Four boats that had been stabilizing the floating pier that was constructed by the U.S. to increase the flow of humanitarian aid into the enclave broke off on Saturday due to choppy seas, becoming the latest setback for the project.
Tag: humanitarian aid
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RAFAH AID SLOWS TO A TRICKLE AS IDF TAKE OVER BORDER CROSSING ON PALESTINIAN SIDE
The humanitarian conditions in Rafah have gone from bad to worse after Israeli forces seized the city’s border crossing and ended all traffic into Gaza from two main entries.
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HUMANITARIAN GROUP: ISRAEL KEEPS STOPPING AID FROM ENTERING GAZA
Humanitarian aid groups came out last week to criticize Israel over the continued lack of aid entering Gaza despite assurances after mounting international pressure.
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HUMAN RIGHTS GROUP CALLS FOR U.S. TO END WEAPONS SUPPORT FOR ISRAEL AFTER LEAKED STATE DEPARTMENT MEMO
The U.S. should immediately end its weapon support for Israel after reports emerged of a leaked State Department memo that said the agency does not believe Israel when it says it has been in compliance with international law in Gaza, according to DAWN, the human rights group called Democracy for the Arab World Now.
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FAMINE HAS BEGUN IN NORTHERN GAZA, U.S. SAYS
The head of the U.S. Agency for International Development said last week that famine has set in in Northern Gaza—prompting the agency to clarify her remarks and say they were not based on a new assessment but were based on information from March.
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BACKTRACK BIDEN: CALLS FOR NO CEASEFIRE IN GAZA
U.S. President Joe Biden made it clear, once again, that Israel can continue its ethnic cleansing in Gaza and backtracked on comments he made earlier in the week that there is a need in Gaza for a six-to-eight-week ceasefire.
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MURDEROUS CONGRESS CLOWN TELLS ISRAEL TO NUKE GAZA INTO HIROSHIMA, NAGASAKI
Rep. Tim Walberg, R-Mich., said at a recent event that the U.S. should not spend another dime on humanitarian aid for starving Gazans, and instead should atomize the city like “Nagasaki and Hiroshima.”
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UN: ISRAEL WAR CRIME, STARVING PALESTINIANS TO DEATH
Volker Turk, the UN’s high commissioner for human rights, said in a statement last week that evidence suggests that Israel could be using starvation as a weapon as it carries out it's genocide in Gaza.
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AIPAC’S MARCHING ORDERS: DENY ISRAELI GENOCIDE CAMPAIGN OF SLAUGHTER AND STARVATION OF PALESTINIANS
The American Israel Public Affairs Committee, or AIPAC, has all but laid out its blueprint on how the messaging should be in Washington about the ongoing genocide campaign in Gaza—as politicians that the group has in its pocket—face more criticism at home about the support.
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BIDEN TO PALESTINIANS: TAKE A LONG WALK OFF A SHORT PIER
U.S. President Joe Biden announced last week that he plans on building a temporary pier off of Gaza's coast on the Mediterranean to help speed up the transfer of humanitarian aid to the starving people in the enclave.