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Why is it so hard to deliver aid to Gaza?

Why is it so hard to deliver aid to Gaza?

Update: 2025-09-04
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Humanitarian payloads from planes are costly and largely ineffective but they remain one of few ways to ease people’s suffering in Gaza.


Writer & Producer: Amalie Sortland, with additional reporting by Oliver Marsden

Episode Photography: Oliver Marsden and Alex Jones

Executive producer: Rebecca Moore


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Why is it so hard to deliver aid to Gaza?

Why is it so hard to deliver aid to Gaza?