Browsing: Gaza aid

Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) criticized President Biden, accusing him of being part of the “pro-Hamas group” in the Democratic Party, following his threat to withhold weapons from Israel if Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu proceeds with a full-scale invasion of Rafah in southern Gaza. Asked on Fox News’s “FOX and Friends” for his reaction to Biden’s latest…

The United Nations and aid groups are urgently asking Israel to reopen Gaza’s border crossings and reduce military operations in the southern city of Rafah to deal with a humanitarian crisis affecting over one million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.  U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres made desperate pleas for Israel to ease its…

The United Nations’ World Food Program (WFP) agreed to deliver aid to residents in Gaza when the U.S. finishes a pier for moving aid by sea, U.S. officials said Friday, according to The Associated Press. The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has confirmed to The AP that it will work with the WFP to…

Philippe Lazzarini, the leader of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA), appealed for more global pressure on Israel to collaborate with the U.N. In a Friday post on X, the platform previously known as Twitter, Lazzarini mentioned a Thursday directive from the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to Israel to…

Cindy McCain, executive director of the United Nations’s World Food Programme (WFP), said Friday that there is an urgent need for food in Gaza amid the war occurring there. “[O]ur obstacles are many,” McCain said in an interview on MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports” Friday. “We have to be cleared at every level, the Israelis block…

Former President Trump criticized President Biden for his Israel policy in an interview scheduled to be broadcast on Sunday. “And all of a sudden, he turned his back on Israel, that’s what he’s doing, he turned his back on Israel,” Trump said in relation to Biden on Fox News’ “MediaBuzz” with host Howard Kurtz. “He basically said that Bibi Netanyahu should take…