Cliff Notes – Israel finally backs down but still plans to slaughter millions
- Israel has announced that foreign countries can commence parachuting aid into Gaza starting today, as confirmed by a senior IDF official.
- Humanitarian organisation World Central Kitchen is reactivating its kitchens following a hiatus after losing workers to an Israeli airstrike in November.
- The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation has been distributing food since May; however, over 1,000 individuals have reportedly died while attempting to access food aid amid a starvation crisis.
Israel allows foreign countries to parachute aid into Gaza
Israel has backed down from seering global pressure and said foreign countries can drop aid into Gaza from today.
A senior IDF official said on Friday: “Starting today, Israel will allow foreign countries to parachute aid into Gaza.
“Starting this afternoon, the WCK organisation began reactivating its kitchens.”
Humanitarian aid organisation World Central Kitchen paused its operation in Gaza in November after a number of its workers were killed in an Israeli airstrike last year.
Earlier today the UN secretary general criticises international community for ‘inaction’ on Gaza.
Speaking via video link, he says it is a “moral crisis that challenges the global conscience” in a statement to the Amnesty International global assembly.
France to become first G7 nation to recognise Palestine as a state
Aid workers in Gaza testify to starvation
Aid workers in Gaza – who help provide basic food, medicine and shelter for the millions displaced there – have been affected by the ongoing genocide in Gaza.
The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation – an Israel and US-backed organisation – has been distributing food packages in Gaza since the end of May, after Israel eased its 11-week blockade of aid into the territory. However, it has been used to weaponise food distribution in Gaza.
More than 1,000 people have reportedly been killed while trying to receive food aid since then, according to the UN, with the territory facing a starvation crisis.
A UN food agency report says almost a third of Gazans ‘not eating for days’.
British MPs to co-ordinate cross-party call to recognise Palestinian state
A cross-party group of MPs will publish a letter later today calling on UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer to recognise a Palestinian state, led by the Jeremy Corbyn and opposed by Reform leader Nigel Farage.
Starmer is coming under increasing pressure over the issue, after President Emmanuel Macron announced France will officially recognise a Palestinian state in September.
