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Palestinian refugees collect aid parcels at a United Nations food distribution centre in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip on January 21, 2018. (Abed Rahim Khatib/ Flash90)

UN: Fuel for critical Gaza facilities will run out in 10 days

The Gaza Strip is on the ‘verge of disaster,’ the UN warns. Intensive care and surgical operating rooms, sewage treatment plants, and desalination plants are at immediate risk — hospitals have already begun to close. By +972 Magazine Staff The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in the occupied Palestinian territories…

By +972 Magazine February 7, 2018

A Palestinian family sits in their destroyed home in a quarter in At-Tuffah district of Gaza city, which was heavily attacked during last Israeli offensive, Gaza city, September 21, 2014. During the seven-week Israeli military offensive, 2,131 Palestinians were killed, including 501 children, and an estimated 18,000 housing units have been either destroyed or severely damaged, leaving more than 108,000 people homeless. (Anne Paq/Activestills.org)

Turning Gaza’s humanitarian disaster into Israel’s bargaining chip

If Defense Minister Liberman, along the entire political and military echelon, know the extent to which Gaza’s residents are suffering, why do they insist on using that suffering as a bargaining chip? By Rachel Beitarie Something strange happened in the middle of last week: Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman decided to give an interview to the…

By +972 Magazine November 3, 2016