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Scott Neuman

Delivering aid in a war zone is always difficult. In Gaza, it's proving even harder

Palestinians displaced by the Israeli ground offensive in the Gaza Strip arrive in the Mawasi area on Thursday. (Fatima Shbair/AP)

TEL AVIV, Israel — International aid groups are periodically called upon to provide food, water, medicine and other vital supplies to people caught in war zones. But getting that critical aid to a population on the run and under fire presents enormous challenges, humanitarian groups say, and the situation in Gaza is proving particularly difficult.

"We are being slammed left, right and center," says Juliette Touma, a spokesperson for UNRWA, the United Nations relief agency that aids Palestinians.

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