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This story was published in partnership with Important Context. Fidelity Charitable, the largest grant-making organization in the United States, has removed the most impactful relief organization in Gaza from its catalog while still allowing funding for pro-Israel nonprofits and hate-groups, Important Context has confirmed. Donors using the Fidelity Charitable donor-advised …

Iran launched more than 200 drones and ballistic missiles in an attack on Israel on Saturday night, The New York Times reports. A spokesman for the Israeli military, Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari, said most of the aerial assault had been intercepted with assistance from allies, including the United States. Tensions …

President Joe Biden urged Israel not to launch a counter-strike against Iran, telling Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that the U.S. will not participate in one. Iran on Saturday launched drones and missiles to attack Israel — most of which were intercepted by forces from the U.S., Israel, and other …

“I’m so nervous,” says Olivia, a photographer with Jewish Voice for Peace. “I’m so nervous.” She keeps repeating it. Olivia and about a dozen other activists are huddled in a cluster of booths in the Astro diner in midtown Manhattan. Cara, another JVP member, has propped up her phone next …

World Central Kitchen founder José Andrés is demanding an independent investigation into the killing of seven of its aid workers in Gaza by the Israeli Defense Force and accusing Israel of conducting “a war against humanity.” “This doesn’t seem a war against terror. This doesn’t seem anymore a war about …

Following the killing of seven World Central Kitchen workers by an Israeli strikewhile delivering food toGazaearlier this week, House Democrats wrote a letter on Friday to U.S. President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken urging them to halt the the transfer of weapons to Israel until a full …

On a new episode of The Late Show, host Stephen Colbert emphasized the need to “talk about what everyone’s talking about” and opened the show by commenting on the deaths of seven World Central Kitchen workers in Gaza this week. “I hope there is one thing we can all agree …

World Central Kitchen founder José Andrés said in an interview with Reuters on Wednesday that the seven World Central Kitchen workers who were killed by an Israeli strike while delivering aid Gaza earlier this week were targeted “systematically, car by car.” “This was not just a bad luck situation where …

Seven aid workers from World Central Kitchen were killed in an Israeli airstrike after they delivered a crucial shipment of food to displacedcivilians in Gaza. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed Israeli Defense Forces forces were responsible for the deaths in a video posted to X, formerly Twitter, on Tuesday. …

Sen. Chris Van Hollen called on President Joe Biden to stop sending weapons to Israel while Palestinians in Gaza are “literally starving to death.” Van Hollen reiterated his calls for “a ceasefire and a return of all the hostages” in Gaza while imploring Biden to cease sending munitions to Israel …