Main events on April 25th
- Gaza’s Ministry of Health has said the bodies of 84 people killed in Israeli attacks have arrived at hospitals over the past 24 hours, including six killed previously but just recovered from under the rubble.
- The UN’s World Food Programme has warned that food stocks in Gaza are depleted due to Israel’s weeks-long blockade on the Palestinian enclave, raising fears of famine.
- The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) has said nearly 3,000 aid trucks are waiting to enter Gaza, but have been prevented from doing so due to the blockade.
- UNRWA has also warned that multiple Israeli military forced displacement orders have left Palestinians “with less than a third of Gaza’s area to live in”.
- Gaza’s Government Media Office has said the number of Palestinian journalists killed by Israel has risen to 212 since the war began in October 2023.
- Israeli forces have shot and killed a Palestinian teenager during a raid in the occupied West Bank town of Salem, east of Nablus.
- The US military’s assault on Yemen has continued, with Houthi-affiliated outlet Al Masirah TV reporting that a woman has been killed and another injured in an attack in Saada governorate.
People at ‘breaking point’ in Gaza as ‘famine conditions’ brought on by Israeli blockade
The humanitarian crisis has reached a very unprecedented breaking point in Gaza after the WFP (UN’s World Food Programme) stated that its warehouses have run out of food supplies today.
Raising the alarm about full-blown famine conditions in the Gaza Strip in light of the ongoing closure of border crossings, and also the soaring prices that have been absolutely engulfing … Palestinian local markets here.
Civilians are really struggling to cope with this crisis.
More – and growing – international calls were made to the Israeli side in order to de-escalate tension in Gaza and allow for more aid to access the territory to alleviate this crisis.
Displaced Palestinian children crowd a food kitchen set up by aid organisations at the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza on Thursday
