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Tom Watling

Tom Watling is a General Reporter for The Independent focusing on the war in Ukraine, as well as other global news. He has previously worked as a world news reporter for the Daily Express and Mail+

<p>Displaced Palestinians walk along a road to receive humanitarian aid packages from a US-backed foundation in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip</p>

Starving Gazans fear being shot dead for lentils as aid points close

<p>Desperate Palestinians seek food at a distribution centre in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip</p>

Gaza ‘worse than hell on earth’ warns Red Cross as aid centres close

<p>Activist Greta Thunberg stands aboard the aid ship ‘Madleen’</p>

Israel suggests it will block Greta Thunberg’s ship from reaching Gaza

<p>Greta Thunberg is aboard the Madleen, bound for Gaza from Sicily </p>

Madleen tracker: Follow Greta Thunberg’s aid boat as it sails for Gaza