Palestinians turn the market of Jabalia refugee camp, north of Gaza, into a mass grave. pic.twitter.com/dTv98J1IpT
— Palestine Now (@PalestineNW) December 12, 2023
Losing father means losing safety and security, When will this end? They are so sad and exhausted in fear and hunger😓🇵🇸💔#غزة_الآن #Gaza_Genocide pic.twitter.com/ObPMg5FMHO
— Zeeshan Akram PTI (@shaani092) December 12, 2023
At some point, someone needs to start questioning whether or not the UN actually cares about the situation.
They talk a lot about it, but so far they’ve done nothing.
There has been no effort to airdrop food or water filters, despite the fact that it is virtually impossible that Israel would have the nerve to shoot down UN food drop planes, and despite the fact that they’ve done this many times before.
Most notably, the UN is refusing to issue any type of war crimes accusations against the Jewish leadership, despite the fact that a UN organ, the ICC, issued a warrant for Putin over some gibberish that didn’t even make sense (they said evacuating children from the war zone was “kidnapping”).
Also quite notably, the UN is making zero attempt to push the issue that all of this is only possible because of US support for Israel, and therefore the responsibility for the acts falls on the United States.
The UN is making a lot of noise, but they sure aren’t doing anything to help, despite the fact that they have a whole list of different things they could be doing.
Israeli warplanes and tanks pounded southern Gaza overnight and on Tuesday, and the U.N. said aid distribution to Gazans facing growing hunger had largely stopped because of the intensity of fighting in the two-month-old war between Israel and Hamas.
In the southern Gazan city of Rafah, which borders Egypt, health officials said 22 people including children were killed in an Israeli air strike on houses overnight. Civil emergency workers were searching for more victims under the rubble.
The houses were a Hamas base, like every house in Gaza.
Residents said the shelling of Rafah, where the Israeli army this month ordered people to head for their safety, was some of the heaviest in days.
“At night we can’t sleep because of the bombing and in the morning we tour the streets looking for food for the children, there is no food,” said Abu Khalil, 40, a father of six, speaking to Reuters by phone from Rafah.
“I couldn’t find bread and the prices of rice, salt or beans have doubled several times over. This is starvation,” he said. “Israel kills us twice, once by bombs and once by hunger.”‘
In Khan Younis, southern Gaza’s main city, residents said tank shelling focused on the city centre. One said tanks were operating on Tuesday morning in the street where the house of Yahya Al-Sinwar, Hamas’ leader in Gaza, is located. Health officials said two people were killed overnight in the city.
Hundreds more civilians have been killed in Israel’s assault on the Palestinian enclave since the U.S. on Friday vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution calling for a ceasefire.
The resolution was antisemitic.
Aid agencies say hunger is worsening among Gazans, with the U.N. World Food Programme saying half of Gaza’s population is starving.
The U.N. humanitarian office (OCHA) said on Tuesday limited aid distributions were taking place in the Rafah district, but “in the rest of the Gaza Strip, aid distribution has largely stopped over the past few days, due to the intensity of hostilities and restrictions of movement along the main roads“.
Aid flows were also restricted by a shortage of trucks in Gaza, a continuing lack of fuel, communications blackouts, and growing numbers of staff unable to travel to the Rafah crossing with Egypt because of the intensity of hostilities, it said.
Gaza health ministry spokesman Ashraf Al-Qidra said Israeli forces had stormed the Kamal Adwan hospital in northern Gaza on Tuesday and were rounding up males, including medical staff, in the hospital courtyard.
Well, they haven’t found the Hamas command center yet, but it’s gotta be in one of these hospitals.
(Honestly, I didn’t realize there were any hospitals left at this point.)
In a gesture of resilience, a child in #Gaza uses a bicycle wheel to power a sewing machine amid the ongoing Israeli aggression and strict blockade on the coastal enclave. pic.twitter.com/v685XAaeJP
— Palestine Now (@PalestineNW) December 12, 2023