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Statement: The order to evacuate 1.1 million people from northern Gaza defies the rules of war and basic humanity
Israel has cut off all water, electricity, fuel and food supplies to Gaza, disregarding the ICRC’s warnings that without electricity, hospitals risk turning into morgues. This war crime of massive proportions is now being compounded by Israel’s military orders calling to forcefully transfer 1.1 million Palestinians, including sick and wounded hospital patients, from northern Gaza. This flagrant attempt to depopulate and expel the Palestinian civilian population constitutes a grave breach of the 4th Geneva Convention and the Rome Statute.
Statement from Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates
The brazen acts of mass-killing, wanton destruction, and state terror being committed by Israel, the occupying power, against the civilian Palestinian population are nothing less than genocidal...
WHO: Hospitals in the Gaza Strip at a breaking point
The World Health Organization warns that time is running out to prevent a humanitarian catastrophe if fuel and life-saving health and humanitarian supplies cannot be urgently delivered to the Gaza Strip amidst the complete blockade.
UN OCHA Flash Update: Hostilities in the Gaza Strip and Israel
OCHA (United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs) Flash Update
Human Rights Watch: Israeli call to impose a complete siege on Gaza is “a call to commit a war crime”
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Statement from Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates
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UN OCHA Protection of Civilians Report | 5-18 September 2023
OCHA (United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs) Protection of Civilians report covering two weeks in the occupied Palestinian territory.
UN Factsheet: Displacement of Palestinian herders amid increasing settler violence
OCHA (United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs) Factsheet: 1,105 Palestinians from 28 communities have been displaced since 2022 citing settler violence & prevention of access to grazing land by settlers as the number 1 reason.
Statement by H. E. President Mahmoud Abbas at G77 + China Summit
President Abbas at G77 + China summit: Palestinians will continue their legitimate struggle to achieve their rights
Press Release: PNG opening its embassy in Jerusalem is a violation of international law and an aggression against the Palestinian people
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates strongly condemns the opening of Papua New Guinea's embassy in occupied Jerusalem as a blatant violation of international law and United Nations resolutions regarding the legal and political status of the Holy City, and of the just and legitimate rights of the Palestinian people.