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2. Freezing Temperatures and Malnourishment Will Be the Grim Reaper's Scythe in Gaza This Winter.

Tue Jan 7, 2025, 03:52 AM

Jan 7

A wounded Palestinian girl is treated as she lies on a bed at Kamal Adwan hospital in the northern Gaza Strip, 17 Dec 2024. (Photo: Reuters)

Slow-moving vehicles draped in bright blue flags driven by unarmed drivers like this one above transporting crates of food to a refugee camp are easily mistaken for a terrorist truck carrying bombs, WMDs, or space lasers. (Photo: WFP)

WFP Statement:

"The World Food Program (WFP) strongly condemns the horrifying incident on 5 Jan, when a clearly marked WFP convoy was shot at by Israeli forces near the Wadi Gaza checkpoint, putting the lives of our staff at tremendous risk and leaving the vehicles immobilized.

The convoy, consisting of three vehicles carrying eight staff members, came under hostile fire despite having received all of the necessary clearances from Israeli authorities. At least 16 bullets struck the vehicles.

Thankfully, no staff members were injured in this terrifying encounter.

This unacceptable event is just the latest example of the complex and dangerous working environment that WFP and other agencies are operating in today. Security conditions in Gaza must urgently improve for lifesaving humanitarian assistance to continue.

WFP urges all parties to respect international humanitarian law, protect civilian lives, and allow safe passage for humanitarian aid."

This ICC-indicted war criminal is the longest-serving PM in Israel's history, having served a total of over 17 years.

Links:

https://www.wfp.org/news/statement-shooting-wfp-convoy-gaza

https://english.alarabiya.net/News/middle-east/2024/12/28/gaza-babies-freezing-to-death-due-to-cold-weather-lack-of-shelter-unrwa-chief

https://www.icc-cpi.int/defendant/netanyahu

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8th Baby freezes to Death in Gaza, as Israeli Forces fire on World Food Programme Workers, Flour Warehouse [View all] applegrove Jan 7 OP

When will Netanyahu stop the attacks? brush Jan 7 #1

Once everyone in Gaza is dead Bettie Jan 7 #4

We're so complicit...continuing to supply the weapons and letting it happen. brush Jan 7 #8

When he has convinced a few countries to take in Palestinians for "humanitarian reasons" or because they have no choice. AloeVera Jan 7 #5

Another Nakba. The inhumanity is so infuriating, and the US has it's hand in it... brush Jan 7 #7

Looks like he already persuaded one country Beastly Boy Jan 8 #10

When armed terrorists quit hanging around food warehouses. Beastly Boy Jan 8 #9

BB, come on. You can do better than that. When will Netanyahu... brush Jan 8 #11

No, I cannot do better than this. And I suspect no one can. Beastly Boy Jan 8 #12

Let's just get it done finally. No more back and forth, then one side... brush Jan 8 #13

There can only be one end to the negotiations. When all hostages are home, dead or alive Beastly Boy Jan 8 #17

That insistence on the hostages being released before negotiations begin has gotten us nowhere. brush Jan 9 #18

What has gotten us here in the first place is the abduction of the hostages. Beastly Boy Jan 9 #19

Welcome to another 75 years of hostilities then. brush Jan 9 #20

If hostage taking is tolerated in any way, you are absolutely right. Beastly Boy Jan 9 #21

Freezing Temperatures and Malnourishment Will Be the Grim Reaper's Scythe in Gaza This Winter. C0RI0LANUS Jan 7 #2

Unjustified genocide uponit7771 Jan 7 #3

with malaise Jan 7 #6

When will Hamas Mountainguy Jan 8 #14

Yes. The genocide was their plan. Why else put combatants applegrove Jan 8 #15

If anything, Israel has been holding back Mountainguy Jan 8 #16