How food in Gaza got so expensive — and so deadly

How food in Gaza got so expensive — and so deadly

After two years of war, and now famine, in Gaza, how are ordinary people able to find food? With the territory under a tight blockade and facing an ongoing Israeli military campaign, the choice is bleak: Either pay exorbitant prices for goods on the black market or run the gauntlet of deadly aid distribution sites. No new currency can enter Gaza, so the money itself is falling apart. This has led to the emergence of money fixers, who carefully r…