Archive for June 25th, 2024

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25/06/2024

Gaza Is Now “a Living Hell” for More than Two Million People

Human Wrongs Watch

UN Agency Responsible for Palestinian Refugees “Will Crumble” Unless Funding Is Found Quickly

UNWRA staff are providing children with support to help them through the trauma of war.
© UNRWA | UNWRA staff are providing children with support to help them through the trauma of war.

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25/06/2024

Different Generations, Same Dispossession in Gaza

Human Wrongs Watch

(UNRWA)* —This World Refugee Day [20 June 2024], Palestine Refugees in Gaza are struggling to survive a humanitarian tragedy that, for the older generations, is a chilling echo of their past dispossession.
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Abu Kefah stands on a dune overlooking an IDP encampment. © 2024 UNRWA Photo

Young and old alike continue to survive amid the unspeakable violence of nearly nine months of war.

Abu Kefah Qadih, is an 81-year-old Palestine Refugee from Khan Younis. He has weathered forced displacement not once, but twice in his lifetime. As a child, he endured the horror of the Nakba – the mass displacement and dispossession of Palestinians during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. Now he has been forced to witness the dispossession of his own grandchildren.

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25/06/2024

A Move to Out-Maneuver US Veto on Palestine

Human Wrongs Watch

By Thalif Deen

UNITED NATIONS, Jun 21 2024 (IPS)* – The United States—which has continued to use its veto power to block Palestine from UN membership —may be out-maneuvered by a growing new campaign by some UN member states planning to establish full political and diplomatic relations with Palestine outside the confines of the United Nations.
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Results of the General Assembly’s vote on the resolution on the status of the Observer State of Palestine. Credit: UN Photo/Manuel Elías

The latest recognitions of the Palestinian territory as a sovereign State are by Norway, Ireland, Spain and Slovenia, which comes after the General Assembly overwhelmingly voted — with 143 votes in favour to nine votes against- – to back Palestine’s bid to become a full-fledged member of the United Nations on last month.

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