(OCHA) – Emergency fuel for critical facilities in Gaza will become exhausted within the next ten days, the United Nations warned today, noting an urgent need for donor support to avoid a humanitarian catastrophe driven by the energy crisis. Link
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(NRC) – At least 61 schools in the West Bank and East Jerusalem at risk as attacks on education rise. A Palestinian primary school built with European donor funding is facing the threat of demolition by Israeli authorities in the coming days, after the Israeli High Court of Justice dismissed a petition to safeguard it, […]
(Al Jazeera) – Two Palestinian teenagers were shot and killed by Israeli soldiers on Thursday as violence continues in the occupied territories. A Palestinian teen from the Gaza Strip was killed east of the Burij refugee camp after a live round was fired into his chest, the Wafa news agency quoted medical sources as saying. Link
(NRC) – NRC Secretary General Jan Egeland said: “Threatening to cut aid for political purposes to millions of civilians who need it is what we’ve come to expect of undemocratic regimes, not the world’s biggest humanitarian donor. Cutting funds to UNRWA will achieve nothing except push millions of Palestinians further into poverty and despair, taking food from […]
(Middle East Eye) – While international attention has focused on the imprisonment of Ahed Tamimi, the Palestinian 16-year-old girl arrested for slapping an Israeli soldier, another branch of the Tamimi family on Thursday buried their own child. On Wednesday, Musaab al-Tamimi, also 16, was shot in the neck during clashes with Israeli soldiers as they raided […]
(The Guardian) – Hospitals in Gaza will face an almost total power blackout by the end of February unless funding is secured to keep emergency generators running, the World Health Organization has warned. An ongoing electricity crisis in Gaza has left hospitals reliant on emergency generators for up to 20 hours a day, while medical staff have been forced to […]
(Independent) – Everyone now knows that 16-year-old Ahed Tamimi slapped an Israeli soldier. How many of us know about the events that led up to this? Telling half of a story can be more of an injustice than fabricating the entirety, and in this instance, it most certainly is. Link
(Middle East Eye) – An Israeli military court released on bail a 16-year-old Palestinian on Wednesday after 20 days’ detention in prison. Ofra military court released Fawzi Al-Junaidi on bail on the condition that he will appear in the military court on 7 January. Junaidi’s family were ordered to pay 10,000 Israeli shekels (almost $2,860). Link
(Al Jazeera) – A 16-year-old Palestinian boy, shown in a photo that has been roundly condemned as symbolising the Israeli army’s use of excessive force, has been accused of throwing stones at a group of armed Israeli soldiers. An image of Fawzi al-Junaidi, blindfolded and surrounded by more than 20 Israeli occupation forces, was widely denounced as it was […]
(The Nation) – Israel is a powerful nation with the most advanced and capable military in the Middle East. It is the single greatest beneficiary of American military assistance, receiving $3.8 billion, some 25 percent of its defense budget, from American taxpayers each year. The security of Israel is obviously important to the United States, […]
