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ABC News Sunday marks six months since Hamas launched a surprise terrorist attack in southern Israel and Israel responded by declaring war against Hamas. Israel launched a ground offensive in late October, tightening its restrictions on the movement of goods and people in and out of Gaza and ordered civilians in the north to evacuate […]
ABC News (NEW YORK) — Scott Paul, the associate director for peace and security at Oxfam America, spoke with ABC News Live about the crisis in Gaza and the necessary steps to protect civilians and aid workers. Paul believes that the tragic deaths of seven employees of World Central Kitchen this week are a collective […]
Aid is given out to refugees in Gaza. — ABC News (NEW YORK) — Since the outbreak of the Israeli-Gaza conflict, the United Nations agency representing Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) has provided aid to Gazan civilians facing dire humanitarian conditions. But the agency’s future is now in jeopardy after several nations, including the United States, suspended […]
Omar El Qattaa/Anadolu via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — An Israeli attack in Gaza on a convoy of aid workers from World Central Kitchen, the relief organization providing desperately needed food to Palestinians, has generated outrage from the group’s founder, celebrity chef José Andrés and condemnation from around the world. Israel has apologized for the […]
Omar El Qattaa/Anadolu via Getty Images (TEL-AVIV, Israel) — An Israeli attack in Gaza on a convoy of aid workers from World Central Kitchen, the relief organization providing desperately needed food to Palestinians, has generated outrage from the group’s founder, celebrity chef José Andrés and condemnation from around the world. Israel has apologized for the […]
A landslide blocks a road near Taroko national park following an earthquake in Hualien, Taiwan, on Thursday, April 4, 2024. (An Rong Xu/Bloomberg via Getty Images) (NEW YORK) — The death toll from Wednesday’s powerful 7.4 magnitude earthquake in Taiwan climbed to 10 people on Thursday, with hundreds more stranded or trapped, Taiwanese officials said. […]
World Central Kitchen (NEW YORK) — The bodies of six of the seven World Central Kitchen aid workers killed in an Israeli military missile strike this week left Gaza on Wednesday, hospital officials said, as the fallout from the deadly incident continues to grow. The bodies were taken by ambulance from the Abu Youssef Al-Najjar […]
Samy Zayara/ABC News (DEIR AL-BALAH, GAZA) — While he’d rather be playing games with his brothers or studying in school, 12-year-old Zakaria Sarsak said he no longer has that option. He, instead, said he spends his days racing from one emergency to another across the Gaza Strip, riding with an ambulance crew to ghastly scenes […]
Elephants walk through one of the dried channel of the wildlife reach Okavango Delta near the Nxaraga village in the outskirt of Maun, on September 28, 2019. (Monirul Bhuiyan/AFP via Getty Images) (LONDON) — Botswana’s President Mokgweetsi Masisi has offered to export 20,000 elephants to Germany in a conservation spat with Berlin following comments from […]
Palestinians check a damaged vehicle after Israeli strikes in central Gaza Strip city of Deir el-Balah, on April 2, 2024. (Yasser Qudih/Xinhua via Getty Images) (LONDON) — The foreign-aid organization World Central Kitchen called on Thursday for an independent and international investigation into the killing of seven of its workers in an Israel airstrike in […]
