Gaza kitchens warn food running out after two-months Israeli blockade

It is difficult to eat warm meals in the Gaza district, but lunch for the poor family in the south will be delivered to a donkey and cart.

Today’s dishes are lens beans, rice and passionate tomato sauce. One of the two community kitchens run by American East East East East East Refugee AID (ANERA), a US -based humanitarian group.

“People depend on our meals, and there are no sources of imports in the local market, and they can’t use a lot of food,” says Sami Matar, who leads the ANERA team.

“In the past we used to cook rice with meat with protein. Now because of closure, there is no meat and no fresh vegetables.”

Two months ago, Israel closed all the crossings with Gazawa. We prevented all products from entering the country, including food, fuel and medicine, and later resumed military attacks, and ended the armistice for two months with Hamas. This stage is to pressure Hamas to release the hostage still owned.

Recently, UN’s global food program and Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA said they used all inventory of food aid.

International pressure on Israel is growing.

Tom Fletcher, the UN’s humanitarian chief, warned Thursday.

“The blocking aid is hungry for civilians. It leaves them without basic medical support. It removes dignity and hope. It has a cruel collective punishment.”

Hundreds of thousands of people depend on hundreds of remaining kitchens for a living. The people run by Khan Younis ANERA will feed about 6,000 people a day.

But if Israel does not lift the blockade, the longest -charged kitchen on the Gaza will soon be distributed to the kitchen, the last life line for many people. Earlier this year, the foods stocked during the armistice fell.

Mr. Mata showed a local BBC reporter around the vast Vienna Arera warehouse, saying, “The day will be important in the future.

“We have more than 100 trucks every week -food parcel and sanitary kit truck. Now we have nothing.

“We are struggling to provide food such as rice, lens beans, pasta, cooking oil and salt for the community kitchen. Buying 1kg of trees is very expensive and more than 700kg a day for cooking.”

Israel accused Hamas for stealing and storing humanitarian aid, giving it to fighters or collecting money. The United Nations and other institutions say they reject aid and have a strict monitoring mechanism.

“We are working hard to avoid the interference of all the parties. We have an accurate and powerful distribution process.

“We have a database consisting of hundreds of thousands of people, including your name, ID number and address.

Returning to the outdoor kitchen, MATAR tests food in a steaming pot to check the quality. The parcel is finished for the distribution. You can serve up to 4 people.

All workers receive food for hungry families.

The rest soon moved to Al-Mawasi, a crowded tent camp for displaced people on the coast through the streets of the donkey cart, and dozens of field monitors supervise the handout.

The old man who walks with crutches seems to be relieved by holding two parcels of Kosari and feeding seven families. “Thanks to God, this will be enough,” he says.

“Don’t ask about the situation,” he continues. “We are alive because death hasn’t taken us yet. I vowed that I was looking for a chunk of bread from the morning and I couldn’t find anything.”

“The situation is tragic and it is getting worse,” said his tired mother. “Life is humiliated here. We have a man who cannot work. There is no income and all products are too expensive. We can’t buy anything.”

She said, “It’s great now,” she said about the warm meals. “Because there is no cooking gas and no food, we are gathering leaves to fire when you want to drink a cup of tea.”

It has been over a year and a half since the beginning of the War. Hamas was triggered by an attack on Israel. The assault was killed about 1,200 people and more than 250 hostages. About 59 are still captive, and up to 24 are alive.

According to the Ministry of Health, Israel’s military campaign killed more than 52,400 people in Gaza. More than 90% of the 2.1 million people have been replaced, and many people have to run away.

The United Nations warned that the current situation would be the worst.

The international pressure of Israel should be strengthened, and intentionally hungry civilians warn of potential war crimes. The United Nations said Israel has an obvious obligation to allow and promote aid for Gazan under international law.

Last Friday, US President Donald Trump told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, “We’ve said it would be good for the go.”

There was no official response to him, but earlier this week, the Israeli Department rejected criticism of the United Kingdom, France and Germany, which described the blockade as “unbearable” in the joint statement and “this must end.”

The ministry said more than 25,000 trucks, which carried nearly 450,000 tons of products during the armistice, entered the country. I added. “Israel is monitoring the situation on the ground and is not lacking.”

Israeli officials said they plan to check the aid distribution system.

Currently, consumables are accumulating in the border crossing of the Gaza, while the territory is helping workers carefully distribute the remaining stocks of stocks.

At Al-Mawasi Camp, the children play with Sami Matar and ANERA workers to share the last day’s food parcel.

Many people are painful, thin, and in a new warning of acute nutrition, especially among young people.

“I don’t know what happens when our consumables are over,” Matar said.

“The feeling that people should prevent this important help will be too stressed and depressed by me and my staff.”

“We have an urgent appeal,” he said. “Look at us, look at our despair, and understand that time is coming. We just have to open the intersection again.”