UN calls on Israel to stop killing Palestinians seeking aid in Gaza
The UN has called on Israel to cease attacks on Palestinians waiting for food aid in Gaza, which have become more frequent and more lethal in the last several days.
“The UN Human Rights office in the Occupied Palestinian Territory calls on the Israeli Defence Forces to immediately cease its use of lethal force around food distribution points in Gaza, following repeated instances of shooting and killing of Palestinians seeking to access food there,” the office said in a social media post.
On Tuesday, at least 70 people were killed and hundreds wounded when Israeli tanks, machine guns and drones opened fire on a crowd waiting for aid near Khan Younis.
At least 38 people were killed in similar incidents on Monday, mostly in the area near Rafah in southern Gaza.
Enough with the useless words, they had no effect the last 1,000 times. Israel does not listen to the UN.
‘Growing number’ of Britons view Israel’s actions in Gaza as genocide
A poll commissioned by the NGO Action for Humanity shows that 55 percent of UK respondents oppose Israel’s actions in Gaza, while only 15 percent support them.
The number is even higher among Labour voters, 68 percent of whom are against Israel’s actions and 78 percent of whom believe the UK should enforce an International Criminal Court arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
“The UK government is totally out of touch with the British public they are supposed to represent, and the Labour Party are even more out of touch with their own voters,” said Jonathan Purcell of the International Centre of Justice for Palestinians.
World Food Programme says violence against those seeking aid ‘completely unacceptable’
The WFP said in a statement that “far too many people have died” while seeking aid in Gaza. The statement comes as continuous Israeli attacks on people seeking assistance have killed dozens of Palestinians in the last several days.
“Any violence resulting in starving people being killed or injured while seeking life-saving assistance is completely unacceptable,” reads the statement, which also laments continued restrictions in aid entry into Gaza.
“Over the last four weeks, WFP has been able to dispatch just 9,000 metric tons of food aid inside Gaza – a tiny fraction of what a population of 2.1 million hungry people needs,” it says, noting that during a previous ceasefire it facilitated the entry of as many as 600 trucks per day into Gaza.
Bodies of Palestinians shot by Israeli forces left for five days in Gaza before recovery
Our colleagues on the ground in Gaza are reporting that the bodies of 20 people shot dead in northern Gaza by Israeli forces while waiting for aid trucks were left for five days before approval of coordination was given to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs to allow paramedics to recover them.
Palestinian health officials have said that at least 72 Palestinians were killed by Israeli attacks since midnight on Wednesday, including at least 29 waiting for aid assistance.
In the last 24 hours, 144 people have been killed and 560 wounded.
