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cliffside

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Sat Jun 21, 2025, 12:02 AM Jun 21

Humanitarian Aid Trickles Into Northern Gaza - [View all]

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/world/middleeast/gaza-food-distribution-scene.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Qk8.Ce9E.ccOoG9CrszFj&smid=url-share

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June 17, 2025

A convoy of trucks brought food parcels into the territory, where civilians are at risk of starvation and have been suffering worsening conditions, with such aid shipments rare in recent weeks...

For one of the few times in recent months, humanitarian aid trickled on Monday into northern Gaza, where a convoy of trucks carrying food was greeted by masses of civilians desperate for food.

Thousands of Palestinian men, women and children rushed to the distribution point in the northwest part of Gaza City, where they received food aid in cardboard boxes from the U.N. World Food Program that they then lugged home through the rubble and sand of the war-ravaged territory...

The distribution centers have been fraught with chaos and danger for the territory’s civilian population. In the southern part of the territory, more than 70 Palestinians have been killed near aid distribution sites in the past two days, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, which blamed Israeli forces for the violence..."

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