内容摘要：Catherine Bashiama, a farmer, walks through her coffee plantation that grows excelsa beans near Nzara, South Sudan on Sunday, Feb. 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)

Catherine Bashiama, a farmer, walks through her coffee plantation that grows excelsa beans near Nzara, South Sudan on Sunday, Feb. 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)

There have been unruly crowds around Gaza’s communal kitchens, but scenes like those at GHF hubs have been rare at U.N. distribution sites. The U.N. and other aid groups have run hundreds of distribution points around Gaza and often use a coupon system to organize when families pick up aid — to ensure it is handed out equitably and to avoid large crowds at a single location.A few times, hungry crowds have broken into aid warehouses, when the flow of aid has plunged particularly low, usually because of Israeli military restrictions, U.N. workers say. U.N. aid trucks have also come under attack by what the U.N. says are armed criminal gangs, or crowds of desperate people have swarmed trucks taking supplies. The U.N. says such attacks virtually stop when the aid flow is well.

“People don’t understand why it is difficult to give out food” in crises, said Ruth James, humanitarian coordinator for Oxfam.Managing large crowds and preventing stampedes takes planning and clear communication, she said. In a crowd, usually the most powerful get to the food or parcels, and the people most in need are overlooked.Despite his frustration, Hijazi said he will try again on Sunday.

“People are ready to eat each other to provide for their families,” he said, adding that the new system is moving people around like chess pieces. “It is an unimaginable tragedy.”Palestinians carry boxes and bags containing food and humanitarian aid packages delivered by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, a U.S.-backed organization approved by Israel, in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, on Thursday, May 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Palestinians carry boxes and bags containing food and humanitarian aid packages delivered by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, a U.S.-backed organization approved by Israel, in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, on Thursday, May 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

El Deeb reported from Beirut. Associated Press writer Sam Mednick in Tel Aviv, Israel, contributed to this report.AP correspondent Charles de Ledesma reports after British journalist Dom Phillips was killed while researching an ambitious book on how to protect the world’s largest rainforest, friends vowed to finish the project. Three years later, their task is complete.

Phillips, who had been a regular contributor to The Guardian newspaper, was taking one of the final reporting trips planned for his book when he was gunned down by fishermen on June 5, 2022, in. Also killed was Bruno Pereira, a Brazilian expert on Indigenous tribes who had made enemies in the region for defending the local communities from intruding fishermen, poachers and illegal gold miners.

made headlines around the world. Nine people have been“It was just a horrifying, really sad moment. Everybody was trying to think: How can you deal with something like this? And the book was there,” said Jonathan Watts, an Amazon-based environmental writer for The Guardian who coauthored the foreword and one of the chapters.