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Sunday, August 3, 2014

Gaza teeters on the brink after half a million are made homeless, medical supplies run out, morgues overflow and ANOTHER shelter full of children gets bombed as UN chief says: 'It's a criminal act'





  • United Nations warns medical facilities are 'on the verge of collapse' as almost half of medics are unable to get to work
  • It says a third of all hospitals in Gaza have been damaged and 270,000 people are crammed into 90 UN shelters
  • Officials said missile struck at gates of one such shelter today in Rafah, killing 10 people inside and out and injuring 35
  • It is at least the sixth UN facility to be hit and contained 3,000 Palestinians who were sheltering from strikes
  • UN Secretary-General: Strike is 'moral outrage and criminal act' and 'yet another gross violation of humanitarian law'
  • As 27th day of conflict began the death toll stood at more than 1,700 Palestinians and 67 Israelis including 64 soldiers 
  • Israel lays blame for civilian deaths with Hamas, saying it stores rockets in civilian areas creating 'human shields'
  • Many tanks withdrew from Gaza Strip amid reports tunnel destruction was complete - but attacks continued
  • British Foreign Secretary declares: 'The situation in Gaza is simply intolerable. We have to get the killing to stop'

  • READ MORE: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2714575/Humanitarian-crisis-Gaza-half-million-homeless.html


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