Tom Bateman State Department correspondent Getty Images The road to Dover, Delaware, is lined with barns and giant wheat fields and all the other signs of American abundance. But on this journey, the scene only highlights the devastating contrast between peace and war. We’re driving here because in this rural heartland lie clues to what’s...
The new group backed by Israel and the US for aid distribution in Gaza says Hamas attacked a bus transporting some of its Palestinian workers, killing at least five people. The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) said the attack happened on Wednesday night as the bus carrying more than two-dozen workers travelled to a distribution centre...
Nick Thorpe Central Europe correspondent ZOLTAN FISCHER/HUNGARIAN PM HANDOUT Hungary’s Viktor Orban described President Trump as a “truth serum” It’s been a big week in Europe for CPAC, the US Conservative Political Action Conference, with large gatherings in Poland and Hungary. The timing is crucial, ahead of Poland’s presidential election run-off on Sunday, between a...
U.S. military veteran Jake Wood has resigned from his position as executive director of the so-called Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) just weeks after its launch, amid heavy criticism from organizations that say that the U.S.- and Israel-backed group will hinder, not help, aid delivery in the starvation-stricken enclave. Wood cited concerns over violations of “humanitarian...
Thousands of Gazan’s stampede towards a food distribution centre Crowds of Palestinians have overrun a distribution site in Gaza set up by a controversial US and Israeli-backed group, a day after it began working there. Videos showed people walking over torn-down fences and earth berms at the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’s (GHF) compound in the southern...
A controversial new aid distribution group backed by the US and Israel has begun working in Gaza. The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) said lorry loads of food had been delivered to secure sites and that it had begun distribution to people. It did not say where or how much aid had been handed out. The...