Palestinian woman and two children killed in front of bakery in Gaza

Palestinian woman and two children killed in front of bakery in Gaza

On Friday, three Palestinians, including two children and a woman, were crushed on a bakery in the central Gaza, which the tightening food crisis in the enclave illustrated, as Palestinian hospital officers reported.

tragedy at the bakery

The father of one of the victims, Osama Abu al-Laban, said CNN that he had given his 17-year-old daughter money to buy a piece of bread with her sister before being recorded in the queue for women. "Where did she go? How could that happen? I don't know. I only found her dead when they brought them out. I have no idea what happened," said al-Laban.

overcrowded bakery and despair

The Al Aqsa hospital in Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza, confirmed the entrance of the three fatalities. The queues in front of the bakeries are now places of despair and overcrowding, while the Palestinians are fighting for food and their families. As a result of the intensive military operation of Israel in the north, the famine has increased in the Gaza Strip. Aid organizations warn that the people there are on the verge of a famine, with some CNN announced that the commercial traffic to Gaza "completely came to a standstill".

closure of the bakeries

Shortly after the tragedy, the World Food Programs (WFP) announced that all bakeries in the central Gaza were closed due to severe supply bottlenecks. According to the WFP, bread was often the only source of food that was available in Gaza - and "now even slips that".

The everyday struggle for survival

"Suffering here is unimaginable. I have been here for four hours and try to get a single bread. Four hours, and I still can't bring a bread home," said Karam Afali, a resident of Gazas, outside the same bakery where the three Palestinians died.

weapons and chaos

At the beginning of this week, three women were killed by shots, while in a queue in front of a bakery in Deir al-Balah, their families reported in a statement that they sent CNN. The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs has warned that armed looting - reinforced by the collapse of public order and security in Gaza - are increasingly organized.

challenges in the auxiliary delivery

The agency announced that the challenges in the delivery of relief goods to Gaza have become "increasingly insurmountable", since "trucks are often stopped at various stops, are often looted and increasing attacks are exposed".