Yasmine Z.Z - I Stand With Palestine

At least 41 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza today as incessant Israeli attacks continue to pound the enclave.

Yasmine Z.Z — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 07:31:31 +0000

Forty-one Palestinians killed in Gaza since dawn.

Our colleagues on the ground report this updated death toll from Israeli attacks.

Israel’s renewed assault on the enclave since March 18 comes as part of a “maximum pressure” campaign aimed at forcing Hamas to renegotiate the ceasefire deal agreed upon in January.

Hamas, however, has insisted on a return to the previously agreed deal and has offered to free all the captives at once in return for a permanent ceasefire.

Israel orders displacement from north Gaza, kills 4 in Beirut attack

Yasmine Z.Z — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 12:55:35 +0000

The majority of people in Rafah city are finding it hard to stay, especially in the central part and the Philadelphi Corridor, given the fact that the Israeli military did not leave the area during the first phase of the ceasefire.

Israeli forces have kept the area under their control, while deploying quadcopters, drones and heavy machineguns along the border.

The majority of people are on the move now, seeking shelter, not necessarily in the so-called “safe zone” – supposedly as designated by the Israeli military.

We have seen in the past months how this particular zone turned into more of a death trap with many of the displaced families, including women, children, the elderly, and the sick, killed in this “safe zone”.

The Israeli forces’ evacuation orders have been proven multiple times to be arbitrary, false, misleading and contradictory.

UN human rights office in Palestine slams Israel’s new attacks on Gaza.

Yasmine Z.Z — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 20:41:47 +0000

The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in the State of Palestine is horrified by the ongoing killings of Palestinian civilians in Gaza since the resumption of large-scale Israeli bombardments on Monday, according to a statement by the agency.

The statement said that as of Thursday, at least 506 Palestinians had been killed this week, including 200 children and at least 112 women as per the numbers shared by the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza.

That number has since been updated to nearly 600 killed.

“Air strikes and artillery shelling have struck homes, schools serving as shelters, and tents of internally displaced people – a pattern extensively documented by the UN Human Rights Office since October of 2023,” it added.

The agency also said the Israeli military appeared to have resumed the practice of using explosive weapons with wide-area effects in densely populated areas.

It stressed: “Conducting hostilities using such means and methods in densely populated areas causes civilian casualties at a mass scale and is not consistent with Israel’s obligations under international humanitarian law, including abiding by the fundamental principles of distinction, proportionality, and precautions in attack.”

Food charities rapidly closing as thousands in Gaza go hungry.

Yasmine Z.Z — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 13:56:42 +0000

The operator of 10 charity food kitchens and other humanitarian services in the Gaza Strip says only two food distribution centres are now open after Israel’s total blockage of any humanitarian goods.

“We had 80 pots every day that we were serving to people, now we’re working on about 20,” Omar Abuhammad, coordinator with the Heroic Hearts organisation, told Al Jazeera.

He said before Israel imposed the blockade, the kitchens were providing food for about 40,000 people in central Gaza’s Deir el-Balah. Now, only 10,000 Palestinian are receiving meals.

“As the main source of food for them, we no longer have the ability to serve them,” Abuhammad said.