USAID

'Apocalyptic wasteland': Biden admin. blocked warning on deteriorating Gaza situation after Oct. 7

Three months after the October 7, 2023 Hamas attacks and Israel's entry into the Gaza Strip, the internal message laid out in gruesome detail scenes observed by United Nations staff.

Buildings lie in ruins amid the rubble in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, December 8, 2025.
The writer meets with General Mazloum Abdi, commander of the Syrian Democratic Forces

General Abdi warns Syria’s fate relies on US support and integration of the SDF - opinion

Armed Palestinians sit on trucks carrying humanitarian aid near the Zikim border crossing between Israel and Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip, June 25, 2025.

USAID, Reuters dismiss mountain of evidence showing Hamas steals humanitarian aid - analysis

 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich seen at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, February 7, 2024

Fact check: Netanyahu, Smotrich's claim of $1b. Biden aid to judicial reform foes debunked


Watchdog: USAID didn't properly vet Palestinian recipients for terror ties

Tightening up its procedures would “better position USAID to reduce the risk of providing assistance to entities or individuals associated with terrorism,” the GAO said.

MEMBERS OF the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) aim their weapons at an effigy depicting US President Donald Trump as they ride a truck during a protest in Gaza City.

How can Israel resolve water scarcity issues with the Palestinians?

Palestinians depend heavily on rain and underground water sources, which Israel controls.

Double duty. An irrigation canal provides a place for a Palestinian boy to cool off in September near the West Bank city of Jericho.

U.S. gives cold shoulder to major Palestinian donor parley

The US was previously one of the largest donors to the Palestinians and the PA, providing upwards of half-a-billion dollars a year through the United Nations and other venues.

A PALESTINIAN BOY cries as students of United Nations-run schools take part in a protest against a US decision to cut aid, in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip, February 2017

USAID to lay off most of its West Bank and Gaza staff

USAID told NPR in a statement that it was not planning on closing the West Bank and Gaza mission completely.

STUDENTS AT the USAID-funded Arava Institute for Environmental Studies, located on Kibbutz Ketura, use the desert as their classroom

Trump's USAID cuts harm Palestinian women with breast cancer

USAID received $364 million from the United States in 2017, according to Reuters.

Palestinian midwife Sara Abu Taqea (L), 23, who works in the maternity ward at Gaza's Al-Ahli hospital, speaks with her colleague at the hospital in Gaza City, February 10, 2019.

Ambassador Friedman praises USAID-funded interfaith school Hand in Hand

The Twitter comments were mixed with overwhelming support for the encouraging interfaith activities with others upset at the halted funding for Palestinian programs.

David Friedman

Diplomatic Affairs: The anti-terrorism price tag

Clean water and Israeli-Palestinian coexistence efforts become collateral damage of new Trump administration legislation.

STUDENTS AT the USAID-funded Arava Institute for Environmental Studies, located on Kibbutz Ketura, use the desert as their classroom

USAID cut will create negative atmosphere, instability- PA spokesman says

Trump's special Mideast envoy Jason Greenblatt called Rudeineh's statement disingenuous.

Palestinian official Nabil Abu Rudeineh

'USAID to end all Palestinian projects on Jan. 31,' former director says

Expressing deep concern over the move, Dave Harden told 'The Jerusalem Post' that the U.S. administration “demonstrates again a lack of nuance."

A Palestinian man pushes a cart with bags of flour at an aid distribution center run by United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip September 1, 2018.

Keeping the environment and peace off the endangered list

The Arava Institute program drives realistic projects despite Middle East conflict.

MK Amir Peretz (Zionist Union) with former US ambassador Dennis Ross (left) and David Lehrer, executive director of the Arava Institutewith former US ambassador Dennis Ross (left) and David Lehrer, executive director of the Arava Institute at the Arava Institute’s Track II forum in 2017