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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 471

USAID

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US envoy pans new report asserting famine in north Gaza as ‘outdated and inaccurate’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
A truck of flour supplied by the United Nations' World Food Program is seen at Ashdod Port, before entering the Gaza Strip on April 17, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)
June 10, 2024, 8:57 am
UN food organization halts aid to Gaza via US pier due to security concerns
Two of the aid group’s warehouses were struck by rockets on Saturday, leading it to pause operations for a security review
By AP and ToI Staff
A truck carrying humanitarian aid arrives for processing at the Kerem Shalom border crossing with Gaza on April 15, 2024. (AFP)
April 20, 2024, 6:34 pm
USAID, UN’s World Food Program to help US distribute aid in Gaza via sea route
America working on temporary pier for aid transfer after strike that killed WCK workers leaves humanitarian groups needing greater assurance
By AP and ToI Staff
Recep Tayyip Erdogan, left, and Isaac Herzog. (AP photos, montage)
March 10, 2022, 2:08 pm
Daily Briefing March 10: Turning tide in Turkey, shuttle diplomacy and PA on Ukraine
Political reporter Carrie Keller-Lynn discusses Israel’s mediation bid and Knesset news; US correspondent Jacob Magid reviews Palestinians on Russia, and USAID and Iron Dome funds
By ToI Staff
USAID deputy administrator Isobel Coleman speaks to reporters at the US Embassy in Jerusalem, on March 8, 2022. (Tal Schneider/The Times of Israel)
March 8, 2022, 8:39 pm
US earmarks $5.5 million for Israeli, Palestinian businesses, female entrepreneurs
Citing skittishness by participants, USAID program administrator declines to name trade associations contracted to distribute grant money from Partnership for Peace Fund
By Tal Schneider
People recover the body of a deceased person from the rubble of a house destroyed by the earthquake in Les Cayes, Haiti, Sunday, Aug. 15, 2021. (AP/Joseph Odelyn)
August 16, 2021, 3:25 am
Haiti quake toll soars to 1,297 as storm threatens rescue effort
Foreign aid pours in to help impoverished nation, with hospitals overwhelmed by thousands injured in Saturday temblor; tropical depression expected to bring heavy rains Monday
By EVENS SANON and Collin Binkley
A Palestinian carries a box of vegetable oil as he walks past bags of flour on a truck donated by USAID, or the United States Agency for International Development, at a depot in the West Bank village of Anin near Jenin, June 4, 2008 (AP Photo/Mohammed Ballas)
April 1, 2021, 2:26 am
US gov’t watchdog: Aid agency did not properly vet Palestinians for terror ties
General Accounting Office finds USAID failed to properly check secondary recipients of funds it provided
By JTA and AP
US President Joe Biden in the Oval Office of the White House, in Washington, March 30, 2021. (Evan Vucci/AP)
March 31, 2021, 9:46 pm
Biden quietly giving Palestinians $75 million to help regain ‘trust’ after Trump
After announcing $15m aid to fight COVID, State Department, with no public announcement, notifies Congress of further funds, apparently to encourage PA to return to peace table
By Matthew Lee
United States ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power votes on a resolution during a Security Council meeting at UN headquarters, Wednesday, March 2, 2016. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
January 14, 2021, 2:22 am
Biden taps Power, who allowed anti-settlement UN resolution, as USAID chief
As US ambassador to international body, Samantha Power allowed an anti-settlements resolution to pass in the Security Council in final days of Obama administration
By Ron Kampeas
Deputy administrator of USAID Bonnie Glick during a briefing on the Women's Global Development and Prosperity initiative, August 11, 2020, at the US State Department in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
September 24, 2020, 5:11 pm
Visiting USAID deputy says Israeli tech will be key for developing nations
Bonnie Glick notes that Israeli know-how will be needed as leading US development agency implements digital approach, plans 5G roll-out for combating food insecurity, other issues
By Luke Tress
A Palestinian man stands next to an USAID billboard in the southern West Bank city of Halhoul, December 17, 2007. (AP Photos/Kevin Frayer)
June 24, 2019, 12:05 am
US uses pics from programs it cut to promote its new Palestinian economic plan
Experts say Kushner team’s reliance on images from projects the administration has defunded underlines that new plan’s ideas are either pie-in-the-sky or have already been tried
By Josef Federman
US consul general in Jerusalem Jacob Walles (2nd R) looks at USAID donations donated to the Palestinians in the west Bank town of Ramallah on May 10, 2006. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)
April 18, 2019, 11:43 am
USAID to lay off 85% of local staff as aid to Palestinians is cut – report
Missions in West Bank and Gaza won’t shutter entirely, but employees expect team of 100 to be whittled down to 14 in coming months
By ToI Staff
In this June 4, 2008 photo, Palestinians unload bags of flour donated by the United States Agency for International Development, USAID, at a depot in the West Bank village of Anin near Jenin. (AP Photo/Mohammed Ballas, File)
January 22, 2019, 10:18 am
Infrastructure, peace projects abandoned as last US aid to Palestinians dries up
As final Trump cuts take effect, tens of thousands of residents of the West Bank and Gaza are no longer getting food assistance or basic health services from America
By Joseph Krauss
A Palestinian carries a box of vegetable oil as he walks past bags of flour on a truck donated by USAID, or the United States Agency for International Development, at a depot in the West Bank village of Anin near Jenin, June 4, 2008 (AP Photo/Mohammed Ballas)
November 27, 2018, 1:43 am
USAID said to plan firing over half its employees in West Bank and Gaza
Trump’s policy to cut aid from the Palestinians is reportedly designed to pressure Abbas into entering peace talks
By Eric Cortellessa
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