humanitarian aid

In this Thursday, May 31, 2018 photo, free porridge is distributed to the poor during the holy fasting month of Ramadan in Gaza City. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

June 9, 2018, 10:08 pm

Cabinet to discuss Gaza humanitarian crisis Sunday, amid ongoing violence

PM, army have said dire economic conditions in Palestinian enclave are fueling clashes along the border; ministers also likely to authorize live fire against terror kite operators

By TOI staff

A photo taken from Gaza City on May 29, 2018, shows smoke billowing in the background following an Israeli air strike against a military target in the Palestinian coastal enclave, in response to repeated mortar and rocket attacks on southern Israel. (AFP/Thomas Coex)

June 1, 2018, 8:34 am

Army calls to lift some economic restrictions on Gaza, boost chances of quiet

Senior officer says Israel and Gaza at 'watershed' and that Hamas's return of the bodies of fallen IDF soldiers is precondition for long-term calm

By TOI staff

A Syrian youth pulls a cart as he walks down a street past destroyed buildings in the rebel-held besieged town of Ayn Tarma in the eastern Ghouta region on the outskirts of the capital Damascus on March 2, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / Ammar SULEIMAN)

March 31, 2018, 4:12 am

Trump reportedly freezes Syria recovery funds

State Department instructed to withhold $200 million earmarked for 'recovery efforts' a day after president warned of a full US exit from Syria

By AFP

US President Donald Trump's peace envoy Jason Greenblatt (L) tours a Hamas terror tunnel near the Gaza Strip with Coordinator for Government Activities in the Territories Yoav Mordechai, on August 30, 2017. (COGAT Spokesperson's Office)

March 13, 2018, 7:17 pm

Solving Gaza ‘essential’ for peace, US envoy says at White House confab

At conference boycotted by PA, Jason Greenblatt urges participants to visit Hamas terror tunnels to better appreciate Egyptian and Israeli security challenges

By Raphael Ahren

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman speaks to the press in a field just outside the Gaza Strip on February 20, 2018. (Judah Ari Gross/Times of Israel)

March 8, 2018, 2:18 pm

Liberman vows not to ‘succumb’ to Haredi ‘extortion,’ even if it means elections

As ultra-Orthodox parties threaten to topple government, Yisrael Beytenu party digs in and insists it will resist fast-tracking of military draft law

By TOI staff

Illustrative: This photo taken on July 30, 2017 shows a United Nations and Syrian Arab Red Crescent convoy delivering aid packages in the rebel-held town of Nashabiyah in eastern Ghouta for the first time in five years. (AFP Photo/Amer Almohibany)

March 1, 2018, 6:51 am

Aid convoy blocked in Syria despite UN ceasefire order

UN under secretary general for humanitarian affairs demands implementation of Security Council resolution allowing supplies to besieged regions

By AFP

CEO of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) David M. Schizer with campers at the Szarvas International Jewish Summer Camp in Hungary, a project of JDC and Ronald Lauder. (courtesy)

February 28, 2018, 3:01 am

New JDC head brings a business approach to aiding needy Jews

After a year at the helm of the 103-year-old American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, David M. Schizer lays out his pragmatic plan to continue its eternal mission

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

In this undated photo provided on July 19, 2017, IDF soldiers prepare humanitarian aid as part of the army's 'Good Neighbor' program for Syrian civilians on the Syrian Golan Heights. (Israel Defense Forces)

From the WebFebruary 15, 2018, 11:15 am

With humanitarian aid, Israel raises unmeetable expectations among Golan Syrians

Rebel groups see Jerusalem as a potential savior, but Israel is looking out first for its own interests, foreign policy site War on the Rocks reports

Syrian children clean up their shop from debris following reported regime air strikes in the rebel-held town of Kafr Batna, in the besieged Eastern Ghouta region on the outskirts of the capital Damascus, on February 6, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / ABDULMONAM EASSA)

February 9, 2018, 2:46 pm

Intense Syrian air strikes hampering aid to 400,000 people — aid group

Over 4,000 families living in basements, bunkers in Eastern Ghouta where more than 220 civilians have died in four days of bombardment

By AFP

Illustrative: Palestinian children do their homework by candlelight during a power outage in Gaza City on September 11, 2017. (AFP Photo/Mahmud Hams)

February 3, 2018, 11:14 pm

Israel said to consider sending direct aid to deteriorating Gaza

In new security assessment, security officials assert Hamas not interested in conflict with Israel, but warn that economic collapse would make such a scenario inevitable

By TOI staff

African migrants take part at a protest in Tel Aviv on June 10, 2017. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

January 15, 2018, 12:43 pm

Africans, back to those shithole countries for you

Deporting African asylum-seekers is abhorrent, un-Jewish, and reverses recent strides in Israel-Africa relations

By Naomi Chazan

This photo provided on October 30, 2017, by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), shows a severely malnourished child at the al-Kahef hospital in Kafr Batna, Eastern Ghouta, near Damascus, Syria. (UN OCHA via AP)

December 14, 2017, 8:36 pm

400,000 face starvation in Damascus as Assad blocks humanitarian relief

Civilians trapped in suburbs in the city's east without enough food, fuel or medicine for the winter

By PHILIP ISSA

A Yemeni child receives treatment at a hospital in the Yemeni coastal city of Hodeidah on November 11, 2017. (AFP/Abdo Hyder)

December 1, 2017, 2:27 pm

UN appeals for record $22.5 billion in global aid

Third of money needed to help those affected by Syrian civil war; 10.8 million Yemenis in dire need of help

By NIna Larson

A rescue worker searches the debris with his sniffing dog on the earthquake site in Sarpol-e-Zahab in western Iran, Tuesday, November 14, 2017. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

November 14, 2017, 11:34 pm

Israel offers quake help to Iran, Iraq, but immediately turned down

Prime minister announces move in address to US Jews; he also defends his freeze of Western Wall compromise deal

By Raphael Ahren

Rescue workers and volunteers search a building that collapsed after an earthquake in the Roma Norte neighborhood of Mexico City, Tuesday, September 19, 2017. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

September 20, 2017, 6:46 am

Israel to dispatch rescuers, aid after quake devastates Mexico

Netanyahu says he ordered help sent to country after Mexico City asked for assistance, as death toll from 7.1 magnitude temblor hits 149

By TOI staff and AP