Palestinian aid

World Central Kitchen closes soup kitchens across Gaza due to dwindling supplies

4:51pm May 08, 2025

Israel's ongoing blockade of aid for Gaza forced the humanitarian group to shut its soup kitchens as it faced empty warehouses and no replenishment of supplies in the war-battered enclave.

Israel plans new control of food and supplies in Gaza

4:13am May 05, 2025

by Steve Inskeep

The United Nations and major groups currently running aid operations in Gaza, briefed by Israel on the plans, said they would not cooperate with the plans.

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The U.S. backs Israel's ban on the U.N.'s Palestinian aid agency at the World Court

1:00pm April 30, 2025

The United States told the International Court of Justice Wednesday that Israel must provide aid to Gaza, but the country does not have to work with the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees.

Amnesty International accuses Israel of genocide in Gaza, which Israel strongly denies

11:37am December 05, 2024

Amnesty International says Israel has sought to deliberately destroy Palestinians in its war with Hamas, by mounting deadly attacks, demolishing vital infrastructure and preventing aid deliveries.

As Israel bans UNRWA, Palestinians stand to lose schools and clinics, not only in Gaza

9:17am December 03, 2024

Israel is severing ties with the main United Nations agency that provides aid to Palestinians. With the focus largely on Gaza, the move also threatens key services in the occupied West Bank.

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Israel's evacuation orders in Deir al-Balah displace Palestinians again

The U.S. urges major changes to Israel's evacuations in Gaza, a leaked memo says

11:07am August 29, 2024

In an internal memo obtained by NPR, U.S. officials warn that Israel's "drastically increased" evacuation orders in Gaza have further displaced Palestinians and could debilitate aid efforts.

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Relatives and friends mourn the death of Saifeddin Issam Ayad Abutaha, a member of the U.S.-based aid group World Central Kitchen who was killed as Israeli strikes hit its convoy delivering food in Gaza, during his funeral in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, on Tuesday.

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These are the World Central Kitchen aid workers killed by Israeli airstrike in Gaza

4:02pm April 03, 2024

Three of those killed by an Israeli airstrike were British and the others were Australian, Palestinian, Polish and a dual citizen of the U.S. and Canada.