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Published 14 Jun, 2024 06:00pm

In northern Gaza, starved families survive on bread alone

In the north of the Gaza Strip where Palestinians have been hit hardest by hunger, residents say acute shortages of vegetables, fruit and meat means they are surviving on bread alone, Reuters reports.

Food that can be found in the market is being sold at exorbitant prices, they said: a kilo of green peppers, which cost about a dollar before the conflict, was priced at 320 shekels or nearly $90. Traders demanded $70 for just a kilo of onions.

“We are being starved, the world has forgotten about us,” said Um Mohammed, a mother of six in Gaza City.

“Except for the flour, bread, we have nothing else, we don’t have anything to eat it with, so we eat bread only,” she said.

“There’s no meat or vegetables and if something is available, it is being sold at unbelievable, fictional prices,” Um Mohammed told Reuters via a chat app.

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