Following its chaotic and deadly delivery, the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation has received criticism from the UN and aid organizations.
Israel has been putting a complete blockade on Gaza for almost three months.
2.3 million people are now starving, because aid organizations are unable to deliver the most basic items.
Israel and the US are currently supporting the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, which delivers food packages. The first attempt sputtered into chaos.
The UN and other aid organizations have also been harsh critics of the foundation. They claim that it violates humanitarian law and appears to be “weaponizing” aid.
Why, then, has Israel chosen to grant some aid but only under the authority it supports?
Presenter:
Thibault, Folly Bah
Guests:
Chris Gunness, former UNRWA communications director, serves as the organization’s representative for Palestinian refugees.
Director of the Palestinian NGOs Network, Amjad Shawa
Donald Trump, the president of the United States, has escalating his dispute with Harvard University, calling for the university to cap foreign enrollment and share data with the government regarding its foreign students.
“We need to see their lists,” Harvard says. Nearly 31% of their students are foreigners. We’re curious about the origin of those students. Do they create problems? What nations are they from, exactly? Trump addressed reporters on Wednesday at the White House. Foreign students make up 27% of Harvard’s student body, according to data from universities that enrol.
Trump argued that there should be a cap on enrollment, not 31 percent, adding that he wanted students to be able to choose “people who are going to love our country” at universities.
More control over the university’s curricula, information about foreign students, and additional steps to crack down on pro-Palestine student activism, which the Trump administration has described as anti-Semitic, have been among the demands made by the Trump administration.
“Harvard must act on their own,” says the professor. Trump addressed reporters in the Oval Office, “Harvard is treating our country with a lot of disrespect, and they’re only getting in deeper and deeper.”
The university has fought back against what it claims is an attempt to undermine its commitment to academic freedom and independence.
The Trump administration announced that it would completely revoke Harvard’s ability to enroll international students and that it had cut off grants worth billions of dollars. According to the Department of Homeland Security, Harvard “promoted violence, antisemitism, and coordinated with the Chinese Communist Party.”
The university claimed in a statement at the time that the decree was a “series of government actions” aimed at punishing Harvard for its inability to grant academic independence and to retaliate against the federal government for its illegal granting of control of our curriculum, faculty, and student body.
A judge temporarily blocked the order on Friday after the university quickly filed a legal challenge to it in court.
Trinity Washington University president Patricia McGuire claimed on Wednesday that Trump’s policies against foreign students enrolling at US universities “make no sense.”
According to McGuire, “It’s so irrational because higher education is one of the top US exports to the world and the international students who come here enrich American universities greatly and transfer their knowledge to all of their countries around the world for the improvement of their countries and their populations,” McGuire told Al Jazeera from Washington, DC.
According to McGuire, Trump’s actions are in line with “an administration that has literally snatched students off the street and taken them detention centers,” referring to Tufts University student Rumeysa Ozturk, who was detained by masked federal agents in broad daylight on a street near her Massachusetts home in March.
The 30-year-old Turkish doctoral student was released from the immigration and customs enforcement agency this month by a court order.
Myanmar was struck by a magnitude 7.7 earthquake in March. As a result of the crisis, countless people lost shelter, food, and water, according to Al Jazeera.
In March 2025, a 7.7 magnitude earthquake devasted Myanmar and left behind numerous communities. The only international broadcaster with a team stationed in the area witnessed the crisis’s development. A survival story emerged from the experience of overwhelming odds.
Our cameras captured the desperate search for survivors and the magnitude of destruction from the capital, Naypyidaw, to Mandalay’s spiritual heart. Near the epicenter, entire neighborhoods were in ruins as countless people found themselves without food, clean water, or shelter. Emergency services had trouble figuring out what was needed.
Palestinians in Gaza continue to starve on World Hunger Day, one day after a chaotic rush to an Israeli- and US-backed distribution point delivering the first aid since Israel’s March blockade. Even this tidbit of relief is opposed by some Israelis. What they have been saying is as follows.
In the first T20 international of the three-match series at Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore, Pakistan defeated Bangladesh by a 37-run victory.
Hasan Ali, who made his first appearance in a year, won the final over to bat 164 against the visitors.
The hosts’ 201-7 victory over the toss, which Salman Agha, the hosts’ captain, led with 56 points, was unfortunate for the innings.
Hasan, a right-arm seamer who recently impressed in his country’s domestic two competition, the Pakistan Super League, stole the hearts at least on his return to the international scene after suffering from injury issues.
His skipper commented afterwards, “I saw him work hard and put in extra hours, and it has paid off.”
Salman continued, “What mattered is that everyone contributed, and that’s how we want to play – everyone has to bat, bowl, and field well.”
Salman Ali Agha of Pakistan celebrates scoring fifty [KM Chaudary/AP]
Both Pakistan and Bangladesh are recovering from their group stage exits from the ICC Champions Trophy in February.
The hosts, who also lost seven of their eight games in the most recent white-ball series against New Zealand, were eliminated from the game by 5-2 after eight balls of their innings, couldn’t have had a worse start.
As the pair shared a stand of 51 for the third wicket, Mohammad Haris and his captain Salman began the recovery.
With a stand of 65, Hasan Nawaz hit 44 of his 22 balls, which was the highest strike rate of the innings.
With eighteen fours and one six, Salman finished the match with 56 runs off 24 as the only batter to hit 50.
The fourth-wicket pair were 11 deliveries apart when Shadab Khan smashed 48 off 25 to put pressure back on Bangladesh.
The only Bangladeshi player to have taken more than one scalp, Shoriful Islam, took his second wicket on the final ball of the innings.
The tourists’ top-heavy reply, which included Litton Das and Tawhid Hridoy, who had shared the match’s 63-piece partnership for the third wicket, gave hope to a series-opening victory.
The chase’s end came just before Litton left, with the score being 100-2 before Litton left.
Shadab Khan of Pakistan, right, cuts in the innings that earned him the Player of the Match award [Aamir Qureshi/AFP]
Shadab Khan won Player of the Match after claiming 2-26 and his fiery 2-26 hitting tally.
Despite having recently lost his place in the side, the Pakistan vice captain said, “My comeback to Pakistan colors wasn’t great, but my recent performances in PSL helped me get some confidence.”
The series’ two games will take place on Friday before the series finale on Sunday in Lahore, with the final game taking place in Lahore.
In his comments following the game, Bangladesh captain Litton said, “We didn’t bowl, bat, and field well,” saying that his team needed more consistency in “all areas of the game.”
After nearly three months of an Israeli blockade, thousands of desperate Palestinians stormed a UN World Food Programme warehouse in central Gaza on Wednesday. Initial reports from the WFP indicated that two people had died and several others had been hurt during the incident.
