GENEVA – AFP The humanitarian aid allowed into the Gaza Strip is not getting to people in need, the United Nations has said, urging Israel to fulfil its legal obligations. “The aid that is getting in is not getting to the people, and that’s a major problem,” Jens Laerke, spokesman for the UN humanitarian agency [&hellip...
DOHA (AA) – Qatar will provide $75 million in humanitarian aid to the Syrian people, said the country’s Foreign Ministry on Tuesday. “Qatar will contribute $75 million to support humanitarian efforts and interventions for the benefit of the brotherly Syrian people,” Qatari Minister of State for International Cooperation Lolwah Rash...
Fulool, Afghanistan — AFP Survivors of flash floods in Afghanistan’s northern Baghlan province are still searching for their missing people, days after torrents of water ripped through villages, killing hundreds. Heavy rains sparked flash flooding in multiple Afghan provinces on Friday, killing more than 300 people in Baghlan alone...
ANKARA (AA) – The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) has said that Israel’s interruption to the supply of aid at the Rafah crossing will affect humanitarian response across war-torn Gaza. The Israeli army said earlier on Tuesday that its forces have seized control of the Palestinian side of the Rafah border crossing with Eg...
BIRMINGHAM, England (AA) – A group of British parliamentarians from the International Development Committee (IDC) have visited the Egyptian city Al-Arish in the Sinai desert to observe humanitarian efforts. Upon the return of the group back to the UK, the committee chair, Sarah Champion, said: “Nothing that has been reported braces you f...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – The Al-Adham family is living in the back of a truck in Rafah as they struggle to survive after Israel destroyed their home in Jabalia. Maryam Al-Adham expressed her family’s difficulty in finding adequate shelter in Rafah due to overcrowded shelters and the high cost of tents, which led them […]
JERUSALEM (AA) – Right-wing Israeli activists and relatives of prisoners in Gaza obstructed humanitarian aid trucks from entering the enclave on Friday. “Activists of the Order 9 movement blocked the Nitzana Border Crossing to prevent trucks with humanitarian aid from entering the Gaza Strip,” Yedioth Ahronoth daily reported. It added th...
ANKARA (AA) – Norway has sent $26 million in aid to the United Nations agency for Palestine refugees (UNRWA), after some countries decided to stop their support in response to Israeli allegations against UNRWA workers of involvement in the October 7 Hamas attacks. Norwegian Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide said on X, “Today, Norway tran...
GENEVA (AA) – Bitter fighting in Sudan continues fueling one of the world’s biggest displacement crisis and in response the UN has appealed for a combined $4.1 billion to meet the most urgent humanitarian needs of civilians. The UN said the appeal, also on behalf of its partners, seeks to help cover more than 1.5 […]
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has called on the United Nations to double its efforts to halt Israel’s war on Gaza. Abbas met with Middle East peace envoy Tor Wennesland in the West Bank city of Ramallah for talks on the situation in the Palestinian territories. The Palestinian leader conveyed a message [&hellip...
