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US-Israeli Gaza genocide

The Israeli regime presses ahead with its genocidal war on Gaza, killing and injuring more Palestinian civilians across the besieged territory. Two Palestinians were killed, and several others injured in the bombing of an area east of the central city of Deir al-Balah. Two more civilians, including a child, lost their lives following an airstrike on a Palestinian home east of the southern city of Khan Yunis. One Palestinian was killed, and several others were wounded, some seriously, after a tent housing displaced persons was bombed west of Khan Yunis. Israel’s artillery fire also wounded a number of Palestinians in the Shuja'iyya neighborhood of Gaza City. Earlier air and artillery strikes also killed at least a dozen Palestinian civilians in northern and southern Gaza, including Gaza City and Rafah. Israel resumed its aggression against Gaza on March 18, killing over 1,500 Palestinians and injuring more than 38-hundred others since then. The overall death toll from the regime’s genocide since October 2023 is nearing 50,900, with around 115,900 others injured.

Gaza hunger crisis

The UN agency for Palestinian refugees has once again sounded the alarm over the acute shortage of food in Gaza, due to Israel’s total ban on aid delivery. UNRWA warned that two million Gazans are inching closer to an acute hunger crisis, amid Israel’s suffocating blockade and genocide. The agency said Gaza’s food supplies may run out within days unless urgent aid deliveries resume. It condemned the regime’s continued blockade as “collective punishment” of Gaza’s population, calling for the immediate restoration of aid supply routes. Earlier on Wednesday, UNRWA had warned of the devastating impact of the Israeli blockade on children, saying over five weeks of siege have deprived them of food, water, shelter, and medical care. Since March, Israel has barred humanitarian aid from entering Gaza, causing a drastic shortage of vital supplies. This has worsened the already deteriorating humanitarian conditions in the territory.

Hamas UK legal battle

Hamas has filed a legal appeal in the United Kingdom to challenge the British government's decision to designate the group as a “terrorist organization.” On Wednesday, Hamas filed an official legal appeal through British lawyers objecting to the 2021 classification of the movement as a banned organization. A British legal team has been commissioned by a senior Hamas official, Musa Abu Marzouk, to represent the movement. Hamas said the unjust decision constitutes a blatant bias in favor of Israel, which continues to commit crimes against the Palestinian people. It added that the designation reflects the British government’s complicity in Israel’s acts of murder, starvation, genocide, and land seizure in Gaza and the occupied West Bank. Hamas said the ruling also violates Britain's own laws that guarantee the right of peoples to resist occupation. The movement urged the UK to review its unjust policies and cancel the classification of Hamas and all other resistance movements as "terrorist movements."

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