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The Government of Israel has said that this is not their policy, that food and other essential supplies will not be cut off, and we will be watching to see that Israel’s actions on the ground match this statement,
Every time a mission is impeded, the lives of people in need and humanitarians on the ground are put at even greater risk,
Once again, the Biden administration is doing bureaucratic gymnastics to avoid enforcing US law and ending arms transfers to Israel,
Annie Shiel, US advocacy director at the Center for Civilians in Conflict, said in a social media post The amount of assistance entering Gaza in September was the lowest of any month during the past year,
the US officials said in the letter, giving Israel 30 days to act on a series of demands to “reverse the downward humanitarian trajectory”. If [Biden] was serious he would’ve already done it, as required by law,
said Matt Duss, executive vice president of the Center for International Policy, a think tank in Washington, DC No assistance shall be furnished under this Act or the Arms Export Control Act to any country when it is made known to the President that the government of such country prohibits or otherwise restricts, directly or indirectly, the transport or delivery of United States humanitarian assistance,
We now need the Biden administration to show action, not just words, in enforcing US laws, which prohibit aid to Israel given not only its relentless obstruction of humanitarian relief but deliberate starvation and incessant bombardment of Gaza’s civilians,
Under US law, this renders Israel ineligible to receive American weapons or security assistance,
she wrote on social media A record low average of 69 aid trucks per day entered Gaza in August 2024, compared to 500 per working day last year; which was already not enough to meet people’s needs. In August more than 1 million people did not receive any food rations in southern and central Gaza,
Colleagues, this weekend, like so many of you – like so many people around the world – I watched in horror as images from Central Gaza poured across my screen. Images of what appeared to be displaced civilians burning alive following an Israeli air strike,
A quote-unquote ‘policy of starvation’ in northern Gaza would be horrific and unacceptable and would have implications under international law and U.S. law,
she said of Israel's ongoing deliberations Israel has a responsibility to do everything possible to avoid civilian casualties, even if Hamas was operating near the hospital in an attempt to use civilians as human shields. We have made this clear to Israel,
Given the abject conditions and intolerable suffering in north Gaza, the fact that humanitarian access is nearly non-existent is unconscionable,
The U.S. has been saying to Israel that they have to improve humanitarian support to Gaza, but they gave one month delay. One month delay at the current pace of people being killed. It's too many people,
Josep Borrell told reporters ahead of a European Union leaders' summit Europe has not yet used every lever at its disposal to bring a ceasefire,
There will be no electricity, no food, no fuel. Everything is closed,
There is now barely any food left to distribute, and most bakeries will be forced to shut down again in the next several days without additional fuel,
More than enough aid has entered to sustain every civilian in Gaza, with over one million tonnes delivered since the war began. Yet, the challenges continue — yes, we admit that. And it's not due to Israel's efforts of failure to deliver humanitarian assistance,
We have a huge drop of convoys in the south with only an average of fifty to sixty for two million people, while we estimate the number needed is much, much higher,
We have shown that we can have a polio campaign, so why can we not bring food?"