With war raging in Gaza, a growing movement to support Palestinians on college campuses has now come to the University of Missouri-Kansas City or UMKC.
Footage of charity workers packing parcels for Gaza showed they contained food supplies, contrary to Facebook posts that accused them of sending cigarettes to the war-torn territory. The baseless claim appeared to play on a conspiracy theory accusing Palestinians of faking their suffering, as a humanitarian crisis triggered by Israel's war against Hamas deepened. A spokesman for the Al-Imdaad Foundation shared a photo with AFP that showed basic commodities such as flour and canned food in the pa
Israel reopened the sole crossing on the northern edge of the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, allowing aid trucks to pass through the Erez checkpoint following U.S. demands to do more to address the growing humanitarian crisis. Reopening the Erez crossing has been one of the main pleas of international aid agencies for months, to alleviate hunger which is believed to be most severe among the hundreds of thousands of civilians in the enclave's northern sector. The Israeli government opened the crossing point on the day of a visit by U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and called for more humanitarian aid deliveries into the territory.
A humanitarian crisis is worsening in northeastern Mali where armed groups linked to Islamic State have besieged major towns leaving residents including some 80,000 children vulnerable to malnutrition, locals and an aid group warned Wednesday. The town of Ménaka has been under siege for four months, driving up the prices of food. Other essential goods like medication are increasingly hard to find, residents and aid groups say.