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 voice alarm as US pushes Israeli plan for Gaza assistance
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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
For all its pragmatic spade work, the has also served as a kind of valorous abstractionthe seeming embodiment of the Golden Rule, in a phrase that likes to use, & the face of an increasingly anachronistic era of elite optimism.
You could say this announcement is not very timely, Gates says, but the timeline isnt short: He is committing the foundation to 20 more years of generous , >$200B in total, targeting & .
After serving more than 130 million total meals and 26 million loaves of bread over the past 18 months, World Central Kitchen no longer has the supplies to cook meals or bake bread in .
WCK trucks loaded with food and cooking fuel have been ready at the Gaza border since early March. Additional food and equipment are ready to be shipped to the border from Jordan and Egypt. Vital work cannot continue without permission from Israel for this aid to enter.
Trumps aid cuts blamed as food rations stopped for a million refugees in Uganda
The Peace Corps may face major cuts as part of the Trump administrations broader reduction of U.S. foreign aid programs.
With USAID already significantly scaled back, Peace Corps staff reductions and restructuring are raising concerns about the future of this iconic agency.
The has long served as a tool of soft power, boosting the U.S.s global image through volunteer work in over 60 countries.
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Its the latest example s , a fmr wknd anchor w/zero govt experience, & comes after he detailed battle plans on one group chat to which a was added, & on a second Signal group including his wife & his brother.
The Reuters report said that Hegseths office issued the stop order to private contractors on Jan 30, after a meeting in the Oval Office about . The meeting did not end w/ an order from to end but Hegseth did anyway.
The report, by Reuters, detailed how an order from s office at the end of Jan led to 11 flights carrying , including artillery shells, being grounded in Qatar. In a matter of hours, began to panic about the whereabouts of the critical aidw/confusion spreading from back to the , where snr ofcls had no idea what was happening. In later conversations w/Kyiv, the admin blamed the pause on internal politics.
Accused of More After Sudden Halt
was facing new claims of chaos in his running of the on Tues in a bombshell report about his handling of aid to Ukraine.
The embattled was revealed to have caused confusion on 3 continents with a verbal order to ground planes flying supplies to Ukraine w/o anyone elsepossibly including knowing.
In recent years, the nonprofit helped draft a 2017 , the Jackson Free Press found, which intensified eligibility checks for that made it more difficult for some applicants to qualify. It successfully pushed a 2023 effort in to impose requirements for that advocates said led some recipients to lose access.
's proposals often seek to limit who taps into that & the help they receive. Those backing the group's mission say the goal is to save tax dollars & help people lift themselves out of poverty. Critics argue that FGA's proposals are a backdoor way to cut off aid to people who need it & that making & more affordable is a better fix.
s Is Ending Door-to-Door Canvassing in Areas
As it shifts responsibility for recovery efforts to local authorities, FEMA workers will stop knocking on doors to provide to in disaster areas, per a memo obtained by WIRED.
Its time to launch the concluding moves, said the ofcls told him, adding that the new campaign would help bring home the still being held in . The PM said he believes we are not done. We are before the finish line.
The followed >2 months in which continued to blockade & bombard the Gaza Strip as talks to free the remaining hostages ground to a near standstill. Israel has barred any to Gaza.
"What the Israeli government is planning is "not an aid plan," said one legal scholar, but rather "an aid denial plan""
"new approach to distribution of aid...that would include the use of private military contractors...By relocating the civilian population to the south and forcing people to travel for food, water, and medicine only to designated "hubs"...the plan violates all principles of human rights and the laws of war"
Ben-Gvir: No aid should be distributed in Gaza, even by Israeli military
The only aid that should enter Gaza is aid for voluntary migration.
As long as there are hostages no food, no electricity, and no other aid should be allowed neither by the Israeli military nor by civil society.
U.S. Aid Freeze Deepens Somalia's Escalating Humanitarian Crisis .S
does anyone know of any vetted organisations that are distributing cash on the ground, directly to people in gaza i've found 'save one life', but need to investigate their legitimacy.
here's the link to their site:
The Guardian view on Israels aid blockade of Gaza: hunger as a weapon of war Editorial -Gazawar
Trucks carrying food, water and medicine are piling up at the borders of Gaza while Palestinians are starving to death.
At least 57 Palestinians have starved to death under Israels total blockade.
Senate Bill May Halt U.S. Anti-Terror Aid to Somalia: Report .S
GOP Senators Push to Freeze Somalia Aid Until Allies Contribute Equitably
Impact of Aid Reductions on Displaced Families in Baidoa
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United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of , Francesca Albanese, expressed her sorrow for the suffering of Palestinians in the strip due to Israeli starvation policies, saying, "Your hunger is our shame."
This came in a post, coinciding with the 60th day since Israel's decision to close all crossings into the Palestinian Strip and halt the entry of food supplies and .
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