Food arrival in Gaza lowers prices, but gangs prevent distribution
- March 20, 2024
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(RFI).- “After weeks of eating livestock feed, we can finally bake our own bread again,” says a delighted Said. “The flour has arrived here in the north Gaza
(RFI).- “After weeks of eating livestock feed, we can finally bake our own bread again,” says a delighted Said. “The flour has arrived here in the north Gaza Strip“, he’s happy on the phone. “I think it happened through international non-governmental organizations. NGOs that defend human rights. These organizations delivered the flour to local organizations who are supposed to distribute it to the people here in northern Gaza,” he says.
But in fact, “the process is not completely completed,” Saeed laments: “The flour is put up for sale in the markets. But at least its availability made reduce prices much. Food prices have skyrocketed. So now I prefer to look on the positive side of things. At least the food is back on the market.”
Free humanitarian aid sold to the destitute population: anarchy reigns in the Gaza Strip. With the fall of Hamas power “a real mafia has emerged”say the residents of Gaza. armed gangs They rule in terror and even confiscate food rations dropped by parachute and sell them to Gazans.
Photo: Reuters | Plane drops humanitarian aid over Gaza Strip
Arrival of humanitarian aid in northern Gaza
The humanitarian aid that arrived in the Gaza Strip on Friday in the first shipment by ship along a corridor from Cyprus was delivered by the UN to the northern Palestinian territory, WCK, one of the non-governmental organizations involved in the operation, said on Tuesday.
Ship from a Spanish NGO Open arms landing 200 tons of food in a project agreed with the organization World Central Kitchen (VKK).
WCK, an NGO founded by Spanish chef José Andrés that specializes in delivering food to disaster areas, said no date had been set for the second aid delivery from the Cypriot port of Larnaca due to Adverse weather conditions.
“Almost 200 tons of aid arrived on the ship”Open arms“This morning they were delivered to the northern Gaza Strip as part of a World Food Program (WFP) convoy” to be used to prepare food rations for the population, WCK said in a statement.
Source: Aristegui Noticias
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