Thursday, January 8, 2009

U.N. Suspends Food Aid Into Gaza

Palestinians gathered to receive flour at a United Nations food distribution center in Gaza City on Thursday. Hatem Moussa/Associated Press

From The New York Times:

The United Nations suspended its food aid deliveries into Gaza on Thursday after one of its contract drivers was killed during an Israeli attack on a delivery convoy at a border crossing, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency said.

The suspension by the United Nations came after rockets were fired from Lebanon on Thursday, landing in northern Israel and raising concerns they could represent a broadening of the conflict, although both the Israeli and Lebanese governments played down their significance. International efforts to end the 13-day war in the Gaza Strip continued with the arrival of Israeli negotiators in Cairo.

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