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Gaza needs at least 160,000 liters (42,267 gallons) of fuel a day for basic necessities, UNRWA spokesperson Juliette Touma said. Just eight out of 20 aid trucks scheduled to cross into Gaza on Tuesday made the journey, UNRWA said. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) on Tuesday ruled out any fuel being allowed to enter Gaza, saying Hamas would co-opt fuel for its operational infrastructure and to continue its rocket attacks. In the wake of the assault, Israel launched a sustained aerial bombardment of Gaza that Palestinian health officials say has now killed more than 5,000 people. An aid truck arrives at a UN storage facility as the conflict between Israel and Hamas continues, in central Gaza on October 21, 2023.
Persons: Juliette Touma, Mustafa Hassona, General Herzi Halevi, , , Mohammed Salem, General António Guterres, ” Guterres, Guterres, Antonio Guterres, Seth Wenig, Gilad Erdan, Eli Cohen, ” Cohen, John Kirby, , Cohen, Benjamin Netanyahu Organizations: CNN, United Nations, Vital, UN, Israel, UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, Nasser Hospital, Getty, World Health Organization, WHO, Israel Defense Forces, Hamas, Palestinian Ministry of Health, UN Security, Guterres, Twitter, US, National Security, Foreign, Israeli Locations: Gaza, East, Rafah, Khan Yunis, Anadolu, Israel, UN, Ramallah, , United States, Qatar, Egypt, Iraq
Palestinian children receive food from a United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) centre in Gaza on Tuesday. Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto/APHis comments angered Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen, who was in the chamber as Guterres spoke. The deepening spat exposes tensions around the calls from some international observers for a ceasefire, amid a worsening humanitarian crisis in Gaza. It was the opposite,” he told reporters, restating his condemnation of the October 7 attacks. But Guterres did not back away from his Tuesday call for a ceasefire, or from his nod towards the historical treatment of Palestinians.
Persons: CNN —, General Antonio Guterres, Guterres, , Majdi, Eli Cohen, , Cohen, Gilad Erdan, Erdan, Martin Griffiths, ” Guterres, misinterpretations, restating, Antony Blinken, John Kirby Organizations: CNN, United Nations, Security Council, United Nations Relief, Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, UN, Humanitarian Affairs, Emergency, Israeli Army Radio, Security, US, National Security, Hamas, World Health Organization, WHO Locations: Israel, Gaza, Brazil
Hospitals in Gaza have been warning that they would have to shut down if they don't receive more fuel. Other supplies, such as water, medicine and food, continue to run low. The Israel Defense Forces insist that fuel is present in Gaza but monopolized by Hama. "The grievances of the Palestinian people cannot justify the horrific attacks by Hamas. Those horrendous attacks cannot justify the collective punishment of the Palestinian people," he said on the X social media platform, previously known as Twitter.
Persons: Antonio Guterres Organizations: United Nations Relief, Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, Israel Defense Forces, Twitter Locations: Gaza, Hama, U.N
Displaced Palestinian kids, who fled their houses amid Israeli strikes, take shelter in a tent camp at a United Nations-run centre, after Israel's call for more than 1 million civilians in northern Gaza to move south, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip. Trucks of aid began moving into Gaza from Egypt on Saturday after intense diplomatic efforts, but the agencies say they are far from enough. Fuel, which has not been sent to the Gaza Strip along with the humanitarian aid, was crucial, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) said. Brian Lander, deputy head of emergencies at the World Food Programme, said that some 465 trucks of humanitarian aid were needed per day to support the population in Gaza prior to the conflict. Brennan said one-third of hospitals in the Gaza Strip were now non-functional at a time when the medical burden is enormous, and that some two-thirds of clinics are not functioning.
Persons: Khan Younis, Abu Mustafa, Trucks, Jeremy Laurence, Tamara Alrifai, Brian Lander, Rick Brennan, Brennan, Gabrielle Tétrault, Farber, Mohammed Benmansour, Yusri Mohamed, Rachel More, Janet Lawrence, Philippa Fletcher Organizations: United Nations, UN, Human Rights, United Nations Relief, Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, WHO, WHO Regional, Eastern, Thomson Locations: Gaza, GENEVA, Israel, Egypt, East
Egypt does not see why it should squarely shoulder the responsibility of taking in refugees coming from the besieged Gaza Strip, said Egypt's Minister of Foreign Affairs Sameh Shoukry. The International Organization for Migration agency in August 2022 assessed that there were 9 million refugees hailing from 133 countries in Egypt at that time. The Rafah crossing, which is located on the Gaza-Egypt border, is the sole passage point between Egypt and the Gaza Strip. Egypt tightly restricts the Rafah crossing and has been recently reluctant to open it for the movement of people, unless Israel allows humanitarian aid to enter the territory. I think those who have greater resources should probably bear greater responsibilities," the Egyptian foreign affairs minister said.
Persons: Foreign Affairs Sameh, Shoukry, CNBC's Dan Murphy Organizations: Foreign Affairs, Organization for Migration, Israeli Defense Forces, United Nations Relief, Works Agency for Palestine Refugees Locations: Egypt, Gaza, Rafah, Israel, Africa
Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via Email‘We have to get aid in’: UNRWA spokesperson says the situation in the Gaza Strip is really drasticTamara Alrifai, spokesperson for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, discusses the deepening humanitarian crisis in Gaza and reflects on the “harrowing” images as hundreds of thousands of people flee to southern Gaza.
Persons: Tamara Alrifai Organizations: United Nations Relief, Works Agency for Palestine Refugees Locations: , Gaza
“We watched houses dropping as we drove, thinking we could die any minute,” she told CNN. Khan Younis had a population of just over 400,000 before the war. Nardeen Fares, 27, takes a selfie with her husband at Gaza Port, near Gaza City, in the Gaza Strip in May 2023. Over the weekend, concrete slabs were placed at the Egyptian side of the crossing, blocking all gates, a Palestinian border official told CNN Saturday. For my son, my unborn child and myself,” she told CNN.
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Gaza Is Being Strangled, U.N. Official Says
  + stars: | 2023-10-16 | by ( ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
The head of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East said his organization is no longer able to provide humanitarian assistance in Gaza as the enclave runs out of water and electricity. "There is not one drop of water, not one grain of wheat, not a litre of fuel that has been allowed into the Gaza Strip for the last eight days," Philippe Lazzarini said in a speech in East Jerusalem on Sunday. "In fact, Gaza is being strangled and it seems that the world right now has lost its humanity."
Persons: Philippe Lazzarini Organizations: United Nations Relief, Works Agency for Palestine Refugees Locations: East, Gaza, East Jerusalem
When the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) shut all access to Gaza following Hamas’ deadly attack last Saturday, these men became stuck. Ismail Abd Almagid’s wife and five children – four girls and one boy – are in Gaza while he is staying in the refugee camp. When Abd Almagid got his permit to work in Israel in October last year, it felt like winning the lottery. Many of the men at the Dheisheh refugee camp are in the same situation – they are the only members of their families to have a job. A view of the Deheisheh refugee camp in the West Bank.
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“In this situation, we’re afraid that she goes into labor, and we wouldn’t know where to go,” he told CNN. Shelling in Nuseirat is intense, but not as bad as it was in Gaza City, where neighborhoods were “entirely wiped out,” he said. Some of those bodies are on a flatbed trailer that appears to have been used to carry people away from Gaza City. Refaat Alareer, 44, a literature professor in Gaza City, said Thursday – before Israel told Gazans to evacuate – the shelves in his local supermarket are emptying every day. “The gates are closed, and no one is being let through,” he told CNN.
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Israeli airstrikes on Gaza have killed a dozen UN aid workers, a spokesperson told Insider. The dead, who were all Palestinians, included five teachers, a gynecologist, a psychologist, and support staff, she said. "I want people to know that there are civilians — really civilians — who are being killed in Gaza," Touma said. It runs a network of medical facilities in Gaza, as well as schools that are now serving as shelters for nearly 220,000 Palestinian civilians. Local authorities say 1,417 people have been killed in the Israeli response, with another 6,200 wounded.
Persons: , Juliette Touma, Touma, UNWRA Organizations: Service, UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, Israel Defense Forces Locations: Gaza, Palestinian, East, Israel, Egypt
Buildings erected in Israel since the 1990s have built-in safe rooms to avoid bombs and air strikes. Residents told Insider what they're like, showing spaces with sparse furnishings and barricaded entries. While safe rooms are commonplace in Israel, they're essentially non-existent in Gaza. AdvertisementAdvertisementThis photo taken on Oct. 8, 2023 shows a sparsely-furnished safe room in a building in Jerusalem. There is no place to go when Israel bombs," Diana Buttu, a lawyer and analyst, told Insider.
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Smoke rises following Israeli strikes on the seaport of Gaza City, in Gaza on Tuesday. Tamir Kalifa/The New York Times/Redux Palestinians walk amid the rubble following Israeli airstrikes in Gaza City on October 10. Samar Abu Elouf/The New York Times/Redux Children run for cover as bombs fall near the Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City on October 9. Erik Marmor/AP Six-month-old Sama Alwadia is rescued from the rubble in Gaza City on October 9. Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/Reuters Palestinian citizens inspect damage to their homes caused by Israeli airstrikes in Gaza City on October 8.
Persons: Nadine Abdul Latif, Israel, , Nihad, Mohammed Salem, , Yoav Gallant, ” Gallant, Tariq Al Hillu, Eden Guez, Violeta Santos Moura, CNN Sergey Ponomarev, Tamir Kalifa, Fatima Shbair, Ohad, Mohammed Soboh, Said, Belal Khaled, Samar Abu, Amir Cohen, Ilai Bar Sade, Erik Marmor, Ali Jadallah, Mohammed Abed, Oren Ziv, Mohammed Saber, Ronen Zvulun, Majdi, Ilia Yefimovich, Ramez Mahmoud, Mahmud Hams, Roi Levy, Alleruzzo, Tali Touito, Khan, Ibraheem Abu Mustafa, Jalaa Marey, Oded, Khan Younis, Ahmad Hasballah, Mohammed Fayq Abu Mostafa, Tsafrir, Ahmad Gharabli, Baz Ratner, Mustafa Hassona, Ilan Rosenberg, Eyad Baba, Itai Ron, Hadas Parush, General Antonio Guterres, ” Omar Shakir, HRW, Gallant, ” Shakir, Said Khatib, Khan Yunis, Shalom, Nadine Organizations: CNN, Israeli, Israel Defense Forces, Palestinian Ministry of Health, Nova Festival, Reuters, New York Times, Ben Gurion, AP, Anadolu Agency, Shifa, Getty, West Bank, Rockets, Israel's, United Nations, Palestinian, Reuters Police, Reuters Rockets, United Nations Relief, Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, Rights Watch, Islamic, Getty Images Israel, Palestinian Interior Ministry Locations: Gaza, Israel, Al Rimal, Gaza City, Israeli, Al Sudaniya, Ashkelon, Kfar Azza, Kfar Aza, Tel Aviv, Samar, Samar Abu Elouf, Jerusalem, Yassin, AFP, Palestinian, Beitar Ilit, Mount Herzl, Sderot, Ramat Gan, Khan Younis, Kiryat Shmona, Itai, Beit Hanun, Rishon Lezion, Israel’s, Erez, Egypt, Rafah
[1/8] Palestinian refugee students attend an activity as part of "Fun Weeks" summer camps run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency in a school in Beach refugee camp in Gaza City, July 11, 2023. The Palestine children, including those with disabilities, will over four weeks participate in a series of activities including greening, recycling, sports, drawing, handicrafts, and language learning, the agency said. UNRWA runs 284 schools in Gaza, serving at least 290,000 students. The activity creates around 3,000 short-term jobs for Gaza youth, UNRWA said. Established in 1949 following the first Arab-Israeli war, the agency provides public services including schools, primary healthcare, and humanitarian aid in Gaza, the West Bank, Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon.
Persons: Mohammed Salem, Thomas White, Joanna El, Halabi, Nidal Almughrabi, Devika Organizations: United Nations Relief, Works Agency, REUTERS, United Nations, Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, UNRWA Affairs, Reuters, Gaza, UNRWA, West Bank, Thomson Locations: Beach, Gaza City, Mohammed Salem GAZA, Gaza, Israel, Palestine, East, Egypt, Jabalia, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon
Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, said he saw no contradiction between supporting Palestinian refugees and building ties with Israel. "You can have strong bilateral relations with Israel and be a strong supporter of the agency," Lazzarini told Reuters. "Whatever rapprochement or ties (with Israel) should not have the slightest impact on your commitment and your solidarity with the Palestine refugees and your support to an agency like UNRWA. "We have normal access when it comes to delivering our services in Gaza and the West Bank, but we are very concerned about the increased violence impacting this community," he said. Last year saw the worst levels of violence in the West Bank in more than a decade after Israel launched a crackdown on militants in response to fatal Palestinian street attacks.
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