‘We are being exterminated’: Trickle of food aid fails to reach northern Gaza
None of the limited food aid that Israel has allowed into Gaza in recent days has reached the north of the Strip.
A local community kitchen in Gaza City is one of the few places where people can find food. However, the kitchen’s supplies are running dangerously low and it will have to shut down in the coming days if it does not receive aid.
Abu Ali, the manager of the community kitchen, told Al Jazeera that about 1,200 people come to the facility looking for food every day, but they are only able to feed about 300.
“What is available in northern Gaza is just lentil soup – no bread or anything else,” he said.
“For us in northern Gaza, we are being exterminated with no food and no flour. Young children show up just to get a bowl of food and we have 15 large pots that barely feed 300 people.”
Israel withholding aid to north Gaza to forcibly displace people, Norwegian Refugee Council says
Israel’s control of aid is “dangerous” and it is denying aid to northern Gaza in an attempt to displace people there, the Norwegian Refugee Council’s spokesperson has said.
“We think that providing aid to one area above another, as opposed to all areas, is a coercive measure to forcibly displace people, which Israel has been doing all [during the war] of course,” Ahmed Bayram told Al Jazeera.
“Israel’s control of aid, whether in part of the whole system, is dangerous and should not be accepted, let alone allowed, by its allies for 81 days,” he added.
“Israel is an occupier in this scenario and it should not control aid provision to people, let alone life-saving aid like food and water.”
