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Six weeks since Israel imposed total Gaza blockade, last food running out
The Star
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4/10/2025
The bombs still haven't killed Rehab Akhras and her family.
But if the checkpoints that Israel has sealed off since the start of March are not opened soon, she says hunger surely will.
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Six weeks since Israel completely cut off all supplies to the 2.3 million residents
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of the Gaza Strip, food stockpiled during a ceasefire at the start of the year has all
00:14
but run out.
00:15
Emergency meal distributions are ending, bakeries are closed, markets are empty.
00:21
On a spot of packed ground in a camp of plastic sheets where she lives with her displaced
00:26
family in Khan Yunus, 64 year old rehab, used cardboard to light a fire and boil a can
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of beans.
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It is all they have left.
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We are 13 people, why don't we do this?
00:40
We have to eat, we have to eat, we have to eat, we have to eat, we have to eat, we have
00:44
to eat, we have to eat, we have to eat, we have to eat, we have to eat, we have to eat,
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we have to eat.
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To the north in Nusirat, hundreds of Palestinians queued up for hot cooked rice at an outdoor
00:59
emergency kitchen.
01:01
Small children jammed the front of the queue, waving buckets to bring something home for
01:06
their families.
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Aid agencies that have been supplying those emergency meals say they will have to stop
01:13
within days unless they can bring in more food.
01:17
The World Food Programme used to provide bread at 25 bakeries across the Gaza Strip.
01:24
All of those bakeries are now shut.
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It will soon have to halt distribution of food parcels at reduced rations.
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All basic supplies are running out.
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The markets are also running out of basics.
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There was a black market in Gaza.
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Now it's a very, very black market.
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And what I mean by that is that the prices of commodities have exponentially increased over
01:53
the past one month plus since the Israeli authorities put the siege on the Gaza Strip.
02:01
Every day that Gaza goes without basic supplies, including food, it means babies, children are
02:09
going to bed hungry every day without these basic supplies.
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Gaza inches closer towards very, very deep hunger.
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Israel denies that Gaza is facing a hunger crisis.
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The military accuses Hamas of exploiting aid and says it must keep all supplies out to prevent
02:32
the fighters from getting it.
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Gaza denies exploiting aid and accuses Israel of using starvation as a military tactic.
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