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At the international airport of Spata near Athens, staff load medical supplies and tents onto a plane bound for Adana as part of Greece's humanitarian aid to Turkey's earthquake-stricken region. More than 80 tons of humanitarian aid, mainly medical supplies and tents were sent to Adana. The aid was provided by the Greek Civil protection ministry. IMAGES
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"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
"We were outraged to learn of an IDF (Israel Defense Forces, ed) strike that killed a number of civilian humanitarian workers yesterday from the World Central Kitchen," National Security Council spokesman John Kirby tells reporters during a briefing at the White House. SOUNDBITE