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SvennoJ on 31 December 2024
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Israel bombs sewage pumping station in Gaza City

The municipal authority in the northern city is warning of a “health and environmental disaster” after Israeli forces bombed and damaged a sewage pumping station in the Zeitoun neighbourhood, according to local media.

The authority said the damage to the station has resulted in sewage levels rising in the streets of Gaza City.

The attack is the latest Israeli assault on Gaza’s critical infrastructure. Israeli forces have destroyed water plants, power stations as well as hospitals and schools across the Gaza Strip during its 14-month-long war on the enclave.


Israel continues to ‘systematically hinder’ humanitarian access to Gaza, UN says

The UN’s humanitarian agency (OCHA) is warning that Israel is continuing to dismantle the “very means of people’s survival” across Gaza, and “systematically” hindering humanitarian access to the Palestinian enclave.

The agency said Israel allowed UN agencies on Sunday to deliver food, water and basic medical supplies to critical patients who had been forced to flee Kamal Adwan Hospital and take shelter at the non-functional Indonesian Hospital.

But this mission was “exceptional” because Israel has denied all other attempts to access the area over the past three days.

“OCHA emphasizes that it should not require breaking a siege to help survivors in critical need. Aid workers must be granted safe and unhindered access to assist people wherever they are,” it said.

“OCHA stresses that humanitarian access remains systematically hindered across the Gaza Strip. In the past three days, over 60 per cent of the 42 UN-coordinated movements were denied, interfered with or impeded on the ground,” it added.


Hamas appeals to UN, Muslim nations for aid to help with cold weather in Gaza

The Palestinian group has asked for “relief supplies and tents to protect hundreds of thousands of displaced civilians from the cold and the disastrous effects” of Israel’s attacks on the enclave.

Hamas’s statement said: “The humanitarian and legal duty of the international community and the UN requires urgent action to provide relief to our people in the Gaza Strip, who have been subjected to a Zionist crime of genocide and ethnic cleansing.”

The group’s appeal comes after the authorities in Gaza announced that at least seven Palestinians have died of hypothermia in Gaza, including six babies.

Israel continues to strictly restrict the entry of aid into the enclave, including winter supplies.


‘Horrors continue unabated under the world’s watch’: Lazzarini

UNRWA head Philippe Lazzarini says that “horrors continue unabated under the world’s watch”, 15 months into Israel’s war on Gaza.

Since Israel launched its military offensive on October 7, 258 staff from the UN’s agency for Palestinian refugees have been killed, and 650 attacks against UNRWA infrastructure have been recorded. At least 20 UNRWA staff are currently held in Israeli detention centres.

“This cannot become the new standard, and impunity cannot become the new norm,” Lazzarini said.



It's the old norm, make colonialism great again...