Fruit of Sa'adah

Israel is holding up food for 1.1 million Palestinians in Gaza

Blocked by Israel, a convoy of food donated by Turkey has been sitting for weeks in the Israeli port city of Ashdod.

Israel “ordering them not to process any UNRWA goods”.

That stoppage means 1,049 shipping containers of rice, flour, chickpeas, sugar and cooking oil — enough to feed 1.1 million people for one month — are stuck, even as an estimated 25% of families in Gaza face catastrophic hunger.

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