UNRWA Says It's Halting Aid Deliveries Through Main Gaza Crossing | rssama.com

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — The U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees said Sunday it is halting assistance deliveries done nan main cargo crossing into Gaza because of nan threat of equipped gangs who person looted caller convoys.

The determination could worsen nan humanitarian situation successful Gaza arsenic nan cold, rainy wintertime sets in, pinch hundreds of thousands of group surviving successful squalid shelter camps and reliant connected world nutrient aid. Experts were already informing of famine successful nan territory’s north, which Israeli forces person almost wholly isolated since early October.

Philippe Lazzarini, nan caput of UNRWA, nan main assistance supplier successful Gaza, said nan way starring to nan Kerem Shalom crossing from Israel is excessively vulnerable connected nan Gaza side. Armed men looted astir 100 trucks walking connected nan way successful mid-November, and he said gangs stole a smaller shipment connected Saturday.

Israeli strikes termination astatine slightest six people, including children

Israeli strikes connected nan Gaza Strip killed astatine slightest six people overnight, including 2 young children who died successful nan shelter wherever their family was sheltering, aesculapian officials said Sunday.

The onslaught successful nan Muwasi area, a sprawling shelter campy lodging hundreds of thousands of displaced people, besides wounded nan children’s mother and their sibling, according to nan adjacent Nasser Hospital. An Associated Press newsman astatine nan infirmary saw nan bodies.

A abstracted onslaught successful nan confederate metropolis of Rafah, connected nan separator pinch Egypt, killed 4 men, according to infirmary records.

The Israeli subject said it was not alert of strikes successful either location. Israel says it only targets militants and tries to debar harming civilians, but its regular strikes crossed Gaza often termination women and children.

In a abstracted development, a projectile fired by Iran-backed Houthi rebels successful Yemen group disconnected aerial ambush sirens successful cardinal Israel. The Israeli subject said it intercepted nan projectile earlier it entered Israeli territory.

Former defense curate accuses Israel of warfare crimes

A erstwhile apical Israeli wide and defense curate has accused nan authorities of taste cleansing successful bluish Gaza, wherever Israeli forces person been waging the latest successful a bid of offensives against Hamas since early October.

The service has sealed disconnected nan bluish towns of Beit Hanoun and Beit Lahiya, and nan Jabaliya exile camp, and allowed almost nary humanitarian assistance to enter. Tens of thousands of group person fled, while nan United Nations estimates up to 75,000 stay and experts person warned of famine.

Moshe Yaalon, who served arsenic defense curate nether Benjamin Netanyahu earlier quitting successful 2016 and emerging arsenic a fierce professional of nan premier minister, said nan existent far-right authorities is wished to “occupy, to annex, to ethnically cleanse.”

Pressed by an interviewer pinch a section news outlet connected Saturday, he said: “There is nary Beit Lahiya. No Beit Hanoun. (They are) operating now successful Jabaliya, and (they) are really cleaning nan territory of Arabs.”

Yaalon doubled down connected nan remarks Sunday successful an question and reply pinch Israeli radio, saying “war crimes are being committed here.”

Netanyahu’s Likud statement criticized his earlier remarks, accusing him of making “false statements” that are “a prize for nan International Criminal Court and nan campy of Israel haters.”

Israel rejects nan allegations and says some courts are biased against it.

No extremity successful show to Gaza warfare contempt ceasefire pinch Hezbollah

The warfare successful Gaza began erstwhile Hamas-led militants stormed into confederate Israel connected Oct. 7, 2023, sidesplitting immoderate 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and taking astir group 250 hostage. Some 100 captives are still being held wrong Gaza, astir two-thirds of whom are believed to beryllium alive.

Israel’s retaliatory violative has killed complete 44,000 Palestinians, much than half of them women and children, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry, which does not opportunity really galore of nan dormant were combatants. Israel says it has killed complete 17,000 militants, without providing evidence.

The warfare has destroyed immense areas of nan coastal enclave and displaced 90% of nan organization of 2.3 million, often aggregate times. Hundreds of thousands person crammed into squalid shelter camps, wherever conditions person worsened arsenic nan cold, bedewed wintertime sets in.

Israel reached a ceasefire pinch Lebanon’s Hezbollah militants past week that has mostly held, but that agreement, brokered by nan United States and France, did not reside nan ongoing warfare successful Gaza. Iran — which supports Hezbollah, Hamas, nan Houthis and equipped groups successful Syria and Iraq — has exchanged occurrence pinch Israel doubly this year.

The United States, Qatar and Egypt person spent overmuch of nan past twelvemonth trying to agent a ceasefire successful Gaza and nan merchandise of nan remaining hostages, but those efforts stalled arsenic Israel rejected Hamas’ request for a complete withdrawal from nan territory. The Biden management has said it will make different push for a woody successful its last weeks successful office.

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to extremity nan wars successful nan Middle East, without saying how. He was a staunch defender of Israel and its policies toward nan Palestinians during his erstwhile term.

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Magdy reported from Cairo Goldenberg from Tel Aviv, Israel.

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