Gaza Bakeries closed and analgesic on the ration after the month of the Israeli blockade

A month since Israel closed all the level crossings in Gaza for goods, all unwanted bakeries have closed, the markets are empty of most fresh vegetables and hospitals rational analgesics and antibiotics.

It is the longest blockade to date of the Israeli war of almost 18 months against Hamas. This week, during the normally festive Muslim festival of Eid al-Fitr, many Gazans say they were hungry.

“It was the worst of Eid for us,” said Um Ali Hamad, a woman moved by Beit Lahia, to the BBC while she was looking for food in Gaza City. “We cannot eat or drink. We couldn’t take advantage of it. We are exhausted.”

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

“I only have a little child; he was born during the war. He is three months old and we do not find milk or diapers for him.”

Israel said that it imposed a ban on goods entering Gaza on March 2 due to Hamas’ refusal to extend the first phase of the January ceasefire agreement and release more hostages.

Hamas continued to demand a passage to the second phase of the original agreement, which would see the remaining living hostages it holds and a complete end in war.

A two -month truce, which started on January 19, saw the return of 33 Israeli hostages – eight of them dead – in exchange for around 1,900 Palestinian prisoners and a large increase in humanitarian aid entering the devastated territory.

Aid agencies now call for global powers to force Israel to authorize essential products in Gaza – including food, drugs, hygiene products and fuel – pointing to the country’s obligations under international humanitarian law.

They say they make difficult decisions about how to manage their declining actions on the territory. Fuel, for example, is necessary for vehicles to move help, bakeries, hospital generators, wells and water desalination factories.

The NGO Actionaid called for the Israeli ban on a month of “terrible” Gaza aid and warned a “new cycle of famine and thirst”.

On Tuesday, the UN rejected as “ridiculous”, an Israeli affirmation that there was enough food in Gaza to last its two million residents for a long time.

“We are at the end of our supplies,” said UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric.

COGAT, the Israeli military organization which controls the passages, says that during the recent ceasefire, some 25,200 trucks entered Gaza carrying nearly 450,000 tonnes of aid.

“It is almost a third of the total trucks that entered Gaza throughout the war, in just over a month,” wrote Cogat in an article on X. “There is enough food for a long time, if Hamas lets civilians have it.”

Israeli officials accuse Hamas of holes of supplies for itself. However, Dujarric said that the UN had kept “a very good police custody on all the help it is delivered”.

The shutters are down, the ovens and the shelves are emptying in a bakery in Gaza City – one of the 25 that worked with the World Food Program (WFP) of the UN (WFP) across the strip. With fuel and flour shortages, a sign indicates that it is closed “until further notice”.

“The bakery is closed is a disaster because bread is the most important staple food for us,” said a grandfather, Abu Alaa Jaffar, looking desperately.

“Without that, people do not know how to manage the situation. There will be much worse famine than we have seen before.”

He and other passers -by told the BBC that a 25 kg of flour (55 lb) had increased up to 10 times and could now recover 500 shekels ($ 135; £ 104) on the black market.

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

While many food kitchens supported by international NGOs have recently stopped working because their supplies are exhausted, the WFP plans to continue to distribute hot meals for a maximum of two weeks.

He says he will distribute his last food packages within two days. As a “last resort” once all other foods are exhausted, it contains emergency stocks of fortified nutritional cookies for 415,000 people.

Meanwhile, the United Nations Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA), the largest aid agency operating in Gaza, has only a few days of food to distribute.

“We see a very rapid exhaustion of what we have in our warehouses,” said communications director Tamara al-rifai. “Everyone rations everything because it is not clear if and when there is an end in sight.”

“What is extremely striking to us is at what speed the positive impact of the ceasefire – if I can use the word” positive “, namely being able to bring food and other supplies – this is how speed was evaporated in four weeks.”

Israel resumed war in Gaza on March 18. Its renewed air and land operations have once again made it difficult for rescue workers to move and have made hundreds of victims, overwhelming hospitals.

The United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) claims that more than half of hospitals receiving trauma cases are now practically full.

Devices to stabilize the broken bones have exhausted, while anesthesia, antibiotics and liquids for injured patients decrease. WHO warns that vital supplies for pregnant mothers will exhaust an imminently.

Dr. Mark Perlmutter, an American surgeon who was working recently in Gaza, told BBC that he had been forced to use drills to repair a fracture in a child’s leg And that there was no X -ray machine in the two hospitals where it was based.

He added that he was unable to clean the injuries before working or even washing his hands when the soap had exhausted.

Another mass victim event would mean that “people will die of injuries that could have been corrected,” said Dr. Perlmutter.

Until now, at least 1,066 Palestinians have been killed – of which about a third have been children – since Israel began its military offensive renewal in Gaza, according to the Ministry of Health managed by Hamas.

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

The International Charitable Health Organization Doctors Without Borders (MSF) calls Israel to stop what he calls “collective punishment of Palestinians”.

He says that some patients are treated without pain relief and that people with conditions requiring regular drugs, such as epilepsy or diabetes, have to ration their supplies.

Last year, the International Court of Justice ordered Israel to “take immediate and effective measures to allow the provision of necessary basic services and humanitarian assistance to deal with the negative conditions of life facing Palestinians in the Gaza Strip”.

South Africa brought a case in progress to the UN head of the head, alleging that Israel commits a genocide against the Palestinians in Gaza. Israel rejects the complaint as “baseless”.

The war in Gaza was launched by the deadly attacks led by Hamas against southern Israel on October 7, 2023, which killed some 1,200 people and led 251 hostages taken to Gaza. Since then, more than 50,000 Palestinians have been killed, according to the Palestinian health authorities.

Arab mediators continue to try to resuscitate the ceasefire.

Hamas said on Saturday that he had accepted a new Egyptian proposal. Israel said he had made a counter-projection in coordination with the United States, which is also mediation.

There was no sign of an imminent breakthrough or an end to the closure of Israel crossings in Gaza.