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Yahoo
2 days ago
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- Yahoo
UK will 'seek to do more if it can' for Gaza's injured children, foreign secretary David Lammy says
The foreign secretary has said the UK will do more to help injured children in Gaza if it can, following Sky News' reporting on their plight. was on a whistlestop tour of the Arctic when we asked him about calling for the UK to offer children in Gaza life-saving treatment. Israel-Gaza latest: He said: "The scale of the medical catastrophe for children and the population of Gaza is horrendous, and that's why we increased our aid. "What will end this suffering is a ceasefire but if there is more that we can do to end the suffering, of course, we will seek to do that." We read the foreign secretary the words of Doctor Victoria Rose, a British plastic surgeon working in . : "Every time I come in, I say it's bad, but this is on a completely different scale. It's carnage… we really are on our knees now." Mr Lammy was speaking as reports broke that Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had accepted a ceasefire brokered by the Trump administration. Hamas said on Thursday night that it was still discussing the deal, while an official warned that the Israeli response to the proposal failed to meet the group's demands. The foreign secretary said he hopes "we're about to see a breakthrough that is not just a ceasefire for a few days, but is a sustained ceasefire that brings an end to some of the horrors that we are seeing out of Gaza and sees the return of the hostages". He was also sharply critical of the worsening situation in Gaza. "The scenes of children dying, the horrors of people not being able to get aid are unacceptable, it's horrendous," he said. Read more: But Mr Lammy stopped short of saying was guilty of a genocide - saying that was a decision for judges in international tribunals. "We have always been clear that this is a decision for the international courts," he said. "I have to stand by our law, and I determined that there was a clear risk of a breach of international humanitarian law." The British government this month with Mr Netanyahu's government, in response to Israel ramping up its latest military offensive in Gaza and limiting aid to the enclave.
Sydney Morning Herald
2 days ago
- Politics
- Sydney Morning Herald
When Israel acts shamefully, we Jews must be willing to be ashamed of it
A few weeks ago I signed a statement from members of the Jewish community calling for an end to the Israel-Gaza war, and an end to the 'humanitarian crisis' unfolding under the Netanyahu-led government. The statement was meant to be published as a paid advertisement in The Australian Jewish News, but I found out last week the editor was not willing to run it as it was written. I have avoided signing statements on this war until now. Here in Australia, there has been fierce conflict over how we respond to the horror of Hamas's terror of October 7 and the subsequent decimation of Gaza and its people. What date to mark the beginning of 'it all'? What label for what kind of trauma is being inflicted, and for what reason? I have kept a notebook of alternating news reports of the same event to observe this dissonance at how we describe what we are witnessing. But this week, driving my children to school, I heard British plastic surgeon Dr Victoria Rose, who works at the Nasser hospital in Khan Younis in Gaza. Every 40 minutes, she said, a child dies there. The children dying are between 1 and 11 and many are dying because they are so malnourished their bodies cannot fight the infections from their burns and wounds. The hospital is running out of the disinfectant they need to operate. These are unequivocal accounts of a humanitarian crisis that can and must be stopped. There have been times since October 7 that I have felt dizzy trying to find my sense of what is true about this war. I know my personal experiences of concrete antisemitism over the years, words said to me, to my children – 'Jewish pig', 'gas your family' – swastikas sent to my child in a school group chat. And there is no doubt that those who wield such words to me will find community in opposition to Israel. To diagnose what exactly is behind denial or minimisation of the atrocities of October 7 is less concrete, but at the very least perverse. But I find my feet again when I hear of these children. When I think of how their deaths will not contribute to the return of the hostages. When I think of the IDF soldier recently jailed for refusing to return to service, Captain Ron Feiner, who has served 270 days since October 7, who said: 'I'm horrified by the never-ending war in Gaza, by the abandonment of the hostages, by the continued killing of innocent people, and by the complete lack of political vision … I must resist in every way I can to bring this war to an end.' He is among 300 such soldiers who have refused to serve. I have a love for Jewish tradition's ethical grandeur, its long struggle for dignity in exile, and its rich intellectual inheritance. And it is precisely because of this love that I must speak of Jewish ethical responsibility.
The Age
2 days ago
- Politics
- The Age
When Israel acts shamefully, we Jews must be willing to be ashamed of it
A few weeks ago I signed a statement from members of the Jewish community calling for an end to the Israel-Gaza war, and an end to the 'humanitarian crisis' unfolding under the Netanyahu-led government. The statement was meant to be published as a paid advertisement in The Australian Jewish News, but I found out last week the editor was not willing to run it as it was written. I have avoided signing statements on this war until now. Here in Australia, there has been fierce conflict over how we respond to the horror of Hamas's terror of October 7 and the subsequent decimation of Gaza and its people. What date to mark the beginning of 'it all'? What label for what kind of trauma is being inflicted, and for what reason? I have kept a notebook of alternating news reports of the same event to observe this dissonance at how we describe what we are witnessing. But this week, driving my children to school, I heard British plastic surgeon Dr Victoria Rose, who works at the Nasser hospital in Khan Younis in Gaza. Every 40 minutes, she said, a child dies there. The children dying are between 1 and 11 and many are dying because they are so malnourished their bodies cannot fight the infections from their burns and wounds. The hospital is running out of the disinfectant they need to operate. These are unequivocal accounts of a humanitarian crisis that can and must be stopped. There have been times since October 7 that I have felt dizzy trying to find my sense of what is true about this war. I know my personal experiences of concrete antisemitism over the years, words said to me, to my children – 'Jewish pig', 'gas your family' – swastikas sent to my child in a school group chat. And there is no doubt that those who wield such words to me will find community in opposition to Israel. To diagnose what exactly is behind denial or minimisation of the atrocities of October 7 is less concrete, but at the very least perverse. But I find my feet again when I hear of these children. When I think of how their deaths will not contribute to the return of the hostages. When I think of the IDF soldier recently jailed for refusing to return to service, Captain Ron Feiner, who has served 270 days since October 7, who said: 'I'm horrified by the never-ending war in Gaza, by the abandonment of the hostages, by the continued killing of innocent people, and by the complete lack of political vision … I must resist in every way I can to bring this war to an end.' He is among 300 such soldiers who have refused to serve. I have a love for Jewish tradition's ethical grandeur, its long struggle for dignity in exile, and its rich intellectual inheritance. And it is precisely because of this love that I must speak of Jewish ethical responsibility.
Yahoo
2 days ago
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- Yahoo
'What did they do to be burned and bombed?': Charity calls on UK to offer Gaza children life-saving treatment
A British charity has written to the prime minister and foreign secretary, urging them to allow seriously ill children from Gaza into the UK to receive life-saving medical treatment. Warning: This article contains images readers may find distressing The co-founder of Project Pure Hope told Sky News it was way past the time for words. "Now, we need action," Omar Dinn said. He's identified two children inside who urgently need help and is appealing to the UK government to issue visas as a matter of urgency. Israel-Gaza latest: Britain has taken only two patients from Gaza for medical treatment in 20 months of Israeli bombardment. "Most of the people affected by this catastrophe that's unfolding in Gaza are children," he continued. "And children are the most vulnerable. "They have nothing to do with the politics, and we really just need to see them for what they are. "They are children, just like my children, just like everybody's children in this country - and we have the ability to help them." Sky News has been sent video blogs from British surgeons working in Gaza right now which show the conditions and difficulties they're working under. They prepare for potential immediate evacuation whilst facing long lists, mainly of children, needing life-saving emergency treatment day after day. Dr Victoria Rose told us: "Every time I come, I say it's really bad, but this is on a completely different scale now. It's mass casualties. It's utter carnage. "We are incapable of getting through this volume. We don't have the personnel. We don't have the medical supplies. And we really don't have the facilities. "We are the last standing hospital in the south of Gaza. We really are on our knees now." One of her patients is three-year-old Hatem, who was badly burned when an Israeli airstrike hit the family apartment. His pregnant mother and father were both killed, leaving him an orphan. He has 35 percent burns on his small body. "It's a massive burn for a little guy like this," Dr Rose says. "He's so adorable. His eyelids are burnt. His hands are burnt. His feet are burnt." Hatem's grandfather barely leaves his hospital bedside. Hatem Senior told us: "What did these children do wrong to suffer such injuries? To be burned and bombed? We ask God to grant them healing." The second child identified by the charity is Karam, who, aged one, is trying to survive in a tent in deeply unhygienic surroundings with a protruding intestine. He's suffering from a birth defect called Hirschsprung disease, which could be easily operated on with the right skills and equipment - unavailable to him in Gaza right now. Read more: Karam's mother Manal told our Gaza camera crew: "No matter how much I describe how much my son is suffering, I wouldn't be able to describe it enough. I swear I am constantly crying." Children are among the bulk of casualties - some 16,000 have been killed, according to the latest figures from local health officials - and make up the majority of those being operated on, according to the British surgical team on the ground.
Toronto Sun
2 days ago
- General
- Toronto Sun
Humanitarian group pauses Canadian aid trucks bound for Gaza, citing Israeli restrictions
Published May 29, 2025 • 1 minute read A truck loaded with humanitarian aid for the Gaza Strip makes its way to the Kerem Shalom crossing in southern Israel, in Israel-Gaza border, Tuesday, May 20, 2025. Photo by Maya Alleruzzo / AP Photo OTTAWA — A humanitarian group says it's holding back 17 trucks filled with Canadian aid meant for desperate Palestinians in Gaza, citing what it calls a dangerous aid distribution system implemented by Israel. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. THIS CONTENT IS RESERVED FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists. Support local journalists and the next generation of journalists. Daily puzzles including the New York Times Crossword. SUBSCRIBE TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLES Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists. Support local journalists and the next generation of journalists. Daily puzzles including the New York Times Crossword. REGISTER / SIGN IN TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLES Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account. Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments. Enjoy additional articles per month. Get email updates from your favourite authors. THIS ARTICLE IS FREE TO READ REGISTER TO UNLOCK. Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments Enjoy additional articles per month Get email updates from your favourite authors Don't have an account? Create Account Human Concern International says it has food and medical supplies sitting in Jerusalem that it doesn't feel comfortable taking into the Gaza Strip after Israeli soldiers fired warning shots near crowds of desperate people rushing for food on Tuesday. Israel implemented the distribution system and claims Hamas is stealing large amounts of aid, a claim global institutions say hasn't been proven independently. Aid groups such as Save the Children say putting a warring party in charge of aid distribution politicizes the process, particularly when Israel is only making aid available far from the areas it's trying to clear of Palestinians. The United Nations, which has withdrawn from working with the new system, says Israel's restrictions on food aid in the territory are creating desperation and risking famine. Aid groups say Ottawa has fallen silent on the situation in Gaza in the days since Prime Minister Mark Carney and the leaders of France and the United Kingdom issued a joint statement threatening to impose 'targeted sanctions' over Israel's renewed military offensive in Gaza. Read More Toronto & GTA Ontario Toronto & GTA Toronto & GTA Sunshine Girls
