a rights group based in the West Bank city of Ramallah that supports Palestinian prisoners, Israel is currently detaining some 10,200 Palestinians, including 3,443 held under administrative detention, a widely criticised practice that involves holding Palestinians without charge or trial for renewable six-month periods.