Aid Organization World Central Kitchen is Closing Operation in Gaza after a Hamas-Leading Attack on September 17, 2010

Aid shipments to Gaza in September reached their lowest level since the war began because of Israeli border restrictions and ongoing military conflict. Over 400,000 people remain in northern Gaza, where food is scarce, according to the World Food Programme, as humanitarian experts warn that northern Gaza is on the brink of famine.

About 1200 people were killed in an attack on Israel by the Hamas-led militant group. The Gaza’s health ministry says 44,000 Palestinians have been killed by Israel’s military response in the area.

The charity halted aid work in Gaza after seven of its workers were killed by an Israeli strike. The organization returned to the region to resume operations a few weeks later. Israel believes that the strike targeting the aid workers was a mistake.

The organization, founded in 2010 by celebrity chef José Andrés and his wife,Patricia, delivers food to people on the front lines of natural and humanitarian disasters.

The charity didn’t have knowledge that the vehicle was used in the attack. World Central Kitchen said that it is temporarily pausing operations in Gaza.

The World Central Kitchen said in a statement that it was “heartbroken” by the news of the strike in Khan Younis and that it was “urgently seeking more details.”

Israeli airstrike kills five people in the Gaza Strip, and UN says it is halting aid through main Gaza crossing because route is too dangerous

An Israeli airstrike hit a car in the Gaza Strip on Saturday, killing five people, including at least three workers with the charity World Central Kitchen, according to Gaza’s health ministry.

He said there was no Beit Lahiya when pressed by the interviewer on Saturday. It’s not called Beit Hanoun. (They are) operating now in Jabaliya, and (they) are actually cleaning the territory of Arabs.”

Netanyahu’s Likud party criticized his earlier remarks, accusing him of making “false statements” that are “a prize for the International Criminal Court and the camp of Israel haters.”

Netanyahu, another former defense minister and a Hamas commander are accused of crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Court. The International court of justice is looking into the matter.

The war has displaced about 90 percent of the population of 2.3 million and destroyed vast areas of the coastal enclave. Hundreds of thousands have crammed into squalid tent camps, where conditions have worsened as the cold, wet winter sets in.

Source: UN says it is halting aid through main Gaza crossing because route is too dangerous

UNRWA is halting aid through main Gaza crossing because route is too dangerous for armed gangs – the case of deir AL-BALAH

The United States, Qatar and Egypt have spent much of the past year trying to broker a ceasefire in Gaza and the release of the remaining hostages, but those efforts stalled as Israel rejected Hamas’ demand for a complete withdrawal from the territory. The Biden administration has said it will make another push for a deal in its final weeks in office.

Donald Trump has promised to end the wars in the Middle East, without saying how. He was a steadfast supporter of Israel and its policies toward Palestinians during his previous term.

The far-right government is trying to “occupy, to annex, to ethnically cleanse”, according to Yaalon, a fierce critic of the prime minister.

The army sealed off the northern towns and refugee camp and denied almost all humanitarian aid to enter. Tens of thousands of people have left, while the United Nations estimates up to 75,000 remain.

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — The U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees said Sunday it is halting aid deliveries through the main cargo crossing into Gaza because of the threat of armed gangs who have looted recent convoys.

Philippe Lazzarini, the head of UNRWA, the main aid provider in Gaza, said the route leading to the Kerem Shalom crossing from Israel is too dangerous on the Gaza side. Armed men looted nearly 100 trucks traveling on the route in mid-November, and he said gangs stole a smaller shipment on Saturday.

Source: UN says it is halting aid through main Gaza crossing because route is too dangerous

Israeli Air Raid Sirens and Damned Houthi Rebells at the Muwasi-Yamade Medical Center

According to the hospital, the strike in the Muwasi area, a tent camp that houses hundreds of thousands of people, wounded the children’s mother and sibling. The AP reporter was at the hospital.

In a separate development, a projectile fired by Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen set off air raid sirens in central Israel. The Israeli military said it stopped the projectile in its tracks.

A former top Israeli general and defense minister has accused the government of ethnic cleansing in northern Gaza, where Israeli forces have been waging the latest in a series of offensives against Hamas since early October.