EXCLUSIVE: Fury as thousands of tonnes of food for starving Palestinians stuck in warehouse

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Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper expressed fury at the sight of thousands of tonnes of aid to feed starving Palestinians that is stuck in a warehouse. Around 5,000 pallets - 4,000 metric tonnes - of necessities like wheat flour, tinned goods, yeast and sugar are languishing in a World Food Programme (WFP) depot outside Amman, in Jordan, due to Israeli restrictions. There is enough aid in Jordan to get 150 trucks into Gaza every day, five days a week, for three months, according to officials. But

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