Palestine: After bombings in Gaza, bread is scarce and its price skyrockets

In the Gaza Strip, one of the last wheat warehouses was damaged by Israeli bombing and bread is becoming increasingly scarce. On October 7, the war between Israel and Hamas began, a situation that, according to the authorities, in just 42 days, has left 1,200 dead in Israeli territory, mainly civilians. According to reports, the Khan Yunis flour factory, located in southern Israel, had a reserve of three thousand tons of wheat, however, it no longer works, since its warehouse was partially destroyed and the plant has left to operate due to lack of fuel. "If the Red Cross does not get the Israelis to allow us to make the necessary repairs, we will have to stop working," Abdelnasser al Ajami, president of the bakers' association, told AFP. The attack on the aforementioned plant was carried out during the early hours of last Thursday. Likewise, according to the UN office for the coordination of humanitarian affairs, the Al Salam flour factory in Deir al Balah, in the center of the ...