Humanitarian aid

Israeli international NGOs use disaster response skills to help missile-hit communities in Israel

These humanitarian organizations, having operated primarily in international crisis zones, are now applying their expertise to support communities affected by missile attacks across Israel.

Israeli emergency services work on a balcony after damage to two apartments following the impact of an Iranian projectile on March 15, 2026 in Bnei Brak, Israel.
Afghan men queue to receive packages of fortified biscuits distributed by the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) organisation in the Laja Mangal district of Paktia province on March 16, 2026.

WFP warns tens of millions could face acute hunger if Iran war continues

Palestinians flee with their belongings loaded on vehicles and carts as others walk along Rashid Street towards the south of Gaza, following intensified Israeli airstrikes and evacuation orders in the northern areas of the enclave in Gaza City, Gaza on September 17, 2025.

Israeli group quietly organized charter flights evacuating Palestinians from Gaza - report

A woman walks near tents set up by displaced people, following an escalation between Hezbollah and Israel amid the US-Israeli conflict with Iran, in Beirut, Lebanon, March 13, 2026.

UN seeks $308 million for Lebanon as war displaces 800,000 people


Supreme Court allows NGOs facing Gaza ban to keep operating, for now

Some 17 NGOs and the Association of International Development Agencies (AIDA) sought an urgent suspension of the ban in a petition to the High Court of Justice.

A Palestinian woman helps a burn victim, Maria Abu Aawad, at a Doctors Without Borders (MSF) hospital, amid severe shortages of medical equipment, medicines and essential materials needed for burn treatment, in Zawaida, in the central Gaza Strip, January 26, 2026.

Five people in France indicted for funding Hamas under guise of humanitarian aid

According to PNAT, the individuals were formally charged on February 20, following an initial operation in January 2024 that involved searches of their organization's headquarters.

Hamas terrorists stand guard in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, February 22, 2025

Israeli suppliers empty out inventories selling sweets, soft drinks to Gaza for Ramadan

A, a large candy manufacturer in Israel, told Walla on Monday that he had never seen such an influx of demand for his products as he is seeing now in the Gaza market. 

A Palestinian woman shops as she prepares for the holy fasting month of Ramadan, in Gaza City, February 17, 2026.

Israel moves sweets, energy drinks into Gaza ahead of Ramadan 'at Trump’s request'

Israel agreed to ease restrictions on bringing sweets into Gaza "at Trump's request," a source said • Food-sector businessman: “Candy and chocolates, have we lost our minds?

A worker packs sweets outside a shop as Palestinians prepare for the upcoming holiday of Eid al-Fitr marking the end of Ramadan in 2020.

Doctors Without Borders report validates what the IDF has been saying for years - editorial

For the first time during the war, a major international organization has publicly recognized the presence of armed groups operating within a Gaza hospital.

Palestinians walk past the clinic of Doctors Without Borders or Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), in the al-Rimal neighborhood of Gaza City on January 11, 2026.

Sudan defense minister rejects claims aid convoy carried weapons in North Kordofan strike

Gen. Hassan Kabroun claimed the area was under the full control of the Sudanese Armed Forces and “does not require transporting any military equipment using aid convoys as decoys.” 

Displaced Sudanese wait to receive humanitarian aid at the Abu al-Naga displacement camp in the Gedaref State, some 420km east of the capital Khartoum on February 6, 2026.

US security firm involved in Gaza aid looking to recruit new Arabic-speaking contractors

The GHF had faced criticism from the United Nations and other international bodies over the deaths of hundreds of Palestinians trying to reach its aid sites.

US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff arrives in Rafah in the Gaza Strip to visit the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) aid site, August 1, 2025.

Over 65,000 aid trucks have entered Gaza since October ceasefire, COGAT says

Delivered aid included tents and tarps, humanitarian staff, and the evacuation of Gazans in need of medical treatment and those with dual citizenship.

Humanitarian aid trucks enter through the Egyptian side of the Rafah border crossing with the Gaza Strip on February 4, 2026.

Why the IDF should hire a PR firm, not a general - opinion

Maj.-Gen. Ghassan Alian of Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories, when asked how many Gazans Israel killed, mentioned Hamas’s figure of 70,000 without checking or knowing.

Daniel Hagari, then-IDF spokesman, gives a statement to the media in Tel Aviv on October 16, 2023.

IDF 'Palestinian Affairs Chief': Jewish violence on W. Bank Palestinians harms Israeli security

Humanitarian efforts in Gaza held back worse delegitimization attacks, IDF Civil Administration Commander Maj. Gen. Rasan Elian said

Palestinian protesters confront a jewish man during a protest against Israeli settlements, near Qalqilya, in the West Bank, on August 12, 2022.