Israel also blocked the import of all food, medicine and fuel for 2 ½ months before allowing a small number of aid trucks to enter in the last few days. The move only came after warnings from ...

Hamas has rejected those claims, and humanitarian aid organizations say the overwhelming majority of food aid reaches civilians in need. The hunger crisis long predates Israel’s total blockade.

To qualify for aid under the new system, people seeking food are supposed to undergo screening to ensure they are not linked to Hamas, a measure that has heightened Palestinian suspicion of the ...

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — A U.S.-backed group approved by Israel to take over aid distribution in Gaza says it has started operations, despite opposition from the U.N. and most humanitarian groups ...

The Trump administration’s decision to freeze foreign aid supplies and essentially shutter USAID has had seismic effects on global humanitarian efforts. The U.N. World Food Program is one of the ...

CAIRO (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration has reversed new cutoffs in emergency food aid to several nations but maintained them in Afghanistan and Yemen, two of the world’s poorest and ...

“Twenty semi-truck loads of food, worth $1 million, from the Emergency Food Assistance Program have been canceled,” cleveland.com’s Molly Walsh reports. And this was “on top of the recent ...