Category: 1. Palestine

GENEVA, (PIC)

The UN’s top anti-racism body has called for immediate humanitarian access to Gaza in a bid to avoid “catastrophic consequences” for its civilian population, who are facing famine, disease, and death.

The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD), which convened in Geneva for its latest session on Friday, issued its statement hours after the World Central Kitchen announced it was forced to shut down its remaining food kitchens across Gaza due…

Amman (Quds News Network)- Jordan has rejected a report by Middle East Eye (MEE) that accused it of profiting from international aid deliveries into Gaza.

The report, published last week, stated that Jordan charged thousands of dollars per aid truck and aircraft drop. It cited anonymous sources who revealed that the Jordan Hashemite Charity Organization (JHCO) coordinated the deliveries and collected fees.

According to MEE, Jordan charged $2,200 per aid truck, $200,000 for each…

When on March 2, we heard all crossings into Gaza were closed, we thought it would not last more than two weeks. We really wanted a normal Ramadan where we could invite our surviving relatives for iftar and not worry about what food we could find to break our fast.

But it did not turn out this way. We spent the holy month breaking our fast with canned food.

My family, like most families in Gaza, had not stocked up on food or essentials, as no one expected the crossings to close again, or the…

EXPLAINER

US is looking to fast-track investments by UAE, Saudi Arabia and Qatar, Bloomberg News said.

United States President Donald Trump’s administration has reportedly discussed the possibility of expediting investments by the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Qatar before his trip to the region next week.

The early-stage talks were reported first by Bloomberg News. Any such development would require the US government to reform the Committee for Foreign Investment in the US (CFIUS),…

Seven people, including three children, have been killed in Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip amid a months-long Israeli blockade that has deepened the humanitarian crisis in the war-torn coastal enclave.

Palestinian news agency Wafa said Israeli warplanes bombed a tent in the Sabra neighbourhood of Gaza City on Saturday morning, killing five members of the Tlaib family.

“Three children, their mother and her husband were sleeping inside a tent and were bombed by an [Israeli] occupation…

Gaza (Quds News Network)- The United Nations has warned that Israel is using humanitarian aid in Gaza as bait to force Palestinians to flee their homes. The warning follows Israel’s new plan to distribute aid only in designated zones in southern Gaza, far from where hundreds of thousands of people live.

UNICEF spokesperson James Elder said the plan violates basic humanitarian principles. He warned it would push people to choose “between displacement and death.”

Elder also…

NEW YORK, (PIC)

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has confirmed that Palestinians are dying in the Gaza Strip, which has been under a complete Israeli siege for the third consecutive month, as part of the ongoing genocide for more than a year and a half.

OCHA said in a statement published on Saturday on its “X” account, that 70% of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are in areas where Israeli forces are present, or under displacement…