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UN Races to Feed One Million Gazans After Truce

This is Beirut, 19/01 19:55 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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The UN's World Food Programme said Sunday it was moving full throttle to get food to as many Gazans as possible after border crossings reopened as part of a long-awaited ceasefire deal. "We're trying to reach a million people within the shortest possible time," the WFP's Deputy Executive Director Carl Skau told AFP, as the Rome-based UN agency's ...

Talks Underway to Open Gaza's Rafah Border Crossing for Aid

This is Beirut, 15/01 21:23 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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Egyptian state media reported Wednesday that coordination was underway to "open the Palestinian Rafah crossing to allow the entry of international aid" into Gaza, citing an Egyptian security source. Egypt was "preparing to bring in the largest possible amount of aid to the Gaza Strip", following news of a ceasefire deal ...

UN Allocates $30 Million for Crisis Response in Lebanon

This is Beirut, 10/01 15:40 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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The United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator for Lebanon, Imran Riza, announced on Friday the allocation of $30 million from the Lebanon Humanitarian Fund to address urgent needs arising from the recent escalation of hostilities. This funding aims to assist affected individuals, including displaced people and those returning to areas devastated by ...

Fifty Tons of EU Aid Expected in Syria on December 31

This is Beirut, 2024-12-27 15:30 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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Some 50 tons of EU-funded medical supplies that were flown to Turkey from Dubai are expected to enter Syria on December 31, a UN health official told AFP on Friday. The supplies, which were sent from a European Union stockpile in Dubai, landed in Istanbul early on Thursday and were to be driven to the border in the coming days. "The supplies are ...

Gaza: Three Humanitarian Workers Killed in Israeli Strike

This is Beirut, 2024-11-30 15:55 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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The Gaza Strip Civil Defense announced on Saturday that three humanitarian workers were killed in an airstrike in Khan Younis (south), while the Israeli army stated it had targeted "a terrorist." The humanitarian workers, all Palestinians, were employed by the American NGO World Central Kitchen (WCK), according to the Civil Defense. The ...

UN Chief Says No Substitute to UNRWA to Aid Palestinian Refugees

This is Beirut, 2024-11-18 16:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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There is no alternative to the UN agency supporting Palestinian refugees, its chief insisted Monday, following Israel's order to ban the organization that coordinates nearly all aid in war-ravaged Gaza. "There is no plan B,” head of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, Philippe Lazzarini, told reporters in ...

NGOs Report: Israel's Targeting of Gaza Police Facilitates Aid Looting

This is Beirut, 2024-11-15 19:15 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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Looting of aid reaching Gaza has been made easier by Israel's army targeting the local police which would otherwise be able to prevent it, a group of non-governmental organizations said Friday. A report by the 29 NGOs, including Save the Children, Oxfam and Care, said that humanitarian aid entering the Palestinian territory had fallen to an ...

Lazzarini Warns of UNRWA Potential Collapse

This is Beirut, 2024-11-06 18:25 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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The UN aid agency for Palestinians is facing its "darkest hour" and requires ongoing support from UN members after Israel's decision to ban the organization, its chief said on Wednesday. "Without intervention by member states, UNRWA will collapse, plunging millions of Palestinians into chaos," the head of the United ...

Lebanon Receives First Shipment of French Humanitarian Aid

This is Beirut, 2024-11-01 14:20 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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Lebanon received its first shipment of humanitarian aid from France on Friday as part of the assistance pledged during the international conference to support Lebanon held in Paris on October 24. This aid is intended for displaced people who were forced to flee their homes due to the raging conflict between Israel and Hezbollah. French ...

Arab Aid vs. Iran’s Empty Promises

Nisrine Merheb, 2024-10-15 13:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

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All we get from Iran is “words, words, and words.” Only the Arab nations are Lebanon's genuine supporters and saviors in this crisis! In just a few days, Lebanon will mark the end of the first bloody month of the brutal war waged by the Israeli Army. Southern Lebanon has become a scorched landscape, and the Beqaa has suffered equally ...

UN Warns Lebanon Could Face Same 'Spiral of Doom' as Gaza

This is Beirut, 2024-10-08 17:05 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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UN humanitarian officials called on Tuesday for urgent action to stop the escalating conflict in Lebanon from spiraling into a similar scene of devastation as seen in Gaza. "We need to do everything we can to stop that from happening," said Matthew Hollingworth, Lebanon country director for the United Nations' World Food Programme. Speaking from ...

An Aid Distribution in Gaza Takes a Tragic Turn

This Is Beirut, 2024-02-29 17:21 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

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More than a hundred Palestinians have died during the distribution of humanitarian aid in Gaza on Thursday. The Israeli army and Hamas are blaming each other for the chaos that ensued. Israeli forces shot dead 104 people when a crowd rushed towards aid trucks on Thursday, the health ministry in Gaza said, in one of the worst single incidents of a ...

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