Gaza, WFP and aid
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Gaza, aid and Hamas
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Giant Eagle says it's taking customer prescriptions from nearly 80 Rite Aid locations, which are closing after the drugstore chain filed for bankruptcy again.Giant Eagle says it reached an agreement with Rite Aid to transfer pharmacy prescriptions for 78 locations across Pennsylvania and Ohio.
The Israeli military is again advancing into Gaza and has blocked most aid, causing widespread hunger. A new but widely criticized system for getting relief in started operating this week.
Walgreens Boots Alliance announced in October 2024 its plans to close approximately 1,200 stores across the United States as the pharmacy chain struggles with slumping consumer spending. At the time, the chain said the closures would occur within three years, starting with about 500 stores being shuttered in fiscal year 2025, which ends in August.
With several Rite Aid locations closing and Giant Eagle taking over some prescriptions, it leaves a lot of consumers asking questions.
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The secretary of state rejected convincing evidence documented in news reports and by disease modelers. “That question about people dying around the world is an unfair one.”
A video shows security forces inside a distribution site throwing stun grenades at crowds of Palestinians as they desperately try to obtain boxes of aid. The scenes took place at the newly opened Netzarim distribution site,
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The situation in Gaza is the worst since the war between Israel and Hamas militants began 19-months ago, the United Nations said on Friday, despite a resumption of limited aid deliveries in the Palestinian enclave where famine looms.