A crowd of people waited outside, freezing from the cold, in front of the closed “Zadna” bakery in Deir al-Balah Monday.
Among them was Umm Shadi, a displaced woman from Gaza City, who told the Associated Press that there was no bread left because of the flour shortage, with a bag of flour costing up to 400 shekels ($107) in the market, if it can be found.
She said: “Who can buy a bag of flour for 400 shekels?”
Noura Muhanna, another displaced woman from Medina, said GazaShe left empty-handed after waiting five or six hours for a bag of bread for her children.
She added: “From the beginning, there are no goods, and even if there were, there is no money.”
About 2.3 million people in Gaza depend on international aid to survive, and doctors and relief organizations say malnutrition is widespread. Food security experts say famine may have already begun in hard-hit northern Gaza. Aid groups accuse the Israeli military of obstructing and even blocking aid shipments into Gaza.
Meanwhile, dozens of people lined up in Deir al-Balah to get their share of lentil soup and some bread at a makeshift charity kitchen.
Rifaat Abed, a displaced man from… Gaza CityHe no longer knows how to raise money to buy food. He asked: “Where can I get money? Do I beg? If it were not for God and alms, my children and I would be hungry.”
