Food entering Gaza does not contribute to alleviating famine
Many hospitals have been reduced to rubble due to Israeli bombing.
The aid that has entered the enclave has not helped alleviate the famine.
We need specialised hospitals to deal with the famine in Gaza.
Amjad Shawa, director of the Palestinian NGOs Network in Gaza City
"African voices are still suppressed in the discussion of African disasters. In 2005, I wrote a critique of Bob Geldof and Live Aid, which focused on how their intervention could not be separated from neoliberal capitalist assault on African peoples." Patricia Daley
Another 21st century transformation in the aid architecture is the emergence of military development or humanitarianism.
While as military equipment has been around since the Second World War, the possibility of militaries themselves becoming aid actors emerged as a feature of the restructuring of Global North aid in the post-war Cold War, and during the period of civil war in 1990s and the 2000s War on Terror.
People wait to receive food from a charity kitchen.
Photograph: Hatem Khaled/Reuters
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International agencies hold secret collaboration meeting with the Humanitarian Foundation
The meeting flies in the face of previous public statements from top humanitarian officials describing the as unacceptable and disturbing. TNH /2
A secret meeting earlier this month between agencies, intl organisations & the Humanitarian Foundation () has been met withoutrage & disbelief by humanitarian figures & observers. They say themeeting marks a new low for humanitarian independence & legitimacy as it risks normalising the GHF, which is implicated in alleged TNH www.thenewhumanitarian.org/news/2025/08/20/outcry-aid-sector-risks-normalising-gaza-humanitarian-foundation-ghf-palestine /1
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Title: Outcry as aid sector risks normalising the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation
This is an existential threat for a sector that is already facing a crisis in legitimacy.
By Eric Reidy and Will Worley for The New Humanitarian in the and category (published AUG-20)
AidIsrael destroyed nearly 80% of aid facilities in Gaza
Palestinian civil society organizations have been subjected to numerous attacks, resulting in the killing of 230 aid workers, the injury of hundreds more, and the destruction of nearly 80 percent of their headquarters and humanitarian aid facilities.
Amjad Shawa
On August 14, more than 100 aid organisations, including prominent groups such as Oxfam, Doctors Without Borders (MSF), Amnesty International, and the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), condemned Israels weaponisation of aid, saying it was obstructing life-saving assistance from entering Gaza.
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ICYMI: Israel said Hamas was looting aid then it armed the gangs who were actually stealing it. The UN says 's gang has been raiding trucks withindifference or protection of the Israeli military. Former French diplomat Jean-Pierre Filliu, who spent 1 month in Gaza withRSF from Dec2024 to Jan2025witnessed the gang being protected by the IDF while looting trucks. ABC 14/9/25 . Yasser AbuShabab
To be fair, my experience was mainly with the humanitarian side of USAID (OFDA, before it merged with Food for Peace to become the Bureau for Humanitarian Affairs), so it was at least trying to respond humanitarian crises based on need, per the fundamental . I also collaborated with their Global Development Lab (a sort-of aid IT incubator), which was great.
On the development-aid side, on the other hand, nearly all rich countries use aid to at least some extent as an extension of foreign policy, rewarding friends, punishing foes, and buying favours/influence. I'm sure USAID was no different than, say, Global Affairs Canada, the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, or the UK Foreign, Commonwealth, & Development Office in that regard.
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UN warns Gaza crisis could worsen without safe, unrestricted aid flow
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Cyprus sends 1,200 tons of aid for Gaza via sea
The Cypriot foreign ministry said on Tuesday that the humanitarian aid had been pre-screened, and would be transferred to Gaza without additional security checks once it arrives in the southern Israeli port of Ashdod.
The aid would be distributed by the World Central Kitchen, and the foreign ministry said that the process was being delivered as part of the United Nations aid delivery mechanism.
says 383 in 2024
"lack of accountability a "shameful indictment" of international apathy -- and warned this year's toll was equally disturbing. The 2024 figure was up 31% on the year before, the UN said on World Humanitarian Day, "driven by the relentless in , where 181 humanitarian workers were killed.. were the most common of the in 2024"
A fire-fighting module originating from Bonn, Germany, comprising personnel from North Rhine-Westphalia, Lower Saxony and other cities, has arrived in San Sebas...
"To secure clean is to risk your life. To buy a single loaf of for your starving means giving up your last savings... To approach an distribution point is to gamble with death. Abdurrahman Nijm, in , in piece by Hend Salama Abo Helow
German social welfare agencies spent a net total of 20.2 billion euros on social assistance benefits under the SGB XII in 2024, according to data released Monda...
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Scottish Government minister marches in support of Palestine
is pictured holding a sign which states: Peace for now.
She is also wearing a for T-shirt. McAllan previously took part in a Stride for Palestinians, in aid of raising money for the . Alongside her constituency team, McAllan completed 107km on foot, representing the distance from East to .
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At least 1,760 Palestinians have been killed while seeking in Gaza since late May, according to data.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is scheduled to travel to Washington D.C. on Monday, following a conversation with U.S. President Donald Trump, Zelensky...
Parachutes drop humanitarian aid over Rafah as residents face starvation due to the blockade imposed by Israel. More than 100 aid organisations working in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank have accused Israel of dangerously weaponising aid in its application of new rules for registering groups involved in delivering humanitarian assistance.
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UN says at least 1,760 people killed while seeking aid in Gaza
Since 27 May, and as of 13 August, we have recorded that at least 1,760 Palestinians have been killed while seeking aid 994 in the vicinity of GHF (Gaza Humanitarian Foundation) sites and 766 along the routes of supply convoys. Most of these killings were committed by the Israeli military.
Last month, as part of its wind-down of international food and medical aid, the United States destroyed 500 metric tonnes of emergency food aid in the United Arab Emirates.
Over 60,000 tonnes of emergency food aid have remained stockpiled in warehouses around the world due to the shutdown of USAID.
Meanwhile, Israel with US and European Union support has been systematically starving the nearly two million remaining Palestinians in besieged Gaza.
People in western Myanmar have been driven to scavenging for bamboo shoots, as humanitarian workers warn a wartime blockade and aid cutbacks led by Washington have caused hunger cases to surge.
Germany has announced additional funding to address the escalating humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan. The Foreign Office and the Federal Ministry for Economic...
Gazas civil defence says 1,000 aid trucks needed daily
Only about 100 trucks enter daily 85 on average, most of them going to traders rather than meeting market needs.
40,000 children under one were suffering from malnutrition, 250,000 children under five face life-threatening food shortages, and 1.2 million children under 18 are living in severe food insecurity.
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Gaza has become the most dangerous place for humanitarian workers to be in. We have seen systematic attacks on aid convoys, humanitarian trucks, warehouses, premises. So for us, refusing to comply with providing private information about our staff, its natural.
Bushra Khalidi
Israel uses bureaucratic measures to stop NGOs from delivering aid to Gaza: Oxfam
Most major international NGOs since the second of March have been virtually unable to deliver a single truck of life-saving supplies, and we have millions of dollars of food, medicine and essential goods from multiple NGOs that are just standing there in the regional borders, just waiting to get in.
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