Gaza City Exodus as Israel Expands Offensive Is Overwhelming Aid Efforts
Hospitals are overflowing, water is low and diseases are spreading as hundreds of thousands of Palestinians flee south to escape Israel’s expanded ground offensive.
Hospitals are overflowing, water is low and diseases are spreading as hundreds of thousands of Palestinians flee south to escape Israel’s expanded ground offensive.
The hundreds of thousands of Palestinians fleeing Israel’s expanded ground offensive are further straining services, aid groups say. Hospitals are overflowing, water is low and diseases are spreading.
The vessels were aiming to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza. The Israelis have asked that the aid be given to them to distribute.
The Global Sumud Flotilla planned to use the ship and others to bring humanitarian goods to Gaza.
Officials in Tunisia said there was no evidence of an attack on the ship, which the Global Sumud Flotilla hoped to use to bring humanitarian goods to Gaza.
The Israeli military ended a policy of pausing operations during the day that was intended to allow more aid in, calling Gaza City a “dangerous combat zone.”
The Israeli military ended a policy of pausing operations during the day that was intended to allow more aid in, calling Gaza City a “dangerous combat zone.”
A panel of food security experts said the famine could spread to more of the enclave within weeks.
At least half a million people in the enclave were facing the most severe conditions measured by U.N.-backed international experts: starvation, acute malnutrition and death.
Over the past two years, tens of thousands of children in the territory have been killed, wounded or orphaned. Childhood as they once knew it has ceased to exist.