López Nava said that MSI had previously faced issues with regular WhatsApp numbers, because it’s easy to file complaints. So, the organization thought it would be different with a business account, which gives them a platform to manage the thousands of messages they receive every month.
“There is an absolute prohibition on returning them to a place where they will be exposed to cruel, degrading or inhuman treatment, let alone a risk to their life,” Shatz said.Like refugees in other contexts, Palestinians should have the freedom to choose whether to return to their country, said Omar Shakir, the Israel and Palestine director at Human Rights Watch. Countries that take in Palestinians from Gaza should seek assurances that they will be allowed to return if and when they choose, he said.
For now, Israel is allowing Palestinians to return to Gaza after medical treatment. But the Palestinians fear that if the larger resettlement policy is enacted, they will be permanently exiled from their homeland, as hundreds of thousands were. Those refugees and their descendants now number some 6 million, concentrated in built-up camps across the region.Two families who returned to Gaza said the road home included many checkpoints, and Israeli soldiers took their phones and money upon entering.
Israel’s defense ministry said that during security checks of residents returning from Jordan to Gaza, some people were found carrying undeclared cash amounts exceeding “normal limits” and was suspected of being “intended for terrorist use” in Gaza. It said the money was being held while the circumstances were investigated.It was unclear whether any aid organizations helped facilitate the children’s return.
In March, the World Health Organization worked with the Jordanians to evacuate the sick children from Gaza, according to Jordan’s government. The WHO did not respond to requests for comment on whether they were involved in the transfer back to Gaza.
For some families there were no good options.the agreement pending an EU review into whether the Israel government is complying with the pact, which entered force in 2000. Kallas said the ministers would discuss this on May 20.
“It is very important to signal at this moment that we are greatly concerned by the continuous blockade for access of humanitarian aid and the Israeli decision to intensify the war effort,” Dutch Foreign Minister Caspar Veldkamp said.He said that Dutch concerns are “very broadly shared among European countries.”
Slovenian Foreign Minister Tanja Fajon was among those backers.“The world has clearly failed on the test of humanity,” she said. “We have to act more seriously because we are really facing a clear violation of the international law and humanitarian law.”