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SvennoJ on 09 May 2024

‘Nothing and no one allowed into Gaza’ for three days: UN relief chief

Martin Griffiths, the UN’s emergency relief coordinator, says the Israeli military hasn’t allowed anything or anyone to go in or get out of the Gaza Strip in tandem with its takeover of the Rafah crossing.

“The closure of the crossings means no fuel. It means no trucks, no generators, no water, no electricity and no movement of people or goods. It means no aid,” he wrote in a post on X.

“Civilians in Gaza are being starved and killed and we are prevented from helping them. This is Gaza today even after seven months of horrors.”




‘Deep humanitarian’ crisis grows worse after Rafah crossing takeover

Gaza’s Government Media Office has reiterated its warning about the ramifications of Israel’s attacks on eastern Rafah and the closure of the vital Rafah border crossing with Egypt as well as the Karem Abu Salem (Kerem Shalom) border crossing.

It warned of a “deep humanitarian catastrophe” unfolding in the overcrowded southern Gaza city, where more than 1.4 million displaced and hungry Palestinians have sought shelter.

The halt of aid and humanitarian supplies entering Gaza as well as the tens of thousands of sick and wounded who desperately need to leave the enclave for treatment will only worsen the already dire situation, it said.

In the past 48 hours, Israeli forces banned the entry of more than 400 aid trucks, the office said. People will have no food or water within the next few days across the southern governorates of Gaza, it warned, adding that famine would soon take hold in the south. Famine has already gripped the territory’s north.


Palestinians jostle for food in Rafah in southern Gaza

 

‘It’s like we’re sheep’: Palestinians flee Rafah with nowhere to go

Tens of thousands of people are on the move again as Israel threatens a full-scale invasion of southern Rafah where hundreds of thousands of people were ordered to go months ago.

“Where are we supposed to go? Where is the world that’s just watching us?” said Ahmad Abed, who has an eight-month-old daughter. “It’s like we’re sheep.”

At a makeshift refugee camp in Rafah, Mazen al-Shami said he was fed up. “We have no money and we don’t have the means to move from one place to another again and again. We have no means at all.”

Israel’s war on Gaza has driven about 80 percent of the territory’s population of 2.3 million from their homes and caused vast destruction. The death toll in Gaza has soared to more than 34,500 people, according to local health officials.







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SvennoJ on 09 May 2024

Everything wrong with US politics:

Israeli-American billionaire slams Biden decision on bomb transfer

Israeli-American billionaire Haim Saban, a major donor to US President Joe Biden and the Democratic Party, urged the White House to “reconsider” sending 2,000-pound bombs to Israel for its continuing invasion of Gaza.

“Let’s not forget that there are more Jewish voters who care about Israel than Muslim voters that care about Hamas,” he wrote in a letter to Biden. “Even beyond Israel, this sends a terrible message to our allies in the region and beyond, that we can flip from doing the right thing to bending to political pressure.”

Saban, who hosted a major Los Angeles fundraiser for Biden’s reelection campaign in February, said “defeating” Hamas is a shared goal that Biden is now acting against.


Haim Saban shakes hands with then-White House senior adviser Jared Kushner in 2017


US hold on arms for Israel sends ‘wrong message’: Israeli envoy

Biden’s decision to withhold weapons from Israel over its operation in Rafah sends the “wrong message” to Hamas and the country’s foes, the Israeli ambassador to the US says.

“This is very unfortunate,” Michael Herzog told a Carnegie Endowment for International Peace webinar. “It sends the wrong message to Hamas and to our enemies in the region. It puts us in a corner because we have to deal with Rafah one way or the other.”

Hillary Clinton says pro-Palestinian protests are fueled by ‘propaganda’

US politician Hillary Clinton says many thousands of university students and faculty members protesting in dozens of schools across the US and the globe are misinformed about Israel and Palestine.

“Propaganda, whether it’s on TikTok or in the classroom, is actually the opposite of education,” she said during an interview on US broadcaster MSNBC.

“Anybody who is teaching in a university or anyone who is putting content on social media should be held responsible for what they include or what they exclude.”

“So much of what we are seeing, particularly on TikTok, about what’s going on in the Middle East is woefully false, but it’s also incredibly slanted, pro-Hamas, anti-Israel. And it’s not anyplace where anybody should go to get information about complex matters like what’s going on there”.



Let's start by holding Hilary Clinton responsible for her content and ignorance / misrepresentation of history for example

https://theintercept.com/2023/11/17/hillary-clinton-hamas-israel/

Hilary is either a victim herself of official propaganda or deliberately spreading disinformation.

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SvennoJ on 09 May 2024

I'm starting to lose hope for the Israeli people, so much blind hatred.

‘Burn down the UN’: Israelis set fire to UNRWA office in occupied East Jerusalem

The UN’s agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) has been forced to shut down its headquarters in the occupied East Jerusalem after Israelis – some of them armed – set fire to the compound’s perimeter.

Philippe Lazzarini, head of the agency, said the fire caused “extensive damage” as “it took the Israeli fire extinguishers and police a while before they turned up”.

“This is an outrageous development,” said Lazzarini.

Over the past few months, UN staff have been “regularly” subjected to harassment and intimidation, the compound has been seriously damaged, and Israeli citizens have threatened the staff with guns.

“I call on all those who have influence to put an end to these attacks and hold all those responsible accountable.”


Israelis opposed to humanitarian aid for Gaza block highway

Israeli activists against sending desperately needed food into Gaza blocked a major highway in southern Israel.

“These trucks are taking food to Hamas and Hamas are murderers, rapists and terrible, terrible people,” said Ruben Frankenburg, as he placed himself in front of a truck bound for Gaza near the Kerem Shalom (Karem Abu Salem) crossing in southern Israel.

He added Israel is being “forced by the Americans to give them this food”.

Another protester claimed the aid allows Hamas to continue to fight. “There’s no other place in the world that one side gives the supplies to the other side. It’s crazy, it’s nuts,” said protester Yonatan Godalis, as he held an Israeli flag.




‘Anti-Palestinian racism’ affecting students at Berkeley schools

Berkeley Unified School District, a US public school district in California, faces federal complaints about anti-Palestinian and anti-Muslim incidents as the war on Gaza rages on.

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee civil organisations filed federal complaints alleging instances of discrimination and harassment against students since October 7.

“The pervasive anti-Palestinian racism within Berkeley schools is deeply concerning and demands urgent action,” said Zahra Billoo, executive director of CAIR’s San Francisco chapter.

“Palestinian, Arab and Muslim students should not have to endure discrimination or fear for their safety while pursuing their education.”



SvennoJ on 09 May 2024

Gaza truce talks: Hamas says ‘ball is completely’ in Israel’s hands – Report

French news agency AFP is reporting that Hamas announced early Friday that its delegation attending Gaza ceasefire talks in Cairo had left the city for Qatar and stated that the “ball is now completely” in Israel’s hands.

“The negotiating delegation left Cairo heading to Doha. In practice, the occupation [Israel] rejected the proposal submitted by the mediators and raised objections to it on several central issues,” the group said in a statement, adding it stood by the ceasefire proposal.

“Accordingly, the ball is now completely in the hands of the occupation,” the group said.


‘For the very first time’: Joe Biden admits US bombs killed innocent people in Gaza

This has been going on for months. We know that the Biden administration has tried to pressure Israel on reducing casualties, trying to get more aid into Gaza. But they never admitted it publicly.

They never talked about what the consequences were going to be for Israel.

Well, that changed recently. We saw President Joe Biden come out and say, look, if they do this large-scale invasion of Rafah – there will be no bombs, no artillery shells, perhaps none of the technologies that turn dumb bombs into smart bombs.

And he is not just saying that it is going to happen. He is showing that it is already sort of happening.

We know from the Pentagon briefing today that there was a shipment of bombs – 1,800 2,000-pound (900kg) bombs. Those are the ones that cause a lot of destruction. And, 1,700 500-pound (230kg) bombs.

Those were supposed to be shipped to Israel and that’s been delayed. So, Biden sending the message of what’s going to happen and telling them this is already not happening.

At the same time – one of the more significant things – is we have, for the very first time, heard US President Joe Biden say, specifically, that American bombs have killed innocent civilians in Gaza.




From the sequence of events I suspect Biden read the (now delayed) report on Israel’s wartime conduct in Gaza
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/07/israel-gaza-state-report-00156619

He paused the latest shipment and delayed the (likely damning) report which would invoke the Leahy law. Especially now the invasion of Rafah has started which surely nullifies the exceptions. There's no way to sell remediation efforts or that Israel is bringing those accountable to justice while invading Rafah, against the UNSC call for ceasefire, and cutting off aid against the ICJ's call to adhere to international law and provide humanitarian aid.

Joe Biden what are you going to do now...

Biding time for his legal team to spin doctor the report? Netanyahu isn't going to stop. Or keep delaying the report indefinitely?



SvennoJ on 09 May 2024

Casualties recorded as Israeli military bombs locations across Gaza

The Israeli military has carried out several attacks in Gaza over recent hours resulting in a number of casualties, the Wafa news agency reports. Four Palestinians died when the Israeli military bombed a house in the Jabalia refugee camp, in northern Gaza, according to Wafa.

An unspecified number of people have also died after the Israeli military bombed a house in Gaza City, while there were also casualties when the Israeli military bombed a warehouse, shops and agricultural land near al-Dawa Street in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza.

 

Fierce battles reported between Palestinian fighters, Israeli forces in Rafah

Israeli forces are conducting operations in several areas of Rafah city, according to our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic, while reports are emerging of heavy clashes between Palestinian armed groups and Israel’s military in the east of the city.

Video footage shared on social media showed a Palestinian family cowering in a residence as the sounds of heavy machine-gun fire and explosions could be heard nearby in what is being described as a “night of fire” in Rafah.

Al Jazeera Arabic also shared a verified video showing the aftermath of an Israeli attack on Rafah on Thursday.



Translation: Violent Israeli bombardment on the al-Jnaina neighbourhood in Rafah.


Israeli troops blow up buildings in Rafah, artillery pounds Gaza City

Israeli forces are carrying out operations to blow up buildings in the east of Rafah city, our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic are reporting.

Intense artillery shelling targeting the Sabra and Zeitoun neighbourhoods of Gaza City has also been reported.



Gunfire reported in occupied West Bank as Israeli military night raids continue

There has been gunfire exchanged between Israeli forces and Palestinian resistance groups in the occupied West Bank city of Nablus, the Wafa news agency reports.

Israeli forces stormed the Rafidia neighbourhood of the city and have raided student housing, beating and arresting two students, according to Wafa.

Israeli raids and settler violence have also been reported elsewhere in the occupied West Bank in the following locations:

  • The city of Hebron and the town of Yatta to the south.
  • The town of Beit Ummar, north of Hebron.
  • Israeli settlers set fire to Palestinian crops east of Ain al-Hilweh in the northern Jordan Valley, Wafa reports.

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SvennoJ on 09 May 2024

Netanyahu hopes he and Biden can ‘overcome’ differences

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said that Joe Biden has made a mistake by pausing a shipment of bombs to Israel, in comments made on the US talk show Dr Phil.

“I’ve known Joe Biden for many years, 40 years and more. We often had our agreements, but we’ve had our disagreements. We’ve been able to overcome them. I hope we can overcome them now,” Netanyahu said in the interview, aired on Thursday evening.

Netanyahu added that Israel “will do what we have to do to protect our country”, saying that the country has “no other choice” but to defeat Hamas.


Netanyahu on Dr. Phil? Wtf.



Wow, that intro. I can't even watch the interview, the tone has been set, pure propaganda. Is this what the older generations get fed on TV?
And the comments....

 

UN to vote on resolution reviving Palestine’s bid for UN membership

The United Nations General Assembly is expected to vote later today on a resolution that would grant new “rights and privileges” to Palestine and that, again, calls on the UN Security Council to favourably reconsider Palestine’s request for full UN membership.

The US vetoed a widely backed resolution on April 18 that would have paved the way for full UN membership for Palestine, a goal that Israel has worked strenuously to prevent and Washington has been instrumental in blocking on behalf of its key ally.

The US deputy ambassador to the UN, Robert Wood, said on Thursday that the Biden administration remained opposed to Palestinian membership. During the April 18 vote, Palestine’s application received strong support with a vote of 12 in favour, the UK and Switzerland abstaining, and the US alone in voting no.

The State of Palestine appealed for support on Thursday, saying a vote for UN membership comes at “a critical moment for the right of the Palestinian people to self-determination, including the right to their independent State … [and] rightful place among the community of nations”.


Turkey-Israel trade – Turkish president cuts trade ties worth $9.5bn

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has suspended $9.5bn worth of trade with Tel Aviv, in response to Israel’s war on Gaza. Many in Turkey believe the measure is intended to push other nations to act against the Israeli government.




EU crisis management chief condemns arson attack on UNRWA’s Jerusalem HQ

Janez Lenarcic, the European commissioner for emergency responses, has called on Israeli authorities to ensure the “security and safety of UN staff” after attackers twice set fire to the perimeter of UNRWA headquarters in occupied East Jerusalem.

Israeli authorities must “prosecute those responsible for the attack”, Lenarcic said.

UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini reported earlier that a crowd of Israelis, some armed, gathered to chant outside his agency’s office: “Burn down the United Nations”, noting that it took Israeli police and firefighters “a while before they turned up”.

“Over the past two months, Israeli extremists have been staging protests outside the UNRWA compound in Jerusalem, called by an elected member of the Jerusalem municipality,” Lazzarini said on social media.

“This week, the protest became violent when demonstrators threw stones at UN staff and at the buildings of the compound,” he said. “UN staff, premises and operations should be protected at all times in line with international law,” he added.



SvennoJ on 10 May 2024

Palestinian filmmaker wins Peabody Award for Gaza coverage

Palestinian journalist Bisan Owda and AJ+ won a Peabody Award – one of the highest honours in journalism – for coverage of the devastating impact that Israel’s war on Gaza is having on local people.

The award was announced on Thursday for the first video in Owda’s series for AJ+ on daily life under Israel’s bombardment.

Owda sent a videotaped message from Rafah to the world on winning the award. “Acknowledging journalists’ efforts at this time is really important to me,” Owda said. “It shows the world what’s happening to us. At a time when the [Israeli] occupation is murdering us – journalists, doctors, medics and civilians – as if we were supporting terrorism,” she said.

“We rise to simply document the genocide happening to our people and we expose the oppression to the world,” she added. “A terrorist is one who commits genocide, supports genocide, stands by genocide, remains silent during genocide, and rejoices in genocide.”

People in Rafah ‘pawns’ in chess game between Israel and US

Ori Goldberg, an Israeli political commentator, told Al Jazeera that the fate of Rafah’s population is being used by Israel as a bargaining chip amid growing tension with the US over the conduct of its war on the Palestinian territory.

“I don’t think Israel is shrugging off American pressure. I think Israel is posturing,” Goldberg told Al Jazeera.

“This is not yet a ground operation. Israel is hedging its involvement in the situation in Rafah. It is a horrible thing to say, but right now the Palestinians in Rafah are pawns in a game that is mostly being played between Israel and the United States. It’s not with Hamas.

“If Netanyahu can deliver on a deal, which is the only achievement he can have as an offensive on Rafah is not considered an achievement, even in Israel. If he can deliver on a deal, he will seem like the prime minister who most definitely had his cake and ate it too.

“We’ve seen Israel when it isn’t in a negotiating mood. We’ve seen Israel attack, decimate, destroy mercilessly. The attacks now on Rafah, as sad as it is to say, are still more of a ploy than they are an offensive plan. Israel has nothing to accomplish in Rafah.

“Rafah and its inhabitants are now pawns in a game played, as I said before, between Israel and the United States.”

Blinken expected to say Israel not breaking law on use of US weapons: Report

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is expected to submit a report to Congress today on whether Israel has violated international humanitarian law during its war on Gaza, news outlet Axios reports, citing three unnamed officials.

The report is expected to harshly criticise Israel’s conduct, but stop short of concluding that it has violated the terms of use for US weapons.

US President Joe Biden issued a National Security Memorandum (NSM-20) in February, requiring the State Department to report to Congress by May 8 over the credibility of Israeli assurances that its use of US weapons had not violated US or international law.

On Thursday, Biden admitted publicly that US weapons had been used to kill innocent civilians in Gaza while announcing the suspension of a shipment of bombs to Israel over its plans to invade Rafah.

Hamas active in north Gaza, expects to rebuild in south after Rafah invasion: Monitors

As Israel prepares to launch a full ground invasion of southern Gaza’s Rafah city, Israeli forces carried out their third “re-clearing” of Gaza City’s Zeitoun neighbourhood on Wednesday, “demonstrating that Hamas remains active beyond just Rafah”, war monitors said.

In their latest battlefield assessment, the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) and the Critical Threats Project (CTP) – two US-based think tanks – note that despite Israel’s repeated “clearing efforts”, Hamas “remains active and combat effective in the northern Gaza Strip”.

As Hamas has rebuilt its capacity in northern Gaza, so too will it likely rebuild in Rafah after the planned ground operation, the ISW and CTP said.

“Hamas’ remaining presence throughout the Gaza Strip supports CTP-ISW’s assessment that Hamas expects that it would survive an Israeli clearing operation into Rafah,” the monitors said.

“Hamas likely calculates that it could rebuild itself in Rafah in the same way that it is currently in the northern Gaza Strip,” they said.



SvennoJ on 10 May 2024

At least 3 killed in attack on Gaza City home

At least three people have been killed and five wounded after Israeli strikes targeted a family home in central Gaza City, reports the Wafa news agency. According to reports, the attack took place on the Abdel Aal family house on Yarmouk Street.

Those wounded were pulled from the rubble and taken to al-Ahli Arab Hospital, it added. Israeli air raids hit many other neighbourhoods of Gaza City, including Zeitoun, Sabra, Nassr, Tal al-Hawa, and Shati refugee camp, injuring more civilians, reports Wafa.

Israel subjecting Gaza to a ‘medieval siege’, ‘scorched earth’ policy: UNRWA

Sam Rose, planning director at the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), said no supplies have entered the Gaza Strip since Sunday and “heavy bombardments” are hitting areas in the centre of Rafah city.

“No aid has come into Gaza now since Sunday. No aid, no fuel, no supplies, nothing. And we really are now down to our last reserves. We have a few more days of flour that we can provide. But everything else will start to shut down very soon without fuel, without water. So the situation is really desperate,” Rose told Al Jazeera from Rafah.

“People are petrified. People have been fearing this for a long, long time and it is now upon us. There is constant bombardment. There is smoke on the horizon. There are people on the move. We estimate that, as of last night, about 110,000 people from Rafah had been displaced and had moved on,” he said.

“People are doing whatever they can to flee for safety and yet where are they going to? There are no safe places,” he added.

“These are populations that are already on the brink of famine who are now being subjected to a medieval siege coupled with scorched earth and heavy bombardment. Already desperate conditions will get worse and we will see multitudes of casualties. Not just from the bombing. But the hunger, the disease and the starvation.”


Smoke rises following an Israeli air strike on east of Rafah on May 7

 

Patients left without treatment as Rafah hospitals shut down

Patients and staff are being forced out of hospitals across Rafah as Israel’s attacks on the city intensify, leaving many sick and wounded Palestinians with no way to be treated.

“We have no beds, no hospitals to refer [people to], especially for critical patients,” Palestinian doctor Mohammed Zaqout said.

“Al-Najjar Hospital is out of service. And the Kuwaiti Hospital [in Rafah] is just for trauma and emergency,” he added.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C6uTDTLP4oQ




SvennoJ on 10 May 2024

Israel withholding $46m in PA tax revenues: Report

Israel’s Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich is reportedly withholding some 170 million shekels ($46m) in tax revenue for the Palestinian Authority, Israel’s Channel 12 reports, quoting anonymous sources close to the far-right politician.

The funds have been withheld for nine days, the source said, with this being done in response to the PA’s attempts to get the International Criminal Court (ICC) to issue arrest warrants for Israeli officials for alleged violations of international law in Gaza.

Israel, which collects tax revenues on behalf of the PA, has warned that it will initiate a response against the body that will lead to its collapse if the ICC issues arrest warrants.

Hamas’s demand for a 12-week pause major sticking point: Report

Hamas’s demand for an initial 12-week pause in fighting was a major sticking point for Israel during this week’s ceasefire negotiations, CNN reported, citing three sources familiar with the talks.

Delegations from both parties left Egypt without agreeing on a deal, with Hamas stating that Israel “raised objections to [the proposal] on several central issues”, without elaborating.

In an earlier round of talks, Hamas agreed to an initial six-week pause, during which further negotiations would be conducted to agree a second six-week pause.

Israeli officials are said to be staunchly opposed to the 12-week pause, arguing that it would be no different in practice than agreeing to end the war, and are eager to continue their operation in Rafah.

 

Israeli settlers block aid trucks

Israeli settlers have made it difficult for aid relief to enter through any crossing into Gaza. Although Rafah is the main crossing for aid to enter Gaza, demonstrations by Israeli settlers have added to the stranglehold on life-saving supplies by blocking a road near the Karem Abu Salem (Kerem Shalom) crossing.

Karem Abu Salem reopened on Wednesday after a Hamas rocket attack. But with the current attacks by Israel’s military, the UN says no Palestinian workers can safely reach the other side to process the goods.

“Jordan has also sent aid trucks to Gaza,” Al Jazeers’s Stefanie Dekker, reporting from the Jordanian capital Amman, said. “Some of those have been attacked by Israeli protesters over the past few weeks. Jordan’s Foreign Ministry condemned the attacks and said it holds Israel fully responsible and that Israel should ensure aid gets in swiftly and safely to the people of Gaza.

“Those are its legal obligations as the occupying power.”






SvennoJ on 10 May 2024

Israel says fighter jets, attack helicopters ‘destroy’ 40 targets in past day

The Israeli military said its jet fighters and attack helicopters have been used in operations against Palestinian fighters and “40 terrorist targets” were destroyed throughout the Gaza Strip over the past day, including in southern Rafah.

Warplanes hit “a number of areas in Rafah”, which the Israeli military said were sites where rockets and rocket-propelled grenades had been fired towards Israeli territory and the Karem Abu Salem (Kerem Shalom) border crossing with Gaza.

Jet fighters also attacked targets in Gaza City’s Zeitoun neighbourhood and warplanes and helicopter gunships struck targets in the central area of the Palestinian territory, the military said in a series of posts on social media.

Israeli forces wage close-quarters combat in Rafah

Israel’s military says it is pressing on with operations in “specific areas” of eastern Rafah, with troops engaging in close-quarters combat with fighters and calling in air raids to target them.

Over the last day, Israeli fighter jets have also struck throughout central and northern Gaza, hitting a total of 40 targets, according to a military statement.

Israel’s latest wave of attacks across Gaza have killed numerous civilians, including several children whose home was struck in central Gaza’s Jabalia camp.

Eight members of same family killed in attack on Khan Younis home

An Israeli air strike has hit a family home in the town of Abasan al-Kabira, on the eastern outskirts of Khan Younis, reports Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud. The attack killed eight people from the same family and injured many others.

Khan Younis is one of the areas that Palestinians fleeing Rafah have been heading to, although it has continued to come under attack.


Deir el-Balah running out of space, resources as thousands pour in

The Israeli military insists on expanding operations in Rafah and is continuing to pound the eastern part of the city. In the last 24 hours, there seems to be an increase in artillery shelling in the eastern and western areas where the vast majority of displaced families are sheltering.

This has been forcing people to move to newly designated safe areas, including Deir el-Balah, where thousands of people have been pouring in. They are setting up their tents and trying to find residential units available to stay in.

Not only is Deir el-Balah city running out of space, but it is also running out of resources, particularly water. In addition, there’s only one operational hospital here running at the lowest capacity imaginable. It has been through a lot in these seven months of this carnage.


UNRWA says 110,000 Palestinians have fled Rafah

Since Israel began advancing troops towards the east of Rafah and intensifying attacks on the city on Monday, some 110,000 Palestinians have fled, according to the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA).

It added that wherever they go, they face the continued threat of Israeli attacks, which have pummeled Gaza from north to south for seven months. “Nowhere is safe in the Gaza Strip and living conditions are atrocious,” said UNRWA, calling again for an “immediate ceasefire”.