UNRWA: 9 Out of 10 in Gaza Displaced

In its latest statistics UNRWA states that 9 in every 10 Palestinians in the #GazaStrip have been forcibly displaced.

UNRWA points out that these people are seeking shelter where ever they can in: overcrowded schools, destroyed buildings, makshift tents on the send and/or amid piles of trash.

The UN organization points out non of these places are safe and they have been targeted countless times.

Nearly 39,200 Palestinians have since been killed in Gaza since Israel started its war on Gaza soon after 7 October 2023. Those killed are mostly women and children whilst over 90,400 have been injured injured, according to local health authorities.

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Israeli Genocide, Death Through Starvation

Doctors who have volunteered in the Gaza Strip during the ongoing Israeli genocide have described unprecedentedly horrifying conditions in hospitals. This dire situation results from Israel’s inhumane blockade of aid and medicine, combined with its relentless bombardment of residential areas across the strip.

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The US Set to Clash With Israel Over UNRWA

In what appears to be a direct clash with the Israeli Knesset, the US government does not regard UNRWA as a “terrorism organization.”

US State Department spokesman Mathew Miller said, Wednesday “UNRWA is not a terrorist organization, and we urge the Israeli government and the Knesset to halt the movement of this legislation.”

Miller was responding to the fact that the Israeli parliament, last Monday, introduced a draft bill, in its first reading, designating UNRWA as a terrorism organization and that Israel is set to cut relations with this UN body.

“We have been clear about the important role that UNRWA plays in delivering humanitarian assistance and other critical assistance to Palestinians in Gaza – and throughout the region, not just in Gaza…the United States provides the majority of its funding for – a majority of the funding for humanitarian efforts in Gaza through the UN. We expect to continue to do so…” he added.

“…the attacks that the Israeli Government has leveled on UNRWA are incredibly unhelpful. They do nothing to advance the cause of getting humanitarian assistance to civilians in Gaza. So we’re going to continue to support the work that UNRWA does in the region, while also recognizing the need for reform…” he maintained.

The UN organization employs 30,000 employs working to serve 5.9 Palestinians in the region. Israel is accusing the organization of employing more than 400 terrorists in the Gaza Strip.

As a result the USA suspended its financial contribution to the agency after the Israeli accusations which were not proven by Israel.

Since then, US law has prohibited Washington from releasing funds to the agency, while several countries have resumed their contributions to the agency, including the UK, Germany, EU, Sweden, Japan, and France.

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“Disgusting speech, Shameful Session” Netanyahu in Congress  

Secretary-General of the Palestinian National Initiative Dr. Mustafa Barghouti, described Netanyahu’s speech as disgusting in a shameful session of the US Congress, which accepted to host and give a platform to the war criminal Netanyahu, who is committing crimes of genocide, ethnic cleansing, collective punishment and starvation in Gaza as reported in the Jo24.net website.

Barghouti added that the civilization he speaks of led to the martyrdom of 48,000 Palestinians in Gaza, including 17,000 children, amputation of the hands and feet of 1,200 Palestinian children and the displacement of two million Palestinians after the demolition of their homes.

He said: “This is not civilization, but decadence.”

Barghouti said Netanyahu’s speech was full of lies, even surpassing the Nazi propagandist Goebbels, especially when he claimed that Israel was delivering aid to the residents of the Gaza Strip while the whole world know that is a lie.

“Unfortunately, the US Congress witnessed a disgusting speech by Netanyahu in a shameful session in support of a war criminal, which was boycotted by honorable American representatives who are not subject to the Israeli lobby’s money, and thousands of supporters of the Palestinian struggle demonstrated against it, including thousands of American Jewish protesters who refuse to support Israel with weapons and who call for the freedom of Palestine.”

Barghouti pointed out Netanyahu has made himself and Israel a symbol of reactionism, fundamentalist racism, and a barbaric colonial mentality, and has practiced dangerous propaganda to spread Islamophobia.

Barghouti warned of the danger of Netanyahu’s plan of what he call “the next day for Gaza,” which includes “continuing the aggression against Gaza, maintaining the Israeli occupation there, establishing an entity that is an agent of the occupation…and continuing to use normalization with Arab countries to liquidate the Palestinian issue and restructure Palestinian consciousness to submit to the occupation.”

Barghouti stressed confronting Netanyahu’s vision would be through the rapid implementation of what was stated in the Beijing Declaration, especially the formation of a national reconciliation government that would foil Netanyahu’s tricks and plans and consolidate the unity of the West Bank, Gaza Strip and Jerusalem,” he concluded.

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Why Butcher Khan Younis Again?

The Israeli army continues to slaughter Khan Younis with no mercy after its new air and ground onslaught which it began Monday non-stop.

In just 48 hours after its aggression, the Government Media Office in Gaza reported 129 martyrs were killed as a result of the Israeli aggression.

It also reported that 416 injured and more than 100 of these have not reached the already-barely functioning hospitals in the city that had been virtually destroyed by Israeli attacks.

The media office states that 44 persons are currently missing presumed to be under the rubble as a result of the Israeli bombings described as the worst in months that began soon after 7 October, 2023.

The media officers which monitor the ongoing Israeli massacres in the Gaza Strip says that so far only 82 families have been evacuated while stating that appeals are being made by 1,350 besieged families.

It stated as well that the homes of 22 families were bombed while they were living in them – in another words, over their heads. This is in addition to 237 houses and residential buildings that were also bombed.

Through eyewitness accounts the media office states the bombing was extensive with 208 raids and bombardments through Israeli warplanes and tanks firing arbitrarily.

Despite the fact that the Israeli army is forcing new Palestinian displacement with an estimated 150,000 from the city and those towns and villages surrounding it, soldiers are targeting everything that moves on the Salah Al Din Street in Khan Younis.

They are also obstructing any coordination agreement to reach the injured and those that have been killed and martyred in violation of international law.

Israel is forcing Palestinians to move multiple times with repeat displacement and restructuring human geography whilst threatening the lives of hundreds of thousands of injured, sick, pregnant women, the elderly and with special needs and exposing to deaths.

As shown by videos and people on the ground, Israeli is committing horrific massacres in east of Khan Younis

 “We hold the Israeli occupation and the American administration fully responsible for the continuation of these massacres against civilians and the loss of hundreds of lives,” the Government Media Office maintains.

 And ends by saying “we call on the international community and all countries of the free world to stop this shame, these crimes, and these massacres immediately and urgently.”

Khan Yunis is already a woeful and sorry city and has been destroyed by the Israeli army which had waged war on it from early December, 2023, till late March 2024. They literally distroyed everything there that is civilian related yet they couldn’t get to Hamas and the rest of the Palestinian resistance groups.

For more details see the shock its people experienced when they entered the ruined city as the Israeli army first moved out.

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