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Israel has said foreign countries can drop aid into Gaza from today.
A senior IDF official told Sky News on Friday: “Starting today, Israel will allow foreign countries to parachute aid into Gaza.
“Starting this afternoon, the WCK organisation began reactivating its kitchens.”
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Parachutes drop supplies into the northern Gaza Strip in March 2024. File pic: AP
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‘Many more deaths unless Israelis allow food in’
Humanitarian aid organisation World Central Kitchen paused its operation in Gaza in November after a number of its workers were killed in an Israeli airstrike last year.
Aid workers in Gaza – who help provide food, medicine and shelter for the millions displaced there – have been affected by the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas.
The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation – an Israel and US-backed organisation – has been distributing food packages in Gaza since the end of May, after Israel eased its 11-week blockade of aid into the territory.
Naima Abu Ful holds her malnourished 2-year-old child, Yazan, in the Shati refugee camp in Gaza City. Pic: AP
More than 1,000 people have reportedly been killed while trying to receive food aid since then, according to the UN, with the territory facing a starvation crisis.
In the first two weeks of July, the UN children’s agency UNICEF treated 5,000 children facing acute malnutrition in the enclave.
Aid has been air-dropped into Gaza during the conflict by Western countries, including the UK via the Royal Air Force.
But it is a potentially dangerous way to deliver aid, and in March 2024, five people were killed when an aid parachute failed and a parcel fell on them.
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On Friday the UN warned the enclave was running out of specialised therapeutic foods to treat malnourished children.
Israel has been at war with Hamas in Gaza since the Palestinian militant group rampaged through southern Israel, killing 1,200 people, and taking around 250 hostage, on 7 October 2023.
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Aid waiting to be distributed in Gaza
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