A U.S. Volunteer Nurse in Gaza on Mass Starvation, Targeted Gunshot Wounds, and #Israel Confiscating Baby Formula

Elidalis Burgos, a critical care nurse from the U.S. who has been volunteering at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis, discusses what she has witnessed in Gaza over the past four weeks.

from #DropSiteNews
Aug 04, 2025

#Gaza’s health care system has been systematically targeted by the #Israeli military and is struggling to cope without medical supplies, with #Palestinian doctors and medical workers suffering from hunger and malnutrition themselves. On Monday, officials at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis said at least 38 people died after arriving at the facility over the previous 24-hour period, and many hundreds more are being treated for injuries.

https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/volunteer-nurse-gaza-nasser-hospital-starvation-trauma

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Security contractor says he witnessed ‘barbaric’ and un-American tactics at Gaza aid sites
[interview video and transcript]

from #PBSNewsHour
Aug 1, 2025 6:45 PM EDT

The #GazaHumanitarianFoundation, a #US and #Israeli-backed humanitarian aid initiative, has been delivering aid into #Gaza since May. But since then, the U.N. says hundreds of #Palestinians have been killed outside of GHF aid sites. Nick Schifrin spoke with former security contractor Anthony Aguilar about what he saw there and why he believes the execution of the #GHF mission has failed.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/u-s-whistleblower-describes-chaos-and-reckless-force-at-gaza-aid-sites?utm_source=PBS+NewsHour&utm_campaign=4b7eb4b26c-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_4_28_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_47f99db221-4b7eb4b26c-322794269

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‘The most peaceful person’: Umm Al-Khair mourns activist slain by Israeli settler

from +972’s Sunday Recap
#972Magazine [published in Israel]

Other articles

• #Israel’s aid concessions merely offer Gazans survival on a leash
• ‘Our genocide’: Israeli rights groups abandon their restraint on #Gaza
• Israel’s destroyer-in-chief in Gaza lives in a settlement home marked for demolition
• #Germany’s angel of history is screaming

https://www.972mag.com/wp-content/themes/rgb/newsletter.php?page_id=8&section_id=186431&utm_source=972+Magazine+Newsletter&utm_campaign=7c2c32bec8-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_9_12_2022_11_20_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f1fe821d25-7c2c32bec8-1401528606

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#Israeli public figures call for ‘crippling sanctions’ on Israel over Gaza starvation

Thirty-one high-profile Israelis accuse Tel Aviv of ‘brutal campaign’ and demand permanent ceasefire in letter

from #TheGuardian #Guardian
Tue 29 Jul 2025 10.37 EDT

...the letter accuses #Israel of “starving the people of #Gaza to death and contemplating the forced removal of millions of #Palestinians from the strip”.

It adds: “The international community must impose crippling sanctions on Israel until it ends this brutal campaign and implements a permanent ceasefire.”

The letter is significant both for its unvarnished criticism of Israel and for breaking the taboo of endorsing stringent international sanctions, in a country where politicians have promoted laws targeting those advocating such measures.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/29/letter-sanctions-israel-gaza-starvation?CMP=share_btn_url

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‘Death has more dignity than this life’: Israel’s starvation campaign ravages Gaza

from +972’s Sunday Recap
#972Magazine [published in Israel]

Other articles

• We are starving
• ‘Double tap’ airstrikes: How Israel targets Gaza rescue efforts
• Israel brutally detaining Gaza hospital director as ‘bargaining chip,’ says lawyer
• Is this Gaza’s ‘bomb the tracks’ moment?

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#BlockTheBombs
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#IsraeliCrimesAgainstHumanity #ArrestNetanyahuAndGallant #USHandsOffICC
#StopGazaGenocide
#FoodAsWeapon
#GazaBelongsToPalestine
#AllEyesOnWestBank #EndTheOccupation #SettlersOut
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#StopArmingIsrael
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EXCLUSIVE: Internal Documents Detail Hamas Proposals That Preceded Trump’s Belligerent Rant

Trump and Netanyahu threatened to launch even more violent “alternatives” to ceasefire negotiations as Hamas political leader blasts U.S.-#Israeli “blackmail."

from #DropSiteNews
Jeremy Scahill and Jawa Ahmad
Jul 27, 2025

Basem Naim, another senior #Hamas official, told Drop Site, “#Trump is playing a strategic game of deception,” adding that the #US and #Israel were seeking to increase pressure on Hamas to capitulate. He said Trump’s comments, and similar ones made by Witkoff, were intended to apply “more pressure before the next round” of negotiations and to buy time for Prime Minister Benjamin #Netanyahu “to reorganize the internal situation.”

https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/negotiations-hamas-israel-trump-netanyahu-ceasefire-amendments-hayya-netanyahu/

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Deadly airdrops and a trickle of trucks won't undo months of 'engineered starvation' in Gaza, Oxfam says

from #TheGuardian #Guardian
July 27, 2025 09:28 EDT

#Oxfam has said the airdrops into #Gaza are wholly inadequate for the population’s needs and has called for the immediate opening of all crossings for full humanitarian access into the territory devastated by relentless #Israeli bombardments and a partial aid blockade.

Bushra Khalidi, Oxfam policy lead for the Occupied #Palestinian territory, said:

Deadly airdrops and a trickle of trucks won’t undo months of engineered starvation in Gaza.

What’s needed is the immediate opening of all crossings for full, unhindered, and safe aid delivery across all of Gaza and a permanent ceasefire. Anything less risks being little more than a tactical gesture.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/jul/27/israel-gaza-war-middle-east-crisis-live-updates-military-announces-tactical-pause-pressure-mounts-over-hunger

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No Meals, Fainting Nurses, Dwindling Baby Formula: Starvation Haunts Gaza Hospitals

After #Israel's restrictions on aid, hunger has risen across Gaza. Doctors and nurses, struggling to find food themselves, lack the resources to stem the surge.

July 27, 2025 Updated 6:44 am ET
from #NewYorkTimes #NYT
[gift article]

In several of the hospitals still functioning in #Gaza, nurses are fainting from hunger and dehydration. Managers often cannot provide meals for patients or medical staff. Doctors are running low on formula for newborn babies, in some cases giving them water alone.

And at least three major hospitals lack the nutritional fluids needed to properly treat malnourished children and adults.

Those scenes were described in interviews starting Friday with seven doctors — 4 from Gaza, and 3 volunteers from Australia, Britain and the #US.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/world/middleeast/gaza-hunger-doctors-nurses.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Zk8.84EO.KIrL0fY7LnRv&smid=url-share

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No Proof Hamas Routinely Stole U.N. Aid, #Israeli Military Officials Say

#Israel has long restricted or completely blocked aid to Gaza on the argument that Hamas steals it to use as a weapon of control over the population.

from #NewYorkTimes #NYT
[gift article - link can be shared. Expires in 30 days.]
By Natan Odenheimer
July 26, 2025 Updated 1:34 p.m. ET

The military officials who spoke to the NYT said that the original #UN aid operation was relatively reliable and less vulnerable to #Hamas interference than the operations of many of the other groups bringing aid into #Gaza. That’s largely because the #UnitedNations managed its own supply chain and handled distribution directly inside Gaza.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/26/world/middleeast/hamas-un-aid-theft.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ZU8.cuLr.YScwaJdlD8L7&smid=em-share

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Israel-Gaza war live: aid drops to Gaza ‘inefficient and a distraction’ with starvation deepening, UN says

‘Airdrops will not reverse the deepening starvation,’ said UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini

from #TheGuardian #Guardian
July 26, 2025 07:44 EDT

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/jul/26/israel-gaza-war-palestinian-state-palestine-middle-east-latest-news-updates/

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Famine Expert: Israel's Starvation of #Gaza Most 'Minutely Designed and Controlled' Since WWII

"This is preventable starvation," said Alex de Waal. "It is entirely man-made."

from #CommonDreams
Brett Wilkins
Jul 22, 2025

A leading global authority on #famine on Monday accused #Israel of orchestrating a carefully planned campaign of mass #starvation in the Strip, remarks that came amid a steadily rising death toll from malnutrition caused by the 654-day #US-backed #Israeli siege and obliteration of the #Palestinian enclave.

"I've been working on this topic for more than four decades, and there is no case since World War II of starvation that is being so minutely designed and controlled," Alex de Waal, executive director of the World Peace Foundation at Tufts University...told #AlJazeera.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/famine-expert-israel-s-starvation-of-gaza-most-minutely-designed-and-controlled-since-wwii

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Israel is Attacking Deir al-Balah, Gaza’s Last Standing City

In addition to housing tens of thousands of displaced #Palestinians, Deir al-Balah is also where the headquarters of several #UN agencies and international NGOs are based.

from #DropSiteNews
Hamza M.Salha and Sharif Abdel Kouddous
Jul 22, 2025

#Israel’s military campaign in Deir al-Balah on Sunday marked the first time since the beginning of the war 21 months ago that Israeli troops launched a major offensive on the city, located in central #Gaza. Unlike every other major city or town in Gaza—including Gaza City, Khan Younis, Jabaliya, Rafah, Beit Lahia, and others—Deir al-Balah is the only city in Gaza that had not yet been subject to a major Israeli ground operation or suffered widespread devastation.

https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/israel-attacking-deir-al-balah-gaza-displacement

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Israeli special forces abduct director of hospital in Gaza

Marwan al-Hams, head of Abu Youssef al-Najjar hospital, was captured outside an ICRC field hospital

from #MiddleEastEye #MEE
By Alex MacDonald
Published date: 21 July 2025 14:50 BST

The #Palestinian health ministry said on Monday that Hams, who also oversees field hospitals in the #Gaza Strip, was on his way to visit the #ICRC facility in northern #Rafah when undercover #Israeli soldiers opened fire, killing one person and wounding another civilian, before capturing him.

The person killed was a local journalist who had been conducting an interview with al-Hams at the time of the attack.

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli-special-forces-abduct-director-najjar-hospital-gaza

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Aid for Gaza’s starving children is right at the gates. Let it in [lead article]

from +972’s Sunday Recap
#972Magazine [published in Israel]

Other articles

• The suffocation of Sinjil
  
• Autel denies selling drones to Israel. So why are they roaming Gaza’s skies?
• ‘I haven’t been here in 40 years’: Emotional reunions as Druze cross Israel-Syria fence
• My journalist friend was arrested by Israel. He won’t be the last

https://www.972mag.com/wp-content/themes/rgb/newsletter.php?page_id=8&section_id=186117

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#PermanentCeasfireNow #EndBlockadeOfGaza #RestoreFundsToUNRWA
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#AllEyesOnWestBank #EndTheOccupation #SettlersOut
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Talking to the BBC about the Freedom Flotilla’s next boat sailing to break #Israel’s illegal siege of Gaza. Handala — for the children of #Gaza.

a #video from #BBC via #Facebook post by Huwaida Arraf, an activist with the #FreedomFlotilla

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/19Rz3QAdyF/?mibextid=wwXIfr

[sorry, I was not able to find a non-Facebook link to this.]

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Israel scrambles to address maritime insurance freeze after Houthi attacks, sources say

Decision of #US insurer not to provide additional 'war risk' coverage to vessel sunk by #Yemeni group could have chilling effect on Haifa port

from #MiddleEastEye
By Sean Mathews
Published date: 16 July 2025 14:15 BST

"Vessels are going to start to avoid calling at #Israeli ports. It's not about getting hit by the #Houthis but the chance of not being insured," a maritime security official told #MEE. "Does a secondary or tertiary link to #Israel mean you can be denied coverage?"

The Eternity C had no direct link to Israel, but Cosmoship vessels regularly called at Israeli ports last year. The CEO of Stem Shipping, the owner of Magic Seas, acknowledged that his vessels sometimes call at Israeli ports also.

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-approaches-maritime-insurers-after-houthi-attacks

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Gaza doctor Abu Safiya given 'two spoonfuls of rice a day' in Israeli jail

Lawyer details grim condition for Palestinian doctor, who is held in an isolated underground cell

From #MiddleEastEye #MEE

By Mera Aladam
Published date: 18 July 2025 15:01 BST

In an interview with Arab48, published on Thursday, lawyer Gheed Kassem said that the director of Kamal Adwan Hospital, located north of the #Gaza Strip, had faced severe physical assault that resulted in bruising to his head, neck, rib cage, and back.

When Dr #AbuSafiya requested medical assistance for complications stemming from the beatings, including an irregular heartbeat, his request was denied.

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/two-spoonfuls-rice-day-gaza-doctor-abu-safiya-faces-starvation-israeli-prison

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#Israeli public ‘fed lies’ about defeating Hamas, commander says

Military officer warns the fight against the Palestinian group could last for years, dismissing claims of imminent victory

From #MiddleEastEye #MEE
By MEE staff
Published date: 18 July 2025 14:02 BST

Hamas, he explained, still maintains “massive infrastructure” in #Gaza. The fight against the group is far from over, he said.

“This is work that will need to continue for a year, for five years, to maintain the achievements. It doesn’t matter if the enemy is called #Hamas, #IslamicJihad, or any other name,” he added.

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli-public-fed-lies-about-defeating-hamas-commander-says

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#Israel is displacing Palestinians on a scale not seen since 1967. [lead article]

from #TheWire
[online publication of #JewishVoiceForPeace #JVP in #USA]
July 16, 2025

Other articles:

• The largest U.S. labor union is under attack. Show your support.
• What we’re doing: JVP-Seattle shuts down #Palantir.
• What we’re reading: “Defending the indefensible”
• Power Half-Hours for #Gaza.

https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/2025/07/16/israel-is-displacing-palestinians-on-a-scale-not-seen-since-1967

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#BlockTheBombs
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#StopGazaGenocide
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