Hörenswertes Tagesgespräch mit einer Friedensaktivistin aus #Palästina über die immer bedenklichere Entwicklung in #Gaza und auch in der #Westbank:
https://t.co/opxFszkiKV
"How can these doctors do their jobs, when they don't have very very basic medical supplies?" @UNWateridge tells @AJEnglish at an overcrowded UNRWA medical point in Deir al-Balah. Nearly 70% of medical supplies are depleted or will run out this month. The health system in #Gaza is decimated. People continue to be deprived of access to basic healthcare.
Heute vor sechs Jahren lehnte das Schweizer Stimmvolk die sogenannte Selbstbestimmungsinitiative der @SVP deutlich ab.
Aber: Der Geist der SBI ist zurück, die Europäische Menschenrechtskonvention (EMRK) ist unter Druck. Lies hier unseren Blog: https://t.co/1aMZg7NvsF
🕊⚖️📜 Diesen Donnerstag vor 50 Jahren ratifizierte die Schweiz die Europäische Menschenrechtskonvention. Ausgerechnet zum Jubiläum schwächen Bundesrat und Parlament den Menschenrechtsschutz. Wir rufen die Bedeutung der #EMRK in Erinnerung. Sei dabei: https://t.co/cjniQElPLu
🚨🚨Israel engineering a famine in Gaza:
The IDF allows armed criminals to attack, loot & block a large portion of the aid shipments to Gaza.
This happens less than 100 meters from Israeli tanks & soldiers, who only fire at Gazan police whenever they try to stop the looting🧵
If UNRWA is banned from working in #Gaza, "beyond the humanitarian response, what is also at stake, is the future of the education of 600,000 girls and boys currently living in the rubble and being deeply traumatised."
@UNLazzarini tells @amanpour on @CNN about the disastrous consequences if the laws passed by the Israeli parliament are implemented.
“It's time for international journalists to be on the ground and to report... The situation has never been as dire. The reality is hunger is spreading. Famine is looming again."
@UNLazzarini responds to @amanpour on @CNN about the lack of access to aid for people in #Gaza.
Every day and week, the situation in #Gaza worsens. With winter approaching and 13 months of insufficient supplies, the desperation is unbearable and aid remains critically low.
"People are fighting over bags of flour, surviving on tinned food” @UNWateridge told @BBCnews.
Gaza is “a post-apocalyptic environment,” with “people just waiting to be killed, either by airstrike, by disease, or even by hunger,” says UNRWA chief Philippe @UNLazzarini.
On the consequences of the Knesset vote to stop UNRWA’s operations, he warns “that means that the backbone of the humanitarian response in Gaza will collapse.”
Watch my full conversation with UNRWA’s commissioner general about the humanitarian disaster in Gaza, Israel’s move to shut down the organization, allegations of links to Hamas, and more.
"There’s a looming famine.
People are sheltering under any fabric they can find. Nothing is waterproof, and sewage surrounds shelters.
We are extremely, extremely concerned when the rains come to the Gaza Strip" @UNWateridge told @UNGeneva.
With winter approaching, over 500,000 people in #Gaza’s flood zones are at severe risk. More than 1.7 million have gone without food rations, as UNRWA has been denied access to the besieged north for over a month.
Israeli authorities are responsible for crimes against humanity in Gaza.
New HRW report examines how Israeli authorities’ conduct has led to the displacement of over 90% of Gaza's population and widespread destruction.
Read the full report: https://t.co/NdvymRim6A
“I don't know whether to scream or to cry.”
Earlier this week, our spokesperson, @1james_elder, met two-year-old Ali in Beirut, Lebanon.
Ali was buried under rubble for 14 hours after his home collapsed in an airstrike. His entire family was killed in the war.
Ceasefire now.
💋 Trump wird autoritäre Allianzen vertiefen, internationale Klimaverträge ignorieren, Zölle einführen und globale Organisationen schwächen.
🕊🌍 Europa und die 🇨🇭 müssen sich darauf besinnen, was Europa ausmacht: ein gemeinsames Projekt für Frieden, Freiheit und Demokratie.
#UNRWAworks and continues to provide humanitarian assistance in #Gaza. In the #WestBank, our schools are open.
@JulietteTouma tells @newhumanitarian the focus is on having @UN Member States working with the State of Israel to undo the ban on the agency. https://t.co/iwiwDCaspf
Without @UNRWA in #Gaza and the #WestBank, an entire generation will be denied the right to education.
It is our collective responsibility to act in defense of their future.
Full statement by @UNLazzarini to the UN General Assembly: https://t.co/Bc7sqNWFRU
Al Shifa hospital has become engulfed into the apocalyptic nightmare that is northern #Gaza
The entire health system across Gaza has been under attack for over a year.
Doctors recount never-ending incidents of patients they could have saved if medical supplies were available.
Across northern #Gaza, there is no way of telling where the destruction starts or ends.
No matter from what direction you enter #Gaza City, homes, hospitals, schools, health clinics, mosques, apartments, restaurants - all completely flattened.
An entire society now a graveyard.
"This school is the reality of 13 months of non-stop bombing, non-stop strikes on people's homes, on hospitals, on schools"
In #Gaza City, @UNWateridge describes appalling scenes at an @UNRWA school where disease is spreading and the structure is about to collapse. Families have been forced to return following intensified Israeli military operations in northern Gaza.
"I couldn’t possibly tell you in such a short time how many ways people in Gaza can be killed right now: buildings falling, disease, bombs, starvation.
There’s absolutely no hope right now: people are suffering."
@UNWateridge tells @BBC about the dire humanitarian crisis in Northern #Gaza, with families cut off from food, water, and aid for over a month.