People in western Myanmar have been driven to scavenging for bamboo shoots, as humanitarian workers warn a wartime blockade and aid cutbacks led by Washington have caused hunger cases to surge. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/15/asia-pacific/myanmar-hunger-us-aid-cuts/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #us #myanmar #aid #food #hunger
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Please help Aseel and her family eat this week if you can.
(I have spoken with and am in touch with Aseel over Signal and I can vouch that the account and campaign are real and your donations go to a family in need in Gaza.)
#gaza #aid#mutualAid#Palestine#FreePalestinehttps://mas.to/@Aseelsehwel/114975078916845930
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I just had a video conversation on Signal with Nouran ( @NouranKhaledGh) and her brother Yousef from Gaza.
Their family is one of countless ones in Palestine who are still alive but unsure of what tomorrow is going to bring. Last night was especially tough with Israel’s renewed bombing. Yousef told me that at least they are still in their own home and that if they’re ordered by Israel to evacuate again that they will not leave what little they have left. He told me “we will die here”.
Please don’t let Nouran, Yousef, and their family die.
We must keep protesting, keep pressuring our governments until they take definitive action to stop Israel’s genocide.
And also, please help Nouran and her family survive in the interim by donating to their campaign:
https://chuffed.org/project/121561-urgent-help-for-ahmads-family
Your donations help them buy food to eat as Israel continues to starve Gaza.
Even if you cannot help financially right now, please boost this to help spread the word.
Thank you!
Boxes of Gaza-bound aid turned back by Israel languish in warehouses as exasperated drivers and U.N. officials criticize delays in sending food and medicine to the enclave. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/14/world/gaza-aid-shipments-delay/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #gaza #israelhamaswar #palestinians #egypt #un #who #aid
I just had a video conversation on Signal with Nouran ( @NouranKhaledGh) and her brother Yousef from Gaza.
Their family is one of countless ones in Palestine who are still alive but unsure of what tomorrow is going to bring. Last night was especially tough with Israel’s renewed bombing. Yousef told me that at least they are still in their own home and that if they’re ordered by Israel to evacuate again that they will not leave what little they have left. He told me “we will die here”.
Please don’t let Nouran, Yousef, and their family die.
We must keep protesting, keep pressuring our governments until they take definitive action to stop Israel’s genocide.
And also, please help Nouran and her family survive in the interim by donating to their campaign:
https://chuffed.org/project/121561-urgent-help-for-ahmads-family
Your donations help them buy food to eat as Israel continues to starve Gaza.
Even if you cannot help financially right now, please boost this to help spread the word.
Thank you!
Please help Aseel and her family eat this week if you can.
(I have spoken with and am in touch with Aseel over Signal and I can vouch that the account and campaign are real and your donations go to a family in need in Gaza.)
#gaza #aid#mutualAid#Palestine#FreePalestinehttps://mas.to/@Aseelsehwel/114975078916845930
U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff has met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a bid to salvage Gaza truce talks and tackle a humanitarian crisis caused by Israel's war in the enclave. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/01/world/us-envoy-gaza-ceasefire-push/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #israelhamaswar #gaza #us #aid #stevewitkoff
Many women in Gaza are feeding malnourished babies food their bodies may not be ready for in an attempt to stave off starvation. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/01/world/gaza-babies-risky-methods-feed/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #israelhamaswar #gaza #palestinians #food #hunger #children #aid
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At least 91 #Palestinians were killed & more than 600 wounded while attempting to get #aid in the past 24 hours, the #Gaza Health Ministry said on Thursday. This includes 54 people killed while awaiting #food in northern Gaza near the Zikim crossing on Wednesday, the ministry said. The toll is expected to rise further as many of those killed or wounded were brought to isolated, undersupplied hospitals in northern Gaza & have not yet been counted.
At least 91 #Palestinians were killed & more than 600 wounded while attempting to get #aid in the past 24 hours, the #Gaza Health Ministry said on Thursday. This includes 54 people killed while awaiting #food in northern Gaza near the Zikim crossing on Wednesday, the ministry said. The toll is expected to rise further as many of those killed or wounded were brought to isolated, undersupplied hospitals in northern Gaza & have not yet been counted.
At Nasser hospital’s child malnutrition ward, a handful of Gazan mothers watch over their babies who lie still and largely silent, mostly too exhausted by severe hunger to cry. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/31/world/society/gaza-malnutrition-children/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #society #hunger #israelhamaswar #palestinians #children #health #aid
A worst-case scenario of famine is unfolding in Gaza and immediate action is needed to end fighting and allow unimpeded aid access, a global hunger monitor has warned. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/29/world/gaza-famine-60000-death/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #israelhamaswar #hunger #children #palestinians #israel #aid
China is set to expand its influence over Southeast Asia's development as the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump and other Western donors cut aid. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/22/asia-pacific/politics/western-aid-cuts-china-southeast-asia/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #politics #southeastasia #china #us #donaldtrump #republicans #aid #easttimor #cambodia #laos #myanmar #indonesia
Meanwhile, about 66,000 tons of #food #aid is in danger of rotting in warehouses, #AIDS cases are forecast to spike in #Africa & the government projected the cuts would result in 200,000 more cases of paralysis caused by #polio each year. Already, children are dying unnecessarily in #Sudan.
#Trump #law #judiciary#Constitution #democracy#SeparationOfPowers#Autocracy#AbuseOfPower
2 months after a federal court temporarily blocked Trump’s freeze on billions in congressionally approved #ForeignAid, an attorney for relief orgs said the govt had taken “literally zero steps to allocate this money.”
Judge Amir Ali, a Biden appointee, has ordered the admin to explain what it is doing to comply w/the order. #Trump ofcls have said they will eventually release the funds, but #aid groups worry the admin is simply trying to delay until the allocations expire in the fall.
Israeli military says it will expand operations in Gaza as officials warn of growing hunger in Gaza, demand more aid. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/20/world/israel-issues-new-gaza-evacuation-orders/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #gaza #palestinians #israel #aid #un #food #starvation
The Trump administration's decision to slash nearly all U.S. foreign aid has left dozens of water and sanitation projects half-finished across the globe, creating new hazards for the people they were designed to benefit. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/20/world/politics/trump-aid-water-sanitation/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #water #us #famine #drought #floods #donaldtrump #aid
The Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives passed President Donald Trump's $9 billion funding cut to public media and foreign aid, sending it to the White House to be signed into law. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/18/world/us-congress-pass-trump-funding-cut/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #us #donaldtrump #pbs #npr #aid #development #republicans