How much does food cost in Gaza?
Maram Humaid and Alia Chughtai report in Al Jazeera on 16 October 2024:
Deir el-Balah, Gaza – For more than two weeks now, Israel has blocked nearly all food aid from entering northern Gaza, leaving some 400,000 Palestinians living there facing starvation, according to UN estimates. Israeli attacks and forced evacuation orders have closed food distribution points, kitchens and bakeries. The only functioning bakery in north Gaza, supported by the World Food Programme (WFP), caught fire after Israel struck it with munitions. Across the Gaza Strip, at least 2.15 million people, or 96 percent of the population, are facing high levels of food shortages, with one in five people facing starvation.
Skyrocketing food prices
Most people in Gaza lack the means to buy essential goods and depend on charity kitchens and aid distributions for food and cash coupons.
Most of them have lost their jobs as the economy collapsed due to Israel’s ongoing assault. Whatever cash savings and items they had for bartering have all but run out.
