The people of Gaza currently have one meal a day,”and is limited to canned food, the only thing available nowAbeer Etefa, communications officer of the World Food Program (WFP), explained this during a press conference on Thursday.
“Bread has become a real luxury” Etefa added, referring to the food that forms the basis of the diet in Palestine, as in the entire region.
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“Fishermen “They cannot go to sea, nor can farmers reach their land, and the last bakery that operated with WFP help has had to close.”he explained in a conference call speaking from his headquarters in Cairo.
Adding to these shortcomings is the fact that refrigerators no longer work due to a lack of electricity, preventing families from storing perishable food.
“People are confronted with the possibility of die of hungry‘, said Etefa, who told how many children arrive at the shelters and the first thing they ask for is ‘a sip of water and a piece of bread’.
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After her, Julette Touma, from the UN Agency for Palestinian Refugees – for decades the main provider of humanitarian aid in the Gaza Strip and in the crosshairs of the Israeli government – took over from Amman, who did not mince her words. .
“It has been almost six weeks of hell for the people of Gaza (…) It is as if an earthquake has occurred, only it is human and could have been avoided. In six weeks we witnessed the largest displacement of Palestinians since 1948, an exodus we saw firsthand,” he recalled. (JO)
Source: Eluniverso
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