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Israel’s agency responsible for humanitarian affairs in Gaza said on Monday it had increased its ability to inspect aid shipments bound for Gaza and blamed the UN for the long line of trucks waiting to travel into the Palestine war.
Of the UN said the fight makes it very dangerous for his employees to go to work.
The agency of the Israeli Ministry of Defense, Coordination of Government Activity in the Territories − or COGAT − says it is ready to open a second border crossing to allow aid to flow to Gaza. Israel only inspects the trucks at the small Nitzana crossing before entering Gaza through Rafah on the Egyptian border.
“Kerem Shalom (cross) should be opened, so the number of visits will double,” COGAT said in a statement. “But aid is still waiting at the door of Rafah. The UN must do better. Aid is there, and people need it.”
Israel says it has cleared more than 200 aid trucks to pass through Gaza each day, but the UN has failed to process and distribute the aid as quickly as it arrives.
The Secretary-General of the UN, Antonio Guterres, has repeatedly emphasized the lack of security for the UN staff and the strong military operations, resulting in at least 130 UN staff being killed. die now.
“Some of our staff take their children to work so they know they will live or die together,” he said.
Netanyahu said many Hamas fightersgive; Blinken defends veto of UN ceasefire resolution: Update
Development:
∎ The 90-year-old father of Al Jazeera reporter Anas al-Sharif has died in an Israeli attack on his home in Jabaliya, north of the Gaza Strip, the media said. The rest of the family went to a UN shelter but the boy could not leave due to his age and health, Al Jazeera reported.
∎ The resignations of University of Pennsylvania president Liz Magill and Scott Bok, chairman of Penn’s Board of Trustees, have done little to quell the desire for change at the school, the report said. that of the students. Magill and Bok were accused of failing to denounce anti-Semitism threats and hate speech at Penn. Read more here.
■ The Defense of Israel Emad Krikae is said to have been killed, describing him as the commander of Hamas’ Shejaiya Battalion. The group’s former commander was “destroyed,” the IDF said.
∎ Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia, Mikhail Bogdanov, during talks with Palestinian and Hamas leaders, urged for an end to the war and the release of people detained by Russian soldiers. Tass media reports on Monday. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday accused Russia of taking “anti-Israeli” positions.
As Penn University leaders resign,Students say ‘more changes are still needed’
Gaza the most dangerous place in the world for women, says ActionAid
Israel’s war on Gaza has made it the world’s most dangerous place for women, says the advocacy group ActionAid International.
“Women and girls in Gaza are suffering unprecedented levels of violence during the escalation of the Israeli military,” says a new report by the organization, whose mission is focus on. “female leadership.”
Health officials in Gaza estimate the number of Palestinians who died at around 18,000 and say that around 70% were women and children. According to ActionAid, women and girls are being killed and injured at “horrendous” rates, denied their right to food, water and daily health care, and exposed to many psychological and the crisis after two months of “living in fear.”
“It is the most dangerous place for women right now, right now, according to the statistics that describe the reality and the situation of women in Gaza,” said the spokesperson of ActionAid, Riham Jafari , USA TODAY in an email.
Israel says it found weapons stored in a Gaza mosque
The Israeli military says it has discovered an RPG training facility hidden inside a mosque in a suburb of northern Gaza. The weapons found include grenades, cartridges and various guns, the military said in a statement. Some of the weapons are shown on the military social mediawere found in the bags of community organizations, said the statement.
The military has defended its deadly attack and destruction of Gaza, saying Hamas still uses civilians as human shields and sets up military bases in public buildings. Hamas has denied the claims.
Israel was accused of trying to expel Palestinians from Gaza
Jordanian Prime Minister Bisher Khasawneh accused Israel of trying to expel Palestinians from Gaza, calling the move a “game changer.” Khasawneh said that the conditions “suggest that there is a deliberate attempt to create conditions for Gazans – with the increasing violence in the West Bank given to the residents – of the it forces people to consider the option of moving over the border.”
Philippe Lazzarini, the commissioner general of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, also made a similar statement in an op-ed piece for the Los Angeles Times.
“The developments we are witnessing show the attempt to settle Palestinians in Egypt, whether they stay there or resettle somewhere else,” he said. written.
United Nations General Assembly to discuss the ceasefire resolution
The United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday will vote on a resolution calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. The resolution is the same as the US vetoed in the Security Council last week. But the difference is that no representative country has veto power in the General Assembly, and its approved decisions are not binding. Egypt sought the resolution, hoping to easily win approval, on behalf of the Arab Group, which includes 22 countries, and the Organization for Islamic Cooperation Group, which represents the largest to 50 countries.
Israel is “sending more civilians, risking further damage to this emergency, and threatening regional and international peace and security, thus urgently calling for a meeting of the General Assembly to resolve this crisis,” the said Egypt and the Republic of Mauritania in a joint bookCouncil President Dennis Francis of Trinidad and Tobago.
