Gaza, Palestinians and World Food Program
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In the southern Gaza Strip, two Palestinians were killed in an Israeli drone strike on Bani Suheila, east of Khan Yunis. Another was killed, and one injured, in an Israeli airstrike targeting the al-Sikka area in central Gaza.
Palestinians in the Gaza Strip blocked and emptied dozens of lorries, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) said, as desperation mounts following Israel’s months-long blockade and air strikes. The WFP said that 77 trucks carrying aid, mostly flour, were stopped by hungry people who took the food before the vehicles were able to reach their destination.
People stampeded and shots were fired as a Trump-backed plan to distribute food in Gaza at sites guarded by armed contractors got started.
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — A crowd was fired upon while overrunning a new aid-distribution site in the Gaza Strip set up by an Israeli and U.S.-backed foundation, killing at least one Palestinian and wounding 48 others, Gaza’s Health Ministry said Wednesday.
A video from April 2024 showing humanitarian aid airdropped near a Gaza beach has been miscaptioned in online posts as footage of China delivering aid to Gaza in May amid an Israeli blockade that began in March.
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Al Jazeera on MSNUN says famine stalks all in Gaza; Israel shoots, wounds aid seekersGaza’s entire population faces starvation, UN warns, with aid deliveries branded a ‘drip-feed’ amid dire crisis.
Medics in Gaza say Israeli airstrikes have killed at least 27 people, including women and kids sheltering in a tent.
The residents of the Gaza Strip are facing severe shortages of food in the besieged coastal region that has been in the middle of a grinding war for more than 600 days. As hunger grows, hundreds of Palestinians stormed a United Nations warehouse on Wednesday in search of food.