A U.S.-backed famine monitoring system has been operating at sharply reduced capacity since U.S. President Donald Trump ordered a spending freeze on USAID in January.
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AidIsrael bombs hospitals and camps as condemns starvation tactic. Dozens of Palestinians have been killed in intense Israeli attacks across Gaza, including attacks on and . UN aid chief Tom Fletcher says Israel is using mass starvation as a weapon by deliberately blocking deliveries. Al Jazeera (Short video)
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The following month, in March 2024, then-US President Joe Biden announced plans to build a floating pier in Gaza to get aid in to the Strip. The endeavour cost $230m to build and took about 1,000 US forces to execute.
But it was only operational for 20 days.
It was shut down in July, after only bringing in the equivalent of about one days worth of pre-war food deliveries.
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Large crowds of people had gathered on Al Rashid Street to receive aid, and witnesses say Israeli forces fired on the crowd, causing a stampede, and that the tanks also ran over wounded people, adding to the death toll.
At least 110 people were killed and hundreds more were wounded.
The incident would become known as the flour massacre.
Whats happened when Israel, US tried to deliver aid in Gaza
For instance, in February 2024, after more than a month of denying humanitarian aid into Gaza City and northern Gaza, Israeli authorities organised the delivery of flour via private contractors.
The trucks entered the Strip through its northern perimeter fence, accompanied by Israeli tanks.
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More than a dozen states slapped the admin w/2 new lawsuits on Tues, accusing it of withholding funding for both relief & in retaliation for the states policies.
The pair of lawsuits, both filed in federal court, are the latest of several dozen state challenges to the admins unprecedented cuts to federally approved for state .
If you are a voter who wants a tough line against , to cut international in favour of , to defend the biological definition of a , to stand with , and to insist on lower and tight control of government , understanding that cannot be a priority, you now have three choices of who to vote for.
Choice is important.
LIVE: Security Council to meet on amid critical of due to Israeli blockade
"Disabled people around the world are raising funds to get as many eSims as we can into Gaza."
And a special way for book lovers to help this initiative is described here:
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People in starving, sick and dying as continues, :
The of in Gaza is increasing with the deliberate withholding of humanitarian aid, including food, in the ongoing blockade.
Baroness Jenny Chapman, Labour's development minister says 'the days of viewing the UK government as a global charity are over' & the UK will now provide assistance & expertise not cash as its developmental support.
So, it'll keep aid money for itself, pay staff to 'help' communities develop responses to problems but will reduce the contribution to funding those responses.
Presented as partnership rather than paternalism, rather it looks like jobs for the British boys.
h/t FT
It could have come from the mouth of Nigel Farage, couldn't it , "UKs days as a global charity are over"
Fine , let the Commonwealth Nations take us to court for Reparations then. We are one small middling power with dwindling relevance, we will not win a fight with nations like Nigeria and India over all the things we did to them in the Past.
We urge states to join the humanitarian convoy by dispatching official diplomatic missions at the highest possible level to accompany the aid trucks already waiting at the Rafah Crossing, and to enter Gaza alongside them.
This is a human imperative. A Diplomatic Humanitarian Convoy would mark a historic step to break the siege, end the starvation, and affirm the worlds rejection of hunger as a weapon of war.
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Rowe stressed that while Episcopal Migration Ministries will seek to wind down all federally funded services by the end of the federal fiscal year in September, the denomination will continue to support & in other ways, such as offering to refugees who have already been resettled.
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At any given moment in Gaza, a child, someones whole world, could be killed by bombs and bullets, starvation and disease. The international community must act now to open the crossings and deliver life-saving aid. We cannot stand by while an entire population is starved in plain sight.
Ahmad Alhendawi
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US Envoy Confirms Israel's Exclusion from Upcoming Gaza Aid Initiative
U.S. says Israel won't be involved in Gaza aid distribution
A U.S.-backed mechanism for distributing aid into Gaza should take effect soon, Washington's ambassador to Israel said on Friday ahead of President Donald Trump's visit to the Middle East, but he gave few details.
U.S. says Israel won't be involved in Gaza aid distribution
A U.S.-backed mechanism for distributing aid into Gaza should take effect soon, Washington's ambassador to Israel said on Friday ahead of President Donald Trump's visit to the Middle East, but he gave few details.
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Aid groups attorneys beg City Hall not to pull support for extremely low-income residents on the brink of
Aid groups voice alarm as US pushes Israeli plan for Gaza assistance
Gates to give away fortune in historic philanthropic push
The billionaire philanthropist announced he will give 99% of his fortune currently $168 billion to his foundation, which will double its budget to $200 billion before shutting down in 2045.
The U.S. State Department said a solution to be able to deliver food aid to Gaza was "steps away" as the aid community expressed skepticism that the plan would bring relief to the enclave's conflict-ravaged population.
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This is not a relief plan but a new form of siege, genocide, and forced displacement.
Israel has tasked an organization headed by Armenian David Babazian, accused of corruption, to participate in its agenda to displace and subjugate Palestinians through food.
STATEMENT: Rami Abdu, Chairman of the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor:
The US-Israeli plan to entrust the distribution of limited aid in Gaza to international companies is a calculated maneuver to legitimize starvation.
The goal is not relief but to impose control and buy time for Israel, forcing residents to displacement by exhausting and starving them.
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Bill Gates pledged to give away $200 billion via his charitable foundation by 2045 and lashed out at Elon Musk, accusing him of "killing the world's poorest children" through huge cuts to the U.S. foreign aid budget.
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Cameron Hamilton, the acting head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, was pushed out of the job on Thurs, acc/to several people familiar w/his departure. His ouster came 1 day after he told members of that FEMA which Trump has suggested should be disbanded was vital to communities in their greatest times of need & should not be eliminated.
WCK Forced to Halt Cooking in Gaza as Supplies Run Out: Our pots may be empty, our cooking fires snuffed outbut World Central Kitchen will keep serving. Our trucksloaded with food and suppliesare waiting in Egypt, Jordan and Israel, ready to enter Gaza. But they cannot move without permission. Humanitarian aid must be allowed to flow. Jos Andrs WCK Founder
"A separate Swiss GHF affiliate is being created to address donors who would prefer to participate outside of the US structure.
This stinks.
Israel's controversial aid plan for Gaza revealed in new document Middle East Eye
WCK Forced to Halt Cooking in Gaza as Supplies Run Out:
Our pots may be empty, our cooking fires snuffed outbut World Central Kitchen will keep serving. Our trucksloaded with food and suppliesare waiting in Egypt, Jordan and Israel, ready to enter Gaza. But they cannot move without permission. Humanitarian aid must be allowed to flow. Jos Andrs WCK Founder