A U.S.-built pier is in place to bring humanitarian aid to Gaza by sea, but no one will know if the new route will work until a steady stream of deliveries begins reaching starving Palestinians.
“The biggest risk is making sure nobody gets hurt on the ground,” Kirby said. He said the U.S. is also working through how the airdropped aid will be collected and distributed once it's on the ground. The U.S. believes the airdrops will hel...
The situation in Palestine is highly emotive and complex. The scale of suffering and destruction ongoing in Gaza is massive and the death toll continues to rise. Around1.5 million people have been displacedto refugee camps in neighboring countries but also to the West Bank, a Palestinian territory...
Those inevitable moments when the Olympics force you to suspend all belief, temporarily or otherwise, when performances suddenly become so much faster or higher or stronger as to appear too good to be true. How many Irish medals is a realistic target? T...
Children in Gaza have witnessed many injustices over the years while living in Palestine under occupation; these dire circumstances are clearly affecting their mental health. Palestinian children have experienced a lot of inequities throughout their lives. Under occupation, they had their childhoods robbe...
Yeah. So that’s quite interesting. And Israel is not alone in that sort of policy. We have seen similar cases of blockades where states do allow some aid to get into blockaded regions, but then do not provide adequate food and other types of resources that are necessary for the civilian...
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The United Nations asked for nearly $300 million in aid for Palestinians. Within a month, the figure nearly quadrupled as Gaza plunged into a humanitarian crisis.
We also distributed a much higher number of questionnaires than required as well as the well-adjusted representation of HCWs in our sample from several hospital types and various regions of Palestine, which suggests that our response rate given the current circumstances is acceptable, and the ...
“The concept of deconfliction, at this point, has become almost a joke,” said Amber Alayyan, Médecins San Frontières' Palestine medical program manager.