The Gaza health ministry says that World Central Kitchen workers have been killed
World Central Kitchen, Gaza, was shut down by an Israeli strike on Oct. 7 in Khan Youns, a humanitarian crisis in the north of Gaza
The decision could worsen the humanitarian crisis in Gaza as the cold, rainy winter sets in, with hundreds of thousands of people living in squalid tent camps and reliant on international food aid. Experts were already warning of famine in the territory’s north, which Israeli forces have almost completely isolated since early October.
The Israeli military was unaware of strikes in either location. Israel says it only targets militants and tries to avoid harming civilians, but its daily strikes across Gaza often kill women and children.
Relief work was stopped in Gaza after seven of its workers were killed in an Israeli strike. The organization returned to the region to resume operations a few weeks later. Israel said the strike was a mistake.
The U.S.-based organization, founded by celebrity chef José Andrés and his wife Patricia in 2010, delivers food to people on the front lines of natural and humanitarian disasters.
The charity said it had no knowledge that any individual in the vehicle had alleged ties to the Oct. 7 attack. World Central Kitchen said it is temporarily pausing operations in Gaza.
The World Central Kitchen was distraught over the news of the strike in Khan Youns, and was searching for more information.
The Gaza Strip is not the camp of Israel, but the UN says it is halting aid through main gaza crossing because route is too dangerous
The strikes on the Gaza Strip killed at least six people overnight, two of which were children, according to medical officials.
Pressed by an interviewer with a local news outlet on Saturday, he said: “There is no Beit Lahiya. No Beit Hanoun. They are operating in the area of Arabs, and they are cleaning the area.
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.”
The ICC has issued arrest warrants against Netanyahu, another former defense minister, Yoav Gallant, and a Hamas commander, accusing them of crimes against humanity. The allegations of genocide against Israel are being investigated by the International Court of Justice.
The war has destroyed vast areas of the coastal enclave and displaced 90% of the population of 2.3 million, often multiple times. Hundreds of thousands of people have crammed into tent camps because of poor living conditions due to cold, wet winter.
Source: UN says it is halting aid through main Gaza crossing because route is too dangerous
UNRWA stops aid through main Gaza crossing because route is too dangerous for armed gangs, and Israel does not want to end the conflict in the Middle East
The ceasefire brokered by the US and France with Hezbollah in Lebanon held but the ongoing war in Gaza was not addressed. Iran — which supports Hezbollah, Hamas, the Houthis and armed groups in Syria and Iraq — has exchanged fire with Israel twice this year.
Donald Trump has vowed to end the wars in the Middle East but doesn’t say how. He was a strong supporter of Israel and its policies toward the Palestinians.
The former defense minister, who became a fierce critic of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, said that the current far-right government is intent on “occupy, annexation, and to ethnically cleanse” the country.
The army has sealed off the northern towns of Beit Hanoun and Beit Lahiya, and the Jabaliya refugee camp, and allowed almost no humanitarian aid to enter. Up to 75,000 people are estimated to remain, while the United Nations has warned of famine.
The U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees said Sunday it is in the process of stopping aid deliveries through the main cargo crossing into Gaza due to the threat of armed gangs.
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
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The children’s mother and sibling were injured in the strike on the tent camp, according to the hospital. An Associated Press reporter at the hospital saw the bodies.
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 intercepted the projectile before it entered Israeli territory.
The former Israeli defense minister accused the Israel government of ethnic cleansing in northern Gaza, where the military has been bombarding the area since October.
The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) has said it’s halting aid deliveries through the main cargo crossing into Gaza due to threat of armed gangs. Philippe Lazzarini, UNRWA’s head, said the route leading to the Kerem Shalom crossing from Israel is too dangerous on the Gaza side. Israel says it only targets militants but its strikes across Gaza kill women and children.