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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 339

humanitarian aid

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to IDF troops in Rafah on the Gaza-Egypt border, July 18, 2024. (Avi Ohayon/GPO)
September 4, 2024, 3:45 am
PM said to tell IDF to prepare for possibility of taking over aid distribution in Gaza
Netanyahu hinted at the move during Monday press conference; IDF Chief of Staff Halevi said to oppose it, saying it would unnecessarily endanger soldiers
By ToI Staff
Armed and masked Palestinians seen on trucks loaded with international humanitarian aid entering Gaza through the Israeli Kerem Shalom Crossing in the southern Gaza Strip, April 3, 2024. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)
August 31, 2024, 1:25 am
US aid group admits Gaza convoy was taken over by unvetted people before IDF struck them
Israel says individuals were gunmen, which it specifically targeted without harming others; Anera does not explain their presence but says it did not view them as ‘hostile threat’
By Emanuel Fabian
IDF troops are seen operating in the Gaza Strip in this handout photo published on August 29, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)
August 30, 2024, 2:14 pm
Daily Briefing Aug. 30: Day 329 – Has Israel regained enough deterrence for a ceasefire?
Diplomatic correspondent Lazar Berman on US Vice President Kamala Harris’s omitted statement, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant’s domino plan to get Israelis back home in the north
By ToI Staff
Displaced Palestinians carry a box of food rations provided by the World Food Programme (WFP) at a makeshift street market in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on March 14, 2024. (Mohammed Abed/AFP)
August 30, 2024, 12:58 pm
US says Israel behind aid convoy shooting, must ‘immediately rectify’ its conduct
US envoy claims IDF pinned incident on communication error; army is yet to formally comment after WFP paused Gaza activity following shooting toward car, in which nobody was hurt
By Jacob Magid, Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff
Illustrative: Volunteers with the Hashomer Yosh (Guardians of Judea and Samaria) organization which was sanctioned by the US on August 28, 2024. (Screenshot from promotional campaign video for Hashomer Yosh; used in accordance with clause 27a of the copyright law)
August 28, 2024, 11:12 pm
US issues new batch of sanctions targeting West Bank settlers amid rampant violence
Biden administration blacklists security chief of radical Yitzhar settlement and a group funded by Israeli gov’t that secures illegal outposts; PM views move ‘with great severity’
By Jacob Magid and Jeremy Sharon
Workers of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) hand out flour rations and other supplies to people at an UNRWA warehouse in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on December 12, 2023. (Mohammed Abed/AFP)
August 26, 2024, 10:36 pm
UN says humanitarian work in Gaza halted as IDF orders evacuation in Deir al-Balah
Official says personnel have been focusing operations in the area but cannot continue as military instructs civilians to leave during fight with Hamas
By AFP
Activists blocking the Nitzana crossing to Gaza are forcibly removed by police during protests against the transfer of humanitarian aid by Israel, April 11, 2024. (Courtesy Tzav 9)
August 20, 2024, 5:41 pm
Sanctioned by US, activists who tried to block aid to Gaza change course
Leaders of Tzav 9, which has attacked humanitarian supply convoys headed to Strip, say their focus shifted from ‘field activity’ to political efforts to influence war policy
By Ariela Lopez
Tents housing internally displaced Palestinians stand on the beach in Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on May 10, 2024. (Photo by AFP)
August 17, 2024, 12:31 am
Anti-Israel activists seek to break naval blockade on Gaza, deliver humanitarian aid
Participants in Freedom Flotilla Coalition ‘expect to encounter resistance’; 2010 attempt to break blockade ended in death of 10 activists after they attacked Israeli troops
By Reuters and ToI Staff
The Zomi camp for displaced people in southwestern Gaza. (Courtesy, Damour for Community Development)
August 9, 2024, 1:26 am
Palestinians, Israelis partner to bring off-grid solutions to Gaza camps
Damour for Community Development and Arava Institute for Environmental Studies want to show international donors value of wastewater treatment, desalination, solar energy solutions
By Sue Surkes
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich leads a faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, July 22, 2024. (Oren Ben Hakoon/ Flash90/ File)
August 8, 2024, 8:20 pm
Smotrich stands by ‘misunderstood’ comment seeming to justify Gaza starvation
Minister claims detractors decontextualizing remarks in which he said it could be morally fine for Israel to withhold aid from Gazans until hostages are freed; Egypt joins blowback
By ToI Staff
A truck carrying humanitarian aid for the Gaza Strip passes through the Kerem Shalom border crossing between southern Israel and Gaza, on June 17, 2024. (Ahikam Seri/AFP)
August 6, 2024, 10:59 pm
5 troops hurt in missile strike, prompting closure of road to Gaza humanitarian zone
Two soldiers in serious condition; IDF temporarily closes route from crossing to area used to deliver aid to Palestinians; PIJ fires 3 rockets at southern communities, none hurt
By Emanuel Fabian
File: Palestinians collect water from a UNICEF tanker in Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on July 9, 2024. (Eyad BABA / AFP)
August 5, 2024, 4:02 pm
Smotrich: It may be ‘justified’ to starve 2 million Gazans, but world won’t let us
Far-right minister expresses support for resettling Gaza, says October 7 wouldn’t have happened had it not been for 2005 disengagement from Strip
By ToI Staff
United Nations staff members inspect the remains of a car used by US-based aid group World Central Kitchen hit by an Israeli strike the previous day in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on April 2, 2024. (AFP)
August 2, 2024, 9:23 am
Australia says deadly IDF strike on Gaza aid convoy was result of ‘serious failures’
In April incident, army confused locally contracted security guards for Hamas gunmen, fired second and third times in violation of own policy, report finds
By Agencies
A young Palestinian amputee evacuated from the Gaza Strip sits in a wheelchair as a medic looks on, aboard an Emirati floating hospital in the Egyptian port of Al-Arish on July 4, 2024, during an organised press tour. (Photo by Giuseppe CACACE / AFP)
July 29, 2024, 6:07 pm
High Court gives government 7 days to come up with Gaza medical evacuation policy
Hours earlier, Netanyahu canceled evacuation of 150 ill and injured children from Gaza; petitioner says decision ‘cruel and dangerous,’ based on ‘cynical political moves’
By Jeremy Sharon
A US Army vessel is seen moored at the US-built floating pier Trident that connected to the beach on the coast of the Gaza Strip, June 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
July 25, 2024, 3:55 pm
The rise and fall of the US aid pier for Gaza
The pier was dismantled last week after delivering less aid than hoped due to fire, weather and distribution struggles
By Reuters and ToI Staff
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