Israel has blocked all aid entering Gaza and cut off electricity so that desalination plants cannot operate. According to UNRWA more than four thousand children and pregnant and lactating women have been diagnosed with acute malnutrition in the Gaza strip since the start of the ceasefire, while no food staples, no medicines, no tents, no coats, no fleece sleepers for babies and children are available.
This is a war crime about which Australia and the G7 nations remain silent although, to be fair, Albanese did inveigh against an American influencer who carried a baby wombat away from its mother, saying she should ‘try some other Australian animals’ and ‘see how you go there’!
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