Gaza aid yet to reach civilians, UN says, as pressure grows on Israel

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alucarddrol@reddit

What "pressure"?

They are doing whatever they want

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The situation for Palestinians is getting very bleak. At this point, I don’t think there will be any meaningful relief or help going their way. Any country ready and willing to help in any significant way would have done it already. At best, Europeans continue to complain, maybe they send more aid to Gaza, but Israel will continue to ignore them and nothing else changes.

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Daryno90@reddit

Because the Israeli government want to murder the Palestinians through starvation. They are eager for the 48 hours to pass which will result in up to 14000 deaths according to the UN. I don’t think it’s an outrageous to say that this is far more barbaric than anything Hamas is capable of. If given the choice between death by starvation or beheading, give me beheading any day

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860v2@reddit

If that 14,000 dead babies claim was true, we would have already seen thousands of deaths since it was made. We haven’t.

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ParagonRenegade@reddit

I'm sure Israel wouldn't mind letting in independent journalists to document this then :\^)

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860v2@reddit

Oh, would you look at that. I was right.

It highlighted a report from the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) which stated 14,100 severe cases of acute malnutrition are expected to occur among children aged six to 59 months between April 2025 and March 2026.

The IPC report says this could take place over the course of about a year - not 48 hours.

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ParagonRenegade@reddit

Then let the independent journalists in to confirm casualties. Then you won’t have to rely on the Gazan health ministry anymore ;)

But of course, you won’t, because having non-palestinian sources on the ground would absolutely destroy what tatters of your country’s reputation still exists.

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860v2@reddit

What casualties? The “14,000 dead babies in 48 hours” claim was a blatant lie.

I just proved it above.

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ParagonRenegade@reddit

No you didn’t.

But if that’s true, Israel won’t mind letting in teams of foreign journalists to document things independently of the IDF censors.

Surely you wouldn’t mind.

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860v2@reddit

False. I’ll post it again.

Oh, would you look at that. I was right.

It highlighted a report from the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) which stated 14,100 severe cases of acute malnutrition are expected to occur among children aged six to 59 months between April 2025 and March 2026.

The IPC report says this could take place over the course of about a year - not 48 hours.

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ParagonRenegade@reddit

Ok cool.

Now let the journalists in to confirm.

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860v2@reddit

Confirm what? The lie was based on the report above.

It doesn’t say what you claimed it did.

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ParagonRenegade@reddit

The bot script is malfunctioning. Call the coders in.

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860v2@reddit

That’s not an argument. You didn’t even address anything in my comment.

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ParagonRenegade@reddit

I’m not arguing with you, I’m illustrating how your position is irrelevant whitewashing.

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860v2@reddit

I know, that’s why I pointed it out.

Calling out your spreading of lies isn’t irrelevant. You’re just coping.

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BrutalistLandscapes@reddit

Do you condemn Hamas?

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ParagonRenegade@reddit

Do you condemn the IDF?

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BrutalistLandscapes@reddit

A simple question requires a simple answer bro. You need to condemn the Hamas bad guys right now or you will look bad.

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SpontaneousFlame@reddit

You must condemn Hamas and pause the genocidal state of Israel. And if are doing that then surely you support their genocide…

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Phyrexian_Overlord@reddit

Oh yeah why aren't all those assassinated journalists covering this story

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860v2@reddit

Does this journalist count?

It highlighted a report from the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) which stated 14,100 severe cases of acute malnutrition are expected to occur among children aged six to 59 months between April 2025 and March 2026.

The IPC report says this could take place over the course of about a year - not 48 hours.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crk2264nrn2o

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Consistent_Drink2171@reddit

A person with a Twitter account dying in urban combat is not "assassinating a journalist."

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Phyrexian_Overlord@reddit

Uh huh

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Shireen_Abu_Akleh

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Consistent_Drink2171@reddit

That's a journalist covering an active gun battle. It's sad she died, but she wasn't assassinated.

And was not in Gaza.

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nothingpersonnelmate@reddit

It's sad she died, but she wasn't assassinated.

It was probably regular murder by an individual Israeli soldier who decided to kill someone they knew was a journalist, rather than a state-ordered assassination. But the Israeli forces do have a storied history of targeting journalists and the IDF is choosing to allow it instead of doing anything to discourage it, as we saw with the Shireen Abu Akleh case, James Miller, the numerous clearly marked journalists targeted during the 2018 Gaza protests and various others. They do very clearly have an unofficial state policy of allowing their soldiers to kill journalists without punishment.

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Consistent_Drink2171@reddit

It was an area of active combat. She was wearing body armor.

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nothingpersonnelmate@reddit

She was wearing an easily identified blue press jacket with the word "PRESS" written on both sides, as well as the regular press helmet. The fighting was happening in the opposite direction, and the video of the attempt to retrieve her body (also in the bellingcat article) shows a single deliberate shot at the (unarmed) man doing it, rather than some wild burst of gunfire.

It was murder of a journalist by a man who knew he was murdering a journalist.

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Consistent_Drink2171@reddit

blue press jacket

It was body armor common in warzones. It said PRESS on it, but that's hard to see a few hundred meters away during combat

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Phyrexian_Overlord@reddit

She was assassinated dude, deal with it or seethe

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Consistent_Drink2171@reddit

She died in an active warzone. At worst, she was shot by a random soldier.

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Phyrexian_Overlord@reddit

Maybe if you weren't lying you would be correct

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Consistent_Drink2171@reddit

That source is about a documentary that disagrees with other investigations, so what

The most likely thing is she died in the gun battle she was covering

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Phyrexian_Overlord@reddit

The source in that doc is literally the other investigators

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Consistent_Drink2171@reddit

The various investigations don't agree.

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Phyrexian_Overlord@reddit

So you're just going to ignore the map or what?

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Consistent_Drink2171@reddit

It's clear there were gun battles happening in the area.

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Phyrexian_Overlord@reddit

People like you are a great reminder of how authoritarians get into power. More than enough people are willing to just accept the most convenient narrative and keep their heads down, no matter how glaringly obvious they are wrong.

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nothingpersonnelmate@reddit

You should watch the video of the attempt to retrieve her body, it's in the Bellingcat article.

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khan9813@reddit

Israeli government wants to genocide

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PhoenixKingMalekith@reddit

The 14 000 were a bullshit claim. Well we will see tomorow I suppose, if there are 14 000 dead children laying on the streets suddenly

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Daryno90@reddit

Oh would it be better if it was just a few hundred dead from starvation tomorrow. The longer this intentional starvation last, the worst it’s going to get and the likelier we will see those numbers in time.

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PhoenixKingMalekith@reddit

I m just saying all bullshit claim do is hurting the pro palestinian cause

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Daryno90@reddit

Well they said UP TO 14000, so it sound like that was the realistic worst case scenario for infants in Gaza and frankly I don’t think it’s that far fetched under the conditions we are talking about.

If anyone need food more than other, it’s New born babies and infants

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Consistent_Drink2171@reddit

they said UP TO 14000

Within one year. The 48 hours claim is a ridiculous exaggeration from a UN organ

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nj0tr@reddit

if there are 14 000 dead children laying on the streets suddenly

This does not happen suddenly. It has been building up for months now. And they will be dying from acute malnutrition for quite some time even after food supply is resumed. Because after certain threshold changes caused by malnutrition are irreversible - the patient may still be alive but their body is just no longer capable of processing food.

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Affectionate_Bee6434@reddit

It's more of a negotiating tactic with Hamas, if you can call that one

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sundaywellnessclub@reddit

It’s staggering how humanitarian aid is still bottlenecked after Israel agreed to let it in. The optics of trucks crossing the border sound like progress, but the reality on the ground tells a different story… aid is literally sitting there, undelivered, while babies face starvation and hospitals run dry. The UN being forced to wait hours just to access their own supplies is a perfect example of bureaucracy being weaponized.

14,000 babies dying in 48 hours? Severe acute malnutrition in children isn’t something you “schedule” aid for, it’s a ticking clock where even a few days can mean the difference between life and death.

What’s worse is watching world leaders make statements about “moral responsibility” while continuing arms sales or offering only symbolic sanctions. Pressure is mounting, but the response remains miles behind the suffering. Aid delays aren’t just a logistical failure, they’re a moral one.

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Consistent_Drink2171@reddit

14,000 babies dying in 48 hours?

The article itself disputes this claim.

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Maeglom@reddit

I don't think it's staggering at all, Israel dismantled UNRWA and waited until all the ngos rolled up their operations because there was no food to distribute before allowing a trickle of aid back in. If their actions seem to be aimed at killing the maximum amount of Palestinian civilians that's because they are.

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sundaywellnessclub@reddit

Israel didn’t just delay aid, they actively dismantled the very infrastructure needed to distribute it; from targeting UNRWA to making the environment so hostile that NGOs had to pull out. Now they allow a handful of trucks in, knowing full well there’s no operational capacity left to get that aid to starving people.

It’s a strategy of deprivation. You don’t accidentally create famine conditions in a fenced-in enclave after months of blockades, bombings, and targeting civil institutions. The cruelty is the point.

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Stubbs94@reddit

I don't think there are truly words to describe the depravity of the Israeli state and anyone who defends them. The idea that we should be ignorant or accepting of these crimes against humanity due to historical events against the group the state claims to represent is so insulting to a people who endured the first recognised genocide in history. Israel has decided that the people in Gaza are subhuman, they are accelerating the genocide, I say this with all my heart. Fuck anyone who defends anything they do. Fuck Israel, not Netanyahu, fuck Israel as a concept.

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empleadoEstatalBot@reddit

UN says no aid yet distributed in Gaza as international pressure on Israel mounts

Tom Bennett

BBC News

Reporting fromJerusalem

The UN says no aid has yet been distributed in Gaza despite aid lorries starting to cross the border after an 11-week blockade.

Israeli officials said 93 trucks entered Gaza on Tuesday, carrying aid including flour, baby food, medical equipment, and pharmaceutical drugs.

But the UN said that despite trucks reaching the Palestinian side of the Kerem Shalom crossing, no aid has been distributed so far.

Its spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said a team "waited several hours" for Israel to allow them to access the area but "unfortunately, they were not able to bring those supplies into our warehouse".

Israel agreed on Sunday to allow a "basic amount of food" to enter Gaza, where global experts have warned of a looming famine.

Meanwhile, the Hamas-run Civil Defence service said on Wednesday that 15 people, including a child, were killed in air strikes since midnight local time.

International pressure on Israel has continued to grow.

The UK said it would be suspending trade talks over what it described as Israel's "morally unjustifiable" military escalation in Gaza, with Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer describing the situation as "intolerable".

Meanwhile, the EU's foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said the bloc would be reviewing its trade agreement with Israel in light of its actions in Gaza.

Dujarric said the aid operation was made "complex" as Israel required the UN to "offload supplies on the Palestinian side of the Kerem Shalom crossing, and reload them separately once they secure our teams' access from inside the Gaza Strip".

He added the arrival of the supplies was a positive development but described it as "a drop in the ocean of what's needed".

UN bodies estimate 600 trucks a day are required to begin tackling Gaza's chronic humanitarian crisis.

Earlier, the UN's humanitarian chief Tom Fletcher told the BBC thousands of babies could die in Gaza if Israel does not immediately let aid in.

Speaking to the BBC's Today programme, Mr Fletcher said: "There are 14,000 babies that will die in the next 48 hours unless we can reach them."

When pressed on how he had arrived at that figure, he said there were "strong teams on the ground" operating in medical centres and schools - but did not provide further details.

The BBC later asked for clarification on the figure from the UN's Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA), which said: "We are pointing to the imperative of getting supplies in to save an estimated 14,000 babies suffering from severe acute malnutrition in Gaza, as the IPC partnership has warned about. We need to get the supplies in as soon as possible, ideally within the next 48 hours."

It highlighted a report from the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) which stated 14,100 severe cases of acute malnutrition are expected to occur among children aged six to 59 months between April 2025 and March 2026.

The IPC report says this could take place over the course of about a year - not 48 hours.

When pressed on the figures at a news conference, UNOCHA spokesman Jens Laerke said: "For now let me just say that we know for a fact that there are babies who are in urgent life-saving need of these supplements that need to come in because their mothers are unable to feed themselves."

"And if they do not get those, they will be in mortal danger," he said.

Last week, the Hamas-run health ministry reported 57 children had died from the effects of malnutrition over the past 11 weeks.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Tuesday welcomed Israel's decision to allow some aid into Gaza, telling the Senate Foreign Relations Committee: "We are pleased to see that aid is starting to flow in again."

Replying to a Democrat who said the number of aid trucks allowed in was too little, Rubio said: "I understand your point that it's not in sufficient amounts, but we were pleased to see that decision was made."

On Monday, the leaders of the UK, France and Canada issued a statement calling on the Israeli government to "stop its military operations" and "immediately allow humanitarian aid to enter Gaza".

As part of its announcement on Wednesday, the UK also issued sanctions on several prominent Israeli settlers and settler-linked groups.

Israel launched a military campaign in Gaza in response to Hamas's cross-border attack on 7 October 2023, in which about 1,200 people were killed and 251 others were taken hostage.

At least 53,475 people have been killed in Gaza since then, including 3,340 since the Israeli offensive resumed, according to the territory's health ministry.

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