Israel steps up strikes across Gaza, orders new evacuations in north
Reuters Israeli strikes intensified across Gaza on Tuesday in some of the heaviest shelling in weeks, residents said, and the army ordered fresh evacuations in the north of the enclave, warning civilians they were in a “dangerous combat zone”. Strikes by air and shelling from tanks on the ground were also reported in central and […]
UNRWA chief warns man-made famine tightening grip across Gaza
United Nations Reuters A man-made famine is “tightening its grip” across the Gaza Strip, the head of the United Nations Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA warned on Wednesday as he accused Israel of blocking aid deliveries and seeking to end UNRWA’s activities in the enclave. “Today, an insidious campaign to end UNRWA’s operations is underway, with […]
UN says it still faces obstacles in bid to fend off famine in Gaza
United Nations Reuters The United Nations is still struggling to prevent famine in the Gaza Strip and while there had been some improvement in coordination with Israel, aid deliveries in the enclave still faced difficulties, a senior UN aid official said on Tuesday. Displaced Palestinians, who fled their houses due to Israeli strikes, shelter in […]
Explainer – Gaza war after six months, what are the issues now?
Reuters Six months since Hamas gunmen stormed into southern Israel on a killing spree, Israel’s ground campaign to annihilate the Islamist movement has turned much of the Gaza Strip into a wasteland with an unfolding humanitarian catastrophe. Mediators have been trying to organise the first extended truce of the war to rush in aid to feed the Palestinian territory’s […]
Gaza’s wasteland seen via bicycle after six months of war
Gaza Reuters Before the Gaza war erupted, the tiny enclave run by the Palestinian militant group Hamas was impoverished and densely populated, but full of life – restaurants, shops, makeshift soccer pitches, universities and hospitals. Six months after the conflict began, Reuters cameramen took bicycle rides along its ruined streets to gauge the destruction left […]
World Court orders Israel to halt Gaza famine; Hamas says ceasefire needed
The Hague, The Netherlands/Cairo, Egypt Reuters The World Court on Thursday unanimously ordered Israel, accused by South Africa of genocide in Gaza, to take all necessary and effective action to ensure basic food supplies to the enclave’s Palestinian population and halt spreading famine. But Gaza’s Hamas rulers said a ceasefire was needed to halt the […]
Gaza’s hungry eat wild plant with no aid relief in sight
Gaza Reuters As the UN Security Council demands an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and concerns grow that famine may take hold, the territory’s hungry civilians are foraging for a wild green plant called Khobiza for lack of anything else to eat. It is another reminder of the suffering in the Palestinian enclave during the five […]
First Gaza aid ship leaves Cyprus with Palestinians on brink of famine
Larnaca, Cyprus/Cairo, Egypt Reuters A ship carrying 200 tonnes of aid for Gaza left Cyprus on Tuesday in a pilot project to open a sea corridor to deliver supplies to a population that aid agencies say is on the verge of famine after five months of war. While welcoming the project, however, senior UN officials […]
EU sees maritime aid corridor to Gaza opening this weekend amid famine fears
Cairo, Egypt/Larnaca, Cyprus Reuters The head of the European Commission said on Friday a maritime aid corridor could start operating between Cyprus and Gaza this weekend, part of accelerating Western efforts to relieve the humanitarian crisis in the war-ravaged Palestinian enclave. Ursula von der Leyen’s comments came a day after President Joe Biden announced plans […]
“Grave danger”: Millions of Sudanese go hungry as war disrupts food supply
NAFISA ELTAHIR, of Reuters, reports on the daily struggle Sudanese are facing to find food in a nation riven by war…