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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 25, 2025, 11:56 am
USAID finds no proof Hamas systematically loots aid; State Department, IDF push back
Report completed in June says majority of aid theft incidents can’t be ‘definitively attributed to a specific actor,’ but acknowledges recipients are unvetted and could be Hamas
By Reuters and ToI Staff
Palestinians pick up food parcels from a distribution point set up by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), on June 25, 2025. (Eyad BABA / AFP)
July 9, 2025, 11:42 pm
US official waived safeguards to rush $30 million to Gaza Humanitarian Foundation
Jeremy Lewin, a former DOGE operative, also overrode 58 objections from USAID staff experts about operations of contentious US- and Israel-backed aid group
By Reuters
A youth carries an empty box of relief supplies from the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, as displaced Palestinians walk near a food distribution center in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip on June 1, 2025. (AFP)
June 7, 2025, 6:33 am
US said to mull giving $500m to fund Gaza aid foundation’s operations at Israel’s request
Source tells Reuters that Israel asked for the funds to underwrite the aid initiative for 180 days; some US officials said resistant to plan following deadly shooting incidents
By Reuters and ToI Staff
Illustrative: A worker unloads Gaza aid from a truck inside a US ship at the port of Larnaca, Cyprus, June 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)
May 17, 2025, 6:50 am
US aid cuts leave food for millions, including Gazans, moldering in storage
Reuters analysis says the expiring rations could feed a million people for three months or the Strip’s entire population for a month and a half
By Reuters and ToI Staff
US President Donald Trump listens as US Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks during a Cabinet meeting at the White House on April 30, 2025 in Washington, DC (Andrew Harnik / Getty Images via AFP)
May 3, 2025, 4:40 am
Now a trusted ally, ‘Little Marco’ gets Trump’s big jobs
Amid wars and diplomatic standoffs, Trump turns to former campaign adversary Marco Rubio – now secretary of state and new national security adviser – to carry extraordinary load
By Simon Lewis, Daphne Psaledakis and Steve Holland
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, right, shakes hands with Jordanian Prime Minister Jafar Hassan during a photo opportunity at the State Department, Tuesday, April 15, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr.)
April 30, 2025, 7:25 pm
Jordan to continue receiving US financial support despite Trump’s cuts to foreign aid
Washington provides Amman assurances that annual financing for budgetary aid, water infrastructure and defense to remain intact
By Suleiman Al-Khalidi
A woman carries a bag of food aid distributed by the World Food Program (WFP) to displaced people from the province of Cabo Delgado, in the town of Namapa, Erati district of Nampula, Mozambique on February 27, 2024. (Alfredo Zuniga / AFP)
April 8, 2025, 12:23 pm
UN food agency: Fresh US aid cuts to 14 countries could be death sentence for millions
In addition to World Food Program, Trump administration notifies United Nations fund dedicated to sexual and reproductive health it is ending programs for Afghanistan, Syria
By AFP
United States Agency for International Development (USAID) supporters hold banners as USAID workers retrieve their personal belongings from the USAID's headquarters in Washington, February 27, 2025. (AP/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
March 30, 2025, 6:43 am
Washington formalizes plans to shutter USAID, dramatically cut foreign aid spending
USAID officials say aid groups working to alleviate the humanitarian crisis in Gaza are forced to buy supplies out of pocket after millions of dollars of US funding frozen
By Agencies
Organizers and farmers co-design a solar field in western Uganda as part of a Gigawatt Global project, Kyenjojo District, Uganda, April 13, 2024. (Jeje Canutum)
March 11, 2025, 3:46 pm
Jewish and Israeli aid groups are hit by Trump’s suspension of USAID, refugee program
After the US president orders America’s largest aid body gutted, repercussions are felt around the world as programs benefiting people from Africa to Gaza have their funding frozen
By Sue Surkes
A sprawling tent camp for displaced Palestinians sits adjacent to destroyed homes and buildings in Gaza City, Gaza Strip, March 1, 2025 during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
March 7, 2025, 2:25 pm
Gaza aid ops in peril as millions of promised USAID dollars frozen under Trump’s cuts
US president’s Musk-led cutbacks leave agency understaffed and unable to reimburse NGOs that have spent pledged funds, officials say; largest field hospital operating with skeleton crew
By AP and ToI Staff
A bouquet of white flowers placed outside the headquarters of the United States Agency for International Development, or USAID, is pictured, in Washington, February 7, 2025. (Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP)
February 27, 2025, 8:08 am
Trump administration says it’s slashing 90% of USAID foreign aid contracts
Nonprofits owed money say contracts are already being terminated en masse, charge move is aimed at getting around court order to temporarily lift funding freeze
By Ellen Knickmeyer, Mark Sherman and Matthew Lee
Palestinians walk past tents lining the streets amid the rubble of destroyed buildings in Jabalia, in the northern Gaza Strip, February 18, 2025. (Omar Al-Qattaa / AFP)
February 22, 2025, 10:23 am
Trump administration approves funds for Gaza aid, Red Cross after initial freeze
Included in $5.3 billion of unfrozen US aid funds is $78 million for Strip and $56 million for the Red Cross related to hostage-ceasefire deal
By Jonathan Landay and Simon Lewis
A cleric walks in front of a shopping center in northern Tehran, Iran on January 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
February 5, 2025, 10:26 am
Iran welcomes Trump’s foreign aid cuts as both sides hint at nuclear negotiations
Despite tough talk, US and Iranian leaders leave door open for negotiations as Trump cuts funding for civil society in the country in potential setback for pro-democracy activists
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Humanitarian aid waiting to be picked up on the Palestinian side of the Kerem Shalom aid crossing in the Gaza Strip, December 19, 2024. (Ohad Zwigenberg/AP)
December 24, 2024, 11:48 pm
US envoy pans new report asserting famine in north Gaza as ‘outdated and inaccurate’
Ambassador to Israel Jack Lew calls assessment by USAID-backed agency ‘irresponsible’ for relying on ‘inaccurate data’ to inflate affected population; IDF kills gunmen in Gaza hospital
By Jacob Magid and Agencies
Trucks loaded with humanitarian aid from the United Arab Emirates and the United States Agency for International Development cross the Trident Pier before entering the beach in Gaza, May 17, 2024. (Staff Sgt. Malcolm Cohens-Ashley/US Army Central via AP)
August 28, 2024, 8:09 am
Biden pushed for failed Gaza aid pier despite warnings against it, USAID says
USAID says it had warned that the floating pier would distract from efforts to open more efficient land crossings into northern Gaza
By Ellen Knickmeyer
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