Food and medicines are rapidly running out and prices are skyrocketing in Gaza, ActionAid’s staff and partners are reporting, as the total ban on aid entering the territory continues into its eighth week, deliberately depriving people of the essentials needed to sustain life. More than 50 days after the Israeli authorities shut all border crossings.....
By Nisha Lama Karki, ActionAid Ireland GBV Protection Coordinator After a short hour-long flight from Addis Ababa to Jimma, our journey was far from over. A five-hour drive lay ahead, taking us through the lush terrain of Omia District in southwestern Ethiopia where the ActionAid’s Women’s Rights Programme III, funded by Irish Aid, is making.....
After a month of no humanitarian supplies entering Gaza, ActionAid Ireland is calling on states around the world to take immediate action to pressure the Israeli authorities to lift the appalling ban on aid and avert impending starvation. No food, water, medicines, shelter items or other essentials have been allowed into Gaza since the total.....
