“Reaching the sites is a process that favors the fittest. Rahma’s father, Nidal Abu Abed, 42, has often been knocked over during the rush toward the sites, and he was once nearly shot, according to Rahma’s mother, Heba Abu Abed, 32. Because he rarely manages to secure a box of food, Ms. Abu Abed added, her husband is regularly forced to gather lentil grains or bits of broken pasta that have spilled onto the ground.”

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“Most of the aid is taken this way, depriving people who cannot physically seek food from the trucks — including women, children, older people and the sick.”

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“Aid workers have said many trucks were being intercepted by hungry Palestinians and gunmen before reaching their destinations, even as Israeli authorities have reported a greater number of trucks entering Gaza daily.”

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