US plans to build temporary port in Gaza for humanitarian aid
The temporary dock will be able to unload the equivalent of ‘hundreds of additional truckloads of aid per day’ according to senior officials
The temporary dock will be able to unload the equivalent of ‘hundreds of additional truckloads of aid per day’ according to senior officials
Cyprus and Israel in December announced a humanitarian sea route to the Strip but it failed to materialize despite a successful trial run that shipped 90 tons of aid to Egypt last Christmas
The UN agency stresses that the decline in nutrition levels in the enclave “is unprecedented worldwide” in an urgent appeal for humanitarian access
The facility has been occupied by Russian forces for two years with barely any power supply to cool the reactors. The director of the IAEA is expected to meet with Vladimir Putin on Tuesday
Recent history provides numerous examples of dictatorships that have committed similar or greater atrocities, but there are not so many precedents among democracies
The sanctions announced by the US, Canada, the UK, France, Spain and New Zealand represent an element of pressure on the Israeli government, which supports the movement
The killing of over 100 people receiving aid in the Strip is the latest example of the effects of the organization’s paralysis. Countries in the Global South have criticized the West’s double standards in relation to the conflict in Ukraine
Outrage is rising over the desperation of hundreds of thousands struggling to survive in northern Gaza after nearly five months of fighting between Israel and Hamas
The World Food Program has already transported a shipment of 144 tons of skimmed milk powder in a context of deep economic crisis in the country
Thursday’s attack on an aid delivery, which left over 100 people dead, highlights the malnutrition and collapse of public order caused by the Israeli invasion
Its promoter, the Polish-Jewish jurist Raphael Lemkin, warned of the ‘contagious nature of any social psychosis’
After more than four months of bombing, Palestinian women in the enclave are suffering Cesarean sections without anesthesia, abortions, and infections, while struggling to care for their babies and fighting a daily battle to wash or find a sanitary pad
The U.N. has never been as weak as it is now. The Security Council, an instrument for peace, is incapable of confronting barbarism
Russia’s deputy representative to the United Nations, Dmitry Polyansky, called for an urgent meeting of the UN Security Council following the attacks
Demonstrators managed to stop trucks bound for the Strip in the port of Ashdod to press for the release of the hostages still being held after the Hamas attacks of October 7
Palestinians trying to escape the desperate situation in the Strip are charged up to $11,000 by middlemen to secure permission to cross the border at Rafah
The international humanitarian law expert is on the South African team that has filed genocide charges at the International Court of Justice
The United States, the EU and Arab countries are mobilizing to demand Israel stops its offensive in the Strip and commits to negotiating the two-state solution
The United Nations expert on human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories has demanded that Western governments move from condemnation to action
The underlying question is whether the Hamas attacks of October 7 explain and justify everything. Was it the big ‘flashpoint’ of what is occurring now?
Israel wants to regain the Philadelphi Corridor that separates Sinai from the enclave, but a change in the status quo carries significant military and humanitarian implications
The 2.3 million inhabitants of Gaza are at risk of severe food insecurity, according to the U.N. World Food Program, and half a million more are already on the verge of a ‘catastrophic’ famine
Torrential rains in Somalia have left more than a million people displaced, struggling to survive in camps where persons with special needs face cholera and other diseases
Pretoria has asked international judges to issue interim measures for an immediate halt to military operations in Gaza
The U.S. is pressuring countries like Turkey to cut off the funds that feed the organization, which until it took power in Gaza was fueled by money from Iran and private donations
At a time when Western support seems to be wavering and Russia’s war against Ukraine has become a battle of attrition, the politician insists that support for Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s government is also support for democracy
Companies are rerouting around South Africa to avoid militia attacks in Yemen in one of the biggest disruptions to world trade since the Covid-19 pandemic