With 1,100 metric tons of emergency food rations nearing expiry in a U.S. government warehouse in Dubai after President Donald Trump's aid freeze, it took a warning of "wasted tax dollars" for a top U.

American private military contractors used dangerous crowd control tactics on a crowd of Palestinian aid seekers in Gaza on Wednesday, witnesses say, causing a deadly stampede and adding to the nearly 1,000 Palestinians who have been killed in relation to the U.S.- and Israeli-backed “humanitarian aid” scheme thus far.

"It is not possible that while our soldiers are risking their lives in Gaza, the Israeli government is feeding the enemy,” Yulia Malinovsky, who introduced the bill, told JNS.The post

The humanitarian aid sector is reliant on a relatively small number of large donor, rendering it vulnerable to shocks. View on euronews

Trucks carrying humanitarian aid for the Gaza Strip wait at the border gate in Rafah, Egypt, on Oct. 21. (Mohammed Asad / Associated Press) By Andy Dwonch. Dec. 1, 2023 3:01 AM PT .

The European Union is seeking updates and more action from Israel on implementing a new deal to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza

After significantly cutting America’s humanitarian aid operations earlier this year, the Trump administration now has a surplus of food that it can’t use. What will become of it? The White House has a simple plan: incinerate it.

Now aid organizations in the Middle East are forced to seek new, potentially more demanding, donors.Ask around various civil society organizations working in the Middle East and the answer is always the same.