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After bombing, Gaza struggles to restart power, water, hospitals, markets and fishing for its
400,000 people in Gaza do not have access to regular water supply after 11 days of bombardment devastated electricity and water services and severely impacted the three main desalination plants in Gaza city, Oxfam warned today.
Oxfam Country Director in the Occupied Palestinian Territory and Israel, Shane Stevenson said: “Every one of the 2.1 million people living in the Gaza strip has been affected by Israel’s bombing that took 240 lives, destroyed or damaged 258 buildings containing nearly 1,042 homes and commercial offices, and devastated vital public services.”
Around 100,000 Palestinians were displaced by the bombing and are attempting to return home. Even if their homes are still standing, life for them will not be normal.
GENEVA: The UN Human Rights Council will consider launching a broad, international investigation into abuses in the latest Gaza conflict and also into “systematic” abuses, according to a proposal tabled Tuesday. The draft resolution will be discussed during a special session of the council Thursday, requested amid 11 days of deadly violence between Israel and armed Palestinian
May 26, 2021
The recent Middle Eastern flare-up that killed about 250 innocent Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and depriving of homes about 80,000 of them with indiscriminate strafing at the hands of the world’s fourth fiercest military power Israel has only laid open to the world how blatantly the Zionist regime has committed humanitarian crimes in the country where once the Jews in the late 19th and early 20th centuries sought refuge after pogroms and genocides were afflicted upon their race.
Despite the fact that how later events that led up to the Zionists from across the world forced-settled in an Arab land Palestine and then declaring Israel a separate state in May 1948, they did not even stick to the borders that were then self-proclaimed and continued eating up on further Palestinian swathes by leaps and bounds.
Speakers in General Assembly Urge Israel, Hamas to Use Ceasefire as Opportunity for Reopening Dialogue, Addressing Root Causes of Conflict
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GENERAL ASSEMBLY PLENARY
SEVENTY-FIFTH SESSION, 70TH MEETING (AM)
Delegates welcomed the recent ceasefire between Israel and Hamas and urged stakeholders to use the agreement as an opportunity to reopen dialogue and address the root causes of the conflict, as the General Assembly wrapped up its special debate on the situation in the Middle East this morning.
Croatia’s representative said the ceasefire should create an atmosphere conducive to resuming the political process. While endorsing the Secretary‑General’s call for a robust support package for reconstruction and recovery, he said the focus should be on addressing the underlying causes of the conflict in the longer term.
The UN Human Rights Council will consider launching a broad, international investigation into alleged abuses in the latest Gaza conflict and also into “systematic” abuses, according to a proposal.
The draft resolution will be discussed during a special session of the council Thursday, requested amid 11 days of deadly violence between Israel and Palestinian terror groups in Gaza this month.
The text, presented by Pakistan on behalf of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, calls for the UN top rights body to “urgently establish an ongoing independent, international commission of inquiry… in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem and in Israel.”