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World Central Kitchen chef says aid workers were deliberately targeted

Celebrity chef Jose Andres told Reuters in an emotional interview that the Israeli airstrike that killed seven of his World Central Kitchen aid workers in Gaza had been deliberately targeted, and he rejected Israeli and U.S. assertions t...

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U.N. Secretary-General urges nations to "flood" Gaza with aid

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres stood near a long line of waiting trucks and declared it was time to “truly flood Gaza with lifesaving aid," calling the starvation inside the enclave a “moral outrage.” He urged an immediate cease...

France 24

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Aid ship arrives in Gaza as Israel prepares Rafah attack

A boat full of aid and supplies has landed in Gaza shores for the first time since the latest war began. It is a pittance of what is needed by the desperate population of the territory because not enough aid is being allowed in.

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Humanitarian ship reaches Gaza carrying food, aid

A Cyprus ship carrying 200 tons of aid has reached Gaza, aiming to feed 600,000 Palestinians amid severe blockade. The ship's arrival comes as Gaza continues to face dire humanitarian conditions due to the ongoing blockade imposed by Isr...

Al Jazeera

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Aid efforts intensify in Gaza as famine looms

Efforts grow to get more aid into the war-devastated Gaza Strip, where the U.N. warns of famine and desperate residents have stormed relief shipments. After mediators failed to reach a truce between Israel and Hamas militants for the Mus...

France 24

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Staffer killed by Israeli strike on U.N. aid facility in Gaza

The United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees said one of its staff members was killed on Wednesday in an Israeli strike on a food distribution centre in war-hit Gaza. The health ministry in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip had earlier said...

France 24

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Cut-price malaria vaccine to begin rollout across Africa

The world's biggest vaccine maker will start rolling out a cheap new malaria inoculation in Africa from May, bolstering the fight against one of the most deadly infectious diseases globally.

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First Gaza aid ship expected to depart from Cyprus soon

The first aid ship to use a new maritime aid corridor is expected to depart for Gaza this weekend, where aid agencies are warning that a famine is looming as hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians struggle to find basic necessit...

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Gaza's Health Ministry says children are dying of malnutrition

Nearly five months into Israel's assault on the Gaza Strip and resulting mass displacement, acute shortages of food have led to what the United Nations is describing as a nutrition crisis, part of a wider humanitarian catastrophe. Gaza's...

France 24

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Nine killed by Israeli bombing of aid truck in Gaza

At least nine people have been killed and many others injured in an Israeli bombing of an aid truck in Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, according to witnesses cited by the Wafa news agency. Israeli army also bombed residential bu...

Al Jazeera

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U.S. to airdrop aid into Gaza, Biden says

U.S. President Joe Biden announced plans to carry out a first military airdrop of food and supplies into Gaza, a day after the deaths of Palestinians queuing for aid threw a spotlight on an unfolding humanitarian catastrophe in the crowd...

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Aid agencies warn Gaza is on the brink of famine

Aid agencies are warning that the unfolding humanitarian crisis there will soon reach a tipping point. Palestinians across the strip are being forced to go days without food or water. And are struggling to fend off starvation, as Israel'...

Al Jazeera

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Israel bombs U.N.R.W.A. building in Gaza

Casualties are being reported from an Israeli bombing of a U.N.R.W.A. building housing displaced people in the Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip. An Israeli raid was targeting a Palestinian vehicle east of the camp at the t...

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Israeli protesters block humanitarian aid to Gaza

Israel has opened alternative border crossings into Gaza for humanitarian aid trucks, but a group of protesters are attempting to stop trucks at inspection sites. Many Israelis fear that aid, particularly fuel, is helping Hamas rather th...

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One year after earthquake, many Syrians feel forgotten

The deadly earthquake one year ago, registering a magnitude of 7.8, claimed over 50,000 lives in Turkey and 5,900 in Syria, and left millions homeless, making it the deadliest disaster in the region. Many Syrians in the Idlib region in t...

France 24

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Basic necessities in Gaza face severe inflation

Gaza's high costs and low income make diapers a luxury. With prices around $1 per diaper, many parents are forced to find alternatives, such as pieces of cloth. The situation is worsened by the lack of aid and basic hygiene products, mak...

Al Jazeera

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U.S. pauses funding for UNRWA over Hamas connection

The UN agency for Palestinian refugees fired a number of its staffers in Gaza suspected of taking part in the October 7 attack by Hamas and other militants on southern Israel, its director said. The move prompted the United States, the a...

France 24

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Foreign aid enters Gaza after Hamas-Israel deal

Desperately needed medicine and other humanitarian aid has entered Gaza. It was sent from Qatar hours after a deal was reached between Israel and Hamas to allow the supplies to be distributed.

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UNICEF: Afghanistan in crisis from October earthquake

96,000 Afghan children are in desperate need of support after last year's devastating earthquakes. That is according to UNICEF, which says the atmosphere in villages is "thick with suffering" as a bitter winter grips the country. At leas...

Al Jazeera

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Third convoy of international aid enters Gaza

At least 400 Palestinians have been killed in some of the worst overnight attacks on the territory, according to health officials in Gaza. Humanitarian aid continues to enter as hospitals are in dire need of medical supplies. Thousands o...

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U.N. warns Gaza's water supply reaching crisis point

The United Nations has warned about the lack of clean and safe water for the people of Gaza. The enclave receives its supply from pipelines from Israel, desalination plants and wells. But after the Hamas attack, Israel cut off its water,...

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WHO warns delaying aid to Gaza will cost lives

The WHO has asked repeatedly for critical aid, including medicine, to be allowed to flow from Egypt into Gaza via the Rafah border crossing, a top regional official says. 'If it is delayed, we are losing a lot of lives.'

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WHO warns Gaza City evacuation is a "death sentence"

Asking health workers to move severely ill people out of northern Gaza is 'beyond cruel' and amounts to a 'death sentence,' says WHO spokesperson Tarik Jasarevic.

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Aid workers struggle to help civilians in Gaza

Civilians in Gaza are facing an increasingly dire situation, says Jan Egeland, secretary-general of the Norwegian Refugee Council and former UN Special Envoy for conflict resolution. NRC is trying to find shelter and deliver cash aid to ...

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EU suspends €700m in aid payments to Palestine

The European Commission puts its full portfolio of development aid to Palestinians, worth 691 million euros ($728.66 million), under review following the Israeli incursion. The decision means that payments are immediately suspended.

Al Jazeera

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Mass graves risk contaminating water supply in Libya

Rescue workers are struggling to identify decomposing bodies in the city of Derna. The city was devastated a week ago after two dams collapsed following heavy rains. Thousands of people were killed and 10,000 are still missing. There are...

Al Jazeera

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International aid arrives in flood-hit Libya

Help arrives to search for survivors, bodies and bury the dead in flood-stricken Derna from inside and outside of Libya. The tragedy has managed to unite a country divided by warlords and factions.

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Morocco's search for survivors continues

Rescuers are yet to reach some remote mountain villages, which suffered some of the worst devastation. DW’s Jan-Philipp Scholz reports from Imi N’Tala in the Atlas Mountains.

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International aid begins to arrive in Libya

Libya's worst natural disaster in decades has now killed more than five thousand people and left the port city of Derna in ruins. And with at least 10,000 people missing, that death toll is expected to rise. Countries around the world ar...

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Aid agencies struggle to feed refugees in Chad

Food supplies are running low in Chad, where aid agencies are struggling to feed 270,000 recently arrived refugees from Sudan. The World Food Programme says malnutrition is increasing and it has only a few weeks of supplies left.

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