‘Israel has made clear it wants to commit genocide’ ‘Israel has made clear it wants to commit genocide’: Ex-UNRWA official Chris Gunness, a former spokesperson for the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), says the Israeli government is not allowing critical aid into Gaza because it wants to continue its genocidal policies against Palestinians. “There is a litany of – quite frankly – fascistic pretexts” for Israel to maintain its restrictions on humanitarian assistance, Gunness told Al Jazeera. “Let’s be clear on the big picture: Israel has made it clear that it wants to commit a genocide against the Palestinians, it wants to ethnically-cleanse them, and it wants to starve them,” he said, noting that there are millions of aid items waiting to be brought into the enclave. “The big picture is that the reason these items are not being let in … is that there is a genocide going on, there is a collective punishment, there is ethnic cleansing, and there’s a policy of starvation.”

Palestinians gather to receive food from a charity kitchen in southern Gaza’s Khan Younis, November 5, 2025 [Haseeb Alwazeer/Reuters]

‘Israel has made clear it wants to commit genocide’: Ex-UNRWA official

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UN reiterates call to open all Gaza crossings for aid

A spokesperson for UN chief Antonio Guterres has reiterated that more crossings must be opened to allow unimpeded humanitarian assistance to reach Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.

Speaking to reporters at UN headquarters in New York, Farhan Haq noted that only two Gaza crossings are currently operating: al-Karara (also known as Kissufim) and Karem Abu Salem (Kerem Shalom).

“At this stage, our point is that now that the ceasefire has taken hold, we need to be able to use all of the crossing points,” Haq said.

He added that this includes crossings along the border with Egypt and into northern Gaza, which has been particularly hard-hit by Israel’s two-year bombardment. “We want all the others to be opened up as soon as possible,” Haq said.    https://aje.io/ns9p5r?update=4091942

Rights group says 168 Palestinian children detained in Israel without charge

Nearly half – 48 percent – of all Palestinian children known to be held in Israeli prisons have not been charged with a crime, a child rights organisation has said.

The most recently available data from the Israel Prison Service showed 350 Palestinian children were detained in Israeli prisons as of September 30, Defense for Children International-Palestine (DCI-Palestine) reported.

Of those, 168 children had no recorded charge or trial under way – the highest proportion since DCI-Palestine started monitoring detention data in 2008, the group said.

The “arbitrary” detentions violate the Convention on the Rights of the Child, which Israel has ratified, DCI-Palestine said, adding that Israel’s prison system is “designed to physically remove, suppress and stifle” children.

An unknown number of Palestinian children are also being held in military detention and interrogation centres.   https://aje.io/ns9p5r?update=4091890 

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