Gaza's bakeries could shut down within a week under Israel's blockade of all food and supplies
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Gaza's bakeries could shut down within a week under Israel's blockade of all food and supplies

Hindustan Times  

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — Gaza’s bakeries will run out of flour for bread within a week, the U.N. says. Gaza's bakeries could shut down within a week under Israel's blockade of all food and supplies For four weeks, Israel has shut off all sources of food, fuel, medicine and other supplies for the Gaza Strip’s population of more than 2 million Palestinians. “We depend entirely on this aid box,” said Shorouq Shamlakh, a mother of three collecting her family’s monthly box of food from a U.N. distribution center in Jabaliya in northern Gaza. “If this closes, who else will provide us with food?” The World Food Program said Thursday that its flour for bakeries is only enough to keep producing bread for 800,000 people a day until Tuesday and that its overall food supplies will last a maximum of two weeks. “This kilo of rice will be used up in one go.” The U.N. has cut its distribution of food rations in half to redirect more supplies to bakeries and free kitchens producing prepared meals, said Olga Cherevko, spokesperson for the U.N. humanitarian agency, known as OCHA.

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