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Gaza under attack

Israel says it will step up air raids on Gaza ahead of what it calls the next stage of the war. The Israeli army said the regime is trying to create optimal conditions for a ground invasion. It once again called on the people in Gaza to head south for personal safety. This, as various reports indicate that Israeli airstrikes have targeted refugees gatherings in the south of the Gaza Strip as well. Gaza’s Health Ministry says nearly 4,400 Palestinians have been killed and more than 13,500 have been injured. Over 70 percent of the victims are children, women, and the elderly. The first aid convoy has entered the Gaza Strip since the ongoing bombing campaign started on October 7. Israel has ever since imposed a total siege on the territory, cutting food, water, electricity and fuel supplies to the densely populated area. 

Gaza humanitarian ‘catastrophe’

A group of United Nations agencies have warned about the humanitarian situation in the besieged Gaza Strip, calling it catastrophic. The five agencies namely the World Health Organization, the UN children's agency or UNICEF, the World Food Program, the UN Development Agency, and the world body's Population Fund have called for action to tackle the desperate humanitarian situation in Gaza. They said over 1.6 million Gazans are in dire need of aid. The agencies warned that children, pregnant women and the elderly remain the most vulnerable. Children make up to half of Gaza’s population. This comes as the Israeli regime says it would intensify its strikes on Gaza. 

Solidarity with Palestinians

Pro-Palestinian rallies have been held across the world to demand an end to the bloodshed in the Gaza Strip amid the Israeli regime’s brutal aggression against the besieged territory. In Spain, tens of thousands marched through the streets of Barcelona to call for a stop to the Israeli carnage. They waved Palestinian flags in a show of solidarity with the oppressed people of Palestine. Similar protests were also held in the German capital city of Berlin. In France, thousands of people defied a ban on pro-Palestinian rallies in Lyon and called for a ceasefire in Gaza. Protesters called French president Emanuel Macron a complicit in Israeli crimes. Pro-Palestinian rallies were also held in the US capital city of Washington in front of Congress. Elsewhere in West Asia, Iraqi protesters from various parts of the country gathered at a border crossing near the Jordanian border. Influential cleric, Moqtada al-Sadr, had called on his supporters to rally in locations as close to Israel as possible.

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