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SvennoJ on 07 December 2024
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UN chief says Gaza situation shows breakdown of ‘common humanity’

Antonio Guterres has said the “nightmare must stop” in Gaza, adding that the international community “cannot continue to look away”. “The catastrophe in Gaza is nothing short of a complete breakdown of our common humanity,” the UN secretary-general said in a post on X.


Israeli forces ‘hunted’ Gaza Soup Kitchen co-founder in targeted assassination: Brother

Hani al-Madhoun – the brother of Mahmoud al-Madhoun, the co-founder of the Gaza Soup Kitchen, who was killed in an Israeli attack on November 30 – says Israeli forces “hunted” his brother down.

Speaking to AJ+ from his home in the US, Hani said the Israeli forces who killed his brother had known who they were targeting. “My brother was a civilian feeding people. And still they went and killed him,” he said. “I feel angry because this is a targeted assassination. They hunted my brother.”


‘Children screaming for a piece of bread’ at Gaza shelters: UNRWA

The Israeli military continues to block the transfer of most humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip, leaving hundreds of thousands of children facing severe malnutrition.

The situation is miserable in many shelters where displaced Palestinians are staying, and wounded children are crying for food and not healing from their injuries, said Louise Wateridge of the UN’s agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA).

“They have four mattresses between a family of 45,” Wateridge said. “Aisha here, who is 60-years-old, has been telling me that the rats come at night into the shelter and under the plastic sheeting while they are sleeping,” she said.

“The situation is utterly hopeless for the children here.”