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A million children in the Gaza Strip become facing a ‘serious humanitarian crisis’, says the children’s rights organization UNICEF. The organization provided water, among other things, in the first convoy that crossed the Egyptian border into the Gaza Strip on Saturday.

UNICEF supplied 44,000 bottles of drinking water. That would be enough for about 22,000 people for one day. “The supply of water is one matter of life or death. Every minute counts.” Since Israel blocked the Gaza Strip in response to Hamas attacks, water, food, medical supplies and fuel have been cut off for two weeks.

According to UNICEF, the situation in the Gaza Strip is dire. Water is running out and access to sanitary facilities is very limited. “If we cannot deliver humanitarian supplies structurally and consistently, there is a real risk of life-threatening disease outbreaks,” the UN organization said.

UNICEF says it has more aid supplies ready at the border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip in Rafah. More is on the way. But access to the Gaza Strip is very limited. “To deliver further aid, safer and structural humanitarian access to Gaza is necessary,” UNICEF said.

Egypt has previously said that it will not keep the border closed, but that it could not open due to Israeli bombing of the border region. Israel bombs the Gaza Strip in response to Hamas’ surprise attack on October 7. More than 1 million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip have been displaced and more than 4,300 have been killed. At least 1,400 people were killed on the Israeli side.

The Israeli internationals Ramzi Safouri and Sagiv Jehezkel refuse to play for their Turkish club Antalyaspor on Saturday because of a tribute to only the Palestinian victims of the war. The boss of the Super Lig, Turkey’s most important competition, has decided not to commemorate the Israeli victims of the violence by the Palestinian movement Hamas before the matches.

‘As proud internationals of our country we do not plan to attend this ceremony or even be present in the stadium. We have made this clear to the club’s officials and they disrespect they decision’, said a statement from Safouri and Jehezkel, which was obtained by Turkish and Israeli media. Antalyaspor confirmed the news to the German news agency dpa.

Safouri and Jehezkel have been playing for the current number 13 of the Süper Lig since last month. Coached by Nuri Sahin (ex-Feyenoord). Antalyaspor plays at Gaziantep on Saturday afternoon.

Since the outbreak of war More than 1,400 people have died in Israel, according to local authorities. 4,385 Palestinians have died in Israeli bombardments in the Gaza Strip, the Gaza health ministry says.

Being part of Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip 4,385 Palestinians diedsays the Palestinian health ministry in Hamas-controlled Gaza. More than 1,700 of those victims are said to be children. According to the Palestinian ministry, more than 13,500 people were also injured.

Israel and the militant Palestinian movement Hamas have been embroiled in fighting since a surprise attack by Hamas on October 7. More than 1,400 people have been killed on the Israeli side, Israeli authorities say. Hamas is also said to have kidnapped and are still holding more than two hundred people in the Gaza Strip.

Israel will attack strongholds of the Hamas movement in the Palestinian Gaza Strip step up. This was reported by a spokesperson for the Israeli army.

Jerusalem says it wants to destroy the militant group after Hamas’s attack on Israel two weeks ago, which Israel has labeled as terror. Since then, at least 307 Israeli soldiers have been killed.

According to the Israeli Defense Forces now approximately 700,000 people leaving the north of the Gaza Strip at Israel’s insistence. The Israeli government wants civilians out of there to prevent them from becoming victims of the Israeli offensive against Hamas.

Forced displacement of Palestinians would be a war crime, Jordan’s King Abdullah said at a peace summit in the Egyptian capital Cairo. Dignitaries from all over the world are gathered there to discuss the war between Hamas and Israel. “Israeli leaders must understand that there is no military solution to their security concerns,” the king said. “Right now, Israel is in the process of literally starving the civilians in Gaza.”

A few hundreds of pro-Palestinian demonstrators walk a march on Saturday morning The Hague Transvaalpark to the Zuiderpark. Before the march, an Islamic prayer was held and the crowd was addressed.

A number of participants brought Palestinian flags and protest signs and banners with the text ‘Free Palestine‘. Participants also accuse Israel of terrorism and shout ‘Allahu Akbar’.

The procession becomes accompanied by the police, which is present with vans, horses and bicycles. Neighborhood volunteers also participate in the procession.

The Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Saturday during his opening speech at the peace summit in Cairo: “We won’t leavewe will remain on our land.” The summit is being held in Egypt as Israel prepares a ground attack on Gaza following the Hamas attack that killed 1,400 people. More than 4,100 Palestinians have been killed, according to the Gaza Health Ministry. killed during the Israeli counter-offensive, amid a growing humanitarian crisis.

The border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip at Rafah will be the will be opened more often in the near future. According to Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, the United Nations and the Palestinian Red Crescent monitor the transport of emergency aid across the border, Al Jazeera reports. Al-Sisi also stated that Egypt has not kept the border with the Gaza Strip closed. According to the president, emergency aid could not cross the border due to Israeli bombing of Rafah.

The Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi told a summit in Cairo on Saturday that he has invited leaders to reach an agreement on a road map to end the humanitarian disaster in the Gaza Strip and to revive the path to peace between Israel and the Palestinians.

The roadmap’s objectives include providing aid to Gaza and agreeing a ceasefire, followed by negotiations leading to a two-state solution should lead, he said.

Famous faces from the entertainment world have requested US President Joe Biden to call for a ceasefire in Gaza and Israel. Joaquin Phoenix, Cate Blanchett, Susan Sarandon, Macklemore, Rosario Dawson, Mahershala Ali and Channing Tatum, among others, signed an open letter to the president.

Biden and other world leaders are also being called on to ensure that there is Gaza is no longer bombed and that hostages are released. “We believe the United States can play a crucial diplomatic role in ending the suffering.”

Immediately after the first twenty trucks cross the border between Egypt and Gaza, the transition closed again, reports the American news channel CNN. The border may open again later in the day.

The twenty trucks that crossed the border on Saturday morning had… assistance from the Egyptian Red Crescent on-board.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for Saturday morning’s delivery ‘certainly not the last‘ may be. British Foreign Minister James Cleverly also responded that it should certainly not be a “one-off” action. He mentioned the help ‘a lifeline‘ for the victims in Gaza. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz talked about it ‘an important step‘.

According to the Palestinian spokesperson for the border point, no people with a foreign passport or injured people have crossed the border at Rafah today.

It Hamas media office has one on Saturday statement issued stating that the expected truckloads of aid ‘the catastrophic medical conditions in Gaza will not change‘. Earlier on Saturday, Egyptian state television showed images of Egypt opening its border with the Gaza Strip at the Rafah crossing, where 20 trucks carrying aid will cross.

Since the beginning of the war between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas At least seventeen employees of the UN Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) were killed in the Gaza Strip. Philippe Lazzarini, Commissioner General of the agency, announced this on Saturday.

“So far, the deaths of seventeen of our colleagues in this brutal war have been confirmed. Unfortunately it is located actual number probably higherUNRWA chief executive said in a statement. Some were killed at home while sleeping with their families, he said.

Since the outbreak of war on October 7, UNRWA has regularly provided all parties involved with the geolocation of all its infrastructure in the Gaza Strip. “Nevertheless, at least 35 buildings have been hit so far, some of them by direct attacks,” Lazzarini lamented.

He did one call for an urgent humanitarian ceasefire. The official emphasized that his agency’s facilities ‘are now overcrowded‘with 500,000 people having taken refuge there.

At least thirteen Palestinians were killed on Saturday in an airstrike in the Deir El Balah neighborhood of Gaza, Hamas news agency Al Shehab reported. The incident happened above a single residential unit, Al Shehab said. The report cannot be confirmed by an independent source.

The first trucks carrying humanitarian aid entered Gaza from Egypt. This was shown on live images on Egyptian television. It is the first time since the war between Israel and Gaza broke out on October 7 that humanitarian supplies have been delivered to Gaza residents. According to a report from Hamas, the group that controls the Gaza Strip, “the convoy crossing the border today includes 20 trucks.” They have ‘medicines, medical supplies and a limited amount of food supplies’ on board.