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GAZA STRIP, Occupied Palestinian Territory, 25 August 2025 – “Where is the world watching what’s happening to us, and to our children? All families in the world have children,” said Inas, who lives in a displacement camp with her three children in Gaza city – where famine has been confirmed for the first time.
“Would they accept their children waking up hungry?”
US Arms Transfers to Israel Are Internationally Wrongful Acts
(Washington, DC) – US military personnel could face legal liability for assisting Israeli forces who commit war crimes in Gaza, Human Rights Watch on 26 August 2025 said.
Direct participation by US forces in military operations in Gaza since October 2023, including by providing intelligence for Israeli strikes and conducting extensive coordination and planning, has made the United States a party to the conflict between Israel and Palestinian armed groups.
Cradling 18-month-old Mohamed in her arms, Hedaia remembers a once-healthy child when food was available – despite Mohamed’s muscular atrophy, a rare genetic weakness.
Today, the little boy is skeletal.
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27 Aug 2024 – The children of Gaza are being starved and killed.
Israel has killed 18,592 Palestinian children in the last two years and there are 39,000 children orphaned in Gaza. This forced starvation is an Israeli policy leading to famine.
Mairead Corrigan Maguire
Calls for genocide come from high Israeli politicians and generals {see genocidal statement 18 Aug 2025 via Prof Michael de Graff}.
This is not a natural disaster; it is mass murder and intentional starvation of Gazans by Israel.
The suffering is deep and painful. Please do something to stop such preventable suffering and death of little Palestinian children by Israeli military and politicians.
Please President Trump, cut off weapons and diplomatic support and save the Palestinians from ethnic cleansing and genocide, which are being witnessed by the whole world.
People wait for food at a community kitchen in western Gaza City. Credit: UN News
As I am writing this column, the Israeli military is converging on Gaza to destroy what has been left after 22 months of relentless war that killed more than 60,000 Palestinians and leveled to the ground 80 percent of its infrastructure.
The data show “a proportion of civilian slaughter with few, if any, parallels in modern warfare.”
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Bodies of Palestinians, including children, killed in Israeli airstrikes targeting residential neighborhoods are brought to al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City for identification and funeral preparation on 21 Aug 2025. An investigation published today [21 Aug 2025] belied Israeli government claims of a historically low civilian-to-combatant kill ratio in Gaza, as classified Israel Defense Forces intelligence data revealed that 5 in 6 Palestinians killed by the IDF through the first 19 months of the US-backed war were, in fact, civilians.
A new report: Progress on Household Drinking Water and Sanitation 2000–2024: special focus on inequalities – launched by WHO and UNICEF during World Water Week 2025 – reveals that, while some progress has been made, major gaps persist.
People living in low-income countries, fragile contexts, rural communities, children, and minority ethnic and indigenous groups face the greatest disparities.
Ten key facts from the report:
(UN News)* — From Gaza to Sudan, wars are being waged on the very systems set up to protect civilian populations, with health workers, hospitals, health centres and ambulances being targeted in horrifying numbers, according to the UN agency for reproductive health and rights, UNFPA.
(UN News)* — Extreme heat is fast becoming one of the biggest threats to workers’ health and livelihoods, the World Health Organization (WHO) and World Meteorological Organization (WMO) warned on Friday [].
The new joint report, Climate change and workplace heat stress, underscores the mounting risks as climate change fuels longer, more extreme, and more frequent heatwaves.
© Africa GreenTec Madagascar/Yann Raz | Farmers in rural Madagascar.Stressing that workers in agriculture, construction, and fisheries are already suffering the impacts of dangerous temperatures, the report points out that vulnerable groups in developing countries – including children, older adults, and low-income communities – face increasing dangers.
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