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Cigarette Smuggling in Gaza Turns Aid Trucks Into Targets
A new problem is bedeviling humanitarian aid convoys attempting to deliver relief to hungry Gazans: attacks by organized crowds seeking not the flour and medicine that trucks are carrying, but cigarettes smuggled inside the shipments. In tightly ...
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A U.N. official called on Israel to offer more protection for aid workers, as hunger experts warned that Gaza was at high risk of famine.
United Nations aid agencies have been demanding that the Israeli authorities do more to protect aid workers in the Gaza Strip and ensure that assistance reaches those who need it, Stéphane Dujarric, a U.N. spokesman, said on Tuesday. The agencies are ...
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Gaza Anarchy Hinders Aid Efforts, Despite Daily Combat Pause
Days after Israel announced it would reduce fighting along a key road in southern Gaza to allow more aid to get to desperate Palestinian civilians, over 1,000 truckloads of supplies remained stranded at the border area. That is the result, aid ...
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Aid groups say thousands of tons of supplies remain stranded in southern Gaza because conditions are too dangerous to move it.
Days after Israel announced it would reduce fighting along a key road in southern Gaza to allow more aid to get to desperate Palestinian civilians, over 1,000 truckloads of supplies remained stranded at the border area. That is the result, aid ...
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Israel’s Daily Combat Pause in Part of Gaza: How Is It Working?
Israel has said that the partial daily suspension of its military activity in a part of southern Gaza, which began this week, is aimed at making it safer for humanitarian groups to deliver aid to the territory. Here’s a look at how the pause works ...
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Gaza Is World’s Deadliest Place for Aid Workers, U.N. Says
Gaza has become the most dangerous place in the world for aid workers, the United Nations said on Monday. At least 250 aid workers have been killed since the war there began on Oct. 7, the United Nations has said, and on Monday the U.N. said that ...
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Aid Groups in Rafah Say Israel’s Advance Is Pushing Them Out
Israel’s offensive in the southern city of Rafah has strained medical and humanitarian services to the breaking point, aid workers say, with only one hospital still functioning and several aid operations forced to decamp to other parts of the Gaza ...
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Aid Deliveries From Egypt Into Gaza Are Due to Resume
Aid trucks from Egypt were expected to enter the devastated Gaza Strip on Sunday under a new U.S.-brokered agreement to reopen a vital conduit for humanitarian relief. Egypt has blocked aid from entering the enclave via its territory since Israel’s ...
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As Rafah Offensive Grinds On, Hunger in Gaza Spirals
Aid officials and health experts expect famine this month unless Israel lifts barriers to aid, the fighting stops and vital services are restored.
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No Gaza Aid Delivered Through U.S.-Built Pier Has Been Distributed, Pentagon Says
None of the food and supplies that has entered the Gaza Strip through a U.S.-built temporary pier in its first five days of operation has been distributed to Palestinians by aid organizations, Gen. Patrick S. Ryder, the Pentagon spokesman, said at a ...