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The WHO says growing numbers of kids in Gaza are on the ‘brink of death’ from acute starvation because the UK sends extra help.

Here’s how issues stand on Wednesday, March 20, 2024:

Fighting and humanitarian disaster

• Explosions and shootings shook the Gaza Strip’s largest hospital and surrounding neighbourhoods as Israeli forces stormed by means of the power for a second day on Tuesday.
• Israel has stated “dozens” of individuals have been killed and a few 300 folks arrested throughout its assault on al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City.
• The Israeli army stated it raided al-Shifa early on Monday as a result of Hamas fighters had grouped within the hospital and have been directing assaults from inside. The Israeli claims couldn’t be independently verified because it has not allowed worldwide journalists to report from the besieged territory. Israel arrested Al Jazeera’s Ismail al-Ghoul throughout its raid on al-Shifa on Monday. Al-Ghoul was launched 12 hours later after worldwide condemnation.
• Separately, the Israeli army has killed not less than 23 folks throughout an assault on the Kuwait Roundabout in Gaza City early this week, whereas 15 extra have been killed in a strike on a home within the Nuseirat camp in central Gaza on Sunday.
• Dr Margaret Harris, a spokeswoman for the World Health Organization (WHO), stated on Tuesday that growing numbers of kids in Gaza are on the “brink of death” from acute starvation.

Diplomacy and regional tensions

• The UK’s largest help supply to Gaza has entered the Strip, the British Foreign Office stated on Wednesday.
• More than 2,000 tonnes of meals help crossed into Gaza through Jordan and is being distributed by the World Food Programme and can feed “more than 275,000 people”, the workplace stated.
• Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is predicted to handle US Senate Republicans throughout a closed-door convention on Wednesday through video. This comes lower than per week after the chamber’s high Democrat, Chuck Schumer, known as for elections to exchange him.
• Netanyahu agreed on Monday to ship a workforce of Israeli officers to Washington to debate the upcoming Rafah offensive with Biden administration officers.
• However, on Tuesday, he advised a parliamentary committee that whereas he would take heed to US proposals “out of respect” to Biden, “we are determined to complete the elimination of these [Hamas] battalions in Rafah, and there is no way to do this without a ground incursion”.

• US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and his Israeli counterpart, Yoav Gallant, plan to debate securing the discharge of Hamas-held captives and offering humanitarian help to Gaza throughout their assembly in Washington, DC, subsequent week, in response to The Associated Press information company.
• Democratic Senator Bernie Sanders has hailed Canada’s Parliament for voting to halt arms gross sales to Israel, saying the US ought to observe swimsuit and “not provide another nickel for Netanyahu’s war machine”.

Canada’s parliament has voted to cease arms gross sales to Israel. They are completely proper to take action. Given the humanitarian disaster in Gaza, together with widespread and rising hunger, the U.S. shouldn’t present one other nickel for Netanyahu’s warfare machine.

— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) March 19, 2024

Violence within the occupied West Bank

• Local media and the Wafa information company reported Israeli army raids in a number of areas throughout the occupied West Bank late on Tuesday. They embody Jericho, the town of Tulkarem, and the at-Taawon neighbourhood within the metropolis of Nablus.
• A Palestinian man has additionally been arrested after Israeli forces stormed his residence within the Jalazone camp, north of Ramallah on Tuesday, whereas confrontations have damaged out between Palestinian resistance teams and Israeli forces within the city of ar-Ram, north of Jerusalem.