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()* — The UN on Thursday [] observed the first International Day of Reflection and Commemoration of the 1995 Genocide in Srebrenica, honouring the memory of 8,000 Bosnian Muslims brutally killed by the Bosnian Serb army.
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11/07/2024
Gaza Reeling from Overwhelmed Hospitals, Soaring Temperatures, Hunger, Lack of Basic Sanitation…
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(UN News)* — In Gaza, overwhelmed hospitals, soaring temperatures, hunger and a lack of even basic sanitation present an ever more deadly threat to a population under constant attack, UN humanitarians warned on Tuesday [].
11/07/2024
United Nations Humanitarians Warn against Israeli Evacuation Orders in Gaza City
10/07/2024
A Staggering New Estimate of Over 186,000 Killings in Gaza Revives Charges of War Crimes
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– An overwhelmingly staggering 186,000 killings in Gaza –- compared with the official figure of over 37,000—has resurrected accusations of genocide and war crimes in the devastating nine-month-old war between Israel and Hamas, with no signs of a cease-fire.
Streets in Rafah were emptying as families continue to flee in search of safety, following an evacuation order by the Israeli authorities. Credit: UNRWA
The new estimates have come from The Lancet, one of the most prestigious peer-reviewed British medical journals.
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08/07/2024
Gaza: “Another day. Another month. Another UN school hit” by the Israeli Forces
Human Wrongs Watch
By Daniel Johnson*
The war in Gaza passed the nine-month mark on Sunday with humanitarians left assessing the damage of a fresh Israeli airstrike on a UN school.
04/07/2024
Gaza ‘Split in Two’: Blockades Restrict Movement of Displaced People Seeking Shelter and Aid Workers Trying to Assist Civilians in Desperate Needs
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()* — The Gaza Strip is virtually “split in two”, with blockades not only restricting the movement of displaced people seeking shelter, but also aid workers trying to assist civilians in desperate need, a UN relief official said on Wednesday [3 July 2024].
Speaking via video link from Jerusalem, Andrea De Domenico, head of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in the occupied Palestinian territory (OPT), said people have been forced to “completely reset their lives over and over again.”
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03/07/2024
Israeli Defense Minister Vows to Return Lebanon to ‘Stone Age’
Human Wrongs Watch
By Kyle Anzalone | Antiwar – TRANSCEND Media Service*
The White House reversed course and now says a ceasefire in Lebanon cannot be contingent on a deal in Gaza.
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27 Jun 2024 – Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said Israel was prepared to send Lebanon back to the “Stone Age” with a massive bombing campaign. The White House desperately tries to avert a major war in the Middle East but is not making progress.
After three days of meetings with top officials in Washington, Gallant told reporters that Israel preferred diplomacy but was also willing to utterly destroy Lebanon.
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03/07/2024
US Arms Suppliers in Gaza Killings Should Be “Named, Shamed & Boycotted”
Human Wrongs Watch
– The US gun lobby justifies the unfettered American gun ownership in the US on a misguided premise: Guns don’t kill people, it’s bullets that kill people.
A child watches as bodies are recovered from under the rubble of a house in the Al-Nasr neighborhood, east of the city of Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip. Credit: UN News/Ziad Taleb
The accusations of genocide and war crimes in Gaza have been directed firstly, at Israel, for the killings of more than 37,700, mostly civilians, and over 86,000 injured, in retaliation for the 1,200 killed by Hamas last October, according to estimates from Gaza health officials, as cited by Cable News Network (CNN) last week.
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03/07/2024
Gaza Is a ‘Maelstrom of Human Misery’
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(UN News)* — With their homes shattered and lives upended by war, civilians in Gaza are clinging to their dignity under the most inhumane conditions, Sigrid Kaag, the UN Senior Humanitarian and Reconstruction Coordinator, said on Tuesday [2 July 2024].
29/06/2024
Going Back into ‘Hell’: An Aid Worker’s Journey through Shattered Gaza
Human Wrongs Watch
By Daniel Johnson
(UN News)* — Over and above the difficulty of actually getting into Gaza, aid teams now face the crushing realization that with a shortage of fuel and dwindling supplies, there is a limit to what they can do to help all those in need, UN aid worker Louise Wateridge told UN News on Friday [28 June 2024].
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