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SvennoJ on 30 July 2025

Aid trickling into Gaza does not reach majority of population: UNRWA

Adnan Abu Hasna, a spokesman for the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, has told our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic that the aid trickling into Gaza does not reach the majority of the population.

Here are some of the other points he made:

  • There is a real famine in the Gaza Strip.
  • The famine in the Gaza Strip is a man-made disaster.
  • We demand the provision of safe humanitarian corridors in the Gaza Strip.
  • Israel must provide safe routes for the entry of aid into the Gaza Strip.
  • We are able to operate 400 aid distribution points in Gaza.


Amid a starvation crisis in Gaza, Palestinians are forced to walk large distances to receive limited amounts of aid

 

Aid trucks fall short of meeting needs of Gaza’s population

According to data shared by Gaza’s Government Media Office, what has entered Gaza is a trickle of aid that cannot even be enough to meet the demands of the population for even a single day.

Over the past four days, 269 aid trucks have entered Gaza, and most of them were looted by hungry crowds.

Now, looting aid is not very shocking. It has been a predictable outcome for a prolonged period of a starving population that has been denied access to water, food, and medical supplies.

People have gone days without getting any kind of food, and the number of trucks sent to the Gaza Strip falls short of meeting the needs of the population.

According to statistics shared by the United Nations, Gaza needs at least 500-600 aid trucks on a daily basis carrying goods that must be distributed to Palestinians in need over the 400 distribution centres across the territory.

Avg 67 a day, that's 7 more than the GHF was planning to distribute daily.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-plan-to-initially-only-feed-60-of-gazans-as-they-endure-extreme-deprivation/

So all this 'extra' aid is merely an 11% increase of before Europe/Trump added some pressure and only 11% of what's needed.



Gaza death toll rises

At least 103 Palestinians, including 60 aid seekers, have been killed and 399 injured in Israeli attacks across Gaza in the past 24 hours, according to the enclave’s Health Ministry.

One body was also recovered from the rubble of previous Israeli attacks, the ministry statement said on Telegram. Israel’s war on Gaza has killed a total of 60,138 Palestinians and injured 146,269 others since October 7, 2023, the ministry added.

The total number of aid seekers killed since May 27 when Israel introduced a new aid distribution mechanism has reached 1,239, with more than 8,152 injured, the statement said.



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SvennoJ on 30 July 2025

Palestinian prisoner dies in Israeli custody: Monitor

The Palestinian Prisoners’ Media Office (ASRA) says a Palestinian prisoner, Sayel Abu Nasr, has died in an Israeli jail.

The ASRA statement said his death brings the total number of prisoners and detainees who have been died in Israeli custody since the beginning of Israel’s war on Gaza to 75, including 46 from the Gaza Strip.

It said 312 Palestinian prisoners have died in Israeli prisons since 1967.

Israel must face consequences for betraying ‘fundamental values’: Ex-Knesset speaker

The international community must implement “severe, personal and maybe even governmental measures” that will make it clear that killing and starving Palestinians the way Israel is in Gaza cannot happen, Avraham Burg, the former speaker of the Knesset and former head of the Jewish Agency for Israel, has told Al Jazeera.

He is one of dozens of high-profile Israelis who signed a petition calling for sanctions on Israel to stop the starvation of Palestinians in Gaza and stop Israel’s plans to expel them from their homeland.

Burg said he has reached a “collision between two value systems; the first is my loyalty to place, my patriotism, and on the other hand, it is our patriotism to humanity [in] general, at times when my country betrays its fundamental values and divorces from the very basic humanitarian, ethical system, one has to take a position”.

“In times in which our country is that wrong, we have to help to stop it from continuing … and every measure is legitimate; internal opposition, demonstrations, rallies, vigils, hunger strike and invitation to cooperate with the international community,” he said.

Belgium to start Gaza aid air drops, ‘pleads’ for reopening of land crossings

Belgium has announced it will take part in a multi-country operation to airdrop aid to Gaza as starvation seizes the Palestinian enclave.

A Belgian plane carrying medical supplies and food worth about 600,000 euros ($690,000) will fly to Jordan “soon” and remain on standby to conduct further drops in coordination with Amman, the defence and foreign ministries said in a statement.

“These airdrops are a first step, but they can in no way be a cover for the urgent need to facilitate access by land,” Belgian Foreign Minister Maxime Prevot said.

“I will continue to plead with the Israeli authorities to allow these deliveries to enter Gaza by road as quickly as possible.”

Belgium joins France, Spain, and Britain in announcing aid drops to Gaza as more people in the territory die from malnutrition.

Instead of wasting tax payer money on ridiculously expensive inefficient, and likely to fall in Israeli controlled death zones, air drops, arms embargo and sanctions. Pleading does nothing. 

But it's easier to waste tax payer money and join the PR bandwagon than applying real pressure.



SvennoJ on 30 July 2025

Palestine Action’s cofounder wins bid to challenge UK ‘terror’ group ban

The cofounder of a pro-Palestinian campaign group has won her bid to legally challenge the British government’s decision to ban it under “antiterrorism” laws.

Huda Ammori, who helped found Palestine Action in 2020, asked London’s High Court to give the go-ahead for a full challenge to the group’s proscription, which was made on the grounds it committed or participated in acts of “terrorism”.

This month, the High Court refused Ammori’s application to pause the ban, and after an unsuccessful last-ditch appeal, Palestine Action’s proscription came into effect on July 5.

Proscription makes it a crime to be a member of the group, which carries a maximum sentence of 14 years in prison.

Judge Martin Chamberlain granted permission for Ammori to bring a judicial review, saying her case amounted to a disproportionate interference with her and others’ right to freedom of expression and was “reasonably arguable”.


Police carry a person from a protest in Parliament Square in support of Palestine Action


More on Palestine Action’s successful bid to challenge UK ‘terror’ group ban

This was Palestine Action’s second attempt to challenge that ban by the British government, describing them as a “terrorist” organisation. The first failed just two hours before the government’s decision on July 5th.

This decision wasn’t about whether or not that ban was lawful, but whether or not it could be legally challenged in the High Court, and they have won. The judge has decided to grant permission because it contravenes the freedom of expression and assembly under the Human Rights Act.

Now, many here are quite surprised. They thought that it wouldn’t go the way Palestine Action was hoping. They thought that the judge was going to decide that it should actually come under a different tribunal. So people here are very, very happy.

Now, permission has been granted for a full legal review of the government’s actions. It’s going to raise so many questions: Did the government follow due process? Did they consult with Palestine Action before?

So, many questions will need to be answered, and the government is very much on the back foot today with this ruling.



SvennoJ on 30 July 2025

Israeli foreign minister claims Palestinian statehood will lead to ‘Hamas state’

Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar has criticised the growing international announcements to recognise Palestinian statehood, calling it “shocking” and a “reward” for Hamas after the attacks it led on Israel on October 7, 2023.

In a statement on X, Saar said the call for Palestinian statehood was coming at a time when there were still captives held in Gaza, and he alleged that the Palestinian Authority in the occupied West Bank continued to “fund terrorism and persists in incitement against Israel”.

“For the State of Israel, this is a security and even existential issue of the highest order. A Palestinian state would be a Hamas state. It would be the frontline jihadist stronghold, a few kilometres from our population centres, in the continuation of the campaign against Israel,” Saar wrote.

Saar’s comments come after Britain announced it would recognise Palestine by September at the UN General Assembly unless Israel changed the situation in Gaza and France announced it would also recognise Palestine at the UN meeting.

Hamas has lost support from the population and has already said they will step down. Besides you created Hamas and you are supporting terrorist Settlers while the IDF joins in with their own daily terrorist attacks in the West Bank.



Israeli settlers destroy homes in occupied West Bank

Israeli settlers attacked houses in the area of Wadi Ubayyan, southeast of Bethlehem, in the occupied West Bank.

Ahmed Ghazal, secretary of the Fatah Movement in Kisan, told Wafa news agency that assailants raided the homes of Nassar Rashaida and his sons, stealing belongings such as solar cells and panels.

They also vandalised and destroyed the homes.

According to Ghazal, two days ago, settlers threatened the family with forced eviction if they did not leave voluntarily.

In the Wadi Ubayyan area, seven Palestinian families are frequently subjected to attacks by settlers trying to forcibly displace them and seize their land.

Ghazal said the latest attack comes just days after the displacement of about 15 Palestinian families from a nearby area. He called on local and international organisations to intervene and protect residents from the ongoing Israeli attacks. Israeli settlements are banned under international law.



SvennoJ on 30 July 2025

WHO moves 10 trucks of medical aid to Gaza amid soaring health needs

The World Health Organization (WHO) has sent 10 trucks loaded with medical supplies into Gaza.

“WHO has moved 10 trucks from Al-Arish in Egypt to the Kerem Shalom crossing for Gaza, carrying essential medicines, laboratory and water testing supplies,” Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said, adding more aid is on the way.

“The health needs in Gaza are immense. A continuous flow of medical supplies is critical.”

Tedros called on Israel to allow unimpeded humanitarian access and urged a halt to hostilities. “We continue to call for sustained, safe, and unhindered access for medical aid into and across Gaza and for a ceasefire.”


‘She starved. We stood helpless’

A two-year-old girl being treated for a build-up of brain fluid died overnight from hunger in central Gaza. “Mekkah, my little daughter, died of malnutrition and the lack of medication,” her father Salah al-Gharably said from Deir el-Balah.

“Doctors said the baby has to be fed a certain type of milk … but there is no milk. She starved. We stood helpless.”


‘It’s only skin on top of bones’

In a malnutrition ward at Nasser Hospital, mothers watch over their babies lying still and largely silent, too exhausted from severe hunger to cry. The quiet is common in places treating the most acutely malnourished, doctors said, a sign of their bodies shutting down.

“We need milk for babies. We need medical supplies. We need some food, special food for [the] nutritional department,” said Dr Ahmed al-Farra, head of the paediatric and maternity department. “We need everything for the hospitals.”

Al-Farra highlighted the case of Wateen Abu Amounah, born healthy three months ago and now weighing 100g (3.5oz) less than she weighed at birth.

“There is total loss of muscles. It’s only skin on top of bones, which is an indication that the child has entered a severe malnutrition phase. Even the face of the child, she has lost fat tissue from her cheeks.”


A nurse examines a malnourished child at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis



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SvennoJ on 30 July 2025

Desperate scenes as Palestinians in Gaza seek flour, soup


The few aid trucks allowed into Gaza by Israel are constantly being looting by starving people


Palestinians jostle to receive a rare meal in northern Gaza City

Netanyahu welcomes countries joining aid drops to Gaza, blames Hamas for lack of food

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called on more nations to airdrop aid into Gaza after claiming Hamas “stole food from its own people”.

In a post on X, the prime minister’s office said it “secured the skies, secured the drops, and made sure the food got through”.

“Any country that truly wants to help is welcome to join us,” it added.

Aid agencies and countries involved in the drops, including France and Belgium, have called on Israel to open land crossings into Gaza to fully flood the enclave with desperately needed food.

According to the UN, to feed Gaza’s population, at least 500 to 600 trucks must enter the enclave daily.

Of course Netanyahu welcomes air drops as they add nothing but chaos to a desperate situation while the limited aid from air drops is destined to fall in Israeli death zones in Gaza. 

More than 80 Palestinians killed in Gaza since dawn

Hospital sources tell Al Jazeera at least 86 people have been killed in Israeli attacks since the early hours throughout Gaza, despite the army claiming to be following “tactical pauses”.

Of the dead on Wednesday, at least 71 were people desperately searching for food.

Israeli forces have routinely opened fire on aid seekers since the US-Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation took over food distribution from UN-led agencies in May.



SvennoJ on 30 July 2025

Palestinian statehood ‘not a bargaining chip’: NGO

A humanitarian organisation says the UK government’s proposal to tie recognition of a Palestinian state to negotiations aimed at easing Israel’s assault on Gaza is “unacceptable and dangerous”.

“This approach risks legitimising the ongoing genocide and delaying meaningful action while lives are lost,” Action For Humanity said in a statement. “Recognition of Palestinian statehood is welcome, but only as an immediate, unconditional act in line with international law, not as a bargaining chip in the midst of mass atrocity.”

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced on Tuesday his country will recognise the state of Palestine by September unless Israel takes “substantive steps” to end its war on Gaza.

Action For Humanity said a survey in June showed more than half of Britons oppose Israel’s war on Gaza with 45 percent “recognising it as genocide”.

Canada says it intends to recognise a Palestinian state in September

Canada intends to recognise a Palestinian state at the United Nations in September, Prime Minister Mark Carney says.

Carney told reporters the planned move was predicated on the Palestinian Authority’s commitment to reforms, including commitments to fundamentally reform its governance and to hold general elections in 2026 in which Hamas can play no part.

He said he talked to PA President Mahmoud Abbas over the phone about the move.

“It relies upon the representations of the Palestinian Authority,” Carney said.

And Carney is playing right into it of course, F Carney.


Israel to present Hamas with ultimatum – accept deal or Gaza annexation: Report

Israeli news outlet Channel 13 reports the government will present Hamas with an ultimatum: agree to its ceasefire terms or Israel will begin annexing Gaza.

Citing unnamed officials, it said the perimeter that Israel is pushing to be annexed is an area adjacent to the fence and could reach up to a “kilometre into the Strip”.

The threat comes after Israeli media reported Israel submitted a document to truce mediators – including the US, Qatar and Egypt – in response to Hamas’s response to a ceasefire proposal last week.

According to Channel 12, Israel told the mediators it’s prepared to significantly withdraw forces from Gaza during a 60-day ceasefire, but not end the war.

Just more genocidal threats.


Egyptian FM, US’s Witkoff to discuss Gaza ceasefire efforts

Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty and US special envoy Steve Witkoff have discussed intensifying pressure to reach a ceasefire deal in Gaza in a phone call as talks stall.

According to US officials speaking anonymously to news agencies, Witkoff will visit Israel on Thursday to “discuss next steps” on Gaza.

Witkoff has said a deal would initially see the release of 10 living Israeli captives and the bodies of others for Palestinian prisoners.

Hamas has repeatedly said a permanent troop withdrawal and end to the war must be part of any agreement – something Israel has refused to agree to.



SvennoJ on 30 July 2025

UAE begins pipeline project to ease Gaza water shortage

The United Arab Emirates has begun construction on a major pipeline to carry desalinated water from Egypt to southern Gaza, a news report says.

Technical teams sent by the UAE have started transporting equipment needed for the project, the Emirati state news agency WAM reported.

Earlier this week, COGAT – the Israeli defence ministry body overseeing the occupied Palestinian territory – said construction of the pipeline would begin in the coming days and is expected to take weeks.

The project would link a desalination plant in Egypt to the al-Mawasi area along Gaza’s coast and could supply about 600,000 people daily, COGAT said.

Access to clean drinking water is extremely limited across Gaza, forcing its 2.3 million residents to rely on salty, often undrinkable water. More than 80 percent of Gaza’s water infrastructure has been damaged during Israel’s war on Gaza.

After Israeli supply cuts, most people rely on polluted wells or sporadic NGO water deliveries, hindered by limited aid access.

“The water crisis in Gaza continues to deteriorate rapidly amid a severe fuel shortage, extensive infrastructure damage, and inaccessible water sources,” said the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.


More children need to be evacuated from Gaza for treatment: NGO

Steve Sosebee, executive director and co-founder at HEAL Palestine, says there are “tens of thousands” of wounded children in Gaza who need to be evacuated for medical care.

“[That’s] not counting those kids who have common injuries, common diseases, afflictions or medical conditions which normally could be treated within the Gaza health system but now have to go outside because the health system has been destroyed,” Sosebee told Al Jazeera.

With 37 people, including 11 Palestinian children and their mothers on their way to the US after being evacuated by HEAL Palestine, Sosebee said that the logistical process is “pretty huge”.

Yet while the organisation identifies children and works with families to submit their medical records abroad and sort out clearances with the Israeli and Jordanian officials, children are still caught in a mass starvation crisis.

“There is a point of no return for malnutrition. For children who have been suffering from malnutrition, they reach some point where they suffer irreversible damage to their immune system,” Sosebee warned.



SvennoJ on 30 July 2025

Gaza Health Ministry appeals for protection of medical trucks to enter tomorrow

The Palestinian Health Ministry has called on citizens in Gaza to protect a convoy of six medical trucks that will enter the enclave on Thursday as looting escalates during mass starvation.

In a statement, the ministry said six trucks carrying medical supplies and equipment are scheduled to enter Gaza Strip hospitals through the World Health Organization.

“The items expected to arrive are of great importance and urgent need to continue providing medical care to the wounded and sick and save lives,” it said.

“The Ministry of Health calls on honourable citizens, all dignitaries, families, and relevant parties to make every effort to protect the convoy, to prevent any interference with the trucks, and to enable their safe arrival to hospitals to save the lives of patients and the wounded.”

‘It’s really a critical situation’: Gaza hunger deaths rise

As food stocks ran out, the situation in Gaza escalated in June and July, with the World Health Organization warning of mass starvation and images of emaciated children shocking the world.

The Gaza Health Ministry says 154 people, including 89 children, have died of malnutrition, most in recent weeks. A global hunger monitor said on Tuesday that a famine scenario is unfolding.

“Children with underlying conditions are more vulnerable. They get affected earlier,” said Marko Kerac, clinical associate professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, who helped draw up the WHO’s treatment guidelines for severe acute malnutrition.

The youngest babies in particular need special therapeutic formulas made with clean water, and supplies are running low.

“All the key supplies for the treatment of severe acute malnutrition, including medical complications, are really running out,” said Marina Adrianopoli, WHO nutrition lead for the Gaza response. “It’s really a critical situation.”



SvennoJ on 30 July 2025

Israel says Canada’s recognition of Palestinian state rewards Hamas

Israel rejected a statement by Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney over a planned recognition of a Palestinian state, saying it represented a reward for Hamas.

“The change in the position of the Canadian government at this time is a reward for Hamas and harms the efforts to achieve a ceasefire in Gaza and a framework for the release of the hostages,” the Israeli Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

Carney said earlier his decision was informed by Canada’s “long-standing” belief in a two-state solution to the decades-long Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

He referenced Israel’s “ongoing failure” to prevent humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza, as well the expansion of settlements in the occupied West Bank and Israeli-annexed East Jerusalem.


Countries that have recognised the state of Palestine coloured in green

No it's long overdue and the countries remaining are all trying to 'wash away' their complicity in genocide. Meanwhile Canada still sends arm shipments to Israel, it's merely symbolic, deflection.

US rights group urges backing for effort to stop arming Israel

The Council on American-Islamic Relations is calling on Americans to contact their US senators and demand they vote “yes” on two resolutions introduced by Senator Bernie Sanders to stop sending more weapons to Israel.

Sanders is expected to force the Senate to vote as early as today.

  • SJ Res 34 – Blocks the $675.7m sale of 1,000-pound MK 83 bombs, BLU-110A/B general-purpose bombs, and over 5,000 Joint Direct Attack Munition guidance kits used in air strikes that have flattened homes, hospitals, and refugee shelters across Gaza.
  • SJ Res 41 – Blocks the sale of tens of thousands of fully automatic assault rifles to Israeli forces and police under the command of National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, who has armed violent settlers carrying out ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.


Nearly 100 US lawmakers demand Gaza aid distribution investigation

Ninety-two House Democrats signed a letter to US Secretary of State Marco Rubio demanding an investigation into the operations of the controversial GHF.

“We have serious concerns with the operations of GHF, a newly established, private, US-linked organisation with no prior humanitarian experience, and the possibility that it could become the sole or primary aid provider in Gaza,” the lawmakers wrote.

“Providing secure and efficient humanitarian assistance to Palestinians is not only a moral obligation – it is also vital to Israel’s long-term security and the safe return of Israeli hostages. Enhancing aid operations is essential to stabilizing the region and achieving lasting peace.”

Israel has tightened its blockade in Gaza since May, allowing food into the territory almost exclusively through GHF, which has four sites set up in the south of the enclave. That compares with about 400 distribution areas operated by the United Nations.

Hundreds of Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire while attempting to reach or leave GHF centres.