Resolution 2712 was approved in a context of widespread death and wholesale destruction unleashed by the conflict in Gaza and Israel. According to Israeli authorities, more than 1,200 people were killed — including 33 children — and thousands were injured in the abhorrent acts of terror by Hamas on 7 October.
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WFP staffers call for McCain’s resignation over Gaza
Disease risk spreads in Gaza amid overcrowded shelters
After more than a month of being subjected to sustained bombing, the besieged people of the Gaza Strip are now confronted with another threat to life: disease. Overcrowding at shelters, a breakdown of basic sanitation, the rising number of unburied dead and a scarcity of clean drinking water have left the
200 patients evacuated from Gaza’s Indonesian hospital
Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry said Monday 200 patients were evacuated from a hospital with the help of the Red Cross just hours after it was hit by a deadly Israeli strike. Health ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra told AFP 200 people were evacuated from the Indonesian hospital in Jabaliya and taken by
Gaza’s Al-Shifa hospital a death zone :WHO
The World Health Organization said Sunday it had led an assessment mission to Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City and determined it was a "death zone", urging a full evacuation. "WHO and partners are urgently developing plans for the immediate evacuation of the remaining patients, staff and their families," the United Nations
UNICEF, WFP confront growing dissent in ranks over Gaza
Catherine Russell, executive director of UNICEF, visited Gaza this week in a show of solidarity with the agency’s staff, who have endured weeks of Israeli bombardment and the death of family members. She got a rough reception. Local staff faulted the agency’s leadership, during a tense private meeting, for mounting what
Gaza, West Bank should be ‘reunited’ under Palestinian Authority : Biden
All the patients in the ICU of Al-Shifa Hospital died
All the patients at Al-Shifa Intensive Care Center (ICU), the largest hospital in Gaza, died after the Israeli forces completely blockaded it. On Friday (November 17), the director of the hospital, Muhammad Abu Salmiya, told the Qatar-based media Al Jazeera. Earlier on Wednesday (November 15), ABC News of the United States
