The UN World Food Programme says it is immediately closing all of its bakeries in Gaza as Israel’s ban on the entry of all food, fuel, medicine, and other supplies into the Gaza Strip reaches the one-month mark.
In an internal memo circulated among aid groups yesterday, the UN agency said that due to the lack of humanitarian aid, supplies are running out, and there isn’t enough wheat flour to make bread.
The agency says it has distributed all available food rations, and there are unfortunately, no more stocks.
Israel rejects the reports that aid organizations are running out of food, however, saying earlier today that enough food entered Gaza during a recent six-week ceasefire to sustain the Strip’s 2.3 million residents for “a long period of time.”
According to COGAT, the Defense Ministry body in charge of civilian affairs in Gaza and the West Bank, more than 25,000 trucks entered Gaza during the ceasefire, carrying nearly 450,000 tons of aid.
“There is enough food for a long period of time, if Hamas lets the civilians have it,” it says.
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