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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Julia Frankel and Samy Magdy

Israel cut off food and supplies to Gaza. Aid groups are scrambling. What's happening on the ground?

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Israel’s cutoff of food, fuel, medicine and other supplies to Gaza’s 2 million people has sent prices soaring and humanitarian groups into overdrive trying to distribute dwindling stocks to the most vulnerable.

The aid freeze has imperiled the tenuous progress aid workers say they have made to stave off famine over the past six weeks during Phase 1 of the ceasefire deal Israel and Hamas agreed to in January.

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