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An infant identified as Sand Mohammad Saad died this morning of hunger and malnutrition caused by the ongoing Israeli siege on the Gaza Strip, a source at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza reports.
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All of Gaza is being starved by the Israeli occupation.
This is a cartoon by Alaa Laqta
The UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini stated that: The famine in Gaza is the result of a deliberate attempt to replace the UN System of distribution with the so-called “Gaza humanitarian mechanism”.
The current aid mechanism is politically driven and is responsible for the deaths of around 1,400 starving people in Gaza. The situation has worsened as UNRWA has been prevented from bringing any aid into Gaza for the past five months.
The marginalization and weakening of UNRWA has nothing to do with allegations of aid being diverted to armed groups. The deliberate weakening of UNRWA is aimed at exerting collective pressure and punishing Palestinians simply for remaining in Gaza.
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Israeli occupation forces raided Al Jazeera’s office in Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank, shortly after midnight.
They extended the office’s closure for an additional 60 days and posted a military order at the entrance.
Last September, the army also stormed Al Jazeera’s office under a military order, handed the staff a closure notice, confiscated all equipment and documents, and barred the employees from using their vehicles.
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Airdrops are at least 100 times more costly than trucks.
Trucks carry twice as much aid as planes.
If there is political will to allow airdrops – which are highly costly, insufficient and inefficient, there should be similar political will to open the road crossings.
As the people of Gaza are starving to death, the only way to respond to the famine is to flood Gaza with assistance.
UNRWA the largest UN agency on the ground, has 6,000 trucks loaded with aid stuck outside Gaza waiting for the green light to enter.
The UN including UNRWA and partners were able to bring in 500 to 600 trucks a day during the ceasefire earlier this year.
Aid reached the entire population of Gaza in safety and dignity. It succeeded to reverse the deepening starvation without any aid diversion.
No alternative to the UN coordinated response with UNRWA as the backbone had provided similar results.
Let’s go back to what works and let us do our job.
This is what people in Gaza need today more than ever together with a lasting ceasefire
Background Information:
UNRWA is the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East. The United Nations General Assembly established UNRWA in 1949 with a mandate to provide humanitarian assistance and protection to registered Palestine refugees in the Agency’s area of operations pending a just and lasting solution to their plight.
UNRWA operates in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, The Gaza Strip, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria.
Tens of thousands of Palestine refugees who lost their homes and livelihoods due to the 1948 conflict continue to be displaced and in need of support, nearly 75 years on.
UNRWA helps Palestine Refugees achieve their full potential in human development through quality services it provides in education, health care, relief and social services, protection, camp infrastructure and improvement, microfinance, and emergency assistance. UNRWA is funded almost entirely by voluntary contributions.
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20-year-old Palestinian administrative detainee Ahmad Tazaaz’a, from Jenin, died, Sunday, in the Israeli prison of Megiddo.
His family says he had no prior health issues prior to his detention nine months ago.
His death brings the death toll among detainees to 76 since the start of Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, during which extreme violence, including torture and starvation, has been widely used against the detainees.
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