international aid

International aid charities were dismayed at what they said was a cut worth almost £2bn in the UK’s aid priorities overseas.

Shadow foreign secretary Andrew Mitchell called the cut to the international aid budget "shameful, immoral and wrong"

But on Monday the US state department said Israel must do "much more" to allow international aid to enter Gaza.

International aid agencies warned that famine was looming.

While other congressional progressives opted to boycott the address, Tlaib’s act of protest was coupled with another powerful statement in bringing Hani Almadhoun, an international aid worker who saw family members killed by Israel, as a guest to the address.