Two Saudi Arabian women will be imprisoned for trying to bring food to a woman who (they had been told) was locked up with her children and had run out of food.

Giving food to the needy is banned in some parts of the US, too. https://www.commondreams.org/further/2013/08/26-1 gives a recent example from South Carolina. Members of Food Not Bombs faced felony charges in San Francisco in the 90s for distributing food, and one was in danger of imprisonment under the "three strikes" law.

These US laws are not meant to protect patriarchal power, but rather business profits. Homeless people are unsightly, but feeding them would cost something, so businesses try to sweep them away, so they will starve where people can't see them or boost the profits of privatized prisons.