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Reuters

World Central Kitchen will resume Gaza aid. World Central Kitchen (WCK) said it would resume operations in the Gaza Strip on April 29, a month after seven workers of the U.S.-based charity were killed in an Israeli air strike. Prior to halting operations, WCK had distributed more than 43 million meals in Gaza since October, representing by its own accounts 62% of all international nongovernmental organization aid. The charity said it had 276 trucks with the equivalent of almost 8 million meals ready to enter through the Rafah Crossing and will also send trucks into Gaza from Jordan.

As international aid agencies pulled back in Gaza after the drone strike on a World Central Kitchen convoy last month, a heavier burden fell on local humanitarian workers. Their determination to save lives helps them persevere.