Aid workers in Gaza City distribute flour for the first time in months

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(26 Jun 2025)
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Gaza City, Gaza Strip - 26 June 2025
1. Various of aid workers and people carrying flour bags at a WFP distribution center
2. Various of people carrying flour bags
3. Aid workers carrying flour bags inside distribution center
4. People registering to receive aid
5. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Umm Alaa Mekdad, Gaza resident:
"I'm happy because now I can feed my children, who haven't eaten since yesterday. They went to bed hungry I swear. Thank God, it's an indescribable happiness, and thanks to God that it is secured now in order for everyone to be able to come. We blame everyone who extended their hand on any aid materials. I used to pray to God that they would not benefit from it (looters) because they (the gangs) used to take our shares and the shares of our children who slept hungry, thirsty and tired."
6. Various of people queuing outside center
7. Various of aid packages
8. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Ali al-Tiben, Gaza resident:
"Today, we are very happy that we can receive (aid) in an organized way better than the aid distribution that was looted by gangs while normal people couldn't get anything. We thank all organizations that helped us to receive aid in a respectful and humane way, especially Save the Youth Future Society, and may God bless them."
9. Various of people queuing outside center
STORYLINE:
Aid workers in Gaza City distributed flour for the first time in months, after convoys entered the battered city on Wednesday.

Large crowds gathered by an aid distribution point, where aid workers in yellow vests distributed large bags of wheat with the United Nations World Food Program logo on them, footage by the Associated Press showed.

The Israeli military closed off aid deliveries into the Palestinian enclave in March, and instead allowed U.S.-led organization the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation to distribute aid at collection points near the border.

Palestinians and international aid agencies decried the new mechanism, which was chaotic, and led to stampedes and shootings.

Some trucks have tried entering in May, but much of the aid was looted.

Palestinian clans of Gaza in a statement have said that they are leading this initiative to help bring convoys back in and have assistance distributed fairly in the neighborhoods.

It’s unclear what coordination has taken place with the UN and with Israeli authorities for this new plan.

The WFP did not immediately respond to the AP’s inquiries about the rare aid delivery and the alleged initiative.

Umm Alaa Mekdad, who identified her first name as an Arabic nickname for “Alaa’s mother” said she hopes that this will continue after struggling to deal with looters taking their rations.

"I'm happy because I can feed my children, who haven't eaten since yesterday ... they went to bed hungry,” she said. "The gangs used to take our shares and the shares of our children who slept hungry and thirsty.”

Elsewhere in Gaza City, scores of Palestinians waited patiently in line to receive packages from aid group Anera, with the logos of the United Arab Emirates Red Crescent and UAE Aid.

However, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz in a joint statement late Wednesday accused the Hamas militant group that rules the Gaza Strip of stealing humanitarian aid coming into northern Gaza, and called on the Israeli military to devise a plan to prevent this from happening.



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