The 200 tons of food provided by a celebrity chef’s charity arrived by sea as UNICEF said rising numbers of children in Gaza were facing food deprivation.
| The first shipment of aid to reach the Gaza Strip by sea in almost two decades was fully unloaded on Saturday on a makeshift jetty in the Mediterranean, marking a milestone in a venture that Western officials hope will ease the enclave’s worsening food deprivation.
The latest bloodshed took place late on Thursday in Gaza City, where at least 20 people died after an aid convoy came under attack. Gaza health officials and the Israeli military traded blame; many details about what had unfolded remained unclear on Saturday.said on Saturday that Israel was planning to move forward with a ground offensive in Rafah, a southern city where more than half Gaza’s population is sheltering.
Hamas dropped its demand for a permanent ceasefire and proposed the release of hostages in exchange for a phased pullback of Israeli troops from parts of Gaza, as well as prisoner releases.World Central Kitchen offered few details about its distribution plan, even as it was loading a second supply ship in Cyprus. The Israeli military said in a statement that it had deployed naval and ground forces to secure the area where the supplies were unloaded.
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