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A teacher addresses students at a school in one of the floating villages of Cambodia’s Tonle Sap Lake on June 29, 2026. (AP Photo/Anton L. Delgado)
August 17, 2026, 9:00 am
In Cambodia, Iran war forcing families to choose between school for kids or survival
Developing countries reliant on imported energy are most exposed to disruptions from the war, with girls more likely to be impacted in places that prioritize sons
By AP
Trucks carrying food, after entering the Gaza Strip through the Kerem Shalom crossing, drive through Khan Younis, February 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
July 13, 2026, 1:44 pm
UN official says Hamas obstructing Gaza aid: ‘Dangerous pattern of intimidation, violence’
Special coordinator says armed Hamas-linked operatives raided food distribution point and WFP depot, assaulted 2 truck drivers; police scrap charges for Israeli right-wing activist who blocked aid trucks
By AFP, Jeremy Sharon and ToI Staff
Locals queue to receive food aid as severe drought continues, in Nalemkais Village, Turkana County, Kenya, Feb. 8, 2026. (AP/Patrick Ngugi)
April 5, 2026, 9:52 am
Aid groups warn Iran war hindering global food and medicine supply, suffering set to deepen
Conflict and Iranian attacks on Strait of Hormuz have cut off vital routes, compounding issues of rising fuel prices, supply chain problems and funding cuts
By AP
Men deliver UN World Food Program (WFP) aid in Aslam, Hajjah, Yemen, September 21, 2018. (Hammadi Issa/AP)
January 29, 2026, 6:16 pm
Houthi harassment forcing World Food Program to shut in north Yemen, officials say
UN agency had suspended operations in August, and 365 staff will be laid off by March, sources report, citing terror group’s arrests of workers and funding shortages
By Agencies and ToI Staff
A Palestinian woman carries a box of food from the World Food Program after collecting it in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, November 2, 2025. (AP/Jehad Alshrafi)
December 14, 2025, 12:40 am
Food security improving since Gaza truce, but challenges abound — top UN aid official
Humanitarian group deputy chief says IDF restrictions on dual-use items causing lack of winter shelter, urges Israel to increase entry of commercial goods to revive Gaza’s private sector
By Jacob Magid
IDF troops work to uncover Hamas tunnels in southern Gaza's Rafah, in a handout photo issued by the military on November 21, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)
November 21, 2025, 7:23 pm
IDF: Troops killed 6 Hamas operatives who emerged from Rafah tunnels, nabbed another 5
Army scanning area to locate additional gunmen; security cabinet said to appoint Sa’ar, Levin, Smotrich and Ben Gvir to oversee Gaza truce’s next stage; UN says flow of food aid insufficient
By Emanuel Fabian, ToI Staff and Agencies
Mohammed Barabakh stands with his children at the entrance to his tent, which was set up next to graves in a cemetery in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, October 31, 2025. (AP/Abdel Kareem Hana)
November 4, 2025, 8:25 pm
Not enough tents, food reaching Gaza as winter comes, aid agencies say
Only half the needed amount of food is coming in, according to the World Food Programme; Israel says it’s fulfilling obligations, after US publishes footage of aid theft
By Reuters and ToI Staff
An honor guard carries the coffin of the military chief of Yemen's Houthi rebels, Major General Mohammed al-Ghamari, during a funeral procession for him four days after the group announced al-Ghamari's death in Sanaa, on October 20, 2025. (Mohammed HUWAIS / AFP)
October 31, 2025, 1:11 pm
Houthis say 43 UN workers to be tried on allegations they helped Israel conduct strike
UN denies detained local employees were involved in Aug. 28 attack that killed rebel group’s top leaders, accuses Iran-backed Yemeni rebels of impeding delivery of humanitarian aid
By Reuters and ToI Staff
Houthi fighters take part in a weekly anti-Israel rally in Sanaa, Yemen, August 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Osamah Abdulrahman)
August 31, 2025, 11:21 pm
Yemen’s Houthi rebels raid UN premises, detain at least 11 staff, envoy says
Yemeni security source says Iran-backed group arrested the humanitarian workers on ‘suspicion of collaborating with Israel’ after the Houthi prime minister was killed in a strike
By AFP and ToI Staff
People wait for rice from a charity kitchen providing free food in the west of Gaza City, August 28, 2025. (Bashar Taleb / AFP)
August 29, 2025, 3:20 am
Netanyahu tells UN food chief that Israel will ‘redouble efforts’ to boost Gaza aid
Cindy McCain says PM ‘obviously very concerned that people aren’t getting enough food’; UN chief decries ‘endless catalog of horrors’ in Strip as he warns against IDF’s Gaza City op
By Lazar Berman and Agencies
Displaced Palestinians flee Gaza City toward the southern areas of the Gaza Strip, in Nuseirat, on August 28, 2025. (Eyad BABA / AFP)
August 28, 2025, 5:35 pm
Gaza at ‘breaking point,’ UN food chief says after visit to hunger-stricken Strip
World Food Programme chief says ‘enough is enough,’ urges massive surge in aid; UN rights experts claim ‘forced disappearances’ at Gaza Humanitarian Foundation sites, GHF denies it
By Agencies, ToI Staff and Stav Levaton
Palestinians receive meals from volunteers in Gaza City, on July 28, 2025. (Ali Hassan/Flash90)
July 29, 2025, 1:41 pm
Experts say Gaza at ‘worst-case scenario,’ famine about to cause ‘widespread death’
Calling for ‘urgent action now,’ Integrated Food Security Phase Classification says situation in the Strip is ‘unlike anything we have seen in this century’
By ToI Staff and Agencies
Palestinians queue for a hot meal at a charity kitchen run by the United Nation's World Food Programme (WFP) at the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on April 26, 2025 (Eyad BABA / AFP)
July 23, 2025, 6:40 pm
‘It’s better to die from a bomb’: Gazans’ testimony, data depict desperate hunger in Strip
As the UN reports claim a sharp rise in malnutrition cases among children, Gazans describe soaring market prices, saying, ‘hunger kills you several times a day’
By Nurit Yohanan
Carl Skau, deputy executive director of the UN World Food Program (WFP), speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Beirut, Lebanon, August 1, 2023. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
July 12, 2025, 3:41 am
Israeli officials signaling they want UN to remain key Gaza aid channel — WFP deputy
No. 2 at UN food agency says the officials ‘asked us to be ready to scale up’ operations if truce reached; humanitarian group urges Israel to meet commitment to let new aid hubs open
By Reuters and ToI Staff
Armed Palestinians sit on trucks carrying humanitarian aid near the Zikim border crossing between Israel and Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip, June 25, 2025. (Ali Qariqa/Flash90)
July 6, 2025, 1:43 pm
Cabinet approves plan to let more aid into northern Gaza over hardliner protests
Smotrich joins Ben Gvir in opposing expansion of UN-backed distribution, accuses IDF chief of failing to keep supplies out of Hamas’s hands, PM of letting army make its own decisions
By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff
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