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FILE - Trucks carrying humanitarian aid cross into the Gaza Strip from Erez crossing in southern Israel, on Oct. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov, File)

Why is only limited aid getting to Palestinians inside Gaza?

By Julia Frankel, Samy Magdy and Jack Jeffery - Associated Press

Hezbollah's deputy leader Sheik Naim Kassem, speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Beirut's southern suburbs, Lebanon, Tuesday, July 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Israeli strike in northern Gaza kills at least 60, officials say, as Hezbollah announces new leader

By Wafaa Shurafa, Samy Magdy and Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

Israeli police and rescue services inspect the site where a truck driver rammed into a bus stop near an army base, wounding dozens of people, according to Israel's Magen David Adom rescue service in Ramat Hasharon, Israel, Sunday, Oct. 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Protesters disrupt a Netanyahu speech marking Oct. 7 attacks, chanting ‘Shame on you’

By Ami Bentov, Tia Goldenberg and Samy Magdy and Joseph Krauss - Associated Press

Nelly Shukuru, 51, hold the scarf she had planned on using to hang herself after spending three years displaced in the Lushagala camp in Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)

Years of war in Congo have created a dire mental health crisis. But little support is available

By Sam Mednick and Ruth Alonga - Associated Press

In this image provided by the U.S. Army, soldiers assigned to the 7th Transportation Brigade (Expeditionary) and sailors attached to the MV Roy P. Benavidez assemble the Roll-On, Roll-Off Distribution Facility (RRDF), or floating pier, off the shore of Gaza on April 26, 2024. The U.S. expects to have on-the-ground arrangements in Gaza ready for humanitarian workers to start delivering aid this month via a new U.S.-backed sea route for Gaza aid. An official with the U.S. Agency for International Development tells the AP that humanitarian groups expect to have their part of preparations complete by early to mid-month. (U.S. Army via AP)

U.S. military: Gaza Strip pier project completed, aid to soon flow as Israel-Hamas war rages on

By Lolita C. Baldor - Associated Press

Police officers stand by a makeshift camp during an evacuation operation Tuesday, April 30, 2024 in Paris. Similar operations are carried out by the police authorities on a daily basis in the months leading to the Olympics. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

Ahead of the Paris Olympics, police clear a migrant camp near City Hall

Associated Press

This undated photo released early Tuesday, April 30, 2024, by the U.S. military's Central Command shows construction off a floating pier in the Mediterranean Sea off the Gaza Strip. A U.S. Navy ship involved in the American-led effort to bring more aid into the besieged Gaza Strip is off shore from the enclave, slowly building out a floating platform for the operation, satellite photos analyzed Monday, April 29, 2024, by The Associated Press show. (U.S. military's Central Command via AP)

The U.S. is building a pier off Gaza to bring in humanitarian aid. Here’s how it would work

By Lolita C. Baldor - Associated Press

Migrants unload their items off a bus as they arrive at a bus stop after leaving a processing facility, Friday, Feb. 23, 2024, in San Diego. Hundreds of migrants were dropped off Friday at a sidewalk bus stop amid office parks in San Diego with notices to appear in immigration court after local government funding for a reception center ran out of money sooner than expected. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

Border Patrol releases hundreds of migrants at a bus stop after San Diego runs out of aid money

By Elliot Spagat - Associated Press

Palestinians line up for a free meal in Rafah, Gaza Strip, Friday, Feb. 16, 2024. The World Food Program said Tuesday it has paused deliveries of food to isolated northern Gaza because of increasing chaos across the territory, hiking fears of potential starvation. A study by the U.N. children's agency warned that one in six children in the north are acutely malnourished. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair, File)

Why isn’t desperately needed aid reaching Palestinians in Gaza?

By Joseph Krauss - Associated Press

Trucks carrying humanitarian aid line up at the Rafah Border Crossing, Egypt, on the way to Gaza, Sunday, Nov. 19, 2023. A cumbersome process of Israeli inspections and other hurdles is slowing the entry of aid into Gaza, two U.S. senators say after a visit to Egypt's Rafah crossing into to besieged territory. Hundreds of trucks are lined up at Rafah, sometimes waiting weeks to go through the process. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil, File)

Cumbersome process and ‘arbitrary’ Israeli inspections slow aid delivery into Gaza, US senators say

By Lee Keath - Associated Press

Migrants wait on the City Hall plaza in Paris, Monday, Dec.25, 2023, as families meet on Christmas Day seeking somewhere to stay. About 50 families with children between three months and 10 years old gathered on City Hall plaza on Christmas evening, to meet members of aid groups who distribute food, blankets and diapers and help find temporary lodging. (AP Photo/Nicolas Garriga)

Paris City Hall plaza draws holiday visitors and migrant families seeking shelter as Olympics nears

By Nicolas Garriga - Associated Press

State orders Chicago to fix special education in detention

By KELLY GARCIA of Injustice Watch - Associated Press

Cell service can decide life vs. death along Arizona border

By CURT PRENDERGAST - Associated Press

A trainee reads a handbook on coronavirus prevention, at a training session for community health workers conducted by the national NGO &quot;Health Link&quot; in Gumbo, on the outskirts of Juba, South Sudan, Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2020. The coronavirus is exposing an uncomfortable inequality in the billion-dollar system that delivers life-saving aid to countries in crisis: Most money goes to international aid groups instead of local ones and now many local aid workers have been left exposed on the pandemic's front lines. (AP Photo/Charles Atiki Lomodong)

‘Our hands are tied’: Local aid workers exposed in pandemic

By CARA ANNA - Associated Press

Nigeria lifts ban on 2 prominent humanitarian groups

By BASHIR ADIGUN - Associated Press

Aid groups sue France to stop boat donation to Libya’s navy

Associated Press

In this Wednesday, April 3, 2019, photo, children play in the water on a beach near a mosque collapsed during Sept. 28, 2018, earthquake is seen in the background in Palu, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia. The earthquake spawned a large localized tsunami that wiped out coastal areas, while liquefaction caused by the shaking turned entire neighborhoods into rivers of sludge. The disaster killed thousands of people, making it the world’s deadliest seismic event in 2018. (AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana)

Recovery falters in Indonesian city broken by quake disaster

By STEPHEN WRIGHT and NINIEK KARMINI - Associated Press

Turkish soldiers prepare their tanks to enter combat and join a military offensive on a Kurdish-held enclave in northern Syria, at a staging area in the Hatay province,Turkey near the the border with Syria.Turkey launched an operation, codenamed Olive Branch, last week against the Syrian Kurdish People's Protection Units in Afrin, Syria that it deems a terror group. The operation codenamed Olive Branch is on its fourth day. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

Thousands on run, hiding as Turkey keeps up Syria offensive

By SARAH EL DEEB and PHILIP ISSA - Associated Press

Aid groups see dire crisis for Rohingya in Myanmar

By ROBIN McDOWELL - Associated Press

‘Big Truck’ details disastrous Haiti aid effort

By NAHAL TOOSI - Associated Press