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...a major news agency says it is trying to evacuate its remaining freelance journalists because the situation has become “untenable.”
In a joint statement, 111 international humanitarian organizations called on Israel to end its blockade, restore the full flow of food, clean water and medical supplies to Gaza, and agree to a ceasefire.
The coalition warned Wednesday that supplies in the enclave are now “totally depleted” and that humanitarian groups are “witnessing their own colleagues and partners waste away before their eyes.”
“As the Israeli government’s siege starves the people of Gaza, aid workers are now joining the same food lines, risking being shot just to feed their families,” said the statement, whose signatories include Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), Amnesty International, and the Norwegian Refugee Council.
Doctors and humanitarians ‘fainting’ from hunger, UN says
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Juliette Touma, Director of Communications with the UN agency for Palestine refugees, UNRWA, ...criticized the distribution scheme by the GHF as “a sadistic death-trap,” saying “snipers open fire randomly on crowds as if they’re given a license to kill.”
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“Doctors, nurses, journalists, humanitarians” are among staff who are “hungry… fainting due to hunger and exhaustion while performing their duties,” she said.
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As of July 21, 1,054 people had been killed while trying to get food in Gaza—766 near GHF sites and 288 near UN and other humanitarian organizations’ aid convoys, according to UN human rights office spokesperson Thameen Al-Kheetan.
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In late June, the military said it had “reorganized” the approach routes to aid sites to minimize “friction with the population,” but the killings have continued.
Last Wednesday, GHF said 19 people were trampled to death and another person was fatally stabbed in a crowd crush at one of its aid sites. It was the first time the group had acknowledged deaths at one of its sites.
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“I am drowning in hunger, trembling in exhaustion, and resisting the fainting that follows me every moment,” said Al Jazeera Arabic correspondent Anas Al-Sharif in a social media post. “Gaza is dying. And we die with it,” he added.
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International news agency, Agence France-Presse (AFP), said Tuesday it is trying to evacuate its remaining freelance staff from Gaza because the situation has become “untenable.”
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AFP’s main journalist union Société de Journalistes (SDJ), warned on Mondaythat some of the news agency’s remaining freelance journalists inside Gaza were starving and too weak to work.
“Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die,” the union said in a statement.
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The union shared a social media post from AFP staff, Bashar Taleb, who works for the agency as a photographer, describing the grave conditions in the besieged enclave.
“I don’t have the power to cover media anymore. My body is lean and I no longer have the ability to walk,” Taleb, 30, wrote in a Facebook post on Saturday, according to the SDJ’s statement.
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As food struggles to reach displaced people and the journalists among them in Gaza, the SDJ said in its statement: “Since AFP was founded in 1944, we have lost journalists in conflicts, some have been injured, others taken prisoner. But none of us can ever remember seeing colleagues die of hunger.”
9:47 pm:
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(https://www.instagram.com/unitednations/) Seven-month-old Salam was suffering from serious acute malnutrition when she was brought for emergency treatment in Gaza this past week.
Despite the efforts of @unrwa (https://www.instagram.com/unrwa/)'s health teams, Salam passed away due to her condition.
This is the story of just one of thousands of malnourished children in Gaza, with more cases detected daily.
A lasting ceasefire and full, safe and sustained humanitarian access are urgently needed to save lives.
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