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After banning UNRWA from operating in Gaza, what is the Israeli plan for education in the strip?
AP, October 29, 2024
One of the bills passed Monday evening bans all UNRWA activities and services on Israeli soil and is set to take effect in three months.
The second bill severs all ties between ...
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Has famine been officially declared in (parts of) Gaza?
The discussions of famine in Gaza seem to be largely based on the March 18 IPC report, which projects famine top happen in two governorates of Gaza in March-May:
The IPC acute food insecurity ...
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Did any UN agency estimate, before the war/October, the number of food trucks that were entering Gaza per day?
In relation to competing claims (by COGAT vs IPC) about the number of food trucks that were entering Gaza before the war (i.e. leaving aside here that they also disagree about the number during the ...
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Are any countries claiming that their humanitarian aid for Gaza is being declined by Israel?
Preface: According to AIPAC, the Israeli military isn't preventing any aid to Gaza if it belongs to one of 4 catagories "Food, water, medical supplies and shelters".
Instead AIPAC claims ...
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Were the UNRWA cuts accompanied with some other form of financial commitment to other aid organizations or other policies to help Gazans?
As aid organizations, we are deeply concerned and outraged that some
of the largest donors have united to suspend funding for the United
Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), the main aid provider ...
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How much food aid for Gaza was ran though UNRWA vs other organizations, and what has been the impact on food aid of the UNRWA funding suspension?
There have been some doomsday reports that Gaza food aid might be severely impacted as a result of UNRWA funding suspension. E.g.:
Philippe Lazzarini, said Saturday the organization’s program inside ...
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Did the US provide its own estimates of hunger in Gaza during the 2023 war?
During the Tigray war, the US apparently provided its own estimates of hunger in the region, e.g.
June 26, 2021
The United States estimates that up to 900,000 people in Ethiopia’s Tigray region now ...
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Who is establishing the big tent cities by the sea in Gaza?
According to a former Mossad "division chief", Rami Igra, interviewed on CNN the population from Khan Yunis is asked to move by the sea, where "big tent cities are being established&...
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Has the EU, the UN, or even some Muslim countries proposed to fund or construct any bomb shelters for civilians in Gaza?
The EU in cooperation with the UN have at least renovated some [Soviet-era, I guess] bomb shelters in Ukraine (ibid).
So, have they tried to do something like that in Gaza? After all, the EU was ...
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Did Israel give an official explanation as to why it won't let the United Nations use the Kerem Shalom border crossing?
He described the humanitarian situation in Gaza as "catastrophic,"
adding: "It is absolutely essential - absolutely essential - to have a
flow of humanitarian aid into Gaza that ...
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Why were some important countries such as Japan, Britain, and India absent from the recent UNGA?
This question may not be answerable but I am curious to know
Question: Why were some important countries such as Japan, Britain, and India absent from the recent UNGA?
Was their absence deliberate and ...
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Which were the 55 countries that voted against condemning Hamas at the UN?
The Times of Israel reports on the recent UNGA resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza (which was adopted by 120-14-45):
Canada sought to have an amendment added to the resolution to ...
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Why do obvious humanitarian issues need to be voted on by members of the United Nations Security Council?
According to the UN website, UN has the following functions and powers:
to maintain international peace and security in accordance with the principles and purposes of the United Nations;
to determine ...
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Why is there no call for Hamas to protect and reduce civilian casualties?
In a recent report in the Washington Post, the article indicates that the UN is placing the entire onus of reducing civilian casualties in its war with Hamas on Israel.
In Washington, the Pentagon ...
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