UK’s biggest aid package to feed 275,000 people in Gaza amid warnings of ‘imminent famine’

Britain has fed 275,000 people in Gaza, with Foreign Secretary Lord Cameron calling for “continued humanitarian access” to the area’s besieged people. More than 2,000 tonnes of food aid distributed by the UK has crossed the border and will be distributed by the World Food Program (WFP). A report released by the Integrated Food Security … Read more

IPC warns of impending famine in northern Gaza

A U.N.-backed food security report concluded on Monday that some 1.1 million Palestinians in northern Gaza face looming famine between now and May. Amid Israel’s war against Hamas militants in Gaza, humanitarian aid groups have been warning that hundreds of thousands of Palestinians are starving as too few aid trucks are allowed into the area … Read more

WHO: World ignores Sudan’s catastrophic humanitarian situation

Geneva- April marks the first anniversary of Sudan’s war, which was sparked by a power struggle between two rival generals. Aid groups say the war has had catastrophic consequences for nearly 49 million people, more than half of whom require life-saving humanitarian assistance. According to statistics, since the conflict broke out on April 15, 2023, … Read more

Palestinian officials say Israeli air strikes killed at least 29 Gazans waiting for aid

At least 29 people were killed in two Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip on Thursday while waiting for aid, according to the Hamas-run health ministry. Eight people were killed in an airstrike on an aid distribution center in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, Palestinian health officials said. Later that day, … Read more

Ethiopia’s Tigray region now at peace, but children suffer from extreme hunger

Nebarhadnet, Ethiopia— The harsh realities of war and drought seem to have merged for Tinsu Shiluf, a widow living deep in Ethiopia’s Tigray region where she is raising four children after her sister recently gave birth to a child. Two years of war between federal and regional troops killed one of her own sons, and … Read more

Biden to announce US construction of temporary port in Gaza to increase aid flow

Joe Biden will announce that U.S. forces will build a temporary port on the Gaza coast to increase humanitarian aid to the region. The move will be announced during the President’s State of the Union address on Thursday. Officials said the operation would not require U.S. troops to be on site to build the pier, … Read more

Explained: Gaza famine looms, how the world knows it’s arrived

The report said widespread famine may be “almost inevitable” if no action is taken. United Nations: The United Nations has warned that widespread famine in Gaza is “almost inevitable” if no action is taken. A formal conclusion that famine has broken out in the coastal enclave of 2.3 million people could come next week. What … Read more

UN: Famine looms, death plagues Gaza children, life-saving aid denied

Geneva- U.N. aid agencies have warned that more than a dozen children have died of starvation in Gaza and many more are at risk as malnutrition surges, infectious diseases spread and urgently needed life-saving humanitarian aid is blocked from entering the Palestinian enclave. “As of March 3, Gaza’s Ministry of Health reported that 15 children … Read more

UN: Without ceasefire, ‘widespread famine’ almost certain to occur in Gaza

New York – Several U.N. humanitarian officials warned on Tuesday that conflict-fueled famine was likely in the Gaza Strip if the fighting was not stopped soon. “If no action is taken, we fear widespread famine in Gaza is almost inevitable, a conflict that has claimed nearly 30,000 lives and injured 70,000 since October, according to … Read more

More than half a million people in war-torn Gaza are “just one step away” from famine, UN warns

In recent weeks, Israeli authorities have rejected all aid convoys planning to enter northern Gaza. The World Food Program warned on Tuesday that famine in northern Gaza is “imminent” as Israel launches a war against the Palestinian group Hamas, with no humanitarian organization able to deliver aid since January 23. As a dire humanitarian emergency … Read more