(21 May 2025)
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Zawaida, Central Gaza Strip
++NIGHT SHOTS++
1. Vehicles of World Food Program parking outside their warehouses on Salah Al-Deen Street
2. Various of trucks carrying bags of flour inside World Food Program’s warehouses
3. Exterior shots of World Food Program’s warehouses
4. Various of trucks carrying bags of flour inside warehouses
5. Various of truck carrying aid arriving outside World Food Program’s warehouse
STORYLINE:
The U.N. said Wednesday it was trying to get the desperately needed aid that has entered Gaza this week into the hands of Palestinians amid delays because of fears of looting and Israeli military restrictions.
Israeli strikes pounded the territory, killing at least 86 people, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that the country is days away from implementing a new aid system in Gaza, and that it later plans to create a “sterile zone” there, free of Hamas, where the population would be moved and receive supplies.
He also said he is ready to end the war as long as Hamas releases all hostages and steps down from power — and if President Donald Trump’s plan to relocate the territory’s population outside Gaza is implemented.
Under international pressure, Israel has allowed dozens of aid trucks into Gaza after blocking all food, medicine, fuel and other material for nearly three months.
But the supplies have been sitting on the Gaza side of the Kerem Shalom crossing with Israel.
U.N. spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said the majority of supplies that had entered since Monday had been loaded onto U.N. trucks, but they could not take them out of the crossing area.
He said the road the Israeli military had given them permission to use was too unsafe.
A U.N. official later said more than a dozen trucks that left the crossing area arrived at warehouses in central Gaza on Wednesday night. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the press.
Israel said 100 trucks had crossed into Gaza on Wednesday.
Food security experts have warned that Gaza risks falling into famine unless the blockade ends.
Malnutrition and hunger have been mounting. Aid groups ran out of food to distribute weeks ago, and most of the population of around 2.3 million relies on communal kitchens whose supplies are nearly depleted.
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