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Al Jazeera
3 days ago
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- Al Jazeera
Ending the 'unjustified violence' in Gaza is a 'US political decision'
Dr Feroze Sidhwa, an American trauma surgeon who has volunteered in Gaza, told the UN Security Council on May 28 that only one country can end the dire medical situation in the occupied territory.
Al Jazeera
4 days ago
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- Al Jazeera
US surgeon tells the UN, Israel deliberately shot children in Gaza
NewsFeed US surgeon tells the UN, Israel deliberately shot children in Gaza The UN Security Council has heard testimony from a US surgeon who says he treated children who were deliberately shot in Gaza. Feroze Sidhwa also spoke to Al Jazeera and recounted the horrific injuries Israel is inflicting upon civilians.
4 days ago
- Health
Hundreds storm food warehouse in Gaza as starvation crisis grows
ABC News' Linsey Davis spoke with Dr. Feroze Sidhwa, an American who's worked extensively in Gaza, about the ongoing hunger crisis and what conditions are like on the ground. May 28, 2025
Yahoo
5 days ago
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- Yahoo
Gazan children wait for food in long lines as starvation looms
As the humanitarian crisis in Gaza continues to unfold, video showed children sitting in lines waiting for food on the side of the road on Tuesday. Two million people in the Gaza Strip face "extreme hunger and famine without immediate action," the World Food Programme said last week. The children gathered by a community kitchen, waiting with their empty pots, according to the video verified by ABC News. MORE: 'Heartbreaking': Thousands overwhelm Gaza food distribution site after aid blockade In the scramble for hot food, a child was scalded after hot soup was spilled on him, the video shows. The child is seen crying in pain as someone pours water on him. Another video showed a child scooping up flour spilled on the ground mixed with dirt. "The children of Gaza need protection," UNICEF, the U.N. agency for children, said in a statement on Tuesday. "They need food, water, and medicine. They need a ceasefire. But more than anything, they need immediate, collective action to stop this once and for all." Last week, more than a dozen World Food Programme trucks were looted in southern Gaza while en route to WFP supported bakeries. "These trucks were transporting critical food supplies for hungry populations waiting anxiously for assistance. Hunger, desperation, and anxiety over whether more food aid is coming, is contributing to rising insecurity," the WFP said in a statement. The Israeli government had been implementing a blockade on all humanitarian aid being sent into Gaza since March 2. The blockade was instituted to pressure Hamas to release the remaining hostages, Israel said. MORE: Aid trucks looted in southern Gaza as famine looms due to blockade: UN Humanitarian groups and the United Nations have distanced themselves from the new plan to distribute aid into Gaza that began last week. Aid trucks started slowly re-entering Gaza last week, according to the U.N. and the Gaza Government Media Office. "WFP cannot safely operate under a distribution system that limits the number of bakeries and sites where Gaza's population can access food. WFP and its partners must also be allowed to distribute food parcels directly to families -- the most effective way to prevent widespread starvation," the WFP said last week. The Israeli blockade on humanitarian aid entering the Gaza Strip has caused widespread malnutrition and conditions likely to lead to famine, according to the U.N. and other international aid organizations. One in five people in Gaza, about 500,000 people, faces starvation, the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification platform said on May 12, according to the U.N. Of those, 71,000 children need treatment for acute malnutrition, according to the report. Dr. Feroze Sidhwa, an American physician who volunteered in Gaza in 2024 and last month, spoke at the U.N. on Wednesday, describing the day Israel broke the ceasefire in March as the day he "witnessed the most extreme casualty event of my career." He said he had 221 trauma patients in his care. Sidhwa also criticized the controversial new aid plan for Gaza, which he said constitutes a "weaponization and politicization of aid." "If this continues, there will be no Palestinian doctors left -- no one to care for the sick and wounded," Sidwha said. "No Palestinians left to rebuild the health care system. We are losing a generation before our eyes, condemning patients to die from hunger, disease and despair -- deaths that could have been prevented." Gazan children wait for food in long lines as starvation looms originally appeared on
5 days ago
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Gazan children wait for food in long lines as starvation looms
As the humanitarian crisis in Gaza continues to unfold, video showed children sitting in lines waiting for food on the side of the road on Tuesday. Two million people in the Gaza Strip face "extreme hunger and famine without immediate action," the World Food Programme said last week. The children gathered by a community kitchen, waiting with their empty pots, according to the video verified by ABC News. In the scramble for hot food, a child was scalded after hot soup was spilled on him, the video shows. The child is seen crying in pain as someone pours water on him. Another video showed a child scooping up flour spilled on the ground mixed with dirt. "The children of Gaza need protection," UNICEF, the U.N. agency for children, said in a statement on Tuesday. "They need food, water, and medicine. They need a ceasefire. But more than anything, they need immediate, collective action to stop this once and for all." Last week, more than a dozen World Food Programme trucks were looted in southern Gaza while en route to WFP supported bakeries. "These trucks were transporting critical food supplies for hungry populations waiting anxiously for assistance. Hunger, desperation, and anxiety over whether more food aid is coming, is contributing to rising insecurity," the WFP said in a statement. The Israeli government had been implementing a blockade on all humanitarian aid being sent into Gaza since March 2. The blockade was instituted to pressure Hamas to release the remaining hostages, Israel said. Humanitarian groups and the United Nations have distanced themselves from the new plan to distribute aid into Gaza that began last week. Aid trucks started slowly re-entering Gaza last week, according to the U.N. and the Gaza Government Media Office. "WFP cannot safely operate under a distribution system that limits the number of bakeries and sites where Gaza's population can access food. WFP and its partners must also be allowed to distribute food parcels directly to families -- the most effective way to prevent widespread starvation," the WFP said last week. The Israeli blockade on humanitarian aid entering the Gaza Strip has caused widespread malnutrition and conditions likely to lead to famine, according to the U.N. and other international aid organizations. One in five people in Gaza, about 500,000 people, faces starvation, the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification platform said on May 12, according to the U.N. Of those, 71,000 children need treatment for acute malnutrition, according to the report. Dr. Feroze Sidhwa, an American physician who volunteered in Gaza in 2024 and last month, spoke at the U.N. on Wednesday, describing the day Israel broke the ceasefire in March as the day he "witnessed the most extreme casualty event of my career." He said he had 221 trauma patients in his care. Sidhwa also criticized the controversial new aid plan for Gaza, which he said constitutes a "weaponization and politicization of aid." "If this continues, there will be no Palestinian doctors left -- no one to care for the sick and wounded," Sidwha said. "No Palestinians left to rebuild the health care system. We are losing a generation before our eyes, condemning patients to die from hunger, disease and despair -- deaths that could have been prevented."
