The Global Sumud Flotilla is a powerful & inspiring act of solidarity with Palestinians who are struggling to survive under Israel’s cruel and unlawful blockade and amidst its ongoing genocide in the occupied Gaza Strip. Israel must allow the flotilla to carry out its peaceful mission safely. Any attempt to block it is an attack on humanitarian principles and international law.
The fact that activists from nearly 50 countries have resorted to launching this mission is an indictment of the international community’s consistent failure to press Israel to end its inhumane blockade as also ordered by the International Court of Justice three times in 2024.
Palestinians in Gaza are being starved and grappling with one of the worst manmade humanitarian disasters in the world. Israel has an obligation to ensure civilians in Gaza have sufficient access to food, medicine and other supplies indispensable to their survival. There can be no justification for obstructing life-saving aid.
At Amnesty, we are calling on Israel to immediately:
📢 Lift its unlawful blockade
⛴️ Allow free flow of humanitarian aid and life-saving supplies
🚫 End its genocide against Palestinians in Gaza
We call also on states take meaningful action to end impunity and uphold international humanitarian law.
Jana, 9, was evacuated from north Gaza last year, with UNICEF’s support.
Now she’s battling severe malnutrition again.
UNICEF’s Tess Ingram speaks with Jana’s mother, Nesma, who already lost a daughter, Jouri, to malnutrition.
These horrors must stop. Jana and all children in Gaza must be prioritized and protected now.
They’re killing record numbers of Palestinian journalists in Gaza, and refusing to let international journalists come in unless under strict IDF control. You don’t need to be Einstein to assume that Netanyahu doesn’t want the world to know what is really going on there.
🇸🇮 BREAKING –
Slovenia officially bans all weapоns trade with Israel
"When peоple are dyíng in war in Gaza, it is our duty as a respоnsible state to take action"
US military personnel could face legal liability for assisting Israeli forces who commit war crimes in Gaza.
As a warring party, US forces could be jointly responsible for participating in laws-of-war violations by Israeli forces.
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Before she was killed in an Israeli air attack on Gaza’s Nasser Hospital, Palestinian journalist Mariam Abu Daqqa had written a goodbye letter to her young son, Gaith. These are Mariam’s words, narrated by a fellow Palestinian journalist.
Pope Leo XIV:
We cannot forget our brothers and sisters who suffer because of war. In Gaza, the surviving children, families, and the elderly are reduced to starvation.
Pope Leo XIV has called on Israel to end the ‘terror, destruction and death’ in Gaza. In his weekly address, he backed church leaders in Jerusalem who condemned Israel’s order to evacuate Gaza City, warning it would endanger vulnerable civilians.