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United Nations agencies report difficulties in providing assistance to many of Gaza’s two million residents amid escalating violence in Palestinian territory and Israel.
U.N. officials are expressing alarm at the rising number of casualties and suffering of civilians on both the Palestinian and Israeli sides of the conflict. The Gaza Ministry of Health says 119 Palestinians have been killed, including 31 children, and 830 people have been wounded. Seven people reportedly have been killed, including a six-year-old boy and a soldier, in Israel.
The U.N. office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said more than 200 housing units in densely populated areas of Gaza reportedly have been destroyed or severely damaged. OCHA spokesman Jens Laerke said the fighting has disrupted teaching in 31 education facilities, including schools, vocational training centers, and higher education facilities.
U.S. submits to pressure at U.N. to debate Israel-Palestine
AZERBAIJAN SEIZES ARMENIAN TERRITORY: Following a bloody 2020 conflict that saw Azerbaijan seize control of parts of the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh enclave, Armenia said Thursday that Azerbaijan troops have advanced a further two miles into its territory. Armenia’s acting Prime Minister
What’s really going on? Azerbaijan may be attempting to pressure Armenia into delivering elements of a Russian-brokered ceasefire to the 2020 conflict. French President
.” Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) called Azerbaijan’s actions a “dangerous and illegal act of aggression“ and urged the Biden administration to deliver an ultimatum to withdraw or “face serious consequences.