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November 09, 2023
Yemen's Houthi rebels shoot down US drone
RAFAH CROSSING — The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights reiterated the call for an urgent ceasefire between Israel and Hamas during a visit to the Rafah crossing and El Arish Hospital in Egypt on Wednesday.Volker Türk highlighted the dichotomy at the border crossing, describing it as a “lifeline” for the 2.3 million residents of Gaza over the past month, although “unjustly, outrageously thin.”But it is also “the gates to a living nightmare”, he continued, as people in Gaza “have been suffocating, under persistent bombardment, mourning their families, struggling for water, for food, for electricity and fuel.”The human rights chief is the latest senior UN official to travel to the region since Hamas militants attacked Israel on Oct. 7, killing 1,400 people and...
November 08, 2023
At Rafah crossing, Türk says both Israel and Hamas have committed war crimes
November 08, 2023
Gazans struggle for survival; north sealed off
November 08, 2023
89 UNRWA aid workers killed in Gaza since war began, Guterres says
November 08, 2023
White House cautions Israel against reoccupying Gaza
GAZA — All bakeries in northern Gaza have been forced to close due to shortages of vital supplies, a United Nations agency said Wednesday, with desperate civilians struggling to access the daily staple of bread under Israel's ongoing military offensive.In a daily update, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said "no bakeries were active in the north, due to the lack of fuel, water and wheat flour, as well as the damage sustained by many."Wheat flour is reportedly no longer available in northern Gaza, according to OCHA, which said some people had resorted to desperate measures.“During the day, many people desperately looking for food broke into the last three bakeries with remaining stocks of wheat flour and took about 38 metric tons,” OCHA...
November 08, 2023
Shortage of vital supplies forces all bakeries to close in northern Gaza, UN agency says
November 08, 2023
Israel touts Gaza military gains as criticism grows louder
November 08, 2023
Doctors performing operations without anesthesia in Gaza, WHO says
November 08, 2023
Palestinian people are not disposable, US lawmaker says in emotional House floor speech
JERUSALEM — The call to Mahmoud Shaheen came at dawn.It was Thursday 19 October at about 06:30, and Israel had been bombing Gaza for 12 days straight.He'd been in his third-floor, three-bedroom flat in al-Zahra, a middle-class area in the north of the Gaza Strip. Until now, it had been largely untouched by air strikes.He'd heard a rising clamor outside. People were screaming. "You need to escape," somebody in the street shouted, "because they will bomb the towers".As he left his building and crossed the road, looking for a safe place, his phone lit up.It was a call from a private number."I'm speaking with you from Israeli intelligence," a man said down the line, according to Mahmoud.That call would last more than an hour - and it would be the...
November 08, 2023
'We have the order to bomb. You have two hours'
