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Miami, May 12 (EFE / EPA).- The Venezuela Awareness Foundation on Tuesday donated food and aid packages to hundreds of Venezuelan immigrants awaiting the approval of their status in Miami who have been left in a precarious situation amid the COVID-19 pandemic.The Venezuela Awareness Foundation and the Presidente supermarket have joined forces to help these immigrants.Patricia Andrade, director of the Foundation, told Efe that these newly arrived families were left in limbo because they did not manage to receive documents that are necessary to receive the federal aid during the pandemic.(Camera: CRISTOBAL HERRERA).SHOTLIST: STAFFS FROM THE VENEZUELA AWARENESS FOUNDATION AND PRESIDENTE SUPERMARKET TRANSPORTING AID PACKAGES TO DONATE THEM TO VENEZUELAN IMMIGRANTS.SOUNDBITES: PATRICIA ANDRADE, DIRECTOR OF THE VENEZUELA AWARENESSS FOUNDATION (IN SPANISH).TRANSLATIONS: The Venezuelans who jusr arrived in the US were shocked by the coronavirus and those who were requesting political asylum are in a precarious state. This food aid is going to give them the relief they sorely need.
Newly released video images show looting in a bakery in the Venezuelan capital amid widespread shortages and increasing violence. Rough Cut - Subtitled (no reporter narration).
Representatives of the majority farming unions, Arnaud Rousseau (FNSEA) and Arnaud Gaillot (Jeunes Agriculteurs), arrive at Matignon to meet French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal and obtain "concrete measures" to deal with farmers' anger. IMAGES
Hundreds of Gazans rush towards aid trucks carrying flour and canned food in Gaza City. Ten trucks have crossed into the Gaza Strip transporting aid from several countries, including Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Egypt as well as the World Food Programme. But as fighting enters its fourth month, the World Health Organization has warned that its ability to provide aid and support hospitals was "shrinking". IMAGES
People queue with plastic jerrycans at a water filling point in Gaza City as war rages on. The impoverished Palestinian territory, under a crippling Israeli-led blockade for years and besieged since war erupted on October 7, suffers severe shortages of food, water and fuel, and medical supplies are scarce. IMAGES