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 in Gaza city
2. Various of people carrying flour bags
3. Wide of people queuing outside center
4. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Hiba Khalil, Gaza resident:
"We were very happy to receive this message (to receive aid) as we had waited for months without having flour or eating much and my children would always cry. So thanks God, that the trucks are secured and we can receive orderly better than what used to happen with the looting. The flour bag reached 2,000 and 3,000 Shekels (around $590 and $890) and we can't afford to buy during this difficult economic situation that Gaza is going through."
5. Various of women queuing outside center
6. Aid workers carrying flour bags inside distribution center
7. People registering to receive aid
8. 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."
9. Various of people queuing outside center
10. 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."
11. Various of people receiving aid packages from aid group Anera
12. Aid workers carrying aid packages
13. Various of aid packages with the logos of the United Arab Emirates Red Crescent and UAE Aid
14. Various of people registering
15. 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.

Hiba Khalil, a mother of seven in Gaza City, said she was relieved to have received some flour for the first time in months.

She is unable to afford looted aid that is then sold at the market at skyrocketed prices.










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