Source : NEW INDIAN EXPRESS NEWS
On Friday, Dr. Hanan Balkhy, the head of the World Health Organization’s eastern Mediterranean office, urged the new U.S. ambassador in Israel, Mike Huckabee, to push the country to lift Gaza’s blockade so medicines and other aid can enter the strip.
“I would wish for him to go in and see the situation firsthand,” she said.
In his first appearance as ambassador on Friday, Huckabee visited the Western Wall, the holiest Jewish prayer site in Jerusalem’s Old City. He inserted a prayer into the wall, which he said was handwritten by U.S. President Donald Trump. Huckabee said every effort was being made to bring home the remaining hostages held by Hamas.
Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, which continues after it broke a ceasefire deal with Palestinian resistance group Hamas, has so far killed 51,000 Palestinians, most of them women and children, including at least 876 infants under the age of 1. Israel has also targeted and killed hundreds of healthcare workers, aid workers and journalists.
The war has destroyed vast parts of Gaza and most of its food production capabilities. The war has displaced around 90% of the population, with hundreds of thousands of people living in tent camps and bombed-out buildings.
SOURCE :- NEW INDIAN EXPRESS
