People take part in a Nakba 76 pro-Palestine demonstration and march in London to mark the mass displacement of Palestinians in 1948, referred to as the Nakba, May 18, 2024
HUMANITARIAN charities called yesterday for an end to arms sales to Israel after an official watchdog reported that British aid worth tens of millions of pounds is being prevented from entering Gaza by the Israeli authorities.
The Independent Commission for Aid Impact (ICAI), a watchdog that reports to the Commons international development committee, said that Britain had committed more than £70 million in extra funding for humanitarian assistance since the current conflict began in October last year.
But the commission added that all diplomatic efforts to get aid into the Gaza Strip, where more than 35,000 people have now been killed and near-famine conditions exist, had failed.
TERRY HANSEN explains how Netanyahu’s boasts of 92,000 aid trucks contradict his own January admission of providing ‘minimal humanitarian aid’ and decades of Israeli documents reveal policies designed to keep Palestinians at ‘minimal subsistence’ levels since 1991
