Stores in the Gaza Strip have run out of wheat flour, eggs and dairy products for the last two days. This was reported by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). RIA News.
“Stocks of some essential foods, such as rice and cooking oil, are nearly depleted,” the UN said.
According to the organization, not a single bakery was operating in the sector on November 9 due to shelling, lack of fuel, water and wheat flour. Eight bakeries in southern Gaza and one bakery cooperating with the World Food Program provide bread to refugee shelters. Bread lines in refugee camps last for hours, putting people at risk of missile attack.
Before this at WHO statedThe Gaza Strip needs 500 truckloads of humanitarian aid every day.
The situation in the Middle East escalated after thousands of Hamas militants infiltrated Israel from the Gaza Strip on October 7, when Hamas announced the launch of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood. In response, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announcedthat the country is at war.
The aim of Israel’s response to Operation Iron Sword was to repel the attack, release more than 200 hostages, including foreigners, and destroy Hamas. In order to achieve this goal, Israel launched major rocket attacks on the Gaza Strip from the first day of the operation. At the same time, the Israeli National Security Council decided to stop the supply of water, food, goods, electricity and fuel to the sector. Humanitarian aid shipments to Gaza began to be sent through the Rafah checkpoint only after October 20, and it was stated that their volume was insufficient.
27 October Israel announced About the “expansion” of the ground operation in Gaza. It is not known exactly when the operation started, but before the operation, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians fled their homes and moved to shelters and the south of the region. On November 5, Israeli Armed Forces as part of the ground operation in Gaza surrounded Gaza city and its supply were cut off, to continue He is fighting in the center of Gaza.
Former far-right Israeli National Security Minister Ben-Gvir statedHe said it was not enough to send only “hundreds of tons of explosives” and “not even a gram of humanitarian aid” to Gaza until the civilian hostages were released.