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#Gaza #ceasefire outlook darkens as #Israel delays #aid & #Hamas tightens grip

Israel delayed aid into Gaza & kept the enclave's border shut on Tuesday, while re-emergent Hamas fighters demonstrated their grip by executing men in the street, darkening the outlook for #Trump’s [ego & the region’s stability]….

#MiddleEast #geopolitics #Netanyahu #SmokeAndMirrors #Palestinians #HumanitarianCrisis #famine
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/hamas-fighters-tighten-grip-gaza-clouding-future-ceasefire-2025-10-14/

Kristi Noem Fast-Tracked Millions in Disaster Aid to Florida Tourist Attraction After Campaign Donor Intervened
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The DHS chief has been widely criticized for slowing down FEMA’s response after natural disasters. Texts and emails obtained by ProPublica point to an effective way to get help faster: have one of Noem’s big donors make the ask.
https://www.propublica.org/article/kristi-noem-fema-florida-naples-sinan-gursoy?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #KristiNoem #DHS #Florida #FEMA #Disaster #Aid

Income isn’t supposed to play a role in how much housing assistance FEMA gives families.

But in some N.C. counties, the highest-income homeowners received two to three times as much money after Hurricane Helene as those with lower incomes.
https://www.propublica.org/article/fema-aid-hurricane-helene-income-disparities?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #NorthCarolina #Hurricane #FEMA #Housing #Aid

#Gaza #flotilla faces #Israel #blockade as #activists call for #aid access

Several unidentified vessels were seen approaching the #GlobalSumudFlotilla trying to deliver aid to Gaza Wednesday night.

The approach comes hours after the flotilla said that Israeli "warships" approached some of its boats & engaged in "dangerous & intimidatory maneuvers" early Wednesday as it neared the #Palestinian territory.

#HumanitarianCrisis #starvation #HumanRights #FreedomFlotilla
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/live-gaza-flotilla-faces-israels-blockade-activists-call-aid-access-2025-10-01/?utm_source=braze&utm_medium=notifications&utm_campaign=2025_engagement

Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived.
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ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cuts.
https://projects.propublica.org/trump-food-cuts/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Trump #Food #Aid #Poverty

#Trump fires #USAID #IG one day after blistering report

The WH fired the independent inspector general for the US Agency for International Development on Tues evening, a day after his office issued a blistering report assessing the impact of the Trump admin’s efforts to significantly curtail the agency’s mission.

#law #aid #SoftPower #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #USpol
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/02/11/trump-fires-usaid-inspector-general/

Migrants detained in Panama expressed fear of returning to their countries.

“They will execute me without hesitation,” one texted.

“I am LGBT. My country harass these people. I cannot live a normal life in my country,” said another.

https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-deportations-panama-asylum-aid-groups?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Panama #Trump #Immigration #Migrants #Asylum #Aid

JFC

Israeli #tanks #kill 59 people in #Gaza crowd trying to get #food #aid, medics say

Israeli tanks fired into a crowd trying to get aid from trucks in Gaza on Tues, killing at least 59 people, according to medics, in one of the bloodiest incidents yet in mounting #violence as desperate residents struggle for food.

#Israel #WarCrime #HumanitarianCrisis
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israeli-tank-shelling-kills-45-people-awaiting-aid-trucks-gaza-ministry-says-2025-06-17/

#Ceasefire talks in #Gaza are stalling over the extent of #Israel forces' withdrawal from the #Palestinian enclave….

In Gaza, medics said 17 people trying to get #food #aid were killed Saturday when Israeli troops opened fire, the latest #MassShooting around a #US backed *aid* distribution system that the #UN says has resulted in 800 people killed in 6 weeks.

#Trump #JohnnieMoore #GazaHumanitarianFoundation #GHF #evangelical #Zionism
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/gaza-truce-talks-faltering-over-withdrawal-palestinian-israeli-sources-say-2025-07-12/

US contractors *guarding* #aid distribution sites in #Gaza are using #LiveAmmunition & stun #grenades as hungry #Palestinians scramble for food, acc/to accounts & videos obtained by The AP.

2 #US contractors, speaking to the AP on condition of anonymity because they were revealing their employers’ internal ops, said they were coming forward because they were disturbed by what they considered dangerous & irresponsible practices.

#WarCrimes #CrimesAgainstHumanity #law
https://apnews.com/article/palestinians-israel-gaza-contractors-aid-distribution-fe27f3ea83e06a09d66424eed7a5d56f?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-07-02-Gaza+aid

I’m surprised they’re admitting this; unless it’s because they’re happy w/ how the #GHF has been distributing *aid*

No Proof #Hamas Routinely Stole #UN #Aid, Israeli Military Officials Say

#Israel has long restricted or completely blocked aid to #Gaza on the argument that Hamas steals it to use as a #weapon of
control over the population.

#HumanitarianCrisis #Palestinians #Starvation #Famine
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/26/world/middleeast/hamas-un-aid-theft.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare