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Hunger in the news
7 January 2009

Middle East: UN food agency 'pins hopes' on partial Gaza truce

The United Nations World Food Programme on Wednesday welcomed the three-hour daily pause in Israel's aerial and ground offensive in Gaza. "We are pinning our hopes on the 1 to 4 p.m. ceasefire to do our daily distribution," WFP spokesperson in Jerusalem Robin Lodge told Adnkronos International (AKI).
adnkronos
Hunger in the news
6 January 2009

‘We’re wading in death, blood and amputees. Pass it on – shout it out’

Amid the tidal wave of human misery swamping Gaza City’s central hospital a horrified Norwegian volunteer doctor found a minute to type a text message on his mobile phone to friends back home.
The Times (UK)
Hunger in the news
6 January 2009

Egypt asks for opening of humanitarian routes

Egypt has called for the creation of humanitarian corridors in Gaza to allow food and medicine to be brought in, as Israeli air strikes forced the closure of its Rafah crossing to aid and the wounded.
The Age
Hunger in the news
6 January 2009

Ugandan peacekeeper, WFP worker killed in Somalia

A roadside bomb killed a Ugandan soldier in Somalia's capital on Tuesday and masked gunmen murdered a man working for the United Nation's World Food Programme in the southwest of the Horn of Africa nation. The killings come as Ethiopian troops who have been propping up an interim government and fighting Islamist insurgents for the past two years are pulling out of Somalia, saying their mission has been accomplished.
Reuters
Hunger in the news
5 January 2009

FM: We're allowing more aid into Gaza

Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni met Sunday with the representatives of a number of organizations providing humanitarian aid to the Palestinians, amid Israeli efforts to ensure that aid to the Palestinians continues even as the scale of the fighting is intensified.
Hunger in the news
5 January 2009

A case for intervention

By any reasonable measure, Zimbabwe's president has committed crimes against humanity justifying an international response If the Bush doctrine justified the use of armed force to prevent harm to westerners, then the Obama doctrine should be to use the force of international law to stop crimes against humanity or grave, man-made humanitarian disasters.
The Guardian
Hunger in the news
5 January 2009

Concerns of civilian deaths rise in Sri Lanka

Sri Lankan forces overran another village Monday and moved closer to seizing a strategic base from the Tamil Tigers, but concerns are mounting for the hundreds of thousands of civilians living in the rebels' shrinking territory.
Associated Press (AP) Washington Post
Hunger in the news
5 January 2009

Gaza: women and children

The humanitarian crisis in Gaza affects women and children first and foremost, according to UNICEF. On Friday, WFP qualified the food security situation in Gaza as “disastrous.” The Israeli offensive has already killed over 500 people.
Le Figaro
Hunger in the news
5 January 2009

Hell in Gaza

The humanitarian situation is getting worst since the state of Israel launched an offensive on the Gaza strip on the 27th of December. The World Food Program denounced a catastrophic food situation in Gaza.
Le Soir
Hunger in the news
5 January 2009

Israel Deepens Gaza Incursion as Toll Mounts

Israeli troops commandeered high-rise buildings in three eastern districts of Gaza City on Monday, expelling residents and shooting militants in the streets in their furious effort to break Hamas’s fighting ability. On the 10th day of Israel’s war on the Islamist rulers of Gaza, more Palestinian civilians, including about 12 children, were killed and fuel and water supplies were severely strained for hundreds of thousands.
New York Times