USAID’s Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance, or BHA, has furloughed hundreds of its institutional support contractors — slicing away 500 staff members, or nearly 40% of BHA’s team.

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The contractors have been enlisted to do weapons checks on vehicles carrying displaced Palestinians back to their homes in the north under the terms of the new cease-fire. By Patrick Kingsley ...

Displaced Palestinians return to their houses after the ceasefire and hostage-prisoner swap deal between Hamas and Israel at Bureij refugee camp in Deir al-Balah, Gaza, on Jan. 20. Photo: Ali Jadallah ...