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07-09-2024
UNITED NATIONS/ GAZA CITY: UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said more than one million people in central and southern Gaza did not receive any food rations in August, adding the “humanitarian situation in Gaza remains beyond catastrophic”.
Gaza’s Health Ministry says the Israeli military is refusing to coordinate the entry of medical teams affiliated with the emergency polio vaccination campaign into areas in the enclave’s south.
Hamas accuses Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of thwarting a ceasefire deal by refusing to withdraw forces from Gaza’s border with Egypt.
At least 40,878 people have been killed and 94,454 wounded in Israel’s war on Gaza. At least 1,139 people were killed in Israel in the Hamas-led attacks on October 7.
Three Palestinians have been reported killed and five injured in an early morning Israeli attack on a house in the Sabra neighborhood of Gaza City, the Palestinian state news agency, Wafa, reports.
Six people were killed and five wounded in an earlier Israeli bombing in the city’s Zeitoun neighborhood, Wafa report.
We will bring you more on these attacks as information emerges.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has told Jewish donors to this election bid that US universities could lose accreditation and federal government support over what he described as “anti-Semitic propaganda”, if he is elected president again.
Trump also said he would ban refugee resettling in the US from “terror infested” areas, naming Gaza as one such location, and that he would arrest “pro-Hamas thugs” who engage in vandalism, an apparent reference to student protesters at US universities against Israel’s war on Gaza.
“Colleges will and must end the anti-Semitic propaganda or they will lose their accreditation and federal support,” Trump said on Thursday, speaking remotely to a crowd of more than 1,000 Republican Jewish Coalition donors in Las Vegas, a source reports.
Trump’s comments appear focused on pro-Palestinian and antiwar protests that erupted across US College and university campuses earlier this year, with students setting up encampments to express opposition to Israel’s war on Gaza and to demand educational institutions severe ties with Israeli firms and government entities that support the war.
A media report that the Republican Jewish Coalition Victory Fund says it is spending some $15 million to support Trump’s election by helping bring out Jewish voters in battleground states.
Media reports that US President Joe Biden’s administration and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are sharply at odds over prospects of reaching a Gaza ceasefire deal, with Netanyahu throwing cold water on Washington’s upbeat messaging, saying it was “exactly inaccurate” that an agreement is close.
“There’s not a deal in the making,” Netanyahu said in an interview with the US’s Fox News on Thursday.
Netanyahu’s public comments come as officials in the Biden administration said they were working on a revised proposal to address remaining disputes between Israeli and Hamas leaders.
US National security spokesman John Kirby reiterated on Thursday that only disagreements on “implementing details” of a ceasefire proposal need to be hammered out to reach a deal.
“I’ve heard what the (Israeli) prime minister said. I’m not going to get into a back and forth with him in a public setting,” Kirby told reporters. (Int’l Monitoring Desk)
