<article data-history-node-id="426434" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/only-73-aid-trucks-entered-gaza-officials-call-airdrops-farce" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/only-73-aid-trucks-entered-gaza-officials-call-airdrops-farce" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Only 73 aid trucks entered Gaza as officials call airdrops a ‘farce’</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p data-end="1185" data-start="907">Gaza’s Government Media Office has condemned the international response to the worsening humanitarian disaster, saying that just 73 aid trucks made it into the besieged territory on Tuesday, far below the minimum 600 trucks per day that humanitarian groups say are urgently required.</p> <p data-end="1330" data-start="1187">In a statement the media office described the flow of aid as completely inadequate to address the famine gripping the Strip.</p> <p data-end="1479" data-start="1332">Officials also condemned Israeli airdrops of humanitarian supplies, claiming they were dropped into active combat zones under military supervision.</p> <p data-end="1726" data-start="1481">“We witnessed three airdrops, which combined did not equal the load of two truckloads of aid,” the statement read. “What is happening is a farce in which the international community is complicit through false promises or misleading information.”</p> <p data-end="1872" data-is-last-node data-is-only-node data-start="1728">The office called on world powers to stop offering symbolic gestures and instead ensure full, safe, and sustained access for life-saving relief.</p> </div> </div> </article>

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<article data-history-node-id="421563" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/over-600000-children-risk-permanent-paralysis-israeli-blockade-suspends" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/over-600000-children-risk-permanent-paralysis-israeli-blockade-suspends" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Over 600,000 children at risk of ‘permanent paralysis’ as Israeli blockade suspends polio vaccination campaign in Gaza</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Health officials issued a new warning that at least 600,00o children are at risk of 'permanent paralysis' in Gaza due to the blockade on all aid supplies, including vaccines, as the Israeli military launched one of the biggest waves of strikes in Gaza for weeks on Tuesday.</p> <p>Gaza's health ministry announced&nbsp;that a UN-backed polio vaccination campaign meant to target children had been suspended, putting the enclave at risk of the revival of a crippling disease that once had been all-but eradicated.</p> <p>Officials said in a statement quoted by Al Jazeera that the health consequences could be catastrophic, leaving 602,000 children vulnerable to "permanent paralysis and chronic disabilities".</p> <p>"Children in Gaza are at risk of serious and unprecedented health complications due to the lack of adequate nutrition and drinking water," the ministry added that Israel has imposed a total blockade on all supplies to Gaza since the start of March and relaunched its war on 18 March.</p> </div> </div> </article>

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<article data-history-node-id="420955" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/palestinian-journalist-seen-flames-israeli-strike-media-tent-dies" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/palestinian-journalist-seen-flames-israeli-strike-media-tent-dies" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Palestinian journalist seen in flames from Israeli strike on media tent dies</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p><a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/palestine" target="_blank">Palestinian&nbsp;</a>journalist Ahmed Mansour has succumbed to burns&nbsp;sustained after an&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-targets-gaza-journalists-sheltering-tents" target="_blank">Israeli strike</a>&nbsp;on a tent where reporters were known to reside in Khan Younis was set on fire.&nbsp;</p> <p>In a widely shared clip, the&nbsp;correspondent for the local Palestine Today news agency&nbsp;was seen engulfed in flames as colleagues desperately attempt to save him on Monday.&nbsp;</p> <p>Mansour was left in critical condition with life-threatening injuries.</p> <p>The Palestinian civil defence&nbsp;confirmed Mansour's death&nbsp;on Tuesday, according to Palestinian news website&nbsp;Arab48.&nbsp;</p> <p>Middle East Eye correspondent Ahmed Aziz, who was a witness to the strike, reported that those in the tent "tried desperately to rescue Ahmed Mansour from the flames, but there were no resources available, as the sponge, wood, and nylon in the tent quickly caught fire."</p> <h3>Read more:&nbsp;<a data-qa="message_attachment_title_link" href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/journalist-ahmed-mansour-succumbs-critical-burns-israeli-strike" navigationtraceid="T2E9SB5NW-to-Channel:C6H6B162E" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Palestinian journalist seen in flames from Israeli strike on media tent dies</a></h3> <p><img alt="Ahmed Mansour, a correspondent for the local Palestine Today news agency, was seen in widely circulated footage to be engulfed in flames as colleagues desperately attempted to rescue him (X)" src="https://www.middleeasteye.net/sites/default/files/styles/max_2600x2600/public/images-story/ahmed-mansour-journalist-killed-israel-strike-burns-gaza-8-april-2025.png.jpg?itok=Ll86J6II"></p> </div> </div> </article>

Palestinian and UN bodies mark Palestine Children’s Day with ‘harrowing’ accounts of toll of Israel’s war on children.

Israel says soldiers fired on ‘terrorists’ in ‘suspicious vehicles’ but footage shows clearly marked ambulances using flashing emergency lights Mobile phone footage of the last moments of some of the 15 Palestinian paramedics and rescue workers killed by Israeli forces in an incident in Gaza last month appears to contradict the version of events put forward by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). The five-minute video, which the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) said on Saturday was recovered from the phone of one of the men killed, appears to have been filmed from inside a moving vehicle, and shows a red fire engine and clearly marked ambulances driving at night, using headlights and flashing emergency lights. Continue reading...

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