How to Use aid/relief convoy in a Sentence

aid/relief convoy

noun

• An aid convoy headed to Gaza is attacked in the West Bank.
  — Ronen Bergman, New York Times, 13 May 2024
• In the past month, just a single United Nations aid convoy of 50 trucks has managed to travel this route.
  — Declan Walsh, New York Times, 29 July 2021
• Last month, more than 100 Gazans were killed when desperate civilians stormed an aid convoy.
  — Ruth Marks Eglash, Fox News, 28 Mar. 2024
• Finally on Thursday morning, a U.N. aid convoy crossed into the area through Turkey, the first since the earthquake.
  — Sarah Dadouch, Washington Post, 9 Feb. 2023
• In the early hours of Feb. 29, a hungry crowd rushed an aid convoy of 30 trucks in Gaza City that had been arranged by a Palestinian businessman.
  — Carol E. Lee, NBC News, 15 Mar. 2024
• Radwan Abdel-Hai, a father of four young children, heard a rumor late Wednesday that an aid convoy was on its way.
  — Wafaa Shurafa and Samy Magdy The Associated Press, arkansasonline.com, 3 Mar. 2024
• On Saturday, the first aid convoy to Gaza since the war started entered the territory through the Rafah border crossing with Egypt.
  — Claire Parker, Washington Post, 22 Oct. 2023
• Scarcely a week later, Israeli troops fired on desperate crowds trying to pull food off an aid convoy.
  — Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 2024
• The rift was worsened by an Israeli airstrike last week on an aid convoy that killed seven workers with the World Central Kitchen charity, most of them foreigners.
  — Tia Goldenberg, arkansasonline.com, 11 Apr. 2024
• The United Nations said its first cross-border aid convoy arrived in northwest Syria on Thursday.
  — Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY, 10 Feb. 2023
• Thousands of foreign aid workers have arrived in Turkey and the first UN aid convoy has entered Syria after this week’s twin earthquakes.
  — Bloomberg.com, 9 Feb. 2023
• But in northwestern Syria, where construction was less dense and the death toll lower, the United Nations sent in its first aid convoy only on Thursday.
  — Raja Abdulrahim Emily Garthwaite, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2023
• At first blush, the arrival of this second aid convoy into a besieged and bombarded Gaza would appear to be cause for celebration.
  — Erielle Davidson, National Review, 27 Oct. 2023
• The Palestinian Red Crescent said 61 trucks carrying food, water, and medical supplies headed there on Saturday, the largest aid convoy to reach the area yet.
  — Najib Jobain and Samy Magdy, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 Nov. 2023
• With desperation mounting, more than 100 Palestinians were killed last week in a chaotic encounter with Israeli troops around an aid convoy.
  — Alexander Smith, NBC News, 7 Mar. 2024
• An aid convoy carrying critical equipment has been stuck on the Egyptian side of the Rafah border crossing as Gaza’s hospitals are overwhelmed and necessities are in short supply.
  — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 17 Oct. 2023
• The impromptu aid convoy has been going nonstop since Saturday, residents said.
  — Aaron Boxerman, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Sep. 2023
• Outside Gaza, international frustration mounted as an aid convoy remained stalled at the Rafah gate between Egypt and the territory.
  — Reis Thebault, Washington Post, 20 Oct. 2023
• When Domingo rolled into Napili Park Sunday with a community aid convoy, her car was stuffed to the roof with toilet paper, paper towels, sanitizing wipes and coffee filters.
  — USA TODAY, 14 Aug. 2023
• The military officials said that the officers who ordered the strikes on the aid convoy had violated the army’s protocols, in part by opening fire on the basis of insufficient and erroneous evidence that a passenger in one of the cars was armed.
  — Adam Rasgon, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2024
• The aid convoy also delivered cases of water, blankets, pillows and feminine hygiene products.
  — Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 22 Oct. 2023
• Claims of purposefully destroying the aid convoy and deliberately harming people have no foundation, according to the IDF.
  — NBC News, 3 Mar. 2024
• That year, Nur was part of a United Nations relief convoy in Somalia that local insurgents raided; he was questioned in the subsequent investigation but never accused of wrongdoing.
  — Rachel Weiner, Washington Post, 16 Oct. 2022
• Multiple people have been arrested in connection with an attack Monday on an aid convoy headed toward Gaza, according to Israeli officials.
  — Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 14 May 2024
• Syria halts first aid convoy attempting to reach civiliansLess than 24 hours into a humanitarian mission that spent months in negotiations, Syria barred a United Nations convoy from entering the country.
  — Sarah Eberspacher, The Week, 22 Mar. 2014

Last Updated: 13 Aug 2024