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In this March 8, 2017 file photo, the carcass of a dead goat lies in the desert in a drought-stricken area near Bandar Beyla in Somalia. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
June 5, 2019, 7:38 pm
UN: 2 million Somalis could die of famine this year
$700 million needed after rainless season that has killed livestock and crops, as climate change raises frequency of droughts
By AP
In this Oct. 1, 2018, file, photo, a severely malnourished boy rests on a hospital bed at the Aslam Health Center, Hajjah, Yemen (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed, File)
December 31, 2018, 2:48 pm
Fighters siphon off food as Yemenis starve
AP investigation finds families in Taiz are not getting international aid — often because it has been seized by armed units allied with the Saudi-led, US-backed military coalition
By MAGGIE MICHAEL
In this January 24, 2016 photo, a malnourished child lies in a bed waiting to receive treatment at a therapeutic feeding center in a hospital in Sanaa, Yemen. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed, File)
November 16, 2017, 11:51 pm
Save the Children says 130 children die every day in Yemen
Some 150,000 malnourished kids could die in coming months if Saudi Arabia doesn’t lift blockade against Houthi rebels, UN says
By AP
A Syrian man suffering from severe legs injuries following shelling in the rebel held areas around Damascus is surrounded by his children, one of them with only one leg, at their house in the Eastern Ghouta town of Hamouria, on October 23, 2017. (AFP Photo/Abdulmonam Eassa)
October 24, 2017, 7:06 pm
Syrians have hot water for dinner in hunger-hit besieged town
Red Cross says food scarcity ‘getting worse’ in rebel-held district outside Damascus blockaded by Syrian regime
By Abdulmonam Eassa and Amer Almohibany
Avidan Freedman
July 6, 2017, 1:24 pm
Avidan Freedman
Six million plus one
Israel makes money off the suffering of millions by supporting South Sudan’s terror, and only one person is protesting
Painting of Chaim Rumkowski, chairman of the Lodz Ghetto's Jewish Council, created by Lodz painter Izrael Lejzerowicz during the ghetto's four-year existence (Public domain)
March 28, 2017, 8:48 pm
‘King Chaim,’ ruler of the Lodz Ghetto, exposed in Boston exhibit
As Henryk Ross’s haunting photographs premiere in the US, a snapshot of the Lodz ghetto council’s infamous chairman Chaim Mordechai Rumkowski — who thought himself a Jewish ‘savior’
By Matt Lebovic
Eva Deutsch Costabel, a client of the Blue Card, is an accomplished painter and children's book author (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)
May 3, 2016, 10:28 pm
For many Holocaust survivors, effects of wartime starvation still a plague
Seven decades after the Shoah, the after-effects of food deprivation are causing unhealthy habits and poor nutrition — even in a city of plenty like New York
By Luke Tress
Young Syrian refugees stand at the Azraq refugee camp in northern Jordan on January 30, 2016. (Khalil Mazraawi/AFP)
January 31, 2016, 1:16 am
Syria peace talks in peril as more Syrians starve
Opposition threatens to leave negotiations as over a dozen towns remain under siege by regime forces
By Maya Gebeily and Cecile Feuillatre
A convoy of trucks loaded with humanitarian supplies are seen heading to the besieged town of Madaya, some 24 kilometers in southwest Damascus, Syria, on Thursday, January 14, 2016 (AP Photo)
January 16, 2016, 6:08 pm
UN agency: Starving Syrian teen died ‘in front of our eyes’
Aid workers warn of ‘horrific’ scenes in town of Madaya, under siege for months by government forces
By Zeina Karam
Syrians wait for the arrival of an aid convoy on January 11, 2016, in the besieged town of Madaya as part of a landmark six-month deal reached in September 2015 for an end to hostilities in those areas in exchange for humanitarian assistance. (AFP/Stringer)
January 12, 2016, 1:00 pm
UN says aid to besieged Syrian towns must continue
Humanitarian chief says convoys to besieged towns must not be ‘one-off or exceptional’; Damascus denies starvation reports
By Edith M. Lederer
File: An image of a starving child in Madaya, Syria, a city that has been under siege by pro-government forces for six months. (screen capture: YouTube)
January 11, 2016, 2:49 pm
Aid heading to starved and besieged villages in Syria
Residents waiting for urgent food and medicine; activists have reported deaths from starvation over recent weeks
By Albert Aji
File: An image of a starving child in Madaya, Syria, a city that has been under siege by pro-government forces for six months. (screen capture: YouTube)
January 7, 2016, 8:59 pm
Syria government to allow aid into starving town: UN
Reports from besieged areas show malnourished, starving children; monitor says at least 10 dead from starvation
By AFP
Syrians wait for the arrival of a convoy carrying their relatives near the crossing of Masnaa on the Lebanon-Syria border on December 28, 2015 following a rare UN-backed deal between Syria's warring sides. (AFP PHOTO / HASAN JARRAH)
January 5, 2016, 4:58 pm
Despite ceasefire, in besieged town, Syrians are starving
In Madaya, residents have ‘forgotten what bread tastes like,’ are selling their cars for rice
By Rouba El Husseini
A doctor uses a MobileODT colposcope (Photo credit: Courtesy)
July 22, 2015, 6:46 pm
Contest spurs tech companies to take on world’s ‘grand challenges’
The government is calling on entrepreneurs to marshal their expertise to solve hunger, health and housing problems
By David Shamah
A haredi youth stands next to piles of potatoes in Jerusalem (Photo credit: Matanya Tausig/Flash90)
October 30, 2014, 5:14 pm
Could an Israeli-created innovation end world hunger?
Pimi Agro has figured out a natural way to extend the shelf life of produce by 1,500%, and prevent disease and fungus, too
By David Shamah
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