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  • Although Israel has begun to allow limited medical supplies into Gaza, the need far outweighs the availability while hospitals remain understaffed and ill-supplied.

    Will the U.S. Peace Envoy Usher in Truth and Reconciliation for Israelis and Palestinians? 2009

  • Although Israel has begun to allow limited medical supplies into Gaza, the need far outweighs the availability while hospitals remain understaffed and ill-supplied.

    Will the U.S. Peace Envoy Usher in Truth and Reconciliation for Israelis and Palestinians? 2009

  • Although Israel has begun to allow limited medical supplies into Gaza, the need far outweighs the availability while hospitals remain understaffed and ill-supplied.

    Will the U.S. Peace Envoy Usher in Truth and Reconciliation for Israelis and Palestinians? 2009

  • Although Israel has begun to allow limited medical supplies into Gaza, the need far outweighs the availability while hospitals remain understaffed and ill-supplied.

    Will the U.S. Peace Envoy Usher in Truth and Reconciliation for Israelis and Palestinians? 2009

  • Champlain tells us only that he decided to go back to France with his family, “having now wintered in the country nearly five years, during which time we were ill-supplied with fresh provisions and with other things very sparingly.”

    Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

  • Champlain tells us only that he decided to go back to France with his family, “having now wintered in the country nearly five years, during which time we were ill-supplied with fresh provisions and with other things very sparingly.”

    Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

  • Also, I believe my original stance was that the M4 is the better weapon for a modern, well-supplied armed force, and the Kalashnikov is better for an irregular, ill-supplied force.

    Our Guns and Theirs.. 2005

  • But the army had disappointed him, too, with its politics and prejudice, its seniority system that put inferior men in superior ranks, and its bureaucratic corruption that put an ill-equipped, ill-supplied, and undermanned force in the field.

    The Pride of Hannah Wade Janet Dailey 1985

  • But the army had disappointed him, too, with its politics and prejudice, its seniority system that put inferior men in superior ranks, and its bureaucratic corruption that put an ill-equipped, ill-supplied, and undermanned force in the field.

    The Pride of Hannah Wade Janet Dailey 1985

  • "How did he go?" repeated Matthew, in a voice so ill-supplied with breath it seemed he might strangle on the words.

    The Pilgrim of Hate Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1984

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