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Reaction: Severe flooding in Gaza
In response to the severe flooding in Gaza, Wassem Mushtaha, Oxfam’s Response Lead in Gaza said: “Last night six people – a mother with her two children and three other children from the same family – were killed when a sand embankment collapsed onto their tent. They had been sheltering among forcibly displaced families in…
REACTION: Budget 2026 helps at the margins but bets big on business – Oxfam Canada
Yesterday, Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne tabled the second budget of Mark Carney’s government. Against a backdrop of a relentless affordability crisis in Canada and growing global instability, Budget 2026 takes real steps to support people through expanded income supports, new investments in housing and homelessness, and $32 billion over 10 years for First Nations housing…
Every 20 minutes, Canada’s private jets emit more carbon pollution than the average Canadian does in a year
New Oxfam report lands days before the November 5 federal budget, a year after Ottawa ended the luxury tax on private planes. In 2025, 71,239 private jet flights left Canada, emitting more than 333,000 tonnes of CO2. In 11 minutes, those jets emitted more CO2 than someone in the poorest half of Canada’s population emits…
REACTION: Israeli large-scale military operation and mass displacement in Hebron
Responding to the large-scale Israeli military operation and mass displacement in Hebron in recent days, Oxfam’s Response Lead in the West Bank, Mustafa Tamaizeh, said: “This is not only a humanitarian crisis but a deliberate assault on the economic foundations of Palestinian life, as families lose their homes and livelihoods. The destruction of factories, workshops,…