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More than 70 international organisations are calling on all authorities and international institutions to officially declare a famine in Gaza, Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor has said in a statement.
The entire population in the Gaza Strip (2.2 million people) are experiencing high levels of acute food insecurity, with half of them in the disaster/famine stage.
Displaced Palestinian children line up to receive food in Rafah, on the southern Gaza Strip [File/AFP]
@Free_Press Joe #Biden is happy to let #Israel use it's weapons on a civilian population, and to defend these criminal actions against the #ICC but won't allow #Ukraine to use its weapons against military targets against an invader of its sovereign territory.
Vessels supporting US pier wash away in heavy seas off Gaza
"The pier has been criticised as a complicated & costly alternative that tries to deflect attention from demanding a much simpler solution – for Israel to fully open all land crossings to Gaza & to secure aid trucks going in."
Israel is keeping land crossings - "the only effective way of getting large-scale aid to starving Palestinians" - closed.
Erneut Massenproteste gegen Netanyahu-Regierung in Israel
Aus Unzufriedenheit mit der Regierung von Premierminister Netanyahu sind in Israel erneut Tausende Menschen auf die Straßen gegangen. Unterdessen gehen die israelischen Angriffe im Gazastreifen weiter - trotz internationaler Kritik.
"Indignant protests by Israeli and US leaders over last week’s decision by the prosecutor of the international criminal court (ICC) to seek Benjamin Netanyahu’s arrest for alleged war crimes shone new light on an old reality: for those at the top who wield decisive political power, all people are equal – but some are more equal than others"
Good column from Simon Tisdall in today's Observer
"Since the hasty withdrawal from Sinai in 1956, Israel has never acceded to the will of the international community, as if the world and its decisions have nothing to do with it. Invulnerable and protected by America, the Bible and a certain nuclear research center in Dimona, it has always acted as if it had license to scoff at the whole world. That ended the day it invaded Gaza in such a brutal, unchecked manner"
Gideon Levy
"Pictures of equipment and weapons published by the Al Qassam Brigades after executing a complex operation by luring an Israeli force into a tunnel in #Jabalia, resulting in casualties and captives among the force."
@palestine
Violent Israeli shelling and airstrikes on #Jabalia refugee camp in northern #Gaza right now.
This comes shortly following a recorded speech by the spokesman for Al Qassam brigades, announcing the capturing of more Israeli soldiers in Jabalia. Israel’s military denied the reports.