Tag: aid
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Aid trickles into Gaza; 9 GOP reps battle for Hous speaker : NPR
[ad_1] Good morning. You’re reading the Up First newsletter. Subscribe here to get it delivered to your inbox, and listen to the Up First podcast for all the news you need to start your day. Today’s top news A second convoy of humanitarian aid arrived in Gaza as the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) planned to…
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Israel Strikes Across Gaza After Allowing In Another Small Aid Convoy
[ad_1] DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli warplanes struck targets across Gaza early Monday, including in areas where Palestinian civilians have been told to seek refuge, after another small aid shipment was allowed into the besieged Hamas-ruled territory. Israel is widely expected to launch a ground offensive in Gaza following Hamas’ brutal Oct. 7…
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Biden and Netanyahu agree to continue flow of aid into Gaza, White House says
[ad_1] Israel resumes airstrikes in Gaza Israel resumes airstrikes in Gaza and hit rare target in West Bank 02:11 President Biden spoke with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel on Sunday, the White House said in a statement. The two leaders discussed developments in Gaza and the surrounding region as well as the release of…
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Tim Scott Opposes Package Tying Aid to Israel and Ukraine
[ad_1] Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina said on Sunday that he would not support a request from President Biden to package aid for Israel, Ukraine and Taiwan and funding for border security, even though he has endorsed U.S. spending for each of those purposes. “I believe that leveraging the challenges in the war with…
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Aid trucks enter Gaza from Egypt as Rafah crossing opens
[ad_1] On the fifteenth day of the Israel-Hamas war, 20 trucks carrying humanitarian aid were finally allowed to enter the Gaza Strip through Egypt’s Rafah border; however, WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warned that “needs are far higher” in the enclave that has more than 2 million people. He also called for the…
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Israel-Gaza war news: UN aid trucks enter Gaza through Rafah crossing from Egypt
[ad_1] Father of American teenage hostage freed by Hamas says she is ‘doing very good’ For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails The Rafah border crossing between Egypt and Gaza has opened to let desperately…
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Israel-Gaza war latest: Rafah crossing opens for aid trucks as Palestinians say death toll now tops 4,300
[ad_1] Father of American teenage hostage freed by Hamas says she is ‘doing very good’ For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails The Rafah border crossing between Egypt and Gaza has opened to let desperately…
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Deal Lays Groundwork for Aid to Reach Desperate Gazans, Officials Say
[ad_1] On one side of the border crossing between Egypt and Gaza sit more than 100 trucks packed with desperately needed food, water and medical supplies. On the other wait more than two million Gazans now scraping by on dwindling stocks of basic human necessities. Between them stand a series of locked gates and fences…
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Aid enters Gaza as Rafah border crossing opens – POLITICO
[ad_1] The Egyptian-controlled Rafah border crossing from the Gaza Strip opened on Saturday morning, letting trucks carrying humanitarian aid into the blockaded enclave, which has been under siege from the Israeli military for almost two weeks. The first of 200 trucks loaded with about 3,000 tons of aid, which have been blocked near the Rafah…
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U.S. Says Israel Didn’t Cause Hospital Blast, as Biden Promises Aid to Gaza
[ad_1] He drew a parallel to the United States after 9/11, when, he said, “we also made mistakes,” an apparent reference to the invasion of Iraq, which Mr. Biden voted for as a senator but later regretted. “The vast majority of Palestinians are not Hamas,” Mr. Biden said, accusing the group of using the civilians…