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Al Jazeera
5 days ago
- General
- Al Jazeera
Week in Pictures: From Gaza starvation deaths to Thailand-Cambodia clashes
A roundup of some of last week's events. A woman throws flour as she protests outside the Egyptian Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, during a demonstration against the Israeli war and what they say is the starvation of civilians in the Gaza Strip. [Hussein Malla/AP Photo] Published On 27 Jul 2025 27 Jul 2025 From Russia and Ukraine exchanging more air strikes to a tragic Bangladeshi fighter plane crash claiming dozens of lives, here is a look at the week in photos. North Korean youth and students dance during an evening gala with a firework display to celebrate the 72nd anniversary of the armistice of the Korean War, at Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang, North Korea. [Cha Song Ho/AP Photo] A firefighter tries to extinguish a wildfire as a helicopter flies in the northwestern suburb of Kryoneri, in Athens, Greece. The fire's origin is unknown, but 145 firefighters, 44 fire engines, 10 planes, and seven helicopters are battling the blaze. [Yorgos Karahalis/AP Photo] Displaced Cambodians receive water at the Battkhao Resettlement Camp in Oddar Meanchey province, Cambodia, as border clashes between Thailand and Cambodia entered their third day. The fighting, which began on Thursday, has killed at least 34 people and displaced more than 168,000. [Anton L Delgado/AP Photo] Naima Abu Ful sits with her malnourished two-year-old son, Yazan, at their home in Gaza City's Shati refugee camp. According to the Gaza Ministry of Health, five additional starvation deaths have been recorded in hospitals due to the Israeli blockade, raising the malnutrition death toll to 127 since the conflict began. Among the victims are 85 children. [Jehad Alshrafi/AP Photo] Bangladesh's fire service and security personnel launched a search and rescue operation after an air force training jet crashed into a school in Dhaka. The accident took place on July 21, killing at least 19 people and injuring dozens, marking the country's most devastating aviation disaster in decades. [Jubair Bin Iqbal/AFP] A woman with her dogs leaves the site of a Russian air raid in Kharkiv, Ukraine. [Sofiia Gatilova/Reuters] A woman participates in the llama shepherd queen contest during the 15th National Camelid Expo, in El Alto, Bolivia, as part of the country's bicentennial celebrations. [Juan Karita/AP Photo] The remains of a destroyed tank, following deadly clashes between Druze fighters, Bedouin tribes and government forces, in Syria's predominantly Druze city of Suwayda, Syria. [Khalil Ashawi/Reuters] Participants of The Gallops' 2025 show their skills during the competition near the alpine Song-Kol Lake, 280km (175 miles) southeast of Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. [Vladimir Voronin/AP Photo]
Hindustan Times
7 days ago
- Health
- Hindustan Times
Palestinians stare at ‘die hungry or leave territory' as Gaza starvation peaks, Israel blames Hamas again
In Gaza, a girl asked a doctor, 'Am I (still) beautiful?' She had lost almost all her hair due to severe malnutrition. 'Doctor, will my hair grow again?' she asked Dr Wafaa Abu Nimer at a hospital in Khan Younis in southern Gaza, who described it to aid agency Amnesty. Naima Abu Ful, a Palestinian refugee at the Shati camp in Gaza, with her two-year-old malnourished child, Yazan.(Jehad Alshrafi/AP) Over 110 Gazans, most of them kids, have reportedly died of starvation ever since the latest food and aid shortage allegedly created by Israel, which has been taking severe military action in the Palestinian territory since the October 7 attack by Hamas. What international agencies say International agencies have accused Israel of using starvation as a weapon of war, with some calling it 'part of ongoing genocide'. The World Food Program of the United Nations has said Gaza is seeing 'new and astonishing levels of desperation", and that a third of its population has not been able to eat for several days at a time. Also read | Why Israel's chaotic new program has turned deadly A report by a global conglomerate of aid agencies feared this back in May. 'If the situation persists, nearly 71,000 children under the age of five are expected to be acutely malnourished over the next eleven months,' the World Health Organization noted, citing the a report by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC). After being accused of halting aid convoys, Israel sidelined the UN and started its own scheme of aid two months ago; but UN estimates say over 1,000 Gazans have been killed in shooting by the Israeli forces near the distribution sites. Israel on 'sociocide' and starvation Humanitarian groups have urged the Israeli government to work with the UN and allow aid into Gaza, while news organisations from the BBC and AFP to Al Jazeera have called for action to protect local journalists and allow the foreign press to enter Gaza. But Israel's actions — more so its policies — have left Gaza uninhabitable, Derek Summerfield, a UK-based psychiatrist with a focus on the effects of war, told Al Jazeera. Parcels of humanitarian aid await transfer into Gaza at the Kerem Shalom crossing.(Amir Cohen/Reuters) Calling it a 'sociocidal war", he further told the news outlet that Israel's policy has 'destroyed the idea of a society' through a deliberate destruction of community infrastructure such as schools, hospitals and mosques. Israel has stuck to its stance that Hamas is to blame, and claimed that its forces are acting by international law. "No famine [has been] caused by Israel. There is a man-made shortage engineered by Hamas," a spokesperson of Benjamin Netanyahu's Israel government said, according to The Times of Israel. Even during truce talks that have almost collapsed, when Hamas demanded restoration of the UN aid network, Israel said it set up its own system to prevent Hamas from stealing food and medicine. 'No evidence of theft by Hamas' An internal US government analysis, reported by news agency Reuters on Friday, found no evidence of theft of US-funded humanitarian supplies by Hamas. The analysis was conducted by a bureau within the US Agency for International Development (USAID) by late June, examining 156 incidents between October 2023 and May this year, said the report. A spokesperson of the Donald Trump administration disputed the findings and reiterated the charge of 'aid corruption', alleging misreporting. What next for Gaza residents and refugees? The spectre for the Gazans, meanwhile, grew more severe as ceasefire talks neared failure again. Israel and the US have withdrawn their teams from Qatar, where the negotiations are taking place, alleging that Hamas made unreasonable demands. Some protests demanding an end to the war in Gaza have been held in Israel (as seen in this picture from Tel Aviv) even as polls the majority of Israelis back its government and army's actions in Palestinian territories.(Shir Torem/Reuters) The two sides disagree over the extent of the pullback of Israeli forces from Gaza territory, Bloomberg reported. The breakdown came even as France — planning to recognise Palestinian statehood — joined a growing chorus of global voices against Israel's actions in Gaza. Also read | France joins 147 countries as it moves to formally recognise Palestine Israel wants to make conditions in Gaza 'unable to support human life', according to a Dutch-Palestinian Middle East analyst Mouin Rabbani. 'If it can reduce life to such a level and at the same time increase the level of chaos and anarchy, the thinking is that people will leave,' he was quoted as saying. The Israeli government — committed to military action 'until all hostages are released and Hamas is no a threat' — has been speaking about setting up a 'humanitarian city' on the border with Egypt where the Gazans could be moved. Critics have called it planning for a concentration camp. Israeli bulldozers, at the same time, are sweeping away the rubble of thousands of buildings razed in its action in Gaza. Trump has already spoken of setting up a waterfront resort-like city on the territory taken by Israel in its latest war on Gaza, which is reported to have claimed more than 50,000 lives.
