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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Kaamil Ahmed , Ana Lucía González Paz, Lucy Swan and Garry Blight. Graphics by Finbarr Sheehy, Harvey Symons and Paul Scruton

Eleven-minute race for food: how aid points in Gaza became ‘death traps’ – a visual story

People in Gaza collecting aid overlaid with a chart showing aid announcement timings

Raed Jamal sends the message shortly after he returns, empty-handed, from an aid distribution point to his tent in the al-Mawasi displacement camp in south-west Gaza. “The tanks came and started firing. Three boys near me were martyred,” says the 36-year-old, who has four children. “I didn’t even get anything, just two empty boxes.”

Jamal’s journey involved a long walk to and from a former residential neighbourhood bulldozed by Israeli forces and turned into one of four militarised aid distribution centres run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), which is based in Delaware in the US.

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