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Statement by the Humanitarian Country Team of the Occupied Palestinian Territory – on principled aid delivery in Gaza
The UN Secretary-General and the Emergency Relief Coordinator have made clear that we will not participate in any scheme that does not adhere to the global humanitarian principles of humanity, impartiality, independence and neutrality. In the Occupied Palestinian Territory, the heads of all UN entities and non-governmental organizations under the Humanitarian Country Team have unanimously affirmed this position. Humanitarian action responds to people’s needs, wherever they are. Our teams remain in Gaza, ready to again scale up the delivery of critical supplies and services: food, water, health, nutrition, protection and more. We have significant stocks ready to enter as soon as the blockade is lifted.
EU President Should Be Investigated for Complicity in Israel’s War Crimes, Says Top U.N. Expert on Palestine
“I’m not someone who says, ‘History will judge them’ — they will have to be judged before then,” Francesca Albanese said in an exclusive interview.
Gaza humanitarian aid ship ‘bombed by drones’ in waters off Malta
Freedom Flotilla Coalition claims Israel to blame for attack on unarmed civilian vessel in international waters
Statement on Gaza by Tom Fletcher, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator
To the Israeli authorities, and those who can still reason with them, we say again: lift this brutal blockade. Let humanitarians save lives.
To the civilians left unprotected, no apology can suffice. But I am truly sorry that we are unable to move the international community to prevent this injustice. We won’t give up, even if the world has given you every reason to give up on us.
A Palestinian-American Teen Allegedly Threw Stones That Hit No One. Israeli Troops Shot Him 11 Times
IDF soldiers in an ambush rained fire down on a trio of 14-year-old Palestinian Americans who may have been throwing stones, but harmlessly. Two escaped, wounded; the third was killed after being sprayed with bullets
Invoking Never Again in Israel, as More Children Die
I have been engaged in researching the Holocaust for about 40 years. I never imagined in my worst nightmares that the Jewish state would bomb starving children to death
“Deprivation by Design”: Israel Intensifies Mass Killing Campaign in Gaza With Starvation and Daily Strikes
The scale of killing in Gaza is almost impossible to track as the Israeli military bombs and starves Palestinian civilians with impunity.
Mohsen Mahdawi — the Columbia student arrested at his citizenship appointment — speaks
In the first media interview with any of the Trump administration’s student detainees – all at risk of deportation — Mahdawi spoke to Leila Fadel in the Northwest State Correctional Facility in St. Albans, Vt., where he’s awaiting a court hearing Wednesday in a petition that argues government officials violated his First Amendment right to free speech and his right to due process.
Editor’s note: On Wednesday, April 30, a federal judge in Vermont ordered Mohsen Mahdawi’s release while his case proceeds.
After Humanitarianism
We are honored to have Professor Nadia Abu El-Haj for the next installment of the Bisan Lecture Series, on Wednesday May 14th, at 8PM Palestine time (6 PM GMT and UK time, 1 PM EDT).
Please notice the unusual time of the lecture.
Register here to get the Zoom link!