Gaza faces the specter of famine before Eid... empty shelves and crazy prices.

With Eid al-Fitr approaching, signs of famine return to knock on the doors of the Gaza Strip, where residents stand powerless before empty shelves and a continuous rise in the prices of basic goods, which increases the population's suffering and deepens the fragility of their daily lives under the ongoing blockade and the Israeli restrictions on the entry of food aid.

“With Eid al-Fitr approaching, signs of famine return to knock on the doors of the Gaza Strip, where residents stand powerless before empty shelves and a continuous rise in the prices of basic goods, which increases the population's suffering and deepens the fragility of their daily lives under the ongoing blockade and the Israeli restrictions on the entry of food aid”

Al-Jazeera Net

Since the outbreak of the war with Iran, Israel has closed most crossings, concentrating the movement of goods and aid at a single crossing, which has prompted international institutions to warn that any 'drip-feed' policy for delivering supplies could bring back the specter of famine to the enclave.

Based on this field reality, the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor warned of Israel's continued use of starvation policies as a weapon within genocide against civilians in Gaza, by controlling the quantity and quality of foodstuffs and reducing the flow of humanitarian and commercial aid, which revives the specter of famine on a large scale.

“With Eid al-Fitr approaching, signs of famine return to knock on the doors of the Gaza Strip, where residents stand powerless before empty shelves and a continuous rise in the prices of basic goods, which increases the population's suffering and deepens the fragility of their daily lives under the ongoing blockade and the Israeli restrictions on the entry of food aid”

Al-Jazeera Net

With the resumption of some commercial imports via the same crossing in amounts less than before, which had originally represented only about 40% of the quantities agreed to be entered under the ceasefire, the blockade and tightening remain, keeping the Gaza food and basic goods crisis ongoing, and placing the population in daily confrontation with the specter of hunger and uncertainty.