Archive for December 27th, 2023

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27/12/2023

Gaza Health Workers Pushed to the Limit amid Airstrike ‘Carnage’

Human Wrongs Watch

Overwhelmed medics in Gaza on Tuesday [] continued to try to save victims of missile strikes including attacks near refugee camps in the centre of the devastated enclave that have reportedly killed well over 100 people, the UN health agency said.

 

Nuseirat school in central Gaza which is run by the UN agency for Palestinians UNRWA and is now a shelter for thousands of displaced people.
UN News/Ziad Taleb | Nuseirat school in central Gaza which is run by the UN agency for Palestinians UNRWA and is now a shelter for thousands of displaced people.

World Health Organization (WHO) Emergency Medical Teams coordinator Sean Casey said that “100-plus patients” had been brought into Al-Aqsa Hospital on Monday in the space of 30 minutes, following reported blasts, including near Al-Maghazi refugee camp.

All of them needed urgent treatment for serious wounds, the WHO official told UN News, while “about 100” more lifeless bodies were brought into the hospital at around the same time. 

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27/12/2023

‘Almost 500,000 Returning Afghans in Desperate Need of Food, Shelter and Employment to Survive Winter’

Human Wrongs Watch

By the Norwegian Refugee Council*

14 December 2023 — A group of nine international NGOs operating in Afghanistan urgently calls on the international community and humanitarian donors to increase their support for displaced families who have returned to Afghanistan to ensure their survival during the harsh winter months.
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Afghans returning from Pakistan wait for registration at Torkham border. Photo: Maisam Shafiey/NRC

Almost three months have passed since Pakistan announced that undocumented foreign nationals must leave the country or face deportation; since then, close to half a million Afghans have crossed the border into Afghanistan.

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