26-year-old Palestinian dies in Israeli custody, advocacy organizations say
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A 26-year-old Palestinian man who was detained in December has died in Israeli custody, according to a statement from the Ministry of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoners Club.
Juma Abu Ghanima, from Negev, died five days after he was transferred from his cell in Eshel Prison to one of the prison’s hospitals, according to the advocacy groups. Abu Ghanima was arrested due to “his resistance to the occupation,” the groups said.
According to the organizations, “the number of captive martyrs who died after October 7 in the occupation prisons and camps as a result of torture and medical crimes rises to at least (13) martyrs.”
Over 9,000 Palestinians are currently in Israeli prisons, per the groups.
German Air Force airdrops aid for the first time in northern Gaza
Andy Eckardt
The German Air Force airdropped aid in northern Gaza for the first time Saturday morning.
The joint mission between Germany, France and Jordan airdropped four pallets of aid containing one ton of food each, including rice and flour, according to the German Foreign Office.
“More #airdrops will follow in the next days. The Franco-German team remains on the ground and is coordinating closely with our Jordanian partners. And we are continuing to work on getting more aid to #Gaza by land,” the office said on X.
“Every package counts. But airdrops are not enough,” the office continued in a thread. “To supply the people in #Gaza, the Israeli government urgently needs to open more border crossings, especially to allow more aid deliveries over land by truck.”
Menstruating women and girls using torn pieces of cloth as sanitary pads in Gaza, U.N. aid organization says
Mirna Alsharif
Many menstruating women and girls are using torn pieces of cloth as sanitary pads in Gaza, according to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA).
“More than 690,000 menstruating women and adolescent girls in Gaza currently have no privacy and limited access to menstrual hygiene supplies,” UNFPA said in a news release. “The lack of water makes keeping clean nearly impossible and raises risks of infection.”
Bakiza Mohamed, 47, says she has no choice but to give her 16-year-old daughter torn pieces of cloth to use in place of proper menstrual hygiene products.
“What else could I do?” Mohamed asked in a video shared by UNFPA. “I am a widow, I have no husband, no son and I have no one. And my daughter’s husband was killed. So I ended up tearing pieces of fabric to manage.”
UNFPA has distributed 2,000 kits containing menstrual hygiene products in central and southern Gaza, products the organization says are mostly not available to buy in the enclave.
63 people killed and 112 injured in last 24 hours in Gaza, Palestinian Ministry of Health says
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At least 63 people have been killed and 112 people were injured in the last 24 hours in Gaza, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health.
The total death toll in the enclave is now over 31,500, the ministry said.
20 arrested in new wave of raids on West Bank
Leila Sackur
Israeli forces arrested 20 people from villages and towns across the occupied West Bank, including ex-prisoners previously released by Israeli authorities, the Palestinian Prisoners Club and Prisoners’ Commission said in a statement.
The arrests, in Tulkarm, Hebron, Tubas, Bethlehem, Nablus, Jenin and Jerusalem, were accompanied by raids including “severe beatings, and threats against detainees and their families, in addition to widespread sabotage and destruction of citizens’ homes,” the commission said. It accused Israeli authorities of “harassment” during arrest campaigns and of storming the homes of families of people who had already been detained.
In December, the U.N. warned that Palestinians in Israeli jails were frequently subjected to “beatings and abuse” and that conditions had “deteriorated significantly” since Oct. 7,…
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