Gazene bakeries will run out of flour for bread within a week, UN says. The agencies reduced the distribution of food in families in half. Markets are empty than most vegetables. Many help workers cannot move around because of Israel Bombing.
Four weeks Israel turned off all sources of food, fuel, medications and other supplies for the population of Gaza Strip of more than two million Palestinians. It’s the longest blockade since the 17-month old campaign 17 months against HamasNo sign ending.
Assistant help Stocks that have, but warn of a catastrophic increase in severe hunger and malnutrition. Finally, food will be completely running out if the flow of assistance is not renovated, because the war destroyed almost all local food production in Gaza.
“We depend completely in this box for help,” Shorouq Shamakh said, the mother of three collecting the monthly food boxes of their families from the UN distribution center in Jabalija in northern Gaza. She and her children reduce their meals to last a month, she said. “If this closes, who else will give us food?”
The World Food Program He said on Thursday that his baker flour was enough to continue to produce bread for 800,000 people a day to Tuesday and that its overall stock food will last a maximum of two weeks. As a “last resort” after all the other food is exhausted, it has emergency supplies of fortified nutrients for 415,000 people.
Fuel and medicine will take weeks longer before they hit zero. Hospitals are racial antibiotics and painkillers. Group helps move limited fuel supply between multiple needs, all necessary – Help, bakeries, bakers for bread, wells and water removal plants, hospitals for leadership.
“We have to choose from the impossible.” Everything is needed, “said Clémence Lagouardat, the leader of the reaction of Gaza for Oxfam International, speaking from Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza Wednesday. “It’s extremely difficult to give priority.”
Problemaling, Israel continued its military campaign on the 18th. March with bombing that killed hundreds of Palestians, mostly women and children, according to health officials. He hit humanitarian premises, says UN. New evacuation orders forced more than 140,000 Palestinians to move even more.
But Israel did not continue with the assistance group system to inform the army of his movements to ensure that they are not affected by bombing, several workers said. As a result, various groups are stopped waters of water, nutrition for malnourished children and other programs, because it is not safe for teams to move.
Cogat, Israeli military body in charge of coordination of assistance, said the system was stopped during the truce. It is now being implemented in some areas “in accordance with politics and operational estimates … based on the situation in the field,” Cogat said, without elaboration.
Growing prices leave food unattractive
During 42 days of interruption of fire that began in mid-January, aid group were rushed in significant amounts of assistance. The food has also currently currently in commercial markets.
But nothing went in Gaza since Israel cut off that flow 2. March. Israel says that the siege and renewed military campaign aimed to force Hamas to accept changes in their agreed agreement and release more hostages.
Fresh products are now rare on Gaza markets. Meat, chicken, potatoes, yogurt, eggs and fruit are completely disappeared, Palestinians say.
Prices for everything else have accelerated out of reach for many Palestinians. Kilo (2 kilograms) Luke can cost an equivalent of $ 14, a kilogram of tomatoes goes for $ 6, if they can find them. The prices of cooking gas are spiralene as many as 30 times, so families return to the abolition of wood to make fires.
“It’s totally crazy,” Abeer al-Aker, teacher and mother said three in Gaza city. “No food, no service. … I believe the hunger began again.”
Families even more depend on the help
In the distribution center in Jabalija, Rema Megat was sorted through the food meals for their family of 10: rice, lenses, a few cans of sugar, two powdered milk powder.
“It’s not enough to last a month,” she said. “This kilogram of rice will be used in one movement.”
The UN cut its distribution to half to redirect more stock bakers and free kitchens produced by prepared meals, said Olga Cherevko, a spokesperson for the UN Humanitarian Agency, known as OCHA.
The number of prepared meals increased 25% on 940,000 meals a day, she said, and bakeries pull out more bread. But it burns faster supplies.
Once the flour soon pulls out, “there will be no production of bread in a large part of Gaza,” said Gavin Kelleher, with the Norwegian refuge council.
Unrwa, the UN General Agency for Palestinians, has only a few thousand food plots and flour enough for several days, Rose said, Acting Agency in Gaza.
Gaza Supha Kitchen, one of the main public cuisines, cannot get any meat or much production, so they serve rice with canned vegetables, the Sajmovac Hani Almadhoun said.
“There are many more people, and they are more desperate. So people fight for food,” he said.
Israel does not show a sign of lifting the siege
The United States pressed Israel to release the help in Gaz at the beginning of the war in October 2023. year, after Israel sent a blockade of about two weeks. This time he supported Israel’s politics.
Groups of rights called him “hunger politics” that could be a war crime.
Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar said on Monday to the news that “Israel acts in accordance with international law”.
He accused Hamas theft aid and said that Israel was not obliged to be inventory if he would be redirected to fighters.
No indication of whether the siege could be abolished, but she said that Gaza had enough stock, indicating the help that flowed during the truce.
Hunger and hopelessness grows
Since its teams cannot coordinate the movements with the military, preserve children suspended programs that provide nutrition for malnourished children, Rachael Cummings, Humanitarian Response Leader in Gaza.
“We expect an increase in the speed of malnutrition,” she said. “Not only children – adolescent girls, pregnant women.”
During the switch, the preservation of children could bring about 4,000 malnourished infants and children to normal weight, said Aleksandra Saif, the head of the group’s humanitarian policy.
About 300 malnourished patients enters their clinic in Deir Al-Balah a day. The numbers immersed – to zero some days – because patients are too afraid of bombing, she said.
Multiple crises are intertwined. The grabbing leaves children vulnerable to pneumonia, diarrhea and other diseases. The lack of clean water and full of conditions only spread more diseases. Hospitals are flooded with wounded can’t use their limited stock in other patients.
Help workers say not only Palestinians, but their own staff began to fall into despair.
“The world has lost a compass,” Rosa Rouswa said. “It’s just a feeling that it can happen anything, and it still wouldn’t be enough for the world to say, this is enough.”
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Magdy and Keath reported from Cairo, El Deeb from Beirut. The AP correspondent Fatma Khaled in Cairo and Julia Frankel and Mednick in Jerusalem contributed.