HUMAN WRONGS WATCH

Human Wrongs Watch

By Daniel Johnson

(UN News)* — Amid further raids, airstrikes and settler attacks on Palestinians in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday [28 August 2024], the UN human rights office, OHCHR, warned that the Israeli military’s actions risked further enflaming an “already explosive situation”.

© UNRWA/Firas Shehadeh | Palestinian refugees stand next to their demolished home in Jenin, West Bank. (file)

Human Wrongs Watch

(UN News)* — The World Food Programme (WFP) announced on Wednesday [28 August 2024] a pause in the movement of its employees in Gaza until further notice following an attack on a team returning from an aid delivery mission on Tuesday evening, just metres from an Israeli-controlled checkpoint.

WFP | A WFP team came under fire on the evening of 27 August, a few metres from an Israeli checkpoint at the Wadi Gaza Bridge.

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“This is totally unacceptable and the latest in a series of unnecessary security incidents that have endangered the lives of WFP’s team in Gaza,” said the UN agency’s Executive Director Cindy McCain, calling on the Israeli authorities and all parties to the conflict to act immediately to ensure the safety and security of all aid workers in Gaza.

Human Wrongs Watch

By Human Rights Watch*

(Jerusalem) – Israeli forces have arbitrarily detained Palestinian healthcare workers in Gaza since hostilities began in October 2023, deported them to detention facilities in Israel, and allegedly tortured and ill-treated them, Human Rights Watch on 26 August 2024 said.

The detention of healthcare workers in the context of the Israeli military’s repeated attacks on hospitals in Gaza has contributed to the catastrophic degradation of the besieged territory’s healthcare system.

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Human Wrongs Watch

By Daniel Johnson

22 August 2024 (UN News)* — UN aid teams have warned that vital chorine supplies that are essential for purifying water are running out and deteriorating in Gaza, while humanitarians condemned new strikes on schools sheltering people displaced by the war.

© UNRWA | Families continue to shelter in school buildings in the Gaza Strip.

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There are enough chlorine reserves to last just one month, said the UN aid coordination office, OCHA, while double the amount of purifying solution needs to be used to be effective now.

Human Wrongs Watch

By Daniel Johnson in Geneva and Ziad Taleb in Gaza

(UN News)* —  “Continuous” Israeli military evacuation orders in Gaza threaten already extremely vulnerable people in the enclave with further forced displacement, raising concerns that vital services could soon be cut off, UN humanitarians warned on Wednesday [21 August 2024].

© WHO/Ahmed Zakot | Ten months into the war, many Gazans continue to face the daily challenge of fetching clean water, amid repeated evacuation orders.

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More than 10 months into the war in Gaza, sparked by Hamas-led terror attacks in Israel that left some 1,250 dead and more than 250 taken hostage, nearly all Gazans have been displaced at least once – and often multiple times – by repeated orders to evacuate and intense Israeli bombardment.