{"id":52401,"date":"2025-11-24T03:59:28","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T03:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=52401"},"modified":"2025-11-24T03:59:32","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T03:59:32","slug":"gaza-food-kitchens-still-missing-essential-products-despite-ceasefire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=52401","title":{"rendered":"Gaza food kitchens still missing essential products despite ceasefire"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BBC:   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Garlic simmers in huge metal pots heated over open wood fires and set up in a long line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cooks add canned tomatoes and peppers with handfuls of spices, stirring the sauce with giant spoons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What is being prepared here is not just lunch, it is a lifeline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">American Near East Refugee Aid (Anera) opened this community kitchen in al-Zawayda in central Gaza after the ceasefire began six weeks ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The US humanitarian organisation has another kitchen in al-Mawasi in the south of the strip,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cx2vz02e7g8o\">which the BBC visited in early May<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Back then, two months into an Israeli blockade, preventing the entry of all food and other goods, stocks were dwindling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now, with more food allowed to enter, the situation has improved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Each day, Anera feeds a hot meal to more than 20,000 people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;We have moved from using 15 pots in the past, and now we increased to up to 120 pots in a day, targeting more than 30 internally displaced people&#8217;s camps,&#8221; says team leader Sami Matar. &#8220;We&#8217;re serving more than 4,000 families compared to just 900 families six months ago.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Access to food has been a constant concern since the start of the war in October 2023, with Israel heavily restricting supplies allowed through Gaza&#8217;s crossings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This has exacerbated the dire humanitarian situation. Famine was confirmed in Gaza City in August and projected to spread to other areas of the strip.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The UN continues to call for more aid to be allowed in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC: Garlic simmers in huge metal pots heated over open wood fires and set up in a long line. Cooks add canned tomatoes and peppers with handfuls of spices, stirring the sauce with giant spoons. What is being prepared here is not just lunch, it is a lifeline. American Near East Refugee Aid (Anera) opened this community kitchen in al-Zawayda in central Gaza after the ceasefire began six weeks ago. The US humanitarian organisation has another kitchen in al-Mawasi in the south of the strip,&nbsp;which the BBC visited in early May. 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