Stacy Gilbert, who served as a senior civilian-military #advisor to the State Department's Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration #PRM, sent an email to staff saying she was resigning because she felt the State Department had made the wrong assessment
Alexander Smith, a #contractor for the #USAID said he was given a choice between #resignation & #dismissal after preparing a presentation on maternal & child #mortality among Palestinians, which was cancelled at the last minute by USAID leadership last week.
#USAID is #SeekingApplications for a Cooperative Agreement from qualified U.S. Non-Profit Organizations #NGOs & U.S. For Profit Organizations (that forgo profit), to implement a 5 yr program, entitled the “#Gaza#Health#Recovery Activity.”
A damning article on the Biden administration's complicity in the famine in Gaza and the use of starvation by Israel as a weapon of war.
In an internal collective dissent memo drafted this month by numerous employees of USAID, the staff assail the agency and the Biden administration for its “failure to uphold international humanitarian principles and to adhere to its mandate to save lives”.
More than $250 million will be allocated to rebuild and expand Ukraine's agricultural sector under the new USAID Harvest program, Deputy Agricultural Minister Denys Bashlyk said on May 3.
"Sadly, #GuineaBissau has allowed itself to become complicit in Israel’s deliberate #starvation, #illegalSiege and genocide of Palestinians in #Gaza. @israel is showing the world the extent to which it will go to deny Palestinians the aid they need to stay alive, in direct contravention of International #HumanitarianLaw, #UN Security Council resolutions, and two orders of the International Court of Justice #ICC@cij_icj . Israel is only allowed to get away with this because we have an international order where law does not apply equally, where people are not valued the same, and where might equals right. The US has hijacked #internationalLaw and is violating its own laws to protect Israel at every turn. A recently-leaked #USAID memo states that ' #famine in Gaza is inevitable,' and that 'changes could reduce but not stop widespread #civiliandeaths.' It also states that the government of Israel does not currently demonstrate necessary compliance with #USlaw required to receive #USmilitary aid. Nevertheless, last week, the #USCongress passed and Biden signed a $26 billion aid package for Israel. It is this kind of naked impunity, over decades, that has brought us to this point where Israel can carry out a #genocide "
USAID employee killed by an off-duty police officer in Israel; officer was arrested and is being investigated for murder. Times of Israel: "Footage that surfaced on social media shows Toukhy, clad in motorcycle helmet and paramedic uniform, lying on the ground on Jaffa’s central Yehuda HaYamit throughway, as the the policeman, in flip-flops, shorts, and a t-shirt, bashes him in the head." #israel#usaidhttps://www.timesofisrael.com/arab-jaffa-resident-shot-dead-by-off-duty-cop-after-apparent-traffic-dispute/amp/
Families still reeling from the aftermath of a two-year conflict in Tigray are now resorting to increasingly desperate measures to survive. The conflict and erratic rainfall have further exacerbated the planting season which threatens to plunge the region into deeper humanitarian catastrophe if nothing is done, warns Oxfam....
There are often irregularities in humanitarian efforts. But for donors (US, UK etc) to stop support & let innocent civilians starve & face the slaughter is unconscionable.
We saw this in #Tigray when #USAID#WFP suspended operations due to 'corruption' & now funding stopped for #UNRWA in #Gaza due to ostensible participation of some staff in Oct 7 attacks. Instead of an investigation western govt choose collective punishment.
A contractor for the United States’ government main aid agency and his family were killed in an Israeli air strike in Gaza last month.
Hani Jnena, a contractor for the US Agency for International Development, his wife, and their 2-year-old and 4-year-old daughters, were killed in a strike on the Sabra neighborhood of Gaza City on November 5, the US-based non-profit Global Communities said in a statement on Saturday.
Before he was killed alongside his wife and two children in Gaza last month, Hani Jnena, 33, sent a final message to his colleagues in the West Bank....
USAID allocates over $250 million to Ukraine's agricultural sector (kyivindependent.com)
More than $250 million will be allocated to rebuild and expand Ukraine's agricultural sector under the new USAID Harvest program, Deputy Agricultural Minister Denys Bashlyk said on May 3.
USAID provides emergency equipment, over 100 generators to Ukraine (kyivindependent.com)
The U.S. has donated emergency equipment, vehicles, and over 100 generators to multiple regions of Ukraine, through USAID.
Oxfam warns of growing hunger crisis in Tigray as families resort to extreme measures to survive (theaimn.com)
Families still reeling from the aftermath of a two-year conflict in Tigray are now resorting to increasingly desperate measures to survive. The conflict and erratic rainfall have further exacerbated the planting season which threatens to plunge the region into deeper humanitarian catastrophe if nothing is done, warns Oxfam....
Killing of USAID contractor in Gaza fuels internal protest (www.washingtonpost.com)
Before he was killed alongside his wife and two children in Gaza last month, Hani Jnena, 33, sent a final message to his colleagues in the West Bank....