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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 643

food shortages

Leket Israel volunteers gather near the Gaza border to help farmers, on March 11, 2024. (Leket Israel)
July 30, 2024, 6:37 am
Food waste cost economy NIS 1 billion during first six months of war — study
Lack of access and reduction in farmhands caused shortages that saw vegetables prices rise 18% and fruit prices 12%, says paper calling for more support for local growers
By Sue Surkes
A member of the Jahalin tribe receives food aid from Israeli activists in early 2024, in the Judean Desert. (Courtesy of Rabbis for Human Rights)
March 21, 2024, 1:55 am
Praying for peace, optimistic Israeli activists deliver Ramadan food aid to West Bank
Volunteers with organizations such as Rabbis for Human Rights brave the ire of fellow Jews as they reach out to help Palestinians in need amid the ongoing war in Gaza
By Eliyahu Freedman
Groves of olive trees in the lower Galilee, northern Israel, February 7, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
March 12, 2024, 11:17 pm
Impact of olive oil shortage on Israel could have been averted, industry chief says
Head of olive division at Israel Plant Council accuses government of abandoning farmers, who could make Israel a global olive oil power
By Sue Surkes
A Palestinian loads a cart with food aid provided by the UN's World Food Programme, in the Gaza Strip's al-Shati refugee camp, May 15, 2019. (MOHAMMED ABED / AFP/ File)
May 7, 2023, 11:20 pm
UN food agency says it will have to cut back 60% of its activity in West Bank, Gaza
Citing ‘severe’ budget shortages, World Food Programme’s Palestinian director says 200,000 Palestinians will stop receiving assistance next month
By ToI Staff
The ship Navi-Star carrying a load of corn starts its way from the port in Odesa, Ukraine, August 5, 2022. (AP/Nina Lyashonok)
August 5, 2022, 12:14 pm
3 more grain shipments depart Ukrainian ports under UN-brokered deal
Carriers loaded with 58,000 tons of corn set sail to Turkey for inspection, a fraction of the 20 million tons of grain still waiting to be exported amid global food shortages
By ZEYNEP BILGINSOY
The bulk carrier Razoni, carrying a shipment of 26,000 tons of Ukrainian corn starts its way from the port in Odesa, Ukraine, August 1, 2022. (AP/Michael Shtekel)
August 1, 2022, 1:37 pm
First Ukrainian grain shipment leaves Odesa port as part of UN-brokered deal
Cargo ship Razoni carrying 26,000 tons of corn will stop for inspection in Istanbul before sailing to Lebanon as part of agreement aimed at easing global food shortage
By Suzan Fraser
A man stands in front of a crater following a Russian airstrike in a village in the Odessa region, on July 19, 2022, amid the Russian military invasion of Ukraine. (Oleksandr GIMANOV / AFP)
July 24, 2022, 12:54 am
US condemns Russian strikes on Odesa port, says attacks ‘cast doubt’ on credibility
Secretary of State Blinken says strikes undermine efforts of new grain agreement ‘to get critical food to world markets’
By ToI Staff and AFP
Grain fields backdropped by a power plant in Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, Friday, July 22, 2022. (AP/Nariman El-Mofty)
July 23, 2022, 11:32 pm
Russian strikes on Odesa port cast doubt over grain deal
Kyiv says attack is ‘a spit in the face’ to the agreement brokered a day earlier by Turkey and the UN
By Frankie TAGGART
A woman walks in a park with her dog in Odesa, on July 20, 2022, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Bulent Kilic/AFP)
July 23, 2022, 2:07 pm
Russian missiles strike Ukraine’s Odesa port, hours after grain export deal agreed
Kyiv: Attack is ‘spit in the face’ of Turkey, UN for brokering deal to let shipping resume from port; 2 missiles hit site, 2 intercepted; 3 killed in barrage on central Ukraine
By susie blann
Syrian refugee families walk back into a refugee camp after running errands in the town of Bar Elias, in the Bekaa Valley, Lebanon, July 7, 2022. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
July 21, 2022, 11:36 am
For Syrian refugees in Lebanon, the future is uncertain amid threat of deportation
Many fear for safety if forced to return to war-torn homeland; Lebanon, undergoing one of worst economic meltdowns in modern history, plans to deport 15,000 refugees per month
By Kareem Chehayeb
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, left, attends a meeting at the G20 Foreign Ministers' Meeting in Nusa Dua on the Indonesian resort island of Bali, July 8, 2022. (Stefani Reynolds/Pool Photo via AP)
July 8, 2022, 2:51 pm
Blinken shuns Lavrov at G20 summit, demanding Russia ‘let the grain out’ of Ukraine
At summit in Indonesia, West pressures Moscow over ‘unprovoked and unjustifiable war of choice’ in Ukraine; Russia’s envoy says he will not ‘go running’ after Washington for talks
By Shaun Tandon
King Abdullah II of Jordan, listens during his meeting with Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi of Calif., May 11, 2022, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Jacquelyn Martin/AP)
June 25, 2022, 2:34 am
Jordan’s king says Ukraine war exposes need for ‘Middle East NATO’
But Abdullah warns Palestinian issue a potential roadblock to the idea, says Russia’s focus on its invasion has created destabilizing vacuum filled by Iran-backed militias in Syria
By ToI Staff
A Russian soldier guards a pier with the grain storage in the background at an area of the Mariupol Sea Port which has recently started its work after heavy fighting in Mariupol, on the territory which is under the Government of the Donetsk People's Republic control, eastern Ukraine, June 12, 2022. This photo was taken during a trip organized by the Russian Ministry of Defense. (AP Photo)
June 14, 2022, 9:39 pm
West to build silos on Ukraine border to help export wheat, Biden says
US president blames Russian counterpart for high food prices, says new infrastructure plan is ‘taking time’
By AFP
A sign at the David Elliot Poultry stall at KosherFest 2021 reads: 'This year's chicken shortage has been stressful for us all.' (Courtesy of Philissa Cramer/ JTA)
April 12, 2022, 3:54 am
Can’t find poultry for Passover? America’s kosher chicken shortage, explained
An unusual array of forces have conspired to depress production in the United States, and kosher plants have suffered alongside everyone else
By Jackie Hajdenberg
Farmers harvest with their combines in a wheat field near the village Tbilisskaya, Russia, July 21, 2021. (AP Photo/Vitaly Timkiv, File)
March 15, 2022, 1:31 pm
UN chief warns war in Ukraine hurts poorer nations reliant on wheat
Guterres says world’s breadbasket is ‘being bombed,’ causing food, fuel, fertilizer prices to soar; reiterates call for immediate end to hostilities after Russia’s Ukraine invasion
By Edith M. Lederer
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