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People carry relief supplies from a Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) aid distribution centre in the central Gaza Strip on June 8
USAID review raised ‘critical concerns’ over Gaza aid group days before $30 million US grant
WASHINGTON — An internal government assessment shows USAID officials raised “critical concerns” last month about a key aid group’s ability to protect Palestinians and to deliver them food – just days before the State Department announced $30 million in funding for the organization.A scathing 14-page document obtained by CNN outlines a litany of problems with a funding application submitted by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, a US-backed group established to provide aid following an 11-week Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip. The United Nations human rights office says that hundreds of Palestinians have since been killed around private aid sites, including those operated by GHF.The assessment flags a range of concerns, from an overall plan missing “even basic details” to a...
July 09, 2025

USAID review raised ‘critical concerns’ over Gaza aid group days before $30 million US grant

Smoke rises into the sky during a wildfire near the town of Rabia, 6 July, 2025
Syria issues appeal to EU for help battling massive wildfires along northwestern coast
DAMASCUS — Authorities in Syria appealed to the European Union on Tuesday for help in battling massive wildfires that have been spreading across the north-western coastal region for the sixth consecutive day."Communication has also been established with the European Union, and there is a possibility of air support from Cyprus today to bolster the extinguishing efforts," Minister of Emergency and Disaster Management Raed Saleh wrote in a post on X."We are facing significant field challenges, most notably the rugged terrain, the absence of firebreaks, active winds, and the presence of mine remnants and unexploded ordnance."Since the beginning of July, the Syrian civil defence have responded to 334 wildfires across the country, most of them concentrated in Latakia...
July 09, 2025

Syria issues appeal to EU for help battling massive wildfires along northwestern coast

Most of Gaza's population has also been displaced multiple times during the war
Israeli defense minister plans to move Gaza's population to camp in Rafah
JERUSALEM — Israel's defense minister says he has instructed its military to prepare a plan to move all Palestinians in Gaza into a camp in the south of the territory, Israeli media reports say.Israel Katz told journalists on Monday he wanted to establish a "humanitarian city" on the ruins of the city of Rafah to initially house about 600,000 Palestinians - and eventually the whole 2.1 million population.He said the goal was to bring people inside after security screening to ensure they were not Hamas operatives, and that they would not be allowed to leave.If conditions allowed, he added, construction would begin during a 60-day ceasefire that Israel and Hamas are trying to negotiate.One Israeli human rights lawyer condemned it as nothing less than an "operational plan...
July 08, 2025

Israeli defense minister plans to move Gaza's population to camp in Rafah

The injured soldiers were searching for the body of a soldier who was killed in gunfire in May 2022 (file photo)
Methane gas kills 12 Turkish soldiers in Iraq operation
ISTANBUL — Twelve Turkish soldiers have died after being exposed to methane gas while searching a cave in northern Iraq, the Turkish Ministry of National Defence said.At least 19 personnel were exposed to the gas during the search and clear operation on Sunday, and immediately taken to hospital. By Monday, 12 had died, the ministry said.President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said he received the news with "great sorrow" and extended his condolences to the soldiers' families and to the Turkish Armed Forces.Methane gas is not directly toxic, but can be deadly as it can become suffocating, especially in tight, enclosed spaces.It remains unclear why the cave contained enough methane gas to make it lethal.A farewell ceremony for some of the soldiers killed was held at an airport in the...
July 07, 2025

Methane gas kills 12 Turkish soldiers in Iraq operation

US President Donald Trump welcomes Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the White House in April
Netanyahu visits US as Trump puts pressure to agree Gaza ceasefire deal
WASHINGTON — After 21 months of war, there are growing hopes of a new Gaza ceasefire announcement as Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets US President Donald Trump in Washington.Trump previously told reporters he had been "very firm" with Netanyahu about ending the conflict and that he thought "we'll have a deal" this week."We are working to achieve the deal that has been discussed, under the conditions we have agreed," the veteran Israeli PM said before boarding his plane. "I believe that the conversation with President Trump can definitely help advance this outcome, which we all hope for."Indirect talks between Israel and Hamas on a US-sponsored proposal for a 60-day ceasefire and hostage release deal resumed in Qatar on...
July 07, 2025

Netanyahu visits US as Trump puts pressure to agree Gaza ceasefire deal

Israel says the Galaxy Leader, a ship previously hijacked by Houthi rebels, was among the targets
Israel launches strikes on Houthi targets in Yemen
TEL AVIV — Israel says it has launched strikes on three ports and a power plant in Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen.Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz confirmed their targets included the commercial ship Galaxy Leader. The ship, hijacked by the rebel group in 2023, was used to monitor maritime vessels in international waters, Israel said.After the Israeli attacks on Hudaydah, Ras Isa and Saif ports, two missiles were launched from Yemen into Israel, according to the Israeli military.A spokesperson for the Iran-backed Houthi military group said following the attacks, the group's air defences confronted the Israeli attack by using "a large number of domestically-produced surface-to-air missiles".Sirens were triggered in several areas of Israel in response to the missiles,...
July 07, 2025

Israel launches strikes on Houthi targets in Yemen

A Palestinian man looks at buildings destroyed by Israeli strikes in al-Shati refugee camp, northern Gaza
Hamas says it is consulting other Palestinian groups on Gaza ceasefire plan
JERUSALEM — Hamas says it is consulting other Palestinian groups before giving a formal response to the latest proposal for a new Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal put forward by the US.President Donald Trump said on Friday morning that he expected to know within 24 hours whether Hamas has agreed to the plan.He said earlier this week that Israel had accepted the conditions necessary for a 60-day ceasefire, during which the parties would work to end the 20-month war.Meanwhile, the Israeli military is continuing to bomb targets across the Gaza Strip.Overnight, at least 15 Palestinians were killed in strikes on two tents housing displaced people in the southern Khan Younis area, the local Nasser hospital said.Thirteen-year-old Mayar al-Farr's brother, Mahmoud, was among those...
July 04, 2025

Hamas says it is consulting other Palestinian groups on Gaza ceasefire plan

Mourners carry the bodies of Palestinians who were killed in an overnight Israeli strike, according to Gaza's health ministry, in Khan Younis on Thursday.
Scores killed in Gaza as Israel intensifies strikes
GAZA — More than 80 Palestinians were killed across Gaza on Thursday, according to health officials, as Israel intensified its strikes across the strip.The deaths, which authorities said included dozens of people seeking aid, come as negotiations to reach a ceasefire in the enclave ramp up. A source told CNN that Hamas officials were set to meet Thursday to prepare a response to the latest proposal, which has been accepted by Israel.At a school-turned-displacement facility in Gaza City, 15 people were killed and 25 injured in Israeli strikes that left many with severe burns, the director of Al-Shifa hospital Dr. Mohammad Abu Silmiya said. The hospital is treating those wounded in the attack.“The scene was extremely harrowing due to the charred bodies of the martyrs and children,”...
July 04, 2025

Scores killed in Gaza as Israel intensifies strikes

The GHF operation has been criticized for forcing people to walk through active combat zones
Gaza aid contractor says he saw colleagues fire on hungry Palestinians
JERUSALEM — A former security contractor for Gaza's controversial new Israel- and US-backed aid distribution sites has told the BBC that he witnessed colleagues opening fire several times on hungry Palestinians who had posed no threat, including with machine guns.On one occasion, he said, a guard had opened fire from a watchtower with a machine gun because a group of women, children and elderly people was moving too slowly away from the site.When asked to respond the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) said the allegations were categorically false.They referred us to a statement saying that no civilians ever came under fire at the GHF distribution sites.The GHF began its operations in Gaza at the end of May, distributing limited aid from several sites in southern and central Gaza....
July 04, 2025

Gaza aid contractor says he saw colleagues fire on hungry Palestinians

Dr Marwan Sultan was the director of the Indonesian Hospital in north Gaza
Gaza hospital director killed in Israeli strike
GAZA — The director of Gaza's Indonesian Hospital has been killed in an Israeli air strike on his home in Gaza City along with several family members, the Hamas-run health ministry has said.The ministry said Dr Marwan Sultan had a long career in medicine, and condemned "this heinous crime against our medical cadres".The Israeli military said it had struck a "key terrorist" from Hamas in the Gaza City area and that claims "uninvolved civilians" were harmed as a result of the strike were being reviewed.Meanwhile, at least five people were killed and others injured, including children, in a strike on the al-Mawasi "safe zone", one of several other attacks reported by news agencies.The health ministry said Dr Sultan's career was one of...
July 03, 2025

Gaza hospital director killed in Israeli strike

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