With 1,100 metric tons of emergency food rations nearing expiry in a U.S. government warehouse in Dubai after President Donald Trump's aid freeze, it took a warning of "wasted tax dollars" for a top U.

American private military contractors used dangerous crowd control tactics on a crowd of Palestinian aid seekers in Gaza on Wednesday, witnesses say, causing a deadly stampede and adding to the nearly 1,000 Palestinians who have been killed in relation to the U.S.- and Israeli-backed “humanitarian aid” scheme thus far.

The White House has hailed House Resolution 1, aka the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, as a “once-in-a-generation piece of legislation” that puts “America First.”

"It is not possible that while our soldiers are risking their lives in Gaza, the Israeli government is feeding the enemy,” Yulia Malinovsky, who introduced the bill, told JNS.The post

A Palestinian man, who was injured while trying to get access to humanitarian aid, waiting to be treated at al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, in June. Jehad Alshrafi/Associated Press

Ministers will also discuss Iran's nuclear program, tensions in Georgia and Moldova and new sanctions on Russia as the EU prepares its 18th sanctions package.

After significantly cutting America’s humanitarian aid operations earlier this year, the Trump administration now has a surplus of food that it can’t use. What will become of it? The White House has a simple plan: incinerate it.

Now aid organizations in the Middle East are forced to seek new, potentially more demanding, donors.Ask around various civil society organizations working in the Middle East and the answer is always the same.