Gaza bakeries closed and painkillers in ration after a month Israeli blockade

A month since Israel closed all the crossings to the gas for goods, all bakeries supported by it are closed, the markets are empty from most fresh vegetables, and hospitals are painkillers and antibiotics.

This is the longest blockade of Israel's nearly 18-month war against Hamas. This week, during the normally festive Muslim holiday of Aid Al-Fitr, many Gazani say they are hungry.

“It was the worst that was ever an id for us,” said Um Ali Hamad, a displaced woman from Bate Lahia, told the BBC while looking for food in Gaza. “We can't eat or drink. We couldn't enjoy it. We're exhausted.”

“We can no longer find things to eat like tomatoes, sugar or oil. They are not available. I can barely find a meal a day. Now there are no characteristics of charity food.”

“I only have one grandchild; he was born during the war. He is three months old and we cannot find milk or diapers for him.”

Israel said it was a ban on goods entering Gaza on March 2 due to Hamas' refusal to extend the first phase of the fire termination transaction in January and release more hostages.

Hamas continues to require a transition to the second phase of the original agreement, which will see the other living hostages, which he has to be released and the full end of the war.

A two -month truce, which began on January 19, returns to 33 Israeli hostages – eight of them dead – in exchange for about 1900 Palestinian prisoners and a large jump in humanitarian aid entering the devastated territory.

Assistance agencies are now calling on world power to force Israel to allow major goods in gas – including food, medicines, hygiene products and fuel, alleting the country's obligations under international humanitarian law.

They say that they make difficult decisions on how to manage their declining reserves on the territory. For example, fuel is required in order for vehicles to move help, bakeries, hospital generators, wells and water desalination plants.

Ngo Actionaid called the monthly ban on the Israeli ban on help enters the Gaza “terrifying” and warned a “new hunger and thirst cycle”.

On Tuesday, the UN was rejected as “ridiculous”, an Israeli claim that Gaza had enough food to withstand approximately two million inhabitants for a long time.

“We are in the queue of our supplies,” UN spokesman Stefan Duzaric said.

When, the Israeli military authority that controls the crossings says, during the recent ceasefire, about 25,200 trucks entered Gaza, carrying nearly 450,000 tonnes of aid.

“This is almost a third of the common trucks that have entered the gas throughout the war for just over a month,” writes when in a publication by X. “There is enough food for a long period of time if Hamas allows civilians to have it.”

Israeli officials accuse Hamas of taking supplies for themselves. However, Ducharich said the UN had kept “a very good chain of holding all the help of all the help.”

The ladder is down, and the shelves are thrown in the bakery in Gaza – one in 25, which works with the World UN Food Program (WFP) through the strip. With a shortage of fuel and flour, the sign says it is closed “to a further notification”.

“The closure of the bakery is a disaster because bread is the most important major for us,” said Grandpa Abu Alaa Jafar, looking desperately.

“Without it, people do not know how to deal with the situation. There will be hunger much worse than we have seen before.”

He and other passers -by told the BBC that a bag of 25 kg (55 pounds) flour has increased to 10 times and can now bring 500 shekels ($ 135; £ 104) to the black market.

For months, Israel has prevented commercial goods from entering Gaza – saying that this trade has benefited from Hamas – and local food production has stopped almost completely because of the war.

While many food kitchens maintained by international NGOs have recently stopped working as their supplies expire, WFP expects to continue to spread hot meals for a maximum of two weeks.

It says he will give away his last food plots in two days. As a “last resort”, after all other food is exhausted, it has emergency stocks of fortified food biscuits for 415,000 people.

Meanwhile, the UN Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA), the largest aid agency operating in Gaza, says there are only a few days of food to be distributed.

“We see a very quick exhaustion of what we have in our warehouses,” said Communication Director Tamara Al Rifai. “Everyone norts everything because it is not clear whether and when there is an end.”

“What is extremely striking to us is how fast the positive effects of cessation of fire – if I can use the word” positive “, namely to bring food and other supplies – is how quickly this impact has evaporated after four weeks.”

Israel resumed the war in Gaza on March 18th. His updated air and ground operations once again impede the auxiliary workers and have led to hundreds of casualties overwhelming hospitals.

The UN World Health Organization (WHO) says that over half of the hospitals receiving cases of trauma are already almost complete.

Broken bone stabilization devices have leaked while anesthesia, antibiotics and fluid for wounded patients decrease. The WHO warns that vital supplies to pregnant mothers will expire immediately.

Dr. Mark Perlmuther, an American surgeon who recently worked in Gaza, told the BBC that he was forced to use drilling bits to fix a fracture in the child's leg And that there is no working X -ray machine in both hospitals where it was based.

He added that he was not able to clean the wounds before working or even washed his hands as the soap was exhausted.

Another mass event for victims would mean that “people will die of wounds that could be corrected,” said Dr. Perlmuther.

So far, at least 1,066 Palestinians have been killed – about one third of whom are children – as Israel has begun its renewed military offensive in Gaza, according to the Hamas Health Ministry.

The WHO also warns of serious concerns about public health after the facilities for the diagnosis of infectious diseases have been forced to close.

The International Charity Charity Médecins Sans Frontères (MSF) urges Israel to stop what it calls “collective punishment of the Palestinians.”

It says that some patients are treated without relieving pain and that those with conditions that require regular medicines, such as epilepsy or diabetes, should make their supplies.

Last year, the International Court of Justice of Israel “to take immediate and effective measures to enable urgently needed basic services and humanitarian assistance to deal with the adverse living conditions facing the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.”

South Africa brought a current case before the UN's most warming court, claiming that Israel performs a genocide against the Palestinians in Gaza. Israel rejects the claim as “unfounded”.

The Gaza War was caused by the deadly attacks, led by Hamas against southern Israel on October 7, 2023, killing about 1,200 people and led to 251 hostages to Gaza. Since then, more than 50,000 Palestinians have been killed, said Palestinian health authorities.

Arab mediators continue to try to resurrect the cessation of fire.

Hamas said on Saturday that he had accepted a new proposal from Egypt. Israel has said he has made a counter -production in coordination with the United States, which also mediates.

There are no signs of immediate breakthrough or end of the intersections in Israel in Gaza.