GAZA: The UN special committee to prove the Israeli practices released a report which says that the Israeli army has “intentionally imposed” mass civilian casualties and life-threatening conditions on Palestinians in Gaza, Al Jazeera reported.
“Since the beginning of the war, Israeli officials have publicly supported policies that strip Palestinians of the very necessities required to sustain life – food, water, and fuel,” the committee said in a press release.
“These statements along with the systematic and unlawful interference of humanitarian aid make clear Israel’s intent to instrumentalise life-saving supplies for political and military gains,” it added.
The report’s findings that Israel intentionally withholds aid from the Strip, uses starvation as a weapon of war and is careless in its infliction of civilian casualties are consistent with other UN and humanitarian condemnations of Israel’s conduct.
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INARA chief says situation in Gaza ‘complete nightmare’
Displaced Palestinians make their way after fleeing the northern part of Gaza amid an Israeli military operation, in Gaza City, November 12, 2024. — Reuters Arwa Damon, who is the chief of a humanitarian group has said that the situation in Gaza is “a complete nightmare”, Al Jazeera reported.
International Network for Aid, Relief and Assistance (INARA) provides medical and mental healthcare to children affected by war.
Israel’s attacks in the Gaza Strip are unrelenting, and northern Gaza has been under Israeli military siege for more than 40 days.
Heavy shelling in Jabalia in the north has killed at least 10 Palestinians today, most of them women and children.
Several people killed in Israeli attacks on Syria’s Damascus, says state media
Several people were killed and several others injured in Israeli attacks on two residential buildings in suburbs of the Syrian capital Damascus on Thursday, Syrian state news agency SANA said.
Smoke rises as people gather at a damaged site after what Syrian state news agency said was an Israeli strike in Damascus suburb of Mazzeh, Syria November 14, 2024. — Reuters One building was located in the suburb of Mazzeh and the other in Qudsaya, west of the capital.
Israeli army radio said the targets of the attack in Damascus were a headquarters of the Palestinian resistance group Islamic Jihad and what it described as other assets, without elaborating.
Palestinians say north Gaza destruction is widespread as rights group warns some may never return
Displaced Palestinians make their way after fleeing the northern part of Gaza amid an Israeli military operation, in Gaza City, November 12, 2024. — Reuters Palestinians displaced from northern Gaza said Israeli forces had inflicted widespread destruction on their home districts in their latest six-week-old offensive and a rights group raised concerns Israel might put some areas permanently off-limits.
Jabalia, one of the largest of Gaza’s eight historic refugee camps, as well as the towns of Beit Lahiya and Beit Hanoun and nearby villages, were among the first targets of Israel’s ground offensive in October 2023 after Hamas attacked Israel.
Tanks have gone in several more times in what Israel says are necessary operations against fighters there.
Former construction contractor Abu Raed, who was displaced from Jabalia, said Israeli forces were blowing buildings up remotely after booby-trapping them or sending in robots.
