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Urgent Action: Palestinian Human Rights Organisations Call on Third States to Urgently Intervene to Protect the Palestinian People Against Genocide

Posted on October 16, 2023October 16, 2023 | Al-Haq

Al-Haq, Al Mezan Center for Human Rights, and the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) call on Third States to urgently intervene to protect the Palestinian people against genocide. Between Saturday 7 October and 13 October at 10:00 p.m., the Palestinian Ministry of Health reported the killing of at least 1,900 Palestinians and the injury of 7,699 in Gaza. Tonight, Israel has closed bypass roads throughout the West Bank. Since Saturday 7 October violent attacks have escalated across the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, with the Israeli military and settlers killing 51 Palestinians, including 16 killed today, and injuring more than 950. The situation has drastically deteriorated, with Israel ordering the evacuation of 1.1 million Palestinians from the densely populated northern Gaza towards the south of the Strip. The forced displacement of Palestinians in Gaza was preceded by genocidal statements by senior Israeli political and military figures in the previous days.

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UN expert warns of new instance of mass ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, calls for immediate ceasefire

Posted on October 16, 2023October 16, 2023 | The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)

GENEVA (14 October 2023) – A UN human rights expert warned today that Palestinians are in grave danger of mass ethnic cleansing and called on the international community to urgently mediate a ceasefire between warring Hamas and Israeli occupation forces.

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WFP Palestine Emergency Response External Situation Report 2

Posted on October 15, 2023October 15, 2023 | World Food Program (WFP)

The humanitarian situation in Gaza continues to worsen for the fifth consecutive day. The shutdown of Gaza power plant and subsequent electricity cuts had already forced bakeries and shops to stop operating. Access restrictions, infrastructure damage, fuel shortages and depleting food stocks are severely hampering WFP assistance delivery.

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724 Palestinian children killed in Gaza as Israel targets civilians

Posted on October 14, 2023October 14, 2023 | Defense for Children International Palestine (DCIP)

Palestinians with their belongings leave Gaza City as they flee from their homes following the Israeli army’s warning on October 13, 2023. Palestinians carried belongings through the rubble-strewn streets of Gaza City on October 13 in search of refuge as Israel’s army warned residents to flee immediately before an expected ground offensive. (Photo by Mahmud Hams / AFP)

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Genocide in Gaza, nearly 600 Palestinian children killed by Israeli forces

Posted on October 14, 2023October 14, 2023 | Defense for Children International Palestine (DCIP)

Palestinian women and children flee their homes in Gaza City on October 11, 2023. (Photo: AFP / Mohammed Abed)

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Israeli forces shoot, kill 13-year-old Palestinian boy near Nablus

Posted on October 14, 2023October 14, 2023 | Defense for Children International Palestine (DCIP)

Amir Rafat Mahmoud Mlaitat, 13, is the eighth Palestinian child shot and killed by Israeli forces and settlers since October 7, according to documentation collected by Defense for Children International – Palestine. (Photo: Courtesy of the Mlaitat family)

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IDF evacuation order: what we know

Posted on October 13, 2023October 13, 2023 | The Guardian

The United Nations said late on Thursday evening in New York that it had received an evacuation order from the Israeli Defence Forces saying that everyone in northern Gaza should leave within the next 24 hours and go to the south.

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‘The situation is devastating’: UN warns food and water in Gaza will run out ‘very soon’

Posted on October 12, 2023October 12, 2023 | The Guardian

The UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) called the situation in the Gaza Strip “dire” and warned that crucial supplies were running dangerously low after Israel imposed a total blockade on the territory.

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326 Palestinian children killed as Israel plunges Gaza into darkness

Posted on October 12, 2023October 12, 2023 | Defense for Children International Palestine (DCIP)

Israeli warplanes fired three missiles at a residential building at the intersection of Al-Ternis Street in the middle of Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip around 11:30 a.m on October 9, killing 69 Palestinians, including at least 15 children, according to documentation collected by DCIP. (Photo: DCIP / Mohammad Abu Rukbeh)

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Israeli airstrikes kill at least 140 Palestinian children in Gaza

Posted on October 10, 2023October 10, 2023 | Defense for Children International Palestine (DCIP)

Yazan Ahmad Abdulnaser Shamlakh, 10, was killed by an Israeli airstrike on October 8 alongside his brothers Abdulnaser, two, and Omar, five months, according to documentation collected by Defense for Children International – Palestine. (Photo: Courtesy of the Shamlkah family)