“The Israeli military demand that 1.2 million civilians in northern Gaza relocate to its south within 24 hours, absent of any guarantees of safety or return, would amount to the war crime of forcible transfer. It must be reversed.
(Beirut, October 12, 2023) – Israel’s use of white phosphorus in military operations in Gaza and Lebanon puts civilians at risk of serious and long-term injuries, Human Rights Watch said today [12 Octiber 2023] in releasing a question and answer document on white phosphorus.
WHO occupied Palestinian Territory | Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza. WHO warns that hospitals in the Gaza Strip are at a breaking point.
(UN News)* — Gaza is on the brink of running out of food, water, electricity and critical supplies, UN humanitarians warned on Thursday 12 October 2023].
No aid can come in from the outside for the 2.3 million residents of the sealed-off enclave, and some 220,000 displaced people are sheltering in schools run by the UN agency for Palestine refugees, UNRWA.
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— This week, as it pounded Gaza from the sky following Hamas’s deadly weekend attacks, the Israeli government also cut off Gaza’s electricity, fuel, water, and food in what it described as a “total siege.”
Fuel for Gaza’s sole power plant has run out and it has shut down. Without fuel or electricity, the internet has been disrupted and the area’s water pumping wells may be forced out of service.
Disclaimer: This dispatch includes distressing descriptions of violence, as well as stills of and links to graphic imagery and footage.
As news broke early Saturday morning that members of Palestinian armed groups from Gaza had breached the border fence, massacring hundreds of civilians, including children, in southern Israel, videos began emerging on social media.
(UN News)* — The humanitarian situation in Gaza is “indescribable” and “unprecedented” as the battle between extremist Palestinian armed groups and Israeli forces escalates.
That’s according to a senior UN official with humanitarian office OCHA inside the enclave, speaking to UN News on Wednesday [11 October 2023].
“Every hour that passes brings more fighting and devastation,” Hamada El Bayari told us.
Mr. El Bayari described the latest situation on the ground to Khaled Mohamed, saying that there is currently no “safe passage” anywhere for civilians trying to find cover from Israeli airstrikes, with around 340,000 Palestinians now displaced.
SAN FRANCISCO, USA, Oct 11 2023 (IPS)* – When Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations spoke outside the Security Council on Sunday, he said: “This is Israel’s 9/11. This is Israel’s 9/11.” Meanwhile, in a PBS NewsHour interview, Israel’s ambassador to the United States said: “This is, as someone said, our 9/11.”
A building is engulfed in flames in central Gaza. Credit: UN News/Ziad Taleb
While the phrase might seem logical, “Israel’s 9/11” is already being used as a huge propaganda weapon by Israel’s government — now engaged in massive war crimes against civilians in Gaza, after mass murder of Israelis by Hamas last weekend.
Israeli security forces and Palestinian armed groups must make every effort to protect the lives of civilians in today’s [] outbreak of fighting in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories, said Amnesty International amid a mounting civilian death toll.
Today’s escalation in violence began with Hamas firing rockets into Israel and launching an unprecedented operation by its fighters into southern Israel.
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