UN halts all food distribution in Rafah after running out of supplies in the southern Gaza city

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https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-west-bank-jenin-raid-a3320a77a3a6ccff41db2a4bc63e4aa3

CAIRO (AP) — The United Nations says it has suspended food distribution in the southern Gaza city of Rafah due to lack of supplies and insecurity. It also said no aid trucks entered in the past two days via a floating pier set up by the U.S. for sea deliveries.

The U.N. has not specified how many people remain in Rafah after the Israeli military launched an intensified assault there on May 6, but there appears to be several hundred thousand people.

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The crisis in humanitarian supplies has spiraled in the two weeks since Israel launched an incursion into Rafah on May 6, vowing to root out Hamas fighters. Troops seized the Rafah crossing into Egypt, which has been closed since. As of May 10, only about three dozen trucks made it into Gaza via the nearby Kerem Shalom crossing from Israel because fighting makes it difficult for aid workers to reach it, the U.N. says.

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Until early May, some 1.3 million people were crowded into Rafah after fleeing Israel’s offensive elsewhere in the territory. At least 810,000 of those have fled since Israel launched its incursion into the city. Those fleeing have scattered across southern Gaza, erecting sprawling tent camps or crowding into U.N. schools already heavily damaged from Israel’s previous offensives.

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