Gaza’s hospitals have been relying on generators powered by humanitarian fuel deliveries to run oxygen machines and other services since all electricity was cut off to the Gaza Strip in October [Mousa Salem/Anadolu images]
The 10-bed stabilisation centre at Kamal Adwan Hospital, the only facility treating severe acute malnutrition in northern Gaza, was evacuated last week.
Health workers killed in the Gaza war have included 55 highly qualified specialists who were seeking to create a healthcare system for a Palestinian state.
A Palestinian girl carries a young child at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir el-Balah, central Gaza, after they were both wounded in the Israeli bombardment of a residential building in the Bureij refugee camp late on Tuesday [Saher Alghorra/AP Photo]
The emergency committee for north Gaza has declared Jabalia, in the northern Gaza Strip, a disaster area.
Palestinians returning to Jabalia after Israeli forces withdrew have found homes and infrastructure destroyed.
Palestinians are struggling to meet their basic needs, including safe drinking water, after Israeli forces destroyed dozens of wells as well as sewage systems and other basic infrastructure.
‘We end today’s show looking at Israel’s war on Gaza and its impact on Palestinian children. More than 15,000 Palestinian children have been killed over the past eight months, and Palestinian officials are warning over 3,500 children are at risk of death due to starvation.’
“And, Janti, when you spoke at the United Nations in April, you said that more children have been killed in this conflict than have been killed in all armed conflicts globally over the past four years.”
“we estimate that over 80% of schools are either damaged or completely destroyed. What’s left of some of these schools are actually populated by people who are displaced. So there is no way schools can function at this point in Gaza”
Last month Sang Hea Kil, a justice studies professor at the San Jose State University, was placed on a temporary suspension because of her Palestine activism.
@w7voa They almost certainly died like most of the other hostages died, when some piece of US or German supplied ordinance blew the building or tunnel they were in to bits along with their captors. Israel has not prioritized hostage rescue in any way. They've been operating on the basis of blowing everything to pieces and keep pounding the rubble until the rubble stops protesting. One has only to look at the images of cities reduced to skeletal rubble to understand that at a gut level.
The more resistance that the colonized shows, the more brutal the colonizer becomes. Genocidal Israel is now walking in the footsteps of all other settler colonies on their deathbed.
Scarlett Wong, a clinical psychologist for Doctors Without Borders, or Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), travelled to Gaza in March.
Part of her role was to locate and support 17,000 unaccompanied children, including "child heads of households" — the term given to young children who had to look after their siblings.
“Providing this data as input for Lavender undermines their claim that #WhatsApp is a private messaging app,” he wrote. “It is beyond obscene and makes #Meta complicit in Israel’s killings of ‘pre-crime’ targets and their families, in violation of international humanitarian law and Meta’s publicly stated commitment to human rights.
Given a choice between war and getting all its hostages back, Israel has opted for more war, argues Israeli journalist Gideon Levy.
Even if Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was replaced, Israel would continue its war on Gaza and occupation of the Palestinian people as a whole. “Radical change” in Israeli attitude and U.S. support is needed for any improvement in the situation, says Levy.
"Israel’s actions likely met Lemkin’s original definition long before the war on Gaza. Starting in 1947, roughly 700,000 Palestinians fled or were expelled by Israel & barred from returning."
Lemkin wrote about how his original definition of genocide had been undermined in its codification:
"They want nonenforceable laws with many loopholes in them, so that they can manage life like currency in a bank.”
"When hunger claims many more lives, nobody will be able to deny the horrifying impact of #Israel 's deliberate, illegal, and cruel obstruction of aid."