{"id":294171,"date":"2025-07-26T20:35:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T20:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/294171\/"},"modified":"2025-07-26T20:35:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T20:35:10","slug":"israel-to-open-gaza-humanitarian-corridors-as-aid-drops-begin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/294171\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel to open Gaza humanitarian corridors as aid drops begin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The IDF said it has &#8220;begun a series of actions aimed at improving the humanitarian response in the Gaza Strip, and was &#8220;prepared to implement humanitarian pauses in densely populated areas&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It denied what it called &#8220;the false claim of deliberate starvation in the Gaza Strip&#8221;, despite mounting evidence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It also stated that it had resumed supplying power to a desalination plant in Gaza which, it said would &#8220;serve about 900,000 residents in the area&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The UN, aid groups and some of Israel&#8217;s allies have blamed the country for the crisis, calling for the unrestricted entry and delivery of aid into Gaza.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The IDF said in its statement that it gave responsibility for food distribution to the population in Gaza &#8220;lies with the UN and international aid organisations&#8221; and added the organisations must &#8220;ensure that the aid does not reach Hamas&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Israel cut off all supplies to Gaza from the start of March, and resumed with new restrictions in May. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It says it has let enough food into Gaza during the war and blames Hamas for the suffering of civilians. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">More than 125 people have died due to malnutrition, including 85 children, the Hamas-run Gaza health ministry said on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The IDF said it has &#8220;begun a series of actions aimed at improving the humanitarian response in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":294172,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[12,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-294171","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114921454007606531","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294171","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=294171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}