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She fed 100K Gazan families for free – now terrorists and local merchants want her dead

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FIRST ON FOX – In a war-torn part of the Middle East, where corruption and violence often determine who gets to eat and who goes hungry, one woman chose to challenge the system.
When much of the world had written off northern Gaza as unreachable, 30-year-old east-Jerusalem resident Sarah Awaidah and her team carved out a lifeline. Under the umbrella of Mena Aid, a regional partner coalition operating through the Multifaith Alliance (MFA), and in coordination with Israeli authorities, she built a system that moved hundreds of trucks of food and supplies into Gaza – bypassing Hamas and private contractors who had turned hunger into a business.
The result: more than 100,000 families fed. The cost: her own safety. «I never imagined that creating a safe, independent humanitarian route would become the reason my life might end,» Sarah Awaidah told Fox News Digital in an exclusive interview that took place in a safe house in Israel.
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Distribution of aid coordinated by Sarah Awaidah in northern Gaza last week. (Courtesy of Multifaith Alliance.)
«After delivering 346 trucks of aid between September 2024 and February 2025, we reached 100,622 families,» Awaidah said. «We decided to scale up distribution on June 30, 2025, at a time when no one was able to get anything into Gaza because of looting, chaos and multiple layers of obstruction on the ground.»
Operating through Mena Aid, Awaidah’s team designed an alternative route to deliver food and essential supplies.
In Israel, a trusted logistics company transported the goods from the port of Ashdod to the Kerem Shalom and Zikim crossings. Inside Gaza, another logistics partner handled transport, while Awaidah’s own staff – coordinating in real time with Israel – shadowed every shipment.
«Once the aid crosses into Gaza, it’s picked up by another trusted logistics partner and escorted by our own team members.

Sarah Awaidah, working with Multifaith Alliance, brought food to more than 100,000 families. Her success has now made her a target for profiteers.
«Our teams are present during offloading and accompany the aid from the crossing to secure warehouses. Inside the warehouses, we begin distribution immediately – aiming to deliver everything the same day, and at most within two to three days. Nothing is allowed to sit idle.»
That level of control allowed them to achieve what few others could: reaching northern Gaza, where people had not seen a staple supply of food for months.
Her breakthrough exposed a darker reality – an economy where hunger itself has become a business.

Distribution of aid in northern Gaza last week. (Courtesy of Multifaith Alliance.)
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«There’s a lot of private sector businessmen – some associated with Hamas and other political groups – who try to use aid to make millions,» she said. «Because there’s such a shortage of goods, and prices are so high, some steal aid and sell it in the market. Others try to take over the supply routes so they can resell it.»
According to Awaidah, her team’s success threatened those who profit from scarcity. By flooding the market with free goods, they not only fed families but also drove down the inflated prices charged for basics like sugar and flour.
«If there’s no sugar in Gaza, and we bring it in for free, they can’t keep selling it at outrageous prices,» she said. «So we became their problem.»
Israeli authorities also tried to cut off these private-sector schemes by shutting down routes that allowed commercial profiteering. While this helped curb some corruption, it also made the remaining humanitarian channels more dangerous.

Hamas terrorists take up positions ahead of a hostage release in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, Feb. 8, 2025. (AP)
«The private sector was blocked, and so those who lost their profits started trying harder to threaten and infiltrate the humanitarian route,» she said. «They couldn’t control it, so they tried to break it – and me.»
The attacks on her came quickly. «I began receiving death threats – not just from Gaza, but from the West Bank… heartbreakingly, some came from people I once trusted.»
One of the most painful betrayals came from someone close to her, she said, «I even discovered that I was in a relationship full of lies,» she said. «That person was part of a gang that wanted to exploit the aid operation – and he tried to use me too. But I stood firm. I made sure he, and people like him, never got near it. And now, my life is at risk because I refused to let the private sector hijack aid for commercial gain, or let political actors bend it to serve their goals.»

Aid workers delivered food to Gazans in the northern part of the enclave last week. (Multifaith Alliance)
For Awaidah, the families she helps are the reason she refuses to quit. «We created a distribution model based on verified beneficiary lists, using ID checks to ensure fair and dignified access to food,» she said. «People stood in line calmly, organized, even in impossible conditions. That’s something the media rarely shows – the dignity and patience of the people.»
In the past month alone, her group has delivered 75 trucks and has another 112 on the way from Ashdod. Each day, she focuses on the mission, even as the threats grow.
«What broke me most wasn’t the threats from strangers – it was realizing that people close to me were part of it,» she said. «It’s easier to fight enemies from the outside. But when it comes from your own circle, it cuts deeper. Still, that only confirms we’re doing something right. If they’re losing their minds over this, it means the mechanism we built works. It means it’s secure. It means they couldn’t find a way to manipulate it, so they tried to break me instead.»
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She knows the risks. But for her, the alternative is worse. «I will not stop. And they will not stop me,» she said, «I will continue delivering aid to the people who need it, no matter the threats. That’s my promise.»
For Awaidah, standing up to corruption has come at a steep personal cost. But for the families in Gaza who have stood in her food lines, she has already changed what once felt impossible: getting a fair share of help, without a price tag.
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Guerra en Irán: Macron viaja a Chipre y asume el liderazgo militar de Europa con el envío de ocho fragatas más al Mediterráneo

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Panamá cerró 2025 con más de 271 mil funcionarios y una planilla que supera $5,200 millones

Panamá cerró diciembre de 2025 con 271,346 funcionarios públicos, lo que representó un aumento de 4,869 empleados frente a diciembre de 2024 y un alza de 348 funcionarios respecto a noviembre de 2025, según el más reciente informe de la Contraloría General de la República.
En paralelo, el sueldo bruto mensual de la planilla estatal llegó a $458.4 millones, con un incremento de $10.5 millones en un solo mes. El dato retrata con crudeza el tamaño que ha alcanzado el aparato público: más personal, más gasto permanente y menos margen para maniobrar cuando la caja aprieta.
Pero el dato que realmente pesa no es solo el cierre de diciembre, sino el costo total del año. La planilla pública acumuló en 2025 un gasto de $5,245.2 millones, por encima de los $5,177.0 millones de 2024.
Dicho de otra forma: solo en salarios públicos, Panamá desembolsó en un año $2,280.2 millones más que lo que aportó el Canal de Panamá al Tesoro Nacional en el año fiscal 2025, que fue de $2,965 millones.
Incluso supera en $2,051.4 millones la transferencia histórica que el Canal proyecta para la vigencia fiscal 2026, estimada en $3,193.8 millones, y rebasa en $764.2 millones el costo total estimado de la Línea 3 del Metro, calculado en más de $4,481 millones.

El crecimiento tampoco empezó ayer. Los informes anuales de la Contraloría muestran que el gasto acumulado en planilla pasó de $4,441.1 millones en 2020 a $4,738.8 millones en 2021, $4,880.3 millones en 2022, $5,014.8 millones en 2023, $5,177.0 millones en 2024 y $5,245.2 millones en 2025.
En conjunto, entre 2020 y 2025, el Estado panameño desembolsó alrededor de $29,497.1 millones en salarios públicos. Ese monto equivale a casi 10 veces el aporte canalero de 2025 y a más de 6.5 veces el costo estimado de la Línea 3.
Buena parte de ese ensanchamiento ocurrió en el quinquenio anterior. De acuerdo con la información que ya había divulgado la Contraloría y que el propio comportamiento mensual confirma en sus series, entre julio de 2019 y junio de 2024 el empleo público aumentó en 24,082 personas, al pasar de 238,248 a 262,330 funcionarios.
El resultado fue una estructura estatal más pesada, con mayor gasto recurrente, más compromisos salariales y menos flexibilidad presupuestaria. En 2025 esa inercia no desapareció: cambió de velocidad, pero no de dirección.
Las entidades que más sumaron personal en 2025 ayudan a entender hacia dónde se movió la expansión. El Ministerio de Educación cerró 2025 con 68,405 funcionarios y añadió 1,017 plazas frente a diciembre de 2024. La Asamblea Nacional terminó con 5,718 empleados y sumó 935.

El Ministerio de Seguridad Pública cerró con 33,473 funcionarios y agregó 660. El Ministerio de Obras Públicas llegó a 2,330 empleados, con un aumento de 523. El Órgano Judicial alcanzó 7,318 funcionarios y sumó 513.
En el bloque descentralizado también hubo movimientos relevantes. La Caja de Seguro Social cerró 2025 con 35,325 funcionarios y registró un incremento combinado de al menos 620 plazas entre personal permanente y eventual. Transporte Masivo de Pasajeros, S. A. terminó con 4,103 empleados y aumentó 279 funcionarios permanentes.
Ese peso del gasto de funcionamiento ha sido una de las alertas repetidas por organismos y calificadoras. Moody’s ha advertido sobre la rigidez de ciertas leyes y la dificultad del Estado panameño para recortar gasto público, mientras Fitch y el Fondo Monetario Internacional han insistido en que la consolidación fiscal sigue limitada por la presión del gasto corriente y la trayectoria de la deuda.

El ministro de Economía y Finanzas, Felipe Chapman, y el presidente José Raúl Mulino han reconocido que reducir el gasto en salarios es particularmente complejo, en parte por la existencia de leyes especiales que establecen incrementos obligatorios para educadores, estamentos de seguridad, médicos y otros profesionales del sector público.
Esa rigidez, han señalado, dificulta ajustes rápidos del gasto corriente y obliga a que cualquier estrategia de contención se apoye en reformas de mayor alcance, mejoras de eficiencia y revisiones de estructuras salariales y de contratación.
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EXCLUSIVE: Trump rejects shielding Biden records from Senate probes in executive privilege showdown

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EXCLUSIVE: President Donald Trump rejected former President Joe Biden’s assertion of executive privilege over a tranche of documents requested by the Senate as part of various probes into the 46th president, determining it is «not in the best interests of the United States.»
White House counsel David Warrington wrote Monday in a letter addressed to the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) and obtained by Fox News Digital that Trump «does not uphold the former President’s assertion of privilege» over records sought in four congressional probes. The letter directs NARA to provide the materials to Congress.
The dispute centers on documents related to investigations into Biden’s health, alleged politically motivated probes into Trump and his allies, and the Biden family’s financial dealings, which Republicans argue go to the heart of Congress’ constitutional authority to conduct oversight.
The letter came as a response to communication from NARA on Dec. 10 informing the White House that the former president had asserted executive privilege over the requested materials.
President Joe Biden speaks during an event in Washington, D.C., on May 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
Warrington said the assertion «is not justified» as to documents identified in two letters Biden sent to NARA on Oct. 22 and Dec. 3.
The first category of documents involved a request from the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations for records related to what the letter described as the «coverup of former President Biden’s health and cognitive decline.»
«The abuse of the autopen that took place during the Biden Presidency, and the extraordinary efforts to shield President Biden’s diminished faculties from the public, must be subject to a full accounting to ensure nothing similar ever happens again,» Warrington wrote, quoting a prior letter.
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Biden also asserted privilege over two Senate Judiciary Committee requests concerning «coordinated efforts by the Biden administration against President Trump and his staff through politically motivated investigations.»
The White House argued that «the constitutional protections of executive privilege should not be used to shield from Congress evidence of a President’s efforts to imprison his opponent.»
A third set of documents related to the «Biden family’s financial dealings and potential conflicts of interest,» the letter noted, referencing Biden’s use of private email accounts and his work on Ukraine as vice president while his son Hunter Biden held a lucrative position on the board of an energy company there.
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Hunter Biden, son of President Joe Biden, talks to reporters at the U.S. Capitol, in Washington, Dec. 13, 2023. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
Warrington acknowledged that the Supreme Court has recognized executive privilege as protecting presidential decision-making and deliberations but said he was «unaware of a Supreme Court ruling or constitutional text that extends those protections to former President Biden’s efforts to assist his son’s shady business deals,» underscoring a fight about how expansive the scope of executive privilege is in the face of Congress’ oversight demands.
«President Trump instructs you to provide to these congressional committees the pages identified as privileged by the former President,» Warrington wrote.
Warrington previously denied Biden’s privilege request over documents related to the Biden administration’s use of the autopen, Fox News Digital exclusively reported in December. Biden has denied accusations that official presidential documents were signed by the autopen without his knowledge, brushing them off as «ridiculous.»

President-elect Donald Trump shakes hands with President Joe Biden at Trump’s inauguration in the Capitol Rotunda Jan. 20, 2025, in Washington. (Kenny Holston-Pool/Getty Images)
«Let me be clear: I made the decisions during my presidency. I made the decisions about the pardons, executive orders, legislation, and proclamations,» Biden said in a statement in June as Trump and Republicans sounded off about what they alleged was a scandal. «Any suggestion that I didn’t is ridiculous and false.»
Concerns over Biden’s mental acuity had simmered for years before reaching a boiling point in June 2024.
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Republicans sounded the alarm that it appeared Biden’s mental edge was slipping before even the 2020 election cycle. The media and Biden’s longtime Democratic allies joined conservatives in their alarm following Biden’s failed debate against Trump in early summer of 2024.
Biden dropped out of the race, but investigations and concerns over an alleged Biden administration coverup continue into the second Trump administration.
Fox News Digital reached out to a Biden representative and NARA for comment on Monday morning.
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