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Marco Rubio said US aid cuts were to slash bureaucracy. So why are more refugee children going hungry?

Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh / Hong Kong  —  On the floor of their tiny makeshift home in a refugee camp in Bangladesh, her mother Fatima Begum feeds Sofiya by rubbing her gums with a food paste designed to treat severe malnutrition. These life-saving packets were provided by the US government, labeled with the logo of USAID …

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State Department says it sent a team to help surge aid into Gaza

The State Department has deployed a Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART) “to help surge and coordinate aid into Gaza” as part of the ceasefire agreement, the agency said today. Most of the team is based in Jerusalem, and the rest of the team is located in different parts of the Middle East, a Trump administration …

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Up to 95 trucks carrying humanitarian and relief aid enter Gaza

An official source in North Sinai said that a new batch of trucks carrying humanitarian, food, and relief aid has entered the Gaza Strip. Up to 95 trucks carrying humanitarian and relief aid entered Gaza on Friday through the Karam Abu Salem crossing gate, south of Rafah, passing through the side gate of Rafah land …

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A “ray of light” in Gaza as aid begins arriving, OCHA says

A spokesperson for the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in Gaza said the ceasefire has brought hope to people in the enclave as aid deliveries begin to arrive. “The scale of destruction is really staggering. But amid all of this, people have this ray of light,” Olga Cherevko told CNN’s …

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Israel seizes final ship of 42-vessel Gaza aid flotilla, hundreds of activists detained

The Global Resilience Flotilla for Breaking the Siege on the Gaza Strip announced that the Israeli navy intercepted the last remaining ship of the Gaza aid convoy on Friday, according to Al Jazeera. The Resilience Flotilla indicated that the Israeli Navy has now intercepted all 42 boats that comprised the convoy. Earlier, the Israeli Broadcasting …

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