17 March 2025
The operator of 10 charity food kitchens and other humanitarian services in the Gaza Strip says only two food distribution centres are now open after Israel’s blockage of all humanitarian goods.
“We had 80 pots every day that we were serving to people. Now we’re working on about 20,” Omar Abuhammad, coordinator with the Heroic Hearts organisation, told Al Jazeera.
He said that before Israel imposed the blockade, the kitchens were providing food for about 40,000 people in central Gaza’s Deir el-Balah. Now, 10,000 Palestinians are receiving meals.
“As the main source of food for them, we no longer have the ability to serve them,” Abuhammad said.
Drinking water, food, and medicine are running out fast with UNICEF saying it’s critical for Israel to open up Gaza immediately with hundreds of thousands of Palestinian children “struggling to survive”.
Source:Aljazeera
