Eric Tlozek

ABC News Australia Middle East correspondent, former PNG correspondent (2015-18). Opinions mine and not the ABC's. Retweets = interesting, not endorsement.

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Gazans defiant amid starvation and Israeli relentless attacks

1 week ago | abc.net.au | Eric Tlozek

People in northern Gaza say they won't leave, despite not receiving any food for weeks and in face of intensifying Israeli attacks. A new aid organisation approved by the Israeli Government has started delivering food to desperate people in southern and central Gaza, but those in the north say they're going without.
Senior Hamas leader killed, says Israel PM

1 week ago | abc.net.au | Eric Tlozek

Israel's Prime Minister says the country's military has killed a senior leader of the militant group Hamas inside Gaza. Benjamin Netanyahu says it's proof Israel's strategy is working, but Israelis have marked 600 days since the war began, with marches and protests calling for it to end.
Aid groups trying to get food into Gaza for months sidelined for shadowy US firm

1 week ago | abc.net.au | Eric Tlozek

Thousands of hungry Palestinians overran an aid compound in southern Gaza, desperate for food after weeks of Israeli blockade. They were coming to get parcels from a newly formed agency with links to both the American and Israeli governments. The food is some of the first that Gazans have had access to in weeks because Israel has been stopping almost all aid from entering Gaza since March 2, only allowing small amounts into the strip in the past week.
Starving Gazans mob aid workers

1 week ago | abc.net.au | Eric Tlozek

Private contractors delivering aid to Gazans have been forced to evacuate their distribution sites after they were mobbed by desperate people. The aid distribution was the start of an Israeli-backed plan to replace existing humanitarian agencies with a new private company.
Assault on Gaza intensifies as starvation looms

1 week ago | abc.net.au | Eric Tlozek

Israel's military says it's intensifying its assault on Gaza as it prepares to put in place a new system for delivering food to Palestinians. Israel's Defence Force has ramped up its deployment to the Palestinian territory, with thousands of Israeli troops now reportedly inside Gaza.
PKK agrees to put down its weapons - ABC listen

3 weeks ago | abc.net.au | Eric Tlozek

Turkiye's Government says a peace deal with a Kurdish militant group is an historic agreement that resolves a decades-old conflict. The Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK, has agreed to disband after fighting the Turkish state for more than 40 years. The deal could also help settles conflicts in Iraq and Syria, if a process of disarmament and democratic recognition succeeds.
Breaking: Kurdish militants PKK to disband after four-decade insurgency against Türkiye

3 weeks ago | abc.net.au | Eric Tlozek

A Kurdish militant group that fought a four-decade insurgency against Türkiye has reportedly agreed to disband and lay down its weapons. A news agency linked to the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), which is a listed terrorist organisation in Türkiye, Australia, the United States and Europe, says it resolved to disband at a meeting in eastern Türkiye last week.
As food supplies in Gaza run out, people queue for hours at soup kitchen

1 month ago | abc.net.au | Eric Tlozek

Aid groups say people will soon die from hunger as Israel's blockade of food and other aid to Gaza extends into its third month. Israel stopped allowing any supplies, including food and medicine, into Gaza on March 2 in a bid to pressure the militant group Hamas into releasing Israeli hostages. Now, community kitchens that have been feeding hundreds of thousands of Gazans are about to close because they have run out of supplies.
Pro-Palestinian activists say their ship was struck by drone fire off Malta

1 month ago | abc.net.au | Eric Tlozek

A group of pro-Palestinian activists say their ship has been struck by drone fire in international waters off the coast of Malta. The group, the Freedom Flotilla coalition, says its passenger ship, Conscience, was 13 nautical miles east of Malta when it was struck twice in the bow, 20 minutes after midnight local time. According to the group, the strikes damaged the ship's generator and it was taking on water.
Food supplies cut to Gaza

1 month ago | abc.net.au | Eric Tlozek

Aid groups say Israel's decision to block food from entering Gaza is starting to cause sickness and disorder in the besieged enclave. Today marks two months since Israel stopped allowing food, medicine and all other aid into Gaza, to pressure the militant group Hamas to release Israeli hostages. But, as people become increasingly malnourished and desperate, the Israeli Government is showing no sign of changing its mind.