How do you get food in northern Gaza?
Short answer, with extreme difficulty.
As Israel’s military continues to impose famine on Gaza, and without any semblance of law and order, since local police are targets for Israeli soldiers, an estimated 500,000 people who stayed in the north are facing imminent death from starvation.
The few orderly aid distributions that do come through are inevitably organized by the UN agency for Palestine refugees (UNRWA) in coordination with law enforcement – as much as they can – and local clans.
One such moment of relief came in mid-March.
After six hours of waiting in line in front of an UNRWA warehouse in Jabaliya refugee camp, Walid Ribhi, 43, finally secured nine cans of various foods, a kilo of rice and sugar and five kilos of flour.
He and his family had had to survive without any aid for two months prior…..more
