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Meals in Gaza is turning into ‘so scarce that individuals are resorting to consuming grass’, says ActionAid

A global charitysaid that meals is turning into so scarce in Gaza that individuals are resorting to consuming grass. “Each single individual in Gaza is now hungry, and other people have simply 1.5 to 2 litres of unsafe water per day to fulfill all their wants,” stated ActionAid in an announcement revealed on Friday that warned intensifying assaults in Rafah would have “disastrous penalties”.

‘Every single person in Gaza is now hungry, and people have just 1.5 to 2 litres of unsafe water per day to meet all their needs,’ says international charity ActionAid.
‘Each single individual in Gaza is now hungry, and other people have simply 1.5 to 2 litres of unsafe water per day to fulfill all their wants,’ says worldwide charity ActionAid. {Photograph}: Hatem Ali/AP

Riham Jafari, advocacy and communications coordinator at ActionAid Palestine stated the charity was “deeply involved” by stories of a possible floor invasion in Rafah and elevated airstrikes on the world. “Allow us to be completely clear: any intensification of hostilities in Rafah, the place greater than 1.4 million individuals are sheltering, could be completely disastrous,” he stated.

Jafari requested “if the ultimate remaining supposedly secure place within the strip got here below assault … the place on earth is Gaza’s exhausted and ravenous inhabitants presupposed to go?”.

He added:

Folks are actually so determined that they’re consuming grass in a final try and stave off starvation. In the meantime infections and ailments are working rampant amid such overcrowded circumstances. The one factor that may cease this case spinning even additional uncontrolled is an instantaneous and everlasting ceasefire – it’s the one solution to cease extra lives being misplaced and to permit sufficient lifesaving help to enter the territory.”

The charity stated any assaults would “undoubtedly trigger a excessive variety of casualties and make the distribution of help much more difficult”, provided that the world now hosts greater than 1.4 million individuals, or greater than 5 occasions its normal inhabitants.

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The UN children’s agency (Unicef) called on all parties to refrain from military escalation in Rafah, at the southern edge of the Gaza Strip, warning that there are more than 600,000 children in the area, some of whom have been displaced more than once since the war began four months ago, reports the Associated Press (AP).

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Unicef executive director Catherine Russell said in a statement late on Thursday that military escalation in Rafah would mark “another devastating turn in a war” that has killed over 27,000 people according to health officials in Gaza.

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She said it could leave thousands more dead through violence or lack of essential services, and further disrupt humanitarian assistance.

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“We need Gaza’s last remaining hospitals, shelters, markets and water systems to stay functional,” Russell said. “Without them, hunger and disease will skyrocket, taking more child lives.”

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More than half of the Gaza Strip’s 2.3 million people have fled to Rafah, heeding Israeli evacuation orders as the military’s ground offensive expands. Evacuation orders now cover two-thirds of the Gaza Strip.

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Russell appealed to all parties to the conflict to adhere to their obligations under international humanitarian law, which includes taking the utmost care to spare civilians and civilian infrastructure.

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Al Jazeera have been receiving updates on the Israeli army’s raids in the occupied West Bank overnight and in the morning. The news organisation says that at 11 Palestinians have been detained by Israeli forces there, according to local sources speaking to the Wafa news agency.

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In Ramallah, seven Palestinians were arrested as Israeli troops stormed various villages, says Al Jazeera. It says, according to information from the Wafa news agency, that in one of the raids in Sinjil, the Israeli army confiscated three private vehicles and cash in shekels worth nearly $2,800.

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According to Al Jazeera’s report another four Palestinians, including a journalist identified as Hamza Safi, were reportedly arrested in a separate Israeli military raid in Tulkarem in the northern West Bank by Israeli soldiers who raided and searched their homes.

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An international charitysaid that food is becoming so scarce in Gaza that people are resorting to eating grass. “Every single person in Gaza is now hungry, and people have just 1.5 to 2 litres of unsafe water per day to meet all their needs,” said ActionAid in a statement published on Friday that warned intensifying attacks in Rafah would have “disastrous consequences”.

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Riham Jafari, advocacy and communications coordinator at ActionAid Palestine stated the charity was “deeply involved” by stories of a possible floor invasion in Rafah and elevated airstrikes on the world. “Allow us to be completely clear: any intensification of hostilities in Rafah, the place greater than 1.4 million individuals are sheltering, could be completely disastrous,” he stated.

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Jafari requested “if the ultimate remaining supposedly secure place within the strip got here below assault … the place on earth is Gaza’s exhausted and ravenous inhabitants presupposed to go?”.

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The charity stated any assaults would “undoubtedly trigger a excessive variety of casualties and make the distribution of help much more difficult”, provided that the world now hosts greater than 1.4 million individuals, or greater than 5 occasions its normal inhabitants.

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Israeli protesters have gathered in front of the Nitzana crossing with the Egyptian border, blocking humanitarian aid from entering Gaza, reports Al Jazeera citing social media posts by Israeli activists.

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It also posted the below X update by Almog Booker, a reporter for Channel 13 who shared footage that he says shows protesters blocking the Nitzana crossing and stopping the passage of trucks into the Gaza Strip.

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According to Al Jazeera, the protesters also demanded that UNRWA have its humanitarian funding frozen.

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There have been protests at multiple border crossings with Gaza in recent weeks, including at the Kerem Shalom crossing where Israeli protesters prevented trucks carrying humanitarian aid from entering Gaza.

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The latest figures from the Gaza health ministry, which is run by Hamas, said 107 Palestinians were killed in Israeli strikes and 142 were injured in the past 24 hours.

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According to the statement, at least 27,947 Palestinians have been killed and 67,459 have been injured in Israeli strikes on Gaza since 7 October.

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The ministry does not distinguish between combatants and non-combatants.

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Philippe Lazzarini, the commissioner general of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) says the war in Gaza has put more than half a million boys and girls out of school.

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“Every day of war deepens the scars, risking a lost generation vulnerable to exploitation,” Philippe Lazzarini said in a post on social media platform X. “Children are being robbed of childhood.”

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Lazzarinin said the toll of four months of a “brutal” war in Gaza was “tragic” and warned their future is at stake. He said: “Every day of war deepens the scars, risking a lost generation vulnerable to exploitation. Children are being robbed of childhood.”

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This situation “needs to be reversed starting with a humanitarian ceasefire”, he added.

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John Kirby, the US national security spokesperson warned Israel against conducting an offensive against Rafah, the last refuge of Palestinians fleeing the Israeli army’s assault on Gaza.

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Kirby said the US would not support an attack on the southern town. He added that the secretary of state, Antony Blinken, had expressed his concern to Israeli officials during his recent visit.

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It has just gone 9am in Gaza and Tel Aviv.

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At least nine people, including children and women, were killed in Israeli airstrikes overnight into Friday in the central area of the Gaza Strip and in the southern city of Rafah on the border with Egypt, witnesses and hospital officials told The Associated Press (AP).

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The overnight airstrikes came hours after US president Joe Biden said on Thursday that he considers Israel’s conduct of the war to be “over the top.” The US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, left Israel on Thursday as the divide grows between the two close allies on the way forward.

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More than half of Gaza’s 2.3 million population have been driven by Israel’s military offensive towards the border with Egypt. Unable to leave the Palestinian territory, many are living in makeshift tent camps or overflowing UN-run shelters and it is reported that a quarter of the population are starving.

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The Palestinian death toll from the war has surpassed 27,840 people, the Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza said.

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Here’s a summary of the latest developments:

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  • Israel’s military response in the Gaza Strip to the 7 October attacks by Hamas has in his view been “over the top,” US president Joe Biden said late on Thursday, adding that he is working to get a sustained pause in fighting in place. American support for Israel’s war on the Palestinian militant group has sparked a flurry of attacks on US troops in the region, as well as criticism of the Biden administration at home and abroad. “I’m of the view, as you know, that the conduct of the response in Gaza, in the Gaza Strip, has been over the top,” Biden told reporters at the White House. But the US president said he had pushed to get humanitarian assistance into Gaza, claiming Egyptian president Abdel Fattah al-Sissi initially “did not want to open up the gate to allow humanitarian material to get in”. “I talked to him, I convinced him to open the gate. I talked to Bibi [Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu] to open the gate on the Israeli aspect,” Biden stated. “I’ve been pushing actually exhausting, actually exhausting to get humanitarian help into Gaza.”

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  • Israeli forces intensified strikes on Rafah in southern Gaza, because the UN stated such motion would solely “enhance what’s already a humanitarian nightmare”. Greater than half of Gaza’s inhabitants is sheltering within the southern border metropolis of Rafah, with lots of them in makeshift tents and missing meals and drugs. The UN workplace for the coordination of humanitarian affairs (Ocha) added that preventing in Rafah would threat “additional hampering a humanitarian operation already restricted by insecurity, broken infrastructure and entry restrictions.” Israeli planes bombed areas in Rafah on Thursday morning, witnesses informed Reuters, killing a minimum of 11 individuals in strikes on two homes. Tanks additionally shelled some areas in japanese Rafah, intensifying fears of an imminent floor assault.

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  • US Central Command stated it carried out seven “self-defence” strikes towards 4 Houthi unmanned floor vessels and 7 cell anti-ship cruise missiles that have been ready to be launched towards ships within the Pink Sea. US forces stated that they had decided they introduced an imminent risk to US Navy ships and service provider vessels within the area.

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  • 5 Israeli hostages who have been freed in November pleaded with prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu to push for a deal, after he publicly rejected the phrases of a ceasefire in Gaza proposed by Hamas.

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  • Israeli forces detained two American brothers and their Canadian father in an in a single day raid on their residence in Gaza, family of the lads stated. Nationwide safety council spokesperson John Kirby stated on Thursday the administration might be speaking to Israeli authorities concerning the report, in addition to the Israeli navy’s arrest of a US lady within the occupied West Financial institution earlier within the week. “We need to know extra concerning the causes right here,” Kirby informed reporters on the White Home.

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  • The US senate on Thursday superior a wartime help package deal for Ukraine and Israel, reviving an effort that had stalled amid Republican opposition to a border safety invoice they demanded and later deserted. Senators voted 67 to 32 to start consideration of the $95bn emergency help invoice however quite a few hurdles stay earlier than it might probably cross.

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  • A German navy frigate has departed for the Pink Sea, the place Berlin plans to have it participate in an EU mission to assist defend cargo ships from assaults by Yemen’s Iranian-backed Houthi rebels. EU overseas ministers are anticipated to log out on the Pink Sea mission on 19 February. Officers have stated that seven international locations within the bloc are prepared to offer ships or planes.

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  • A Hamas delegation arrived in Cairo for extra ceasefire talks on Thursday, a day after the Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected the group’s calls for made as a part of their response to a proposed ceasefire deal. Senior Lebanon-based Hamas official Osama Hamdan confirmed the journey at a information convention in Beirut whereas an Egyptian official has additionally informed Agence France-Presse that “a brand new spherical of negotiations” is ready to begin on Thursday in Cairo geared toward reaching “calm within the Gaza Strip”.

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  • US President Joe Biden will host Jordan’s King Abdullah II in Washington on Monday for talks on resolving the Israel-Hamas battle, the White Home stated.

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  • Extra stories emerged from Khan Younis of individuals within the neighborhood of Nasser hospital being focused by Israeli snipers, stated Al Jazeera journalist Hani Mahmoud in Rafah. He stated: “Paramedics are unable to get out of the hospital to assist the injured and take away the useless from the streets.” Al Jazeera additionally quoted Ashraf al-Qudra, spokesperson for Gaza’s well being ministry, saying the scenario on the hospital advanced is a “humanitarian catastrophe” including that there are “300 medical workers, 450 wounded, and 10,000 displaced individuals within the Nasser medical advanced being killed and starved.”

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  • US secretary of state Antony Blinken left the Center East on Thursday with public divisions between the US and Israel at maybe their worst stage since Israel’s struggle towards Hamas in Gaza started in October, stories the Related Press. Blinken was returning to Washington after the Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated the struggle would proceed till Israel is totally victorious and appeared to reject outright a response from Hamas to a proposed ceasefire plan.

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  • Repeated US strikes towards Iran-backed armed teams in Iraq are pushing the federal government to finish the mission of the US-led coalition within the nation, the prime minister’s navy spokesperson Yahya Rasool stated on Thursday.

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  • A journalist and his son have been killed in an Israeli airstrike on a residential constructing within the central Gaza Strip, stories Al Jazeera. Nafez Abdel Jawad, who labored for Palestine TV, was killed in a bombing of a residential constructing within the al-Salam neighbourhood in Deir el-Balah within the central Gaza Strip final evening. The information organisation stated that his solely son additionally died within the airstrike and different accidents had additionally been reported.

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  • Main Palestinian human rights teams have accused the UN particular adviser on the prevention of genocide of failing to fulfil her mandate after she issued just one assertion on the struggle in Gaza – largely supportive of Israel – that has killed greater than 27,000 Palestinians.

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  • The Canadian authorities didn’t see any proof backing up Israel’s declare that workers employed by UNRWA colluded with Hamas earlier than suspending funding to the company, CBC Information stories. Canadian officers informed CBC Information that Canada’s personal determination to defund was a response to UNRWA’s determination to dismiss the staffers, which created the impression that the company noticed Israel’s allegation as credible.

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Unicef say escalation in Rafah would put 1000’s extra youngsters in danger

The UN youngsters’s company (Unicef) referred to as on all events to chorus from navy escalation in Rafah, on the southern fringe of the Gaza Strip, warning that there are greater than 600,000 youngsters within the space, a few of whom have been displaced greater than as soon as for the reason that struggle started 4 months in the past, stories the Related Press (AP).

Unicef government director Catherine Russell stated in an announcement late on Thursday that navy escalation in Rafah would mark “one other devastating flip in a struggle” that has killed over 27,000 individuals in line with well being officers in Gaza.

“UNICEF is urgently calling on the events to chorus from navy escalation in Rafah Governorate in Gaza the place over 600,000 youngsters and their households have been displaced – lots of them greater than as soon as.”

Learn full assertion by @unicefchief: https://t.co/hXPrj4sbxN

— UNICEF (@UNICEF) February 9, 2024

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“UNICEF is urgently calling on the events to chorus from navy escalation in Rafah Governorate in Gaza the place over 600,000 youngsters and their households have been displaced – lots of them greater than as soon as.”

Learn full assertion by @unicefchief: https://t.co/hXPrj4sbxN

— UNICEF (@UNICEF) February 9, 2024

She stated it might go away 1000’s extra useless via violence or lack of important providers, and additional disrupt humanitarian help.

“We want Gaza’s final remaining hospitals, shelters, markets and water techniques to remain useful,” Russell stated. “With out them, starvation and illness will skyrocket, taking extra youngster lives.”

Greater than half of the Gaza Strip’s 2.3 million individuals have fled to Rafah, heeding Israeli evacuation orders because the navy’s floor offensive expands. Evacuation orders now cowl two-thirds of the Gaza Strip.

Russell appealed to all events to the battle to stick to their obligations below worldwide humanitarian regulation, which incorporates taking the utmost care to spare civilians and civilian infrastructure.

11 Palestinians arrested in Israeli military raids within the occupied West Financial institution in a single day, stories Al Jazeera

Al Jazeera have been receiving updates on the Israeli military’s raids within the occupied West Financial institution in a single day and within the morning. The information organisation says that at 11 Palestinians have been detained by Israeli forces there, in line with native sources chatting with the Wafa information company.

In Ramallah, seven Palestinians have been arrested as Israeli troops stormed numerous villages, says Al Jazeera. It says, in line with info from the Wafa information company, that in one of many raids in Sinjil, the Israeli military confiscated three personal autos and money in shekels value almost $2,800.

Based on Al Jazeera’s report one other 4 Palestinians, together with a journalist recognized as Hamza Safi, have been reportedly arrested in a separate Israeli navy raid in Tulkarem within the northern West Financial institution by Israeli troopers who raided and searched their properties.

Meals in Gaza is turning into ‘so scarce that individuals are resorting to consuming grass’, says ActionAid

A global charitysaid that meals is turning into so scarce in Gaza that individuals are resorting to consuming grass. “Each single individual in Gaza is now hungry, and other people have simply 1.5 to 2 litres of unsafe water per day to fulfill all their wants,” stated ActionAid in an announcement revealed on Friday that warned intensifying assaults in Rafah would have “disastrous penalties”.

‘Each single individual in Gaza is now hungry, and other people have simply 1.5 to 2 litres of unsafe water per day to fulfill all their wants,’ says worldwide charity ActionAid. {Photograph}: Hatem Ali/AP

Riham Jafari, advocacy and communications coordinator at ActionAid Palestine stated the charity was “deeply involved” by stories of a possible floor invasion in Rafah and elevated airstrikes on the world. “Allow us to be completely clear: any intensification of hostilities in Rafah, the place greater than 1.4 million individuals are sheltering, could be completely disastrous,” he stated.

Jafari requested “if the ultimate remaining supposedly secure place within the strip got here below assault … the place on earth is Gaza’s exhausted and ravenous inhabitants presupposed to go?”.

He added:

Folks are actually so determined that they’re consuming grass in a final try and stave off starvation. In the meantime infections and ailments are working rampant amid such overcrowded circumstances. The one factor that may cease this case spinning even additional uncontrolled is an instantaneous and everlasting ceasefire – it’s the one solution to cease extra lives being misplaced and to permit sufficient lifesaving help to enter the territory.”

The charity stated any assaults would “undoubtedly trigger a excessive variety of casualties and make the distribution of help much more difficult”, provided that the world now hosts greater than 1.4 million individuals, or greater than 5 occasions its normal inhabitants.

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The Eire girls’s basketball workforce selected to not shake arms with the Israel gamers at their EuroBasket 2025 qualifier in Riga on Thursday in response to an allegation by an Israeli participant about antisemitism, stories Reuters.

The Israeli Basketball Affiliation revealed an interview with participant Dor Saar on Tuesday, throughout which she stated: “It’s identified that they’re fairly antisemitic, and it’s no secret; perhaps that’s why a powerful recreation is predicted.”

Based on the BBC, Eire gamers additionally lined up for his or her anthem beside the workforce’s bench fairly than the centre of the courtroom earlier than the sport, which Israel gained 87-57.

The general public broadcaster stated Basketball Eire referred to as Saar’s feedback “inflammatory and wholly inaccurate”. Basketball Eire has reported Saar’s feedback to European basketball’s governing physique Fiba Europe.

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Israeli protesters blocking Nitzana crossing, says Al Jazeera

Israeli protesters have gathered in entrance of the Nitzana crossing with the Egyptian border, blocking humanitarian help from getting into Gaza, stories Al Jazeera citing social media posts by Israeli activists.

It additionally posted the beneath X replace by Almog Booker, a reporter for Channel 13 who shared footage that he says exhibits protesters blocking the Nitzana crossing and stopping the passage of vehicles into the Gaza Strip.

גם הבוקר: מפגינים חוסמים את מעבר ניצנה ולא מאפשרים מעבר של משאיות לרצועת עזה pic.twitter.com/m03qstTwbS

— almog boker (@bokeralmog) February 9, 2024

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גם הבוקר: מפגינים חוסמים את מעבר ניצנה ולא מאפשרים מעבר של משאיות לרצועת עזה pic.twitter.com/m03qstTwbS

— almog boker (@bokeralmog) February 9, 2024

Based on Al Jazeera, the protesters additionally demanded that UNRWA have its humanitarian funding frozen.

There have been protests at a number of border crossings with Gaza in latest weeks, together with on the Kerem Shalom crossing the place Israeli protesters prevented vehicles carrying humanitarian help from getting into Gaza.

Protesters on the Kerem Shalom crossing have blocked the supply of humanitarian help to Gaza and are demanding the rapid launch of hostages kidnapped on the 7 October Hamas assault on Israel. {Photograph}: Dylan Martinez/Reuters

107 Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes up to now 24 hours, says well being ministry

The most recent figures from the Gaza well being ministry, which is run by Hamas, stated 107 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli strikes and 142 have been injured up to now 24 hours.

Based on the assertion, a minimum of 27,947 Palestinians have been killed and 67,459 have been injured in Israeli strikes on Gaza since 7 October.

The ministry doesn’t distinguish between combatants and non-combatants.

Greater than half one million youngsters out of college in Gaza, says UNRWA commissioner common

Philippe Lazzarini, the commissioner common of the UN company for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) says the struggle in Gaza has put greater than half one million girls and boys out of college.

“Every single day of struggle deepens the scars, risking a misplaced technology susceptible to exploitation,” Philippe Lazzarini stated in a publish on social media platform X. “Youngsters are being robbed of childhood.”

4 months of a brutal struggle in #Gaza, the toll on youngsters is tragic, their future at stake.

Greater than half one million women & boys are out of main & secondary faculty in Gaza. Every single day of struggle deepens the scars, risking a misplaced technology susceptible to exploitation.

Youngsters are… pic.twitter.com/qG23HAwenJ

— Philippe Lazzarini (@UNLazzarini) February 9, 2024

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4 months of a brutal struggle in #Gaza, the toll on youngsters is tragic, their future at stake.

Greater than half one million women & boys are out of main & secondary faculty in Gaza. Every single day of struggle deepens the scars, risking a misplaced technology susceptible to exploitation.

Youngsters are… pic.twitter.com/qG23HAwenJ

— Philippe Lazzarini (@UNLazzarini) February 9, 2024

Lazzarinin stated the toll of 4 months of a “brutal” struggle in Gaza was “tragic” and warned their future is at stake. He stated: “Every single day of struggle deepens the scars, risking a misplaced technology susceptible to exploitation. Youngsters are being robbed of childhood.”

This case “must be reversed beginning with a humanitarian ceasefire”, he added.

Here’s a video of the US president Joe Biden’s speech wherein he stated Israel’s offensive on Gaza has been “excessive”. It’s his sharpest criticism but of Tel Aviv’s conduct through the struggle.

As Joe Biden took questions on the particular counsel’s report investigating his possession of categorized paperwork, he stated: “There are lots of harmless people who find themselves ravenous, lots of harmless people who find themselves in bother and dying.”

In the course of the press convention, Biden additionally mistakenly referred to the Egyptian president, Abdel Fatah al-Sisi, because the president of Mexico. You’ll be able to watch the video right here:

Biden mixes up presidents of Mexico and Egypt in speech defending reminiscence – video

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Australian overseas minister Penny Wong has reiterated considerations about UNRWA. {Photograph}: Mike Bowers/The Guardian

Australian overseas minister Penny Wong has reiterated considerations a couple of key UN company delivering help to Gaza, noting that whereas it does vital work, there stay critical allegations towards its workers.

Wong, talking at a press convention in Perth, once more spoke of “two irrefutable truths” concerning the United Nations Reduction and Works Company for Palestinian Refugees within the Close to East (UNRWA), the group that Australia, the US and the UK and different donor international locations suspended funding after allegations that as many as 12 workers members have been concerned within the 7 October Hamas assaults towards Israelis.

Wong stated:

There are two irrefutable info. It’s vital. The one organisation that has the infrastructure and personnel to offer help right into a area which is experiencing a devastating humanitarian disaster within the midst of this battle.

The second is that critical allegations have been made. I be aware that UNWRA itself, when these allegations have been made public, described them as critical allegations towards UNWRA workers, itself stated that they’d be terminating contracts and launching an investigation.

Now we clearly have beforehand elevated our funding for UNWRA. We’re eager to work with each the organisation and with Japan and different like-minded [nations] who’ve paused funding, to work out how we will acquire the arrogance to revive funding. We are going to proceed to try this work.

US tells Israel it won’t assist Rafah offensive as it might be a ‘catastrophe’

John Kirby, the US nationwide safety spokesperson warned Israel towards conducting an offensive towards Rafah, the final refuge of Palestinians fleeing the Israeli military’s assault on Gaza.

Kirby stated the US wouldn’t assist an assault on the southern city. He added that the secretary of state, Antony Blinken, had expressed his concern to Israeli officers throughout his latest go to.

US tells Israel it won’t assist Rafah offensive: ‘It will be a catastrophe’ – video

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US President Joe Biden has steered that Israel’s navy response in Gaza has been ‘excessive’. {Photograph}: Evan Vucci/AP

US President Joe Biden has steered that Israel’s navy response in Gaza has been “excessive” and stated he’s looking for a “sustained pause within the preventing” to assist ailing Palestinian civilians.

“I’m of the view, as , that the conduct of the response within the Gaza Strip has been excessive,” Biden informed reporters on the White Home.

He added that he had been pushing for a deal to normalise Saudi Arabia-Israel relations, elevated humanitarian help for Palestinian civilians and a short lived pause in preventing to permit the discharge of hostages taken by Hamas.

‘Our final cease is Rafah’: trapped Palestinians await Israeli onslaught

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“I’m pushing very exhausting now to cope with this hostage ceasefire,” Biden stated. “There are lots of harmless people who find themselves ravenous, lots of harmless people who find themselves in bother and dying, and it’s gotta cease.”

The Related Press (AP) have a bit extra element on the strikes that killed a minimum of 9 individuals in a single day on Friday.

AP say the strikes hit a residential constructing in Rafah and a kindergarten-turned-shelter for the displaced within the central city of Zuwaida. The useless and wounded have been taken to close by hospitals, the place the our bodies have been seen by journalists from AP.

Evacuation orders now cowl two-thirds of the Gaza Strip. Even in areas of refuge, comparable to Rafah, Israel routinely launches ai strikes towards what it says are Hamas targets. It holds the militant group chargeable for civilian casualties as a result of it operates from civilian areas.

Israeli floor forces are nonetheless specializing in town of Khan Younis, simply north of Rafah, however prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu repeatedly warned this week that Rafah could be subsequent, creating panic amongst lots of of 1000’s of displaced individuals.

Netanyahu’s phrases have additionally alarmed Egypt which has stated that any floor operation within the Rafah space or mass displacement throughout the border would undermine its 40-year-old peace treaty with Israel. The largely sealed Gaza-Egypt border can be the primary entry level for humanitarian help.

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It has simply gone 9am in Gaza and Tel Aviv.

No less than 9 individuals, together with youngsters and ladies, have been killed in Israeli airstrikes in a single day into Friday within the central space of the Gaza Strip and within the southern metropolis of Rafah on the border with Egypt, witnesses and hospital officers informed The Related Press (AP).

The in a single day airstrikes got here hours after US president Joe Biden stated on Thursday that he considers Israel’s conduct of the struggle to be “excessive.” The US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, left Israel on Thursday because the divide grows between the 2 shut allies on the way in which ahead.

Greater than half of Gaza’s 2.3 million inhabitants have been pushed by Israel’s navy offensive in direction of the border with Egypt. Unable to depart the Palestinian territory, many reside in makeshift tent camps or overflowing UN-run shelters and it’s reported {that a} quarter of the inhabitants are ravenous.

The Palestinian dying toll from the struggle has surpassed 27,840 individuals, the Hamas-run well being ministry in Gaza stated.

Right here’s a abstract of the most recent developments:

  • Israel’s navy response within the Gaza Strip to the 7 October assaults by Hamas has in his view been “excessive,” US president Joe Biden stated late on Thursday, including that he’s working to get a sustained pause in preventing in place. American assist for Israel’s struggle on the Palestinian militant group has sparked a flurry of assaults on US troops within the area, in addition to criticism of the Biden administration at residence and overseas. “I’m of the view, as , that the conduct of the response in Gaza, within the Gaza Strip, has been excessive,” Biden informed reporters on the White Home. However the US president stated he had pushed to get humanitarian help into Gaza, claiming Egyptian president Abdel Fattah al-Sissi initially “didn’t need to open up the gate to permit humanitarian materials to get in”. “I talked to him, I satisfied him to open the gate. I talked to Bibi [Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu] to open the gate on the Israeli aspect,” Biden stated. “I’ve been pushing actually exhausting, actually exhausting to get humanitarian help into Gaza.”

  • Israeli forces intensified strikes on Rafah in southern Gaza, because the UN stated such motion would solely “enhance what’s already a humanitarian nightmare”. Greater than half of Gaza’s inhabitants is sheltering within the southern border metropolis of Rafah, with lots of them in makeshift tents and missing meals and drugs. The UN workplace for the coordination of humanitarian affairs (Ocha) added that preventing in Rafah would threat “additional hampering a humanitarian operation already restricted by insecurity, broken infrastructure and entry restrictions.” Israeli planes bombed areas in Rafah on Thursday morning, witnesses informed Reuters, killing a minimum of 11 individuals in strikes on two homes. Tanks additionally shelled some areas in japanese Rafah, intensifying fears of an imminent floor assault.

  • US Central Command stated it carried out seven “self-defence” strikes towards 4 Houthi unmanned floor vessels and 7 cell anti-ship cruise missiles that have been ready to be launched towards ships within the Pink Sea. US forces stated that they had decided they introduced an imminent risk to US Navy ships and service provider vessels within the area.

  • 5 Israeli hostages who have been freed in November pleaded with prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu to push for a deal, after he publicly rejected the phrases of a ceasefire in Gaza proposed by Hamas.

  • Israeli forces detained two American brothers and their Canadian father in an in a single day raid on their residence in Gaza, family of the lads stated. Nationwide safety council spokesperson John Kirby stated on Thursday the administration might be speaking to Israeli authorities concerning the report, in addition to the Israeli navy’s arrest of a US lady within the occupied West Financial institution earlier within the week. “We need to know extra concerning the causes right here,” Kirby informed reporters on the White Home.

  • The US senate on Thursday superior a wartime help package deal for Ukraine and Israel, reviving an effort that had stalled amid Republican opposition to a border safety invoice they demanded and later deserted. Senators voted 67 to 32 to start consideration of the $95bn emergency help invoice however quite a few hurdles stay earlier than it might probably cross.

  • A German navy frigate has departed for the Pink Sea, the place Berlin plans to have it participate in an EU mission to assist defend cargo ships from assaults by Yemen’s Iranian-backed Houthi rebels. EU overseas ministers are anticipated to log out on the Pink Sea mission on 19 February. Officers have stated that seven international locations within the bloc are prepared to offer ships or planes.

  • A Hamas delegation arrived in Cairo for extra ceasefire talks on Thursday, a day after the Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected the group’s calls for made as a part of their response to a proposed ceasefire deal. Senior Lebanon-based Hamas official Osama Hamdan confirmed the journey at a information convention in Beirut whereas an Egyptian official has additionally informed Agence France-Presse that “a brand new spherical of negotiations” is ready to begin on Thursday in Cairo geared toward reaching “calm within the Gaza Strip”.

  • US President Joe Biden will host Jordan’s King Abdullah II in Washington on Monday for talks on resolving the Israel-Hamas battle, the White Home stated.

  • Extra stories emerged from Khan Younis of individuals within the neighborhood of Nasser hospital being focused by Israeli snipers, stated Al Jazeera journalist Hani Mahmoud in Rafah. He stated: “Paramedics are unable to get out of the hospital to assist the injured and take away the useless from the streets.” Al Jazeera additionally quoted Ashraf al-Qudra, spokesperson for Gaza’s well being ministry, saying the scenario on the hospital advanced is a “humanitarian catastrophe” including that there are “300 medical workers, 450 wounded, and 10,000 displaced individuals within the Nasser medical advanced being killed and starved.”

  • US secretary of state Antony Blinken left the Center East on Thursday with public divisions between the US and Israel at maybe their worst stage since Israel’s struggle towards Hamas in Gaza started in October, stories the Related Press. Blinken was returning to Washington after the Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated the struggle would proceed till Israel is totally victorious and appeared to reject outright a response from Hamas to a proposed ceasefire plan.

  • Repeated US strikes towards Iran-backed armed teams in Iraq are pushing the federal government to finish the mission of the US-led coalition within the nation, the prime minister’s navy spokesperson Yahya Rasool stated on Thursday.

  • A journalist and his son have been killed in an Israeli airstrike on a residential constructing within the central Gaza Strip, stories Al Jazeera. Nafez Abdel Jawad, who labored for Palestine TV, was killed in a bombing of a residential constructing within the al-Salam neighbourhood in Deir el-Balah within the central Gaza Strip final evening. The information organisation stated that his solely son additionally died within the airstrike and different accidents had additionally been reported.

  • Main Palestinian human rights teams have accused the UN particular adviser on the prevention of genocide of failing to fulfil her mandate after she issued just one assertion on the struggle in Gaza – largely supportive of Israel – that has killed greater than 27,000 Palestinians.

  • The Canadian authorities didn’t see any proof backing up Israel’s declare that workers employed by UNRWA colluded with Hamas earlier than suspending funding to the company, CBC Information stories. Canadian officers informed CBC Information that Canada’s personal determination to defund was a response to UNRWA’s determination to dismiss the staffers, which created the impression that the company noticed Israel’s allegation as credible.

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