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US military aircraft airdrop thousands of meals into Gaza in emergency humanitarian aid operation

Source: AP

Updated 9:43 AM EST, March 2, 2024

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. military C-130 cargo planes on Saturday dropped food in pallets over Gaza, three U.S. officials said, two days after more than 100 Palestinians who had surged to pull goods off an aid convoy were killed during a chaotic encounter with Israeli troops.

Three planes from Air Forces Central dropped 66 bundles containing about 38,000 meals into Gaza at 8:30 a.m. EST, according to two of the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity before a public announcement.

The airdrop is expected to be the first of many announced by President Joe Biden on Friday. The aid will be coordinated with Jordan, which has also conducted airdrops to deliver food to Gaza.

At least 115 Palestinians were killed and hundreds more wounded in the Thursday attack as they scrambled for aid, the Health Ministry in Hamas-ruled Gaza said. Israel says many of the dead were trampled in a chaotic crush for the food aid, and its troops fired warning shots after the crowd moved toward them in a threatening way.

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US VP Harris calls for 'immediate' Gaza ceasefire in rare rebuke of Israel

Source: Al Jazeera

United States Vice President Kamala Harris has called for an “immediate ceasefire” in Gaza while issuing a rare rebuke of Israel.

“Given the immense scale of suffering in Gaza, there must be an immediate ceasefire for at least the next six weeks, which is what is currently on the table,” Harris said on Sunday.

“This will get the hostages out and get a significant amount of aid in.”

In some of the strongest criticism of Israel yet by the administration of US President Joe Biden, Harris said Israel must do more to allow the delivery of aid, including opening new border crossings and committing not to impose “unnecessary restrictions”.

Read more: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/3/4 ... -of-israel

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Children starving to death in northern Gaza - WHO

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Children are dying of starvation in northern Gaza, the World Health Organization (WHO) chief says.

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the agency's visits over the weekend to the Al-Awda and Kamal Adwan hospitals were the first since early October.

In a post on social media, he spoke of "grim findings".

A lack of food resulted in the deaths of 10 children and "severe levels of malnutrition", while hospital buildings have been destroyed, he wrote.

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Dr Tedros reported "severe levels of malnutrition, children dying of starvation, serious shortages of fuel, food and medical supplies, hospital buildings destroyed" in northern Gaza, where an estimated 300,000 people are living with little food or clean water.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-68471572

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US to set up temporary port on Gaza coast for aid delivery

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President Joe Biden is to announce that the US military will construct a port in Gaza to get more humanitarian aid into the territory by sea, senior US officials say.

The temporary port will increase the amount of humanitarian assistance to Palestinians by "hundreds of additional truckloads" per day, officials say.

However it will not include US troops on the ground in Gaza, they said.

The UN warns that a quarter of the population is on the brink of famine.

The port will take "a number of weeks" to set up, the officials said, and will be able to receive large ships carrying food, water medicine, and temporary shelters. Initial shipments will arrive via Cyprus, where Israeli security inspections will take place.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-68506356

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I want to comment aswell. Jewish people and Jewish settlement in Palestine are not a problem. I posted that map because it was the easiest resource I could find. But Jewish settlers had initially purchased land legally in Palestine prior to WW1. After WW1 and during the British administration of Palestine the history gets more murky and the British government fails to manage the situation. I don't actually know at what point some Jewish settlers started using the state as a weapon to force Palestinians out of their homes but it didn't start that way. Peaceful settlement and integration was possible, it would be possible today too I think but obviously the Israeli State is incapable of handling any of this in a peaceful equitable way.

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Jewish settlers set their sights on Gaza beachfront

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Who wouldn't want a house on the beach? For some on Israel's far-right, desirable beachfront now includes the sands of Gaza.

Just ask Daniella Weiss, 78, the grandmother of Israel's settler movement, who says she already has a list of 500 families ready to move to Gaza immediately.

"I have friends in Tel Aviv," she says, "so they say, 'Don't forget to keep for me a plot near the coast in Gaza,' because it's a beautiful, beautiful coast, beautiful golden sand".

She tells them the plots on the coast are already booked.

Mrs Weiss heads a radical settler organisation called Nachala, or homeland. For decades, she has been kickstarting Jewish settlements in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, on Palestinian land captured by Israel in the 1967 Middle East war.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-68650815

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UN Security Council passes resolution demanding Gaza ceasefire

Monday 25 March 2024 15:14, UK



The United Nations Security Council has passed a resolution that demands a ceasefire in Gaza for the rest of Ramadan.

The Muslim holy month began on 10 March and is set to finish on 9 April - meaning the council is calling for a two-week ceasefire, though the draft said the pause in fighting should lead "to a permanent sustainable ceasefire".

The US abstained from the vote, with the 14 other council members - including Russia, China and the UK - voting in favour.

The resolution also demanded the immediate, unconditional release of all hostages and "emphasises the urgent need to expand the flow of humanitarian assistance to and reinforce the protection of civilians in the entire Gaza Strip and reiterates its demand for the lifting of all barriers to the provision of humanitarian assistance at scale."

Israel's Channel 12 reported after the vote that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu cancelled a planned visit to Washington by a delegation as the US did not veto the proposal.

https://news.sky.com/story/un-security- ... e-13101682

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Senior Hamas military leader known as 'shadow man' killed in strike, Israel says

Tuesday 26 March 2024 21:24, UK



Hamas's deputy political commander, Marwan Issa, was "eliminated" in a military strike earlier this month, Israel has said.

If the intelligence is correct, he would be the highest-ranking Hamas leader to have been killed in Gaza since the start of the current conflict between Israel and Hamas in October.

Fighter jets struck an underground compound in central Gaza between 9 and 10 March.

Another Hamas commander, Aziz Abu Tamaa, was believed to be with Issa.

The Israel Defence Forces said it had confirmed preliminary reports.

https://news.sky.com/story/senior-hamas ... s-13102372