Gaza, Humanitarian Crisis
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Israel Launches New Gaza Offensive
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Africanews on MSNArab League holds emergency meeting to discuss Gaza humanitarian crisisArab foreign ministers meet to hand over the presidency of the Arab League Council to Morocco at the Arab League headquarters in Cairo, Egypt, 6 September 2023
Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Jerusalem's Latin Patriarch, said on Tuesday he and church leaders had returned from a visit to Gaza with "broken hearts", calling the spiralling humanitarian crisis there "morally unacceptable".
Reversing deepening hunger crisis will require more than short-term aid, Doctors Without Borders' medical activity manager tells Anadolu - Anadolu Ajansı
The head of the agency that helps oversee international aid deliveries to the territory has criticized the impact of Israeli policy on civilians.
A surgeon working in southern Gaza says babies are arriving at hospital so malnourished that “skin and bones doesn’t do it justice.” He also describes what appears to be a disturbing pattern in the gunshot wounds of children arriving from food distribution sites.
A six-week-old infant and three other children have died of starvation in Gaza in the past 24 hours, local health officials said, with malnutrition and starvation now killing Palestinians faster than at any point in the 21-month war.
The UK and Canada, along with over two dozen countries, call for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, citing the escalating humanitarian crisis and mounting civilian casualties.
The company won a $149 million missiles contract for Israel’s “Iron Dome” defense system in 2014. Protestors demonstrated outside their Richardson offices a day after at least 94 Palestinians seeking food were reportedly killed.