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Photos From a Gaza Airdrop

A photographer accompanied a Jordanian aircrew as it dropped aid to Gaza, where starvation is rising.

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A devastated Gaza, as seen from a Jordanian Air Force Hercules during a coordinated aid drop by Jordan and the United Arab Emirates, delivering 18 tons of food and basic necessities.
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Trump Envoy Witkoff Visits Gaza as Aid Crisis Deepens

Steve Witkoff went to the Palestinian enclave amid growing pressure on Israel to ease a deepening hunger crisis there. Hamas derided the visit as a “propaganda show.”

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Carrying handouts from the Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation in central Gaza on Friday. Hundreds of Palestinians have been killed in the past two months while trying to secure aid.
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Anger Over Starvation in Gaza Leaves Israel Increasingly Isolated

Global outrage at the Netanyahu government’s actions has grown since the war began, and the suffering of children in the enclave has accelerated the disdain.

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Clamoring for aid in the Gaza City area this month. Widespread hunger has prompted increasing malnutrition and starvation.
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Gaza Hunger Presents Trump With Moral Test Familiar to Past Presidents

The crisis has echoes of past humanitarian crises that left presidents wringing their hands over how to respond.

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The plight of Palestinians in Gaza has emerged as a test for President Trump.
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Why Airdrops in Gaza Are Seen as a Risky Last Resort

Parachuting aid is expensive and inefficient, experts say, noting that at least five people in Gaza were killed in airdrop accidents last year.

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A Jordanian C-130 military aircraft dropping humanitarian aid over northern Gaza last year.
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Starmer Is Edging Closer to Recognizing a Palestinian State, UK Officials Say

Two government officials said Britain was actively weighing the recognition of a Palestinian state, in a shift driven by public pressure over starvation in Gaza.

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Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain at President Trump’s golf club in Turnberry, Scotland, on Monday. Mr. Starmer, the officials said, resisted Palestinian state recognition in the past because he viewed it as a largely “performative” gesture.
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Starmer Is Edging Closer to Recognizing a Palestinian State, UK Officials Say

Two government officials said Britain was actively weighing the recognition of a Palestinian state, in a shift driven by public pressure over starvation in Gaza.

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Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain at President Trump’s golf club in Turnberry, Scotland, on Monday. Mr. Starmer, the officials said, resisted Palestinian state recognition in the past because he viewed it as a largely “performative” gesture.
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For Trump, Starvation in Gaza Tests His Foreign Policy Approach

President Trump will have to decide whether America intends to take a leading role in confronting one of the biggest humanitarian catastrophes of the 21st century.

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President Trump opened talks with Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain at his golf club in Turnberry, Scotland, on Monday.
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For Trump, Starvation in Gaza Tests His Foreign Policy Approach

President Trump will have to decide whether America intends to take a leading role in confronting one of the biggest humanitarian catastrophes of the 21st century.

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President Trump opened talks with Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain at his golf club in Turnberry, Scotland, on Monday.
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Israel Returned to War in Gaza Hoping to Break Hamas. It Achieved Few, if Any, Goals.

Israel ended a truce in Gaza in March, hoping to break Hamas. The move has heightened suffering for Palestinians but achieved few, if any, Israeli goals.

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A strike in Jabaliya, north of Gaza City, as Palestinians fled their homes in May.
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News Organizations Urge Israel to Let Reporters and Aid Into Gaza

Saying that journalists in the territory, like many Gazans, are facing starvation, the groups urged Israel to allow more food in.

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Colleagues attending the funeral of Mohammed Abu Hatab, a Palestinian journalist who was killed in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, in 2023.
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No Meals, Fainting Nurses, Dwindling Baby Formula: Starvation Haunts Gaza Hospitals

After Israeli restrictions on aid, hunger has risen across Gaza. Doctors and nurses, struggling to find food themselves, lack the resources to stem the surge.

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Hanin Barghouth with her 3-month-old daughter, Salam, at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in central Gaza this week. At birth, her doctor said, Salam weighed roughly 6.6 pounds, and three months later, she weighs only 8.8 pounds — at least three pounds underweight.
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Amid Growing Fury Over Gaza, Israel Says It Is Easing Aid Restrictions

As starvation rises in Gaza, prompting global outrage, Israel’s military said it would restart airborne aid delivery there and make land deliveries less dangerous.

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Palestinians outside Gaza City after aid trucks loaded with food entered for the first time in June following a lengthy closure of the border.
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No Proof Hamas Routinely Stole U.N. Aid, Israeli Military Officials Say

Israel has long restricted aid to Gaza on the argument that Hamas steals it to use as a weapon of control over the population. On Saturday, the Israeli military announced new airdrops of aid.

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Palestinians with food handouts northwest of Gaza City last month.
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Israel to Allow Aid Airdrops Over Gaza During Starvation Crisis

Jordan and the United Arab Emirates were expected to begin airdrops in the coming days, but experts warned that the bulk of necessary aid could come only by land.

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Last year, the Jordanian Air Force dropped aid over northern Gaza. Israel said on Friday that it would soon allow countries to drop aid into the area, which is in a humanitarian crisis.
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Australia Says Gaza Situation Beyond ‘Worst Fears’ as Pressure Mounts on Israel

Some of Israel’s closest allies have stepped up criticism of its restrictions on aid to Gaza, where doctors and aid organizations say people are dying of starvation.

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Displaced Palestinians waiting in front of a charity kitchen in Gaza City on Wednesday.
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As Starvation Rises, Israeli Minister Says Israel Is ‘Driving Out’ Gazans

Amichay Eliyahu’s comments came amid growing hunger in the territory, where Israel controls the delivery of food.

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Amichay Eliyahu, Israel’s heritage minister, in Jerusalem in 2023. Opposition politicians quickly condemned his latest comments.
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Shootings, Devastation, Hunger: Israel Fails to Address Gaza’s Power Vacuum

Over the weekend, Israeli soldiers shot Palestinians near an Israeli-backed aid site and a U.N. convoy. Both episodes pointed to Israel’s refusal to allow new governance structures to emerge.

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Mourners after Israeli troops opened fire on people trying to get aid north of Gaza City on Sunday.
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Israel Refuses to Renew Visa of Top UN Humanitarian Official for Gaza

The head of the agency that helps oversee international aid deliveries to the territory has criticized the impact of Israeli policy on civilians.

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In a screen grab taken from a handout video provided by the United Nations, Jonathan Whittall is shown standing near a destroyed hospital in Gaza in 2024.
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Dozens Are Killed at Aid Site Near Border, Gaza Health Officials Say

The shootings took place after thousands of Palestinians gathered in the hope of getting humanitarian aid from U.N. trucks entering the Gaza Strip.

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Palestinians mourning at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City on Sunday.
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Gaza Health Ministry Says Israeli Military Killed 32 Near Aid Site

The latest deaths add to U.N. figures showing that more than 670 Palestinians have been killed since May near sites built under a new Israel-backed aid system.

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Mourners at the Nasser hospital in Khan Younis, Gaza, on Saturday with the bodies of two people killed near a Gaza Humanitarian Foundation distribution site.
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At Least 20 Killed in Stampede Outside a Gaza Aid Site

There were conflicting accounts from Palestinian and aid officials over what happened at the food distribution hub run by the Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.

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Casualties were brought into Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza on Wednesday after a stampede at a food distribution site.
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