The UN humanitarian agency in Palestine (UNOCHA) has said that people are queueing overnight in lines that extend for 2km (1.2 miles) to refill cooking gas canisters, Al Jazeera reports.

The lines were reported outside a filling station in Khan Younis in southern Gaza after Israel allowed aid supplies that included cooking gas to enter the besieged Gaza Strip for the first time since October 7.

But the UN said that the “amounts fall well below the needs” and that people are reportedly “burning doors and window frames to cook”.

 People sit with empty canisters waiting for them to be filled with cooking gas from a tank that entered the Palestinian enclave via the Rafah crossing with Egypt, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on November 25, 2023. — AFP
People sit with empty canisters waiting for them to be filled with cooking gas from a tank that entered the Palestinian enclave via the Rafah crossing with Egypt, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on November 25, 2023. — AFP

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