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International Business Times
International Business Times
World
Laignee BARRON

Commercial Goods Trucked Into Gaza After Aid Logjams

After the closure of the Rafah crossing in May, 2024, Kerem Shalom has become the primary conduit of supplies into the Gaza Strip (Credit: AFP)

As bombs thunder in Gaza, just across the border in southern Israel truck driver Itzik waits in a barbed-wire protected parking lot for his delivery to clear inspection into the hunger-stricken territory.

He lists a lorry loaded with Gaza-bound eggs, chicken, sesame, spices, tea and coffee, all destined for private markets that Palestinians and humanitarian workers describe as unaffordable.

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