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Israeli forces have killed over 1,000 aid-seekers in Gaza since May, the U.N. says
More than 1,000 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces since May while trying to get food in Gaza, mostly near food ...
Airdrops in South Sudan deliver food amid conflict as US shifts approach to foreign aid
World Food Programme conducted humanitarian airdrops in South Sudan as the country faces surging conflict amid financial upheaval in global assistance programs.
Opinion: Taxpayer dollars go up in smoke as 500 metric tons of food destroyed
In spite of approvals given in enough time to theoretically get the food into the hands of those who need it most, timely ...
Gaza has been at risk of famine for months, experts say. Here’s why they haven’t declared one
Even though Israel eased a 2-½-month blockade on the territory in May, aid groups say only a trickle of assistance is getting into the enclave and that Palestinians face catastrophic levels of hunger ...
Gaza has been starving for months. So why hasn’t a famine been declared?
Nearly all the 2 million Palestinians in the Gaza strip depend on outside aid. Local food production was extremely limited ...
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Palestinians are starving or being killed by Israeli troops while seeking aid almost daily. How did we get here?
By Nadeen Ebrahim, Abeer Salman, Kareem Khadder and Ibrahim Dahman, CNN (CNN) — Twenty-one months into Israel’s war in Gaza, ...
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Government runs earthquake simulation to test emergency preparedness
The Ministry of Disaster Management and Relief (MoDMR) successfully conducted a three day National Earthquake Simulation Exercise (SIMEX) in cooperation with the UN World Food Programme. The exercise ...