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Children in Gaza are dying from starvation and bombardments.
Entire families, neighbourhoods, and a generation are being wiped out.
Inaction and silence are complicity. It’s time for statements to turn into action and for an immediate ceasefire.
— UNRWA (#UNRWA) August 11, 2025
#israel #palestine : #war / #gaza / #blockade / #starvationcrisis
„The UN agency for Palestine refugees (#UNRWA) has warned that the Gaza Strip faces a “catastrophic” #humanitariancrisis, with no agency aid allowed in for more than five months and #malnutritiondeaths climbing sharply.“
UN News · Aid blockade deepens Gaza crisis as malnutrition deaths rise, warns UNRWAThe UN agency for Palestine refugees (UNRWA) has warned that the Gaza Strip faces a “catastrophic” humanitarian crisis, with no agency aid allowed in for more than five months and malnutrition deaths climbing sharply.
“Airdrops are costly, dangerous, undignified — and distract from the real solution: opening #Gaza’s gates to sustained truckloads of aid.” our Sam Rose tells @skynewsrss.bsky.social.
What’s needed is the safe entry of aid trucks on a large-scale through the #UN, including #UNRWA.
https://bsky.app/profile/unrwa.org/post/3lw22vwqz4c2x
#Starvation #FoodAsWeapon #Genocide #Distraction
@israel @palestine@lemmy.ml @palestine@a.gup.pe
Bluesky Social · UNRWA (@unrwa.org)“Airdrops are costly, dangerous, undignified — and distract from the real solution: opening #Gaza’s gates to sustained truckloads of aid.” our Sam Rose tells @skynewsrss.bsky.social.
What’s needed is the safe entry of aid trucks on a large-scale through the UN, including UNRWA.
https://gaza-aid-data.gov.il/main/ niet bijgewerkt sinds 28 juli
Mijn laatste samenvatting: https://infosec.exchange/@ErikvanStraten/114954326324947605
Le pouvoir de mobilisation des Palestiniens au Liban
https://www.chroniquepalestine.com/le-pouvoir-de-mobilisation-des-palestiniens-au-liban/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=le-pouvoir-de-mobilisation-des-palestiniens-au-liban
Depuis plus de sept décennies, les réfugiés palestiniens au Liban souffrent de conditions inhumaines dans des camps surpeuplés où règnent la pauvreté, le chômage et le manque d’accès à l’éducation. Aperçu Ce texte souligne qu’en
#Politique #AlShabaka #NousRecommandons #Slider #Diaspora #Liban #Refugiés #SociétéPalestinienne #Unrwa
Chronique de Palestine · Le pouvoir de mobilisation des Palestiniens au LibanDepuis plus de sept décennies, les réfugiés palestiniens au Liban souffrent de conditions inhumaines dans des camps surpeuplés où règnent la pauvreté, le chômage et le manque d’accès à l’éducation.
“#Israel just bombed the #UNRWA clinic in #Gaza City. They’re destroying what’s left of Gaza’s #health system and there’s zero #media coverage.
#genocide #warcrimes #palestine
Translation:
"The moment Israeli warplanes bombed the UNRWA clinic in the Al-Maqousi area west of Gaza City."
https://x.com/AnasAlSharif0/status/1952849207821504893
#Palestine #Gaza #Israel #UN #UNRWA
#AnasAlSharif
@palestine
X (formerly Twitter)أنس الشريف Anas Al-Sharif (@AnasAlSharif0) on Xلحظة قصف الطائرات الإسرائيلية عيادة الأونروا في منطقة المقوسي غرب مدينة غزة .
Footage documents the Israeli strike on an #UNRWA clinic in the Maqousi area, west of #Gaza City moments ago
https://t.me/QudsNen/179455
#IsraelWarCrimes #warcrimes
TelegramQuds News NetworkFootage documents the Israeli strike on an UNRWA clinic in the Maqousi area, west of Gaza City moments ago
#UNRWA demands that the #hostages are released unconditionally
#Hamas belong in jail
No justification for harming civilians
#FreeTheHostages
#JailNetanyahu too
#EndTheGenocide
#FreePalestine
#StandingTogether
#TwoStateSolution
New US lawsuit demands UNRWA pay for crimes of Hamas, Hezbollah https://www.timesofisrael.com/new-us-lawsuit-demands-unrwa-pay-for-crimes-of-hamas-hezbollah/
L'UNRWA doit pouvoir à nouveau organiser l'aide humanitaire. Elle a les compétences et 6000 camions prêts à entrer à Gaza
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️UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini:
"Airdrops are at least 100 times more costly than trucks. Trucks carry twice as much aid as planes.
If there is political will to allow airdrops - which are highly costly, insufficient & inefficient, there should be similar political will to open the road crossings.
As the people of Gaza are starving to death, the only way to respond to the famine is to flood Gaza with assistance.
UNRWA is the largest UN agency on the ground, has 6,000 trucks loaded with aid stuck outside Gaza waiting for the green light to enter.
The UN, including UNRWA and partners, were able to bring in 500 to 600 trucks a day during the ceasefire earlier this year.
Aid reached the entire population of Gaza in safety and dignity. It succeeded to reverse the deepening starvation without any aid diversion.
No alternative to the UN coordinated response with UNRWA as the backbone had provided similar results.
Let’s go back to what works and let us do our job.
This is what people in Gaza need today more than ever together with a lasting ceasefire."
#starvingGaza
#humanitarianAid
#UNRWA
#freePalestine
#stopGenocideInGaza
@palestine
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The table below at the left reveals the SUM of aid per week.
In all cases shown where weeks have 7 days (exceptions: Jan. 1 through 4 and the last week, Jul 27 and 28) the numbers shown are a factor 7 bigger than in the previous table.
After each date I've appended a plus sign to indicate a sum.
The table below at the right shows detailed per day data (plus the summation and the per day average value for that week).
For a description of the terminology used, please see my previous toot.
Finally *A BIT MORE AID" to Gaza - but still very insufficient (and too late for many). 1/2
(This is an English version of https://infosec.exchange/@ErikvanStraten/114954326324947605).
The Israëli website https://gaza-aid-data.gov.il/main/ has had data added through July 28 (see also 2/2).
I don't know whether Israel lies about those numbers, and neither do I know how much aid actually reaches Gazans who need it most.
In my previous toot about this (in Dutch,
https://infosec.exchange/@ErikvanStraten/114936108579273304) the tables became too long and the readability could be improved upon.
Therefore you can find a table below where I've condensed the data into the average per day, in one week periods (each week ends on Saturday - a day when little or no aid is transported into Gaza).
Note: questions, remarks and suggestions are welcome!
To reduce rounding errors resulting from dividing by 7 (days/week) I'm now using tons instead of the number of trucks for fuel and gas. In the cases where https://gaza-aid-data.gov.il/main/ does not provide tonnages for them, I've multiplied the number of fuel trucks by 35 and gas by 23 to obtain a estimate of the tonnage.
Shortcuts used in the tables:
Other =
- Essential infrastructure equipment
- UN and International organizations equipment
- Shelter Equipment
- Mixed Aid
- Medical Equipment - for field hospital.
MedS = Medical Supplies.
The letter 'a' after each date implies average (this way I can destinguish between averages and sums in my tables, see also 2/2). Note that the last week is incomplete (the Israeli website is not updated on a daily basis and is a couple of days behind).
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Eindelijk *IETS* meer hulp naar Gaza - maar nog steeds VEEL TE WEINIG.2/2
De tabel linksonder bevat de SOM per week (eindigend op zaterdag) aan geleverde hulp. Indien de getoonde weken 7 dagen bevatten (uitzonderingen: de eerste en laatste week) zijn de getallen 7 maal zo groot als in de tabel in mijn vorige toot. Achter elke datum staat een "+" om aan te geven dat het om een sommatie per week gaat.
De tabel rechtsonder bevat de laatste data (per dag) van de afgelopen weken.
Voor een omschrijving van de gebruikte termen zie mijn vorige toot.
Eindelijk *IETS* meer hulp naar Gaza - maar nog steeds VEEL TE WEINIG.1/2
(English version: https://infosec.exchange/@ErikvanStraten/114955501680532068).
De Israëlische site https://gaza-aid-data.gov.il/main/ is is bijgewerkt t/m 28 juli (zie ook 2/2).
Of de getallen daarin bij elkaar gelogen zijn weet ik niet, noch hoeveel van die hulp daadwerkelijk de Gazanen, die deze het hardste nodig hebben, bereikt.
In mijn laatste toot hierover (https://infosec.exchange/@ErikvanStraten/114936108579273304) werden de tabellen te lang en ook de overzichtelijkheid kon beter.
Daarom hieronder een tabel met, per week (eindigend met zaterdag), de gemiddelde hoeveelheid hulp PER DAG in die week (op zaterdag wordt er zelden "bezorgd").
Nb. vragen, opmerkingen en suggesties zijn van harte welkom!
Omdat er minder afrondingsfouten zijn bij door 7 delen heb ik de aantallen vrachtauto's voor brandstof (fuel) en gas (flessen) omgezet in tonnen. Waar https://gaza-aid-data.gov.il/main/ geen tonnage vermeldt, vermenigvuldig ik het aantal vrachtauto's voor fuel met 35 en voor gas met 23.
Gebruikte afkortingen in de tabellen:
Other =
- Essential infrastructure equipment
- UN and International organizations equipment
- Shelter Equipment
- Mixed Aid
- Medical Equipment - for field hospital.
MedS = Medical Supplies.
De "a", vermeld achter de datum, staat voor "average" (zo houd ik de getallen uit elkaar, zie ook 2/2). De laatste week "loopt" nog (de Israëlische website loopt iets achter).
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“Let’s go back to what works & let us do our job.”
Philippe Lazzarini (@UNLazzarini) August 1, 2025
Ceasefire needed to address Gaza’s humanitarian crisis: #UNRWA
Most Gaza newborns are underweight and undersized due to malnutrition.
Hundreds of aid trucks must enter the Gaza Strip daily.
Israel is required to provide safe passage for aid trucks.
Aid to Gaza must reach UN warehouses for distribution.
Gaza’s desalination plants are destroyed, leading to the spread of disease due to water contamination.
The #NewYorkTimes Repeated Israeli Claims of Hamas Stealing Aid Without Evidence
Israel’s main justification for its deadly blockade on Gaza was built on a lie. The New York Times repeated it for months.
Minnah Arshad
July 30 2025 2:40pm
The #UN agency tasked with distributing aid in Gaza, ...UNRWA, has maintained for months that it has received no specific evidence that #Hamas or other armed groups were diverting its humanitarian aid in #Gaza.
“These claims are used as a pretext to justify the aid distribution system supported by the #Israeli authorities and the #USA (so called #GHF), which falls far from abiding to the humanitarian principles and international humanitarian law,” an #UNRWA spokesperson told #TheIntercept in a statement.
https://theintercept.com/2025/07/30/new-york-times-hamas-aid-israel-gaza-famine/
#RestoreFundsToUNRWA
#StopStarvingGaza
#StopGazaGenocide
#StopArmingIsrael
#BDS #NYT
#SolidarityWithPalestineIsNotAntisemitism
#Palestine #MiddleEast #WestAsia
#US #USPolitics
#news #press #politics @palestine
The Intercept · The New York Times Repeated Israeli Claims of Hamas Stealing Aid Without Evidence