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Eugene

(62,657 posts)
Fri Feb 9, 2024, 12:21 PM Feb 2024

Israel is holding up food for 1.1 million Palestinians in Gaza, the main UN aid agency there says

Source: Associated Press

Israel is holding up food for 1.1 million Palestinians in Gaza, the main UN aid agency there says

BY JULIA FRANKEL
Updated 11:41 AM EST, February 9, 2024

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel has imposed financial restrictions on the main U.N. agency providing aid in the Gaza Strip, a measure which prevented a shipment of food for 1.1 million Palestinians from reaching the war-battered enclave, the agency’s director said Friday.

The restrictions deepened a crisis between Israel and UNRWA, whose operations have been threatened following Israeli accusations that some of its workers participated in the Oct. 7 attack that triggered Israel’s war in Gaza. Those accusations have led major donor nations, including the U.S., to suspend funding to the U.N. organization and left its future in question.

UNRWA’s director, Philippe Lazzarini, said Friday that that a convoy of food donated by Turkey has been sitting for weeks in the Israeli port city of Ashdod. The agency said that the Israeli contractor they work with received a call from Israeli customs authorities “ordering them not to process any UNRWA goods.”

That stoppage means 1,049 shipping containers of rice, flour, chickpeas, sugar and cooking oil — enough to feed 1.1 million people for one month — are stuck, even as an estimated 25% of families in Gaza face catastrophic hunger.

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Read more: https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-gaza-unwra-bank-aid-4ed5e0652dd81b875055679a01a19371

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Israel is holding up food for 1.1 million Palestinians in Gaza, the main UN aid agency there says (Original Post) Eugene Feb 2024 OP
Starve them, shoot them, bomb them, bulldoze cemeteries..... louis-t Feb 2024 #1
Great job, Bibi/Likud. Looking good to the rest of the world... brush Feb 2024 #2
When is enough ENOUGH?! AloeVera Feb 2024 #3

louis-t

(23,717 posts)
1. Starve them, shoot them, bomb them, bulldoze cemeteries.....
Fri Feb 9, 2024, 12:33 PM
Feb 2024

I'm thinking a 2-state solution is not what Israel has in mind.

brush

(57,517 posts)
2. Great job, Bibi/Likud. Looking good to the rest of the world...
Fri Feb 9, 2024, 12:38 PM
Feb 2024

I mean how can you not...starving a million people while you continue attacking them with military.

AloeVera

(1,950 posts)
3. When is enough ENOUGH?!
Fri Feb 9, 2024, 04:18 PM
Feb 2024

Deliberately, unbelievably cruel and unwarranted.

All based on unverified allegations without evidence.

ICJ orders, international law, basic humanity and even a modicum of empathy and morals - all be damned - for Netanyahu and his lunatic cabinet.

Something's really wrong here.



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