{"id":144050,"date":"2025-08-14T03:19:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T03:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/144050\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T03:19:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T03:19:12","slug":"israel-locks-aid-groups-out-of-gaza-as-palestinians-starve-say-ngos-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/144050\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel locks aid groups out of Gaza as Palestinians starve, say NGOs \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The EU has so far taken no joint action against Israel, despite an internal review finding \u201cindications\u201d Israel had broken its human rights obligations under the EU-Israel Association Agreement. Israel\u2019s occupation of Gaza and other Palestinian territories is is illegal, according to an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.icj-cij.org\/node\/204176\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">International Court of Justice<\/a> ruling in July.<\/p>\n<p>More than 200 people have starved to death in Gaza since Oct. 2023, including 106 children, Palestinian health officials said Aug. 13. The numbers include eight who died in the previous 24 hours. <\/p>\n<p>Israeli restrictions on food, including a total ban between March and May, have brought Gaza to the point of \u201cunfolding famine,\u201d scientists have warned. European Commission Vice President Teresa Ribera told POLITICO\u2019s Brussels Playbook that Israel\u2019s conduct in Gaza <a href=\"https:\/\/pro.politico.eu\/news\/202975\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201clooks very much\u201d like genocide<\/a>, a charge denied by Israel.<\/p>\n<p>Just 1,535 aid trucks have entered Gaza over the past 17 days, far short of what is needed to meet the minimum needs of the territory\u2019s 2.4 million people, Palestinian health officials said Aug. 13. Israel and European governments, including France, Germany and Spain, have organized airdrops, but NGOs say these are a dangerous and unhelpful distraction. Palestinian nurse Oday al-Quraan was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/middle-east\/gaza-aid-drops-israel-starvation-famine-deaths-b2801708.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">killed by an air-dropped parcel<\/a> on Aug. 4, The Independent reported.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. nonprofit Anera said it had $7 million worth of aid stranded in Ashdod, several kilometers from Gaza, because of Israeli restrictions. \u201cThe answer, to save lives, save humanity and save yourselves from complicity in engineered mass starvation, is to open all the borders, at all hours, to the thousands of trucks, millions of meals and medical supplies, ready and waiting nearby,\u201d said Anera&#8217;s president and CEO Sean Carroll. <\/p>\n<p>POLITICO has contacted the Israeli government for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The EU has so far taken no joint action against Israel, despite an internal review finding \u201cindications\u201d Israel&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":144051,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[110,523,32868,156,18890,117,118,2850,99,1802,50,7839,123,10293,128,68340,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-144050","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-austria","9":"tag-bulgaria","10":"tag-croatia","11":"tag-france","12":"tag-genocide","13":"tag-germany","14":"tag-human-rights","15":"tag-hungary","16":"tag-israel","17":"tag-military","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-ngos","20":"tag-poland","21":"tag-romania","22":"tag-spain","23":"tag-teresa-ribera","24":"tag-united-states"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115024965082015128","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}