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We gave evidence at Corbyn's historic Gaza tribunal

Declassified’s John McEvoy gave evidence at a historic tribunal to determine the extent of UK complicity in the Gaza genocide.

The initiative by British MP Jeremy Corbyn brings together expert witnesses, including surgeons that worked in Gaza, Palestinian journalists, lawyers, weapons experts and genocide scholars to understand how Keir Starmer’s government has supported Israel as it commits war crimes against the Palestinians.

One surgeon, Dr Nick Maynard, who had been in Gaza over the summer, told the tribunal how groups of teenage boys were coming into his surgery room with bullet holes in the same parts of their bodies. One day they had all been shot in the head or neck, the next day in the chest and, the following day, the bullet wounds were all in the testicles. Dr Maynard described it as clear evidence that Israeli soldiers were using the boys as target practice.

Declassified chief reporter John McEvoy told the tribunal how our work could implicate UK ministers in war crimes and crimes against humanity: how the UK continues to sell weapons and training equipment to the Israeli military, continues to train Israeli soldiers, continues to allow senior Israeli generals to visit with diplomatic immunity, and continues to conduct surveillance flights over Gaza for Israel. 

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Greg Stoker, a US veteran and anti-imperialist activist currently participating in The Global Sumud Flotilla sailing with aid to Gaza, speaks to Emma Vigeland about his experiences on the flotilla, the challenges faced, and the heinous tactics employed by Israel to deter activists. The discussion highlights the parallels between Israeli military actions and US domestic policy, particularly concerning ICE, and explores the potential psychological toll on Israeli soldiers.

‘How to stop Israel from starving Gaza’

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/9/4/how-to-stop-israel-from-starving-gaza

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  Jeffrey Sachs

  Professor and Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University

  Jeffrey D Sachs is a University Professor and Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University. He is also President of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network and a commissioner of the UN Broadband Commission for Development.
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  Sybil Fares

  Advisor on the Middle East and Africa for UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network

Israel, with the complicity of the United States, is committing genocide in Gaza through the mass starvation of the population, as well as direct mass murders and the physical destruction of Gaza’s infrastructure. Israel does the dirty work. The US government funds it and provides diplomatic cover through its veto power at the United Nations. Palantir, through Lavender, provides the artificial intelligence for efficient mass murder. Microsoft, through Azure cloud services, and Google and Amazon, through the Nimbus initiative, supply core tech infrastructure for the Israeli army.

This marks 21st-century war crimes as an Israel-US public-private partnership. Israel’s mass starvation of the people of Gaza has been confirmed by the UN, Amnesty International, Red Cross, Save the Children, and many others. The Norwegian Refugee Council, along with 100 organisations, has been calling for an end to Israel’s weaponisation of food relief. This is the first time that mass starvation has been officially confirmed in the Middle East.

The scale of the starvation is staggering. Israel is systematically depriving more than two million people of food. More than half a million Palestinians face catastrophic hunger, and at least 132,000 children aged below five years are at risk of death from acute malnutrition. The scale of the horror is thoroughly documented by Haaretz in a recent article entitled “Starvation is Everywhere”. Those who are able to somehow access food distribution sites are routinely fired upon by the Israeli army.

As a former US ambassador to Israel recently explained, the intention to starve the population has been present from the start. Israel’s Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu recently declared, “There is no nation that feeds its enemies.” Minister Bezalel Smotrich also recently said, “Whoever doesn’t evacuate, don’t let them. No water, no electricity; they can die of hunger or surrender. This is what we want.”

Yet, despite these glaring declarations of genocide, US representatives at the UN repeatedly deny the facts and cover for Israel’s war crimes. The US alone vetoed Palestine’s admission to the UN in 2024. It now denies visas to Palestinian leaders to visit the UN in September, yet another violation of international law.

The US has used its power, especially its veto in the UN Security Council (UNSC), to abet Israel’s genocide of the Palestinians and to block even the most basic humanitarian responses. The world is aghast but seems paralysed before the Israel-US murder machine. Yet the world can act, even in the face of US intransigence. The US will stand naked and alone in its criminal complicity with Israel.

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Here are practical steps that the world can take.

First, Turkiye has set the correct course by ending all economic, trade, shipping, and air links with Israel. Israel is currently a rogue state, and Turkiye is right to treat it as such until Israeli-created mass starvation ends, and a State of Palestine is admitted to the UN as the 194th member, with the borders of June 4, 1967. Other states should immediately follow Turkiye’s lead.

Second, all UN member states that have not yet done so should recognise the State of Palestine. So far, 147 countries recognise Palestine. Dozens more should do so at the UN summit on Palestine on September 22, even over the vociferous objections of the US.

Third, the Arab signatories to the Abraham Accords – Bahrain, Morocco, Sudan, and the United Arab Emirates – should suspend their diplomatic relations with Israel until the Gaza siege ends and the State of Palestine is admitted to the UN.

Fourth, the UN General Assembly (UNGA), by a vote of two-thirds present and voting, should suspend Israel from the UNGA until it lifts its murderous siege on Gaza, based on the precedent of suspending South Africa during its apartheid regime. The US has no veto in the UNGA.

Fifth, UN member states should stop the export of all technology services that support the war until the siege of Gaza ends and Palestine’s membership in the UN is adopted by the UNSC. Consumer companies such as Amazon and Microsoft that persist in aiding the Israeli military in the context of a genocide should face the wrath of consumers worldwide.

Sixth, the UNGA should dispatch a UN Protection Force to Gaza and the occupied West Bank. Typically, it would be the UNSC that mandates a protection force, but in this case, the US will block the council with its veto. There is another way.


Under the “Uniting for Peace” mechanism, when the UNSC is deadlocked, the authority to act passes to the UNGA. After a UNSC session and the almost inevitable US veto, the issue would be brought before the UNGA in a resumed 10th emergency special session on the Israel-Palestine conflict. There, the UNGA can, by a two-thirds majority not subject to US veto, authorise a protection force in response to an urgent request from the State of Palestine. There is a precedent: in 1956, the UNGA authorised the UN Emergency Force (UNEF) to enter Egypt and protect it from the ongoing invasion by Israel, France, and the United Kingdom.

At the invitation of Palestine, the protection force would enter Gaza to secure emergency humanitarian aid for the starving population. If Israel were to attack the UN protection force, the force would be authorised to defend itself and the Palestinians in Gaza. Whether Israel and the US would dare to fight a UNGA-mandated force protecting the starving Palestinians remains to be seen.

Israel has crossed the clear line into the darkest crimes – starving civilians to death and shooting them as they line up, emaciated, for food. There is no further line to cross, nor time to lose. The family of nations is being tested and summoned to action as it has not been in decades.

How U.N. Members Could "Unite for Peace" to Override U.S. Veto, End Gaza Genocide

The Trump administration is facing growing criticism for suspending visas for Palestinian passport holders, including for Palestinian officials set to attend the annual U.N. General Assembly this month. When the U.S. denied a visa to Yasser Arafat to address the U.N. in 1988, the General Assembly was moved to Geneva — the U.N. faces similar calls now. The move by the U.S. is "an indication of the unprecedented degree to which the U.S. government has handed the levers of its foreign policy over to the Israeli regime," says Craig Mokhiber, an international human rights lawyer who formerly served as the director of the New York Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. He resigned in October 2023 over the U.N.'s failure to adequately address large-scale atrocities in Palestine and Israel.

Mokhiber also says there is more the U.N. could do to stop the genocide in Gaza. The General Assembly has the ability to circumvent the Security Council with a "United for Peace" resolution that could force "concrete action" in Gaza.

Palestinians injured in Israeli settler attacks in Hebron

Israeli settlers have attacked the Khallet al-Dabaa area in the Masafer Yatta area, south of Hebron, in the occupied West Bank, injuring at least three Palestinians, our Al Jazeera Arabic colleagues report.

Israeli settlers have also attacked Palestinian homes in the Hamrush area, east of the town of Sa’ir, north of Hebron.

Israeli forces arrest village council head in West Bank’s Salfit: Report

Israeli forces have carried out a “large-scale arrest campaign” in the town of Haris, near Salfit in the occupied West Bank, the Wafa news agency has reported.

During the campaign, Israeli forces detained village council head Omar Samara, deputy head of the village council, Tayseer Kulaib, and a “large number of villagers” whose homes they raided, Wafa said.

Elsewhere, Israeli forces also raided family homes in Qalqilya city, set up a military checkpoint and arrested a man, according to Wafa.

Israeli settlers injure 20 Palestinians, including infant, in attack near Hebron

The Anadolu news agency has more details on the attack we reported earlier by Israeli settlers on Palestinians in the Khallet al-Dabaa area in the Masafer Yatta area, south of Hebron, in the occupied West Bank.

Osama al-Makhmara, a Palestinian activist, told Anadolu that at least 20 Palestinians were injured after dozens of settlers stormed the village early on Friday and attacked residents with sticks and knives.

He said elderly individuals, children, and a three-month-old infant were among those wounded and that the injuries ranged from bruises and fractures to stab wounds. He said nine people were taken to hospital for treatment.

Khillet al-Dabaa has been repeatedly targeted by Israeli settlers and armed forces in efforts to displace its residents. On May 5, Israeli authorities demolished 25 homes, agricultural structures, and water wells in the village, citing “unlicensed construction”.

Returning to Tulkarem – Palestinians find homes and businesses destroyed by Israeli army

Seven months after Israeli forces launched a major offensive in Tulkarem in the occupied West Bank, some Palestinian families have been allowed to return.

They found their homes and businesses destroyed.

Israeli troops raid multiple areas in Bethlehem

Israeli forces carried out raids in several areas in the occupied West Bank’s Bethlehem, the Palestinian news agency Wafa reports.

Soldiers entered the Khalayel al-Louz area southeast of the city and set up a military checkpoint, stopped vehicles and checked residents’ IDs, causing heavy traffic congestion.

Soldiers also raided the villages of Artas and al-Ubayyat where they tore down posters of Palestinians killed by Israeli forces. Incursions and arrest campaigns across West Bank towns and villages have surged in frequency and scale since the war on Gaza began.

Israeli army kills Palestinian in occupied West Bank

The Israeli army has shot dead a Palestinian man near the al-Murabba’a checkpoint, southwest of Nablus in the occupied West Bank, according to Wafa news agency.

Amid Ahmed, director of the Red Crescent’s Emergency and Ambulance Centre in Nablus, said Israeli soldiers prevented his crew from reaching the site of the shooting.

The Health Ministry identified the dead man as Ahmed Shehadeh, 57, adding the military seized his body.

In a separate statement, the Israeli army said it killed “a terrorist” near Burin, which is in the Nablus governorate.

Settlers attack Palestinians in the occupied West Bank

Israeli settlers descended on the Palestinian village of Khallet A-Daba in the occupied West Bank, attacking residents with clubs and pepper spray.

Video obtained from Palestinian activist Adeeb Huraini, 26, showed an older man with cuts on his head and leg, and a woman whose headscarf was soaked in blood. Another video shows Basel Adra, a local activist, holding a baby with blood on its head, calling for help and saying there is “a lot of blood”. Adra said nine Palestinians were hospitalized after the attack.

Adra helped direct No Other Land, an Oscar-winning documentary about settler violence in the area. The Israeli military demolished much of the village last month.

Israel carried out more than 19,000 arrests since war on Gaza began

The Palestinian Prisoner’s Society says Israeli forces have made more than 19,000 arrests across the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, since the genocidal war on Gaza began 700 days ago.

It said the figure does not include arrests in Gaza itself, where the number is believed to be in the thousands, according to a statement carried by news agency Wafa.

Israeli authorities have classified 2,662 detainees from Gaza as “unlawful combatants”, though rights groups say the true number is far higher because of enforced disappearances.

At least 585 women and 1,550 children have been detained in the occupied West Bank since October 2023, it said.

The Palestinian Prisoner’s Society also reported 77 Palestinians have died in Israeli custody during this period, including 46 from Gaza. The bodies of 74 of those who died remain withheld by Israel, alongside at least 85 other prisoners whose remains are being kept from their families.

_{A Palestinian prisoner receives treatment in Khan Younis in southern Gaza after his release by Israel}

Israeli forces kill 69, wound 422 in Gaza in 24 hours: Health Ministry

Gaza’s Ministry of Health says Israeli forces have killed at least 69 Palestinians and wounded 422 in Gaza over the past 24 hours. The ministry added that the total number of casualties of Israel’s war on Gaza since October 7, 2023, has risen to 64,300 killed and 162,005 wounded.

Israeli military carries out several deadly attacks in northern Gaza

The Israeli military has continued to bombard Gaza City over recent hours, carrying out several deadly overnight attacks.

Katz says ‘gates of hell opening in Gaza’ as forced evacuation order issued for high-rise tower

Israel’s Defense Minister Israel Katz has said the “gates of hell are opening now” in Gaza and that the military had issued a forced evacuation order for a high-rise building in Gaza City.

“When the gate is opened, it will not be closed, and [Israeli military] activity will intensify until the Hamas murderers and rapists accept Israel’s conditions for ending the war – led by the release of all the hostages and disarmament – or they will be destroyed,” he said in a statement on X.

The Israeli Army Radio has named the building to be forcibly evacuated as the Mushtaha Tower in the west of Gaza City, which had been attacked and partially destroyed by Israeli forces earlier in the war.

Israel destroys multistorey building in Gaza City

A very short time after the forced evacuation order was issued for the 12-storey Mushtaha tower, the building was levelled to the ground by Israeli fighter jets.

At the moment there are huge plumes of black smoke coming from the area. Witnesses in the area report that the ground was shaking beneath their feet when the tower was targeted. Initial reports suggest the tower was hit by multiple missiles that led to its full destruction.

It’s worth mentioning that the tower is located in one of the most densely populated areas where people have fled bombardment elsewhere in the city.

Israel attack on tower marks ‘terrifying shift’ towards targeting high-rise buildings in Gaza City

It’s been a fast-moving situation over the past few hours. The Israeli defence minister, Israel Katz, stated that the “gates of hell” are opening now in Gaza City, confirming that the Israeli military has issued a forced evacuation order for one of the high-rise buildings in Gaza City – which was destroyed by Israeli jets shortly afterwards.

The building is called the Mushtaha Tower, it’s a 12-storey building located on the western side of Gaza City and surrounded by hundreds of makeshift tents, as this portion of the city is considered to be the last refuge for families fleeing areas of bombardment in the eastern outskirts.

Katz’s comments mark a very terrifying shift in the bombardment campaign taking place in Gaza City, as we are witnessing a new phase of deadly air strikes that will primarily focus on high-rise towers on Gaza City, which contains hundreds of these towers that are mostly in densely populated areas.

It’s worth also saying that air strikes are also intensifying in the Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood of Gaza City.

We have received reports that the Israeli military has issued new forced evacuation orders for more areas in the very heart of Gaza City, marking a very deadly surge in air strikes and expanded ground operations aiming to completely – as the Israeli military says – “defeat Hamas” and to control this area.

There is a great deal of fear and uncertainty in Gaza City right now, especially around the forced evacuation areas, as people do not know where they can go to find safety. And the journey to the south of Gaza might be the final journey for them, from which they might not be able to return to Gaza City.

What is truly excruciating about displacement in Gaza City at the moment is not just what families will leave behind, nor the uncertain path ahead, but it’s more about the weight of loss, the grief and the complete strangeness and unfamiliarity that is taking place.

Attacks on high-rise buildings not over yet

The building just struck is one street away from the area that we are seeking as a base to broadcast our coverage in the western parts of Gaza City. Fifteen minutes’ warning, that’s not enough of a window for people to evacuate the vicinity.

Another explosion just took place. The attack is not over yet.

Meanwhile, a forced evacuation order has also been issued for another building towards the centre of Gaza City.

Israeli military claims it hit high-rise building used by Hamas

The Israeli military has released a statement claiming that the multistorey building in Gaza City that it has attacked in the past hour included “Hamas infrastructure” and was used to plan and carry out operations against Israeli forces.

“A short while ago, the [military] attacked a multistorey building in Gaza City used by Hamas. Hamas terrorist infrastructure was located inside the building, used to promote and carry out terrorist plots against [Israeli] forces in the area,” military spokesperson Avichay Adraee said in a statement on X.

He said an underground structure was also located beneath the building from which Hamas fighters launched ambushes and used it as an escape route.

“Prior to the attack, numerous steps were taken to avoid civilian casualties, including warning residents, using precision munitions, aerial reconnaissance, and additional intelligence,” he added.

Al Jazeera correspondents in Gaza reported that the attack came just 15 minutes after the forced evacuation was ordered and that the building is in a densely populated area of Gaza City.

Israel has frequently failed to provide evidence to back up its claims that Hamas is using civilian buildings for military purposes.

Just more lies to be reported without question by Western media

Here they are, right on cue

The Israeli military said the building they struck was being used by Hamas, and steps were taken before the strike to mitigate harm to civilians.

The comments are just as bad as the lies.

Mushtaha Tower management denies Israeli allegations

The management of the Mushtaha Tower in Gaza City, which was just bombed by the Israeli military, has denied Israeli claims that the high-rise building was being used by Hamas fighters, Al Jazeera Arabic reports.

The building’s management said the building was only accessible to displaced people.

Five-storey building in Gaza City now under a forced evacuation order

The latest building to come under forced evacuation orders is in Gaza City’s centre. This is a densely populated area, and more recently, it has become home to displaced families from the eastern and northern parts of Gaza City.

The Israeli military is advancing in these areas, destroying large swaths of residential clusters, public facilities and schools. This is a five-storey building near a gas station and the YMCA, a nonprofit organisation.

People are being given a short amount of time to evacuate.

More Palestinians head south after high-rise tower in Gaza City attacked

We’re talking about one of the biggest high-rise buildings in the heart of Gaza City being targeted.

Israeli forces hit it with two air strikes – the first was a warning and then it was hit again with another F-16 strike. Dozens of Palestinians have been injured. Doctors in al-Shifa Hospital say they are overwhelmed by the casualties.

Surrounding the tower were dozens of tents for displaced Palestinians, so they all lost their tents. Palestinians are asking what’s going to happen next. Israeli forces have been sending out endless warnings and evacuation orders over the past couple of days.

Now, many Palestinians are deciding to leave because they know if Israel starts targeting all the high-rise towers and buildings in the area, they will definitely not have any safe place to go.

So, we have been seeing more Palestinians evacuate to the middle area. Tents have been filling up in az-Zawayda, al-Mawasi, Khan Younis and Deir el-Balah.

Palestinians must either survive by going south or stay in Gaza City – and we do not know what’s going to happen if they stay. There’s fear and desperation here.

Gaza City ‘on the threshold of a new bloody chapter’

A number of civilians were wounded in the Israeli attack on the 12-storey Mushtaha Tower and were transported to al-Shifa Hospital complex to receive emergency treatment.

The shockwave of the attack spread over the entire area, triggering chaos. A number of makeshift tents have been affected by the attack, which signals a new phase of the Israeli military campaign.

The Israeli military generally tries to show the international community that they are taking enormous precautions to prevent harm to civilians, but the destruction left behind by these attacks is pervasive and heartbreaking as families try to find any place with a sense of refuge.

Many areas of Gaza City contain high-rise buildings, which makes all of the city an active epicentre for Israeli strikes.

Witnesses on the ground now say the sky above Gaza City is full of drones and fighter jets operating to pummel residential areas, makeshift tents, and civilian vehicles. Even areas where people have been told to flee are still under very strict surveillance by Israeli drones.

Critics and legal experts say that targeting high-rise buildings is a stark escalation of urban warfare that endangers the lives of hundreds of thousands of people taking refuge around them.

So Gaza City is really on the threshold of a new bloody chapter and a deepening Israeli campaign that will destroy what’s left of the urban centre.

_{Palestinians check the debris of the Mushtaha Tower in Gaza City}

Israel trying to ‘punish civilian areas’, drive Palestinians out of Gaza

Mohamed Elmasry, media studies professor at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, says Israel’s latest attack on a high-rise building in Gaza City “may well be the start of a new phase of the war”.

The level of destruction Israel is willing to inflict in civilian areas, he says, is rooted in several Israeli military doctrines.

The first is the Dahiyeh doctrine, which, as explained by former Israeli military chief of staff Gadi Eizenkot, aims to “punish civilian areas” from which Israel says attacks have been launched, Elmasry told Al Jazeera

The second is the “100:1 ratio”, he added, citing Israeli media outlets such as +972 Magazine.

“At the very beginning of the war, according to Israeli media outlets, local high-ranking Israeli officials authorised this ratio whereby Israel gives itself the right to kill more than 100 civilians in order to try and kill a single military commander,” Elmasry said.

“That’s why you get bombings, attacks like [the one on the Gaza City tower],” he added. “You don’t have to be an expert in international law to know that this is a violation of international law … a gross violation of the principle of proportionality.

“The ultimate aim here is to drive the people out of Gaza altogether.”

Senior EU official labels Israel’s war on Gaza a genocide

Speaking at the opening ceremony of the academic year at the Sciences Po university in Paris, European Commission Vice President Teresa Ribera became the first member of the bloc’s commission to publicly declare Israel’s war on Gaza a genocide.

“The genocide in Gaza exposes Europe’s failure to act and speak with one voice, even as protests spread across European cities and 14 UN Security Council members call for an immediate ceasefire,” Ribera said.

Ribera, the European Commission’s second-most senior official, in August said Israel’s war in Gaza looks “very much like genocide”, but stopped short of declaring it one.

French MP urges Macron to formally recognise Israel’s actions in Gaza as ‘genocide’

French parliamentarian Marie Mesmeur, participating in the Global Sumud Flotilla headed to Gaza to break the Israeli blockade, has said she and other participants are undeterred by Israeli threats, stressing that their mission is to defend the right to life for all people.

In an interview in the Tunisian capital with the Anadolu news agency, Mesmeur, a member of the La France Insoumise party, described the flotilla as “the largest peaceful popular initiative to support Palestinians in Gaza”.

She urged French President Emmanuel Macron to formally recognise Israel’s actions in Gaza as “genocide” and prevent Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from crossing French airspace, citing an ICC arrest warrant issued against him for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza.

“Over 40 ships, manned by participants, are appealing to their governments, which have taken negative stances on Gaza, to help the Palestinian people,” she said. “Since governments have failed to act, activists are self-organising peaceful flotillas in dozens of boats, motivated by deep belief in aiding the Palestinian people.”


Finland joins France and Saudi Arabia’s two-state solution declaration

Finland is backing France and Saudi Arabia’s push for a two-state solution between Israel and Palestine, according to the country’s foreign minister.

“I have today decided that Finland will join the New York Declaration on the peaceful settlement of the Question of Palestine and the implementation of the two-state solution, prepared by France and Saudi Arabia,” Finnish Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen wrote in a post on X.

She called it “the most significant international effort in years to create the conditions for a two-state solution”.

The move comes after Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom and Belgium said they also plan to recognise Palestine this month.

Spanish minister says Israeli cycling team should be expelled from Vuelta

Spain’s foreign minister says he would support the expulsion of the Israel-Premier Tech team from its Vuelta cycling race after a pro-Palestinian protest disrupted the event.

Jose Manuel Albares said he’d “understand and be in favour” of the Israeli team being removed from the competition.

“We have to send a message to Israel and the Israeli society that Europe and Israel can only have normal relations when human rights are respected,” Albares said.

Wednesday’s protest in the northern city of Bilbao created chaotic scenes. A crowd pushed against temporary metal barriers along the final kilometres of the course, with police and security personnel holding demonstrators back.

Many protesters carried Palestinian flags and pro-Palestine signs.

_{Demonstrators at the finish line of the 12th stage of the Vuelta a Espana}

Gaza ‘in the most dangerous phase’ of war, NGO network chief says

Amjad Shawa, director of the Palestinian NGOs Network in Gaza, has told Al Jazeera Arabic that he fears the world will become inured to scenes of Israeli violence in the Strip.

“We are in the most dangerous phase since the beginning of the aggression against the Palestinian people,” he said. “We fear that the international community will adapt to scenes of children being killed and starved in the Gaza Strip and they will just remain as numbers on the news.”

Thousands of children in Gaza treated for malnutrition

More than 13,000 children in Gaza were admitted for treatment for malnutrition in July, UNICEF says.

In the first two weeks of August alone, another 7,200 children received treatment, the agency said.

UNICEF spokesperson Tess Ingram said the figures highlight the impact of Israeli-induced famine and limited aid access on children in the blockaded enclave. The agency is scaling up efforts to provide nutrition and medical care despite severe shortages and restrictions, she added.

UNRWA warns of grave risks for Gaza’s most vulnerable

The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) has warned that older people, caregivers and persons with disabilities in Gaza are at “grave risk” during the ongoing Israeli siege and forced displacement campaign.

UNRWA said it has been unable to deliver supplies to the territory for more than six months, leaving more than 83 percent of those in need without crucial assistance.

“Amid the Israeli siege, destruction, displacement, and scarce supplies, access to essential services is failing the most vulnerable”, the agency said, calling for immediate action to protect lives.

Philippe Lazzarini, UNRWA’s commissioner-general, said the agency has about 6,000 truckloads of supplies waiting in neighbouring Jordan and Egypt – enough for two months of provisions for all of Gaza.

“Only a ceasefire, along with massive and unimpeded humanitarian access, can reverse the looming famine”, he said.