Palestinian Child Rights Group Shutters After Israeli Pressure
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Defense for Children International-Palestine (DCI-P) has ended its extraordinary work with the children of Palestine as a result of unending threats from the State of Israel.
Despite having been designated by Israel as a terrorist organization in 2023, DCI-P had continued its groundbreaking work of investigating, documenting and exposing human rights violations against Palestinian children as well as providing legal services to children and holding both Israeli and Palestinian authorities accountable to principles of human rights as described in international law.
But in an announcement earlier this week, DCI-P’s General Director Khaled Quzmar said, “After 35 years of defending Palestinian children’s rights, we are not able to overcome operational challenges resulting from Israel’s targeted criminalization of Palestinian human rights organizations.”
The closure comes after DCI-P reported just last month that of the 351 Palestinian children detained in Israeli prisons at the end of 2025 — 51 percent of the total — are held in administrative detention without charge or trial, the highest number and proportion on record since the NGO began monitoring the numbers.
Gaza faces acute flour shortage as supplies fall far below demand
Gaza needs around 450 tons of flour daily, while only around 200 tons are currently available, Gaza’s government media office said on Sunday.
Israel is intensifying a policy of “engineered starvation” in Gaza by restricting flour supplies, the office said in a statement. Despite the ceasefire agreement allowing 600 trucks per day, Israel is permitting only 38 percent of pre-war supply levels before Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, it added.
The office said the crisis worsened after World Central Kitchen halted its flour support, as the US-based charity previously provided 20 to 30 tons daily, while the World Food Programme reduced its supplies from 300 to 200 tons per day, adding that several other organisations have also suspended their bread and flour programmes to the enclave.
About 1.9 million people in Gaza, out of a population of 2.4 million, remain displaced and live in harsh conditions in worn-out tents after their homes were destroyed during Israel’s two-year war.
Despite the ceasefire agreement that took effect on October 10, 2025, living conditions have not significantly improved, amid Israel’s failure to allow the agreed levels of humanitarian aid, including food, medical supplies and shelter materials.
