For those who manage to get hold of a box, they still need water and fuel to cook the dried goods, despite the water crisis and severe fuel shortage facing Gaza.
The UN’s Office of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) warned this week that the water crisis in Gaza was rapidly deteriorating. It also warned that families have had to resort to unsafe and unhealthy cooking methods, such as using waste materials.
The WFP said in May that official supplies of cooking gas stopped and that it was being sold on the black market at prices up to 4,000% higher than pre-conflict levels.
UN Secretary General António Guterres said this week Gazans were facing grave shortages of basic supplies and that malnutrition was “soaring”.
Almost one in three people in Gaza are going days without eating, the UN’s food aid programme has warned.
“Malnutrition is surging with 90,000 women and children in urgent need of treatment,” the World Food Programme (WFP) said on Friday.
Additional reporting by Matt Murphy