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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 653

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Palestinians gather to receive a hot meal at a food distribution center in the Nuseirat camp for refugees, in the central Gaza Strip, on April 30, 2025. (Eyad BABA / AFP)
May 3, 2025, 6:13 pm
UN, aid groups hit out at Israeli plans for resuming Gaza aid distribution
Humanitarian workers claim it would be ‘terrifying’ to work directly with IDF to disperse aid, as Israel considers enlisting private security contractors to hand out food to Gazans
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Sunrise Coigney (L) and Mark Ruffalo (R) attend the 96th Annual Academy Awards on March 10, 2024 in Hollywood, California. Ruffalo is wearing a pin depicting an orange hand holding a heart, which calls for a ceasefire in Gaza. (JC Olivera/Getty Images North America/Getty Images via AFP)
September 6, 2024, 1:43 pm
Celebrities demand US arms embargo on Israel, alleging human rights violations
Artists4Ceasefire group, founded in October to demand halt to Gaza war, launches new campaign with NGOs; hundreds signed group’s first petition
By ToI Staff
The unveiling of the first F-35 fighter plane to be delivered to the Netherlands at Lockheed Martin Aeronautics in Fort Worth, Texas, Wednesday, January 30, 2019. (Max Faulkner/Star-Telegram via AP)
July 13, 2024, 10:34 am
Dutch court: Government not violating weapon exports ban to Israel by supplying US
Complying with previous court order, Netherlands has temporarily stopped sending F-35 parts to Israel, but rights group argues it is sidestepping ban by shipping them to America
By AP and ToI Staff
File: Yemeni police inspect a site of Saudi-led airstrikes targeting two houses in Sanaa, Yemen, March 26, 2022 (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)
January 11, 2023, 4:00 pm
Oxfam: US, UK supplied arms used by Saudi-led coalition to kill civilians in Yemen
Charity says munitions killed at least 87, wounded 136 in just over a year; at least 19 hits on health sites, ambulances; Britain says has ‘strict risk assessment framework’
By Samy Magdy
Founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum (WEF) Klaus Schwab is seen at the opening of the WEF Davos Agenda virtual sessions at the WEF's headquarters in Cologny near Geneva on January 17, 2022. (Photo by Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP)
January 19, 2022, 5:50 pm
100-plus global millionaires make unusual plea: ‘Tax us now’
Appeal comes as study finds wealth tax on world’s richest could raise $2.52 trillion per year — enough to pay for COVID vaccines for all, pull 2.3 billion people from poverty
By Laurent THOMET
Mark Bezos, left, Jeff Bezos, center, founder of Amazon and space tourism company Blue Origin, and Wally Funk, right, make comments during a post launch news briefing from its spaceport near Van Horn, Texas, Tuesday, July 20, 2021. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)
January 18, 2022, 6:26 am
Oxfam says world’s 10 richest men doubled their wealth during COVID
Combined fortune jumped from $700 billion to $1.5 trillion; charity slams inequality as ‘economic violence,’ noting it was accompanied by soaring poverty in rest of world
By AFP
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo pats his head during a joint press conference with Benjamin Netanyahu and Bahrain's Foreign Minister Abdullatif bin Rashid Alzayani after their trilateral meeting in Jerusalem on Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2020. (Menahem Kahana/Pool via AP)
January 26, 2021, 4:09 am
Pompeo plan to declare rights groups ‘anti-Semitic’ over Israel stance shelved
Former official says policy, introduced after Trump lost election, faced pushback because of free speech concerns; State Department did not have time to get ball rolling
By Jacob Magid
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks during a news conference at the State Department in Washington, October 21, 2020. (Nicholas Kamm/Pool via AP)
October 23, 2020, 1:02 pm
ADL slams US effort to declare human rights groups ‘anti-Semitic’
Anti-Semitism watchdog says designation of 3 organizations would be ‘neither accurate nor helpful’ in combatting Jew hatred
By ToI Staff and JTA
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks during a news conference at the State Department in Washington, October 21, 2020. (Nicholas Kamm/Pool via AP)
October 22, 2020, 4:43 am
Pompeo said set to declare human rights groups ‘anti-Semitic’ over Israel stance
Expected State Department report would target groups like Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and Oxfam for alleged BDS support and end US aid for their activities
By ToI Staff
A woman and her daughter wearing face masks to protect against coronavirus sell fruit and vegetables at the taxi station in Lenasia, south of Johannesburg, South Africa, April 8, 2020. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)
April 9, 2020, 3:58 pm
Half a billion more people could fall into poverty due to virus, report says
Oxfam warns ‘devastating economic fallout of pandemic’ could set back efforts against poverty in some areas of the world by decades
By Pan Pylas
The exterior of an Oxfam store in London (Nick Ansell/PA via AP, File)
March 25, 2020, 10:07 am
Charity removes anti-Semitic ‘Protocols of the Elders of Zion’ from online store
Oxfam’s chief executive apologizes and says the books were destroyed
By Marcy Oster
Money traders watch computer screens with the day's exchange rate between yen and the US dollar at a foreign exchange brokerage in Tokyo, November 9, 2016. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)
January 22, 2018, 4:18 am
Richest one percent made 82% of wealth created last year — report
Ahead of World Economic Forum in Davod, Oxfam findings show poorest half of the world received none of 2017’s financial bounty
By AFP
South African-born British lawyer and Labour lawmaker Lord Joel Joffe delivers remarks at the British Museum in London on Friday 13th 2017. (Screen capture: YouTube)
June 20, 2017, 5:56 pm
Joel Joffe, lawyer who defended Mandela, dies aged 85
South African-born Jewish attorney was key part of defense team in 1963 trial that saw the anti-apartheid icon jailed
By Robin MILLARD
French President Emmanuel Macron gestures aboard the high seas emergency tow vessel "Abeille Bourbon", near Lorient on June 1, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / Damien MEYER)
June 2, 2017, 1:43 am
Incensed Europe to Trump: Climate pact ‘not renegotiable’
French president says ‘the US has turned its back on the world’ by exiting Paris accords; environmental groups dismayed
By AFP
Pope Francis meets Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, at the Santa Marta residence, the guest house in Vatican City where the pope lives, Monday, August 29, 2016. (L'Osservatore Romano/Pool/AP)
January 16, 2017, 4:17 am
Eight men own half the world’s wealth: Oxfam
NGO points to a link between the vast gap between rich and poor and growing discontent with mainstream politics around the world
By Agencies
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