Foreign aid

Trump presses Netanyahu to end Gaza war, Rubio condemns sanction on Ben-Gvir, Smotrich

7,000 activists to begin convoy from Tunisia to Rafah • Netanyahu says there is progress on hostage deal • Greta Thunberg deported from Israel

 Illustrative -US Secretary of State Marco Rubio (L) and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) attend a press conference at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, February 16, 2025.
 Activists put their hands up as the IDF reportedly boards the 'Madleen' off the coast of Gaza on June 9, 2025.

Freedom Flotilla Coalition says it was attacked by drones, communications jammed

An activist walks on the Freedom Flotilla Coalition ship 'Handala' as they prepare to sail for Gaza in an attempt to break a long-standing Israeli blockade and deliver humanitarian aid amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, in Marsa, Malta August 16, 2024.

Greta Thunberg and the Freedom Flotilla Coalition are sailing to Gaza, but will they make it?

 Palestinians seeking aid gather near an aid distribution site in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, May 27, 2025

UN calls Gaza aid station mob rush 'heartbreaking' as org. says 10,000 trucks wait at border


Majority of Israelis unconcerned by humanitarian aid situation in Gaza - poll

The INSS poll found that the Israeli public was largely divided over the renewed fighting in Gaza and the plan for the day after the war.

 Palestinians seeking aid gather near an aid distribution site in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, May 27, 2025

Proposed tax on foreign donations alarms NGOs aiding Holocaust survivors

The bill, initiated by Likud MK Ariel Kallner, would impose an 80% tax on donations received from foreign political entities.

 (illustrative) Polish-born Holocaust survivor Meyer Hack shows his prisoner number tattooed on his arm. (Hack is unrelated to the contents of this article)

Ehud Olmert's Gaza statement is more media spectacle than political dissent – opinion

Former prime minister Ehud Olmert crossed the line this week in his interview to the BBC

 FORMER PRIME MINISTER Ehud Olmert appears at a hearing of the unofficial civil commission of inquiry investigating the events of October 7, in Tel Aviv last year. In an interview with the BBC this week, Olmert denounced Israel’s conduct in Gaza in sweeping, unrestrained terms, the writer charges.

Status of ongoing IDF operations in Gaza unclear as aid trucks enter the enclave

The IDF's ongoing invasion of Gaza could be slowed by the 100 aid trucks that entered Gaza.

 IDF soldiers continue their ground operations in northern Gaza May 17, 2025

Ben-Gvir decries entrance of aid trucks into Gaza: 'Grave mistake that delays our victory'

The prime minister's statement came after Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich called for Netanyahu to "show leadership" to the public. 

 National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir and trucks loaded with humanitarian aid seen before entering the Gaza Strip, on the Israeli side of the border with the Gaza Strip, May 20, 2025.

Ending foreign aid, military assistance could re-orient US-Israel relationship - opinion

WASHINGTON WATCH | Slashing military financing will elevate Israel to a “true strategic partnership” with the US, thinks the Heritage Foundation.

 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Donald Trump meet in the Oval Office last month.

NGO says Malta blocking access to Gaza-bound aid ship hit by drones

The Maltese government claimed that the ship's crew had denied its assistance, and that the ship's captain was continuing to refuse to allow a surveyor and Malta police on board.

Screen capture of the "Freedom Flotilla" struck by drone off coast of Malta, May 2, 2025.

Lacking aid, Syrians do what they can to rebuild devastated Aleppo

Aleppo has been left deeply scarred after more than a decade of war, Russian airstrikes, and barrel bomb attacks.

 A drone view shows people rebuilding their house in Aleppo, Syria, April 19, 2025.

What can be learned from the IDF inquiry into killing of medics in Gaza? – analysis

The IDF did discipline officers for their actions in the event, it also does not explain questions like how the number of terrorists is determined after a firefight.

  Palestinians mourn medics, who came under Israeli fire while on a rescue mission, after their bodies were recovered, according to the Red Crescent, at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip March 31, 2025.

Trump administration seeks records from Harvard on foreign funding and ties

Trump's administration said it sought Harvard University's records on foreign funding going back a decade and on some foreign ties.

 Demonstrators rally on Cambridge Common in a protest organized by the City of Cambridge calling on Harvard leadership to resist interference at the university by the federal government in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S. April 12, 2025.

Trump administration proposes cutting UN peacekeeping funds over effectiveness concerns

The proposal to cut funds cited recent failures in operations across Africa and the Middle East, including in Mali, Lebanon, and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

An illustrative image of US President Donald Trump.