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UN officials say Israeli forces opened fire on starving civilians at an aid convoy

Victims include 79 aid seekers who were gunned down in the north and 13 others killed in the south, medics say.

Israeli forces open fire on hungry Palestinians near Gaza City in one of bloodiest incidents involving aid seekers

AT least 73 Palestinians have been killed while trying to reach desperately needed aid in Gaza, according to the territory’s health ministry..

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said that it had ‘fired warning shots’ to remove what it said was ‘an immediate threat’

Since May, some 800 Palestinians killed at aid sites, most run by controversial US- and Israel-backed GHF, UN says.

The U.N.'s World Food Programme says it will suspend various food and nutritional assistance in vulnerable countries across West and Central Africa as a result of U.S. aid cuts that have left the agency struggling

War has intensified poverty and hunger as aid is cut, with many families living in makeshift camps barely surviving

If the US cuts off the cash it will have world-changing effects, but it’s not the only country falling short in its obligations

Exclusive: Huge cuts to international aid – alongside intensifying conflict and the devastating impact of climate change – are creating a humanitarian crisis across Nigeria and its neighbours. Now, the UN’s food charity has warned that supplies of food are set to run out next month. Nick Ferris reports

Somalia is struggling with hunger, security and the impact of the climate crisis, despite decades of aid money worth billions of dollars, writes Nick Ferris. As aid money gets cut, is this the time for countries to wean themselves off aid dependency – and can they do it?