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US prohibits airlines from flying to Haiti and UN suspends flights after planes were shot by gangs

Nov. 12, 2024 19:48 PM EST

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — The Federal Aviation Administration prohibited U.S. airlines from flying to Haiti for 30 days after gangs shot three planes and the United Nations also Tuesday temporarily suspended flights to Port-au-Prince, limiting humanitarian aid coming into the country. ...

US says it will not limit Israel arms transfers after some improvements in flow of aid to Gaza

Nov. 12, 2024 17:33 PM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration said Tuesday that Israel has made some good but limited progress in increasing the flow of humanitarian aid to Gaza and will not limit arms transfers to Israel as it had threatened to a month ago if the situation had not improved. Relief groups say...

Why is only limited aid getting to Palestinians inside Gaza?

Nov. 12, 2024 17:21 PM EST

JERUSALEM (AP) — The United States said Tuesday it would not punish Israel over the dire humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip. But it urged Israel to increase the flow of aid into the besieged territory. The White House last month gave Israel 30 days to improve conditions or...

US gives Israel a 'fail' grade on improving aid to Gaza so far

Nov. 04, 2024 19:27 PM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is stepping up criticism of Israel for not doing enough to improve humanitarian conditions in Gaza as a 30-day deadline looms for Israeli officials to meet certain requirements or risk potential restrictions on military assistance. State...

Israel is falling far short of a US ultimatum to surge aid to Gaza

Nov. 01, 2024 17:38 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Halfway through the Biden administration's 30-day ultimatum for Israel to surge the level of humanitarian assistance allowed into Gaza or risk possible restrictions on U.S. military funding, Israel is falling far short, an Associated Press review of U.N. and Israeli data shows. ...

Biden, Cyprus president discuss administration push to win cease-fires in Gaza and Lebanon

Oct. 30, 2024 15:22 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and Cypriot President Nikos Christodoulides on Wednesday discussed a new effort by the U.S. administration and mediators in the Middle East to forge cease-fires to end fighting in Lebanon and Gaza. Christodoulides leads the European Union...

Israel's move to ban a UN agency raises alarm about aid to Gaza even as the implications are unclear

Oct. 30, 2024 02:15 AM EDT

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli legislation cutting ties with the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees raised fears that the largest provider of aid to Gaza could be shut out of the war-ravaged territory, even as the implications of the new laws remained unclear Tuesday. The agency known...

Israel must step in if it bans the UN agency that is a lifeline for Gaza, UN says

Oct. 29, 2024 23:02 PM EDT

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations stressed Tuesday that if Israel puts in place new laws cutting ties with the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees, the Israeli government will have to meet their needs under international law. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in a...

Israeli strikes in northern Gaza kill at least 88, officials say

Oct. 29, 2024 22:44 PM EDT

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Two Israeli airstrikes in the northern Gaza Strip on Tuesday killed at least 88 people, including dozens of women and children, health officials said, and the director of a hospital said life-threatening injuries were going untreated because a weekend raid by...

Israel approves two bills that could halt UNRWA's aid delivery to Gaza. What does that mean?

Oct. 29, 2024 05:28 AM EDT

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Israel's parliament has passed two laws that could prevent the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees, a main provider of aid to Gaza, from being able to continue its work. The laws ban the agency, UNRWA, from operating and cut all ties between the...