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Palestinians rush to collect flour bags that fell off trucks loaded with humanitarian aid upon their arrival in the southern Gaza Strip via Rafah crossing. The dire food shortages in Gaza have killed 27 people through malnutrition and dehydration, most of them children, according to the Gaza health ministry. IMAGES
Israeli demonstrators block aid trucks bound for Gaza at the Kerem Shalom crossing in southern Israel. The protesters are calling for humanitarian aid to the Palestinian territory to be halted until all the hostages -- held captive in Gaza since the October 7th attacks -- are released. IMAGES
Israeli police stop protesters, on a road in Nitzana in southern Israel, from blocking the passage of aid trucks bound for Gaza. At least 12 countries -- including top donors the United States and Germany -- have halted funds over Israeli claims that some UNRWA staff were involved in Hamas's October 7 attack that sparked the fighting. IMAGES
Protesters rally outside the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem to demand the return of hostages taken by Hamas. Around 1,400 people, mainly civilians, have been killed in Israel in Hamas’s unprecedented attack and more than 240 have been taken hostage, according to Israeli officials. Since then, Israel has relentlessly bombarded Gaza and sent in ground troops in an assault the health ministry in the Hamas-run territory says has killed more than 10,000 people, mostly women and children. IMAGES
Aerial shots of empty lorries waiting on the Palestinian side of the Rafah crossing with Egypt to collect humanitarian aid to be delivered to the Gaza Strip. The first of 20 trucks carrying humanitarian aid entered the war-torn and besieged Gaza Strip on Saturday through the Rafah border crossing with Egypt. IMAGES