Starving

Struggling for a can of food: starving Gazans scramble for aid drops

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GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories: A military plane banked over the war-ravaged ruins of Gaza City dropping dozens of black parachutes carrying food aid. On the ground, where almost no building within sight was still standing, hungry men and boys raced toward the beach where most of the aid seemed to have landed. Dozens of them … Read more

’Starving’: Sudan aid workers sound the alarm over spiralling crisis

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CAIRO: Egypt is constructing a walled camp in the Sinai Peninsula to receive displaced Palestinian civilians from the Gaza Strip, a US media report and an Egyptian human rights monitor said on Friday.But Israel, which is waging a four-month-old war against Hamas militants in the territory, said it had no plans to move civilians there, … Read more