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UN says nighttime ‘aid movements’ have resumed in Gaza

UN Spokesperson Stephane Dujarric says that “aid movements resumed tonight” after a 48-hour pause in nighttime movements.
The United Nations had suspended movements at night in Gaza to evaluate security concerns following the killing of seven workers from the World Central Kitchen food charity.
The UN’s World Food Programme continued operations during the day, including daily efforts to send convoys to the north of Gaza, where famine is imminent, he said.
Dujarric also said teams with the World Health Organization (WHO) managed to speak to patients who were able to flee al-Shifa Hospital. The medical complex in Gaza City was raided by Israeli forces, who also besieged and heavily destroyed parts of it, before withdrawing earlier this week.
Survivors described “dark conditions during the siege, with no food, water or medicine available”, Dujarric said.
Patients and doctors resorted to “putting salt and vinegar in people’s wounds in place of antiseptics, which are nonexistent,” he said.
 
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Does it really matter if they reopen the crossing? Anything that is due to go through will be subject to stringent and ridiculous checks. Half if not all will be deemed unsuitable or banned.

Biden is seen to be pressuring Israel and Israel are in turn seen to be acting upon Biden’s wishes. Just another facade.

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Israel to reopen Erez crossing into Gaza after Biden sounds warning over protecting civilians

Steps approved in Israel to increase the flow of humanitarian aid into Gaza include temporary reopening of crossing in the north
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Benjamin Netanyahu’s office has said his security cabinet has approved a series of steps to increase the flow of humanitarian aid into Gaza, including the temporary reopening of a key crossing that was destroyed in the 7 October Hamas attack.

The announcement was made hours after a warning from US president Joe Biden that future US support for Israel would depend on it taking concrete action to protect civilians and aid workers.

The office of the Israeli prime minister said early on Friday that the Erez crossing, which lies in northern Gaza and for years served as the only passenger terminal for people to move in and out of the territory, would be temporarily reopened.

According to the statement, more aid would also be allowed through the port of Ashdod, which lies about 40km (25 miles) north of Gaza, and authorities would also allow “increased Jordanian aid through Kerem Shalom”, a border crossing in southern Israel.

“Israel will allow the temporary delivery of humanitarian aid through Ashdod and the Erez checkpoint,” said the Israeli statement. “This increased aid will prevent a humanitarian crisis and is necessary to ensure the continuation of the fighting and to achieve the goals of the war,” the statement added.
 
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Al Jazeera live updates:

List of key events, day 182

  • More than 50,000 children are estimated to be acutely malnourished in Gaza, while 31 children have died from starvation or dehydration, according to figures from the UN and the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS).
  • On Thursday, US President Biden pressed Israeli PM Netanyahu to implement “specific, concrete and measurable” stepsto protect Gaza’s civilians and aid workers.
  • Hours after the call, Israel said it approved the reopening of the Beit Hanoon (Erez) crossing into northern Gaza and the temporary use of Ashdod port in southern Israel to supply aid to Gaza.
  • CIA Director Bill Burns is expected to travel to Cairo this weekend to meet with Egyptian and Israeli counterparts and the Qatari prime minister, in the latest bid to try and stitch together a deal for a truce or a ceasefire.
 
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UN Human Rights Council resolution ‘significant, but not impactful’

The adopted resolution calling for Israel to be held accountable for possible war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Gaza Strip is important but will have little effect on the ground, says Marc Owen Jones, an associate professor of Middle East Studies at Qatar’s Hamad Bin Khalifa University.
“Symbolically, it’s very significant – this is the first time the top UN human rights body has taken a position on the conflict,” Owen Jones told Al Jazeera.
“But this is probably not going to have a significant impact, although what is interesting is that it could in theory pave the way for this resolution to be tabled by UN Security Council members,” he said.
Such a resolution though would unlikely pass at the 15-member UN Security Council – where Israel’s ally the US has a veto power – and Israel will continue to proceed with its war on Gaza as long as it can count on Washington’s unequivocal support, Owen Jones added.
 
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DesertRose said:
Why on earth would Albania abstain? I wonder if it is the result of shekels or blackmail.
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Why are they (and others) on the council if they're just going to abstain. It just goes further to proving that the U.N is an absurdity.

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Albania has long been a pro-Israel country. Will the Hamas war change that? - Jewish Telegraphic Agency

A pollster says public support for Israel could be dropping in a country that is opening two new Jewish museums.
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The answer to the Q in the headline is a No then.

...an impoverished Balkan country that’s home to more than a million Muslims but only about 60 Jews is a remarkable turn of events.
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I'm shocked to my core that blood thirsty Jew hating Muslims haven't committed a mini holocaust.
 
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The UN Human Rights Council adopted this morning a resolution to ban arms exports to the zionist entity with a majority of 28 votes and the objection of 6 countries.

The countries that opposed the Human Rights Council's decision are the two largest arms exporters to the entity, the United States and Germany, as well as Paraguay, Malawi, Bulgaria, and Argentina.

In addition, the Human Rights Council voted by a majority of 28-6 in favor of a resolution calling for the accountability of "israel" for possible war crimes in Gaza.

Canada and Wallonia in Belgium are some regions that have already cut exports to the zionist entity since October 7th.

While these resolutions are non-binding, they signal the growing isolation of the entity at all levels, at a time when even it's past allies are abandoning it.
 
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