While the bombings in the Gaza Strip continue, the UN agency UNRWA for Palestinian refugees is in turmoil: several of its employees are suspected of having participated in the bloody Hamas attack in the south of Gaza. ‘Israel on October 7.
Information to remember
⇒ The UN calls to guarantee the activities of UNRWA in Gaza where the fighting continues
⇒ 26,422 dead, new report from the Hamas Ministry of Health
⇒ American strike after Houthi attack on British tanker
Gaza: UN calls to guarantee UNRWA activities
The head of the United Nations called, this Sunday, January 28, to guarantee the continuation of the operations of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), at the center of a controversy linked to the October 7 attack perpetrated by Hamas from the Gaza Strip, where the Israeli army continues its offensive on the town of Khan Younes.
In New York, Antonio Guterres called on donor countries that have suspended their funding to UNRWA to “at least guarantee” the continuation of its operations, essential to two million people in the small, besieged and overpopulated territory. “Two million civilians in Gaza depend on critical aid from UNRWA for their daily survival, but current UNRWA funding will not allow it to meet all needs in February,” he insisted. .
“Mr. Lazzarini, please resign,” Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz wrote on the social network lead to the shutdown of the UN agency’s operations. The Israeli government wants to ensure that the agency “will not be part” of the post-war solution in this Palestinian territory, said the Minister of Foreign Affairs, calling for favoring agencies “sincerely dedicated to peace and Development”.
Yemen: American strike after Houthi attack
American forces struck a Houthi rebel site in Yemen early Saturday after the latter attacked a British tanker which “caught fire” in the Gulf of Aden, a new episode in their campaign targeting international maritime traffic in “solidarity ” with Gaza.
“At approximately 3:45 a.m. local time, the US Middle East Military Command (Centcom) carried out a strike against a Houthi anti-ship missile which was preparing to be launched in the Red Sea,” he announced on X, specifying that this missile presented an “imminent threat” to American destroyers and merchant ships in the region.
26,422 dead, new report from Hamas Ministry of Health
The Hamas Ministry of Health announced this Sunday a toll – unverifiable from an independent source – of 26,422 people killed, the majority women, children and adolescents, in the Gaza Strip since the start of the war between Israel and the movement. Palestinian Islamist. During the last 24 hours, 165 people were killed, says Hamas, which also reports 65,087 people injured since the start of the conflict on October 7.
Spain: 20,000 demonstrators in Madrid against the “genocide” in Gaza
“It’s not a war, it’s a genocide”: 20,000 people demonstrated on Saturday in Madrid, carrying Palestinian flags and chanting slogans against Israel, to protest against the war in Gaza. Behind a banner reading “Stop the genocide in Palestine”, the crowd waved Palestinian flags as well as some South African flags the day after the decision of the International Court of Justice (ICJ), which called on Israel to “take all measures in his power” to avoid genocide in Gaza. The ICJ was seized by South Africa, which considered that Israel was violating the United Nations Convention on Genocide.