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Israel Continues to Starve Gaza, Blocking Food Aid as It Escalates Attack on Gaza’s Ailing Hospitals

HeadlineMar 25, 2024

Horrifying accounts continue to come from Gaza City, where Israel’s raid on Al-Shifa Hospital has entered a second week. Israeli forces have killed at least 170 at the hospital and detained another 400. Survivors of the raid have told Al Jazeera that Israeli tanks and armored bulldozers have driven over bodies and ambulances. Israeli forces are also attacking two other hospitals in Gaza.
Meanwhile, the head of the U.N. Palestinian aid agency UNRWA says Israel is now denying access to all UNRWA food convoys to northern Gaza even though the region is on the brink of famine. On Saturday, U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres traveled to the Rafah border crossing.

Secretary-General António Guterres: “A long line of blocked relief trucks on one side of the gates, the long shadow of starvation on the other. That is more than tragic. It is a moral outrage.”

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