Hundreds of Palestinians carrying sacks of U.N. flour they have risked their lives for at the Zikim Corridor in northern Gaza, on Aug. 3. Anas Baba/NPR hide caption
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In the Gaza Strip thousands of exhausted, hungry people seek meager food at a distribution site in the north. Those lucky enough to get one of the sacks of white flour given out are called “white walkers”, a reference to zombie-like characters in the television show “Game of Thrones”. But many leave empty-handed and simply seeking the food aid is dangerous and often deadly. We go to one of these sites to see the dangers hungry Palestinians will face in search of food.
You can see a short video version of this report here.
