Andrea Sweeney
@Sweeney_Andi
Advocacy on all things humanitarian @RESCUEorg - following and often frustrated by UNSC on #Syria, #Yemen, #Afghanistan + more. Motivated by change.
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07-02-2014 15:30:20
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.Medical Aid for Palestinians is trying to get 2 critically ill children evacuated from al Shifa hospital in #Gaza . 200-300 patients are stuck with no medical care, food, or water. Israeli army is preventing medical/humanitarian missions from entering the hospital.
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Israel has consistently and arbitrarily denied, restricted, and impeded US-funded aid and repeatedly attacked aid workers: formal submission to US government from IRC - International Rescue Committee and leading humanitarian NGOs in Gaza rescue.org/press-release/…
Over 2.2 million people in Gaza are experiencing crisis or worse levels of food insecurity. Following the UN Security Council's meeting to discuss hunger, we along with Medical Aid for Palestinians are calling for an immediate ceasefire and scale up of aid. Our latest: rescue.org/press-release/…
.Save the Children International warns 'time is running out for children in #Gaza as reports emerge that they are starting to die because of malnutrition while #Israel continues to impose restrictions preventing the safe delivery of aid.' They note that the number of aid trucks entering the Strip…
1/ Today, MSF International’s Secretary General Christopher Lockyear is giving an urgent update to the United Nations Security Council on the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
WATCH LIVE: webtv.un.org/en/asset/k12/k…
The #UN SG Spox Stéphane Dujarric says the United Nations 'would not in any way support forced displacement' of civilians, many of whom have already been displaced to #Rafah . He warns that it's basically impossible for the #UN to protect people from tank fire or artillery shells. This comes…
The IRC and Medical Aid for Palestinians condemn Israeli airstrike on Gaza compound housing Emergency Medical Team rescue.org/press-release/…
This is what doctors report life is like for Palestinians in Gaza right now. Listen as Dr. Seema Jilani describes scenes from Al Aqsa Hospital.
Since this was recorded, increasing Israeli military activity forced Medical Aid for Palestinians and the International Rescue Committee (IRC)’s…