Aid truck drivers stuck on the Egyptian side of #Rafah crossing are worried that the food they're carrying is going to spoil a few miles away from starving people.
Seige warfare and forced starvation is a #WarCrime.
"The United States strongly condemns the attack (Friday) from Rwanda Defense Forces and M23 positions on the Mugunga camp for internally displaced persons in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo," State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said in a statement"
Good old Rwanda, that very safe country ( because the UK says so). Of course, the UK won't condemn this, as it's part of the Rwanda deportation deal not to.
During his intense interview with journalist Yama Wolasmal, Israeli Government Spokesman David Mencer highlighted that "Jews face an unreasonable burden of proof" regarding the journalist's request for evidence of Israeli bombings of hospitals in #Gaza.
"What happens in Gaza is not confined to Gaza. After the Israel Defense Forces killed an appalling number of medical personnel in the war – 326 members of the medical professions had already been killed as of the end of February, according to United Nations statistics – soldiers are not hesitating to open fire at ambulances in the West Bank, either. Apparently, if it's permitted in the Gaza Strip, it's equally permitted in the West Bank"
Gideon Levy
"The driver of the vehicle, which was taking two men who had been wounded by settlers' gunfire to hospital, was killed. Here, you can't tell a story about armed militants hiding in hospitals and ambulances – here Israel simply wants a war in the West Bank, like the one in Gaza. Shooting from a distance of hundreds of meters into an ambulance that is traveling with its siren wailing is a war crime. Period"
GideonLevy
Dr Adnan Al-Bursh, 50, who was the head of orthopaedics at al-Shifa Hospital, has died in an Israeli prison after more than four months in detention, Palestinian prisoner associations have said.
Colleagues have paid tribute to the late surgeon, describing him as "compassionate" and "heroic".
CW: There's some artful hypocrisy from a White House spokesperson in the article, along with the usual BBC bothsidesism.
Going through my social media, it seems like Gaza doesn't even exist.
It's all about student protests and police brutality in US.
In the mean time, the stories of Maas Graves, mass execution of healthcare staff and mutilated bodies of palestinians in Khan Yunis have all but disappeared from the news.
No news about starvation.
No news about murder of aid workers by IDF.
No news of bombing tent cities with fire bombs.
No news of Netanyahu ignoring the peace proposal.
No news that Biden keep sending weapons and money to Netanyahu.
I guess it's good that we see the student protests are spreading, but it should not be forgetting WHY they are protesting and what over 2 million Palestinians in Gaza are forced to live every day.
He was not an islamophobic Nazi loving Russian opposition character like Navalny who died of heart failure, no one in the "civilized west" will care about him or even bother learning his name, much less making official statement about his murder.
"We must obliterate Rafah, Deir al-Balah, and Nuseirat. The memory of the Amalekites must be erased. No partial destruction will suffice; only absolute and complete devastation." ~ Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich
Axios reports that members of the US #Congress in both parties warned the ICC that arrest warrants for senior Israeli officials will be met with US retaliation, and legislation to that effect is already in the works.
House Speaker Mike Johnson had issued a statement on Monday calling the reported warrants "disgraceful" and "lawless."
Israeli occupation drones have opened fire on Palestinian civilians inside their homes, killing one and injuring two in the al-Mashahreh area in al-Tuffah neighborhood, #Gaza City.
Gaza’s unexploded ordnance could take 14 years to clear (UN News, 2024-04-26)
"Pehr Lodhammar, a senior officer from the United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS), said that the war has left an estimated 37 million tonnes of debris.
"He said it was impossible to determine the exact amount of unexploded ordnance in the enclave..., after nearly seven months of intense Israeli bombardment.
"Every square metre in Gaza impacted by the conflict contains some 200 kilogrammes of rubble, the veteran UN demining expert told journalists in Geneva.
“'All I can say is that at least 10 per cent of the ammunition that is being fired potentially fails to function…with 100 trucks we’re talking about 14 years of work with 100 trucks, so that’s 14 years to remove with about 750,000 workdays - person workdays - to remove the debris.'”