UNRWA sounded the alarm on Saturday over a rapidly escalating humanitarian catastrophe in the Gaza Strip.
"All basic supplies are running out in Gaza. It means babies, children are going to bed hungry,” Juliette Touma, the agency's director of communications, said in a statement.
“Six weeks into the Israeli-imposed siege blocking the entry of aid and commercial supplies, food stocks are nearly gone,” the agency also noted.
Dr Mustafa Barghouti, leader and founder of the Palestinian National Initiative and an elected member of the Palestinian Legislative Council since 2006, said that the United Arab Emirates has “economic” motives for its normalisation with Israel.
Barghouti attributed the shift to an Israeli government strategy aimed at strengthening ties with “young people who might become leaders one day” in countries across the region.
Palestinians injured by Israeli strike on so-called ‘safe zone’ are brought to hospital
Injured Palestinians, including children, are brought to the Kuwaiti Field Hospital after the Israeli military targeted tents in the al-Mawasi area in Khan Younis, Gaza [Mahmoud Bassam/Anadolu]
Speciaal VN-rapporteur voor de bezette Palestijnse gebieden #FrancescaAlbanese: “Wat nu in #Gaza gebeurt, is een genocide op ongeziene schaal. De ingezette strijdmiddelen zijn even ongezien. #Israël test nieuwe wapens uit op de Palestijnen.”
IDF unit involved in killing of Palestinian paramedics led by general with ‘contempt for human life’ | Israel | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/12/idf-unit-killing-palestinian-paramedics-golani-brigade
Despite decades of professed commitment to defending human rights, the United States continues to prioritize global weapons sales exposing a stark contradiction at the heart of US foreign policy.
This contradiction has grown sharper as America clings to military primacy in an increasingly multipolar world, with human rights concerns consistently sidelined in favor of preserving arms deals and strategic influence.
An immigration judge in Louisiana ruled on Friday that Palestinian student protest leader Mahmoud Khalil can be deported on the basis of a letter from Secretary of State Marco Rubio that says he has personally determined Khalil poses “adverse foreign policy consequences” to the US.
The case is widely seen as a bellwether for whether the government can deport people for constitutionally protected speech, with momentous implications.
"Israel's" government has launched a sweeping crackdown on Instagram and Facebook posts that criticize "Israel" or even vaguely express support for Palestinians, according to internal Meta data obtained by Drop Site News.
The data show that Meta has complied with 94% of takedown requests submitted by "Israel" since October 7, 2023.
Sources told the website that "Israel’s" censorship effort is set to continue.
Shoshana Strook, daughter of Israeli Settlement Minister Orit Strook, appeared in a new video stating that she was sexually assaulted by her parents, with the assault filmed.
She added that she is ‘in danger’ and has asked Israeli police to protect her from her family.
Orit Strook, a staunch supporter of Israeli colinial settlements, has promoted the narrative of the Israeli government, which accused Hamas of sexual violence on October 7.
Hundreds of Israeli soldiers signed a new petition Friday demanding the government reach a prisoner swap deal and end the war on the Gaza Strip.
Israeli public broadcaster KAN said the soldiers who signed the letter are from different divisions and specialties in the army, including intelligence unit 8200, special forces and elite units, such as Sayeret Matkal, Shayetet and Shaldag.
The family of Palestinian-American Amer Rabee, 14, who was killed on April 6 by Israeli soldiers while picking almonds near his home in the West Bank town of Turmus Ayyah, is seeking justice and a response from the US government, his uncle Rami Jbara said.
The family has not heard “a single word of remorse or concern” from the US government, Jbara, who lives in the state of New Jersey, told Arab News.
The Israeli army announced on Friday that it has deployed six additional brigades to the occupied West Bank in preparation for the upcoming Jewish Passover holiday, which runs from April 12 to April 20.
The military buildup was reported by Yedioth Ahronoth, who said the reinforcements are aimed at “enhancing security” across the territory amid rising tensions and concerns over potential attacks.
Israel’s military is organising hiking tours for Israeli settlers inside occupied Syrian territory during the Passover holiday, Israeli media has reported.
The twice-daily tours in the contested Golan Heights will run for a week beginning this Sunday.
Tickets sold out almost immediately. Settlers will cross the occupied Golan Heights in small groups in bulletproof buses into areas of Syria more recently captured.
https://qudsnen.co/israeli-military-organises-settler-tours-inside-occupied-syrian-territory/
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) unit involved in the killings of 15 Palestinian paramedics and rescue workers in the Gaza Strip last month was under the command of a brigade led by a notorious Israeli general previously accused by some of his own troops of having “contempt for human life”.
The IDF has confirmed that troops from Golani, one of the army’s five infantry brigades, opened fire on two convoys of ambulances in Rafah on 23 March.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/12/idf-unit-killing-palestinian-paramedics-golani-brigade
Mirjana Spoljaric’s remarks come on the same day the UN human rights office warned that Israel’s tactics were threatening the viability of Palestinians continuing to live in Gaza at all.
Spoljaric said that what is happening in Gaza is an “extreme hollowing out” of international law.
Israeli bombardment, resumed on March 18, has killed over 1,540 people, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry.
https://qudsnen.co/gaza-is-hell-on-earth-says-red-cross-chief-amid-ongoing-israeli-assault/
In a continuation of the United States’ unwavering support for the Israeli occupation amid its ongoing genocide in Gaza, US warplanes launched a new round of aggression against Yemen on Friday evening, targeting the capital Sanaa, as well as the provinces of Marib and Hodeidah.
Three US airstrikes struck the Bani Hushaysh district northeast of Sanaa, while Wadi Al-Ajbar in Sanhan district, south of the capital, was also targeted.
Ashley Bishop joins Katie to show footage she recorded of Gaza protests in NYC where feces and bleach were thrown by pro-Zionists from a high-rise apartment building.
A resident of a Manhattan luxury apartment building dumped bleach and trash on pro-Palestinian protesters during a demonstration, according to footage shared online Tuesday.
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“Such a calculated effort to exterminate women, boys, girls & even infants, has not been witnessed in any other modern conflict.”
“While being targeted with heavy weaponry, they are forced to endure a total blockade on humanitarian aid – now for a 2nd month in a row.”
UN report corroborates Israeli attempt to exterminate Gaza’s women, children
Palestinian rights group Al-Haq said findings by the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights that 36 Israeli attacks on Gaza had killed only women and children was further confirmation of a pattern previously identified.
Israel is purposely targeting women and children in Gaza.
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