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Channel 4
3 minutes ago
- Channel 4
Helping starving Gazans from 3,000 miles away in Manchester
Ghassan was sitting in his Manchester room when we arrived to meet him. He was answering phone calls from his team trying to work out how many families they could feed – 3,000 miles away in Gaza. Ghassan Ghaben, who is Palestinian and was born in Gaza, is the co-founder of Reviving Gaza, a mutual aid group set up to help displaced Palestinian families. He runs the group with his sister Amal, who's now based in Egypt, and a network of volunteers inside the strip. At first, their focus was on helping people survive the bombardment or displacement. But now, they're are simply trying to feed as many people as possible. In March, Israel cut off all supplies to Gaza. By May, some aid resumed but under new restrictions. The UN has since warned that the worst-case scenario of famine is currently unfolding in the Gaza Strip. Starvation is spreading and children under five are dying from hunger-related causes. Ghassan says: 'The Israelis don't wany any organisations working efficiently in Gaza and distributing food the way it should be distributed. They want chaos. Those big organisations are not able to do any work but for us it's different. We have the people from there and they have the contacts.' 'The Israelis don't wany any organisations working efficiently in Gaza and distributing food the way it should be distributed. They want chaos.' – Ghassan Ghaben The Israeli authorities deny they are blocking the flow of aid and say the UN are failing to distribute it. They also accuse Hamas of stealing it, but internal US government analysis also found no evidence of systematic theft of US-funded aid. But since May, the main way to get aid has been at the controversial US-Israel backed GHF sites. Not everyone is able to access aid distribution sites and prices have skyrocketed in Gaza's markets. So the Reviving Gaza team are stepping in, using money raised from donations to buy food that is too expensive for most Gazans – and then distributing it more evenly. Amal says they're focused on helping the most vulnerable 'orphans, mothers alone, and the elderly', those who have no way of accessing food. But with limited access to food and funds, they can only feed families day by day. Later in the afternoon, Ghassan calls Ola, one of the team's volunteers in Gaza. The 20 year old smiles as Ghassan calls but her smile hides the risks of the job. At least three Reviving Gaza volunteers have been killed, among them Frans Al Salmi – a talented artist and life-long friend of Amal's who was in charge of aid distribution in the north. 'I know she's not with me now but her soul is with me always. I open her messages everyday.' For Amal, Frans's legacy is about Gazans helping each other survive; one day at a time. Only 14 per cent of aid needed has entered Gaza since May, Israeli data shows 'Skin on top of bones': Gaza aid coming in, but not enough Should Israel be held accountable for Gaza aid queue deaths?
Daily Record
3 minutes ago
- Daily Record
Nicola Sturgeon opens up on suffering miscarriage and reveals 'I always felt it was a girl'
Nicola Sturgeon opens up on suffering miscarriage and reveals 'I always felt it was a girl' The former first minister admitted she still carried a "sense of guilt" following her miscarriage as she felt "conflicted about the pregnancy". Nicola Sturgeon was speaking with ITV News (Image: ITV News) Nicola Sturgeon has spoken in emotional detail about the miscarriage she suffered at the age of 40 in 2010. Speaking on a primetime ITV News interview tonight, the former first minister admitted she still carried a "sense of guilt" following her miscarriage as she had felt "conflicted about the pregnancy". Sturgeon, who was then serving as deputy first minister, suffered a miscarriage on December 30, 2010 and spent the morning of Hogmanay at the early pregnancy clinic at Glasgow Royal Infirmary with her husband Peter Murrell. Speaking to ITV News presenter Julie Etchingham, the ex-SNP leader said: "To this day and possibly forever, I carry a sense of guilt that I miscarried the baby because I had been conflicted about the pregnancy. It was very close to the 2011 Scottish election, the SNP would be going for reelection. "I would've been six months pregnant at the time. Will I be able to cope? "I still carry a bit of that guilt. If I had been genuinely happy with the pregnancy, if I genuinely wanted it unequivocally and unambiguously, if I hadn't had all those moments of wishing I hadn't been pregnant, would I, would the miscarriage not have happened? "Was that my punishment for not, and it's totally irrational. I get how irrational that is." The MSP, who stands from Holyrood next year, continued: "I was in the toilet. And I'm not gonna get into the graphic detail, buteffectively, and I've heard other women describe it like this as well, I, I managed to call Peter through, and effectively we flushed what would've become our child down the toilet." Etchingham responded: "You vividly imagined this baby that you lost, who she was. Just tell me that bit that you wrote about her? Sturgeon added: 'I always felt it was a girl. I can see her in my mind's eye. Dark hair, dark eyes. "She'll be 14 now. Um, so it's, it is a bizarre thing for somebody who I've never had that overwhelming maternal yearning. "I don't feel incomplete because I don't have a child. And yet that little girl, I can totally conjure up in my mind and still feel, feel a sense of loss over her and guilt. She's a part of, of my story." Article continues below
BBC News
4 minutes ago
- BBC News
Newshour Funerals held for Al Jazeera journalists killed in Gaza
The Israeli military says it targeted 28-year-old correspondent Anas al-Sharif, alleging he had "served as the head of a terrorist cell in Hamas", but has produced little evidence to support that claim. We speak to Al Jazeera's Managing Editor. Also in the programme: The Colombian Senator Miguel Uribe Turbay has died from wounds sustained when he was shot at a campaign rally in June; and mentally fit at 96 - we meet the man willing to have his mental arithmetic tested on a television gameshow. (Photo: Al Jazeera staff members gather at the network's studios, to remember their colleagues Anas Al-Sharif, Mohammed Qreiqeh, Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal and another colleague, who were killed in Gaza City by an Israeli strike. Credit: Reuters/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa)
