Israel is continuing to blockade fuel and humanitarian aid from entering Gaza after it cut off the territory’s electricity on Sunday. Qatar and Jordan accused Israel of “imposing starvation” on Gaza as Israel repeatedly violates the ceasefire agreement. This is the head of UNRWA, the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees.
Philippe Lazzarini: “Whatever the intent is, it’s clearly a weaponization of humanitarian aid into Gaza. Basically, we are back to a situation which prevailed at the beginning of the war, when there was a total siege imposed on Gaza. And we have seen the situation deteriorating very, very quickly.”
Meanwhile, Israel’s Minister of Finance Bezalel Smotrich has called for expelling “5,000 Palestinians a day” from Gaza as part of an illegal plan, proposed by President Trump, to ethnically cleanse Palestinians from the Gaza Strip. Israeli soldiers have killed at least four people in Gaza over the past day.
In the occupied West Bank, Israel has killed at least three Palestinians in Jenin as it continues its deadly raids throughout the occupied territory.