{"id":289315,"date":"2025-07-25T01:11:16","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T01:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/289315\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T01:11:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T01:11:16","slug":"macron-says-france-will-recognize-a-palestinian-state-in-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/289315\/","title":{"rendered":"Macron says France will recognize a Palestinian state in September"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n Gazans facing starvation and Israeli aggression say they are afraid to walk the distance to an aid center out of fear that they may \u201cdie on the way or be shot,\u201d says Mara Kronenfeld, executive director of UNRWA USA, which provides support for the humanitarian work of the United Nations Agency for Palestine Refugees.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cThey are having to make that choice: Do I risk death or do I try to find some food to feed my children?\u201d she said.\n <\/p>\n

\n Neighbors are fainting in the streets and aid workers themselves don\u2019t have enough food to get energy to continue the work they are doing, she said.\n <\/p>\n

\n Kronenfeld criticized Israel\u2019s response on the starvation crisis as \u201cdisingenuous at best and dark and cynical at worst.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n Israel has denied creating famine in Gaza<\/a> and accused Hamas of \u201cengineering\u201d food shortages.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cUNRWA has the equivalent of 6000 trucks of aid, emergency aid and medicine sitting just outside the border. Let that aid in,\u201d Kronenfeld said.\n <\/p>\n

\n Israel\u2019s blockade is creating a restriction on food and aid availability, which is increasing food prices and the \u201cpossibility that people might hoard it,\u201d she noted.\n <\/p>\n

\n One in five children in Gaza City are facing malnutrition, she said, describing \u201ca catastrophic, indescribable situation on the ground in Gaza.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n Kronenfeld also said that the aid distributed by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation<\/a> \u201cis a drop in the bucket.\u201d It has four distribution sites in southern Gaza, so the sick, elderly, young and disabled people have walk far to get that aid, which has resulted in deaths and injuries, she pointed.\n <\/p>\n

\n Meanwhile, UNRWA has 400 sites and they distribute aid to people where they are with \u201ctransparency, integrity and with the dignity of those who are receiving aid,\u201d Kronenfeld said.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gazans facing starvation and Israeli aggression say they are afraid to walk the distance to an aid center…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289316,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[2000,299,36],"class_list":{"0":"post-289315","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-france"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114911214515433664","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}