The agency has laid off hundreds of employees and offered voluntary retirement or deferred resignations to thousands more as part of a
“We are expecting an increase in the rate of malnutrition,” she said. “Not only children — adolescent girls, pregnant women.”Palestinians displaced by the Israeli air and ground offensive on the Gaza Strip sit in a makeshift tent camp inside a landfill in central Gaza Strip, Friday, March 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
Palestinians displaced by the Israeli air and ground offensive on the Gaza Strip sit in a makeshift tent camp inside a landfill in central Gaza Strip, Friday, March 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)During the ceasefire, Save the Children was able to bring some 4,000 malnourished infants and children back to normal weight, said Alexandra Saif, the group’s head of humanitarian policy.About 300 malnourished patients a day were coming into its clinic in Deir al-Balah, she said. The numbers have plunged — to zero on some days — because patients are too afraid of bombardment, she said.
The multiple crises are intertwined. Malnutrition leaves kids vulnerable to pneumonia, diarrhea and other diseases. Lack of clean water and crowded conditions only spread more illnesses. Hospitals overwhelmed with the wounded can’t use their limited supplies on other patients.Aid workers say not only Palestinians, but their own staff have begun to fall into despair.
“The world has lost its compass,” UNRWA’s Rose said. “There’s just a feeling here that anything could happen, and it still wouldn’t be enough for the world to say, this is enough.”
Palestinians receive bags of flour and other humanitarian aid distributed by UNRWA, the U.N. agency helping Palestinian refugees in Jabaliya, Gaza Strip on Tuesday, March 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)Besides discussing whitewash casting, “Yellow Face” examines the pain of the main character’s immigrant father. The role is based on Hwang’s father’s experience being wrongly accused of laundering money for China. With the current anti-immigrant and anti-DEI climate, the show’s airing on PBS feels especially vital to Hwang.
“Whenever there’s a conflict between America and any Asian country, Asian Americans are the first to get targeted,” Hwang said.PBS is also where in 2020 the
aired for Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month. Kim was a narrator and remains “unequivocally proud” of the project., Kim sees “Yellow Face” simply making it to Broadway as a victory.