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A Deadly Aid Delivery and Growing Threat of Famine in Gaza

The Daily

The New York Times

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🗓️ 5 March 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Late last week, an effort to get food into northern Gaza turned deadly, as thousands of desperate Gazans descended on aid trucks, and Israeli troops tasked with guarding those trucks opened fire. Exactly how people died, and who was responsible, remains contested. Hiba Yazbek, a reporter-researcher in Jerusalem for The Times, explains what we know about what happened and what it tells us about hunger in Gaza.

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From the New York Times, I'm Sabrina Tavernisie, and this is the Daily.

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Late last week, an effort to get food into northern Gaza turned deadly,

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as thousands of desperate Gazans descended on aid trucks,

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and Israeli troops tasked with guarding those trucks open fire. But exactly how people

0:26.2

died and who was responsible remains contested. Today my colleague Hiba-Yezbeck, on what we know about what happened and what it tells us

0:39.8

about hunger in Gaza.

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It's Tuesday, Hamas in Gaza. And for weeks we've been hearing about negotiations over a ceasefire and a

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hostage exchange and then late last week there was a disaster surrounding an aid convoy that was brought into Gaza.

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You've been reporting on what happened.

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Tell us about it.

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So last Thursday there was a deadly disaster involving civilians, possibly the deadliest disaster since the war started nearly five months ago,

1:29.0

in which 118 Palestinians were killed and more than 760 were wounded in Gaza City.

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But there are conflicting reports on how they died and what exactly happened.

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The Israeli military has one account of what happened and the

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Gaza Health Ministry and witnesses have another account. So my colleagues and I started digging into the details. We started calling people,

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piecing together a picture of what had actually happened there.

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And what did you find when you guys started really looking into this?

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So first, let me just give you the context of what happened.

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This happened in northern Gaza, the place that has been at war the longest, that's where Israeli

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ground forces began their invasion of the Gaza Strip.

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Many people have left the North, but we do know that some 300,000 people are still there.

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And the people who have remained there are really living through very desperate conditions.

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