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The organization suspended food delivery in the region after the attack on three World Central Kitchen vehicles full of food from a nearby warehouse. CBC | World News
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Gaza protests spread across U.S., to the doorstep of the White House
Joe Biden tried taking a victory lap this week, celebrating a coveted foreign policy win. Yet in the streets near his house, he was being jeered over a different foreign crisis — the one that’s threatening his presidency. CBC | World News
Read More »Acute hunger rose sharply in 2023, with greatest concerns in Gaza, Sudan: UN report
Nearly 282 million people in 59 countries suffered from acute hunger in 2023, with war-torn Gaza as the territory with the largest number of people facing famine, according to the Global Report on Food Crises released Wednesday. CBC | World News
Read More »UN team in Gaza shaken after pier site came under fire during visit, spokesperson says
A United Nations team in the Gaza Strip visiting the site for a pier and the staging area for maritime aid operations had to seek shelter in a bunker “for some time” on Wednesday after the area came under fire, a UN spokesperson said on Thursday. CBC | World News
Read More »Here’s what’s happening on U.S. campuses as student protests against Israel’s war in Gaza grow
Student protests over the Israel-Hamas war have popped up on an increasing number of college campuses following last week’s arrest of more than 100 demonstrators at Columbia University. CBC | World News
Read More »WATCH | UN calls for investigation over bodies dug up beneath Gaza hospital
Video shot for CBC News shows bodies being unearthed beneath Nasser Hospital, in the Gaza city of Khan Younis. The hospital was recently abandoned by Israeli troops who said they’d finished searching it for Hamas fighters. The UN is now calling for an inquiry. CBC | World News
Read More »‘I’m scared’: As hope fades for a hostage deal, a former captive fears for her husband still held in Gaza
Former hostage Aviva Siegel is imploring the government of Israel and others to get the remaining captives home from Gaza, including her husband, Keith. CBC | World News
Read More »Protests over Israel’s war in Gaza roil some U.S. campuses
Police arrested dozens of people at pro-Palestinian demonstrations at Yale University in Connecticut and New York University in Manhattan on Monday, as the war in Gaza continued to reverberate through U.S. university campuses. CBC | World News
Read More »Israel still hasn’t provided evidence to back up claims UNRWA staff linked to Gaza militants, panel says
A review of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) has found that it has ‘robust’ frameworks to ensure compliance with humanitarian neutrality principles, though issues persist, in a report which could prompt some donors to review funding freezes. CBC | World News
Read More »Nearly 300 bodies found in mass grave at Gaza hospital, authorities say
More bodies were recovered on Monday from what Gaza Civil Defence workers said were mass graves on the site of Nasser hospital in Khan Younis, the biggest in southern Gaza, raising the number of bodies found over the past week to 283. Israel says it was forced to battle inside that and other hospitals because Hamas fighters operated there, which ...
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