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Here is where things stand on Wednesday 28 May 2025:
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More than 1,200 Israeli academics have issued an open letter calling on the heads of academic institutions to “speak out” and act to stop the war on Gaza. For more, read this.
UNRWA’s head has once again condemned the US-backed Israeli aid distribution model in Gaza, saying it is a “distraction from atrocities” there. For more on the deadly scenes that have unfolded, read this.
And you can follow all our coverage of Israel’s war on Gaza, here.
Here’s what happened today
We’ll be closing this live page soon. Here’s a recap of the day’s major developments:
- Israel has continued its bombardment of the Gaza Strip while maintaining a blockade that has pushed the enclave to the brink of famine, killing at least 63 people, including a journalist.
- Gaza’s Government Media Office has said the Israeli army killed 10 people trying to get aid in the past two days when its soldiers opened fire at an aid distribution centre run by the newly formed, Israeli- and US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.
- The UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) has confirmed its warehouse in central Gaza’s Deir el-Balah was broken into by hungry Palestinians in search for food supplies, where at least four people were killed.
- The Red Cross field hospital in southern Gaza’s al-Mawasi area has come under Israeli fire, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry, which said the incident sowed panic among patients and visitors, resulting in several injuries.
- Twenty-two out of Gaza’s 38 hospitals are out of service, the Health Ministry has said, with those still operating facing a “catastrophic” shortage of supplies.
- Israel has carried out four air strikes on Sanaa International Airport, targeting the runway and a Yemeni Airlines plane, destroying the last remaining civilian aircraft.
- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has claimed that a strike on Gaza has killed Hamas leader Mohammad Sinwar, but the group has yet to comment.
Canadian doctors describe horrific scenes in Gaza, demand arms embargo
Deirdre Nunan, a Canadian orthopaedic surgeon who spent seven weeks volunteering in Gaza, has delivered powerful testimony during a news conference urging Canada to take action to stop the death and destruction in the enclave.
Speaking alongside other doctors, Nunan said she treated patients with injuries “consistent with weaponised drones and powerful explosions” daily.
“When the ceasefire was broken on March 18, my first patient was a young man – 19 years old – his leg torn from his body at the level of his hip,” she said.
“It is one of the worst limb injuries I have seen in my entire career, but yet, I saw two more patients with almost identical injuries in the four weeks that followed and so many more injuries that were just as devastating.”
Nunan called on the Canadian government to take “meaningful action” to stop Israel’s war, including imposing a two-way arms embargo on the country and prosecute attacks on Gaza healthcare facilities.
OCHA warns Gaza humanitarian crisis ‘at its darkest point yet’
The humanitarian situation in Gaza has reached its worst stage as Israeli authorities have undermined our teams’ ability to provide real humanitarian aid, says the statement by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in the Palestinian Territory.
Its statement said Israel allowed “a trickle” of aid into Gaza – some nutrition and medical supplies, as well as flour – but banned most other items, including fuel, cooking gas, shelter and hygiene products.
“They also imposed the condition that we could only deliver flour to bakeries and not directly to families. This required people to face large crowds to collect bread from a limited number of bakeries daily,” the OCHA statement read.
“Over the weekend, bakeries that were once supported with humanitarian supplies have shut down due to growing insecurity from large desperate crowds,” it added.
“Food needs to be distributed in multiple forms, and at multiple sites across all Gaza governorates. This is the only way to restore order and prevent mass starvation.”
7 killed in Israeli attack on northern Gaza’s Jabalia
Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic are reporting that the Israeli bombardment struck a house and a kindergarten housing displaced people.
We’ll bring you more on this when we can.
Switzerland urges unimpeded aid deliveries to Gaza
The Swiss government says that, in line with international law, humanitarian aid must be allowed into Gaza “without delay, without impediment and in sufficient quantities”.
“This isn’t a discretionary choice: the obligation stems from international law and applies to both parties to the conflict. As the occupying power, Israel holds – as per the Geneva Conventions – a special responsibility to protect civilian populations,” it said in a statement.
Switzerland also urged an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, the release of Israeli captives held in the enclave, and talks to reach a long-term political solution.
Can the new US and Israeli-backed aid foundation in Gaza work?
Gaza has been under total blockade by Israel for nearly three months. Aid agencies have been stopped from delivering the most basic of supplies, leaving 2.3 million people starving.
Now, the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation is delivering food packages, but it is backed by Israel and the US. Its first attempt turned into chaos.
The foundation has also faced strong criticism from the UN and other aid agencies. They say it does not follow humanitarian principles and appears to be ‘weaponising’ aid.
So, why has Israel decided to let in some aid, yet only under an agency it backs?
‘We can’t say we didn’t know’: Israeli academics demand end to war
More than 1,200 Israeli academics have issued an open letter calling on the heads of Israeli academic institutions to “speak out” and act to stop the war on Gaza.
“Academics have to make their voices heard,” Raphael Greenberg, a professor at Tel Aviv University who signed onto the letter, told Al Jazeera.
The academics’ letter is the latest in a growing number of open letters protesting the war from within Israel.
However, while many other letters have objected to the political reasons for Israel’s latest offensive, or claimed that it puts Israel’s remaining captives held in Gaza at risk, the academics’ letter is unique in that it places Palestinian suffering at the heart of its objections to the war.
Read more in our story here.
Israeli aid scheme ‘a way to pick who gets to live, who gets to die’
Khaled Elgindy, an adjunct professor at Georgetown University in the US, says it was striking to see the “difference in priorities” between the US and Israel on one hand, and the rest of the world on the other, earlier today at the UN Security Council.
Elgindy noted that during the council debate in New York City, “the UK and France and Denmark and others were very clear in their rejection of Israel’s very cynical humanitarian mechanism to replace the existing one in Gaza”.
“The US, on the other hand, offered unconditional support for what Israel was doing on the ground, whether it was the humanitarian aid mechanism or its military actions,” he told Al Jazeera.
Elgindy added that the purpose of Israel’s humanitarian aid scheme is not to appease Western criticism or alleviate humanitarian suffering, but rather to further its goals in Gaza, including clearing out the north and eventually forcing Palestinians out of the Strip.
“Even if [the Israeli scheme] were working at maximum capacity, it would only ever serve 60 percent of the population of Gaza. So what happens to the other 40 percent? We’re talking about almost a million people,” Elgindy said.
“It is a Hobbesian choice for Gazans. But it’s also a way for Israel to get to pick and choose who gets to live and who gets to die, or leave. So really there is no choice here at all.”
Gaza death toll rises
At least 63 people have been killed in Israeli attacks in Gaza since dawn, according to medical sources speaking to our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic.
As we reported earlier, those killed today include journalist Moataz Mohammed Rajab. He was killed alongside several others when Israeli forces struck a vehicle on al-Nafaq Street in Gaza City.
Journalist death toll in Gaza rises to 221
Gaza’s Government Media Office says the number of journalists killed since October 2023 has risen to 221, following the death of Moataz Mohammed Rajab, a cameraman and editor for Al-Quds al-Youm TV channel.
Rajab was killed in an Israeli air strike on Gaza City earlier today, alongside several others.
In a statement, the Media Office condemned what it called the “systematic targeting and assassination” of Palestinian journalists by Israeli forces, urging international journalist unions and media organisations to denounce the killings and take legal action to hold Israel accountable.
It accused the US and other Western countries of being complicit in Israel’s ongoing genocide and said it holds them “fully responsible for these heinous and brutal crimes”.
“We demand urgent international intervention to stop the killing of journalists in Gaza and to ensure their protection,” the statement read.
Israel seeking to ‘deliberately starve, relentlessly bomb’ Gaza: Advocate
Raji Sourani, director of the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR), says the Israeli military’s management of aid distribution in Gaza is “very humiliating and degrading”.
He accused Israel of seeking to “undermine the human dignity of the Palestinian people, especially those who have suffered throughout 20 months of an Israeli deliberate and systematic starvation policy – one of the most heinous crimes in our time”.
“Those committing genocide, including starving civilians, amongst them women, children, the sick and the wounded, will never care about feeding them or offering them food aid, especially when their goal of the genocidal war is to exterminate the Palestinian people and eradicate their presence,” Sourani said in a statement.
“How would a hand that kills and starves suddenly turn into a helping hand that feeds its victims? No logic, morals or laws can justify this. What Israel is doing today is trying to dominate the population’s sustenance and deliberately starve them while relentlessly bombing them.”
Ireland, Norway, Spain, Slovenia renew call for recognition of Palestinian state
The four European countries have released a joint statement reaffirming their “commitment to the two-state solution for Israel and Palestine”.
The governments of Ireland, Norway, Spain and Slovenia said the upcoming conference on Palestine – to be co-chaired by France and Saudi Arabia in June – is “the appropriate framework in which to finally advance the implementation of the two-State solution”.
“We remind that recognition is another step for the implementation of the two-state solution, and we call on all members of the international community to take the necessary steps to make it reality,” their statement reads.
That includes “individual recognition of Palestine and Israel by those who have not yet done so, UN membership of Palestine and support of an agreement between the parties, with eventual mutual recognition between Palestine and Israel”, the countries said.
“It is up to the parties to bring peace to the region, but the international community has the obligation to change the ongoing dynamics on the ground that have created an endless cycle of violence and devastation.”
Photos: Tel Aviv protesters demand release of Gaza captives
UNRWA chief describes ‘summary execution’ of Gaza staff member
Philippe Lazzarini, the head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, has provided new details about the killing of an UNRWA staff member in March.
In a post on X, Lazzarini said the man named Kamal left his home in Rafah on March 23 wearing a UN vest and driving a UN-marked vehicle. “Within an hour, UNRWA lost contact with him. His whereabouts unknown for a week,” he said.
“On 30 March, Kamal’s body was discovered near a mass grave, alongside the human remains of the PRCS humanitarian workers killed by the Israeli Forces. Kamal was killed through one or multiple blows to the back of his skull. He was then buried next to the other @PalestineRCS team members.”
Israel faced widespread condemnation after its forces opened fire on Gaza health workers who were travelling in a convoy of ambulances to try to help injured people in Rafah. Fifteen first responders were killed in what the Palestine Red Crescent Society described as a “massacre”.
Lazzarini said that despite several requests for information from the Israeli government on what happened to Kamal, it did not receive a response.
“Kamal worked with UNRWA for over 20 years. He left his wife and children behind. He is one case too many. UNRWA teams are not a target. Impunity opens the door to more atrocities,” Lazzarini said, urging an independent probe into the killings of Kamal and other UNRWA staff members.
Gaza government rejects Israel’s ‘blatant lie’ of Hamas stockpiling flour
Gaza’s Government Media Office has accused Israel of spreading misinformation after a video circulated showing hungry Palestinians storming a UN World Food Programme (WFP) warehouse in central Gaza.
In a statement, the office said the incident was the result of the “catastrophic humanitarian reality” caused by Israel’s aid blockade and systematic starvation of Palestinians. It rejected Israeli army claims that the Hamas-run government in Gaza was stockpiling flour and deliberately withholding aid.
“This is a blatant lie and part of a deliberate campaign to evade international accountability for using hunger as a weapon of war – a crime that amounts to genocide under international law,” the statement read, adding that the warehouse in question was under full UN control.
It also said Israeli forces had prevented the WFP from distributing flour and food aid to Palestinian families. Instead, it ordered them to be distributed exclusively to bakeries, the office said, calling it part of a wider strategy of “engineered starvation”.
It also noted that thousands of aid trucks have been stranded at the crossings into Gaza for nearly 90 days as Israel maintains a crippling blockade on the bombarded territory, where a famine looms.
‘Children ask why they survived,’ doctor tells UN Security Council
As we’ve been reporting, the UN Security Council has been hearing speeches from country representatives and experts about the situation in Gaza.
Trump says US ‘dealing with the whole situation in Gaza’
US President Donald Trump has been asked whether he has any frustrations with the way Netanyahu has pursued the Israeli offensive in Gaza.
“No, we’re dealing with the whole situation in Gaza, we’re getting food to the people of Gaza,” Trump responded in an apparent reference to a US-backed Gaza aid distribution scheme that has spurred chaos and the killings of at least 10 Palestinian aid seekers this week.
The US president called his Middle East envoy, Steve Witkoff, to the podium in the Oval Office to provide an update on efforts to reach a Gaza ceasefire agreement.
“I think that we are on the precipice of sending out a new term sheet that, hopefully, will be delivered later on today,” Witkoff told reporters.
“The president is going to review it, and I have some very good feelings about getting to a long-term resolution – temporary ceasefire and a long-term resolution, a peaceful resolution of that conflict.”
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Let’s bring you up to speed on the latest developments:
- Al Jazeera’s Sanad fact-checking agency says the Israeli military “deliberately targeted” more than 20 community kitchens and food distribution and storage sites across Gaza between March 26 and Tuesday of this week.
- The Palestinian envoy to the UN has called on the Security Council to act as Israel’s bombardment and blockade of Gaza have left families in the enclave “hanging to life by a thread”.
- Hamas says it has reached an agreement with Trump’s Middle East envoy, Steve Witkoff, on a general framework for a ceasefire in Gaza.
- A Red Cross field hospital in the southern al-Mawasi area has come under Israeli fire, Gaza’s Health Ministry says, as the healthcare network in the enclave crumbles due to Israel’s attacks and blockade on critical supplies.
Israel ‘lashing out’ in face of global condemnation
Al Jazeera’s senior political analyst Marwan Bishara says the attacks levied by Danon, Israel’s ambassador to the UN, at the Security Council should come as no surprise.
“I see the rhetorical escalation on the part of Israel as coming in parallel with the desperation in Israel,” Bishara explained.
“They are on the defensive, knowing all too well that they lost their public relations campaign and that their reputation around the world is in the mud” amid the country’s deadly bombardment and starvation of Palestinians in Gaza, he said.
“And hence, they are lashing out,” Bishara added. “None of this is unexpected.”
Journalist among nine killed in latest Israeli strikes on Gaza
At least nine Palestinians have been killed in new Israeli air raids targeting multiple areas across the Gaza Strip, including a journalist, the Palestinian news agency Wafa reports.
The journalist was identified as Moataz Mohammed Rajab, who worked for the Al-Quds al-Youm TV. He was killed alongside several others when Israeli forces struck a vehicle on al-Nafaq street in Gaza City.
A teenage boy was also killed in a separate strike on Gaza City’s Shujayea neighbourhood.
Two others were killed in Bani Suheila, a town near the city of Khan Younis in southern Gaza, while another person was killed in air raids that struck several neighbourhoods in Khan Younis.
Death toll reaches 4 in WFP warehouse incident
We have reported earlier that two people died after Palestinians burst into the UN’s World Food Programme warehouse in the central Gaza Strip, pushing each other in the shadow of the cavernous facility’s main door.
We now know from officials at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital that two people were fatally crushed in the crowd, while two others died of gunshot wounds.
Many aid seekers could be seen carrying large bags of flour as they fought their way back out into the sunlight through throngs of people pressing to get inside. Each bag of flour weighs about 25kg (55 pounds).
Israeli envoy slams UN aid chief for genocide accusation
Danny Danon, the Israeli ambassador to the UN, has opened his address before the Security Council by denouncing last week’s shooting in Washington, DC, that killed two Israeli embassy workers.
Danon said every person in the world who has described Israel as “a genocidal regime” since it began its war on Gaza in October 2023 shares responsibility for the killings.
He attacked Tom Fletcher, the UN’s humanitarian chief, for accusing Israel of committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.
“I have demanded the [retraction] of this baseless and vile accusation, but he has not so far,” Danon told the council.
Israeli officials have routinely lambasted the UN as well as the world’s top human rights groups and other experts for their criticism of Israel’s bombardment, ground operations and blockade of Gaza.
Israel using ‘aid as a weapon of war’: Palestinian UN envoy
Riyad Mansour, the Palestinian ambassador to the UN, has been speaking at the Security Council session on the situation in the Middle East.
Here are some of his remarks:
- “There is cruelty in the bombardments, cruelty in the wanton destruction, cruelty in the blockade, and even cruelty in the distribution of very limited aid.”
- “We will be asked, ‘How can you complain about food finally being delivered after having complained about starvation and famine? Isn’t any aid better than no aid at all?’”
- “Who said these should be our choices? A full blockade against an entire civilian population, including 1 million children, depriving them of food, water, medicine, shelter – or a system of aid that is degrading, discriminatory, limited to food and limited in quantity, and which aims at the forcible displacement of the population and at facilitating the unlawful seizing of land.”
- “Do you know how we know this is the objective? Israeli officials are openly telling the world that this is their intention – statement after statement, threat after threat. After seeing starvation being used as a weapon of war, now we see aid being used as a weapon of war. Should we remain silent because the alternative is worse? Or should we stand up for the humanity of Palestinians, of all civilians in any situation of armed conflict?”
- “The images of hungry, desperate people storming out of the cages they were forced into, in order to get aid, is gut-wrenching and heartbreaking. These are people, human beings, deprived of water, food, medicine for so long, and hanging to life by a thread.”
Desperation fuelling chaos in Gaza as families face deepening hunger
The deadly incident in central Gaza’s Deir el-Balah occurred at a WFP warehouse believed to have been holding bags of flour, according to Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud, reporting from Gaza City.
“What happened today just echoes the scene yesterday at the distribution point” in Rafah in southern Gaza, where at least three Palestinians were killed as they tried to get assistance, Mahmoud reported.
“People are hungry. They’re driven by desperation,” he said. “Desperation fuels chaos, and hunger creates the acts of violence that we’ve been seeing.”
Gaza healthcare ‘on death row’, NGOs warn
Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP), Oxfam, and other non-profit groups are calling for “full, independent and international investigations into the attacks on healthcare in Gaza as violations of international humanitarian law”.
In the open letter, the organisations also urged the international community to “take meaningful steps to ensure those responsible are held legally to account”.
They added that a number of Gaza health facilities have been hit in Israeli attacks over the past two weeks, which they said “amount to Israel effectively placing Gaza’s health care – and hundreds of thousands of Palestinians – on death row”.
The targeted facilities include:
- Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, which was struck by Israeli fire on May 13 and 19
- European Hospital, also in Khan Younis, hit on May 13 and is now not functioning
- Kamal Adwan and Indonesian hospitals in northern Gaza
- Al-Awda Hospital, also in northern Gaza
Two dead after people break into WFP warehouse in search of food
The UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) says its warehouse in central Gaza’s Deir el-Balah has been broken into by hungry people “in search of food supplies” that were going to be distributed.
WFP said preliminary reports indicate that at least two people died and several others were injured in the incident, but that it is still confirming the details of what happened.
“Humanitarian needs have spiralled out of control after 80 days of complete blockade of all food assistance and other aid into Gaza,” the agency said, adding that it has warned of “the risks imposed by limiting humanitarian aid to hungry people in desperate need of assistance”.
WFP called for an immediate increase in assistance. “This is the only way to reassure people that they will not starve,” it said.
Israeli army rotates forces along Lebanon border
The Israeli army says its reserve Division 146 is concluding its deployment and handing over operations to Division 91, the so-called Galilee Division.
In a statement, the military said Division 146 has been involved in both cross-border attacks and the ground invasion into southern Lebanon. The army claimed it had worked to “reshape the security reality” along the border region.
Southern Lebanon continues to suffer from sporadic Israeli attacks despite a ceasefire agreed in November last year between Israel and Hezbollah, which ended 14 months of war.
As part of the deal, Hezbollah fighters were to pull back north of the Litani River and dismantle military infrastructure between that demarcation line and Lebanon’s border with Israel. For its part, Israel was to withdraw all its forces from Lebanon, but it has kept soldiers at five points in southern Lebanon.
The truce was based on a UN Security Council resolution that says Lebanese soldiers and UN peacekeepers should be the only people to bear arms in southern Lebanon.
Photos: Palestinians struggle to get food at charity kitchen in Deir el-Balah
‘We can’t survive without it’: Palestinians rely on community kitchens
Lina Abu Shaaban, a Gaza City resident, says her family depends on a community kitchen because food has become so expensive amid shortages caused by the Israeli blockade.
“We can’t survive without it. I wait five to seven hours in the heat just to get food, and I’m always scared of being bombed,” she told Al Jazeera while waiting in line for a bowl of lentils at the kitchen, which was set up at a school housing displaced people.
Another resident in line, Um Ahmad al-Sayfi, also said she has no choice but to get food from the community kitchen because her family is suffering from a lack of supplies. She condemned Israel’s targeting of the food distribution points.
“They bomb them so that we die of hunger. I saw a kitchen get hit just days ago – children were burning. Why don’t they want us to live?” she told Al Jazeera.
Armed wing of Hamas publishes footage of apparent attack on Israeli forces
The Qassam Brigades has released footage it says shows part of its ongoing operation in northern Gaza’s Beit Lahiya.
In the video, fighters are seen targeting an Israeli force sheltering inside a residential building. That scene is followed by a strike on a Merkava tank using what the group said was an antipersonnel shell and a locally made Yasin-105 rocket.
Smoke and debris can be seen rising from the targeted site with the fighters retreating after the strike.
Israel targets Gaza community kitchens, food distribution points
Al Jazeera’s Sanad fact-checking unit says the Israeli military “deliberately targeted” more than 20 community kitchens and food distribution and storage sites across Gaza between March 26 and Tuesday of this week.
Sanad’s analysis showed that most of the Israeli air strikes took place in Gaza City and other parts of northern Gaza – an area that has not received any aid since Israel began enforcing its total blockade on the enclave in early March.
Eight incidents were reported there since March 18, Sanad said. Seven other attacks took place in Deir el-Balah and refugee camps in central Gaza while five more were reported in Khan Younis in the south.
Citing data from the Government Media Office in Gaza and Palestinian media sources, at least 60 people were killed in the Israeli attacks. Hundreds of others were also injured.
Hezbollah condemns Israeli strike on Yemen, urges global action
The Lebanese armed group has issued a statement condemning what it called Israel’s “barbaric aggression”, following an air strike on Sanaa International Airport in Yemen, which targeted the last remaining civilian aircraft.
The group accused Israel of expanding its attacks across the region – from Gaza and Lebanon and now, to Yemen – and described the strike as a flagrant violation of international and humanitarian law.
Hezbollah blamed the US for enabling Israel’s actions and criticised the international community’s “shameful silence”.
It voiced strong solidarity with the Yemeni people and praised their leadership for standing firmly with the Palestinians in Gaza.
The group called on Arab, Islamic, and free nations to take urgent action to lift the siege on Gaza and back Yemen’s stance in standing up for Palestine.
‘How many more must die before action is taken?’
Here’s some of what’s been said during the UN Security Council debate:
- Algeria: “How many more must die before action is taken by the Security Council? How many orphans must roam the ruins of Gaza? How much more blood must be spilled before this council acknowledges that enough is enough? … The time for indecision is over.”
- France: “The highly limited [aid] quantities of recent days are insufficient when it comes to meeting the needs of the populations, especially after 12 long weeks of total blockade. The images of desperate, starving people throwing themselves on trucks and aid distribution points are a tragic illustration of this.”
- Guyana: “The judgement of future generations will be justifiably harsh towards us, we who saw the attempts at obliterating an entire people but did not act. This council has the opportunity to act now. Enough is enough.”
- United Kingdom: “The UN warned of the risks from the Israeli government’s plan for aid delivery. In Rafah yesterday, we saw this warning become a reality. The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation lost control of its distribution centre with multiple casualties reported and great distress for those desperately seeking aid. In contrast, the UN has a clear plan to deliver life-saving aid at scale. It contains robust mitigations against aid diversion. Brave humanitarians stand ready to do their jobs. Nine thousand trucks wait at the border.”
UN hears ‘dramatic testimony’ from experts on crisis in Gaza
This hearing is happening against a backdrop of utter despair in Gaza and the sidelining of the United Nations in its efforts to bring aid to Gaza. The longest-standing aid operations in Gaza, of course, have been from the UN.
We’ve heard from Sigrid Kaag – the special coordinator for Middle East peace – about the need to allow the UN back into Gaza, to have unfettered access to the people there, to do the job that they are uniquely qualified to do.
We also heard from Feroze Sidhwa, a surgeon who does emergency procedures. … The message from both of these experts was again calling for a ceasefire and the full resumption of aid into the Gaza Strip.
We are [also] hearing from countries about the need for more aid to get in. Denmark was interesting, speaking … [about] representing the overwhelming majority of voices in the Security Council when it comes to humanitarian aid being allowed to flow freely and at scale in Gaza.
The ambassador talked about the need for medical access as well, again highlighting the unbearable conditions of people on the ground and the growing concern among the international community that this could not be allowed to go on.
Israel kills 10 aid seekers in two days in Rafah: Gaza’s Government Media Office
Gaza’s Government Media Office says 10 Palestinians have been killed and 62 injured in two days as they rushed to get aid from a distribution centre run under a US and Israeli mechanism.
Israeli forces “opened direct fire on hungry Palestinian civilians who had gathered to receive aid”, the office said in a statement. “This heinous crime occurred during peaceful gatherings of citizens driven by desperate need and extreme hunger to head to locations supposedly providing aid.”
“This crime was part of a dubious engineering project run by the American organization called Gaza Humanitarian Relief (GHF),” which “denies the principles of humanitarian action, namely humanity, neutrality, integrity, and independence”.
The government added that aid distribution centres set up under the scheme were “nothing but a false humanitarian cover for racist security schemes aimed at humiliating, starving, and, if necessary, killing Palestinians”.