Archive for ‘Middle East’

03/06/2025

Dozens of Palestinians Massacred at US-Israel Backed Food Distribution Sites

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By Médecins sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders)*

JERUSALEM  Dozens of Palestinians were killed and hundreds more injured on 1 June 2025, as they waited for food at the newly-created Gaza Humanitarian Foundation distribution centres in Rafah, Gaza Strip, Palestine, and close to the Netzarim Corridor, according to the Ministry of Health.

Aweil Project, South Sudan
MSF flag blowing in the wind at Aweil project base.© FREDERIC SEGUIN/MSF

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams joined the mass casualty response in Nasser hospital, Khan Younis. Patients told MSF they were shot from all sides by drones, helicopters, boats, tanks and Israeli soldiers on the ground. 

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02/06/2025

Weaponized Aid: Wall Street, Zionists, and Ex-CIA Operatives Take Over Gaza Relief

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By Robert Inlakesh | MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service*

 With over half a million people in Gaza on the brink of starvation and aid groups warning of an “imminent famine,” Israel has agreed to allow a token number of relief trucks into the besieged enclave. But what’s entering Gaza now isn’t humanitarian aid, it’s a Trojan horse.

A Palestinian mother holds her starving child in Gaza as famine deepens under Israeli siege. NurPhoto | AP

A new, U.S.-backed private aid scheme staffed by former CIA operatives, ex-Marines, and mercenaries tied to Israeli intelligence and Wall Street elites has been deployed in Gaza under the guise of relief.

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02/06/2025

United Nations Lifesaving Programmes under Threat as Budget Crisis Hits Hard

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(UN News)* — The UN is facing a deepening budget crisis that threatens lifesaving operations worldwide. From refugee aid in Mozambique to maternal health services in Afghanistan, critical programmes are on the brink of collapse unless urgent funding is secured.

A midwife nurse speaks with a woman at a maternity hospital in Khartoum, Sudan. (file photo)
© UNFPA Sudan/Sufian Abdul-Mouty | A midwife nurse speaks with a woman at a maternity hospital in Khartoum, Sudan. (file photo)

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02/06/2025

Gaza: Aid Distribution “Has Become a Death Trap”

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Lifting of Israeli blockade ‘the only way to avert mass starvation’ in Gaza: UNRWA chief

Displaced Palestinians walk along a street in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip.
© UNICEF/Eyad El Baba | Displaced Palestinians walk along a street in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip.

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01/06/2025

Helpless in the Face of Hunger: Gaza Families Pray for Deliverance – or Death

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 (UN News)* —  “I stood helpless in the face of my son’s hunger. I cried a lot and told him to drink from our little water to satisfy his hunger,” said Zeenat, a young Palestinian woman speaking to UN News from the battered Gaza Strip.

Thousands of displaced Palestinians are living in tents on the beach by Gaza's seaport.

UN News | Thousands of displaced Palestinians are living in tents on the beach by Gaza’s seaport.
 
Zeenat and her husband, Moamen Abu Asr, live with their children in a flimsy canvas tent, one of thousands that now line Gaza’s coastline.

Once a place of rest and leisure, the beach has become a last refuge for Palestinians displaced by relentless Israeli bombardment and military operations.

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01/06/2025

Africa: ‘Justice Is Long Overdue’: UN Chief Calls for Reparations for Enslavement and Colonialism

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(UN News)* — The UN Secretary-General António Guterres renewed his calls for Member states and the United Nations to work towards justice and reparations for Africans and the diaspora in a speech in New York on Friday .

Slavery memorial in Stone Town, Zanzibar, Tanzania.
UN News/Israa Hamad | Slavery memorial in Stone Town, Zanzibar, Tanzania.

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01/06/2025

World Food Programme and UNICEF Fight Child Wasting Where It Hits Hardest

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Joint global partnership aims to tackle the deadliest form of malnutrition

Nyanene Gatdoor holds her son Tuach as he's tested for malnutrition in South Sudan's Unity State. Photo: WFP/Samantha Reinders
Nyanene Gatdoor holds her son Tuach as he’s tested for malnutrition in South Sudan’s Unity State. Photo: WFP/Samantha Reinders

The darkest moments for Nyanene Gatdoor come when her 2-year-old son Tuach sobs from hunger. “When the baby is crying in front of you, and you have nothing to give him, you feel pain in your heart,” says the 25-year-old mother of 3.

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01/06/2025

Reporters Without Borders Asks International Criminal Court to Allow Gazan Journalists to Participate in Its Ongoing Proceedings

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By Reporters Without Borders (RSF)*

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has submitted multiple formal requests to the International Criminal Court (ICC) asking that the Palestinian journalists who are victims of Israeli war crimes in Gaza be allowed to participate as such in international judicial proceedings.

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31/05/2025

Sexual Violence in Sudan: “They beat us and they raped us right there on the road in public”

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By Médecins sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders)*

Clowns Sans Frontières in Aboutengue
A view of Aboutengue camp, which hosts refugees from Sudan. Chad, November 2024.© THIBAULT FENDLER/MSF

BRUSSELS/AMSTERDAM – Women and girls in Sudan’s Darfur region are at near-constant risk of sexual violence, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) on 28 May 2025 warned.

The true scale of this crisis remains difficult to quantify, as services remain limited, and people face barriers in seeking treatment or speaking about their ordeal.

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31/05/2025

Bright Products. Dark Intentions. Unmasking the Appeal

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By the World Health Organization*

Appealing flavours, but hidden dangers.
 
Shameless manipulation of our children, for industry profit.
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WHO calls on all young people to join the fight to become a tobacco-free generation.
WHO | WHO calls on all young people to join the fight to become a tobacco-free generation.

Every day, tobacco and nicotine industries use carefully engineered products and deceptive tactics to hook a new generation of users and keep existing ones.

Keep the industry out.