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The World Food Programme said on Tuesday it was pausing deliveries of food aid to northern Gaza until conditions in the Palestinian enclave allow for safe distribution. The Israeli military began its offensive to eradicate Hamas in Gaza after the Oct. 7 Hamas raid on southern Israel in which Israel said 1,200 people were killed and 253 taken hostage by the Islamist militant group. More than 29,000 people have since been killed in Gaza, health authorities in the Hamas-governed enclave say. The WFP said it had resumed food deliveries to the north on Sunday after they were suspended for three weeks because of an attack on a U.N. Palestinian refugee agency truck and “the absence of a functioning humanitarian notification system.” ROME – The World Food Programme said on Tuesday it was pausing deliveries of food aid to northern Gaza until conditions in the Palestinian enclave allow for safe distribution.

Chinese migrants started farming these oysters along the island’s west coast hundreds of years ago. They’re smaller than the oysters seen in North America, and most of the time, they are not eaten raw. Most farmers lack the infrastructure to closely monitor the water quality, so they show up in cooked dishes, like o-a-tsian, oyster omelets. Order a rice dish from any restaurant in Taiwan, and your bowl will be filled with bright, sticky, short-grain rice. “And that was really through the efforts of the Japanese,” says Wei.

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And just like sugar, the types of rice help tell the story of colonization on the island. “At one point, two-thirds of all Taiwanese families were in the sugar cane industry,” Wei says. Cashin said the pantry helps lift a “huge” load off her shoulders and that if it weren’t available, “it would absolutely affect my academic performance. It would definitely affect mental health.” “It feels good to give back and know that I’m needed here,” said junior Kate Tobie, who knows from experience about the “anxious” feeling of not knowing where your next meal might come from. Recent UN figures show a precipitous drop in aid supplies reaching Gaza. Before the conflict, Gaza relied on 500 trucks with supplies entering daily, and even during intense fighting in January about 200 aid trucks made it through on most days.

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