Gaza kitchen warn that the food ended after a two -month Israeli blockade

In the gas sector, it is difficult to come with hot food, but lunch for low -income families in the south should be delivered to the donkey and basket.

Today’s dish is a porch – made of lentils, rice and savory tomato sauce – in a set of huge culinary pots in one of two kitchens held by American assistance to refugees (Anera), American humanitarian organization.

“People are counting on our food; they do not have a profit source to buy what is left in local markets, and many products are missing,” says the Matar, who heads the Anera team.

“In the past, we cooked rice with meat – with protein. Now there is no type of meat, fresh vegetables.”

Two months ago, Israel closed all the transitions into gas – preventing all the goods, including food, fuel and medicines – and later restored the military offensive, completing a two -month ceasefire with Hamas. It states that these steps had to put pressure on Hamas to release the hostages he was still holding.

Recently, the UN World Food Program, the Palestinian refugee agency, said they used all their food aid.

International pressure on Israel is growing to raise its blockade, with warnings that mass fasting may be inevitable and that civilian residents are intentionally starving.

“Help, and the civilian life she saves should never be trade,” the UN Humanitarian Chief Tom Fletcher warned on Thursday.

“The blocking of help is starving civilians. This leaves them without basic medical support. It deprives them of their dignity and hope. It applies a severe collective punishment. Blocks help.”

Hundreds of thousands of gases depend on a few dozen other kitchens. The one who manages the anem in the UNIS HAND, nourishes about 6,000 a day.

But if Israel does not raise its blockade, to date, which, if – has put on gas, the kitchen – the last lifeline for many – will soon have nothing to spread. The food accumulated during the ceasefire earlier this year is all over.

“The coming days will be critical. We expect that we have two weeks, and maybe less,” says Mr. Matar, showing a local BBC journalist around the huge, empty, Anera.

“We used to receive more than 100 trucks every week – trucks from food parcels and hygienic kits. Now we have nothing.

“We are fighting to provide food, such as rice, lentils, pasta, culinary oil and salt, for our kitchens. Buy 1 kg of wood is very expensive, and we need more than 700 kg per day for cooking.”

Israel accused Hamas of stealing and storing humanitarian aid to provide his militants or sell to raise money. The UN and other agencies deny assistance, and they say they have strict monitoring mechanisms.

“We are working to avoid interference from any sides. We have an accurate and strong distribution process,” says Mr.

“We have a database of hundreds of thousands of people, including their names, identification numbers, and the Coordinates of the camps. This avoids duplication with the work of other non-governmental organizations and provides transparency.”

Returning to the open kitchen, Mr. Matar checks food from steam pots to check its quality. Parcels wrapped for distribution; Everyone can serve up to four people.

All employees receive food for their own hungry families.

The rest was soon transferred to the donkey streets in al-Mavasi, a overflowing tent camp for displaced people on the coast, where dozens of field tracking control the release.

An elderly man who goes with crutches looks relieved when he grabs two parcels of pores to feed a family of seven. “Thank God it will be enough,” he says.

“Don’t even ask me about the situation,” he continues. “We are only alive because death has not yet accepted us. I swear that I was looking for a loaf of bread in the morning, and I haven’t found a single one.”

“The situation is tragic, and it is all deteriorating,” the tired mother comments. “Life is humiliating here. We have men who can’t work. There is no income and all products are so expensive. We can’t buy anything.”

“At this time it is great,” she says of the warm food she had just given her. “Because there is no culinary gas or food. If we want to drink a cup of tea, I collect the leaves to start the fire.”

Ever since the war, more than a year and a half, caused by Hamas attacks on Southern Israel. About 1,200 people were killed and more than 250 were taken hostage. About 59 are still in captivity, up to 24 those considered alive.

Israeli military campaign has killed more than 52,400 Gaza, mostly women, children and the elderly, according to the Ministry of Health Hamas. More than 90% of the 2.1 million population has been displaced – many are forced to flee several times.

The UN warns that the current situation “is probably the worst thing that” from the blockade, the updated orders of the offensive and evacuation, which since March 18 has supplanted about 500,000.

International pressure on Israel is growing to raise its blockade, with warnings that intentionally starving civilians is a potential war crime. The UN claims that Israel has obvious commitments on international rights as occupation power to allow and promote the help for gas.

Last Friday, US President Donald Trump said he told Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that “we should be good for gas” and pushed it to allow more food and medicines into the lane.

There was no official response to this, but at the beginning of the week the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Israel rejected criticism from the UK, France and Germany, which called the blockade as “unbearable” in a joint statement and insisting “it should end.”

The ministry said more than 25,000 trucks carrying nearly 450,000 tons of goods entered the gas during the ceasefire. Added: “Israel monitors the situation on Earth, and there is no assistance.”

Israeli officials have said they plan to hold a help system.

So far, deliveries are going to the border crossings of the gases that are waiting for the lead, while in the territory, the help workers carefully dispose of what is left of their stocks.

In the Al-Mavasi camp, the children are playfully gathering around the mothers themselves, and Anera workers give out the latest food parcels.

Many painfully subtle, with new warnings about acute malnutrition – especially among the young.

“I do not know what will happen when our deliveries are over,” says Mr. Matar, weighing responsibility for his work.

“The sense of the need to stop this vital assistance to people would be so intense and depressing to me and my staff.”

“We have an urgent appeal,” he continues. “Look at us, look at our despair, realize that the time is over. Please, we just need to reopen the crossing.”