UNICEF say life-saving supplies for children must enter Gaza
The United Nations children’s agency, UNICEF, has called for life-saving health supplies to be allowed into Gaza.
“Without aid entering the Gaza Strip, roughly 1 million children are living without the very basics they need to survive – yet again,” said Edouard Beigbeder, UNICEF’s Middle East and North Africa regional director, after a four-day mission to the West Bank and Gaza.
Beigbeder said there were more than 180,000 doses of childhood vaccines waiting outside Gaza, as well as 20 ventilators for neonatal intensive care units.
“Tragically, approximately 4,000 newborns are currently unable to access essential lifesaving care due to the major impact on medical facilities in the Gaza Strip,” Beigbeder said. “Every day without these ventilators, lives are lost, especially among vulnerable, premature newborns in the northern Gaza Strip.”
UK declines to condemn deadly Israeli attack on British charity in Gaza
As we reported yesterday, the UK-based Al Khair Foundation has said that eight of its “dedicated humanitarian aid workers” were “killed in violation of the agreed ceasefire in a drone airstrike” in Beit Lahiya in northern Gaza on Saturday.
London-based media outlet Middle East Eye (MEE) is reporting that a spokesperson from the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office declined to condemn the Israeli drone attack.
Instead, the office said it was “deeply saddened” by the attack, according to MEE journalist Imran Mullah.
“It is vital that – in all scenarios – civilians are protected, including journalists and humanitarian organisations, who must be enabled to deliver their essential work in safety,” the spokesperson told MEE.
“It is deeply saddening to hear of further loss of life in Gaza, and the UK wants to see the ceasefire continue,” the spokesperson added.
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