There is an urgency to the work of the aid team in the West Bank as the war in Gaza becomes even more grim.
The team pack boxes with staples – flour, oil, rice and lentils – to be delivered to those in need.
“It is in an economic catastrophe at the moment,” Anton Goodman tells me.
Anton is an Israeli Jewish human rights activist working in the West Bank alongside Palestinians to deliver food aid at a time when more and more families are facing difficulties.
“When we’re talking about hundreds of thousands of Palestinians who were working in Israel on 7 October, suddenly their jobs ended and they haven’t received any salaries since then.
“Even the Palestinian Authority’s staff haven’t been receiving a salary, many of them.
“Along with that, you’ve got a lot of army restrictions around freedom of movement and getting to workplaces – and also the settler violence on the ground.”
Anton knows he is in a tiny minority as public opinion after 7 October hardens. Many Israelis are convinced, more than ever, that the peace camp is misguided.
“We can have reactions in my community, even in my friends’ circle, saying, why are you helping the enemy? Why are you not helping our people at this time?
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“Or it can be, you know, more aggressive reactions when you come up against soldiers at a checkpoint to find out what you’re doing. And they can be quite aggressive.”
But Anton hopes this type of direct action will provide the building blocks for greater cooperation and coexistence in the future.
“There’s a hardening and a radicalisation of attitudes in favour of the war… at the same time within Israeli society, you’re seeing a liminal moment, a moment where people don’t have the answers and feel deeply destabilised and insecure.
“And suddenly people are willing to think about and consider alternatives to military solutions.”
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The organisers load the boxes onto a truck. Each one is enough to feed a family for a week.
The journey from Ramallah to Hebron is not far but it is a circuitous route avoiding and getting stopped at checkpoints on the way to deliver the much-needed aid.
Along the route we pass Israeli watchtowers – the architecture of a military occupation which controls the lives of millions of Palestinians.
Finally, after more diversions and delays, the truck arrives and the cargo of aid is unloaded.
Food insecurity in the West Bank has increased as a result of the war in Gaza, Issa Amro tells me.
Issa is a Palestinian activist helping to provide relief to thousands of families. He says the desperation he sees now is unprecedented.
“It’s the first time I see people starving inside Hebron City and other parts of West Bank and for sure in Gaza.”
From this depot in Hebron the boxes will be distributed across the city on foot. At the last checkpoint there’s another wait before the aid can pass.
Even a simple operation like this one to deliver much-needed small boxes of food is fraught with difficulties in the face of Israel’s unending military occupation.
A well-known Iraqi social media influencer has reportedly been shot dead in her car by a gunman on a motorbike.
Om Fahad, whose real name is Ghufran Sawadi, was killed outside her home in Baghdad’s Zayouna district on Friday, according to the AFP news agency, citing security officials.
It appears the unidentified attacker pretended to be delivering food to the victim, one security source said.
Om Fahad, who has nearly half a million TikTok followers, became famous for posting light-hearted videos where she dances to Iraqi music.
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Six days ago, she shared footage of herself driving in a car and also posing in front of a mirror. They have each been watched hundreds of thousands of times.
The influencer was sentenced to six months in prison in February last year for sharing videos that a court ruled contained “indecent speech that undermines modesty and public morality”.
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A campaign was launched in 2023 by the Iraqi government to clamp down on social media content which broke the country’s “morals and traditions”.
The interior ministry set up a committee to look for “offensive” clips on platforms such as TikTok and YouTube, with several influencers being arrested.
“This type of content is no less dangerous than organised crime,” the ministry declared in a promotional video which asked the public to help by reporting such content.
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“It is one of the causes of the destruction of the Iraqi family and society.”
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In 2018, gunmen in Baghdad shot dead Tara Fares, who was a model and influencer.
After years of war and sectarian conflict following the 2003 US invasion that overthrew dictator Saddam Hussein, Iraq has returned to some semblance of normality despite sporadic violence, political instability and corruption.
But civil liberties, particularly among women and sexual minorities, are still constrained in a conservative and male-dominated society.
The family of a missing high school student who may have been the first victim of a suspected serial killer in Mexico City have protested at the site where bones were found last week.
The bones were discovered with the belongings of at least six women, police said, and Amairany Roblero’s relatives have been told that evidence was found relating to her 2012 disappearance.
Ms Roblero was 18 when she vanished and, as is often the case in Mexico, her family was left to investigate her disappearance with little help from prosecutors.
Family friend Alejandra Jimenez said: “The prosecutors had the case file but they didn’t ever give any results to her parents.”
Instead, her parents printed flyers and gave them out near her school – the last place she was seen – but they had “nothing, nowhere to start, nor any directions to the end”, Ms Jimenez added.
A suspect, identified only by his first name, Miguel, was detained by neighbours and police last week after he is alleged to have killed a seventh young woman.
He is accused of waiting for a woman to leave her apartment and then rushing inside to sexually abuse and strangle her 17-year-old daughter.
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The woman returned to the apartment to see the suspect leaving and she was slashed across her neck before he ran off.
She survived but her daughter died.
Investigators searched a room rented by the suspect and found bones, mobile phones and ID cards belonging to several women in the same block, thought to be mementos.
Miguel is awaiting trial on charges of murder and attempted murder relating to the most recent victims.
City prosecutor Ulises Lara insisted the suspect was difficult to catch because “he showed no signs of violent or aggressive behaviour in his daily life”.
Ms Roblero’s family and friends were not accepting this, however.
“They (authorities) have all the means to look for missing people,” Ms Jimenez said. “Instead of focusing on their political campaigns, they should help all the women who are looking for their children.”
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Juan Carlos Gutierrez, a lawyer representing the family of another victim, was also frustrated, asking why no investigation had never been launched in that case, despite missing person reports being filed in 2015.
Ms Jimenez said Ms Roblero’s family had not been told which of the items or remains in the apartment had been linked to her, adding: “This is wearing her parents down physically, mentally.”
Some 2,580 women were murdered in Mexico in 2023, according to the country’s National Public Security System but poorly funded and badly trained prosecutors have failed to stop serial killers over the years.
In 2021 a serial killer in Mexico City killed 19 people but their bodies were only found, buried at his house, after the wife of a police commander became one of the victims.
In 2018 another serial killer in Mexico City murdered at least 10 women and was only stopped after he was seen pushing a dismembered body down the street in a pram.