Updated: 1/22/2025 On January 15th, Israeli and Hamas reached a three-phase ceasefire agreement, temporarily halting the warfare after 470 continuous days. The ceasefire comes in 3 phases, with Phase 1 lasting six weeks and marked by the release of hostages by both Hamas and Israeli, a gradual withdrawal of Israeli forces from central Gaza, and […]
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We often speak of “natural disasters” as the floods, winds, fires and earthquakes that can wreak such great damage on our communities, seemingly at random. But in truth, disasters are never truly natural and they are less random than we realize. Experts use the following as shorthand to demonstrate this notion that nearly all disasters
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February 24th marked two years since Russia’s full-scale invasion into Ukraine, the largest attack on a European country since World War II. Those past 24 months have been marked by tens of thousands of Ukrainian civilian casualties, millions fleeing the country, and millions more internally displaced within its borders. The refugee crisis is the worst
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The unprecedented rainfall continues throughout much of California. Millions of people continue to face extremely dangerous conditions from ongoing flooding and mudslides that are damaging homes and infrastructure. From our home office in a deluged Los Angeles, Operation USA is standing witness firsthand to the destructive conditions. We are working closely with our community partners
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OpUSA has deployed emergency grants and continues to assess opportunities to help Hawaii.
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Last year, we at Operation USA made a commitment to you, our supporters, to speak out in opposition to hateful rhetoric, ideas and biases—especially antisemitism—within humanitarianism at large in the U.S. and globally. Those hateful ideas, while damaging, pale in comparison to the atrocities we are now witnessing in the Middle East. In light of
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Thousands of people are dead and tens of thousands more are displaced or injured in the wake of recent deadly flooding in Libya. Many areas of the country–which also grapples with ongoing conflict–were already inundated with heavy rain and flooding caused by Storm Daniel when two dams gave way during the weekend of September 10th,
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Late on Friday, September 8, a powerful magnitude 6.8 earthquake–centered in the mountains 50 miles outside Marrakesh–shook western Morocco, killing thousands. As search and rescue efforts continue, the death toll has surpassed 2,900, with many more injured, missing or displaced. Operation USA is monitoring the situation and assessing opportunities to provide aid. Your donations make
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Hurricane Idalia, a historic storm, made landfall in Florida on August 30th, causing widespread damage to an area not typically inundated with hurricane conditions. Parts of Georgia were also impacted. Operation USA’s response to this disaster is dependent upon the generosity of our supporters. Any donated funds will enable us to deliver emergency grants to
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Hurricane Hilary made landfall in Mexico on August 18th before hitting the southwestern United States as a tropical storm later that week. The unprecedented storm system caused widespread damage and flooding, particularly in California’s burn areas where mudslides and debris flows were triggered by heavy rain and high winds. Operation USA continues to assess any
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