For the 17th consecutive week, protesters took to the streets in Gadigal for Palestine, while in Walyalup/Fremantle a ZIM ship was held up for hours. Peter Boyle and Alex Salmon report.
Philippe Lazzarini expressed dismay by the speed at which international funding has been cut to UNRWA saying the decisions threaten humanitarian work in the Gaza Strip. Binoy Kampmark reports.
Around one million Palestinians have been displaced and 14 staff members of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) have died since the 7 of October, said the agency’s Director of Communications. UNIFEED
Secretary-General António Guterres expressed concern over the recent exchange of fire along the Blue Line and recent reported attacks from Southern Lebanon into Israel and stressed that “spillover of the conflict” must be avoided. UNIFEED<br />
A UN spokesperson said, “the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) says that the number of people displaced across Gaza has now topped 263,000 men, women and children – an increase of 40 percent since yesterday.” UNIFEED