Gaza residents scramble for aid packages as trucks enter Rafah amid communications blackout

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Residents in Gaza scrambled to grab aid packages in the border city of Rafah on Sunday, 17 December, as trucks carrying supplies passed through.Footage showed people following the aid vehicle; some had climbed on top and threw boxes down to people below on the road.It came as Gaza remained under a communications blackout for a fourth straight day, which has been the longest outage since the conflict with Israel ignited following Hamas' attack of 7 October.Around three-quarters of the territory’s 2.3 million people have been displaced.Source: AP