Sunday, April 6, 2025

Human Crisis

child's cry for water

In Gaza, a child’s cry for water reveals deep human suffering

Dramatic footage emerges of a small Palestinian boy, half buried under rubble, asking for water, exposing brutality of Israeli military onslaught in blockaded Palestinian enclave.
Palestinians at Gaza hospital

Live blog: Israeli forces kill more than 200 Palestinians at Gaza hospital

Israel's war on besieged Palestinians of Gaza — now in its 174th day — has killed at least 32,552 people and wounded 74,980 as hawkish PM Netanyahu says Palestinians can "just move" away from Rafah invasion.
hunger as a weapon

Starvation: Anatomy of ‘a very cruel, slow death’

With man-made famines threatening both Sudan and Gaza, Al Jazeera breaks down how the body succumbs to starvation.
scream in hunger

‘They scream in hunger’ – How Israel is starving Gaza

Maysoon al-Nabahin squeezes out the last bit of cartoned cheese onto a freshly baked piece of bread, knowing it will be the only thing her family of eight will eat that day. Umm Muhammed, as she's known, fled from a school in Bureij where she, together with her husband and six children, were sheltering after Israeli forces destroyed their home in east Bureij in central Gaza.
White phosphorus bombs

Israel’s toxic legacy: White phosphorus bombs on south Lebanon

Abbas Baalbaki, an environmental chemistry researcher at the American University in Beirut (AUB), has been looking at white phosphorous dropped by Israel onto Lebanese soil for nearly six months.
calls for immediate ceasefire

At Rafah border crossing to Gaza, UN’s Guterres calls for immediate ceasefire

UN Secretary-General António Guterres told journalists at the Rafah border crossing into Gaza that it is time for a ceasefire and for an "ironclad commitment by Israel" to allow unhindered aid deliveries into the besieged enclave as he began his annual Ramadan solidarity trip on Saturday with planned visits to Egypt and Jordan. 
UN-backed Gaza famine

Live blog: UN-backed Gaza famine report is ‘appalling indictment’: Guterres

Israeli aggression on besieged Gaza — now in its 164th day — has killed at least 31,726 Palestinians and wounded 73,792 others as Israel’s Netanyahu rejects calls for a ceasefire.
war in Gaza

Gaza: 23 million tonnes of debris ‘will take years to clear’; acute malnutrition doubles...

The war in Gaza has left a staggering almost 23 millions tonnes of rubble and unexploded weapons scattered across the enclave, UN humanitarians said on Friday.
Palestinian death toll

Live blog: Palestinian death toll hits 31,112 as Israel resumes its attacks

Israel's war on besieged Palestinians of Gaza — now in its 157th day — has killed at least 31,112 people, mostly children and women, and wounded 72,760.
die from hunger

North Gaza aid mission reveals more infants may die from hunger

A rare opportunity to deliver desperately needed supplies to hospitals in northern Gaza for the first time in months has been welcomed by UN humanitarians who on Tuesday issued a fresh alert about “appalling” conditions in medical facilities where more children risk are battling life-threatening malnutrition.

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