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Added on the 08/12/2023 11:26:22 - Copyright : France 24 EN
Hundreds of Gazans rush towards aid trucks carrying flour and canned food in Gaza City. Ten trucks have crossed into the Gaza Strip transporting aid from several countries, including Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Egypt as well as the World Food Programme. But as fighting enters its fourth month, the World Health Organization has warned that its ability to provide aid and support hospitals was "shrinking". IMAGES
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken says 'more food, more water, more medicine' needed in Gaza during a press conference in Tel Aviv. SOUNDBITE
The UN humanitarian coordinator for Gaza says that 1.9 million people are now displaced in the territory, adding she is "deeply concerned" by reports of new evacuation orders for Khan Yunis. SOUNDBITE
Huge clouds of smoke rises over buildings after Israeli air strikes hit Jabalia, in the northern Gaza Strip, where heavy fighting raged between Israeli troops and Hamas fighters. IMAGES
"The seven souls we mourn today were there so that hungry people could eat," chef Jose Andres says of the World Central Kitchen staffers who were killed in an Israeli strike in Gaza, during remarks at a ceremony honoring their lives at the Washington National Cathedral. SOUNDBITE
Humanitarian aid packages are parachuted into northern Gaza, seen from Israel. IMAGES