Syria faces crisis and Gaza heads toward famine, World Food Program official says
Edith M. Lederer
AP / December 13, 2024
UNITED NATIONS – The deputy executive director of the U.N. World Food Program has been on whirlwind visits to hotspots in the Middle East and Sudan to assess dire humanitarian situations and escalating demands for food from millions of people trapped or fleeing...
‘Thrice in four days’ – Israel denies WHO access to Gaza’s Kamal Adwan Hospital
TPC Staff
The Palestine Chronicle / December 13, 2024
“There is an absolute lack of medical supplies and consumables, there is a lack of surgical specialities that match the nature of the injuries” arriving at the hospital.
Israel has thrice denied the World Health Organization (WHO) access to the Kamal Adwan Hospital...
Dutch court rejects lawsuit from rights groups seeking to halt arms sales to Israel
Molly Quell
AP / December 13, 2024
THE HAGUE, Netherlands – A Dutch court on Friday rejected a bid from human rights groups to block weapons exports to Israel and trading with the occupied territories, after finding there were sufficient checks already in place to comply with international law.
The ten organizations...
UN demands immediate Gaza ceasefire as Israel’s cabinet of horrors continues – 53 killed,...
Juan Cole
Informed Comment / December 12, 2024
Ann Arbor – The Israeli newspaper Arab 48 reports that the Israeli military killed 53 Palestinians in Gaza on Wednesday. The Israeli Air Force intentionally targeted residential buildings in the north and the south of the Strip, in Beit Lahiya and in the...
Israeli attacks kill at least 28 people hours after UN demands ceasefire in Gaza
Guardian Staff
The Guardian / December 12, 2024
Refugee camp and aid convoy security personnel reportedly targeted amid food shortages and fears of famine in the region.
Israeli airstrikes have killed at least 28 people in Gaza, including seven children, Palestinian health officials reported, as the region is gripped by food shortages...
No comfort and little shelter in Gaza as nightmare of winter sets in
Malak A Tantesh
The Guardian / December 12, 2024
Displaced residents face acute hardship, fleeing airstrikes and suffering from disease and hunger as temperatures plummet.
Al-Mawasi – Tens of thousands of people sheltering on Gaza’s exposed Mediterranean coastline face harsh winter conditions with inadequate shelter, food and fuel, as temperatures plunge in...
Palestine is most dangerous country for journalists, Reporters Without Borders says
Agence France-Presse / December 12, 2024
Press freedom NGO describes Israeli killing of reporters working in Gaza as an ‘unprecedented bloodbath’
Fifty-four journalists were killed worldwide while carrying out their work or because of their profession in 2024, a third of them by the Israeli army, according to an annual report by...
In Northern Gaza, buildings weakened by airstrikes are collapsing on families seeking shelter from...
Hossam Shabat
Drop Site News / December 12, 2024
‘We are trapped in this broken house knowing it could collapse on top of us, but where can we go ?’
Every day, journalist Hossam Shabat documents new horrors the Israeli military is wreaking on northern Gaza in a concentrated campaign of extermination...
Amnesty urges war crimes probe of ‘indiscriminate’ Israeli attacks on Lebanon
Brett Wilkins
Common Dreams / December 12, 2024
"The latest evidence of unlawful airstrikes during Israel's most recent offensive in Lebanon underscores the urgent need for all states, especially the United States, to suspend arms transfers," said one campaigner.
Amnesty International on Thursday called for a war crimes investigation into recent Israeli...
Reports target Israeli army for ‘unprecedented massacre’ of Gaza journalists
Eloise Goldsmith
Common Dreams / December 12, 2024
"In Gaza, the scale of the tragedy is incomprehensible," wrote Thibaut Bruttin, director general of Reporters Without Borders.
Reports released this week from two organizations that advocate for journalists underscore just how deadly Gaza has become for media workers.
Reporters Without Borders' (RSF) 2024 roundup,...
