Gaza death toll climbs as Canada says Israel violates int’l law
Israeli attacks on Gaza killed at least 62 people on Thursday, including at least 19 Palestinians who were attempting to collect desperately needed aid.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said Israel’s denial of humanitarian aid to Gaza is a “violation of international law”.Malnourished children overwhelming hospitals in Gaza
This report takes you to the heart of Gaza, where children like Yazan are dying slowly from malnutrition.
Doctors, nutritionists, and mothers are overwhelmed by a crisis no child should ever face. In overcrowded hospitals, children under five – and even up to 12 – are too weak to cry, move, or survive.MSF says quarter of children in its Gaza clinics malnourished
Doctors Without Borders, a global medical charity also known by its French acronym MSF, says a quarter of all young children and pregnant or breastfeeding women screened at its clinics in Gaza last week have been malnourished. It blames Israel’s “policy of starvation”.
“Across screenings of children aged six months to five years old and pregnant and breastfeeding women at MSF facilities last week, 25 percent were malnourished,” it said, warning that “rates of severe malnutrition in children under five have tripled in the last two weeks alone.”
Four aid seekers among 11 Palestinians killed in Gaza since dawn
Israeli forces have killed at least 11 Palestinians in Gaza since dawn, including four aid seekers.
That’s according to medical sources speaking to our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic.Israeli attack kills at least one Palestinian in Gaza City
At least one Palestinian has been killed and several injured in an Israeli attack on the Tuffah neighbourhood of eastern Gaza City.
That’s according to a source at the al-Ahli Arab Hospital speaking to our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic.Child succumbs to injuries sustained in Israeli gunfire near West Bank’s Nablus
Mohammed Khaled Hassan Mabrouk, 14, has died from his wounds after being shot by Israeli forces on Wednesday in the al-Ein refugee camp, west of Nablus, in the occupied West Bank.
That’s according to medical sources speaking to the Wafa news agency.‘Powerless’ British government banking on US ties to deal with Gaza
British public opinion about what is unfolding in Gaza is ahead of political opinion at the moment, according to Chris Wilkins, a former director of strategy for former British Prime Minister Theresa May.
He said a report by the UK Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee that deals with ways of contributing to ending the crisis in Gaza reflects that.
“What the report highlights, amongst many other things, is how powerless British politics is in this situation. It says that Israel isn’t listening, and that is true,” he told Al Jazeera from Surrey.
Wilkins said there are options for “symbolic” moves the UK government can take about Gaza, but the real question is over whether it will have any actual impact on the ground. He added that there is pressure on Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s government to act.
“The key dynamic behind this is the relationship between Israel and the United States. The British government feels its ultimate leverage is its relationship with Donald Trump and his administration and the pressure it can bring to bear there.”
According to Wilkins, making major moves such as stopping the UK’s contribution to getting F-35 fighter jet parts to Israel will also negatively impact ties with Washington, something the British government does not want.
