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Published on: May 28, 2025 | Source:Aid entering Gaza is like 'a lifeboat after the ship has sunk', UN official says The UN's envoy for the Middle East told the Security Council on Wednesday that Palestinians are sinking into an "abyss" with a "manmade" famine stalking the enclave. "Since the resumption of hostilities inGaza, the already horrific existence of civilians has only sunk further into the abyss. This is manmade," Sigrid Kaag, the UN's special...
Published on: May 28, 2025 | Source:UN says two Palestinians died storming warehouse for food The UNβs World Food Programme (WFP) said that two Palestinians died while storming a warehouse for food in central Gazaβs Deir el-Balah. The deaths underscore how famine-like conditions are driving Palestinians in Gaza to desperation. βHumanitarian needs have spiralled out of control after 80 days of complete blockade of all food assistance and other aid into...
Published on: May 28, 2025 | Source:The first commercial airline to use its planes to deport migrants says contract 'too valuable not to pursue'.
Published on: May 28, 2025 | Source:Mass deportations of Haitians from the Dominican Republic are tearing families apart and causing widespread fear.
Published on: May 28, 2025 | Source:The photographs of a father and daughter have sparked conversations about the legacy of slavery and who profits from it.
Published on: May 28, 2025 | Source:The Israeli military says troops fired warning shots into the air but not at Palestinians during Tuesday's incident in Rafah.
Published on: May 28, 2025 | Source:Afghanistanβs children are starving as aid cuts and the freezing of Taliban assets hit the most vulnerable people.
Published on: May 28, 2025 | Source:Pope Leo calls for ceasefire in Gaza Pope Leo XIV on Wednesday called for a ceasefire in Gaza, in one of his first official statements on Israel's war since becoming Pontiff. "From #Gaza, the cries of parents rise to heaven ever more intensely as they clutch the lifeless bodies of their children, searching for food and shelter from bombs," he wrote on X. "I renew my appeal to leaders: cease fire, release all hostages,...
Published on: May 28, 2025 | Source:A look at the gang at the centre of US President Donald Trumpβs immigration policy.
Published on: May 28, 2025 | Source:Israel killed at least 10 Palestinians seeking aid in Gaza in two days, Gaza media office says At least 10 Palestinians were killed and 62 injured over two days as they scrambled to retrieve aid from the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation distribution centre, the Gaza media office said on Wednesday. The office said that the Israelis βopened direct fire on hungry Palestinian civilians who had gathered to receive aid". βThis...
Published on: May 28, 2025 | Source:Palestinian photojournalist Osama al-Arbid lost eight of his family members in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City.
Published on: May 28, 2025 | Source:Chaotic scenes emerge from UN warehouse as starving Palestinians search for flour and children's food Chaotic scenes are emerging on Wednesday of hundreds of starving Palestinians storming a UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine, or Unrwa, warehouse in Gaza. "Itβs chaos: a human tide surging toward hidden aid. Thousands are pushing, shouting, and clawing for sacks of flour and child nutrition boxes," Palestinian...
Published on: May 28, 2025 | Source:What's inside the boxes of aid being distributed in Gaza? Submitted by MEE staff on Wed, 05/28/2025 - 16:15 Backed by the US and Israel, the controversial Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) is distributing supplies that Palestinians say are woefully inadequate A Palestinian man shows the food supplies he received as part of a box distributed by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation in Rafah, southern Gaza, on 27 May 2025...
Published on: May 28, 2025 | Source:Smotrich calls for 'rebuilding temple' during Jerusalem Day celebrations Submitted by MEE staff on Wed, 05/28/2025 - 16:13 Call by far-right finance minister would entail the destruction of Al-Aqsa Mosque Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich walks to visit the Damascus Gate in Jerusalem's Old City, as Israelis mark Jerusalem Day, 26 May 2025 (Reuters) Off Far-rightIsraeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has...
Published on: May 28, 2025 | Source:Kaja Kallas, the EU's top diplomat, says the bloc also does not support a new aid distribution model which bypasses the UN and other humanitarian organisations.
Published on: May 28, 2025 | Source:Videos show people walking over torn-down fences at the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation's site in Rafah.
Published on: May 28, 2025 | Source:Judge Julieta Makintach was accused of participating in a documentary about the famed football player's death.
Published on: May 27, 2025 | Source:Labour prosecutors allege that workers were brought to Brazil illegally and toiled in 'slavery-like conditions'.
Published on: May 27, 2025 | Source:Israel blowing up residential buildings near Gaza City Israel's military is blowing up residential buildings near Gaza City, Al Jazeera Arabic reported on Wednesday. Israel has demolished swaths of Palestinian homes throughout Gaza, as it pressed for a forced displacement of Palestinians from the enclave.
Published on: May 27, 2025 | Source:Latest Trump administration move comes amid wider pressure campaign against top universities, targeting of students.
Published on: May 27, 2025 | Source:Ireland moves to ban trade with Israeli-occupied territories The Irish government approved on Tuesday the drafting of a bill to ban the import of goods from Israeli settlements considered illegal under international law, an unprecedented move for a European Union member. The move comes after the International Court of Justice last year said Israeli occupation of the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza Strip was illegal...
Published on: May 27, 2025 | Source:Water treatment stations attacked by RSF unable to provide clean water in Khartoum state, where 95 percent of cases are.
Published on: May 27, 2025 | Source:The law requires parental consent to download apps or make in-app purchases for users aged below 18.
Published on: May 27, 2025 | Source:The ruling comes as US Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy is set to pause federal funds to New York state.
Published on: May 27, 2025 | Source:Israel accuses UN of failing to distribute aid after US contractor site swarmed by starving Palestinians The Israeli military accused the UN of βfailing to fulfil its role" in distributing aid inside Gaza. βWith the renewed entry of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip, we have reached out to all humanitarian aid organizations and the international community, and called for them to take part in the distribution of aid to...
Published on: May 27, 2025 | Source:Research group Forensic Architecture finds that Israel is using tactics in the West Bank similar to those used in Gaza.
Published on: May 27, 2025 | Source:More aid distribution sites are being set up in Gaza with US support, according to Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu.
Published on: May 27, 2025 | Source:Netanyhu says Israel and US temporarily lost control of Gaza aid site Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel and the US "momentarily" lost control of their aid site in southern Gaza as it was stormed by starving Palestinians on Tuesday. "We worked out a plan with our American friends to have controlled distribution sites where an American company would distribute the food to Palestinian families,"...
Published on: May 27, 2025 | Source:Trump administration on the defensive after Gaza aid plan spirals into chaos Submitted by MEE staff on Tue, 05/27/2025 - 20:26 After proudly listing the number of meals distributed, spokesperson Tammy Bruce brushed off criticism and blamed Hamas Palestinians ride a cart after securing some aid from a distribution site run by the US-Israeli initiative known as the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, in Rafah, in the southern...
Published on: May 27, 2025 | Source:Trump looking to cancel all government funding for Harvard University Submitted by MEE staff on Tue, 05/27/2025 - 18:30 A letter to federal agencies tells them to end contracts worth an estimated $100m after previously freezing billions in funds Demonstrators gather on Cambridge Common outside Harvard University to protest against its stance on the Gaza war and show support for the Palestinian people, in Cambridge,...
Published on: May 27, 2025 | Source:Officials say more than one million Muslim pilgrims from around the world have already arrived in the country.
Published on: May 27, 2025 | Source:King Charles III made references to US President Donald Trumpβs threats against Canada in remarks to its parliament.
Published on: May 27, 2025 | Source:Israeli soldiers have fired warning shots to disperse the thousands who thronged the aid centre seeking food.
Published on: May 27, 2025 | Source:Government escalates row with university over demands to curb pro-Palestine student activism, racial diversity policies.
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