Gaza Faces Renewed Famine Risk as Food Supplies Dwindle: Rights Group
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The Gaza Strip is facing a severe crisis in the availability of bread and flour, with a shortage of 100 per cent of warehouses, resulting in the closure of a large number of bakeries.
Euro-Med Monitor says seven World Food Program-supported bakeries could close within 48 hours, with incoming supplies covering just 37% of enclave's needs
Today, Thursday, the bakery association in the Gaza Strip warned that bakeries might cease to function within 48 hours owing to the depletion of flour and basic materials, in a new threat to the population ' s food that coincides with the reduction of humanitarian assistance, the continuation of shelling and displacement, and the approaching winter.
The Gaza Strip is facing a serious threat of a new famine due to Israeli restrictions on food imports and basic necessities. Shortages of flour and fuel have already led to the closure of some bakeries, while others could cease operations in the coming days. This was warned on Thursday by the Geneva-based Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor, […]
The Government Media Office in Gaza warned that seven bakeries could close within 48 hours due to fuel and flour shortages. Ismail al-Sawabitah stated that if the bakeries close, thousands of families will be deprived of their food source, and that 466 Palestinians, including 157 children, have died in the famine.
Today Thursday, the President of the Gaza Strip bakery association Abdul Nasser Al-Ajrami said that the Gaza Strip is currently free of flour in warehouses, [...] The bakery association appeared: the Gaza Strip's flour deficit is up to 100% and 7 bakeries threatened to stop first on Palestinian television.
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