While Gazans risk their lives seeking supplies, armed individuals and gangs are stealing food from aid trucks and the hands of residents, only to resell it on the black market. Palestinians warn that the trickling of aid is creating perfect conditions for thieves
In the battered southern edge of the Gaza Strip, Um Balsam sits inside a tent stitched together from plastic sheets and worn-out blankets, torn between two impossible choices: whether she should send her 15-year-old son to one of the chaotic Gaza Humanitarian Foundation distribution points, where hundreds have been killed, or let her children go hungry.
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