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Palestinian workers unloads sacks of flour distributed by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) for poor refugee families, at the Sheikh Redwan neighborhood of Gaza City, Tuesday, March 31, 2020. The United Nations has resumed food deliveries to thousands of impoverished families in the Gaza Strip after a three-week delay caused by fears of the coronavirus. UNRWA, provides staples like flour, rice, oil and canned foods to roughly half of Gaza’s 2 million people. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

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UN begins home food drops for Gaza's needy to stem virus
March 31, 2020 2:49 p.m.

UN begins home food drops for Gaza's needy to stem virus

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — A U.N. aid agency Tuesday began delivering food to the homes of impoverished Palestinians instead of making them pick up such parcels at crowded distribution centers — part of an attempt to prevent a mass outbreak of the new coronavirus in the densely populated Gaza Strip.