#endstarvation – ISWP https://istandwithpalestine.org I Stand with Humanity. I Stand on the Right Side of History Tue, 02 Sep 2025 13:34:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 https://istandwithpalestine.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/cropped-I-STAND-WITH-PALESTINE-1-32x32.png #endstarvation – ISWP https://istandwithpalestine.org 32 32 The Global Sumud Flotilla to Gaza: Everything you need to know https://istandwithpalestine.org/story/the-global-sumud-flotilla-to-gaza-everything-you-need-to-know/ https://istandwithpalestine.org/story/the-global-sumud-flotilla-to-gaza-everything-you-need-to-know/#respond Tue, 02 Sep 2025 13:34:15 +0000 https://istandwithpalestine.org/story/the-global-sumud-flotilla-to-gaza-everything-you-need-to-know/ More than 50 ships are heading to Gaza to challenge Israel’s illegal blockade and deliver urgent humanitarian aid.
A global fleet of boats is preparing to set sail for Gaza as part of an international maritime initiative aimed at delivering humanitarian aid to starving people in Gaza.

The first convoy, consisting of dozens of small civilian vessels carrying activists, humanitarians, doctors, seafarers, and humanitarian supplies, is scheduled to depart from Spanish ports on August 31, to meet up in Tunisia with a second wave on September 4.

]]> https://istandwithpalestine.org/story/the-global-sumud-flotilla-to-gaza-everything-you-need-to-know/feed/ 0 Starved Gaza residents forced to pick airdropped rice mixed with sand https://istandwithpalestine.org/story/starved-gaza-residents-forced-to-pick-airdropped-rice-mixed-with-sand/ https://istandwithpalestine.org/story/starved-gaza-residents-forced-to-pick-airdropped-rice-mixed-with-sand/#respond Thu, 31 Jul 2025 15:05:53 +0000 https://istandwithpalestine.org/story/starved-gaza-residents-forced-to-pick-airdropped-rice-mixed-with-sand/ Hamas says Israel has turned food into a ‘weapon of slow killing’ in Gaza and aid into a tool of ‘chaos and looting’.
Israel’s relentless bombardment of the besieged Gaza Strip continues, with at least 34 Palestinians killed since dawn on Thursday, including 15 aid seekers.
Source at Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis says a young man from Rafah has died from starvation. Earlier, medics said the total hunger-related death toll since the start of the war stood at 154, including 89 children.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney says his country will recognise a Palestinian state at the United Nations General Assembly in September, citing the need for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 60,249 people and wounded 147,089 others. An estimated 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the Hamas-led October 7, 2023, attack, and more than 200 were taken captive.

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